Carl Wilhelm

	Carl Wilhelm Carl Wilhelm (born 1872 in Vienna; died in London 1936), was a prolific German film director, film producer and screenwriter of the silent film era, at the end of which his career apparently entirely faded away and he vanished into obscurity. Life After his first work, the short documentary film ''Ein vergnügter Wintertag im Berliner Grunewald'', made for the producer Oskar Messter in 1909, Wilhelm worked for many other Berlin production companies. For example, in the years before World War I, he filmed for ''Deutsche Mutoskop- und Biograph GmbH'' in Lankwitz and ''BB-Film-Fabrikation Bolten-Baeckers'' in Berlin-Steglitz, Steglitz a series of comedies starring the silent film star Leo Peukert. The two comedies he shot in 1913 and 1914 with Ernst Lubitsch - ''Die Firma heiratet'' and ''Der Stolz der Firma'' - were very successful. As late as 1919 a critic could write: "''Die Firma heiratet'' and ''Meyer aus Berlin'' are still our best films."Bobby E. Lüthge im ''Film-Kurier'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Siegbert Salomon Prawer Siegbert Salomon Prawer (15 February 1925 – 5 April 2012) was Taylor Professor of the German Language and Literature at the University of Oxford. Life and works Prawer was born on 15 February 1925 in Cologne, Germany, to Jewish parents Marcus and Eleanora (Cohn) Prawer. Marcus was a lawyer from Poland and Eleanora's father was cantor of Cologne's largest synagogue. His sister Ruth was born in 1927. The family fled the Nazi regime in 1939, emigrating to Britain. Educated at King Henry VIII School, Coventry, and Jesus College, Cambridge, he was lecturer at the University of Birmingham from 1948 to 1963, Professor of German at Westfield College, London, from 1964, and became Taylor Professor of the German Language and Literature at the University of Oxford in 1969. He was awarded his PhD by Birmingham University in 1953 (PhD, University of Birmingham, Department of German, 1953, 'A critical analysis of 24 consecutive poems from Heine's Romanzero'). He was a Fellow (then an H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Rudolph Schildkraut Rudolph Schildkraut (27 April 1862 – 15 July 1930) was an Austrian film and theatre actor. Life and career Schildkraut was born in Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire to a Jewish family. His parents ran a hotel. He grew up in Brăila, Romania. In Vienna, he received acting lessons from Friedrich Mitterwurzer. He debuted in the early 1880s in Sopron; his first solid role came in 1885 in Krems. In 1893, he moved to Vienna to an engagement at the newly opened Raimund Theater. In 1898, he moved to the Carl Theatre. Among other things, he played the character Wurm in'' Love and Intrigue''. In 1900 he, came to the German Theatre in Hamburg, 1905 to the German Theatre in Berlin. There he became one of the most important actors in the theatre company of Max Reinhardt. His Shylock, which he played in 1905 and 1913, in Reinhardt's productions of'' The Merchant of Venice'', was praised by Fritz Kortner as a "monument to the art of acting." Other major roles were the title role in ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Yellow Death ''The Yellow Death'' (german: Der gelbe Tod) is a 1920 German silent thriller film directed by Carl Wilhelm and starring Eduard von Winterstein, Guido Herzfeld and Frida Richard. It was released in two parts, premiering at the Marmorhaus in Berlin.Bock & Bergfelder p. 535 The film's sets were designed by the art director Fritz Kraenke. Cast * Eduard von Winterstein as Polizeimeister Karpuschkin * Esther Hagan as Tochter Anna * Guido Herzfeld as Juwelier Salomon Ascher * Rosa Valetti as Awdotja, genannt "Großmütterchen", Besitzerin des Varietés "Elysium" * Fred Juncker as Leutnant Barsoleff * Rudolf Klein-Rhoden as Dr. Zborowitsch, Redakteur * Aenderly Lebius as Graf Majewsky * Frida Richard as Rebekka * Gustav Adolf Semler as Alexander, his son, prosecutor * Lilly Sueß-Eisenlohr as Rahel * Maria Wefers as Sonja * Wilhelm Prager Wilhelm may refer to: People and fictional characters * William Charles John Pitcher, costume designer known professionally as "Wilhelm" * Wilh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Duty To Live ''The Duty to Live'' (german: Die Pflicht zu leben) is a 1919 German silent film directed by Carl