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Irretrievable
''Irretrievable'' (german: Unwiederbringlich, 1892, also known as ''Beyond Recall'' and ''No Way Back'' ) is one of realist Theodor Fontane's mature German novels. As with some other of Fontane's novels (including Effi Briest), its heroine is believed to be based roughly on a real person whose demise Fontane heard about, and it deals delicately with topics that, at the time it was written, were close to being taboo, including adultery and suicide. The novel has been translated into English twice. The first translation, by Douglas Parmée, was published in 1963 as ''Beyond Recall'' and republished in 2011 by New York Review of Books as ''Irretrievable''. In 2010 a new English translation, ''No Way Back'', was published by Angel Classics (London). There is a German Tmoviebased on the novel, directed by Falk Harnack and first broadcast in 1968. Plot summary The novel takes place in Holstein in the years 1859–1861, five years before the German-Danish War, at a time when Holstei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Falk Harnack
Falk Harnack (2 March 1913 – 3 September 1991) was a German director and screenwriter. During Germany's Nazi era, he was also active with the German Resistance and toward the end of World War II, the partisans in Greece. Harnack was from a family of scholars, artists and scientists, several of whom were active in the anti-Nazi Resistance and paid with their lives. Early years Falk Erich Walter Harnack was the younger son of painter Clara Harnack (née Reichau) and literary historian Otto Harnack; a nephew of theologian Adolf von Harnack and Erich Harnack, professor of pharmacology and chemistry; the grandson of theologian Theodosius Harnack and the younger brother of jurist and German Resistance fighter Arvid Harnack. He was also a cousin of theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Ernst von Harnack, who, like his brother and sister-in-law, Mildred Harnack, also became victims of the Third Reich. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodor Fontane
Theodor Fontane (; 30 December 1819 – 20 September 1898) was a German novelist and poet, regarded by many as the most important 19th-century German-language realist author. He published the first of his novels, for which he is best known today, only at age 58 after a career as a journalist. Fontane's novels are known for their complex, often sceptical view of society in the German empire; he shows different social and political parts of society meeting and sometimes clashing. Other trademarks of Fontane's work are their strongly drawn female characters (such as ''Effi Briest'' and ''Frau Jenny Treibel''), tender irony and vivid conversations between characters. Life Youth Fontane was born in Neuruppin, a town 30 miles northwest of Berlin, into a Huguenot family. At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to an apothecary, his father's profession. He became an apothecary himself and in 1839, at the age of 20, wrote his first work (''Heinrichs IV. erste Liebe'', now lost). His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Parmée
Douglas may refer to: People * Douglas (given name) * Douglas (surname) Animals *Douglas (parrot), macaw that starred as the parrot ''Rosalinda'' in Pippi Longstocking *Douglas the camel, a camel in the Confederate Army in the American Civil War Businesses * Douglas Aircraft Company * Douglas (cosmetics), German cosmetics retail chain in Europe * Douglas (motorcycles), British motorcycle manufacturer Peerage and Baronetage * Duke of Douglas * Earl of Douglas, or any holder of the title * Marquess of Douglas, or any holder of the title * Douglas Baronets Peoples * Clan Douglas, a Scottish kindred * Dougla people, West Indians of both African and East Indian heritage Places Australia * Douglas, Queensland, a suburb of Townsville * Douglas, Queensland (Toowoomba Region), a locality * Port Douglas, North Queensland, Australia * Shire of Douglas, in northern Queensland Belize * Douglas, Belize Canada * Douglas, New Brunswick * Douglas Parish, New Brunswick * Douglas, On ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Kerst
Alexander Kerst (23 February 1924 – 9 December 2010) was an Austrian television Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertisin ... actor. He was born in Kralupy nad Vltavou, Czechoslovakia and died in Munich, Germany. Selected filmography References External links *Erna Baumbauer Management 1924 births 2010 deaths Austrian male television actors 20th-century Austrian male actors German Bohemian people Naturalised citizens of Austria People from Kralupy nad Vltavou {{Austria-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1892 German Novels
Year 189 ( CLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Silanus and Silanus (or, less frequently, year 942 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 189 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 * Plague (possibly smallpox) kills as many as 2,000 people per day in Rome. Farmers are unable to harvest their crops, and food shortages bring riots in the city. China * Liu Bian succeeds Emperor Ling, as Chinese emperor of the Han Dynasty. * Dong Zhuo has Liu Bian deposed, and installs Emperor Xian as emperor. * Two thousand eunuchs in the palace are slaughtered in a violent purge in Luoyang, the capital of Han. By topic Arts and sciences * Galen publishes his ''"Treatise on the various temperaments"'' (aka ''O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gert Westphal
