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Sonnenallee
''Sonnenallee'' (''Sun Avenue'' or ''Sun Alley'') is a 1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ... Germany, German comedy film about life in East Berlin in the late 1970s. The movie was directed by Leander Haußmann. The film was released shortly before the corresponding novel, ''Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee'' (''At the Shorter End of Sonnenallee''). Both the book and the screenplay were written by Thomas Brussig and while they are based on the same characters and setting, differ in storyline significantly. Both the movie and the book emphasize the importance of pop-art and in particular, pop music, for the youth of East Berlin. The Sonnenallee (Berlin), Sonnenallee is an actual street in Berlin that was intersected by the border between East and West during the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonnenallee (Berlin)
The Sonnenallee (“Sun Avenue”) is a street in Berlin, Germany, connecting the districts of Neukölln and Treptow-Köpenick. The street is 5 km long, crossing Baumschulenstraße at its south-east end and terminating at Hermannplatz in the north-west. Sonnenallee was constructed at the end of the 19th century. The area around the Sonnenallee was created to cater for the rural drift to the city of that period. Description Sonnenallee is nearly 5 kilometres long, with around 4.5 kilometres in the district of Neukölln, and 400 meters in Treptow-Köpenick. It begins in the north-west at Hermannplatz (Berlin U-Bahn), Hermannplatz as the continuation of Urbanstraße, runs 2600 meters south-east before crossing the Berlin Ringbahn, Ringbahn and shortly thereafter the Neukölln Ship Canal. After the intersection with Grenzallee and Dammweg, Sonnenallee passes several allotments (''Kleingartenanlagen)'' and two large housing estates, leading to its south-easterly endpoint at Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Am Kürzeren Ende Der Sonnenallee
''Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee'' (On the Shorter End of Sun Avenue) is the third novel by author Thomas Brussig. The novel is set in East Berlin in the real-life street of Sonnenallee sometime in the late 1970s or early 1980s. The film ''Sonnenallee'', also written by Brussig, is based upon the same characters, but depicts a significantly different storyline. Unusual is the fact that the screenplay for ''Sonnenallee'' served as the basis for the novel, rather than the other way around. Themes of the Novel The story is centered on the main character fifteen-year-old Michael "Micha" Kuppisch who lives with his parents and siblings, Sabine and Bernd, in a typical East Berlin flat. The story gives a nostalgic yet ironic outlook of living in the shorter end of Sonnenallee, a street which was divided during the creation of the German Democratic Republic, next to the Berlin Wall where the house numbering House numbering is the system of giving a unique number to each building ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teresa Weißbach
Teresa Weißbach (born 26 April 1981 in Zwickau, Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt, East Germany) is a German actress best known for her role as Miriam in the 1999 film ''Sonnenallee''. Biography She grew up in Stollberg, and at 10 years old joined the Youth Theater. At 17 she made her debut as Miriam Sommer in the film ''Sonnenallee''. Her parents own a bakery in Stollberg, and made special pastry in celebration of the success of Sonnenallee in cinemas. From 1999 to 2003 she studied at the University for Music and Theater in Rostock and was awarded a degree in acting. During her studies, she performed at the Volkstheater in Rostock, and at the Mecklenburg State Theatre in Schwerin, playing, among other roles, Ismene in the tragedy Antigone by Sophocles. In 2002 she performed in the ARD television series ''Berlin, Berlin''. In summer 2004 she trod the boards at the Bayreuth Festival, and in February 2005 she began an engagement at the Burgtheater in Vienna. Filmography * Armee der S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Brussig
