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Rolf Hädrich
Rolf Hädrich (24 April 1931 – 29 October 2000) was a German film director and screenwriter. He directed 39 films between 1958 and 1989. His film ''Verspätung in Marienborn'' (US title: ''Stop Train 349'') was entered into the 13th Berlin International Film Festival. Selected filmography Film * ''Stop Train 349'' (1963) * ''Among the Cinders'' (1983) Television * ''Der Dank der Unterwelt'' (1958) — (remake of Berkely Mather's ''Tales from Soho: Slippy Fives'', 1956) * ''Die Abwerbung'' (1958) — (screenplay by Erich Kuby) * ''Das Rennen'' (1959) — (based on the play ''Sammy'' by Ken Hughes) * ''Ein unbeschriebenes Blatt'' (1959) — (based on a play by Jean-Pierre Conty) * ''Kopfgeld'' (1959) — (screenplay by ) * ''Die Gerechten'' (1959) — (based on ''The Just Assassins'') * ''Die Stimme aus dem Hut'' (1959) — (based on a play by Berkely Mather) * ''Wer überlebt, ist schuldig'' (1960) — (screenplay by Axel Eggebrecht) * ''Bedienung, bitte!'' (1960) — (bas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zwickau
Zwickau (; is, with around 87,500 inhabitants (2020), the fourth-largest city of Saxony after Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz and it is the seat of the Zwickau District. The West Saxon city is situated in the valley of the Zwickau Mulde (German: ''Zwickauer Mulde''; progression: ), and lies in a string of cities sitting in the densely populated foreland of the Elster and Ore Mountains stretching from Plauen in the southwest via Zwickau, Chemnitz and Freiberg to Dresden in the northeast. From 1834 until 1952, Zwickau was the seat of the government of the south-western region of Saxony. The name of the city is of Sorbian origin and may refer to Svarog, the Slavic god of fire and of the sun. Zwickau is the seat of the West Saxon University of Zwickau (German: ''Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau'') with campuses in Zwickau, Markneukirchen, Reichenbach im Vogtland and Schneeberg (Erzgebirge). The city is the birthplace of composer Robert Schumann. As cradle of Audi's forerunner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sławomir Mrożek
Sławomir Mrożek (29 June 1930 – 15 August 2013) was a Polish dramatist, writer and cartoonist. Mrożek joined the Polish United Workers' Party during the reign of Stalinism in the People's Republic of Poland, and made a living as a political journalist. He began writing plays in the late 1950s. His theatrical works belong to the genre of absurdist fiction, intended to shock the audience with non-realistic elements, political and historic references, distortion, and parody. In 1963 he emigrated to Italy and France, then further to Mexico. In 1996 he returned to Poland and settled in Kraków. In 2008 he moved back to France.Krystyna DąbrowskaSławomir Mrożek. Culture.pl, September 2009. He died in Nice at the age of 83. Postwar period Mrożek's family lived in Kraków during World War II. He finished high school in 1949 and in 1950 debuted as a political hack-writer on ''Przekrój''. In 1952 he moved into the government-run Writer's House ( ZLP headquarters with the restri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Anthropoid
On 27 May 1942 in Prague, Reinhard Heydrichthe commander of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), acting governor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and a principal architect of the Holocaustwas attacked and wounded in an assassination attempt by Czechoslovak resistance operatives Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš. Heydrich died of his wounds on 4 June 1942. The assassination, codenamed Operation Anthropoid, was carried out by soldiers of the Czechoslovak Army after preparation and training by the British Special Operations Executive and with the approval of the Czechoslovak government-in-exile, led by Edvard Beneš. The Czechoslovaks undertook the operation to help confer legitimacy on the government-in-exile, and to exact retribution for Heydrich's brutal rule. The operation was the only verified government-sponsored assassination of a senior Nazi leader during the Second World War. Heydrich's death led to a wave of reprisals by SS troops, including the destruction of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Docudrama
Docudrama (or documentary drama) is a genre of television and film, which features dramatized re-enactments of actual events. It is described as a hybrid of documentary and drama and "a fact-based representation of real event". Docudramas typically strive to adhere to known historical facts, while allowing some degree of dramatic license in peripheral details, such as when there are gaps in the historical record. Dialogue may, or may not, include the actual words of real-life people, as recorded in historical documents. Docudrama producers sometimes choose to film their reconstructed events in the actual locations in which the historical events occurred. A docudrama, in which historical fidelity is the keynote, is generally distinguished from a film merely " based on true events", a term which implies a greater degree of dramatic license; and from the concept of "historical drama", a broader category which may also encompass entirely fictionalized action taking place in histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Jaeger
Karl-Heinz Jaeger (1927–2000) was a German author, reformed criminal, and journalist, best known for his semi-autobiographical prison novel '' The Fortress'' (1962) which was filmed in 1964 as '' Condemned to Sin''.Thomas Sutter Lesen und Gefangen-Sein: Gefängnisbibliotheken in der Schweiz- 2015 - 3658097167 - Henry (eigentlich Karl-Heinz) Jaeger (*1927; † 2000) wurde wegen gemeinschaftlich verübter Raubüberfälle 1956 zu zwölf Jahren Zuchthaus verurteilt. Bereits während seiner Haft unternahm er – unterstützt vom Anstaltspfarrer – die ersten ... References 1927 births 2000 deaths 20th-century German male writers 20th-century German novelists {{Germany-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mr Puntila And His Man Matti
