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Paracelsus (film)
''Paracelsus'' is a 1943 German drama film directed by G. W. Pabst, based on the life of Paracelsus Paracelsus (; ; 1493 – 24 September 1541), born Theophrastus von Hohenheim (full name Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim), was a Swiss physician, alchemist, lay theologian, and philosopher of the German Renaissance. H .... Cast References External links * 1943 films 1943 drama films 1940s biographical drama films 1940s German-language films German biographical drama films German black-and-white films Films of Nazi Germany Films directed by G. W. Pabst Films set in 16th-century Holy Roman Empire Cultural depictions of Swiss people Cultural depictions of physicians Cultural depictions of chemists Paracelsus 1940s German films Films scored by Herbert Windt German-language biographical drama films {{1940s-Germany-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Lyssa
Fred Lyssa (1883–1950) was a German film producer and production manager.Nicolella p.98 Selected filmography * ''D III 88'' (1928) * ''The Devious Path'' (1928) * ''A Girl with Temperament'' (1928) * ''The Night of Terror'' (1929) * ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' (1929) * ''The Dancer of Sanssouci'' (1932) * ''Pillars of Society'' (1935) * ''Stjenka Rasin'' (1936) * '' Ball at the Metropol'' (1937) * ''Shadows Over St. Pauli'' (1938) * '' A Gust of Wind'' (1942) * ''Paracelsus'' (1943) * ''A Man Like Maximilian ''A Man Like Maximilian'' () is a 1945 German comedy film directed by Hans Deppe and starring Wolf Albach-Retty, Karin Hardt and Lizzi Waldmüller.Bock & Bergfelder p. 79 It was one of the last films released during the Third Reich and was playi ...'' (1945) * '' The Millionaire'' (1947) References Bibliography * Nicolella, Henry. ''Frank Wisbar: The Director of Ferryman Maria, from Germany to America and Back''. McFarland, 2018. External links * 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Froben
Johann Froben, in Latin: Johannes Frobenius (and combinations), (c. 1460 – 27 October 1527) was a famous printer, publisher and learned Renaissance humanist in Basel. He was a close friend of Erasmus and cooperated closely with Hans Holbein the Younger. He made Basel one of the world's leading centres of the book trade. He passed his printing business on to his son, Hieronymus, and grandson, Ambrosius Frobenius. Early life and printing partnership Johann Froben was born in Hammelburg, Franconia and appears the first time at the workshop of the printer of Anton Koberger of Nuremberg in 1486. He moved to Basel in the 1480s. He graduated from the University in Basel, where he made the acquaintance of the famous printer Johann Amerbach (c. 1440–1513). Froben established himself as a printer in that city about 1491, when he published the first manageable bible in the octavo format. He soon attained a European reputation for accuracy and taste. In 1500, he married the daught ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Black-and-white Films
German(s) may refer to: * Germany, the country of the Germans and German things **Germania (Roman era) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizenship in Germany, see also German nationality law **Germanic peoples (Roman era) * German diaspora * German language * German cuisine, traditional foods of Germany People * German (given name) * German (surname) * Germán, a Spanish name Places * German (parish), Isle of Man * German, Albania, or Gërmej * German, Bulgaria * German, Iran * German, North Macedonia * German, New York, U.S. * Agios Germanos, Greece Other uses * German (mythology), a South Slavic mythological being * Germans (band), a Canadian rock band * "German" (song), a 2019 song by No Money Enterprise * ''The German'', a 2008 short film * "The Germans", an episode of ''Fawlty Towers'' * ''The German'', a nickname for Congolese rebel André Kisase Ngandu See also * Germanic (di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1940s German-language Films
Year 194 ( CXCIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Septimius and Septimius (or, less frequently, year 947 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 194 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Decimus Clodius Septimius Albinus Caesar became a Roman Consul. * Battle of Issus: Septimius Severus marches with his army (12 legions) to Cilicia, and defeats Pescennius Niger, Roman governor of Syria. Pescennius retreats to Antioch, and is executed by Severus' troops. * Septimius Severus besieges Byzantium (194–196); the city walls suffer extensive damage. Asia * Battle of Yan Province: Warlords Cao Cao and Lü Bu fight for control over Yan Province; the battle lasts for over 100 days. * First year of the ''Xingping'' era during the Han Dynasty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1943 Drama Films
Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured. * January 4 – WWII: Greek-Polish athlete and saboteur Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz is executed by the Germans at Kaisariani. * January 10 – WWII: Guadalcanal campaign, Guadalcanal Campaign: American forces of the 2nd Marine Division and the 25th Infantry Division (United States), 25th Infantry Division begin their assaults on the Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse#Galloping Horse, Galloping Horse and Sea Horse on Guadalcanal. Meanwhile, the Japanese Seventeenth Army (Japan), 17th Army makes plans to abandon the island and after fierce resistance withdraws to the west coast of Guadalcanal. * January 11 ** The United States and United Kingdom revise previously unequal treaty relationships with the Republic of China (1912–194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1943 Films
The year 1943 in film featured various significant events for the film industry. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1943 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 23 – The film ''Casablanca'' is released nationally in the United States and becomes one of the top-grossing pictures of 1943. It goes on to win the Best Picture and Best Director awards at the 16th Academy Awards. * February 20 – American film studio executives agree to allow the United States Office of War Information to censor films. * June 1 – Veteran English stage and screen actor Leslie Howard dies at the age of 50 in the crash of BOAC Flight 777 off the coast of Galicia, Spain. While best remembered for his role as Ashley Wilkes in ''Gone with the Wind'', Howard had roles in many other notable films and was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. * December 31 – New York City's Times Square greets Frank Sinatra at Paramount Theatre. Awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erich Dunskus
Erich Adolf Dunskus (27 July 1890 – 25 November 1967) was a German film actor. He appeared in 170 films between 1927 and 1966. He was born in Pillkallen, East Prussia East Prussia was a Provinces of Prussia, province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1772 to 1829 and again from 1878 (with the Kingdom itself being part of the German Empire from 1871); following World War I it formed part of the Weimar Republic's ... and died in Hagen, West Germany. Selected filmography * '' The King of Paris'' (1930) * '' Bobby Gets Going'' (1931) * '' Girls to Marry'' (1932) * '' Secret Agent'' (1932) * '' Overnight Sensation'' (1932) * '' And Who Is Kissing Me?'' (1933) * '' So Ended a Great Love'' (1934) * '' Paganini'' (1934) * '' The Girl from the Marsh Croft'' (1935) * '' The Saint and Her Fool'' (1935) * '' Pygmalion'' (1935) * '' City of Anatol'' (1936) * '' Savoy Hotel 217'' (1936) * '' Family Parade'' (1936) * '' Love's Awakening'' (1936) * '' Der Kaiser von Kalifornien'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Skraup
Karl Skraup (31 July 1898 – 2 October 1958) was an Austrian stage and film actor. From 1947 until his death in 1958 he worked at the Volkstheater in Vienna Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. .... Selected filmography References External links * 1898 births 1958 deaths Austrian male film actors Male actors from Lower Austria {{Austria-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Janson
Victor Arthur Eduard Janson (; 25 September 1884 – 29 June 1960) was a German stage and film actor and film director of Latvian ethnicity. Selected filmography Actor * '' Your Dearest Enemy'' (1916) * '' When Four Do the Same'' (1917) * ''Carmen'' (1918) * '' The Ballet Girl'' (1918) * '' The Seeds of Life'' (1918) * '' Ferdinand Lassalle'' (1918) * '' The Yellow Ticket'' (1918) * '' My Wife, the Movie Star'' (1919) * '' The Dagger of Malaya'' (1919) * '' One or the Other'' (1919) * ''Superstition'' (1919) * '' The Teahouse of the Ten Lotus Flowers'' (1919) * '' Countess Doddy'' (1919) * '' The Howling Wolf'' (1919) * '' The Merry Husband'' (1919) * '' The Panther Bride'' (1919) * '' The Oyster Princess'' (1919) * '' The Woman at the Crossroads'' (1919) * '' The Housing Shortage'' (1920) * '' The Last Kolczaks'' (1920) * '' The Secret of the Mummy'' (1921) * '' Love at the Wheel'' (1921) * '' The Wildcat'' (1921) * ''The Girl with the Mask'' (1922) * '' Das Milliardensouper'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus ( ; ; 28 October c. 1466 – 12 July 1536), commonly known in English as Erasmus of Rotterdam or simply Erasmus, was a Dutch Christian humanist, Catholic priest and Catholic theology, theologian, educationalist, Menippean satire, satirist, and philosopher. Through his Works of Erasmus, works, he is considered one of the most influential thinkers of the Northern Renaissance and one of the major figures of Dutch and Western culture. Erasmus was an important figure in classical scholarship who wrote in a spontaneous, copious and natural Latin style. As a Catholic priest developing Philology, humanist techniques for working on texts, he prepared pioneering new Vulgate, Latin and Biblical Greek, Greek scholarly editions of the Novum Instrumentum omne, New Testament and of the Church Fathers, with annotations and commentary that were immediately and vitally influential in both the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Reformation. He also wrote ''De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
