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Michael Kehlmann
Michael Kehlmann (21 September 1927 – 1 December 2005) was an Austrian television film director and theatre director, screenwriter and actor. During 1951–1953, Kehlmann was the manager of the "Kleines Theater im Konzerthaus", Vienna. He was awarded the J.-Kainz Medal in 1966, the Ehrenmedaille der Stadt Wien in 1966 and the Austrian Honorary Cross for Science and Art in 2002. Kehlmann's television directing credits included ''Jack Mortimer'', ''Einen Jux will er sich machen'', ''Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald'', ', ''Hiob'', and ''Tatort''. He was the father of writer Daniel Kehlmann. Credits Director (Film) *1960: ' *1962: ''Life Begins at Eight'' *1967: ''Kurzer Prozess'' Director (Television) *1954: ''Die Wäscherin des Herrn Bonaparte'' — (based on '' Madame Sans-Gêne'') *1954: ''Künstlerpech'' *1954: ''Jedem die Seine'' *1954: ''Klavier zu verkaufen'' *1955: ''La Brige und das Gesetz'' — (based on a play by Georges Courteline) *1955: ''Die Dynastie hat Ausgang'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television Film
A television film, alternatively known as a television movie, made-for-TV film/movie or TV film/movie, is a feature-length film that is produced and originally distributed by or to a television network, in contrast to theatrical films made for initial showing in movie theaters, and direct-to-video films made for initial release on home video formats. In certain cases, such films may also be referred to and shown as a miniseries, which typically indicates a film that has been divided into multiple parts or a series that contains a predetermined, limited number of episodes. Origins and history Precursors of "television movies" include ''Talk Faster, Mister'', which aired on WABD (now WNYW) in New York City on December 18, 1944, and was produced by RKO Pictures, and the 1957 '' The Pied Piper of Hamelin'', based on the poem by Robert Browning, and starring Van Johnson, one of the first filmed "family musicals" made directly for television. That film was made in Technicolor, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ödön Von Horváth
Edmund Josef von Horváth (9 December 1901, Sušak, Rijeka, Austria-Hungary – 1 June 1938, Paris France) was an Austro-Hungarian playwright and novelist who wrote in German, and went by the name of ''nom de guerre'' Ödön von Horváth. He was one of the most critically admired writers of his generation prior to his untimely death. He enjoyed a series of successes on the stage with socially poignant and romantic plays, including ''Revolte auf Côte 3018'' (1927), ''Sladek'' (1929), ''Italienische Nacht'' (1930), ''Hin und Her'' (1934) and ''Der Jüngste Tag'' (1937). His novels include ''Der ewige Spießer'' (1930), ''Ein Kind Unserer Zeit'' (1938) and ''Jugend ohne Gott'' (1938). Early life and education Ödön von Horváth was the eldest son of an Austro-Hungarian diplomat of Hungarian origin from Slavonia, Edmund (Ödön) Josef Horváth, and Maria Lulu Hermine (Prehnal) Horváth, who was from an Austro-Hungarian military family. From 1908, Ödön attended elementary school ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Schnitzler
Arthur Schnitzler (15 May 1862 – 21 October 1931) was an Austrian author and dramatist. Biography Arthur Schnitzler was born at Praterstrasse 16, Leopoldstadt, Vienna, capital of the Austrian Empire (as of 1867, part of the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary). He was the son of a prominent Hungarian laryngologist, Johann Schnitzler (1835–1893), and Luise Markbreiter (1838–1911), a daughter of the Viennese doctor Philipp Markbreiter. His parents were both from Jewish families. In 1879 Schnitzler began studying medicine at the University of Vienna and in 1885 he received his doctorate of medicine. He began work at Vienna's General Hospital (german: link=no, Allgemeines Krankenhaus der Stadt Wien), but ultimately abandoned the practice of medicine in favour of writing. On 26 August 1903, Schnitzler married Olga Gussmann (1882–1970), a 21-year-old aspiring actress and singer who came from a Jewish middle-class family. They had a son, Heinrich (1902–1982), born on 9 A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Der Grüne Kakadu
