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Ralf König
Ralf König (born 8 August 1960) is one of the best known and most commercially successful German comic book creators. His books have been translated into many languages. He has resided in Soest, Dortmund and Berlin and now lives in Cologne. Biography After attending a German Hauptschule, König completed an apprenticeship, learning the trade of a joiner. In 1979, he came out as a gay man, and about this time he created short comics stories that appeared in the Munich underground magazine ''Zomix'' and the gay periodical ''Rosa Flieder''. He returned to school from 1981 to 1986, attending the public Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and pursuing a major in free art (''Freie Kunst''). Also in 1981, his early collected comics were published by the gay publishing house Verlag rosa Winkel as ''SchwulComix'' (''GayComix''). In 1987, he wrote ''The Killer Condom'' (''Kondom des Grauens''), his first comic with a continuous story, which was later produced as a film. In the German-speaking w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soest, Germany
Soest (, as if it were 'Sohst'; Westphalian: ''Saust'') is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is the capital of the Soest district. Geography Soest is located along the '' Hellweg'' road, approximately south-west of Lippstadt, roughly east of Dortmund and roughly west of Paderborn. Neighbouring places * Bad Sassendorf * Ense * Lippetal * Möhnesee *Werl * Welver Legends The Norwegian Þiðrekssaga from the 13th century, a series of tales about the Gothic King Theoderic the Great, identifies Soest (called Susat) as the capital of Attila's (?–453) Hunnic Empire. The actual location of Attila's capital has not been determined. History Owing to its fertile soil (predominantly brown silty clay loam), the area around Soest is believed to have been settled well before the village is first mentioned in the ''Dagobertsche Schenkung'' in 836. Excavations in recent decades have uncovered signs of habitation stretching back more than 4000 years. During the 11th and 12 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Detlev Meyer
Detlev is a German given name. It is a spelling variant of Detlef. People with this name Notable people with this name include: * Detlev Blanke (born 1941), interlinguistics lecturer at Humboldt University of Berlin * Detlev Bronk (1897–1975), President of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland * Detlev Buchholz, theoretical physicist at Göttingen University * Detlev Buck (born 1962), German film director and actor * Otto Detlev Creutzfeldt (born 1927), German physiologist and neurologist * Detlev Dammeier (born 1968), German football coach and a former player * Wilhelm Heinrich Detlev Körner (1878–1938), illustrator of the American West * Detlev Lauscher (1952–2010), German footballer who played as a striker * Detlev von Liliencron (1844–1909), German lyric poet and novelist from Kiel * Detlev Mehlis (born 1949), Senior Public Prosecutor in the Office of the Attorney General in Berlin *Detlev F. Neufert Detlev F. Neufert is a German author, filmmaker, photog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buenos Aires International Festival Of Independent Cinema
The Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI, es, Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente) is an international festival of independent films organized each year in the month of April, in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The festival is managed by the Ministry of Culture of the Government of Buenos Aires City. It is not officially affiliated with FIAPF, but it has become well known internationally. History The festival had its first edition in April 1999 and it was organized by the Secretaryship of Culture of the Government of Buenos Aires City. The festival is held in the most important movie theatres of Buenos Aires, but also feature free open-air screenings in parks and squares all over the city. In the first year the festival had 146 guests, among them Francis Ford Coppola, Todd Haynes, Paul Morrissey and others. That year the festival screened more than 150 national and international films and had approximately 120,000 spec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin International Film Festival
The Berlin International Film Festival (german: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale (), is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festival has been held every February since 1978 and is one of the " Big Three" alongside the Venice Film Festival in Italy and the Cannes Film Festival in France. Tens of thousands of visitors attend each year. About 400 films are shown at multiple venues across Berlin, mostly in and around Potsdamer Platz. They are screened in nine sections across cinematic genres, with around twenty films competing for the festival's top awards in the Competition section. The major awards, called the Golden Bear and Silver Bears, are decided on by the international jury, chaired by an internationally recognisable cinema personality. This jury and other specialised Berlinale juries also give many other awards, and in addition there are other awards given by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joachim Król
Joachim Król (, born 17 June 1957 in Herne, West Germany) is a German actor, known for his appearances in the films ''Run Lola Run'', '' Maybe, Maybe Not'', and '' Anne Frank: The Whole Story''. Early life and education Król was born in Herne, West Germany and studied from 1981 to 1984 at the '' Otto-Falckenberg-Schule'' in Munich. His father was a miner of Polish descent. Career Król is best known as a film and television actor. In 1993, he starred in the film '' No More Mr. Nice Guy''. In the 1998 film, ''Run Lola Run'', Król portrayed the homeless man, Norbert von Au. He is also known for playing Hermann van Pels in the TV film '' Anne Frank: The Whole Story'' (2001). Despite his notable cinema and television success, Król returns repeatedly to the stage. Several times he has played in the '' Bochumer Schauspielhaus'' and the ''Schauspielhaus Köln''. Personal life Król is married to Heidrun Teusner Król, with whom he has a son, Tom. Selected filmography *' (198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Morgenstern
