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Peter Märthesheimer
Peter Märthesheimer (Kiel, 9 July 1937 – Berlin, 18 June 2004) was a German screenwriter, producer and author. Early years Märthesheimer studied economics and sociology in Frankfurt am Main. From 1964 onwards he was editor and dramaturge at WDR for ten years, then at Bavaria Film until 1981. In 1994 he became professor for screenplay and dramaturgy at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg. He was also a dramaturgy consultant at the University of Television and Film Munich and the BKM. In collaboration with Pea Fröhlich he wrote the screenplays for the Rainer Werner Fassbinder films ''The Marriage of Maria Braun'' and ''Veronika Voss''. He was a producer for the film ''Martha''. The TV series ''Eight Hours Don't Make a Day'' and '' Berlin Alexanderplatz'' he cooperated with Fassbinder. In collaboration with Wolfgang Menge he created the sensational television productions ''Das Millionenspiel'' and ''Smog'' as well as the unconventional family series ''Ein Herz und eine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiel
Kiel () is the capital and most populous city in the northern Germany, German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 246,243 (2021). Kiel lies approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the southeast of the Jutland peninsula on the southwestern shore of the Baltic Sea, Kiel has become one of Germany's major maritime centres, known for a variety of international sailing events, including the annual Kiel Week, which is the biggest sailing event in the world. Kiel is also known for the Kiel mutiny, Kiel Mutiny, when sailors refused to board their vessels in protest against Germany's further participation in World War I, resulting in the abdication of the Wilhelm II, German Emperor, Kaiser and the formation of the Weimar Republic. The Olympic sailing competitions of the 1936 Summer Olympics, 1936 and the 1972 Summer Olympics#Venues, 1972 Summer Olympics were held in the Bay of Kiel. Kiel has also been one of the traditional homes of the German Nav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Das Millionenspiel
' ("The Game of Millions" or "Chance for a Million") is a 1970 German action/sci-fi television film, directed by Tom Toelle and starring Jörg Pleva, Suzanne Roquette and Dieter Thomas Heck. It was aired by ARD (broadcaster) on 18 October 1970. Wolfgang Menge wrote the screenplay, adapting the short story "The Prize of Peril" by the American writer Robert Sheckley. Wolfgang Menge and Tom Toelle received the 1971 Prix Italia for best television movie. Plot ''Das Millionenspiel'' ("The Game of Millions") is a successful TV show from the private station TETV. To win the grand prize of one million German marks, a candidate has to survive seven days on the run while being hunted by the Köhler gang. Of the first 14 candidates, 8 were killed during the course of the game. Bernhard Lotz from Leverkusen is the show's 15th candidate. After almost a week without sleep and little food, he is full of agony and on the verge of physical collapse; Lotz could drop out, but there is the prospec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatort
''Tatort'' ("Crime scene") is a German language police procedural television series that has been running continuously since 1970 with some 30 feature-length episodes per year, which makes it the longest-running German TV drama. Developed by the German public-service broadcasting organisation ARD for their channel Das Erste, it is unique in its approach, in that it is jointly produced by all of the organisation's regional members as well as its partnering Austrian and Swiss national public-service broadcasters, whereby every regional station contributes a number of episodes to a common pool. Therefore, the series is a collection of different police stories where different police teams each solve crimes in their respective city. Uniqueness in architecture, customs and dialects of the cities is therefore a distinctive part of the series and often the city, not the police force, is the real main character of an episode. The concept of local stations only producing a couple of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Indecent Woman
''The Indecent Woman'' or '' De onfatsoenlijke vrouw '' is a 1991 Dutch erotic thriller film directed by Ben Verbong. Cast * José Way ... Emilia *Coen van Vrijberghe de Coningh ... Charles *Huub Stapel ... Leon * Lydia van Nergena ... Anna * Marieke van Leeuwen ... Simone *Theo de Groot ... Marcel *Peter Bolhuis ... Brig. Vermeulen * Niels Wolf ... bewaker * Peter Smits ... verpleegkundige * Aga de Wit ... buurvrouw * Regina General ... tweelingzus * Roos General ... tweelingzus * Aukje Jetten ... Alice * Earl van Es ... antiliaan *Jack Wouterse thumbnail Jack Wouterse (born 17 June 1957 in Soest) is a Dutch actor. His career as a movie actor took off with his role in the 1992 film '' The Northerners'', directed by Alex van Warmerdam. Wouterse made his international debut in an episode ... ... getatoueerde man External links * 1991 films 1990s Dutch-language films 1990s erotic thriller films Films directed by Ben Verbong Dutch erotic thriller fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cry Of The Owl (1987 German Film)
''The Cry of the Owl'' is a psychological thriller novel by Patricia Highsmith, the eighth of her 22 novels. It was first published in the US in 1962 by Harper & Row and in the UK by Heinemann the following year. It explores, in the phrase of critic Brigid Brophy, "the psychology of the self-selected victim".Brigid Brophy, ''Don't Never Forget'' (Holt Rinehard & Winston, 1967), Composition Highsmith wrote ''The Cry of the Owl'' between April 1961 and February 1962. She considered it to be one of her weaker efforts, calling its principal character "rather square ... a polite sitting duck for more evil characters, and a passive bore".Andrew Wilson: ''Beautiful Shadow – A Life of Patricia Highsmith'', Bloomsbury, 2003, 237 Highsmith drew on her own experience as a stalker; years before, when employed by a New York City store, she became obsessed with a woman she had waited on. She adapted these events for her novel ''The Price of Salt'' (1952). The setting for this book is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lola (1981 Film)
