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Hermann Braun
Hermann Braun (November 1, 1917 – January 18 or 20, 1945) was a German film actor, and the son of chamber singer Carl Braun (opera singer), Carl Braun. Biography New York City-born, Braun made his film debut in 1933 with ''Der Jäger aus Kurpfalz''. Braun was initially slated for the role of "Heini Völker" in Hitlerjunge Quex (film), ''Hitlerjunge Quex''. However, much to his regret, illness, prevented his from doing so. The part was played by Jürgen Ohlsen. Braun is credited with a minor role in this film. He was Pola Negri's leading man in her Third Reich film ''The Secret Lie'' (1938), where he plays a young man in her life who we are led to believe is her young lover but turns out to be her son. Braun also played in the Emil Jannings picture ''The Dreamer (1936 film), The Dreamer'' (1936) and in the Veit Harlan-directed ''Jugend'' (1938). His final film was ''Kleine Mädchen - große Sorgen'' (1941), opposite actress Hannelore Schroth. Unlike Carl Braun (bass), his f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Braun (opera Singer)
Carl Braun (2 June 1886, Meisenheim, Hesse-Nassau – 24 April 1960, Hamburg) was a Germans, German bass opera singer. Biography He was born on 2 June 1886 in Meisenheim, Hesse-Nassau in Germany. A pupil of the ''Berlin Imperial Opera'', he sang with the ''Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden Royal Opera'', ''Vienna Imperial Opera,'' ''Berlin City Opera,'' ''Metropolitan Opera'', and the ''Berlin State Opera''. He was actor Hermann Braun's father, Carl Braun, was an early sympathizer with the Nazis and a member of the anti-semitic Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur,Ernst Klee. ''Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945''. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, pp. 73–74. In 1932, he joined the Nazi Party. He died on 24 April 1960 in Hamburg, Germany. References 1886 births 1960 deaths People from Bad Kreuznach (district) People from Hesse-Nassau German operatic basses Nazi Party members Militant League for German Culture members 20th- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Deppe
Hans Deppe (; 12 November 1897 – 23 September 1969) was a German actor and film director. Filmography As director As actor References External links * 1897 births 1969 deaths German male film actors German television directors Male actors from Berlin Film directors from Berlin 20th-century German male actors {{Germany-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max W
Max or MAX may refer to: Animals * Max (dog) (1983–2013), at one time purported to be the world's oldest living dog * Max (English Springer Spaniel), the first pet dog to win the PDSA Order of Merit (animal equivalent of OBE) * Max (gorilla) (1971–2004), a western lowland gorilla at the Johannesburg Zoo who was shot by a criminal in 1997 Brands and enterprises * Australian Max Beer * Max Hamburgers, a fast-food corporation * MAX Index, a Hungarian domestic government bond index * Max Fashion, an Indian clothing brand Computing * MAX (operating system), a Spanish-language Linux version * Max (software), a music programming language * Commodore MAX Machine * Multimedia Acceleration eXtensions, extensions for HP PA-RISC Films * Max (1994 film), ''Max'' (1994 film), a Canadian film by Charles Wilkinson * Max (2002 film), ''Max'' (2002 film), a film about Adolf Hitler * Max (2015 film), ''Max'' (2015 film), an American war drama film Games * ''Dancing Stage Max'', a 2005 game in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fox Of Glenarvon
''The Fox of Glenarvon'' (German: ''Der Fuchs von Glenarvon'') is a German propaganda film from the Nazi era portraying the years of the Irish fight for independence during World War I. It was produced in 1940 by Max W. Kimmich and starred Olga Tschechowa, Karl Ludwig Diehl, Ferdinand Marian and others. The screenplay was written by Wolf Neumeister and Hans Bertram after a novel of the same title by Nicola Rhon (Maria von Kirchbach) that had been published at Ullstein publishing house in 1937. It was made at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin, with sets designed by the art directors Wilhelm Depenau and Otto Erdmann. The shoot lasted from December 1939 to February 1940. It passed censorship on 22 April 1940 and had its debut in Berlin's Ufa-Palast am Zoo two days later. Synopsis Set in 1921, the film takes place in the fictional Irish county of Glenarvon, somewhere in the northwest of Galway, and tells the story of Gloria Grandison, an Irish wife of the local British magistrat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Maisch
