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Grimme-Preis For Fiction Winners
The Grimme-Preis ("Grimme Award"; prior to 2011: Adolf-Grimme-Preis) is one of the most prestigious German television awards. It is named after the first general director of Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk, Adolf Grimme.Adolf Grimme short biography Fernsehmuseum Hamburg. Retrieved 28 January 2012 It has been referred to in ''Kino'' magazine as the "German TV Oscar". The awards ceremony takes place annually at Theater Marl in , and is hosted by the Grimme-Institut. Since 1964, it awards productions "that use the specific possibilities of the medium of television in an extraordinary manne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marl, North Rhine-Westphalia
Marl () is a town and a municipality in the Recklinghausen (district), district of Recklinghausen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated near the Wesel-Datteln Canal, approx. 10 km north-west of Recklinghausen. It has about 90,000 people. Geography Location The town adjoins in the north to the woodlands of the Haard and the natural park Hohe Mark. The town forms the smooth transition between the industrial Ruhr, ''Ruhrgebiet'' and the rural ''Münsterland''. The northern town border coincides nearly completely with the course of the river Lippe river, Lippe. Approximately 60% of the total town area are fields, woods, watercourses, parks and other green areas. Town area Marl has the following urban districts: Neighbour towns In the north Marl adjoins to Haltern, Haltern am See, in the east to Oer-Erkenschwick, in the southeast to Recklinghausen, in the south to Herten, in the southwest to Gelsenkirchen and in the west to Dorsten. Nature reserves * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Abich
Hans Abich (4 August 1918 – 17 July 2003) was a German film producer.Rentschler p.13 Selected filmography * ''Love '47'' (1949) * ''Keepers of the Night'' (1949) * '' A Day Will Come'' (1950) * ''The Day Before the Wedding'' (1952) * ''His Royal Highness'' (1953) * ''Beloved Life'' (1953) * ''She'' (1954) * ''Mamitschka'' (1955) * ''Night of Decision'' (1956) * ''Without You All Is Darkness'' (1956) * ''Confessions of Felix Krull'' (1957) * ''Rose Bernd'' (1957) * '' The Glass Tower'' (1957) * ''Wir Wunderkinder'' (1958) * '' Restless Night'' (1958) * '' A Woman Who Knows What She Wants'' (1958) * '' The Man Who Sold Himself'' (1959) * ''People in the Net'' (1959) * '' The Buddenbrooks'' (1959) * ''Two Times Adam, One Time Eve'' (1959) * '' Storm in a Water Glass'' (1960) * '' Beloved Augustin'' (1960) * '' The Ambassador'' (1960) * ''Stage Fright'' (1960) * ''Agatha, Stop That Murdering!'' (1960) * ''Tonio Kröger ''Tonio Kröger'' () is a novella by Thomas Mann, written earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadeshda Brennicke
Nadeshda Brennicke (born 21 April 1973 in Freiburg im Breisgau; also known as ''Nadja Therésa Brennicke'') is a German actress, singer and author. Biography Brennicke is the adoptive daughter of TV and voice-over actor Michael Brennicke and her mother is an art dealer. She spent her childhood in München. When she was 15 she left gymnasium when she was in the tenth grade and moved out of her parents home in hopes of becoming an actress. From 1989-91, she attended the Zinner Studio (today the International School for Acting and Acting). In 1992 she formed the singing duo ''Charade'' with Jennifer Böttcher, which was produced by Stefan Zauner and Aron Strobel of the band Münchener Freiheit. The singles ''All of You'' and ''The Colour of Your Eyes'' reached number 67 and 60 of the German charts. In her senior year of drama school Brennicke received the lead role of Tina in the German film comedy ''Manta – Der Film''. Other performances for television productions followed. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich Breloer
Heinrich Breloer (, born 17 February 1942 in Gelsenkirchen) is a German author and film director. He has mainly worked on docudramas related to modern German history and has received many awards. Breloer's 2005 docudrama ''Speer und Er'' was described as a milestone in the understanding of Nazi Germany by the German people. Selected filmography * ' (co-director: , 1982, TV film) — based on a novel by Arnold Zweig * ''Treffpunkt im Unendlichen'' (co-director: Horst Königstein, 1984, TV film) — based on a novel by Klaus Mann * ' (1987, TV film) * ''The State Chancellery'' (1989, TV film) — (about Uwe Barschel) * ''Kollege Otto'' (1991, TV film) — (about and the ) * ' (1993, TV film) — (about Herbert Wehner) * ' (1997, TV film) — (about the German Autumn) * ''Die Manns – Ein Jahrhundertroman'' (2001, TV miniseries) — (about Thomas Mann) * ''Speer und Er'' (2005, TV miniseries) — (about Albert Speer) * ''Buddenbrooks'' (2008) — based on the novel ''Buddenbrooks' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzanne Von Borsody
