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Bonus On Death
''Bonus on Death'' (German: ''Prämien auf den Tod'') is a 1950 Austrian crime film directed by Curd Jürgens and starring Judith Holzmeister, Werner Krauss and Siegfried Breuer. One of a handful of Austrian crime films made during the post-war period, it was not particularly successful at the box office.Fritsche p.31 The film's sets were designed by Isabella Schlichting and Werner Schlichting. Synopsis Short of money, a man creates a scam where he draws life insurance policies for fake identities, then pretends they have died in order to collect the payout. Cast * Judith Holzmeister as Evelyn Biaggi * Werner Krauss as Dr. Schmidt * Siegfried Breuer as Peter Lissen - Versicherungsagent * Felix Steinboeck as Kako, Klavierspieler * Curd Jürgens as Gunarson, Operntenor * Josef Meinrad as Matrose * Gisele Wilke as Cleo, Hafenwirtin * Edith Mill as Kellnerin * Melanie Horeschowsky as Tilla, Lissens Quartierfrau * Hermann Thimig as Muschel, Hafensinspektor * Ka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curd Jürgens
Curd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz Jürgens (13 December 191518 June 1982) was a German-Austrian stage and film actor. He was usually billed in English-speaking films as Curt Jurgens. He was well known for playing Ernst Udet in ''Des Teufels General''. His English-language roles include ''James Bond'' villain Karl Stromberg in '' The Spy Who Loved Me'' (1977), Éric Carradine in '' And God Created Woman'' (1956), and Professor Immanuel Rath in ''The Blue Angel'' (1959). Early life Jürgens was born on 13 December 1915 in the Munich borough of Solln, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire. His father, Kurt, was a trader from Hamburg, and his mother, Marie-Albertine, was a French teacher. He had two elder twin sisters, Jeanette and Marguerite. He began his working career as a journalist before becoming an actor at the urging of his actress wife, Louise Basler. He spent much of his early acting career on the stage in Vienna. Due to serious injuries that he sustained in a car accident in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melanie Horeschowsky
Melanie Horeschowsky (1901–1983) was an Austrian stage, film and television actress.Giesen p.228 Selected filmography * ''The Prodigal Son'' (1934) * ''Der Kaiser von Kalifornien'' (1936) * '' Another World'' (1937) * '' Clarissa'' (1941) * ''What Does Brigitte Want?'' (1941) * ''The Rainer Case'' (1942) * '' Melody of a Great City'' (1943) * '' Insolent and in Love'' (1948) * '' Arlberg Express'' (1948) * ''Bonus on Death'' (1950) * '' A Heidelberg Romance'' (1951) * ''Your Heart Is My Homeland'' (1953) * ''Maxie'' (1954) * '' Cabaret'' (1954) * '' Engagement at Wolfgangsee'' (1956) * '' Imperial and Royal Field Marshal'' (1956) * '' So ein Millionär hat's schwer'' (1958) * ''Panoptikum 59'' (1959) * ''What a Woman Dreams of in Springtime'' (1959) * ''The Dance of Death The ''Danse Macabre'' (; ) (from the French language), also called the Dance of Death, is an artistic genre of allegory of the Late Middle Ages on the universality of death. The ''Danse Macabre'' consis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Mraschner
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) *Hans im Glück, a Germa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Kutschera
Friedrich may refer to: Names *Friedrich (surname), people with the surname ''Friedrich'' *Friedrich (given name), people with the given name ''Friedrich'' Other *Friedrich (board game), a board game about Frederick the Great and the Seven Years' War * ''Friedrich'' (novel), a novel about anti-semitism written by Hans Peter Richter *Friedrich Air Conditioning, a company manufacturing air conditioning and purifying products *, a German cargo ship in service 1941-45 See also *Friedrichs (other) *Frederick (other) *Nikolaus Friedreich Nikolaus Friedreich (1 July 1825 in Würzburg – 6 July 1882 in Heidelberg) was a German pathologist and neurologist, and a third generation physician in the Friedreich family. His father was psychiatrist Johann Baptist Friedreich (1796–1862) ... {{disambig ja:フリードリヒ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martha Hartmann
Martha ( Hebrew: מָרְתָא) is a biblical figure described in the Gospels of Luke and John. Together with her siblings Lazarus and Mary of Bethany, she is described as living in the village of Bethany near Jerusalem. She was witness to Jesus resurrecting her brother, Lazarus. Etymology of the name The name ''Martha'' is a Latin transliteration of the Koine Greek Μάρθα, itself a translation of the Aramaic מָרְתָא ''Mârtâ,'' "the mistress" or "the lady", from מרה "mistress," feminine of מר "master." The Aramaic form occurs in a Nabatean inscription found at Puteoli, and now in the Naples Museum; it is dated AD 5 (Corpus Inscr. Semit., 158); also in a Palmyrene inscription, where the Greek translation has the form ''Marthein.'' Pope, Hugh"St. Martha" The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 9. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1919. Biblical references In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus visits the home of two sisters named Mary and Martha. The two s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Graff
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) *Hans im Glück, a Germa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liselotte Gerhard
