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Ruth Leuwerik
Ruth Leuwerik (; 23 April 1924 – 12 January 2016) was a German film actress, one of the most popular stars of German film during the 1950s. She appeared in 34 films between 1950 and 1977. Leuwerik is probably best known for her portrayal of Maria von Trapp in the films ''The Trapp Family'' and '' The Trapp Family in America''. Born in Essen as Ruth Leeuwerik, she grew up there and in Münster. She began her acting career with stage roles in the late 1940s. In the 1950s she and Dieter Borsche were considered as the ideal couple of the German film. In 1962 she starred in the Helmut Käutner film ''Redhead'', which was entered in the 12th Berlin International Film Festival. She is a five-time Bambi Award winner. Leuwerik died in Munich on 12 January 2016. Partial filmography * ' (1950) – Evelyne Winterthur (her film debut) * '' Father Needs a Wife'' (1952) – Susanne Meissner * ''The Great Temptation'' (1952) – Hilde * '' A Heart Plays False'' (1953) – Sybilla Zander * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Essen
Essen (; Latin: ''Assindia'') is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and Dortmund, as well as the ninth-largest city of Germany. Essen lies in the larger Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region and is part of the cultural area of Rhineland. Because of its central location in the Ruhr, Essen is often regarded as the Ruhr's "secret capital". Two rivers flow through the city: in the north, the Emscher, the Ruhr area's central river, and in the south, the Ruhr River, which is dammed in Essen to form the Lake Baldeney (''Baldeneysee'') and Lake Kettwig (''Kettwiger See'') reservoirs. The central and northern boroughs of Essen historically belong to the Low German ( Westphalian) language area, and the south of the city to the Low Franconian (Bergish) area (closely related to Dutch). Essen is seat to several of the re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Der Spiegel
''Der Spiegel'' (, lit. ''"The Mirror"'') is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg. With a weekly circulation of 695,100 copies, it was the largest such publication in Europe in 2011. It was founded in 1947 by John Seymour Chaloner, a British army officer, and Rudolf Augstein, a former Wehrmacht radio operator who was recognized in 2000 by the International Press Institute as one of the fifty World Press Freedom Heroes. Typically, the magazine has a content to advertising ratio of 2:1. ''Der Spiegel'' is known in German-speaking countries mostly for its investigative journalism. It has played a key role in uncovering many political scandals such as the ''Spiegel'' affair in 1962 and the Flick affair in the 1980s. According to '' The Economist'', ''Der Spiegel'' is one of continental Europe's most influential magazines. The news website by the same name was launched in 1994 under the name '' Spiegel Online'' with an independent editorial staff. Today, the con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Golden Bridge
''The Golden Bridge'' (german: Die goldene Brücke) is a 1956 West German drama film directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Ruth Leuwerik, Curd Jürgens and Paul Hubschmid.Bock & Bergfelder p.282 It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art director Max Mellin. Cast * Ruth Leuwerik as Tima * Curd Jürgens as Balder * Paul Hubschmid as Stefan * Jester Naefe as Ann * Rudolf Vogel as Hoppe * Adrienne Gessner as Tante Jula * Armin Dahlen as Hellborg * Alexander Golling as Bessing * Paul Verhoeven Paul Verhoeven (; born 18 July 1938) is a Dutch director, producer and screenwriter, active in the Netherlands, France and the United States. His blending of graphic violence and sexual content with social satire is a trademark of both his dram ... as Filmregisseur References Bibliography * Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009. External links * 1956 fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Effi Briest
''Effi Briest'' is a realist novel by Theodor Fontane. Published in book form in 1895, ''Effi Briest'' marks both a watershed and a climax in the poetic realism of literature. It can be thematically compared to other novels on 19th century marriage from a female perspective, such as '' Anna Karenina'' and '' Madame Bovary'', which are also adultery tragedies. Plot introduction Seventeen-year-old Effi Briest, the daughter of a German aristocrat, is married off to 38-year-old Baron Geert von Innstetten, who courted her mother Luise and was spurned for his status, which he has now improved. Plot summary Effi Briest, who is attracted by social status, moves to the fictional Pomeranian port of Kessin (loosely modeled on Swinemünde). Her husband Innstetten is away for weeks at a time, and Effi, who is shunned by local nobles, finds but one friend. Her suspicions that their house may be haunted are not entirely laid to rest by Innstetten. When she says there may be a ghost, he de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodor Fontane
Theodor Fontane (; 30 December 1819 – 20 September 1898) was a German novelist and poet, regarded by many as the most important 19th-century German-language realist author. He published the first of his novels, for which he is best known today, only at age 58 after a career as a journalist. Fontane's novels are known for their complex, often sceptical view of society in the German empire; he shows different social and political parts of society meeting and sometimes clashing. Other trademarks of Fontane's work are their strongly drawn female characters (such as '' Effi Briest'' and ''Frau Jenny Treibel''), tender irony and vivid conversations between characters. Life Youth Fontane was born in Neuruppin, a town 30 miles northwest of Berlin, into a Huguenot family. At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to an apothecary, his father's profession. He became an apothecary himself and in 1839, at the age of 20, wrote his first work (''Heinrichs IV. erste Liebe'', now lost). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beloved Enemy (1955 Film)
