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Schwarzer Samt
''Schwarzer Samt'' (English: ''Black Velvet'') is a German crime film from Heinz Thiel produced by the DEFA in the year 1964. Plot summary The State Security Service detains the photographer Gwendoleit, who as courier was supposed to bring counterfeited documents and numberplates to Leipzig and moreover to get active there as photographer. Because the State Security Service neither knows, with whom Gwendoleit wants to meet in Leipzig, nor what the photo subject was, the security agent Alexander Berg takes up the identity of Gwendoleit, although he actually planned tripping to Oberhof for winter holidays. In Leipzig Helma Sibelka appears and hands over a deposit for the passports and the numberplates to Alexander. Berg refuses the delivery of the passports, that she only will get when the full amount is paid. Helma visits her husband, the engineer Manfred, in the guesthouse, where she finds him with the secretary Vera Gorm. For Manfred the marriage is going to break down, for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinz Thiel
Heinz Thiel (10 May 1920 – 9 March 2003) was a German film director and screenwriter. He directed more than 20 films between 1956 and 1977. His 1967 film ''Bread and Roses'' was entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival. Selected filmography * '' Special Mission'' (1959) * '' Five Days, Five Nights'' (1960) * '' Reserved for the Death'' (1963) * '' Schwarzer Samt'' (1964) * ''Bread and Roses "Bread and Roses" is a political slogan as well as the name of an associated poem and song. It originated from a speech given by American women's suffrage activist Helen M. Todd, Helen Todd; a line in that speech about "bread for all, and roses ...'' (1967) * '' Hart am Wind'' (1970) References External links * 1920 births 2003 deaths Film people from Saxony-Anhalt Mass media people from Magdeburg {{Germany-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hotel Astoria (Leipzig)
Hotel Astoria may refer to: * Hotel Astoria, Brussels, later Corinthia Grand Hotel Astoria, Belgium * Hotel Astoria (Copenhagen), Denmark * Danubius Hotel Astoria, Budapest, Hungary * Hotel Astoria (Saint Petersburg), Russia * Hotel Astoria (Belgrade), later Queen's Astoria Design Hotel, Serbia * Hotel Astoria (Oregon), later John Jacob Astor Hotel, in Astoria, Oregon, United States * Hotel Astoria at the Waldorf-Astoria (1893–1929), in Manhattan, New York, United States * Astoria Hotel (Vancouver) See also * * Astoria Palace Hotel The Astoria Palace Hotel is a hotel in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It faces the Copacabana Beach and is located just metres west of the Copacabana Palace Hotel Belmond Ltd. (formerly Orient-Express Hotels Ltd) is a hospitality and leis ..., Rio de Janeiro, Brazil * Waldorf-Astoria (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rolf Ripperger
Rolf is a male given name and a surname. It originates in the Germanic name ''Hrolf'', itself a contraction of ''Hrodwulf'' ( Rudolf), a conjunction of the stem words ''hrod'' ("renown") + ''wulf'' ("wolf"). The Old Norse cognate is ''Hrólfr''. An alternative but less common variation of ''Rolf'' in Norway is ''Rolv''. The oldest evidence of the use of the name Rolf in Sweden is an inscription from the 11th century on a runestone in Forsheda, Småland. The name also appears twice in the Orkneyinga sagas, where a scion of the jarls of Orkney, Gånge-Rolf, is said to be identical to the Viking Rollo who captured Normandy in 911. This Saga of the Norse begins with the abduction of Gói daughter by a certain Hrolf of Berg, (the Mountain). She is the daughter of Thorri, a Jotun of Gandvik, and sister of Gór and Nór. The latter is regarded as a first king and eponymous anchestor of Nórway. After a fierce duell (Holmgang) where none is able to overcome the other, Hrolf and Nór beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manfred Zetzsche
Manfred Zetzsche (10 February 1930 – 22 August 2023) was a German actor. He died on 22 August 2023, at the age of 93. Selected filmography * '''' (1974) * '''' (1975) * '''' (1984)Bibliography * |
Hans Lucke
Hans may refer to: __NOTOC__ People * Hans (name), a masculine given name * Hans Raj Hans, Indian singer and politician ** Navraj Hans, Indian singer, actor, entrepreneur, cricket player and performer, son of Hans Raj Hans ** Yuvraj Hans, Punjabi actor and singer, son of Hans Raj Hans * Hans clan, a tribal clan in Punjab, Pakistan Places * Hans, Marne, a commune in France * Hans Island, administrated by Greenland and Canada Arts and entertainment * ''Hans'' (film) a 2006 Italian film directed by Louis Nero * Hans (Frozen), the main antagonist of the 2013 Disney animated film ''Frozen'' * ''Hans'' (magazine), an Indian Hindi literary monthly * ''Hans'', a comic book drawn by Grzegorz Rosiński and later by Zbigniew Kasprzak Other uses * Clever Hans, the "wonder horse" * ''The Hans India'', an English language newspaper in India * HANS device, a racing car safety device *Hans, the ISO 15924 code for Simplified Chinese script See also *Han (other) Han may refer to: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera Oelschlegel
Vera Franziska Oelschlegel (born 5 July 1938) is a German actress, singer, artistic director, drama director and professor of drama at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts. She was a celebrity in East Germany before 1989. After that, from 1990 till 2013, she headed up the touring theatre company. Biography Oelschlegel was born in Leipzig. Her mother, Ruth Oelschlegel (née Lauterbach, 1914–2014), was trained as a journalist. Her father, businessman Gottfried Oelschlegel (1910–1945), was killed in World War II. She attended the prestigious St. Thomas School in Leipzig, passing her school final exams (Abitur) in 1956. After that she studied between 1956 and 1959 at the acting faculty of the , from which she emerged with a degree, and where she also served as the secretary for the faculty's Free German Youth section. Between 1959 and 1961 she worked at the Putbus Theatre on the Island of Rügen on the country's north-east coast. Her first radio experience had involve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christoph Engel (Actor)