Curt Gerhard Westphal, stage name Gert Westphal, (5 October 1920 – 10 November 2002) was a German-Swiss actor, audiobook narrator, recitator and director, one of the best-known audiobook narrators and speakers in German, described as "König der Vorleser" (king of reciters)Die Stimme der Klassiker. / Gert Westphal, Sprecher, Rezitator und Schauspieler, starb im Alter von 82 Jahren ungekuerzte-lesung.de and "der Caruso der Vorleser" (the Caruso of reciters). After his reading of her husband's works, |
Käthe Braun
Käthe Braun (11 November 1913 – 9 September 1994) was a German stage and film actress. She was married to director Falk Harnack and acted in several of his films. Career Katharina Braun was born in Wasserburg am Inn. After studying acting privately with Magda Lena in Munich, she had her first theater engagement at the Bavarian state theater, Cuvilliés-Theater. In 1938, she began working at the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus and in 1941, at the city theater in Strasbourg, staying there until Goebbels closed all the theaters in August 1944. After World War II, she returned to Munich and, from 1947 to 1951, worked periodically at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. She also played major roles in East German DEFA productions, such as Stine Teetjen, the wife in '' Das Beil von Wandsbek'', adapted from the book by Arnold Zweig and directed by her husband.Falk Harnack was a former member of the German Resistance who had been involved with the White Rose and the Red Orchestra. B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lil Dagover
Lil Dagover (; born Marie Antonia Siegelinde Martha Seubert; 30 September 1887 – 23 January 1980) was a German actress whose film career spanned between 1913 and 1979. She was one of the most popular and recognized film actresses in the Weimar Republic. Early life Lil Dagover was born Marie Antonia Siegelinde Martha Seubert in Madiun, Java, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) to German parents. Some sources inaccurately give her birth name as Marta Maria Lillits. Her father, Adolf Karl Ludwig Moritz Seubert, born in Karlsruhe/Baden Germany, was a forest ranger in the service of the Dutch colonial authorities. She had two siblings. Her mother died in 1897, after which she returned to Germany, where she lived with relatives in Tübingen. She was educated at boarding schools in Baden-Baden, Weimar, and Geneva, Switzerland. Orphaned at the age of 13, she spent the rest of her adolescence with friends and relatives. After completing her education she began pursuing a career as a st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karin Hübner
Karin Hübner (, 16 September 1936 – 25 July 2006) was a German stage, film, and television actress. She appeared in more than forty films from 1955 to 1977. Her name is sometimes given as Karin Huebner. Hübner was born in Gera in Thuringia and grew up in Michendorf, near Berlin (in East Germany after 1945). Her parents were both opera singers. She studied at the Max Reinhardt School of Drama in Berlin. Her first major stage role was as Piroschka at the Hebbel Theater, in 1958; that same year she made her film debut in the title role of Martin Hellberg's production of Lessing's work '' Emilia Galotti''. Her most famous role was as Eliza Doolittle in the musical play ''My Fair Lady''. She starred in the German-language premiere of the musical, in 1961, at the Theater des Westens (Theatre of the West) in Berlin. Berlin was then in the depths of the Cold War, the Berlin Wall had just been erected, and ''My Fair Lady'' was the first production since World War II of a major orig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Buschhoff
Walter Buschhoff (1923–2010) was a German stage, film and television actor.Goble p.462 He was married to the actress Maria Körber. Selected filmography * ''IA in Oberbayern'' (1956) - Dr. Hans von Spörling * ''Heiße Ernte'' (1956) - Oskar Blume * ''Saison in Oberbayern'' (1956) - Paul * ''Vater, unser bestes Stück'' (1957) - Ferruccio * ''Two Bavarians in the Harem'' (1957) - Halim Pascha (uncredited) * ''Der Schinderhannes'' (1958) - Iltis Jakob * ''Two Times Adam, One Time Eve'' (1959) - Matti * ''Kein Mann zum Heiraten'' (1959) - Sizilianer * ''The Miracle of Father Malachia'' (1961) - Cop Pohl * ''Life Begins at Eight'' (1962) - Willibald Barthels * ''Dicke Luft'' (1962) - Prokurist * ''Die endlose Nacht'' (1963) - Ernst Kramer * ''The House in Karp Lane'' (1965) - Krauthammer * ''Die schwedische Jungfrau'' (1965) - Georg * ''Who Wants to Sleep?'' (1965) - Doctor * ''Die Liebesquelle'' (1966) - Wirt, the Innkeeper * ''Once a Greek'' (1966) - Dolder * '' Scarabea: How M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tilo Von Berlepsch
Tilo von Berlepsch (30 December 1913 – 8 April 1991) was a German actor. He appeared in more than 90 films and television shows between 1949 and 1977. He came from the Berlepsch family and was a grandson of the ornithologist Hans Hermann Carl Ludwig von Berlepsch. He made his acting debut in Berlin in 1933. After 1945 he was able to continue his long stage career at numerous German theaters. Partial filmography * ''Love '47'' (1949) - Vetter Fritz * '' Amico'' (1949) - Freddy Müller * ''Immortal Beloved'' (1951) - Kurt von der Risch * ''Veronika, die Magd'' (1951) * '' Der Tag vor der Hochzeit'' (1952) - (uncredited) * ''Have Sunshine in Your Heart'' (1953) - Arzt * '' Hocuspocus'' (1953) * ''Under the Stars of Capri'' (1953) - Claus * '' Königliche Hoheit'' (1953) - Adjutant Graf Schellenberg * ''Dein Mund verspricht mir Liebe'' (1954) - Kriminalrat Zorn * ''The Immenhof Girls'' (1955) - Gerichtsvollzieher * ''Mamitschka'' (1955) - Baron Hiebel * ''The Barrings'' (1955) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