''Beloved Enemy'' (german: Geliebte Feindin) is a 1955 West German historical drama film directed by Rolf Hansen and starring Ruth Leuwerik, Werner Hinz and Thomas Holtzmann.Bock & Bergfelder p.252 The film's plot was loosely inspired by the Fashoda Incident of 1898. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Herlth. It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich, with location filming taking place in Cairo and the Saqqara. Synopsis In a Sudanese city located on the Nile, the British consul encourages his wife to cultivate the acquaintanceship of a Sergeant in the French Foreign Legion in the hope she can find out about French military plans in the region. Cast * Ruth Leuwerik as Violante Gore * Werner Hinz as Gerald Gore, englischer Konsul * Thomas Holtzmann as Sergeant Charly Brown * Gustav Knuth as Soldat Horner * Bruni Löbel as Aimée, Kabarettistin * Rolf Henniger as Hauptmann Jules Ambéry * Hans Quest as Ward, Sekretär bei Gore * Hilde Weissn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludwig II (1955 Film)
''Ludwig II'' (German: ''Ludwig II: Glanz und Ende eines Königs'') is a 1955 West German historical drama film directed by Helmut Käutner and starring O.W. Fischer, Ruth Leuwerik and Marianne Koch. It is based on the life of the nineteenth century ruler Ludwig II of Bavaria. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival. The film was shot in technicolor at the Bavaria Studios in Munich with sets designed by the art director Hein Heckroth and Fritz Lück. Location shooting took place at the historic residences of Ludwig II Herrenchiemsee, Neuschwanstein Castle and Hohenschwangau Castle. Cast * O.W. Fischer as Ludwig II * Ruth Leuwerik as Elisabeth, Empress of Austria * Marianne Koch as Princess Sophie * Paul Bildt as Richard Wagner * Friedrich Domin as Otto von Bismarck * Rolf Kutschera as * Herbert Hübner as von Pfistermeister * Robert Meyn as Professor Dr. Gudden * Rudolf Fernau as Prince Luitpold von Bayern * Willy Rösner as Minister von Lutz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portrait Of An Unknown Woman (film)
''Portrait of an Unknown Woman'' (german: Bildnis einer Unbekannten) is a 1954 West German comedy film directed by Helmut Käutner and starring Ruth Leuwerik, O. W. Fischer and Irene von Meyendorff.Bock & Bergfelder p. 282 It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich and on location in Madrid and Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Ludwig Reiber and Max Seefelder Max Seefelder (1897–1970) was a German art director.Drewniak p.40 He designed the sets for around 80 films during his career. Selected filmography * '' The Tunnel'' (1933) * ''The Master Detective'' (1933) * '' Inheritance in Pretoria'' (1934) .... Synopsis A potential scandal breaks out when an artists adds the head of the wife of a diplomat to a nude painting he is working on. Cast References Bibliography * External links * 1954 films 1954 romantic comedy films German romantic comedy films West German films Films directed by Helmut Käutner Adultery in films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Mann
Paul Thomas Mann ( , ; ; 6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized versions of German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Arthur Schopenhauer. Mann was a member of the Hanseatic Mann family and portrayed his family and class in his first novel, '' Buddenbrooks''. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann and three of Mann's six children – Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann – also became significant German writers. When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, Mann fled to Switzerland. When World War II broke out in 1939, he moved to the United States, then returned to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
His Royal Highness (1953 Film)
Royal Highness is a style used to address or refer to some members of royal families, usually princes or princesses. Monarchs and their consorts are usually styled '' Majesty''. When used as a direct form of address, spoken or written, it takes the form Your Royal Highness. When used as a third-person reference, it is gender-specific (His Royal Highness or Her Royal Highness, both abbreviated HRH) and, in plural, Their Royal Highnesses (TRH). Origin By the 17th century, all local rulers in Italy adopted the style ''Highness'', which was once used by kings and emperors only. According to Denis Diderot's '' Encyclopédie'', the style of ''Royal Highness'' was created on the insistence of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, Cardinal-Infante of Spain, a younger son of King Philip III of Spain. The archduke was travelling through Italy on his way to the Low Countries and, upon meeting Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy, refused to address him as ''Highness'' unless the Duke add ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beloved Life
''Beloved Life'' (german: Geliebtes Leben) is a 1953 West German drama film directed by Rolf Thiele and starring Ruth Leuwerik, Carl Raddatz and Albert Lieven. Following her husband's release from a prisoner of war camp in 1947, a woman remembers their lives together since the pre-First World War era. It was made at the Göttingen Studios and on location in Hamburg. The film's sets were designed by Walter Haag and Erich Kutzner. Cast *Ruth Leuwerik as Louise von Bolin *Carl Raddatz as Carl von Bolin *Albert Lieven as Joachim von Bolin *Maria Sebaldt as Imke von Bolin *Karl Ludwig Diehl as Oberst von Bolin *Horst Hächler as Benno von Bolin *Harry Meyen Harry Meyen (born Harald Haubenstock; 31 August 1924 – 15 April 1979) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 40 films and television productions between 1948 and 1975. In the 1960s he also worked as a theatre director in West Ge ... as Jürgen von Bolin *Eva Bubat as Auguste, housekeeper References Extern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Must We Get Divorced? (1953 Film)
''Must We Get Divorced?'' (german: Muß man sich gleich scheiden lassen?) is a 1953 West German comedy film directed by Hans Schweikart and starring Hardy Krüger, Ruth Leuwerik and Tilda Thamar. It was made at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art director Fritz Lück and Hans Sohnle. Location filming took place in Lucerne and at the Nürburgring. Plot After a Formula One driver suffers an accident, he goes to Switzerland to recover where he falls in love with an Argentine millionaire. On returning to Germany he tells his wife, and they soon appear to be heading toward a divorce. Cast *Hardy Krüger as Andreas von Doerr * Ruth Leuwerik as Garda von Doerr * Tilda Thamar as Joan de Portago * Hans Söhnker as Dr. Algys *Fita Benkhoff as Elisabeth Lindpaintner *Gustav Knuth as Dr. Spitzkoetter *Karl Schönböck as Prosecutor Paul *Paul Bildt as Professor *Peer Schmidt as Theobald * Inge Konradi as Bettina *Charlotte Witthauer as Frl. Müller * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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