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Karlheinz Martin
Karlheinz Martin (May 6, 1886 – January 13, 1948) was a German stage and film director, best known for his expressionist productions. After enjoying success with experimental productions in Frankfurt am Main and Hamburg, Martin went to Berlin, where he premiered Ernst Toller's anti-war drama, ''Transfiguration'' (''Die Wandlung'') on September 30, 1919. Performed in a hall seating fewer than 300 spectators, the production used the intimacy of the space to drive home the horrors of Toller's script. The sets were jagged flats placed against blackness, and lit with harsh white spotlights. Scenes ended in blackouts not, as was customary at the time, with the curtain falling. Fritz Kortner became famous for his intense portrayal of the young hero. Martin turned to film in 1920, when he directed a cinematic adaptation of one of the most celebrated expressionist dramas, Georg Kaiser's ''From Morn to Midnight'' (''Von morgens bis mitternachts'') with actor Ernst Deutsch as the Cashier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Threepenny Opera
''The Threepenny Opera'' ( ) is a "play with music" by Bertolt Brecht, adapted from a translation by Elisabeth Hauptmann of John Gay's 18th-century English ballad opera, ''The Beggar's Opera'', and four ballads by François Villon, with music by Kurt Weill. Although there is debate as to how much, if any, Hauptmann might have contributed to the text, Brecht is usually listed as sole author. The work offers a socialist critique of the capitalist world. It opened on 31 August 1928 at Berlin's Theater am Schiffbauerdamm. Songs from ''The Threepenny Opera'' have been widely covered and become standards, most notably "" ("The Ballad of Mack the Knife") and "" ("Pirate Jenny"). Background Origins In the winter of 1927–28, Elizabeth Hauptmann, Brecht's lover at the time, received a copy of Gay's play from friends in England and, fascinated by the female characters and its critique of the condition of the London poor, began translating it into German. Brecht at first took lit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film People From Freiburg Im Breisgau
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Voice Of The Heart (1937 Film)
''The Voice of the Heart'' (German: ''Die Stimme des Herzens'') is a 1937 German drama film directed by Karlheinz Martin and starring Beniamino Gigli, Geraldine Katt and Ferdinand Marian.Parish p.361 The film's sets were designed by the art director Max Seefelder. It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. Main cast * Beniamino Gigli as Gino Mari * Geraldine Katt as Prinzessin Helene * Ferdinand Marian as Prinz Konstantin * Gina Falckenberg as Miss Mary Smith * Fritz Odemar as Graf Lossez * Gustav Waldau as Ferrat * Hubert von Meyerinck as Kammerdiener der Prinzessin * Hertha von Hagen as Hofdame der Prinzessin * Amedeo Grossi as Bianchi * Josef Eichheim as Diener * Gerti Ober 1382 Gerti, provisional designation , is a Florian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 10 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 21 January 1925, by astronomer Karl Reinmuth at the Heidelberg-Königstuhl St ... as Pianistin * Max Weydner as Empfangs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punks Arrives From America
''Punks Arrives from America'' (German: ''Punks kommt aus Amerika'') is a 1935 German comedy film directed by Karl Heinz Martin and starring Attila Hörbiger, Lien Deyers, Ralph Arthur Roberts and Sybille Schmitz. Produced and distributed by UFA, it was made at the company's Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam. The film's sets were designed by the art director Otto Guelstorff. Location shooting took place around Hamburg. Along with '' Fresh Wind from Canada'' it was one of several seemingly innocuous comedies released that supported the Nazi Party's Heim ins Reich policy.Rentschler p.76 Synopsis A German citizen who has been away in the United States, and has becomes Americanised and acquired the nickname of "punks" returns home after some bad fortune. He manages to eventually overcome his family and former friends' bad opinion of him by rescuing his uncle's business from a robbery. Cast * Attila Hörbiger as Werner 'Punks' Holzhausen * Lien Deyers as Marlis * Ralph Arthur Robe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pearl Of The Orient
''The Pearl of the Orient'' (german: Die Perle des Orients) is a 1921 German silent adventure film directed by Karlheinz Martin and starring Viggo Larsen, Carola Toelle and Tzwetta Tzatschewa. It premiered in Berlin on 12 August 1921.Grange p. 96 Cast * Viggo Larsen as Maharadscha von Shivaji * Carola Toelle as Inge, seine Frau * Tzwetta Tzatschewa as Lieblingssklavin Sidara * Ferdinand von Alten as Radscha von Singalundi * Lewis Brody as Diener des Radschas * Magda Madeleine * H. von Maixdorff * Rolf Prasch * Loni Nest Eleonore "Loni" Arnault ( Nest, 4 August 1915 – 2 October 1990), known professionally by her maiden name of Loni Nest, was a German actress. Born in Berlin, she was a child star of German silent films in the 1920s. She was filmed for the first ... References Bibliography * Grange, William. ''Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic''.Scarecrow Press, 2008. External links * 1921 films Films of the Weimar Republic German silent feature films Germ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The House On The Moon
