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Helene Willfüer, Student Of Chemistry (novel)
''Helene Willfüer, Student of Chemistry'' (German: ''Stud. chem. Helene Willfüer'') is a 1928 novel by the Austrian writer Vicki Baum.Like several of other works of the time it was serialised in the '' Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung''. Film adaptations It has been the basis for three films: the 1930 German silent film '' Helene Willfüer, Student of Chemistry'' with Olga Chekhova in the title role, the 1936 French film '' Hélène'' starring Madeleine Renaud and the 1956 West German film ''Studentin Helene Willfüer'' in which Ruth Niehaus played Helene.Goble p.29 References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. * King, Lynda J. ''Best-sellers by Design: Vicki Baum and the House of Ullstein''. Wayne State University Press, 1988. External links Full text of ' at HathiTrust Digital Library 20th-century Austrian novels 1928 novels Novels by Vicki Baum Austrian novels adapted into films {{1920s-nove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Novels
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A WikiProject, or Wikiproject, is an affinity group for contributors with shared goals within the Wikimedia movement. WikiProjects are prevalent within the largest wiki, Wikipedia Wikipedia is a free content, free Online content, online encyclopedia that is written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the wiki software MediaWiki. Founded by Jimmy Wales and La ..., and exist to varying degrees within sibling projects such as Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikidata, and Wikisource. They also exist in different languages, and translation of articles is a form of their collaboration. During the COVID-19 pandemic, CBS News noted the role of Wikipedia's WikiProject Medicine in maintaining the accuracy of articles related to the disease. Another WikiProject that has drawn attention is WikiProject Women Scientists, which was profiled by '' Smithsonian'' for its efforts to improve coverage of women scientists which the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicki Baum
Hedwig "Vicki" Baum (; ; January 24, 1888 – August 29, 1960) was an Austrian writer. She is known for the novel ''Menschen im Hotel'' ('People at a Hotel', 1929 — published in English as '' Grand Hotel''), one of her first international successes. It was made into a 1932 film and a 1989 Broadway musical. Education and personal life Baum was born in Vienna into a Jewish family. Her mother Mathilde (née Donath) suffered from mental illness, and died of breast cancer when Vicki was still a child. Her father, described as "a tyrannical, hypochondriac" man, was a bank clerk who was killed in 1942 in Novi Sad (present-day Serbia) by soldiers of the Hungarian occupation. She began her artistic career as a musician playing the harp. She studied at the Vienna Conservatory and played in the Vienna Concert Society. She went on to perform in Germany – in Kiel, Hannover, and Mannheim – in the years 1916–1923. She later worked as a journalist for the magazine '' Berliner Ill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serial (literature)
In literature, a serial is a printing or publishing format by which a single larger Creative work, work, often a work of Narrative, narrative fiction, is published in smaller, sequential instalments. The instalments are also known as ''numbers'', ''parts'', ''fascicules'' or ''fascicles'', and may be released either as separate publications or within sequential issues of a periodical publication, such as a magazine or newspaper. Serialisation can also begin with a single short story that is subsequently turned into a series. Historically, such series have been published in periodicals. Popular short-story series are often published together in book form as collections. Early history The growth of moveable type in the 17th century prompted episodic and often disconnected narratives such as ''L'Astrée'' and ''Artamène, Le Grand Cyrus''. At that time, books remained a premium item, so to reduce the price and expand the market, publishers produced large works in lower-cost Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung
The ''Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung'', often abbreviated ''BIZ'', was a German weekly illustrated magazine published in Berlin from 1892 to 1945. It was the first mass-market German magazine and pioneered the format of the illustrated news magazine. The ''Berliner Illustrirte'' was published on Thursdays but bore the date of the following Sunday. History The magazine was founded in November 1891 by a Silesian businessman named HepnerCorey Ross, ''Media and the Making of Modern Germany: Mass Communications, Society, and Politics from the Empire to the Third Reich'', Oxford/New York: Oxford University, 2008, p. 30 and published its first issue on 4 January 1892 under Otto Eysler, who also published ''Lustige Blätter''. In 1894, Leopold Ullstein, the founder of the publishing house Ullstein Verlag, bought it.Mila Ganeva, ''Women in Weimar Fashion: Discourses and Displays in German Culture, 1918–1933'', Screen cultures, Rochester, New York: Camden House, 2008, p. 53 In 1897 it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helene Willfüer, Student Of Chemistry (film)