Thomas Brussig (born 1964) is a German writer best known for his satirical novels that deal with the German Democratic Republic. Life Brussig was born in East Berlin. After attending the "Heinrich-Hertz" School, he went on to train as a builder. In 1984 he finished school and training, and served in the East German National People's Army (German: ''Nationale Volksarmee'' or NVA). Brussig found it difficult to wield a weapon and had a hard time. He worked as a museum guard, cleaner and hotel porter among a variety of other odd jobs until the early 90s. In 1990 he studied sociology at the Free University of Berlin. He changed universities 3 years later to study the art of film-making. He graduated in the year 2000. Thomas Brussig commutes back and forth from Berlin to Mecklenburg as a writer and is married. Works Brussig's first novel, ''Wasserfarben'' ("Watercolors") was published in 1991 under the pseudonym "Cordt Berneburger." In 1995, he published his breakthrough novel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leander Haußmann
Leander Haußmann (sometimes Haussmann) (; born 26 June 1959, Quedlinburg) is a German theatre and film director. The son of actor Ezard Haußmann and costume designer Doris Haußmann, he attended the Ernst Busch theatre school in Berlin. Haußmann was the theatre director of the city theatre in Bochum (Schauspielhaus Bochum). He also wrote and acted in several plays (1995–2000), and had a role in the Detlev Buck film '' Jailbirds'' (1996). His feature film breakthrough came with ''Sonnenallee'' in 1999. His second feature, ''Herr Lehmann'', followed in 2003. His production of ''Die Fledermaus'' in Munich was controversial, compounding the trouble surrounding his production of ''Peter Pan''. As a result, his scheduled production of ''Romeo and Juliet'' was cancelled. Filmography * ''Sonnenallee'', with Detlev Buck, Robert Stadlober, Alexander Beyer (1999) * '' – Die Durchmacher'' (2001, TV documentary series episode) * ''Berlin Blues'' (2003) * '' NVA'', with Detlev Buck, K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Scheer
Alexander Scheer (born 1 June 1976 in East Berlin) is a German actor and musician. He has won several national awards for his performances in film and theater, including one German Film Award for "Best Actor in a Leading Role" and one Bavarian Film Award for "Best Actor", both in the year 2019. Biography Scheer studied at in Berlin with main focus on music. In addition to the singing, he played piano and drums in different bands. He left school after the 11th grade and then took up various occupations. He also occurred as a performer in commercials during this period and turned their own amateur films with his friends. The film series "American Showdown" by André Jagusch, when Scheer stood in front of the camera, became a small festival hit and was shown, for example, at the (Workshop of the young film scene) and at the (Weiterstadt Open Air Film Festival). During a casting, he was discovered by the director Leander Haussmann, who cast him in his 1999 film ''Sonnenallee''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Beyer
Alexander Beyer (born 24 June 1973) is a German actor. He was born in Erfurt, East Germany. He has appeared in such films as Volker Schloendorff's '' The Legend of Rita'' (''Die Stille nach dem Schuss'', 1999), Leander Haußmann's ''Sun Alley'' (''Sonnenallee'', 2000), Johannes Kiefer's ''Gregor's Greatest Invention'' (''Gregors groesste Erfindung'', 2001), which was nominated for an Academy Award for Live Action Short Film in 2002 and Wolfgang Becker's ''Good Bye Lenin!'' (2003), among others. Beyer lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland, and Berlin, Germany. Filmography *2022: ''Dalíland'' directed by Mary Harron *2022: ''Operation Mincemeat'' directed by John Madden *2020: ''Persian Lessons'' directed by Vadim Perelman *2018: '' The Little Drummer Girl'' directed by Park Chan-wook *2018: ''Deutschland 86'' directed by Florian Cossen *2018: '' Styx'' directed by Wolfgang Fischer *2016: '' Burg Schreckenstein'' directed by Ralf Huettner *2016: '' Berlin Station'' di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winfried Glatzeder
Winfried Glatzeder (born 26 April 1945) is a German television actor and playwright. He began his acting career in East Germany in the 1960s. In the early 1970s, he made his breakthrough by starring in films such as '' Zeit der Störche'' and '' The Legend of Paul and Paula''. From 1996 to 1998, Glatzeder played the role of Commissioner Ernst Roiter in the television series ''Tatort''. Since then, he has mainly worked in theatre and television. Biography Childhood and education Winfried Glatzeder is an only child. His mother was of Jewish descent, and she hid her grandmother during the Nazi period to keep her from being deported. Glatzeder's parents were married in 1942, and his father died in 1944 in Soviet captivity. His mother did not follow the order announced on 19 March 1945 that civilians should evacuate Sopot, so his birth took place in the liberated area. Shortly afterwards, his mother was admitted to a psychiatric hospital, where she developed tuberculosis and from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Hübchen