Ralph Morgenstern (born as Ralph Morgenstern-Nolting on 3 October 1956) is a German actor and TV host. Morgenstern was born in Mülheim an der Ruhr. He works in theatre, film, and on German TV. Morgenstern has one daughter and has lived together with his partner Oliver since 2005. Actor in theatre * 1984-1986: ''Geierwally'' (Filmdose, Köln, Regie: Walter Bockmayer) * 1989-1990: ''Sissi - Beuteljahre einer Kaiserin'' (Filmdose, Köln, Regie: Walter Bockmayer) * 1991-1998: ''Festes Ensemble am Kölner Schauspielhaus'' * 1995 - ''Tankstelle der Verdammten'' (Kölner Schauspielhaus) * 1998 - ''Mephisto'' (Kölner Schauspielhaus) * 1998 - ''Faust'' (Kölner Schauspielhaus) * 2003 - ''Die Banditen'' ( Oper Köln) * 2006-2007 - ''Kiss me Kate'' ( Musikalische Komödie der Oper Leipzig) Actor in films *1984: ''Im Himmel ist die Hölle los'' (directed by Helmer von Lützelburg), as Mr. Raffo *1988: ' (directed by Walter Bockmayer), as Aunt Luckard *1994: ''Die Wache: Vollmond'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hella Von Sinnen
Hella Kemper (born 2 February 1959), known by her stage name Hella von Sinnen (lit. ''Hella out of her mind'', making pun of the aristocratic " von"), is a German entertainer and television presenter. She has been a regular on several TV shows on German private channels, mainly RTL. Von Sinnen has been socially committed to people with HIV for many years and played the nurse Rita in Rosa von Praunheim 's film ''A Virus Knows No Morals'' (1986), one of the first feature films about AIDS. Career Since the show's first air date on 11 January 2003, von Sinnen has served as one of two (until 2011 together with Bernhard Hoëcker and since 2017 with Wigald Boning) permanent panel members of the weekly Sat.1 improvisational comedy show ''Genial daneben'' (lit. ''ingeniously off the mark''). In the show, von Sinnen, Hoëcker and three varying comedians try to answer strange questions sent in by the audience. Since 2018, she is a panel member of the spin-off ''Genial daneben – Das ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosa Von Praunheim
Holger Bernhard Bruno Mischwitzky (born Holger Radtke; 25 November 1942), known professionally as Rosa von Praunheim, is a German film director, author, painter and one of the most famous gay rights activists in the German-speaking world. In over 50 years, von Praunheim has made more than 150 films (short and feature-length films). His works influenced the development of LGBTQ+ rights movements worldwide. He began his career associated to the New German Cinema as a senior member of the Berlin school of underground filmmaking. He took the artistic female name Rosa von Praunheim to remind people of the pink triangle that homosexuals had to wear in Nazi concentration camps, as well as the Frankfurt neighborhood of Praunheim where he grew up. A pioneer of Queer Cinema, von Praunheim has been an activist in the gay rights movement. He was an early advocate of AIDS awareness and safer sex. His films center on gay-related themes and strong female characters, are characterized by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lysistrata
''Lysistrata'' ( or ; Attic Greek: , ''Lysistrátē'', "Army Disbander") is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes, originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC. It is a comic account of a woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War between Greek city states by denying all the men of the land any sex, which was the only thing they truly and deeply desired. Lysistrata persuades the women of the warring cities to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing the men to negotiate peace—a strategy, however, that inflames the battle between the sexes. The play is notable for being an early exposé of sexual relations in a male-dominated society. Additionally, its dramatic structure represents a shift from the conventions of Old Comedy, a trend typical of the author's career. It was produced in the same year as the ''Thesmophoriazusae'', another play with a focus on gender-based issues, just two years after Athens' catastrophic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisístrata
''Lisístrata'' is a 2002 Spanish comedy film directed by Francesc Bellmunt. It is based on a comic book by the German cartoonist Ralf König, which in turn is loosely based on the play ''Lysistrata'' by Aristophanes. Plot It is the year 411 BC and the Peloponnesian War between Sparta (among others) and Athens has been raging for some 20 years. The women who want to see the conflict finally ended use a trick to make their husbands comply: led by the Feminist Lisístrata (Maribel Verdú), they barricade themselves on the Acropolis, where the Athenian treasure is kept, and refuse to have sex with their husbands until peace is restored. The men soon sport gigantic erections, which as in Aristophanes' play are depicted by huge prosthetics that protrude from under the actors' clothes. This unfortunate state of "blue balls" hinders them in their capacity to fight. Luckily, the Spartans have the same problem. To the rescue comes Hepatitos (Juan Luis Galiardo), the local homosexual a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wie Die Karnickel
(''Like Rabbits'') is a comedy film by Sven Unterwaldt from 2002, with a script by Ralf König, who also wrote a comic based on the script. Storyline Horst Bömmelburg's relationship to his girlfriend Vera is stressful and unsatisfactory in every aspect. When Vera finds a pornographic film in the trash, she leaves him and moves in with her mother. Horst makes friends with his new gay neighbour, Siggi, who introduces him to a new and much more relaxed perspective on his sex drive. At the same time he starts an affair with the famous soprano singer Kriemhild Nastrowa, who is guesting with the orchestra that Horst plays double bass in. Vera does not know any of this and, on her friend Gilla's advice, attempts to seduce Horst over dinner with sexy underwear. However, the attempt fails miserably. Gilla then introduces Vera to Gudrun and Britta, editors of a lesbian/feminist magazine called ''Xanthippe''. They interpret Vera's story in their own way and publish an article in which H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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