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Marianne Hoppe
Marianne Hoppe (26 April 1909 – 23 October 2002) was a German theatre and film actress. Life and work Born in Rostock, Hoppe became a leading lady of stage and films in Germany. She was born into a wealthy landowning family and was initially privately educated on her father's private estate. Later she attended school in Berlin and in Weimar, where she began to attend theatre.Obituary: Marianne Hoppe. ''The Independent'' (London), 29 October 2002. Hoppe first performed at 17 as a member of Berlin's Deutsches Theater under director Max Reinhardt. In 1935 she was hired by the controversial German actor and Director of the Prussian State Theatre under the Third Reich, Gustaf Gründgens. They were married from 1936 to 1946, until their divorce. Speaking years after the marriage had ended Hoppe stated, "He was my love, but never my great love, that was work." One of the characters in the film ''Mephisto'' was reportedly based on her. Hoppe made no secret of her contacts with t ...
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Rostock, Germany
Rostock (), officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock (german: link=no, Hanse- und Universitätsstadt Rostock), is the largest city in the German States of Germany, state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and lies in the Mecklenburgian part of the state, close to the border with Pomerania. With around 208,000 inhabitants, it is the third-largest city on the German Baltic Sea, Baltic coast after Kiel and Lübeck, the eighth-largest city in the area of former East Germany, as well as the List of cities in Germany by population, 39th-largest city of Germany. Rostock was the largest coastal and most important port city in East Germany. Rostock stands on the estuary of the Warnow, River Warnow into the Bay of Mecklenburg of the Baltic Sea. The city stretches for about along the river. The river flows into the sea in the very north of the city, between the boroughs of Warnemünde and Hohe Düne. The city center lies further upstream, in the very south of the city. Most of Rost ...
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The Rider On The White Horse (1934 Film)
''The Rider on the White Horse'' (German: ''Der Schimmelreiter'') is a 1934 German drama film written and directed by Hans Deppe and Curt Oertel and starring Mathias Wieman, Marianne Hoppe and Ali Ghito.O'Brien, Mary-Elizabeth. ''Nazi Cinema as Enchantment: The Politics of Entertainment in the Third Reich''. Camden House, 2006. p. 47. It was based on the novel of the same name by Theodor Storm. The film's sets were designed by the art director Gabriel Pellon. It was shot on location in Schleswig-Holstein. Cast *Mathias Wieman as Hauke Haien * Marianne Hoppe as Elke * Ali Ghito as Vollina *Hans Deppe as Knecht Iven *Walther Süssenguth as Ole Peters *Wilhelm Diegelmann as Tede Volkerts *Eduard von Winterstein as Oberdeichgraf *Margarethe Albrecht as Base *Walter Griep as Gypsy *Walter Werner Walter Gotthard Werner (11 April 1883 – 8 January 1956) was a German actor. He appeared in more than seventy films from 1921 to 1956. Selected filmography References External l ...
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Sergeant Schwenke
''Sergeant Schwenke'' (German: ''Oberwachtmeister Schwenke'') is a 1935 German drama film directed by Carl Froelich and starring Gustav Fröhlich, Marianne Hoppe and Karl Dannemann. It was made at the former National Studios in Berlin's Tempelhof areaKlaus p.152 which were now controlled by Froelich. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Franz Schroedter and Walter Haag. It is based on a novel of the same title by Hans Joachim Freiherr von Reizenstein. It was remade in 1955 as ''Sergeant Borck''.. Cast * Gustav Fröhlich as Oberwachtmeister Willi Schwenke * Marianne Hoppe as Maria Schönborn, Verkäuferin im Blumenhaus Floris * Karl Dannemann as Oberwachtmeister Wölfert * Katja Bennefeld as Frau Wölfert, Marias Schwester * Walter Steinbeck as Baankier Wenkstern * Emmy Göring as Rena, seine Frau * Falk May as Hans-Helmut, ihr Sohn * Ruth Nitsche as Sybille, ihre Tochter * Sybille Schmitz as Erna Zuwade, Stütze bei Wenkstern * Ellen Geyer as Emma, Köchin bei ...
