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Meister Eder Und Sein Pumuckl
''Meister Eder und sein Pumuckl'' (English: ''Master Eder and his Pumuckl)'' is a German children's series created by Ellis Kaut. Originally a radio play series of the Bavarian Radio in 1961, the stories were later adapted into books, a successful TV series of the same name, three films and a musical. Pumuckl is a red-haired Kobold and descendant of the Klabautermänner. He is invisible to people around him except for the master carpenter Eder with whom Pumuckl lives. Pumuckl is one of the most popular characters in children's entertainment in Germany and several generations have now grown up with the cheeky but funny little Kobold. Plot How Pumuckl and Master Eder met Being a descendant of the Klabautermann people, who were sailors, Pumuckl loves everything that has to do with the ocean, especially sailboats. For reasons unknown, he gets lost in Bavaria, where no ships are to be found. He doesn't like neat and clean places, so he takes refuge in a carpenter's untidy workshop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toni Berger
Toni, Toñi or Tóni is a unisex given name used in several European countries as well as among individuals with ancestry from these countries outside Europe. In Spanish, Italian, Croatian and Finnish, it is a masculine given name used as a short form of the names derived from Antonius like Antonio, Ante or Anttoni. In Danish, English, Norwegian and Swedish, it is a feminine given name used as a short form of Antonia. In Bulgarian, it is a unisex name used as a diminutive form of both Antoniya and Anton. Toñi is a Spanish feminine given name used as a short form of Antonia. Tóni a Hungarian masculine given name used as a diminutive form of Antal. It is sometimes a short form (hypocorism) of other names, such as Antonio, Antoine, Antonia or Antoinette. It is also sometimes a surname. Notable people with this name include the following: People Women * Toni Adams (1964–2010), American professional wrestling manager and valet * Toni Arden (1924–2012), stage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karla Bonoff
Karla Bonoff (born December 27, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter. While Bonoff has released a number of albums, she is primarily known for her songwriting. Bonoff's songs include "Home", covered by Bonnie Raitt, " Tell Me Why" by Wynonna Judd, and " Isn't It Always Love" by Lynn Anderson. Linda Ronstadt recorded several Bonoff songs, including three on the 1976 album '' Hasten Down the Wind'' ("Someone To Lay Down Beside Me", "Lose Again" and "If He's Ever Near"), and " All My Life", a 1989 duet with Ronstadt and Aaron Neville. Life and career Bonoff was born to Chester and Shirley ( Kahane) Bonoff, and named after her paternal grandfather, Karl Bonoff. Her family is Jewish, with ancestors from Russia, Hungary, Austria and Germany. In her early career, Bonoff sang background vocals for Ronstadt and Wendy Waldman before releasing her debut album in 1977, titled ''Karla Bonoff''. Her other albums include ''Restless Nights'' (1979), ''Wild Heart of the Young'' (1982), ''Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fredl Fesl
Alfred Raimund Fesl (7 July 1947 – 25 June 2024), better known as Fredl Fesl, was a Lower Bavarian musician and singer who was said to be the one who invented Bavarian musical ''Kabarett''. Early life Fesl grew up in the town of his birth, Grafenau, Bavaria, Grafenau in the Bavarian Forest and then moved with his parents to Greding in Middle Franconia. There, Fesl's parents ran an inn, ''Zum Bayerischen''. In his childhood, Fesl was, according to the story, once expelled from a school for replying to a School corporal punishment, box on the ear from a teacher by boxing the teacher's ear back. Further academic endeavours, though, were somewhat more successful. After finishing at the ''Volksschule'', he passed the intake examination for the '':de:Oberrealschule, Oberrealschule'' in Ingolstadt (now called the '':de:Christoph-Scheiner-Gymnasium, Christoph-Scheiner-Gymnasium (Germany), Gymnasium''), where he lived at boarding school. In 1959, the family moved to Munich, where Fesl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iris Berben
Iris Renate Dorothea Berben (, born 12 August 1950) is a German actress. Biography Berben was born in Detmold, North Rhine-Westphalia. She grew up in Hamburg, where her parents ran a restaurant. Berben has appeared in about 150 film and television productions since 1969. Until today, Berben plays leading roles in a large number of German television productions, including the sitcom ''Zwei himmlische Töchter'' in the 1970s and the comedy show ''Sketchup (TV series), Sketchup'' with Diether Krebs in the 1980s. One of her best-known roles is the title character, a no-nonsense police commissioner, in the long-running crime series ''Rosa Roth'' between 1994 and 2013. Among her film roles are Sergio Corbucci's western ''Compañeros (film), Compañeros'' (1970) with Franco Nero, the Thomas Mann film adaption ''Buddenbrooks (film), Die Buddenbrooks'' (2008) and the barmaid Petra in the sport film ''Eddie the Eagle (film), Eddie the Eagle'' (2016). After the Six-Day War in 1967, she tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Rudnik
Barbara Rudnik (; 27 July 1958 – 23 May 2009) was a German actress. Selected filmography External links * 1958 births 2009 deaths German film actresses German television actresses 20th-century German actresses 21st-century German actresses {{Germany-screen-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Thomalla
