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Contest (1932 Film)
''Contest'' (german: Kampf) is a 1932 German sports film directed by Erich Schönfelder and starring Manfred von Brauchitsch, Evelyn Holt, and Kurt Vespermann. It is set in the world of motor racing. It was the final film directed by Schönfelder. The film's sets were designed by Artur Günther and Willi A. Herrmann. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios and on location in Freiburg, at the Nürburgring and the AVUS in Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and List of cities in Germany by population, largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within ci .... Plot Robert Wenck is a well-known racing driver who goes to Freiburg to take part in a car race that starts there. He is very much looking forward to the race, which will lead through the nearby mountains, because here he will meet his favorite opponent, Kurt Harder. However, this ongoing titular battle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erich Schönfelder
Erich Schönfelder (1885–1933) was a German screenwriter, actor, and film director of the silent film, silent and early sound film, sound eras. Early in his career he worked frequently with Ernst Lubitsch. Selected filmography Writer * ''Shoe Palace Pinkus'' (1916) * ''When Four Do the Same'' (1917) * ''My Wife, the Movie Star'' (1919) * ''Meyer from Berlin'' (1919) * ''Love at the Wheel'' (1921) Actor * ''The Golem and the Dancing Girl'' (1917) *''The Toboggan Cavalier'' (1918) * ''Ruth's Two Husbands'' (1919) * ''Hunted Men'' (1924) * ''Struggle for the Soil'' (1925) * ''Fight of the Tertia (1929 film), Fight of the Tertia'' (1929) * ''The Copper (1930 film), The Copper'' (1930) Director * ''The Bull of Olivera'' (1921) * ''Miss Rockefeller Is Filming'' (1922) * ''In the Name of the King (1924 film), In the Name of the King'' (1924) * ''Women of Luxury'' (1925) * ''The Woman with That Certain Something'' (1925) * ''Princess Trulala'' (1926) * ''Grandstand for General Staff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constituent states, Berlin is surrounded by the State of Brandenburg and contiguous with Potsdam, Brandenburg's capital. Berlin's urban area, which has a population of around 4.5 million, is the second most populous urban area in Germany after the Ruhr. The Berlin-Brandenburg capital region has around 6.2 million inhabitants and is Germany's third-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr and Rhine-Main regions. Berlin straddles the banks of the Spree, which flows into the Havel (a tributary of the Elbe) in the western borough of Spandau. Among the city's main topographical features are the many lakes in the western and southeastern boroughs formed by the Spree, Havel and Dahme, the largest of which is Lake Müggelsee. Due to its l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Of The Weimar Republic
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1930s Sports Films
Year 193 ( CXCIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sosius and Ericius (or, less frequently, year 946 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 193 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * January 1 – Year of the Five Emperors: The Roman Senate chooses Publius Helvius Pertinax, against his will, to succeed the late Commodus as Emperor. Pertinax is forced to reorganize the handling of finances, which were wrecked under Commodus, to reestablish discipline in the Roman army, and to suspend the food programs established by Trajan, provoking the ire of the Praetorian Guard. * March 28 – Pertinax is assassinated by members of the Praetorian Guard, who storm the imperial palace. The Empire is auctioned off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerhard Hoffmann
Gerhard Hoffmann (4 August 1880 – 18 June 1945) was a German nuclear physicist. During World War II, he contributed to the German nuclear energy project, also known as the Uranium Club. Education Hoffmann studied at the University of Göttingen, the University of Leipzig, and the University of Bonn. He received his doctorate at Bonn, in 1906, under Walter Kaufmann. In 1908, he became Kaufmann’s teaching assistant at the University of Königsberg, where he completed his Habilitation in pure and applied physics in 1911. Career In 1917, Hoffmann became an Ausserordentlicher Professor and worked on precision measurement of radioactivity and research in cosmic rays. From 1928-1937, as successor to Gustav Hertz, he was Ordentlicher Professor at the University of Halle-Wittenberg. In 1937 he succeeded Peter Debye and became ordinarius professor of experimental physics at the University of Leipzig, a position he held until his death in 1945. In December 1938, the German chemist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josefine Dora
Josefine Dora (born Isidora Emilie Friese; 13 November 1867 – 28 May 1944) was an Austrian stage and film actress. She appeared in over 100 films, generally in supporting roles such as in ''The Virtuous Sinner'' (1931).Prawer p.137 Selected filmography * '' The Doll'' (1919) * ''Romeo and Juliet in the Snow'' (1920) * '' The Law of the Desert'' (1920) * ''Rebel Liesel'' (1920) * '' The Clan'' (1920) * ''The Brothers Karamazov'' (1921) * ''The Stranger from Alster Street'' (1921) * ''The Three Aunts'' (1921) * '' The Flight into Death'' (1921) * ''Trix, the Romance of a Millionairess'' (1921) * ''The Game with Women'' (1922) * ''The Flight into Marriage'' (1922) * '' Shadows of the Past'' (1922) * '' Lumpaci the Vagabond'' (1922) * ''Friedrich Schiller'' (1923) * '' The Game of Love'' (1924) * ''Express Train of Love'' (1925) * ''Ballettratten'' (1925) * ''The Circus Princess'' (1925) * '' The False Prince'' (1927) * ''The Love of Jeanne Ney'' (1927) * ''Mariett Dances Today'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubert Von Meyerinck