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Trouble With Jolanthe
''Trouble with Jolanthe'' (German: ''Krach um Jolanthe'') is a 1934 German romantic comedy film directed by Carl Froelich and starring Wilhelm P. Krüger, Marianne Hoppe and Olaf Bach.Williams, Alan. ''Film and Nationalism''. Rutgers University Press, 2002. p. 150. It was remade in 1955 as ''The Happy Village''. A separate Swedish adaptation ''Jolanta the Elusive Pig'' had been released in 1945. The film's sets were designed by the art director Franz Schroedter. Cast See also *''Jolanta the Elusive Pig ''Jolanta the Elusive Pig'' ( sv, Jolanta - den gäckande suggan) is a 1945 Swedish comedy film directed by Hugo Bolander, Oscar Winge and starring Winge, Ninni Löfberg and Thor Modéen.Waldekranz p.789 It is a remake of the 1934 German film '' T ...'' (1945) References External links * Films of Nazi Germany German romantic comedy films 1934 romantic comedy films Films directed by Carl Froelich German films based on plays German black-and-white films 1930s Germ ...
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The Country Schoolmaster (1933 Film)
''The Country Schoolmaster'' or ''Country Schoolmaster Uwe Karsten'' (german: Heideschulmeister Uwe Karsten) is a 1933 German drama film directed by Carl Heinz Wolff and starring Hans Schlenck, Marianne Hoppe and Heinrich Heilinger.Williams p. 150 It was remade in 1954. The film's art direction was by Otto Hunte and Willy Schiller. Cast * Hans Schlenck as Uwe Karsten Alslew, der Dorfschulmeister * Marianne Hoppe as Ursula Diewen * Heinrich Heilinger as Heinrich Heinsius * Brigitte Horney as Martha Detlefsen * Olga Tschechowa as Teresa van der Straaten * Walter Steinbeck as Ernst Diewen, Handelsherr * Carl Auen as Pastor Sunneby * Günther Ballier as Klaus Sundewitt, Hilfslehrer * Jeanette Bethge as Frau Anslew, Uwe Karstens Mutter * Eberhard Leithoff as Ludwig Diewen, der Sohn * Ernst Behmer as Krüger, ein Winkelbankier * Paul Henckels as Professor Sieveking * Maria Karsten as Frau Sundewitt * Paul Moleska as Ein Bauer * Ernst Hieber * Wolfgang Lohmeyer * Petra Unke ...
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The Judas Of Tyrol
''The Judas of Tyrol'' (german: Der Judas von Tirol) is a 1933 German historical drama film directed by Franz Osten and starring Fritz Rasp, Camilla Spira, and Marianne Hoppe. It was shot at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin.Klaus p.89 The film's sets were designed by the art director Hans Jacoby. Its Berlin premiere was at the Marmorhaus. Synopsis The film is set in the early nineteenth century, when the Tyrol was under foreign occupation. The Tyrolean folk hero Andreas Hofer hides in the village of St Leonhardt, whose residents are preparing to stage their annual Passion Play. The film focuses on Raffl, a young farmhand cast in the role of Judas Judas Iscariot (; grc-x-biblical, Ἰούδας Ἰσκαριώτης; syc, ܝܗܘܕܐ ܣܟܪܝܘܛܐ; died AD) was a disciple and one of the original Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ. According to all four canonical gospels, Judas betr .... Raffl gradually loses the ability to distinguish between role and reality. ...
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Bayerischer Filmpreis
The Bavarian Film Awards (german: Bayerischer Filmpreis) have been awarded annually since 1979 by the state government of Bavaria in Germany for “exceptional achievement in German filmmaking.” Along with the German Film Awards, these are the most highly regarded awards for filmmaking achievement in Germany. The Bavarian Film Awards Gala takes place in mid-January at the Cuvilliés Theatre in Munich to honour films released in the previous year, and is one of the most glamorous highlights in the German film calendar. These awards are endowed with a cash disbursement totaling €400,000. The largest endowment, at €200,000, is given with the award for Best Producing, for "the single most exceptional German film that leaves the greatest overall impression." The other awards are each given with endowments of €10,000–25,000. Award winners are also given a porcelain statuette of the character Pierrot, designed by Franz Anton Bustelli and manufactured in the Nymphenburg Porcel ...
