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Katharina Knie (play)
''Katharina Knie'' is a 1928 play by the German writer Carl Zuckmayer. It was first performed on 20 December 1928 at the Lessing Theater in Berlin starring Elisabeth Lennartz and Albert Bassermann.Wagener p.50 Adaptations * In 1929 the film was turned into a silent film '' Katharina Knie'' directed by Karl Grune Karl Grune (22 January 1890 – 2 October 1962) was an Austrian film director and writer who made many silent films in the 1920s. Grune was born into a Jewish familySiegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German ... * In 1957 it served as the basis for the musical '' Katharina Knie'' composed by Mischa Spoliansky with a libretto by Robert Gilbert * It was also adapted for two television films released in 1964 and 1973. References Bibliography * Wagener, Hans. ''Carl Zuckmayer Criticism: Tracing Endangered Fame''. Camden House, 1995. Plays by Carl Zuckmayer 1928 plays German plays adapted into films {{Germany-theat-stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated between the Baltic and North seas to the north, and the Alps to the south; it covers an area of , with a population of almost 84 million within its 16 constituent states. Germany borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, and France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands to the west. The nation's capital and most populous city is Berlin and its financial centre is Frankfurt; the largest urban area is the Ruhr. Various Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical antiquity. A region named Germania was documented before AD 100. In 962, the Kingdom of Germany formed the bulk of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Zuckmayer
Carl Zuckmayer (27 December 1896 – 18 January 1977) was a German writer and playwright. His older brother was the pedagogue, composer, conductor, and pianist Eduard Zuckmayer. Life and career Born in Nackenheim in Rhenish Hesse, he was the second son of Amalie (1869–1954), née Goldschmidt, and Carl Zuckmayer de (1864–1947). When he was four years old, his family moved to Mainz. With the outbreak of World War I, he (like many other high school students) finished Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium with a facilitated "emergency" ''Abitur'' and volunteered for military service. During the war, he served with the German Army's field artillery on the Western Front. In 1917, he published his first poems in the pacifist journal ''Die Aktion'' and he was one of the signatures of the "Appeal" published by the Antinational Socialist Party after the German Revolution of 9 November 1918. By this time, Zuckmayer held the rank of a ''Leutnant der Reserve'' (Reserve Officer). After th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lessing Theater
The Lessing Theater was a theatre in the Mitte district of Berlin, Germany. It opened in 1888 and was destroyed in April 1945 in a bombing raid; its ruins were demolished after World War II. The construction of the theatre, for around 900,000 Mark, was especially notable since it was the first new theatre built in Berlin since the construction of the Wallner Theater in 1864; in between only renovations of old theatres and existing spaces had taken place. By order of director Oscar Blumenthal, the building, designed in a Renaissance Revival style by the architects Hermann von der Hude and Julius Hennicke, was constructed in less than a year, between October 1887 and September 1888. The theatre opened on 11 September 1888, staging Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's drama ''Nathan the Wise''. Location The oddly angled piece of land, the site of former Circus Krembser, was located in the historic Friedrich-Wilhelm-Stadt quarter, at the corner of Friedrich-Karl-Ufer 1 (since 1951: Kapell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constituent states, Berlin is surrounded by the State of Brandenburg and contiguous with Potsdam, Brandenburg's capital. Berlin's urban area, which has a population of around 4.5 million, is the second most populous urban area in Germany after the Ruhr. The Berlin-Brandenburg capital region has around 6.2 million inhabitants and is Germany's third-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr and Rhine-Main regions. Berlin straddles the banks of the Spree, which flows into the Havel (a tributary of the Elbe) in the western borough of Spandau. Among the city's main topographical features are the many lakes in the western and southeastern boroughs formed by the Spree, Havel and Dahme, the largest of which is Lake Müggelsee. Due to its l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Lennartz
Elisabeth Lennartz (1902–2001) was a German stage actress. Although she worked primarily in the theatre, she also appeared in several films. Lennartz was an associate of Marlene Dietrich in 1920s Berlin. In 1928 she starred in the play '' Katharina Knie'' by Carl Zuckmayer.Wagener p.50 She was married to the actor Gustav Knuth. Selected filmography * ''In the Name of the King'' (1924) * '' Hell on Earth'' (1931) * ''I by Day, You by Night'' (1932) * ''Her First Experience'' (1939) * ''The Girl at the Reception ''The Girl at the Reception'' (german: Mädchen im Vorzimmer) is a 1940 German drama film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht and starring Magda Schneider, Heinz Engelmann, and Carsta Löck. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hermann A ...'' (1940) * '' If We All Were Angels'' (1956) References Bibliography * Spoto, Donald. ''Blue Angel: The Life of Marlene Dietrich''. Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. * Wagener, Hans. ''Carl Zuckmayer Criticism: Tracing Endang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Bassermann
Albert Bassermann (7 September 1867 – 15 May 1952) was a German stage and screen actor. He was considered to be one of the greatest German-speaking actors of his generation and received the famous Iffland-Ring. He was married to Elsa Schiff with whom he frequently performed. Life and career Bassermann began his acting career in 1887 in Mannheim, his birthplace, after he began to study chemistry at the Technical University of Karlsruhe in 1884/85. He then moved to Berlin. From 1899, he worked for Otto Brahm. He began work at the Deutsches Theater Berlin from 1904, the same year that his future wife, actress Elsa Bassermann (née Schiff), moved to Berlin to work at that same theater. In 1909, the year after they married, he started working at the Lessing Theatre, though he also continued at the Deutsches Theater, working there with Max Reinhardt from 1909 to 1915. Roles included ''Othello'' in 1910, Faust Part II with Friedrich Kayssler in 1911, Shylock in ''The Merchant o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katharina Knie (film)