Suzanne von Borsody (; born 23 September 1957 in Munich) is a German actress. She comes from a prominent theatre family, being the daughter of actress Rosemarie Fendel and actor Hans von Borsody. Her grandfather, Eduard von Borsody, was a famous director, while his brother, her great uncle, Julius von Borsody, was an equally famous set designer. She may be best known internationally for playing Frau Jäger in the 1998 film '' Run Lola Run'', and has also done dubbing work for foreign films such as ''Treasure Planet'', where she provides the German voice of Captain Amelia. She is a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF as well as for several other charity organizations. Selected filmography * ' (1988) * ' (1991) * ''Justice'' (1993) * '' Lauras Entscheidung'' (1994, TV film) * ''The Lost Daughter'' (1997, TV film) * '' Run Lola Run'' (1998) * ''Am I Beautiful?'' (1998) * ' (1999, TV film) * ' (2000, TV miniseries) * ''Leo & Claire ''Leo & Claire'' (german: Leo und Claire) is a 2001 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Böhmermann
Jan Böhmermann () (born 23 February 1981) is a German satirist, journalist, and podcast and television host. He also worked as a writer, producer, radio host, and is best known for his activism through publicity stunts. Early life and education Böhmermann was born and raised in Bremen. His mother had immigrated to Germany in the early 1970s, and was part of the German minority in Poland. His father died from leukemia when Böhmermann was 17 years old. Even though he remains silent about his private life, it is known that he has at least one child. He served as a lay judge at the local court of Cologne. Career In 1997, Böhmermann gained his first journalistic experience at "''Die Norddeutsche''", a local edition of Bremen's daily newspapers. In 1999, he began working as a moderator and reporter at "''Radio Bremen''". He applied to three drama schools, was rejected every time, and a fourth time successfully at the Hanover Drama School, where he did not compete. He also dropped ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Biolek
Alfred Franz Maria Biolek (10 July 1934 – 23 July 2021) was a German entertainer and television producer. Biolek held a PhD in law and was an honorary professor at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. He received many awards for his work on television which included popular long-running series, and pioneering work for talk shows and cooking shows in the 1970s. He also received awards for his efforts for promoting the culture of food and wine. He supported and founded charities for Africa. Youth Biolek was born in Freistadt (Fryštát) in Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), into a Sudeten German family. His father was a lawyer. After expulsion from Czechoslovakia in 1946, the Biolek family moved to Waiblingen near Stuttgart, where Biolek's father practiced law again. Biolek was raised a Catholic, and served as an altar boy. Later he temporarily joined the German conservative party CDU. He attended the Gymnasium in Waiblingen and graduated in 1954. He then studied law in Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Beyer
Frank Paul Beyer (; 26 May 1932 – 1 October 2006) was a German film director. In East Germany he was one of the most important film directors, working for the state film monopoly DEFA and directed films that dealt mostly with the Nazi era and contemporary East Germany. His film ''Trace of Stones'' was banned for 20 years in 1966 by the ruling SED. His 1975 film '' Jacob the Liar'' was the only East German film ever nominated for an Academy Award. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 until his death he mostly directed television films. Biography Early life and career Frank Beyer was born as Frank Paul Beyer in Nobitz in Thuringia, Germany, to Paul Beyer, a clerk, and Charlotte Beyer, a sales clerk. He had a brother, Hermann Beyer (born 30 May 1943) who should have become a successful actor. After the Machtergreifung of the Nazi Party in 1933 his father, a social democrat lost his job and was unemployed for several years. In 1942 he was drafted for military service and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Bernhard
Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard (; 9 February 1931 – 12 February 1989) was an Austrian novelist, playwright and poet who explored death, social injustice, and human misery in controversial literature that was deeply pessimistic about modern civilization in general and Austrian culture in particular. Bernhard's body of work has been called "the most significant literary achievement since World War II." He is widely considered to be one of the most important German-language authors of the postwar era. Life Thomas Bernhard was born in 1931 in Heerlen in the Netherlands, where his unmarried mother Herta Bernhard worked as a maid. From the autumn of 1931 he lived with his grandparents in Vienna until 1937 when his mother, who had married in the meantime, moved him to Traunstein, Bavaria, in Nazi Germany. There he was required to join the ''Deutsches Jungvolk'', a branch of the Hitler Youth, which he hated. Bernhard's natural father Alois Zuckerstätter was a carpenter and petty criminal w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernd Das Brot
Bernd das Brot ( en, Bernd the bread) is a puppet character, star mascot and cult figure of the German children's television channel KI.KA, currently featured in the programs ''Bernd das Brot'', '' Bravo Bernd'', and the KI.KA late night loop program. Role on KI.KA Bernd is a depressed, grumpy, curmudgeonly, constantly bad-tempered, surly, fatalistic, melancholic loaf of pullman bread speaking in a deep, gloomy baritone. He is small, rectangular and golden brown with hands directly attached to his body, rings around his eyes and a thin-lipped mouth. According to himself, he belongs to the species "Homo Brotus (= 'Breadus') Depressivus". His favourite activities include staring at his south wall at home, learning the pattern of his woodchip wallpaper by heart, reading his favourite magazine ''The Desert and You'', and enlarging his collection of the most boring railway tracks on video. Bernd sympathizes firstly with himself. His favorite expression is ''Mist.'', used in much ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Benrath
Martin Benrath (9 November 1926 – 31 January 2000) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 60 films between 1954 and 2000. Partial filmography * ' (1954), as Michael Godeysen * ''The Angel with the Flaming Sword'' (1954), as Jürgen Marein * ''A Thousand Melodies'' (1956), as Martin Hoff * ''Melody of the Heath'' (1956), as Ulrich Haagen * ''Court Martial'' (1959), as Funk-Offizier Maiers * ''The Ideal Woman'' (1959), as Axel Jungk * '' Morituri'' (1965), as Kruse * ''Eintausend Milliarden'' (1974) * ' (1975), as Lukas Berlinger * ''When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit'' (1978, TV film), as Papa * '' The Buddenbrooks'' (1979, TV miniseries), as Johann Jr. * '' Put on Ice'' (1980), as V-Mann Körner * ''From the Life of the Marionettes'' (1980), as Professor Mogens Jensen * '' Die Weiße Rose'' (1982), as Prof. Kurt Huber * ''Väter und Söhne – Eine deutsche Tragödie'' (1986, TV miniseries), as Bankier Bernheim * '' Success'' (1991), as Dr. Otto Klenk * ''Death Came ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jurek Becker
Jurek Becker (, probably 30 September 1937 – 14 March 1997) was a Polish-born German writer, screenwriter and East German dissident. His most famous novel is '' Jacob the Liar'', which has been made into two films. He lived in Łódź during World War II for about two years and survived the Holocaust. Childhood Jurek Becker was born, probably, in 1937. His birth date is not entirely clear because his father gave a birth date that was intended to protect the child from deportation. After the war Becker was claimed by a father, but Jurek was never sure if he was his real father, and who said he no longer remembered Jurek's correct birth date. It is probable that Jurek Becker was some years younger than is generally reckoned. He lived in the Łódź Ghetto as a child. When he was five, he was sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp and later to Sachsenhausen. His mother was murdered in the Holocaust, but his father survived; father and son were reunited after the war and sett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