Christoph is a male given name and surname. It is a German variant of Christopher. Notable people with the given name Christoph * Christoph Bach (1613–1661), German musician * Christoph Büchel (born 1966), Swiss artist * Christoph Dientzenhofer (1655–1722), German architect * Christoph Harting (born 1990), German athlete specialising in the discus throw * Christoph M. Herbst (born 1966), German actor * Christoph Kramer (born 1991), German football player and winner of the 2014 FIFA World Cup * Christoph M. Kimmich (born 1939), German-American historian and eighth President of Brooklyn College * Christoph Metzelder (born 1980), German football player * Christoph Riegler (born 1992), Austrian football player * Christoph Waltz (born 1956), German-Austrian actor and two times winner of the OSCARS Academy Award * Christoph M. Wieland (1733–1813), German poet and writer * Prince Christoph of Württemberg (1515–1568), German regent and duke of the Duchy of Württemberg * P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Köfer
Herbert Köfer (17 February 1921 – 24 July 2021) was a German actor, voice artist, and television presenter. He was the first German TV news presenter for the East German Deutscher Fernsehfunk, and also presented the station's last news before the reunification of Germany. His first theatre engagement was in 1940, and he kept acting until the age of 100. Köfer played an SS-Hauptsturmführer in the 1963 film '' Nackt unter Wölfen'' (''Naked Among Wolves''). He was known for detective series such as ''Polizeiruf 110'' and for comic roles. He founded his own troupe, ''Köfers Komödiantenbühne'', in 2003, and published memoirs. Life Herbert Köfer was born in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin. He went to acting school and started his career in 1940 with first engagements at the theatre in Brieg, Lower Silesia. From 1941 to 1945 Köfer served in the Wehrmacht. He was a prisoner of war; when he returned, he worked in different theatres in Berlin, including the Volksbühne, Deutsches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Ulrich
Rudolf Ulrich (3 January 1922 – 4 April 1997) was a German film actor. He appeared in 67 films between 1954 and 1986. He died in Berlin at age 75. Selected filmography * '' Duped Till Doomsday'' (1957) * ''Polonia-Express'' (1957) * ''Brücke zwischen gestern und morgen'' (1959) *''Viel Lärm Um Nichts'' (1964) * '' The Rabbit Is Me'' (1965) * ''Tecumseh'' (1972) * '' Otpisani'' (1974) * ''Between Day and Night ''Between Day and Night'' (german: Zwischen Nacht und Tag) is a 1975 East German drama film directed by Horst E. Brandt. It was entered into the 9th Moscow International Film Festival. Plot Episodes from the life of the German poet and communis ...'' (1975) References External links * 1922 births 1997 deaths German male film actors 20th-century German male actors {{Germany-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erich Gerberding
Erich Gerberding (15 Oktober 1921 – 24 May 1986) was a German actor. After 1945 Gerberding had at first stage engagements in Gera Gera is a city in the German state of Thuringia. With around 93,000 inhabitants, it is the third-largest city in Thuringia after Erfurt and Jena as well as the easternmost city of the ''Thüringer Städtekette'', an almost straight string of cit ... and Heiligenstadt, before becoming for many years an ensemble member of the ''Municipal Stages of Leipzig''. Parallel to his theatre activity he got important character parts in film and television productions. Roles worth to be pointed out he had in ''Freispruch mangels Beweises'' and in the television series ''Die Flucht aus der Hölle''. Filmography External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gerberding, Erich 1921 births 1986 deaths Actors from Hanover German male film actors German male stage actors German male television actors 20th-century German male actors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kino Babylon
The Kino Babylon is a cinema in the Mitte neighbourhood of Berlin and part of a listed building complex at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz opposite the Volksbühne theatre. The building was erected 1928–29. It was designed by the architect Hans Poelzig in the ''Neue Sachlichkeit'' style. In 1948 the theatre was heavily renovated and served afterward as a speciality cinema for the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). After the auditorium was closed because of the danger of collapse, it was restored from 1999 to 2001 in accordance with conservation guidelines. In 2002 the restoration was awarded the "German Award for Monument Protection". Since 2001 the Babylon has been used primarily as an arthouse cinema, as well as a venue for film festivals and musical and literary cultural events. It was a Berlin International Film Festival venue from 2008 to 2010. Originally the cinema held an audience of 1200 in one auditorium, but now it is divided into two auditoriums with 450 seats and 70 s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monument To The Battle Of The Nations
The Monument to the Battle of the Nations (german: Völkerschlachtdenkmal, sometimes shortened to ''Völki'' or ''Schlachti'') is a monument in Leipzig, Germany, to the 1813 Battle of Leipzig, also known as the Battle of the Nations. Paid for mostly by donations and the city of Leipzig, it was completed in 1913 for the 100th anniversary of the battle at a cost of six million goldmarks. The monument commemorates the defeat of Napoleon's French army at Leipzig, a crucial step towards the end of hostilities in the War of the Sixth Coalition. The coalition armies of Russia, Prussia, Austria and Sweden were led by Tsar Alexander I of Russia and Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg. There were Germans fighting on both sides, as Napoleon's troops also included conscripted Germans from the left bank of the Rhine annexed by France, as well as troops from his German allies of the Confederation of the Rhine. The structure is tall. It contains over 500 steps to a viewing platform at the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