Herbert Maisch (born 10 December 1890in Nürtingen, Württemberg, died 10 October 1974 in Köln) was a German film director. Selected filmography * '' The Royal Waltz'' (1935) * ''Boccaccio'' (1936) * '' Love's Awakening'' (1936) * '' Men Without a Fatherland'' (1937) * ''Nights in Andalusia'' (1938) * '' Nanon'' (1938) * '' D III 88'' (1939) * ''Andreas Schlüter'' (1942) * ''Music in Salzburg ''Music in Salzburg'' (german: Musik in Salzburg) is a 1944 German comedy film directed by Herbert Maisch and starring Willy Birgel, Lil Dagover and Hans Nielsen.Bock & Bergfelder p. 43 The film's sets were designed by the art director Max Me ...'' (1944) References External links * 1890 births 1974 deaths People from Nürtingen Film directors from Baden-Württemberg People from the Kingdom of Württemberg Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany {{Germany-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Bertram
Hans Bertram (26 February 1906 – 8 January 1993) was a German aviator, screenwriter and film director. Biography Early life Hans Bertram was born on 26 February 1906 in Remscheid, Germany. Career During 1920, Bertram trained under flying instructor Paul Bäumer, a noted German aviator of World War I, at Hamburg Fuhlsbuttel Airport. From 1927, Bertram was an aviation advisor to the government of the Republic of China and was involved in establishing its naval aviation service. When Bertram piloted a Junkers W 33 seaplane on an around-the world flight during 1932, he became lost over a sparsely-populated part of the Kimberley region of Western Australia and made a forced landing. Bertram and mechanic Adolf Klausmann were rescued and hospitalised in Perth. Klausmann suffered significant long-term psychological effects from their ordeal. Books by Bertram regarding his adventures became best-sellers in Germany during 1933. In 1934, Bertram joined the Nazi Party and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
D III 88
''D III 88'' (sometimes written as ''DIII 88'') is a 1939 German drama film directed by Herbert Maisch and Hans Bertram and starring Christian Kayßler, Otto Wernicke and Heinz Welzel. It was made as a propaganda film with the support of Luftwaffe chief Hermann Göring, and was the last of a series of Nazi aviation films to be made before the outbreak of World War II. It was one of the most commercially successful films released during the Nazi era. It was praised by Joseph Goebbels as "an irreproachable film of national destiny". The title, referring to the serial number of the Albatros D.III flown by one of the characters in the World War I, was an attempt to re-inforce the propaganda link between the modern Luftwaffe and that of World War I.Paris p. 95 Synopsis Two extraordinary young pilots engage in a competitive rivalry and also fight over the same girl. In an effort to show off both fly into a dangerous storm, damaging their planes and are suspended from duty. They are fina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Paul Brauer
Peter Paul Brauer (16 May 1899, in Elberfeld – 28 April 1959, in Berlin) was a German film producer and film director. In 1928, he became involved in film production in the Netherlands. That same year he returned to Germany and, over several years, produced several short films. After the takeover of the Nazis in March 1933, Brauer was production manager at the UFA. After 1938, he directed a number of feature films, mostly comedies. Between April 1939 and November 1940 Brauer was production chief of Terra Film. At the beginning of 1940, Brauer was assigned by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels to produce the anti-Semitic film ''Jud Süß'' (1940). Brauer assigned himself the task of directing the film; however, he ran into difficulties in casting. Frustrated at the delay, Goebbels removed him in favor of Veit Harlan. In the 1940s, Brauer concentrated on directing and collaborated on some screenplays. Brauer was a member of the Nazi Party.Janine Diedrich, ''Heinz Rühmann: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nunzio Malasomma