''Katharina Knie'' is a 1929 German silent drama film directed by Karl Grune and starring Eugen Klöpfer, Carmen Boni and Adele Sandrock. It is based on the 1928 play of the same title by Carl Zuckmayer.Kreimeier p.166 It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin The film's art direction was by Robert Neppach and Erwin Scharf. It was distributed by the Munich-based Bavaria Film. Cast * Eugen Klöpfer as Der alte Knie * Carmen Boni as Katherina Knie * Adele Sandrock as Bibo * Fritz Kampers as Ignaz Scheel, Trapezkünstler * Vladimir Sokoloff as Julius, der Clown * Viktor de Kowa as Lorenz Knie * Peter Voß as Rothhacker, Gutsbesitzer * Frida Richard as Rothhackers Mutter * Fraenze Roloff as Magd * Willi Forst as Dr. Schindler * Ilse Bachmann as Seine Freundin * Louis Treumann as Variétedirektor * Wilhelm Diegelmann as Gerichtsvollzieher * Carla Bartheel * Ernst Busch * Karl Etlinger * Ursula Grabley * Otto Sauter-Sarto * Ludwig Stössel * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Grune
Karl Grune (22 January 1890 – 2 October 1962) was an Austrian film director and writer who made many silent films in the 1920s. Grune was born into a Jewish familySiegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933'', Berghahn Books (2007), p. 211 in Vienna, where he later attended drama school. He volunteered in the First World War, where an injury temporarily deprived him of the ability to speak in 1918. After the war he made his directing debut in 1919 with ''Menschen in Ketten'' ("People in Chains"). In 1923 he made ''Schlagende Wetter'' with Liane Haid and Eugen Klöpfer in the leading roles. The film is a notable early example of naturalism in film making, at a time when expressionism was the norm. Also that year he made ''Die Straße'' ("The Street"), which is considered Grune's most notable film. In 1926 he made ''Die Brüder Schellenberg'' ("The Brothers Schellenberg") with Conrad Veidt and Lil Dagover. Many o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katharina Knie (musical)
''Katharina Knie'' is a German musical composed by Mischa Spoliansky with a libretto by Robert Gilbert. It is based on the 1928 play '' Katharina Knie'' by Carl Zuckmayer. It was first performed on 20 January 1957 at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich. Hans Albers appeared in the original production, his final stage role. Plot In a small town, the traveling circus A circus is a company of performers who put on diverse entertainment shows that may include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, dancers, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, magicians, ventriloquists, and unicyclis ... Knie is devastated by the effects of inflation. Acrobat Karl Knie asserts himself as a sort of manager, unimpressed with the main attraction of the circus and the circus band. When his daughter Katharina falls in love with a farmer named Roth Acker, a decision has to be made to either continue their lives as wanderers in the circus, or change their way of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mischa Spoliansky
Mischa Spoliansky (28 December 1898 – 28 June 1985) was a Russian-born composer who made his name writing cabaret and revue songs in the Weimar Republic of the 1920s and early 1930s, before he was forced to emigrate to London in 1933 when Hitler rose to power. He stayed in Britain for the rest of his life, re-inventing himself as a composer of film scores.David Kershaw. "Spoliansky, Mischa", in ''Grove Music Online'' (2001) Early life and education Spoliansky was born into a Jewish, musical family in Białystok, then part of the Belostok Oblast of the Russian Empire. His father was an opera singer and his sister would later become a pianist and his brother Alexander was a cellist. After the birth of Mischa the family moved to Warsaw, and later Kalisz. After the early death of his mother, the family moved to Vienna. Spoliansky's early musical education in piano, violin and cello began at the age of five and was continued in Dresden under Professor Mark Guensberg. He made his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Libretto
A libretto (Italian for "booklet") is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or Musical theatre, musical. The term ''libretto'' is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works, such as the Mass (liturgy), Mass, requiem and sacred cantata, or the story line of a ballet. ''Libretto'' (; plural ''libretti'' ), from Italian, is the diminutive of the word ''wiktionary:libro#Italian, libro'' ("book"). Sometimes other-language equivalents are used for libretti in that language, ''livret'' for French works, ''Textbuch'' for German and ''libreto'' for Spanish. A libretto is distinct from a synopsis or scenario of the plot, in that the libretto contains all the words and stage directions, while a synopsis summarizes the plot. Some ballet historians also use the word ''libretto'' to refer to the 15 to 40 page books which were on sale to 19th century ballet audiences in Paris and contained a ve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Gilbert (musician)
Robert Gilbert (born Robert David Winterfeld) (29 September 1899 – 20 March 1978) was a German composer of light music, lyricist, singer, and actor. His father was Max Winterfeld, a composer and conductor who went by the pen name of Jean Gilbert. His brother was Henry Winterfeld, an author of children's books. Sometimes described as a "divided author", his early depression-era poem "Stempellied" about living on the dole was set to music by Hanns Eisler. But "Am Sonntag will mein Süsser mit mir segeln gehen" ("On Sunday I'll go sailing with my Sweetheart") and "Das gibt's nur einmal" ("It Happens Only Once"), became his better known work. Life Gilbert was born in Berlin, and was a soldier during the last year of World War I, where he came in contact with socialist and communist ideas that the political awareness of the 1900s had aroused. After his service in the war he studied philosophy and art history in Berlin and in Freiburg and was engaged in political campaigns and dem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