''Mr Puntila and his Man Matti'' (german: Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti) is an epic comedy by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. It was written in 1940 and first performed in 1948. The story describes the aristocratic land-owner Puntila's relationship to his servant, Matti, as well as his daughter, Eva, whom he wants to marry off to an Attaché. Eva herself loves Matti and so Puntila has to decide whether to marry his daughter to his driver or to an Attaché, while he also deals with a drinking problem. In his essay "Notes on the Folk Play" (written in 1940), Brecht warns that " naturalistic acting is not enough in this case" and recommends an approach to staging that draws on the ''Commedia dell'Arte''. The central relationship between Mr Puntila and Matti—in which Puntila is warm, friendly and loving when drunk, but cold, cynical and penny-pinching when sober—echoes the relationship between the Tramp and the Millionaire in Charlie Chaplin's ''City Lights ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patterns (Kraft Television Theatre)
"Patterns" was an American television play broadcast live on January 12, 1955, as part of the NBC television series, ''Kraft Television Theatre''. Because of its popularity, it was restaged on February 9, 1955. It was written by Rod Serling and directed by Fielder Cook. Everett Sloane, Richard Kiley, and Ed Begley starred. Summary Ruthless corporate boss Walter Ramsie (played by Everett Sloane; called Ramsey in the film adaptation) attempts to edge out aging employee Andy Sloane (played by Ed Begley) to make room for newcomer Fred Staples (played by Richard Kiley). Ramsie uses every opportunity to humiliate the fragile Sloane, while Staples sees Sloane as a professional who makes valuable contributions to the firm. After a dramatic boardroom argument with Ramsie, Sloane collapses from a heart attack and dies. Staples tenders his resignation, but is convinced by Ramsie to stay in the play's climactic confrontation scene. Cast The cast consisted of the following: * Everett Sloane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noose (1958 Film)
''The Noose'' ( pl, Pętla) is a Polish film released in 1958, directed by Wojciech Jerzy Has, and starring Gustaw Holoubek. The film is an adaptation of a short story by Marek Hłasko, and follows a day in the life of an alcoholic. Plot Kuba Kowalski (Gustaw Holoubek) is an alcoholic who spends most of his day in his room with a bottle of vodka for company and a noose dangling from the ceiling. His ruminations are periodically interrupted by his girlfriend Krystyna (Aleksandra Slaska) banging on the door. Cast * Gustaw Holoubek as Kuba Kowalski * Aleksandra Śląska as Krystyna * Teresa Szmigielówna as Kuba's old love * Tadeusz Fijewski as Władek * Stanisław Milski as Rybicki * Władysław Dewoyno as Electrician Władek * Tadeusz Gwiazdowski as Supt. Zenek * Juliusz Grabowski as Waiter * Marian Jastrzębski as Tailor * Emil Karewicz as Waiter Gienek * Roman Kłosowski as Electrician Janek * Ignacy Machowski as Sergeant * Helena Makowska-Fijewska as Barmaid * Ig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murke's Collected Silences
"Murke's Collected Silences" (german: Doktor Murkes gesammeltes Schweigen) is a short story by German writer Heinrich Böll, first published in the '' Frankfurter Hefte'' in 1955 and in ''Doktor Murkes gesammeltes Schweigen und andere Satiren'' in 1958. A satirical response to the German ''Wirtschaftswunder'', the story examines the relationship between the generations in post-war Germany and the country's post-war surge in religious belief. Synopsis The Murke of the title is a psychology graduate whose first job is as editor for the Cultural Department at Broadcasting House. Everything about the place irritates him: "The rugs were impressive, the corridors were impressive, the furniture was impressive, and the pictures were in excellent taste." He takes out a little card his mother has sent him, with a picture of the Sacred Heart and ''I prayed for you at St. James's Church'' (''Ich betete fûr Dich in Sankt Jacobi''), and sticks it in one of the corridors behind an assistant produ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gyula Háy
Gyula "Julius" Háy; 5 May 1900 – 7 May 1975) was a Hungarian communist intellectual and playwright. He wrote under the pen name Stefan Faber. Biography Háy was born in 1900 in Abony, Austria-Hungary to a Jewish family. He was involved in the German communist movement in the 1920s, particularly in agitprop plays. During World War II, he lived for a time in Moscow's Hotel Lux, along with scores of other Communist exiles.Peter Dittmar"Der steinerne Zeuge des stalinistischen Terrors"''Die Welt'' (30 October 2007); retrieved 11 November 2011. In the 1950s he was a dissident in the Hungarian Writers' Union, and advocated for workers' councils in the months leading up to the Hungarian revolution of 1956. During the revolution, he played a significant role in the Hungarian Writers' Union, as a revolutionary body. He was involved in the workers council movement, and wrote the radio appeal to the intellectuals of the world which was broadcast as the Parliament building fell to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albrecht Goes
Albrecht Goes (22 March 1908 – 23 February 2000) was a German writer and Protestant theologian. Life Albrecht Goes was born in 1908 in the Protestant rectory in Langenbeutingen. He spent his childhood there, but his mother died in 1911 and in 1915 he went to live with his grandmother in Berlin-Steglitz. He went to school there until 1919, when he moved to a school in Göppingen. In 1922 he entered the theological seminary in Urach, and from 1922–1923 he attended the seminary in Schöntal. His room-mate there was Gerd Gaiser. He passed his university exams and in 1924 entered the advanced seminary in Urach. In 1926 he read German studies and History in Tübingen, then switched to Theology. In 1928 he went to Berlin to continue his Theology studies, and there he met and was influenced by Romano Guardini. In 1930 Goes was ordained for the Evangelical Church in Württemberg as a parson in Tuttlingen's main church, and in 1931 became a vicar at the Martinskirche in Stuttgart. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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