''Der grüne Kakadu'' is a one act grotesque by Arthur Schnitzler. It was written in 1898 and premiered on 1 March 1899, together with his plays '' Paracelsus'' and '' Die Gefährtin'', at the Vienna Burgtheater. The play thematises the indistinguishability of truth and lies, of appearance and reality. Characters * Emile Duke of Cadignan * François Viscount de Nogeant * Albin Chevalier de la Tremouille * The Marquis of Lansac * Séverine, his wife * Rollin, poet * Prospère, host, former theatre director * His troupe: Henri, Balthasar, Guillaume, Scaevola, Jules, Etienne, Maurice, Georgette, Michette, Flipotte * Léocadie, actress, Henri's wife * Grasset, philosopher * Lebrêt, tailor * Grain, a thug * The Commissary * Noblemen, actors, actresses * Burghers and burgesses Plot Paris 1789: Prospère, a former theatre director, runs a dive called "The Green Cockatoo". Many unsuccessful actors, Prospère's former employees, are regulars. But the tavern is also frequented by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Possessed (play)
''The Possessed'' (in French ''Les Possédés'') is a three-part play written by Albert Camus in 1959. The piece is a theatrical adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1872 novel ''The Possessed (novel), The Possessed'', later renamed ''Demons''. Camus despised nihilism and viewed Dostoyevsky's work as a prophecy about nihilism's devastating effects. He directed a production of the play at the Théâtre Antoine-Simone Berriau, Théâtre Antoine in 1959, the year before he died, which he financed in part with the money he received with his Nobel Prize. It was a critical success as well as an artistic and technical tour de force: 33 actors, 4 hours long, 7 sets, 24 scenes. The walls could move sideways to reduce the size of each location and the whole stage rotated to allow for immediate set transformations. Camus put the painter and set decorator Mayo (painter), Mayo, who had already illustrated several of his novels (L'Etranger - 1948 Ed.), in charge of the demanding task of designing t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Grande-Duchesse De Gérolstein
''La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein'' (''The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein'') is an opéra bouffe (a form of operetta), in three acts and four tableaux by Jacques Offenbach to an original French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. The story is a satirical critique of unthinking militarism and concerns a spoiled and tyrannical young Grand Duchess who learns that she cannot always get her way. The opera premiered in Paris in 1867 and starred Hortense Schneider in the title role. Thereafter, it was heard in New York, London and elsewhere, and it is still performed and recorded. Background Offenbach's career was at its height in the 1860s with the premieres of some of his most popular and enduring works, such as ''La Belle Hélène'' (1864) and '' La Vie parisienne'' (1866). With the original production of the latter still running, Offenbach and his librettists hurried to prepare a new opera, ''La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein'', to play during the Paris Exposition ('' Ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Einen Jux Will Er Sich Machen
''Einen Jux will er sich machen'' (1842) (''He Will Go on a Spree'' or ''He'll Have Himself a Good Time''), is a three-act musical play, designated as a Posse mit Gesang ("farce with singing"), by Austrian playwright Johann Nestroy. It was adapted from John Oxenford's ''A Day Well Spent'' (1835), and first performed at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna on 10 March 1842. The music was by Adolf Müller. Although about half of Nestroy's works have been revived for the modern German-speaking audience and many are part and parcel of today's Viennese repertoire, few have ever been translated into English, because Nestroy's language is not only stylized and finely graduated Viennese dialect, but also full of multiple puns and local allusions. ''Einen Jux will er sich machen'' is the only one that has become well known to English-speaking theatre-goers. It has become a classic more than once. It was adapted twice by Thornton Wilder, first as ''The Merchant of Yonkers'' (1938), then as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Home Of The Brave (play)
''Home of the Brave'' is a 1946 play by Arthur Laurents. A film adaptation was made in 1949, directed by Mark Robson. The Broadway production was directed by Michael Gordon. The play opened at the Belasco Theater on December 27, 1945, and closed on February 23, 1946. Cast and Characters The play opened at the Belasco Theater on December 27, 1945, and closed on February 23, 1946. The show was directed by Michael Gordon, and set and lighting design Ralph Alswang. The cast included Eduard Franz (Capt. Harold Bitterger), Kendall Clark (Major Dennis Robinson, Jr), Russell Hardie (T.J.), Joseph Pevney (Coney), Henry Barnard (Finch), and Alan Baxter (Mingo). Its first New York revival was Off-Broadway at Playhouse 91 in December 1999, directed by Richard Sabellico, set design Richard Ellis, costume design Gail Boldoni, lighting design Richard Latta, sound design Bender Dubiel, with Laurents as creative consultant. The show starred Jeff Talbott (Capt. Harold Bitterger), Mark Dekli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Was Jack Mortimer (novel)