''The House on the Moon'' (German: ''Das Haus zum Mond'') is a 1921 German silent science fiction film directed by Karlheinz Martin and starring Leontine Kühnberg, Erich Pabst and Fritz Kortner.Aitken p.53 Shot at the Johannisthal Studios in an expressionist style, it is now considered a lost film. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Neppach. Cast * Leontine Kühnberg as Bettina - seine Frau / Luna - seine Tochter * Erich Pabst as Nathanael - Astronom * Fritz Kortner as Jan van Haag - Wachsfigurenhändler * Paul Graetz as Kornill - Schauspieler * Hans Schweikart as Fabian - sein Sohn * Käthe Burga as Pirzel - Kellnerin * Max Gülstorff as Just - Actuarius * Frida Richard as Julchen - seine Frau * Annemarie Mörike as Minchen - seine Tochter * Leopold von Ledebur as Peter Pol - Kohlenhändler * Sophie Pagay as Babett - seine Frau * Gustav von Wangenheim as Andreas, sein Sohn * Hugo Döblin as Schlinge - Gerichtsvollzieher * Max Adalbert * H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Soldier Tanaka
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bertolt Brecht
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a playwright in Munich and moved to Berlin in 1924, where he wrote ''The Threepenny Opera'' with Kurt Weill and began a life-long collaboration with the composer Hanns Eisler. Immersed in Marxist thought during this period, he wrote didactic ''Lehrstücke'' and became a leading theoretician of epic theatre (which he later preferred to call "dialectical theatre") and the . During the Nazi Germany period, Brecht fled his home country, first to Scandinavia, and during World War II to the United States, where he was surveilled by the FBI. After the war he was subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Returning to East Berlin after the war, he established the theatre company Berliner Ensemble with his wife and long-time collaborator ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Expressionist
Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas. Expressionist artists have sought to express the meaningVictorino Tejera, 1966, pages 85,140, Art and Human Intelligence, Vision Press Limited, London of emotional experience rather than physical reality. Expressionism developed as an avant-garde style before the First World War. It remained popular during the Weimar Republic,Bruce Thompson, University of California, Santa Cruzlecture on Weimar culture/Kafka'a Prague particularly in Berlin. The style extended to a wide range of the arts, including expressionist architecture, painting, literature, theatre, dance, film and music. The term is sometimes suggestive of angst. In a historical sense, much older painters such as Matthia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. World War II was a total war that directly involved more than 100 million personnel from more than 30 countries. The major participants in the war threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, enabling the strategic bombing of population centres and deploying the only two nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II was by far the deadliest conflict in human history; it resulted in 70 to 85 million fatalities, mostly among civilians. Tens of millions died due to genocides (including the Holocaust), starvation, ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Deutsch
Ernst Deutsch, also known as Ernest Dorian (16 September 1890 – 22 March 1969), was a Jewish Austrian actor. In 1916, his performance as the protagonist in the world première of Walter Hasenclever's Expressionist play '' The Son'' in Dresden was praised. Deutsch also played the antihero Famulus in Paul Wegener's '' The Golem: How He Came into the World'' in 1920. He is known by English-speaking audiences for his role as Baron Kurtz in Carol Reed's 1949 ''film noir'', ''The Third Man''. Family Deutsch was the son of Prague-based Jewish merchant Ludwig Kraus and his wife, Louise. He married childhood friend Anuschka Fuchsova (daughter of Prague industrialist Arthur Fuchs) in 1922. Anuschka's cousin, Herbert Fuchs of Robettin, was the brother-in-law of author Franz Werfel. Life and career Deutsch grew up in Prague, and attended high school. He was a skilled tennis player, ranking seventh on the Austro-Hungarian tennis list. After high school, Deutsch served in the army. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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