''Lola'' is a 1981 West German drama film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the third in his BRD Trilogy, following ''The Marriage of Maria Braun'' (1978) and ''Veronika Voss'' (1982). It is a loose adaptation of Heinrich Mann's ''Professor Unrat'' (1905), which had previously been adapted for Josef von Sternberg's ''The Blue Angel'' (1930). Plot In 1957, in the town of Coburg, as in most of West Germany, reconstruction is the watchword, and Coburg's élite all benefit: the mayor, the police chief, the bank president, the newspaper editor and above all, Schuckert, a property developer who owns the brothel the other men frequent. His favourite employee is its singer, Lola. This cosy arrangement is threatened by the arrival of the high-minded and cultured von Bohm, a refugee from East Prussia, as the new building commissioner. Divorced, he hires a woman with a young granddaughter as his housekeeper and devotes himself to his new job. One day, while he is out at work, his house ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Günter Herburger
Günter Herburger (April 6, 1932 – May 3, 2018) was a German writer. He was initially counted among the "New Realists" funded by , became the author of socialist, imaginative utopian worlds since the 1970s and took an outsider position in German-language contemporary literature. He was a writer of poems, children's books, radio plays and a member of the PEN Center Germany. Early life and education Herbrger was born in Isny, Allgäu. He was the son of a veterinarian. From 1945 to 1950 he attended the Urspring School in Schelklingen. He then began studying Sanskrit at the University of Munich. He also studied philosophy and theatre studies. Career In 1954 Herburger broke off his studies and went on trips. He lived occasionally in Ibiza, in Madrid and Oran and kept afloat with occasional work. In Paris he had contact with the author Joseph Breitbach. In 1956 he was forced to return to Munich for health reasons. He worked on his first novel. After marrying his first wife, Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Confessions Of Felix Krull (TV Series)
''The Confessions of Felix Krull'' (German: ''Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull'') is a 1982 adventure television series based on the novel of the same title by Thomas Mann. It was shot as a co-production between Austria, France and West Germany. The story had previously been adapted into a 1957 film ''Confessions of Felix Krull''.Bock & Bergfelder p.207 Main cast * John Moulder-Brown as Felix Krull ** as Felix Krull (Young) * Magali Noël as Mme Houpflé * Fernando Rey as Professor Kuckuck * Rita Tushingham as Mrs. Twentyman * Joss Ackland as Mr. Twentyman * Hans Heinz Moser as Herr Sturzil * Pierre Doris as Detective * as Monsieur Machatschek * Klaus Schwarzkopf as Father Krull * as Mother Krull * Mareike Carrière as Olympia * Franziska Walser as Genoveva * Rolf Zacher as Stanko * Vera Tschechowa as Maria Pia * Georgia Slowe as Zouzou * Kurt Raab as Sally Meerschaum * Nikolaus Paryla as Schimmelpreester * as Rosza * James Cossins as Lord Kilmarnock * as Zaza * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Despair (film)
''Despair'' is a 1978 film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starring Dirk Bogarde, based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov. It was Fassbinder's first English-language film and was entered into the 1978 Cannes Film Festival. Similarly to the novel, the tone of the film is ironic. The plot is mostly similar to the novel, although one of the key characters is significantly altered in the adaptation. Plot Hermann Hermann lives in Berlin during the Weimar Republic. A refugee from Soviet Russia, with a Baltic German father and a wealthy Jewish mother, he has inherited a business making chocolates. His Jewish wife Lydia, voluptuous but not intelligent, has an over-close relationship with her bachelor cousin, a painter called Ardalion. As the Great Depression bites and Nazi thugs start targeting Jewish businesses, with his firm becoming less profitable and Germany less hospitable, Hermann starts dreaming of escape. He already has moments of leaving his body ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lina Braake
''Lina Braake'' ( Brechtian subtitle: ''Die Interessen der Bank können nicht die Interessen sein, die Lina Braake hat'') is a 1975 West German drama film directed by Bernhard Sinkel and starring Lina Carstens, Fritz Rasp and Herbert Bötticher.The A to Z of German Cinema p.23 The film's sets were designed by the art director Nicos Perakis. Cast * Lina Carstens as Lina Braake * Fritz Rasp as Gustaf Haertlein * Herbert Bötticher as Johannes Koerner * Ellen Mahlke as Scholz * Benno Hoffmann as Jawlonski * Rainer Basedow as Fink * Erica Schramm as Lene Schoener * Walter Sedlmayr as Emil Schoener * Oskar von Schab as Duerr * Gustl Datz Gustl is both a German language masculine and feminine given, often a diminutive of the masculine given names Gustav (name), Gustav and August (name), August, and the feminine given name Augusta (name), Augusta. Individuals bearing the name Gustl i ... as Gruber * Ellen Frank as Mangold * Wilfried Klaus as Wenzel * Teseo Tavernese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World On A Wire
''World on a Wire'' (german: Welt am Draht) is a 1973 German science fiction television serial, starring Klaus Löwitsch and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Shot in 16 mm, it was made for German television and originally aired in 1973 in ARD as a two-part miniseries. It was based on the 1964 novel '' Simulacron-3'' by Daniel F. Galouye. An adaptation of the Fassbinder version was presented as the play ''World of Wires'', directed by Jay Scheib, in 2012. Its focus is not on action, but on sophistic and philosophic aspects of the human mind, simulation, and the role of scientific research. A movie based on the same novel entitled '' The Thirteenth Floor'' starring Craig Bierko was released in 1999. Plot In the present day, Cybernetics and Future Science's (Institut für Kybernetik und Zukunftsforschung) new supercomputer hosts a simulation program that includes an artificial world with more than 9,000 "identity units" who live as human beings, unaware that their world is jus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