''Helene Willfüer, Student of Chemistry'' (German: ''Stud. chem. Helene Willfüer'') is a 1930 German silent drama film directed by Fred Sauer and starring Olga Chekhova, Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur and Elza Temary. It is based on the 1928 novel of the same title by Vicki Baum, which was subsequently remade as the 1936 French film '' Hélène'' and the 1956 West German film ''Studentin Helene Willfüer''.Goble p.29 The film's sets were designed by the art director Max Heilbronner. Location shooting took place around Heidelberg. Cast * Olga Chekhova as Helene Willfüer * Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur as Professor Ambrosius * Elza Temary as Yvonne, seine Frau * Igo Sym as Rainer * Hermann Vallentin as Sein Vater * Gerhard Dammann as Laboratoriumsdiener * Antonie Jaeckel as Ärztin * Egon von Jordan * Hertha von Walther * Sophie Pagay Sophie Berg Pagay (22 April 1860 – 23 January 1937) was an Austrian actress. Biography She was worn in Brno. She began acting as a child, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Chekhova
Olga Konstantinovna Chekhova (; ; 14 April 1897 – 9 March 1980), known in Germany as Olga Tschechowa, was a Russian-German actress. Her film roles include the female lead in Alfred Hitchcock's '' Mary'' (1931). Biography Olga Konstantinovna Knipper was born on 14 April 1897, the daughter of Konstantin Knipper (1868–1929), a railway engineer, and Yelena Luise "Lulu" Knipper (née Ried, 1874–1940), both Lutherans of ethnic German ancestry. Olga was the niece and namesake of Olga Knipper (Anton Chekhov's wife). She went to school in Tsarskoye Selo but, after watching Eleonora Duse, joined the Moscow Art Theatre's studio. There she met the Russian-Jewish actor Mikhail Chekhov (Anton's nephew) in 1914 and married him the same year, taking his surname as her own. Their daughter, also named Olga, was born in 1916. She became an actress under the name of Ada Tschechowa. During the year of the 1917 October Revolution, Chekhova divorced her husband but kept his name. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hélène (film)
''Hélène'' is a 1936 French drama film directed by Jean Benoît-Lévy and starring Madeleine Renaud, Jean-Louis Barrault and Constant Rémy.Andrews p.355 It is based on the 1928 novel '' Helene Willfüer, Student of Chemistry'' by Vicki Baum, which had previously been adapted into a 1930 German film of the same title. The film's sets were designed by the art director Lucien Carré. Synopsis Hélène Wilfur is a gifted medical student under the teaching of Professor Amboise. She attracts the attention of fellow student Pierre, but ultimately dedicates herself to her research with Amboise. Cast * Madeleine Renaud as Hélène Wilfur * Jean-Louis Barrault Jean-Louis Bernard Barrault (; 8 September 1910 – 22 January 1994) was a French actor, director and mime artist who worked on both screen and stage. Biography Barrault was born in Le Vésinet in France in 1910. His father was 'a Burgundi ... as Pierre Régnier * Constant Rémy as Le professeur Amboise * H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madeleine Renaud
Lucie Madeleine Renaud (; 21 February 1900 – 23 September 1994) was a French actress best remembered for her work in the theatre. She did though appear in several films directed by Jean Grémillon including '' Remorques'' (''Stormy Waters'', 1941) and ''Lumière d'été'' (''Summer Light'', 1943). Personal life Renaud had a son, Jean-Pierre Granval (10 December 1923 – 28 May 1998), by her first marriage to Charles Granval. In 1940, Renaud married her second husband, actor-director Jean-Louis Barrault Jean-Louis Bernard Barrault (; 8 September 1910 – 22 January 1994) was a French actor, director and mime artist who worked on both screen and stage. Biography Barrault was born in Le Vésinet in France in 1910. His father was 'a Burgundi ... (born in 1910). The couple acted together and co-founded a number of theater companies, touring extensively throughout North and South America. Selected filmography * ''Vent debout'' (1923) * '' The Dying Land'' (1927) - Rou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Niehaus
Ruth Hildegard Rosemarie Niehaus (1925–1994) was a German stage and film actress. She was married to Jewish German spy Espionage, spying, or intelligence gathering, as a subfield of the intelligence field, is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information (intelligence). A person who commits espionage on a mission-specific contract is called an ''e ... Ivar Lissner. Filmography Bibliography * Von Moltke, Johannes. ''No Place Like Home: Locations Of Heimat In German Cinema''. University of California Press, 2005. References External links * 1928 births 1994 deaths German film actresses German stage actresses People from Krefeld 20th-century German actresses Actresses from North Rhine-Westphalia {{Germany-film-actor-1920s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1928 Novels
Nineteen or 19 may refer to: * 19 (number) * One of the years 19 BC, AD 19, 1919, 2019 Films * ''19'' (film), a 2001 Japanese film * ''Nineteen'' (1987 film), a 1987 science fiction film * '' 19-Nineteen'', a 2009 South Korean film * '' Diciannove'', a 2024 Italian drama film informally referred to as "Nineteen" in some sources Science * Potassium, an alkali metal * 19 Fortuna, an asteroid Music * 19 (band), a Japanese pop music duo Albums * ''19'' (Adele album), 2008 * ''19'', a 2003 album by Alsou * ''19'', a 2006 album by Evan Yo * ''19'', a 2018 album by MHD * ''19'', one half of the double album ''63/19'' by Kool A.D. * ''Number Nineteen'', a 1971 album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron * ''XIX'' (EP), a 2019 EP by 1the9 Songs * "19" (song), a 1985 song by British musician Paul Hardcastle * "Stone in Focus", officially "#19", a composition by Aphex Twin * "Nineteen", a song from the 1992 album ''Refugee'' by Bad4Good * "Nineteen", a song from the 2001 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
