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Michael Tschesno-Hell
Michael Tschesno-Hell (17 February 1902 – 24 February 1980) was a screenwriter and cultural official of the Deutsche Demokratische Republik. Life Born in Vilnius, Hell came from an impoverished petit bourgeois family that had emigrated to Germany after the First World War. He joined communist associations in his youth. He later studied law at the universities of Jena and Leipzig and in 1922 joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). During the Weimar Republic, Hell worked for various communist newspapers, as a translator and as a factory and farm worker. After the ''Machtergreifung'' by the Nazis, he fled with his wife to France and later via the Netherlands to Switzerland, where he lived until 1945. Here he became, together with Stephan Hermlin and Hans Mayer publisher of the publication ''Über die Grenzen''. At the end of the war, he returned to the Soviet Occupation Zone and was appointed vice-president of the "Central Administration for Resettlers" in 1945. In 1947, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bundesarchiv Bild 183-14474-0004, Berlin, Neue Serie Der "Bibliothek Fortschrittlicher Deutscher Schriftsteller"
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Karl Marx Order
The Order of Karl Marx () was the most important order in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). The award of the order also included a prize of 20,000 East German marks. The order was founded on May 5, 1953 on the occasion of Karl Marx's 135th birthday during Karl Marx Year and on the recommendation of the GDR Council of Ministers. It was granted to individuals, enterprises, organizations, and military groups for exceptional merit in relation to ideology, culture, economy, and other designations. Additionally, citizens of other countries could also be awarded the order. Notable recipients of the Order *1953: Hermann Duncker, Otto Grotewohl, Luise Kähler, Hermann Matern, Wilhelm Pieck, Wilhelm Zaisser *1956: Wilhelm Koenen *1961: Alfred Kurella, Gherman Titov *1962: Alexander Abusch, Karl Bittel, Franz Dahlem, Herbert Warnke, Otto Winzer *1963: Yuri Gagarin, Karl Maron, Willy Rumpf, Valentina Tereshkova *1965: Pavel Belyayev, Paul Fröhlich, Aleksei Leonov, Hans Scha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Hammerthaler
Ralph Hammerthaler (born 2 December 1965) is a German writer. Life Born in Wasserburg am Inn, Hammerthaler studied in Munich, Berlin and Jena and wrote a dissertation on political public sphere in sociology. After eight years as a writer in the feature section of the ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'', including two years as culture editor in Berlin, he began writing novels, stories and essays as well as plays and opera libretti. His libretto ''Die Bestmannoper'' about the Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner was set to music by Alex Nowitz and premiered in 2006 in the presence of Serge and Beate Klarsfeld. His plays have been translated into several languages. He was a guest dramaturge at the ''Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz'' and he is Socio Honorario of the Teatro Sombrero Azul in Mexico City. He was city writer in Dresden, Rheinsberg, Prishtina and Split as well as street writers in Oberhausen. His literary work has won many awards. The ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'' praised his novel "Unter Kompl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernd-Rainer Barth
Bernd-Rainer Barth (born East Berlin 1957) is a German historian of the modern period. Life The son of an East German diplomat, Barth spent a large part of his early life in Hungary, studying between 1977 and 1983 at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. His subject here was Hungarian studies (especially philology and history). He then worked in various academic institutions in East Germany until 1988 when he found himself banned from professional work. After the reunification of Germany, during the 1990s, he worked as an academic research assistant at the Free University of Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public university, public research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in poli .... Between May 2002 and September 2003 he was an academic research assistant focusing on the "Theory and history of power" (''"Theorie und Ges ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solange Leben In Mir Ist
Solange Leben in mir ist (English: As Long As There's Life in Me) is a 1965 German biopic from the East German state-owned DEFA studios and director Günter Reisch following the life of the German Communist leader Karl Liebknecht during the first half of World War I. It is the first part in a two-part film series about Liebknecht directed by Reisch, starring Horst Schulze as Karl Liebknecht and Lyudmila Kasyanova as Sophie Liebknecht. It is followed by the 1972 sequel ''Trotz alledem!'' (English: In Spite of Everything!) which follows Liebknecht's life during the second half of the war and beyond. Plot The film opens in Berlin in 1914, as Germany is preparing for World War I. Liebknecht (Schulze) receives a call from a fellow lawyer and revolutionary, Mr. Rauch, that documents have been found proving the German heavy arms industry's secret involvement in the buildup to the war. He brings these documents to a meeting of the Reichstag, accusing Gustav Krupp and his company o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Captain From Cologne
''The Captain from Cologne'' (german: Der Hauptmann von Köln) is an East Germany, East German film directed by Slatan Dudow. It was released in 1956. Cast * Rolf Ludwig as Albert Hauptmann * Erwin Geschonneck as Hans Karjanke * Else Wolz as Adele * Christel Bodenstein as Hannelore Ullrich * Kurt Steingraf as Pferdapfel / Baron v. Kohlen und Stahlbach * Manfred Borges as Max Steinmetz * Ruth Baldor as Baronin Pferdapfel * Marie-Luise Etzel as Daisy Pferdeapfel, Tochter * Johannes Arpe as Bürgermeister Dr. Seekatz * Hans W. Hamacher as Dr. Brandstätter, Bundestagsabgeordneter * Horst Koch as Generalfeldmarschall Kesselmeyer * Herbert Körbs as General Haudorf * Heinrich Gies as Dinkelburg External links * 1956 films 1956 comedy films German comedy films East German films 1950s German-language films German satirical films Fictional captains Films set in West Germany Films shot in Germany Films set in Cologne Films directed by Slatan Dudow 1950s German films {{1950s-Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Thälmann – Führer Seiner Klasse
Ernst is both a surname and a given name, the German, Dutch, and Scandinavian form of Ernest. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Adolf Ernst (1832–1899) German botanist known by the author abbreviation "Ernst" * Anton Ernst (1975-) South African Film Producer * Alice Henson Ernst (1880-1980), American writer and historian * Britta Ernst (born 1961), German politician * Cornelia Ernst, German politician * Edzard Ernst, German-British Professor of Complementary Medicine * Emil Ernst, astronomer * Ernie Ernst (1924/25–2013), former District Judge in Walker County, Texas * Eugen Ernst (1864–1954), German politician * Fabian Ernst, German soccer player * Gustav Ernst, Austrian writer * Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, Moravian violinist and composer * Jim Ernst, Canadian politician * Jimmy Ernst, American painter, son of Max Ernst * Joni Ernst, U.S. Senator from Iowa * K.S. Ernst, American visual poet * Karl Friedrich Paul Ernst, German writer (1866–1933) * Ken Er ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Thälmann (film)
''Ernst Thälmann'' is an East German film in two parts about the life of Ernst Thälmann, leader of the Communist Party of Germany during much of the Weimar Republic, directed by Kurt Maetzig and starring Günther Simon in the title role. The first part, ''Ernst Thälmann - Sohn seiner Klasse'' (Son of his Class), was released in 1954. It was followed by the 1955 sequel. ''Ernst Thälmann - Führer seiner Klasse'' (Leader of his Class). Plot ''Ernst Thälmann - Son of his Class'' After fellow soldier Johannes Harms reports that a revolution has broken out at home, Thälmann - who leads a revolutionary cell on the Western Front - and his friend Fiete Jansen rebel against their officers, Zinker and Quadde, and desert. Harms dies in a shelling. In Berlin, the American capitalist Mr. McFuller demands to crush the Spartacists. Zinker, now a member of the Freikorps, murders Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg. Thälmann hears of it and promises their sacrifice will not be in vain. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