Nunzio Malasomma (4 February 1894 – 12 January 1974) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 41 films between 1923 and 1968. Selected filmography * '' Mister Radio'' (1924) * '' Orient'' (1924) * '' The Doll Queen'' (1925) * '' One Minute to Twelve'' (1925) * '' The King and the Girl'' (1925) * '' Hunted People'' (1926) * ''Struggle for the Matterhorn'' (1928) * '' The Call of the North'' (1929) * ''The Son of the White Mountain'' (1930) * ''The Man with the Claw'' (1931) * ''The Opera Singer'' (1932) * '' The Telephone Operator'' (1932) * '' The Blind Woman of Sorrento'' (1934) * ''Territorial Militia'' (1935) * '' I Don't Know You Anymore'' (1936) * '' The Two Sergeants'' (1936) * ''Red Orchids'' (1938) * '' The Night of Decision'' (1938) *''The Secret Lie'' (1938) * '' Woman Without a Past'' (1939) * ''Then We'll Get a Divorce'' (1940) * ''Scampolo'' (1941) * '' Torrents of Spring'' (1942) * '' The White Devil'' (1947) * ''The Devil in the Convent ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veit Harlan
Veit Harlan (22 September 1899 – 13 April 1964) was a German film director and actor. Harlan reached the highpoint of his career as a director in the Nazi era; most notably his antisemitic film ''Jud Süß'' (1940) makes him controversial. While viewed critically for his ideologies, a number of critics consider him a capable director on the grounds of such work as his ''Opfergang'' (1944). Life and career Harlan was born in Berlin, the son of the writer Walter Harlan and his wife Adele, nee Boothby. His elder brother Peter was a multi-instrumentalist and musical instrument maker. After studying under Max Reinhardt, he first appeared on the stage in 1915 and, after World War I, worked in the Berlin stage. In 1934 he starred in the Berlin premiere of Eugen Ortner's tragedy '' Meier Helmbrecht'', but it was a critical disaster and he later described it as his lowest point as an actor. Shortly afterwards he directed his first play, the comedy '' Marriage on the Panke'', at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Hartl
Karl Hartl (10 May 1899 – 29 August 1978) was an Austrian film director. Life Born in Vienna, Hartl began his film career at the Austrian Sascha-Film company of Alexander Kolowrat and from 1919 was assistant to the Hungarian director Alexander Korda. As a production manager, he in the 1920s accompanied Korda to Berlin, until in 1926 he returned to Vienna to work for his former class-mate director Gustav Ucicky. From 1930 he worked for Universum Film AG (UFA) and debuted as director of ''Ein Burschenlied aus Heidelberg'' ("A Fraternity Song from Heidelberg") starring Hans Brausewetter and Willi Forst, with young Billy Wilder as a screenwriter. Together with Luis Trenker he directed the ''Gebirgsjäger'' drama ''Berge in Flammen'' ("Mountains in Flames") in 1931. He then experimented with other genres, for example the comedy ''Die Gräfin von Monte Cristo'' ("The Countess of Monte Cristo") (1932) with Brigitte Helm and Gustaf Gründgens, and in the same year achieved his final b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ride To Freedom
''Ride to Freedom'' (german: Ritt in die Freiheit) is a 1937 German historical war film directed by Karl Hartl and starring Willy Birgel, Viktor Staal and Hansi Knoteck. The film is set in the 1830s during Poland's November Uprising against the Russian Empire. It portrays the rehabilitation of a Polish cavalry officer whose initial reluctance to engage the enemy leads to the death of his comrades, but later dies fighting bravely. The film was made by German's leading studio UFA, with interiors shot at the Babelsberg Studios. UFA received co-operation from the Polish War Ministry who supplied 5th Regiment of Zaslaw Uhlans for the filming of battles scenes that took place around Ostroleka in Poland. The Polish ambassador to Germany Józef Lipski attended the film's premiere at the Palast-am-Zoo in Berlin on 14 January 1937. Around the same time Germany and Poland, future enemies in the Second World War, co-produced two films together ''Augustus the Strong'' and ''Adventure in Warsa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