Liselotte is a feminine given name which may refer to: *childhood name of Elizabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine (1652–1722), German princess, sister-in-law of King Louis XIV of France, and prolific letter writer *Liselotte Blumer (born 1957), Swiss retired female badminton player *Liselotte Grschebina (1908–1994), German-born Israeli photographer *Liselotte Herrmann (1909–1938), German Communist Resistance fighter executed by the Nazis *Liselotte Hopfer, German luger who won a silver medal at the 1935 European Championships *Liselotte Landbeck (1916–2013), Austrian figure skater and speed skater *Liselotte Neumann (born 1966), Swedish golfer *LiseLotte Olsson (born 1954), Swedish politician *Liselotte Olsson (born 1968), Swiss sprint canoer *Liselotte Pulver (born 1929), Swiss actress *Liselotte Richter (1906–1968), German philosopher and theologian *Liselotte Schramm-Heckmann (1904–1995), German painter *Liselotte, main character of the manga series ''Liselotte & Witch' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugen Eisenlohr
Eugen is a masculine given name which may refer to: * Archduke Eugen of Austria (1863–1954), last Habsburg Grandmaster of the Teutonic Order from 1894 to 1923 * Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke (1865–1947), Swedish painter, art collector, and patron of artists * Prince Eugen of Schaumburg-Lippe (1899–1929) * Prince Eugen of Bavaria (1925–1997) * Eugen Bacon, female African-Australian author * Eugen Beza (born 1978), Romanian football manager and former player * Eugen Bleuler (1857–1939), Swiss psychiatrist and eugenicist * Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk (1851–1914), Austrian economist * Eugen Bolz (1881–1945), German politician and member of the anti-Nazi resistance * Eugen Chirnoagă (1891–1965), Romanian chemist * Eugen Cicero (1940–1997), Romanian-German jazz pianist * Eugen Ciucă (1913–2005), Romanian-American artist * Eugen d'Albert (1864–1932), Scottish-born pianist and composer * Eugen Doga (born 1937), Romanian composer from Moldova * Eugen Drewermann (born 1940 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herta Baumann
Herta may refer to the following: Given name * Herta Anitaș (born 1967) Romanian rower and Olympic medalist * Herta Bothe (born 1921), German guard at Nazi concentration camps * Herta Däubler-Gmelin (born 1943), German politician, German Minister of Justice * Herta Ehlert (1905–1997), German guard at many Nazi concentration camps * Herta Elviste (1923-2016), Estonian actress * Herta Feely (born ????), German-American editor, and child safety activist * Herta Freitag (1908–2000), Austrian-born American mathematician and professor * Herta Groves, British hat designer * Herta Haas (1914–2010), Yugoslav Partisan during World War II and second wife of Josip Broz Tito * Herta Hafner, Italian luger * Herta Herzog (1910–2010), Austrian-born American social scientist specializing in communication studies * Herta Heuwer (1913–1999), German inventor of the take-out dish currywurst * Herta Huber (born 1926), German writer and poet * Herta Laipaik (1921–2008), Estonian writer * Her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iván Petrovich
Iván Petrovich ( sr, Иван Петровић, Ivan Petrović; 1 January 1894 – 18 October 1962) was a Serbian film actor and singer. He was the first actor from Yugoslavia to have a successful international movie career. Petrovich mainly worked in German cinema, but also collaborated with established directors in some 100 Hungarian, French, Spanish, Czechoslovakian and Hollywood movies. Early life He was born Svetislav Petrović ( sr-Cyrl, Светислав Петровић) on 1 January 1894 in Újvidék, Austria-Hungary, today Novi Sad in the Serbian province of Vojvodina. His father Mladen was a tailor who made uniforms for the Serbian army. After finishing the primary education in his hometown, he moved to Budapest, where he graduated from the Polytechnic academy. He was a talented singer and violinist and was an accomplished athlete, who participated as a swimmer at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. During the World War I he was drafted into the Austr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gusti Wolf
Gusti Wolf (11 April 1912 – 5 May 2007) was an Austrian stage, film, and television actress. Born in Vienna, Wolf was adopted by the painter, Felix Albrecht Harta who became her foster father. Wolf made her stage debut at the Burgtheater in 1934 and from there moved on to Ostrava, Munich, and Berlin. In 1946, she was engaged at the Burgtheater again, whose Honorary Member she became in 1987. She made her film debut in 1937, played mainly supporting roles in a number of UFA movies, and after the war continued her film career, playing alongside actors such as Hans Moser, Susi Nicoletti, Johannes Heesters, Marika Rökk, and Oskar Sima. Her television credits include series such as ''Der alte Richter'' (1969–70), the Austrian cult classic, ''Kottan ermittelt'' (1981–83), the comedy series, ''Wenn das die Nachbarn wüßten'' (1990–92), and guest roles in ''Derrick'', ''Tatort'', and ''Kommissar Rex''. Wolf never married, and didn't have any children. She lived in Vienna. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilse Trenker
Ilse is a common female name, technically a German diminutive of Elisabeth, functioning as a given name in its own right chiefly in Austria, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and all of the Scandinavian countries including Finland. It may refer to: Rivers * Ilse (Bega), a river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, tributary of the Bega * Ilse (Lahn), a river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, tributary of the Lahn * Ilse (Oker), a river of Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, flowing from the Harz mountains, tributary of the Oker * Ilse (Weser), a river in Lower Saxony, Germany People * Princess Ilse, a legendary princess of the Harz mountains in Germany * Ilse Aichinger (1921–2016), Austrian writer * Ilse Everlien Berardo (born 1955), German Lutheran theologian, responsible for the German-speaking Protestant Church on Madeira Island * Ilse Bing (1899–1998), German avant-garde photographer * Ilse Braun (1909–1979), one of two sisters of Eva Braun * Ilse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
