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Jens Harzer
Jens Harzer (born 14 March 1972) is a German stage, film, and television actor. He began his career at the Munich Kammerspiele, and has been a member of the Thalia Theater (Hamburg), Thalia Theatre in Hamburg since 2009. He has appeared at the Salzburg Festival regularly since 2000. Harzer received prizes for roles on stage, in film and on television. He has been the bearer of the Iffland-Ring since March 2019. Career Born in Wiesbaden, he was trained as an actor at the Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts in Munich. From 1993 to 2009 he was a member of the ensemble of Dieter Dorn, first at the Munich Kammerspiele and then at the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel. He played the title roles of ' by Bernard-Marie Koltès, staged by , Goethe's ''Urfaust'' and ''Torquato Tasso (play), Torquato Tasso'', Kleist's ' and Büchner's ''Woyzeck'', staged by Martin Kušej. Harzer has been a member of the Thalia Theater (Hamburg), Thalia Theatre in Hamburg since 2009. Since 2000, Harzer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alte Oper
Alte Oper (Old Opera) is a concert hall in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany. It is located in the inner city, Innenstadt, within the banking district Bankenviertel. Today's Alte Oper was built in 1880 as the city's opera house, which was destroyed by bombs in 1944. It was rebuilt in the 1970s as a concert hall with a large hall and smaller venues, opened in 1981. The square in front of the building is still known as Opernplatz (Opera Square). Many important works were performed for the first time when it was Frankfurt's opera house, including Schreker's ''Der ferne Klang'' and Carl Orff's ''Carmina Burana'' in 1937. The Oper Frankfurt now plays in the Opern- und Schauspielhaus Frankfurt, completed in 1951. Historic opera house The building was designed by the Berlin architect Richard Lucae, financed by the citizens of Frankfurt and built by Philipp Holzmann. Construction began in 1873.Groß, p. 50 It opened on 20 October 1880. Among the guests was Kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamburg
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28th Moscow International Film Festival
The 28th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 23 June to 2 July 2006. The Golden George was awarded to the Swedish film '' About Sara'' directed by Othman Karim. Jury * Andrzej Żuławski (Poland – Head of the Jury) * Alexei Uchitel (Russia) * Rémy Girard (Canada) * Pierre-Henri Deleau (France) * Julie Christie (United Kingdom) Films in competition The following films were selected for the main competition: Awards * Golden George: '' About Sara'' by Othman Karim * Special Jury Prize: Silver George: ''Driving Lessons'' by Jeremy Brock * Silver George: ** Best Director: Bertrand Blier for ''How Much Do You Love Me?'' ** Best Actor: Jens Harzer for '' Running on Empty'' ** Best Actress: Julie Walters for ''Driving Lessons'' * Silver George for the best film of the Perspective competition: ''Chasma'' by Yolkin Tuychiev * Lifetime Achievement Award: Chen Kaige * Stanislavsky Award: Gérard Depardieu References External linksMoscow International Film Festival: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bülent Akinci
Bülent Akıncı (born 10 March 1967) is a Turkish–German director and script writer. Since 1970 he lives in Berlin. In his youth he earned his money as musician, security guard and by selling insurances while he was finishing his graduation certificate from high-school. After high-school he registered to study philosophy, art history, theatre sciences at Free University of Berlin. Then he was taken to study directing at Kaskeline Film School, which was founded 1926 in Berlin by German filmmaker Wolfgang Kaskeline. In 1996 Akıncı changed to DFFB Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin to finish his studies. After shooting some short films, he finally won the F. W. Murnau prize in 2002 for his short film ''A short story'' (2001), starring actress Gudrun Landgrebe. His first feature named '' Der Lebensversicherer'' was produced in 2006 and shown at the 56th Berlin International Film Festival. It later won a prize at the 28th Moscow International Film Festival The 28th Mos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Running On Empty (2006 Film)
''Running on Empty'' (german: Der Lebensversicherer) is a 2006 German drama film directed by Bülent Akinci. It was entered into the 28th Moscow International Film Festival where Jens Harzer won the award for Best Actor. Plot summary Cast * Jens Harzer as Burkhard Wagner * Marina Galic as Carolin Wagner * Anna Maria Mühe as Heike * Christian Blümel as Charlie * Mehdi Nebbou Mehdi Nebbou (born 10 January 1974) is a French actor. Biography Nebbou was born on 10 January 1974 in Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France, to a German mother and an Algerian father. His brother is the film director Safy Nebbou. He started ... as Rachid * Tom Jahn as Walter Rösler References External links * * 2006 films 2006 drama films Films scored by Wim Mertens German drama films 2000s German-language films 2000s German films {{2000s-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans-Christian Schmid
Hans-Christian Schmid (born 1965) is a German film director and screenwriter. Life and work Hans-Christian Schmid has collaborated with on several of the movies that he directed. Gutmann wrote screenplays for ''23 (film), 23 — Nichts ist so wie es scheint'' (1998), and ''Crazy (2000 film), Crazy'' (2000). Gutmann also directed ' (2001) for which he and Schmid wrote the screenplay. Awards * 1995: Findling Award for ''Himmel und Hölle'' * 2003: Bavarian Film Awards, Bavarian Film Award, Best Screenpla* 2003: Findling Award for ''Lichter'' Filmography * ''Sekt oder Selters'' (1989) * ''Die Mechanik des Wunders'' (1992) * ''Himmel und Hölle'' (1994) * ''After Five in the Forest Primeval'' (''Nach Fünf im Urwald'') (1995) * ''23 (film), 23 — Nichts ist so wie es scheint'' (1998) * ''Crazy (2000 film), Crazy'' (2000) * ''Distant Lights (2003 film), Distant Lights'' (''Lichter'') (2003) * ''Requiem (2006 film), Requiem'' (2006) * ''Storm (2009 film), Storm'' (''Sturm'') (2009) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Requiem (2006 Film)