Georg Thomalla (14 February 1915 – 25 August 1999) was a German actor. He appeared in about one hundred fifty film and television productions between 1939 and 2000 and was widely known in Germany for his comedic roles. Thomalla was well known in Germany as a voiceover artist, dubbing particularly comedians, such as Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau in the '' Pink Panther'' movies, and he was the standard German dubbing voice of Jack Lemmon from 1955 to 1998. Thomalla dubbed Lemmon as the second musician in ''Some Like It Hot'', after having himself played the same role in the German comedy '' Fanfares of Love'' (1951), the direct predecessor to ''Some Like It Hot''. Thomalla met Lemmon at the 1996 Berlin International Film Festival, where he gave a speech in Lemmon's honor. He was awarded the German Federal Cross of Merit in 1985. Selected filmography * '' Her First Experience'' (1939) - Otto * '' Der Kleinstadtpoet'' (1941) - Siegfried, Angestellter bei Emil * '' Above A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaus Schwarzkopf
Klaus Schwarzkopf (18 December 1922, in Neuruppin – 21 June 1991, in Bochum) was a German actor. From 1971 until 1978 he starred in the Norddeutscher Rundfunk version of the popular television crime series '' Tatort''. He was also known as a respected stage actor and for being the German dubbing voice of Peter Falk as ''Columbo'' during the 1970s. Schwarzkopf was gay, but never admitted it. Schwarzkopf died in 1991 of AIDS. Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller: ''Mann für Mann – Ein biographisches Lexikon'', Suhrkamp Taschenbuch, Hamburg 2001 Filmography Film *1956: '' Bonjour Kathrin'' (directed by Karl Anton), as Neighbour (uncredited) *1961: '' Freddy and the Millionaire'' (directed by Paul May), as Policeman (voice, uncredited) *1965: ''Praetorius'' (directed by Kurt Hoffmann), as Dr. Watzmann *1967: '' Glorious Times at the Spessart Inn'' (directed by Kurt Hoffmann), as Roland *1968: '' Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed'' (directed by Alexander Kluge), as Gerloff, philologist * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaby Dohm
Gaby Dohm (born 23 September 1943 in Salzburg) is a German actress An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. .... She is the daughter of actor Will Dohm and actress Heli Finkenzeller. Selected filmography * '' When Mother Went on Strike'' (1974) * '' The Serpent's Egg'' (1977) * '' Doctor Faustus'' (1982) * '' The Black Forest Clinic'' (1985–1989, TV series) * '' Rosenstrasse'' (2003) References External links * * 1943 births German film actresses German television actresses Living people Actresses from Salzburg 20th-century German actresses 21st-century German actresses {{Austria-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Valentin
Barbara Valentin (born Ursula Ledersteger; 15 December 1940 – 22 February 2002) was an Austrian actress. She worked in film, often with Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Biography Valentin was born in 1940 as Ursula Ledersteger in Vienna, Austria (then part of Nazi Germany). Her father was the Austrian art director Hans Ledersteger and her mother the actress Irmgard Alberti. She had a half-brother, Alfred Ledersteger. She was married to German film director Helmut Dietl. During the early to mid-1980s, Valentin was close friends with Freddie Mercury, who lived with her and her daughter in her Munich apartment for some time. She is featured in the video for the Queen song It's a Hard Life. During her career, Valentin was nicknamed "the German Jayne Mansfield". On 22 February 2002, Valentin died of a stroke Stroke is a medical condition in which poor cerebral circulation, blood flow to a part of the brain causes cell death. There are two main types of stroke: brain ischemia, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helmut Fischer
Helmut Fischer (15 November 1926 – 14 June 1997) was a popular, award-winning German actor. Life Helmut Fischer was the son of a businessman and a tailor who grew up in the Munich district of at 50a, where he also went to school. When the secondary school rejected him, he joined Otto Falckenberg's drama school, which he quit after a short time. Subsequently, Fischer worked as a stage actor. In 1952, he debuted at Würzburg city theatre in the role of Albrecht III in Friedrich Hebbel's ''Agnes Bernauer''. The reviews were devastating. For almost 20 years, Fischer remained largely unknown and was only cast in minor supporting roles. Among other things, he worked at the ''Zuban'' show at Munich's Oktoberfest, playing the part of a zebra's behind. In 1953, he married dancer Utta Martin, with whom he lived together up until his death (44 years). 1961 saw the actor's debut in Bavarian Television, as a hairdresser in Ludwig Thomas comedy ''Die Lokalbahn''. Fischer described h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gisela Uhlen
Gisela Uhlen (16 May 1919 – 16 January 2007) was a German film actress and occasional screen writer. Biography Uhlen was born Gisela Friedlinde Schreck (German national library entry) in Leipzig, Germany as fourth child of Luise Frieda and distillery owner and former opera singer Augustin Schreck. At the Leipziger Konservatorium she enrolled in a modern dance class, and learnt classical ballet and acrobatics at the opera school. At 15 she decided to become a theatre actress and chose the stage-name Gisela Uhlen. After her final examination as a dancer and during her training period she married ballet teacher Herbert Freund. At 17 she appeared for the first time at the '' Schauspielhaus Bochum''. In 1938 Heinrich George brought her to the Berliner Schiller-Theater, where she was active until the end of the war. But even before her first stage appearance she had made film tests with Universum Film AG (Ufa), and thereby obtained the leading actress role in the 1936 fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