Henry Hübchen (born 20 February 1947 in Berlin) is a German actor who played the title character in the award-winning 2004 film '' Go for Zucker''. That performance earned him a Lola, Germany's equivalent of an Oscar, and critical praise at home and abroad. He was raised in East Berlin, in what was then East Germany. Praise for ''Zucker'' Critic David Denby praised his performance in ''Zucker'', writing "veteran German theater and film actor Henry Hübchen gives this middle-aged rogue a Bellovian gusto. Hübchen has the eyes of a gentle bull and a teenager's manic energy." The ''New York Times'' said the character, Jaeckie Zucker, "suggests a German Jewish Rodney Dangerfield in his gleeful boorishness." Other work and background In an August 2004 profile, German public broadcaster Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk said Hübchen is best known in Germany for a role on the long-running television series ''Polizeiruf 110''. The profile says that before coming to film, he was a failed phy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall (german: Berliner Mauer, ) was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and East Germany (GDR). Construction of the Berlin Wall was commenced by the government of the GDR on 13 August 1961. It included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, accompanied by a wide area (later known as the "death strip") that contained anti-vehicle trenches, beds of nails and other defenses. The Eastern Bloc portrayed the Wall as protecting its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" from building a socialist state in the GDR. The authorities officially referred to the Berlin Wall as the ''Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart'' (german: Antifaschistischer Schutzwall, ). The West Berlin city government sometimes referred to it as the "Wall of Shame", a term coined by mayor Willy Brandt in reference to the Wall's restriction on freedom of movement. Along with the separat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katharina Thalbach
Katharina Thalbach (; actually ''Katharina Joachim genannt Thalbach''; born 19 January 1954) is a German actress and stage director. She played theatre at the Berliner Ensemble and at the Volksbühne Berlin, and was actress in the film ''The Tin Drum''. She worked as a theatre and opera director. Life and work Born in East Berlin, Katharina Thalbach's father Benno Besson was a director, her mother Sabine Thalbach, was an actress. Also actors are her half-brother and her stepmother Ursula Karusseit. At the age of four, Thalbach was playing children's roles on stage, on television and in films. After the death of her mother in 1966, Helene Weigel took her under her care. In 1967, she made her debut as the whore Betty (later the Polly) in Erich Engel's production of Brecht's '' Dreigroschenoper''. She completed her Abitur at the Max-Planck-Oberschule. She obtained her stage maturity examination () as a master student of Helene Weigel, Berliner Ensemble. Thalbach played at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Detlev Buck
Detlev Buck (; born 1 December 1962 in Bad Segeberg) is a German film director, actor, producer and screenwriter. Life and work From his first short film at the age of 21 in 1982, ', he has remained one of the most important filmmakers working in Germany. His first feature, 1991's '' Karniggels'', put him on the international radar and since then he has continued to make both short and feature films. He is known for making cameo appearances in his work and acting in films of fellow directors. A nice example of his acting skills can be seen in '' Blue Moon''. Selected filmography As director * 1984: ' * 1991: ' (with Bernd Michael Lade, Ingo Naujoks and Julia Jäger) * 1993: '' No More Mr. Nice Guy'' (with Joachim Król, Horst Krause and Sophie Rois) * 1996: '' Jailbirds'' (with Til Schweiger, Marie Bäumer and Heike Makatsch) * 1999: ' (with Moritz Bleibtreu and Heike Makatsch) * 2000: ' (with Anke Engelke) * 2006: '' Tough Enough'' (with David Kross) * 2007: '' Hände weg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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