Hubert "Hubsi" von Meyerinck (23 August 1896 – 13 May 1971) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 280 films between 1921 and 1970. Biography Meyerinck was born in Potsdam, Brandenburg, the son of Friedrich von Meyerinck (1858–1928), Hauptmann (Captain) in the Prussian Army. He grew up at his family's estates in the Province of Posen and attended the gymnasium secondary school in Godeberg. Having passed his Abitur exams, he was called up for military service as a cadet in World War I, but soon was dismissed due to a pulmonary disease. In 1917 he gave his debut as a theatre actor at the Schauspielhaus in Berlin and from 1918 to 1920 continued his career at the Hamburg Kammerspiele. Back in Berlin he performed in avant-garde plays by Carl Sternheim, as well as in several revue entertainments and kabarett venues. Later he returned to classical theatre with engagements at the Deutsches Theater and the Lessing Theater, performing as '' The Imaginary Invalid'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Lorenzen
Henry Lorenzen (8 February 1899 – 22 September 1961) was a Danish film actor.Giesen p.199 Selected filmography * ''Girls of Today'' (1933) * ''The Champion of Pontresina'' (1934) * ''Tales from the Vienna Woods'' (1934) * ''Punks Arrives from America'' (1935) * '' The Grey Lady'' (1937) * '' His Best Friend'' (1937) * '' Nanette'' (1940) * ''Five Suspects'' (1950) * '' Dutch Girl'' (1953) * ''The Missing Miniature'' (1954) * ''Your Life Guards'' (1955) * ''Love, Dance and a Thousand Songs'' (1955) * '' The Simple Girl'' (1957) * ''Voyage to Italy, Complete with Love'' (1958) * ''The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp ''The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp'' is a 1954 British fantasy comedy film directed by Alan Bromly and starring Felix Aylmer, Diane Cilento and Jerry Desmonde. The film was based on a novel by Charles Terrot and is a remake of his television p ...'' (1959) * '' The Green Archer'' (1961) References Bibliography * Giesen, Rolf. ''Nazi Propaganda Films: A History and F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lia Eibenschütz
Lia Eibenschütz (1899–1985) was a German actress. She was married to the actor Kurt Vespermann with whom she had a son Gerd Vespermann who also became an actor. Selected filmography * '' The War of the Oxen'' (1920) * ''The Legend of Holy Simplicity'' (1920) * ''The Prisoner'' (1920) * ''The Conspiracy in Genoa'' (1921) * ''Parisian Women'' (1921) * '' The Buried Self'' (1921) * ''The Passion of Inge Krafft'' (1921) * ''Marie Antoinette, the Love of a King'' (1922) * ''Nathan the Wise'' (1922) * ''The Doll Maker of Kiang-Ning'' (1923) * ''The Merchant of Venice'' (1923) * ''The Little Duke'' (1924) * ''Kaddish'' (1924) * ''Horrido'' (1924) * ''Love's Finale'' (1925) * ''Destiny'' (1925) * ''The Woman from Berlin'' (1925) * ''The Great Opportunity'' (1925) * ''Ash Wednesday'' (1925) * ''Women of Luxury'' (1925) * ''Wallenstein'' (1925) * ''Lightning'' (1925) * '' Out of the Mist'' (1927) * ''A Modern Casanova'' (1928) * ''Sixteen Daughters and No Father'' (1928) * ''The Beloved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blandine Ebinger
Blandine Ebinger (born Blandine Loeser) (4 November 1899, in Berlin – 25 December 1993, in Berlin) was a German actress and ''chansonniere''. Career Ebinger became acquainted with Friedrich Hollaender in 1919, and with him she became heavily invested as a performer, writer, and composer in the Berlin cabaret scene in the 1920s, beginning in the cabaret and the Café des Westens. She recorded many of her husband's, Friedrich Hollaender, cabaret songs, including the set of songs entitled '. Ebinger emigrated to the United States in 1937, returning to Berlin in 1947. She moved to Munich, where she met her second husband, the publisher Helwig Hassepflug, in 1961. They eventually settled back in Berlin, where she continued her career in the theater and as an actress on television productions. Family Ebinger was the daughter of the pianist Gustav Loeser and the actress Margarete Wezel. She married Friedrich Hollaender. Although Ebinger and Hollaender ended their marriage bef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Leibelt
Hans Leibelt (11 March 1885 in Leipzig, German Empire – 3 December 1974 in Munich, West Germany) was a German film actor. Selected filmography * ''Heimliche Sünder'' (1926) * '' The False Prince'' (1927) * ''The Man in Search of His Murderer'' (1931) as Adamowski * ''The Street Song'' (1931) as the inspector * '' The Captain from Köpenick'' (1931) as Man at the advertising column * ''You Don't Forget Such a Girl'' (1932) as Hahnen Sr. * ''Night Convoy'' (1932) * ''The Magic Top Hat'' (1932) as the stage director * ''Love at First Sight'' (1932) as Count Prillwitz * ''Contest'' (1932) as Brandt, Mercedes team manager * '' Morgenrot'' (1933) as Bürgermeister von Meerskirchen * ''Konjunkturritter'' (1934) * ''Zimmermädchen... Dreimal klingeln'' (1934) as Otto Ruhland * ''The Girlfriend of a Big Man'' (1934) as Reider the banker * ''My Heart Calls You'' (1934) * ''A Man Wants to Get to Germany'' (1934) as Morron, Manuela's advisor * '' The Island'' (1934) as Bank Director * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Abel
Alfred Peter Abel (12 March 1879 – 12 December 1937) was a German film actor, director, and producer. He appeared in more than 140 silent and sound films between 1913 and 1938. His best-known performance was as Joh Fredersen in Fritz Lang's 1927 film ''Metropolis''. Early life Born in Leipzig in the German Empire on 12 March 1879, Alfred Peter Abel was the son of Louis Abel, a peddler, and Anna Maria Selma.Alfred Abel biography Abel had several careers before becoming an actor. In his early adulthood, Abel first studied to be a forester and later studied gardening in Saxon . He changed his area of study to business in hopes of becoming a businessman. A short study of art drafting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
