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KLK Calling PTZ – The Red Orchestra
''KLK Calling PTZ – The Red Orchestra'' (alternate title: ''KLK To PTX - The Red Band''; German: ''KLK an PTX – Die Rote Kapelle'') is a 1971 East German film about the history of the Red Orchestra espionage ring. Plot After Hitler's rise to power in 1933, a group of regime opponents from various backgrounds consolidated under the leadership of Harro Schulze-Boysen and Arvid Harnack. They gather intelligence and pass it on to other countries. After the outbreak of the Second World War, and especially after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, they intensify their work. In August 1942, the Gestapo arrests Boysen and soon after cracks down on the spy ring. Cast * Horst Drinda: Arvid Harnack * Irma Münch: Mildred Harnack * Horst Schulze: Adam Kuckhoff * Barbara Adolph: Greta Kuckhoff * Klaus Piontek: Harro Schulze-Boysen * Jutta Wachowiak: Libertas Schulze-Boysen * Harry Pietzsch: Walter Küchenmeister * Karin Lesch: Elfriede Paul * Marylu Poolman: Elisabeth Schumacher * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horst E
Horst may refer to: Science * Horst (geology), a raised fault block bounded by normal faults or graben People * Horst (given name) * Horst (surname) * ter Horst, Dutch surname * van der Horst, Dutch surname Places Settlements Germany * Horst, Steinburg, a municipality in the district of Steinburg in Schleswig-Holstein * Horst, Lauenburg, a municipality in the district of Lauenburg in Schleswig-Holstein * Horst, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, a village and district in the municipality of Sundhagen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern * , a district in the city of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia * , a town in the municipality of Seevetal, Lower Saxony Netherlands * Horst aan de Maas, a municipality in the province of Limburg ** Horst, Limburg, the municipal seat of Horst aan de Maas * , a hamlet in the municipality of Ermelo, Gelderland * , a village in the municipality of Gilze en Rijen, North Brabant * Schothorst, , and , districts in the city and municipality of Amersfoort, Utrecht Polan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Kuckhoff
Adam Kuckhoff (, 30 August 1887 – 5 August 1943) was a German writer, journalist, and German resistance to Nazism, German resistance member of the anti-fascist resistance group that was later called the Red Orchestra (espionage), Red Orchestra by the Gestapo. Life Adam Kuckhoff published a popular edition of the works of Georg Büchner in 1927, and headed the cultural-political magazine ''Die Tat'' ("The Deed") in 1928–1929, which he gave a left-wing, socialist flavour. In 1931, he wrote the artistic novel ''Scherry'' about Grock. Between 1931 and 1932, he was a dramatic adviser at the Berlin Schauspielhaus. His main work, the world war novel ''Der Deutsche von Bayencourt'' ("The German from Bayencourt") appeared in Germany in 1937. He and his wife Greta Kuckhoff, Greta were involved with Arvid Harnack, Arvid and Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra (espionage), Red Orchestra. He was arrested in Prague on 12 September 1942, following the arrests of Harnack and many other mem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilde Coppi
Betti Gertrud Käthe Hilda Coppi ( Rake; 30 May 1909 – 5 August 1943), known as Hilde Coppi, was a German communist and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime. She was a member of the anti-fascist resistance group that was later called the Red Orchestra by the Abwehr, during the Nazi period. Life Betti Gertrud Käthe Hilda Rake was born in Berlin, and grew up in Mitte area of Berlin. Her mother ran a small leather shop. After finishing vocational school, she worked as a general practitioner's assistant through much of the 1930s. Career Coppi was working in Berlin as a clerk at the Reich Insurance Institute for Clerical Workers when she got to know Hans Coppi, who had only just been released from prison. By 1933, Rake had contact with members of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). Resistance Together, Hilde and Hans Coppi — who wed on 14 June 1941 — hid persecution victims of the Nazi régime. During the war, Hilde Coppi listened to "Voice of Russia" (''ie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ursula Karusseit
Ursula Karusseit (2 August 1939 – 1 February 2019) was a German actress. Der Spiegel, 1 February 2019 Life and career Karusseit was born in Elbing, Germany (now Elbląg, Poland). After the expulsion from her hometown, she grew up and . She studied at the[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Sieg
John Sieg (February 3, 1903 – October 15, 1942) was an American-born German Communist railroad worker, journalist and resistance fighter, who publicized Nazi atrocities through the underground Communist press and fought against National Socialism in the German Resistance. He was a key member of the anti-fascist resistance group that was later called the Red Orchestra by the Gestapo. Biography John Sieg was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of a mechanic. After the death of his father in 1912, he lived with his grandfather in Germany and became a German citizen in 1920."NS-Widerstandskämpfer/Innen" (click on name) Museum Lichterberg, official website. List of German Resistance fighters. Retrieved 7 April 2010. In the beginning of the 1920s, Sieg went to school to become a teacher, but when his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Günther Simon
Günther Simon (11 May 1925 – 25 June 1972) was an East German actor. Biography Early life A bank clerk's son, Simon attended an acting school already in '' Gymnasium''. At the age of 16, he was sent to a premilitary training camp of the Hitler Youth and then drafted to the Reich Labour Service. He volunteered to join the paratroopers in August 1943. He was captured by American troops near Normandy and shipped to a POW camp in Colorado, where he acted in the camp's makeshift theater. Breakthrough After returning home in 1947, Simon took private acting lessons with Karl Meixner in the Hebbel Theater in Berlin. He made his debut on stage in the Municipal Theater of Köthen in 1948, in a production of Dmitry Scheglov's ''The Storm''. He then moved to the Schwerin Theater, in which he remained until 1950; there, he met his wife Margarita, who was employed as a dancer. Afterwards, Simon joined the cast of the Dresden Theater. In late 1951, he left it in favour of the Lei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oda Schottmüller
