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Geheimakten Solvay
''Geheimakten Solvay'' is an East German film. It was released in 1953, and sold more than 3,800,000 tickets. Cast * Wilhelm Koch-Hooge: Hannes Lorenz * Leny Marenbach: Bertha Lorenz * Ulrich Thein: Fritz Lorenz * Rudolf Klix: Hauptbuchhalter Treusch * Johannes Arpe: Walter Schramm * Sigrid Roth: Gerda Schramm * Harald Mannl: Direktor Lütgen * Raimund Schelcher: Mertens * Gertrud Meyen: Elisabeth Bergen * Peter Herden: Max Wredel * Paul R. Henker: Ofenmeister Schaub * Kurt Wildersinn: Lau * Alexander Hunzinger: Krumme * Carl Balhaus: Rudi * Rudolf Fleck: Paul * Theo Shall Theo Shall (1896–1955) was a German stage and film actor.Goble p. 330 He was born in Metz when it was part of the German Empire but left following its occupation by France following the First World War. Selected filmography * ''Das Spielzeug v ...: Director Menneke References External links * 1953 films East German films 1950s German-language films German black-and-white films 1950s German films< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Hellberg
Martin Hellberg (also known as Martin Heinrich, 31 January 1905 – 31 October 1999) was a German actor, director and writer. Life Martin Hellberg was born in 1905 in Dresden, Saxony, Germany, as a son of a pastor. From 1922 to 1924, Martin Hellberg studied at the ''Dresdner Konservatorium''. He was a pupil of the director Georg Kiesau. In 1931 he joined the Communist Party (KPD). From 1924 until 1933, he worked at the ''Staatlichen Schauspielhaus Dresden'' (theater). However, he was fired by the Nazis in 1933. He first worked as a freelance director and then became a senior director in Freiburg im Breisgau. Afterwards, the Nazis forbade him to appear on stage again. In 1935, Hellberg made his first appearance as a film actor in ''Die blonde Carmen''. In 1952, following his debut as a director in '' The Condemned Village'', he received the International Peace Prize for this film. In 1958, he was the director and writer of the movie ''Emilia Galotti''. In 1959, he directed and wrot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugen Klagemann
Eugen Klagemann (1902–1980) was a German cinematographer and still photographer. Selected filmography * ''The Murderers Are Among Us'' (1946) * ''Raid'' (1947) * ''Nora's Ark'' (1948) * ''The Court Concert'' (1948) * '' Das Mädchen Christine'' (1949) * ''The Marriage of Figaro'' (1949) * ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'' (1950) * ''Corinna Schmidt'' (1951) * '' Der Fall Dr. Wagner'' (1954) * '' Damals in Paris'' (1956) * ''My Wife Makes Music ''My Wife Makes Music'' (german: Meine Frau macht Musik) is an East German musical film directed by Hans Heinrich. It was released in 1958, and sold 6,052,050 tickets. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam. The film's set's were desig ...'' (1958) * '' Goods for Catalonia'' (1959) Bibliography * Shandley, Robert R. ''Rubble Films: German Cinema in the Shadow of the Third Reich''. Temple University Press, 2001. External links * 1902 births 1980 deaths German cinematographers Film people from Berlin {{Cinematograph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Germany
East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state was a part of the Eastern Bloc in the Cold War. Commonly described as a communist state, it described itself as a socialist "workers' and peasants' state".Patrick Major, Jonathan Osmond, ''The Workers' and Peasants' State: Communism and Society in East Germany Under Ulbricht 1945–71'', Manchester University Press, 2002, Its territory was administered and occupied by Soviet forces following the end of World War II—the Soviet occupation zone of the Potsdam Agreement, bounded on the east by the Oder–Neisse line. The Soviet zone surrounded West Berlin but did not include it and West Berlin remained outside the jurisdiction of the GDR. Most scholars and academics describe the GDR as a totalitarian dictatorship. The GDR was establish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Language
German ( ) is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and Official language, official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italy, Italian province of South Tyrol. It is also a co-official language of Luxembourg and German-speaking Community of Belgium, Belgium, as well as a national language in Namibia. Outside Germany, it is also spoken by German communities in France (Bas-Rhin), Czech Republic (North Bohemia), Poland (Upper Silesia), Slovakia (Bratislava Region), and Hungary (Sopron). German is most similar to other languages within the West Germanic language branch, including Afrikaans, Dutch language, Dutch, English language, English, the Frisian languages, Low German, Luxembourgish, Scots language, Scots, and Yiddish. It also contains close similarities in vocabulary to some languages in the North Germanic languages, North Germanic group, such as Danish lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leny Marenbach
Leny Marenbach (20 December 1907 – 26 January 1984) was a German film actress. She was a leading German actress of the Nazi era, appearing in films such as the biopic '' Friedemann Bach''.Schulte-Sasse p.332 After the Second World War, she appeared in several DEFA roles. Selected filmography * '' If We All Were Angels'' (1936) * '' Der Etappenhase'' (1937) * '' Alarm in Peking'' (1937) * '' The Model Husband'' (1937) * '' Five Million Look for an Heir'' (1938) * ''Target in the Clouds'' (1939) * ''Marriage in Small Doses'' (1939) * ''Central Rio'' (1939) * '' Mistake of the Heart'' (1939) * ''Woman Made to Measure'' (1940) * ''What Does Brigitte Want?'' (1941) * '' Friedemann Bach'' (1941) * ''Wild Bird ''Wild Bird'' is an album by American pianist Hal Galper released on the Mainstream Records, Mainstream label in 1972. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulrich Thein