''I Was Jack Mortimer'' (German: ''Ich war Jack Mortimer'') is a 1933 thriller novel by the Austrian writer Alexander Lernet-Holenia. In 1935 it was adapted into a German film of the same title directed by Carl Froelich and starring Anton Walbrook and Sybille Schmitz. In 1952 it was adapted into the Austrian film ''Adventure in Vienna'' directed by Emil E. Reinert and starring Gustav Fröhlich and Cornell Borchers.Goble p.282 A separate English-language version '' Stolen Identity'' (1953) was also produced. The West German television film ' (1961) was directed by Michael Kehlmann Michael Kehlmann (21 September 1927 – 1 December 2005) was an Austrian television film director and theatre director, screenwriter and actor. During 1951–1953, Kehlmann was the manager of the "Kleines Theater im Konzerthaus", Vienna. He was awa .... References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. 1933 German-language novels A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Doll's House
''A Doll's House'' ( Danish and nb, Et dukkehjem; also translated as ''A Doll House'') is a three-act play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been published earlier that month. The play is set in a Norwegian town circa 1879. The play concerns the fate of a married woman, who at the time in Norway lacked reasonable opportunities for self-fulfillment in a male-dominated world, despite the fact that Ibsen denied it was his intent to write a feminist play. It was a great sensation at the time, and caused a "storm of outraged controversy" that went beyond the theatre to the world of newspapers and society. In 2006, the centennial of Ibsen's death, ''A Doll's House'' held the distinction of being the world's most performed play that year. UNESCO has inscribed Ibsen's autographed manuscripts of ''A Doll's House'' on the Memory of the World Register in 2001, in recognition of their hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinand Bruckner
Ferdinand Bruckner (born Theodor Tagger; 26 August 1891, in Sofia, Bulgaria – 5 December 1958, in Berlin) was an Austrian-German writer and theater manager. Although his works are relatively rarely revived, ''Krankheit der Jugend'' was put on at the Cottesloe stage of London's Royal National Theatre in 2009, under the title ''Pains of Youth''. It was directed by Katie Mitchell and was met with very mixed reviews. Bruckner's play ''Die Rassen'' under the title ''Race'' was revived in 2001, in New York, by the Classical Stage Company. The critic John Simon called it "both scarily suspenseful and heartbreakingly elegant..." Simon concluded that the play: " comes as close as anything I know to explaining how a cultured nation hurtled into stupefying barbarity."New York Magazine, March 5, 2001 Life Bruckner's father was an Austrian businessman and his mother a French translator. After the separation of his parents, he spent time in Vienna and Paris, and in Berlin where he bega ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shadow Of Heroes
''Shadow of Heroes, a play in five acts from the Hungarian Passion'' is a 1958 documentary drama by Robert Ardrey. It concerns the lead-up to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Hungarian Uprising and its aftermath. Its premiere resulted in the release from Soviet custody of two political prisoners, Julia Rajk and her son. Production ''Shadow of Heroes'' was first produced at the Piccadilly Theatre in London on 7 October 1958. It starred Peggy Ashcroft, Dame Peggy Ashcroft, and was notable in giving a non-romantic leading role to a woman. The play was subsequently produced in New York and Germany. ''Shadow of Heroes'' was broadcast to acclaim on television by the BBC program Sunday Night Theatre on 19 July 1959. The BBC production starred Peggy Ashcroft, Dame Peggy Ashcroft and Eric Porter, with production by Michael Barry (television producer), Michael Barry. A Shadow of Heroes (1961 TV play), television adaptation was made in Australia in 1961. Synopsis The first act opens in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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