Oda Schottmüller (9 February 1905 in Posen – 5 August 1943 in Charlottenburg-Nord, Berlin) was an expressive dancer, mask maker and sculptor. Schottmüller was most notable as a resistance fighter against the Nazis, through her association with a Berlin-based anti-fascist resistance group that she met through the sculptor Kurt Schumacher. The group would later be named by the Gestapo as ''Die Rote Kapelle'' (English: "the Red Orchestra"). Author and researcher Geertje Andresen conducted an analysis of Schottmüller's estate, which resulted in the publication of a book on Schottmüller's life. Andresen's work describes a vindictive murder by the Nazi state of a German woman who was only tangentially linked to ''Die Rote Kapelle'' and whose membership of the group constituted resistance. Life Oda Schottmüller was the daughter of archivist Kurt Schottmüller and Dorothea Schottmüller (née Stenzler), the granddaughter of the historian Konrad Schottmüller, and the niece of ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Schumacher (sculptor)
Kurt Schumacher (6 May 1905 – 22 December 1942) was a German sculptor and Communist member of the German Resistance fighter who was a member of the anti-fascist resistance group that was later called the Red Orchestra by the Gestapo. He was married to the painter and graphic designer, Elisabeth Schumacher who was also an anti-fascist. Biography Schumacher was born in Stuttgart. As a 14-year-old, he moved to Berlin to begin an apprenticeship with a wood carver.Short biography of Kurt Schumacher German Resistance Memorial Center, Berlin. Retrieved April 12, 2010 He first worked with Berlin wood carver Alfred Böttcher. Subsequently, he worked and studied with [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eberhard Esche
Eberhard Esche (October 25, 1933 in Leipzig – May 15, 2006 in Berlin) was a German film and television actor. He studied at the Theaterhochschule Leipzig. He appeared in the following: *''For Eyes Only'' (1961) *''Nebel'' (1963) *''Divided Heaven (film), Divided Heaven'' (1964) *''The Investigation (play), The Investigation – Oratorio in 11 Cantos'' (1966) (TV) *''Angeklagter Klehr'' *''Die Perser'' (1966) (TV) *''Traces of Stones'' (1966) *''The Little Prince'' (1966) (TV) *''Geschichten jener Nacht'' (1967) *''Mord am Montag'' (1968) *''Wie heiratet man einen König'' (1969) *''Anlauf'' (1970) (TV) *''KLK Calling PTZ – The Red Orchestra'' (1971) *''Ripe Cherries'' (1972) *''Sechse kommen durch die Welt'' (1972, voice only) *''Der Leutnant vom Schwanenkietz'' (1974) (TV) *''Leben mit Uwe'' (1974) *''Till Eulenspiegel'' (1974) *''Beethoven - Tage aus einem Leben'' (1976) *''The Incorrigible Barbara'' (1977) *''Scharnhorst'' (1978) (mini) TV Series (voice) *''Fleur Lafontain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Schumacher
Elisabeth Schumacher (née Hohenemser; 28 April 1904 – 22 December 1942 in Plötzensee Prison, Berlin) was a German artist, photographer. and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime. She was a member of the Berlin-based anti-fascist resistance group that was later called the Red Orchestra (''Rote Kapelle'') by the Abwehr, during the Third Reich. Schumacher trained as an artist, but as her father was Jewish, who died in battlefield during World War I, she was classified as half-Jewish or ''Mischling'', so worked as a graphic artist, before joining the resistance efforts. Life Elisabeth Hohenemser was born into a well-off family, to a Jewish father and Christian mother in Darmstadt. Her father, engineer Fritz Hohenemser, was a soldier in World War I and came from a family of prominent bankers from the Frankfurt am Main area. Her mother came from Meiningen. In 1914, the family moved from Strasbourg (then part of Germany) to Frankfurt am Main. During the same year, Fritz Hohene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elfriede Paul
Elfriede Paul (14 January 1900 – 30 August 1981) was a German physician and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime. Paul, a small and energetic woman, was a communist member of the anti-fascist resistance group that was later called the Red Orchestra by the Abwehr. Paul was one of the few members of the Red Orchestra Group to survive imprisonment at the hands of the Gestapo. After the war, she was responsible for drafting health policies for the German Democratic Republic. Life Elfriede Paul came from a petite bourgeoisie family background and was the daughter of a lithographer. Between 1905 and 1915, she attended middle school in Görlitz and later Harburg. A visit to her father in the infirmary, who had been wounded during the war, and the lack of food during the last years of World War I, led her to contemplate the meaning of war. Planning to be a fine artist while at school, she was inspired by the anthroposophical ideas of the Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karin Lesch
Karin Lesch (born 18 May 1935) is a Swiss-German stage, cinema, and television actress, of Swiss-Austrian extraction; who hails from a multi-generational family of accomplished German-speaking performers of theatre and cinema. Lesch was born in Zürich, the daughter of Swiss director, dramatist, and author Walter Lesch (1892–1958), and the Austrian actress Mathilde Danegger (1903–1988). In addition to both of her parents having professional careers in the German-speaking dramatic arts, Lesch comes from a family of Austrian entertainers of music, stage, and cinema. On her maternal side, her grandfather was the Austrian character-actor and director , Snr (1866-1933), and her maternal grandmother Bertha Müller (1866-1938) was an Austrian actress of both stage and silent-film. Her uncle , Jnr, (1889–1948) was an Austrian actor of stage and cinema, whilst her uncle Theodor Danegger (1891–1959) was both an opera singer and recording artist in addition to being a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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