Ulrich Thein (7 April 1930 – 21 June 1995) was a German actor, film director and screenwriter. He appeared in more than 40 films and television shows between 1953 and 1995. He won the award for Best Actor at the 11th Moscow International Film Festival in 1979 for his role in ''Anton the Magician''. He directed the 1982 film ''Romance with Amelie'', which was entered into the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival. Selected filmography * ''Alarm in the Circus'' (1954) * ''Thomas Müntzer'' (1956) * ''A Berlin Romance'' (1956) * '' Schlösser und Katen'' (1957) * '' The Sailor's Song'' (1958) * '' SAS 181 antwortet nicht'' (1959) * '' Professor Mamlock'' (1961) * '' September Love'' (1961) * ''Star-Crossed Lovers'' (1962) * ''The Story of a Murder'' (1965) * ''Anton the Magician'' (1978) * ''Romance with Amelie'' (1982) * ''Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannes Arpe
Johannes Arpe (29 July 1897 – 3 October 1962) was a German actor. He appeared in more than thirty films from 1953 to 1962. Selected filmography References External links * 1897 births 1962 deaths German male film actors 20th-century German male actors {{Germany-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harald Mannl
Harald Mannl (1904–1961) was German actor of film, radio and television.Feinstein p.56 He also directed two films for DEFA in East Germany in the mid-1950s, and acted in others, before returning to West Germany West Germany is the colloquial term used to indicate the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; german: Bundesrepublik Deutschland , BRD) between its formation on 23 May 1949 and the German reunification through the accession of East Germany on 3 O .... Filmography References Bibliography * Feinstein, Joshua Isaac . ''The Triumph of the Ordinary: Depictions of Daily Life in the East German Cinema 1956–1966''. Stanford University, 1995. External links * 1904 births 1961 deaths German male film actors German male television actors People from Dresden {{Germany-film-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raimund Schelcher
Raimund Schelcher (27 March 1910 – 27 March 1972) was a German actor with Tanzanian citizenship who appeared in over 43 films and television programs between 1939 and 1971. Personal life He was born in Dar es Salaam, German East Africa (now Tanzania) to a railway engineer and a violinist. When Schelcher was fourteen, his family were evacuated to Germany after World War I. Between 1924 and 1928 he visited the Oberrealschule Kalk in Cologne. After earning a Mittlere Reife and after leaving school he entered the theatre. From 1928 to 1938 he took acting lessons at the Municipal drama school in Cologne. He died on his 62nd birthday in Berlin on 27 March 1972. Career In 1930 he debuted his role as Ferdinand in Intrigue and Love at the Theater Gießen. In 1933 Schelcher joined the New Theatre in Frankfurt am Main and in 1934-1935 he played at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, from 1935 to 1938 in Leipzig and finally at the Schiller Theater in Berlin. In 1939 he received ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Balhaus
Carl Balhaus (born Carl Ballhaus; 4 November 1905 – 28 July 1968) was a German stage and film actor. After the Second World War he worked as screenwriter and director for the East German state-owned studio DEFA. He was an uncle of the Academy Award nominated cinematographer Michael Ballhaus.Thomas Vorwerk, http://www.satt.org/literatur/02_12_tykwer_1.html Selected filmography Actor * ''Der alte Fritz - 2. Ausklang'' (1928) - Ein Desserteur * ''The Age of Seventeen'' (1929) - Gerts Freund Martin * ''The Brandenburg Arch'' (1929) - Max * '' Spring Awakening'' (1929) - Moritz, sein Sohn * '' Revolt in the Reformatory'' (1930) - Fritz * ''Menschen im Feuer'' (1930) * '' Scapa Flow'' (1930) * ''The Blue Angel'' (1930) - Gymnasiast Ertzum / Pupil * '' Westfront 1918'' (1930) - Butcher (uncredited) * ''Only on the Rhine'' (1930) - Karl * ''A Student's Song of Heidelberg'' (1930) - Bornemanns Leibfuchs * ''Father and Son'' (1930) - Louis de Lorche * ''Großstadtpiraten'' (1930) - Cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theo Shall
Theo Shall (1896–1955) was a German stage and film actor.Goble p. 330 He was born in Metz when it was part of the German Empire but left following its occupation by France following the First World War. Selected filmography * ''Das Spielzeug von Paris'' (1925) * ''Anna Christie'' (1930) as Matt Burke * '' The Adventurer of Tunis'' (1931) as René * ''Five from the Jazz Band'' (1932) as Martin * ''Rasputin, Demon with Women'' (1932) as Lieutenant Suschkoff * '' Shadows of Paris'' (1932) * '' Spring in the Air'' (1934) as Paul * '' Fruit in the Neighbour's Garden'' (1935) as Theo * '' Ten Minute Alibi'' (1935) as Phillip Sevilla * ''Tango Notturno'' (1937) as Officer Phillip * '' The Grey Lady'' (1937) as Harry Morrel * '' The Tiger of Eschnapur'' (1938) as the manager of the Crystal Palace * ''Pour le Mérite'' (1937) as Capitain Cecil Wood * '' Cadets'' (1939) as Capitain Jupow * ''Escape in the Dark'' (1939) as René Laroche * '' The Rothschilds'' (1940) as Selfridge * '' Happi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1953 Films
The year 1953 in film involved some significant events. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1953 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 16 – A new Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. is incorporated following a Consent Judgment to divest their Stanley Warner Theaters. * February 5 – Walt Disney's production of J.M. Barrie's ''Peter Pan'', starring Bobby Driscoll and Kathryn Beaumont, premieres to astounding acclaim from critics and audiences and quickly becomes one of the most beloved Disney films. This is the last Disney animated movie released in partnership RKO Pictures, becoming the last ever smash hit movie of the later company before it bankrupted in 1959. * July 1 – ''Stalag 17'', directed by Billy Wilder and starring William Holden, premieres and is considered by the critics and audiences to be one of the greatest WWII Prisoner of War films ever made. Holden wins the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