Wilhelm and starring Magnus Stifter, Margarete Schön, Reinhold Schünzel Reinhold Schünzel (7 November 1888 – 11 November 1954) was a German actor and director, active in both Germany and the United States. The son of a German father and a Jewish mother, he was born in St. Pauli, the poorest part of Hamburg. Despite .... Cast References Bibliography * External links * 1919 films Films of the Weimar Republic German silent feature films Films directed by Carl Wilhelm German black-and-white films 1910s German films {{1910s-Germany-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Gustav Adolf Semler Gustav Adolf Semler (14 March 1885 – 24 February 1968) was a German stage and film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 41 films between 1918 and 1929. Selected filmography * ''Alraune, die Henkerstochter, genannt die rote Hanne'' (1918) * ''Lola Montez'' (1919) * '' The Duty to Live'' (1919) * '' Colombine'' (1920) * '' The Yellow Death'' (1920) * '' The Haunting of Castle Kitay'' (1920) * '' The Black Count'' (1920) * '' Love and Passion'' (1921) * '' Gloria Fatalis'' (1922) * ''Mignon'' (1922) * '' The Violin King'' (1923) * '' The Other Woman'' (1924) * ''People in Need'' (1925) * '' The Violet Eater'' (1926) * ''The Good Reputation'' (1926) * ''Watch on the Rhine A watch is a portable timepiece intended to be carried or worn by a person. It is designed to keep a consistent movement despite the motions caused by the person's activities. A wristwatch is designed to be worn around the wrist, attached by ...'' (1926) * '' The Eleven Schill Officers'' (1926) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Margarete Schön Margarete Schön (born Margarethe Schippang; 7 April 1895 – 26 December 1985) was a German stage and film actress whose career spanned nearly fifty years. She is internationally recognized for her role as Kriemhild in director Fritz Lang's ''Die Nibelungen'' series of two silent fantasy films, ''Die Nibelungen: Siegfried'' and ''Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge''. Stage career Born in Magdeburg, Germany as Margarethe Schippang, she received private acting lessons with the theatre actor Hans Calm in Dessau. In 1912 she made her stage debut in Bad Freienwalde. Shortly thereafter, she received a commitment at the municipal theater of Bromberg (now, Bydgoszcz, in present-day Poland). From 1915 to 1918 she was part of the ensemble cast of the Deutsches Theater in Hanover, and from 1918 to 1945 she performed at the Staatstheater Berlin. Film career In 1919, Margarete Schön made her film debut in the Carl Wilhelm-directed ''Du meine Himmelskönigin''. She would spend the next two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Lisa Weise Lisa Weise (16 December 1880 as Louise Ottilie Georgine Anna Weise – 6 December 1951) was a German actress and singer. Life and career Born in Weimar the daughter of the oboist and Grand Ducal chamber virtuoso Ernst Weise and his wife Ottilie, ''née'' Zimmermann, she began her stage career in 1903 in Metz and then played at various Berlin theatres between 1904 and 1910. In 1910 she moved to the in Vienna for one season before returning to Berlin, where she worked at the Neues Operettentheater am Schiffbauerdamm until 1917. Parallel to her stage work, Weise regularly appeared in front of the camera as a leading actress from 1915 onwards, having already made an appearance in the sound picture ''The Count of Luxembourg'' in 1910. She usually acted alongside Karl Beckersachs under the direction of Friedrich Zelnik. Weise was married from 1907 to 1919 to factory owner Felix Stern, who was the screenwriter responsible for Carl Wilhelm's 1915 feature film ''Carl and Carla''. We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Erich Pommer Erich Pommer (20 July 1889 – 8 May 1966) was a German-born film producer and executive. Pommer was perhaps the most powerful person in the German and European film industries in the 1920s and early 1930s. As producer, Erich Pommer was involved in the German Expressionist film movement during the silent era. As the head of production at Decla Film, Decla-Bioskop, and, from 1924 to 1926, at UFA, Pommer was responsible for many of the best known movies of the Weimar Republic such as '' The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'' (1920), '' Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler'' (1922), ''Die