''Requiem'' is a 2006 German drama film directed by Hans-Christian Schmid. It stars Sandra Hüller as a woman with epilepsy, Michaela Klingler, believed by members of her church and herself to be possessed. The film steers clear of special effects or dramatic music and instead presents documentary-style film making, which focuses on Michaela's struggle to lead a normal life, trapped in a limbo which could either represent demonic possession or mental illness, focusing on the latter. The film focuses on the medical condition (epilepsy) as seen in the real-life events of Anneliese Michel, a German woman who was allegedly possessed by six or more demons and died in 1976. These events also served as the basis of Scott Derrickson's 2005 film '' The Exorcism of Emily Rose''. Plot Cast * Sandra Hüller as Michaela Klingler * Burghart Klaußner as Karl Klingler * Imogen Kogge as Marianne Klingler * Anna Blomeier as Hanna Imhof * Nicholas Reinke as Stefan Weiser * Jens Harzer as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
56th Berlin International Film Festival
The 56th Berlin International Film Festival was held from 9 to 19 February 2006. The festival opened with ''Snow Cake'' by Marc Evans. Digitally restored version of Sam Peckinpah's 1972 film ''Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid'' served as the closing film. British actress Charlotte Rampling was selected as the head of the jury. The Golden Bear was awarded to '' Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams'' directed by Jasmila Žbanić. The retrospective was dedicated to the film actresses of 1950s, titled ''Dream Girls. Film Stars in the 1950s'' was shown at the festival. More than 186,000 tickets were sold at the festival with visitors from 120 countries, including 3,800 journalists, attended the festival. Jury The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival: International Jury * Charlotte Rampling, actress (United Kingdom) - Jury President * Matthew Barney, director and multimedia artist (United States) * Yash Chopra, director and producer (India) * Marleen Gorris, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
The ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'' (; ''FAZ''; "''Frankfurt General Newspaper''") is a centre-right conservative-liberal and liberal-conservativeHans Magnus Enzensberger: Alter Wein in neuen Schläuchen' (in German). ''Deutschland Radio'', 16 October 2007 German newspaper founded in 1949. It is published daily in Frankfurt. Its Sunday edition is the ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung'' (; ''FAS''). The paper runs its own correspondent network. Its editorial policy is not determined by a single editor, but cooperatively by four editors. It is the German newspaper with the widest circulation abroad, with its editors claiming the newspaper is delivered to 148 countries. History The first edition of the ''F.A.Z.'' appeared on 1 November 1949; its founding editors were Hans Baumgarten, Erich Dombrowski, Karl Korn, Paul Sethe and Erich Welter. Welter acted as editor until 1980. Some editors had worked for the moderate '' Frankfurter Zeitung'', which had been banned in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Storm Still
''Storm Still'' () is a 2010 play by the Austrian writer Peter Handke. The narrator, with traces of Handke himself, looks back at the National Socialist era, when one Slovenian family in Carinthia collaborates with the Germans, while another opposes them. The play was published as a book on 20 September 2010 through Suhrkamp Verlag. It premiered on stage in August 2011, directed by Dimiter Gotscheff for the Salzburg Festival, as a co-production between the festival and Hamburg (male), (female) en, Hamburger(s), Hamburgian(s) , timezone1 = Central (CET) , utc_offset1 = +1 , timezone1_DST = Central (CEST) , utc_offset1_DST = +2 , postal ...'s Thalia Theater. It received the Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis in 2012. It was published in English in 2013, translated by Martin Chalmers. References External links British publicity page {{authority control 2010 plays Plays by Peter Handke Plays ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Handke
Peter Handke (; born 6 December 1942) is an Austrian novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director, and screenwriter. He was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience." Handke is considered to be one of the most influential and original German-language writers in the second half of the 20th century. In the late 1960s, he earned his reputation as a member of the avant-garde with such plays as '' Offending the Audience'' (1966) in which actors analyze the nature of theatre and alternately insult the audience and praise its "performance", and ''Kaspar'' (1967). His novels, mostly ultraobjective, deadpan accounts of characters in extreme states of mind, include '' The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick'' (1970) and ''The Left-Handed Woman'' (1976). Prompted by his mother's suicide in 1971, he reflected her life in the novella ''A Sorrow Beyond Dreams'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Breth
Andrea Breth (born 31 October 1952) is a stage director. From 1999 to 2019 she was in-house director at the Burgtheater in Vienna and also directed for the Salzburg Festival. Biography Born in Rieden am Forggensee, Germany, Andrea Breth grew up in Darmstadt. Breth studied German and English language and literature in the University of Heidelberg from 1971 to 1973. Her first directorial engagements took her to Bremen, Wiesbaden, Hamburg and Berlin (including 1981 Lessing's ''Emilia Galotti'' at the Freie Volksbühne Berlin), the Zürich Schauspielakademie and the Theater am Neumarkt in Zürich. From 1983 to 1985, she was director at Theater Freiburg. Her production of Lorca's ''The House of Bernarda Alba'' won her the first of a number of invitations to the Berlin Theatertreffen in 1985. In the same year, ''Theater heute'' voted her Director of the Year. From 1986 to 1989 Breth worked at the Schauspielhaus Bochum. Green's ''South''and Gorki's ''The Last Ones'' saw Andrea Breth win ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