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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 ...
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Berliner Ensemble
The Berliner Ensemble () is a German theatre company established by actress Helene Weigel and her husband, playwright Bertolt Brecht, in January 1949 in East Berlin. In the time after Brecht's exile, the company first worked at Wolfgang Langhoff's Deutsches Theater and in 1954 moved to the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, built in 1892, that was open for the 1928 premiere of ''The Threepenny Opera'' (''Die Dreigroschenoper''). Bertolt Brecht's Berliner Ensemble Brecht's students Benno Besson, Egon Monk, Peter Palitzsch, and Manfred Wekwerth were given the opportunity to direct plays by Brecht that had not yet been staged. The stage designers Caspar Neher and Karl von Appen, the composers Paul Dessau and Hanns Eisler, as well as the dramaturge Elisabeth Hauptmann, were among Brecht's closest collaborators. After her husband died in 1956, Weigel continued managing the Berliner Ensemble until her death in 1971. The Berliner Ensemble achieved success through long and meticulous rehears ...
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Frank Castorf
Frank Castorf (born 17 July 1951 in East Berlin) is a German theater director and was the artistic director of the ''Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz'' from 1992 to 2015. His work is often associated with postdramatic theatre. Biography Early Years Castorf's father was an ironmonger. Frank Castorf successfully completed his schooling in 1969/70, entering training for railway work. Between 1970 and 1972 he undertook military service with the army's National Border Force. Then, between 1971 and 1976, he attended the Humboldt University of Berlin, studying theatrology. His teachers included Ernst Schumacher, Rudolf Münz and Joachim Fiebach. His diploma dissertation, which was formally commended, was entitled "Ground Rules for the 'Development' of Ionesco's Global Ideological Perspective and Artistic-Aesthetic Position". He made numerous culturally focused visits to Poland during this period. In 1989, Klaus Pierwoß brought Castorf with a production of ''Hamlet ...
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Robert Wilson (director)
Robert Wilson (born October 4, 1941) is an American experimental theater stage director and playwright who has been described by ''The New York Times'' as "mericas – or even the world's – foremost vanguard 'theater artist. He has also worked as a choreographer, performer, painter, sculptor, video artist, and sound and lighting designer. Wilson is best known for his collaboration with Philip Glass and Lucinda Childs on ''Einstein on the Beach'', and his frequent collaborations with Tom Waits. In 1991, Wilson established The Watermill Center, "a laboratory for performance" on the East End of Long Island, New York, regularly working with opera and theatre companies, as well as cultural festivals. Wilson "has developed as an avant-garde artist specifically in Europe amongst its modern quests, in its most significant cultural centers, galleries, museums, opera houses and theaters, and festivals". Early life and education Wilson was born in Waco, Texas, the son of Loree Velma (né ...
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Claus Peymann
Claus (sometimes Clas) is both a given name and a German, Danish, and Dutch surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name *Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (1907–1944), a German officer who, along with others, attempted to assassinate Hitler in 1944 *Claus von Amsberg, Prince Claus of the Netherlands, Jonkheer van Amsberg (1926–2002) *Claus von Bülow (born 1926), British socialite accused of attempting to murder his wife, Sunny von Bülow * Claus Clausen (other), three people of that name *Claus Bech Jørgensen (born 1976), Danish-born Faroese footballer *Claus Jacob (born 1969), German scientist * Claus Jørgensen (racewalker) (born 1974), Danish race walker *Claus Larsen (other), three people of that name *Claus Lundekvam (born 1973), Norwegian former footballer * Claus Moser, Baron Moser (born 1922), British statistician *Claus Nielsen (born 1964), Danish former football striker *Claus Norreen (born 1970), Danish musician with the band Aqua, an ...
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