Nibelungen'' (1924), ''Michael'' (1924), '' Der Letzte Mann / The Last Laugh'' (1924), ''Variety'' (1925), ''Tartuffe'' (1926), ''Manon Lescaut'' (1926), ''Faust'' (1926), ''Metropolis'' (1927) and ''The Blue Angel'' (1930). He later worked in American exile before returning to Germany to help rebuild the German film industry after World War II. Early life and career Pommer was born in Hildesheim, Province of Hanover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Oscar Sabo Oscar Sabo (29 August 1881, in Vienna – 2 May 1969, in Berlin) was an Austrian actor. Selected filmography * '' Jettatore'' (1919) * ''The False Dimitri'' (1922) * '' Storm in a Water Glass'' (1931) * ''The Little Escapade'' (1931) * '' The Spanish Fly'' (1931) * '' A Night in Paradise'' (1932) * ''Gitta Discovers Her Heart'' (1932) * ''Things Are Getting Better Already'' (1932) * ''Wedding at Lake Wolfgang'' (1933) * '' The Marathon Runner'' (1933) * ''Girls of Today'' (1933) * '' Love Must Be Understood'' (1933) * '' Tales from the Vienna Woods'' (1934) * ''Fresh Wind from Canada'' (1935) * '' Last Stop'' (1935) * ''The Court Concert'' (1936) * ''The Divine Jetta'' (1937) * '' Steputat & Co.'' (1938) ''The Secret Lie'' (1938) '' The Deruga Case'' (1938) * '' Heimatland'' (1939) * ''Detours to Happiness'' (1939) * '' Twelve Minutes After Midnight'' (1939) * '' Left of the Isar, Right of the Spree'' (1940) * ''The Girl at the Reception'' (1940) * '' Counterfeiters'' (1940) * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Arno Arndt The Arno is a river in the Tuscany region of Italy. It is the most important river of central Italy after the Tiber. Source and route The river originates on Monte Falterona in the Casentino area of the Apennines, and initially takes a southward curve. The river turns to the west near Arezzo passing through Florence, Empoli and Pisa, flowing into the Tyrrhenian Sea at Marina di Pisa. With a length of , it is the largest river in the region. It has many tributaries: Sieve at long, Bisenzio at , Ombrone Pistoiese at , and the Era, Elsa, Pesa, and Pescia. The drainage basin amounts to more than and drains the waters of the following subbasins: The Casentino, in the province of Arezzo, formed by the upper course of the river until its confluence with the Maestro della Chiana channel. The Val di Chiana, a plain drained in the 18th century, which until then had been a marshy area tributary of the Tiber. The upper Valdarno, a long valley bordered on the east by the Pratoma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Else Eckersberg Else may refer to: Places * Else (Lenne), a river in Germany, tributary to the Lenne * Else (Werre), a river in Germany, tributary to the Werre People * Else (given name) * Else (surname) Music * "Else" (song), a 1999 rock song * ''The Else'', a 2007 alternative rock album Others * Else (programming) In computer science, conditionals (that is, conditional statements, conditional expressions and conditional constructs,) are programming language commands for handling decisions. Specifically, conditionals perform different computations or actio ..., a concept in computer programming * , a Kriegsmarine coastal tanker See also * Elsa (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Walter Turszinsky Walter may refer to: People * Walter (name), both a surname and a given name * Little Walter, American blues harmonica player Marion Walter Jacobs (1930–1968) * Gunther (wrestler), Austrian professional wrestler and trainer Walter Hahn (born 1987), who previously wrestled as "Walter" * Walter, standard author abbreviation for Thomas Walter (botanist) ( – 1789) Companies * American Chocolate, later called Walter, an American automobile manufactured from 1902 to 1906 * Walter Energy, a metallurgical coal producer for the global steel industry * Walter Aircraft Engines, Czech manufacturer of aero-engines Films and television * ''Walter'' (1982 film), a British television drama film * Walter Vetrivel, a 1993 Tamil crime drama film * ''Walter'' (2014 film), a British television crime drama * ''Walter'' (2015 film), an American comedy-drama film * ''Walter'' (2020 film), an Indian crime drama film * ''WALTER'', a 1984 pilot for a spin-off of the TV series ''MASH'' * ''W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]