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The Comedians (1941 Film)
''The Comedians'' (german: Komödianten) is a 1941 German historical drama film directed by G. W. Pabst and starring Käthe Dorsch, Hilde Krahl and Henny Porten. It is based on the novel ''Philine'' by Olly Boeheim. The film is set in the eighteenth century, and portrays the development of German theatre. The film was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich with sets designed by the art director Julius von Borsody. Plot Karoline Neuber attempts to improve the lot of actors, who are looked down upon as vagabonds. When the Duchess refuses to let her son marry an actress, she defends them with such vehemence that she is driven from the country and finally dies in solitude. Cast *Käthe Dorsch as Karoline Neuber *Hilde Krahl as Philine Schröder *Henny Porten as Amalia, Duchess of Weißenfels *Gustav Diessl as Ernst Biron, Duke of Kurland *Richard Häussler as Armin von Perckhammer *Friedrich Domin as Johann Neuber *Ludwig Schmitz as Müller, Hanswurst *Sonja Gerda Scholz as Feigin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Schweikart
Hans Schweikart (1 October 1895 – 1 December 1975) was a German film director, actor and screenwriter. He directed 28 films between 1938 and 1968. He wrote for the film ''The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi'', which was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival. Selected filmography * '' Out of the Depths'' (1919) * ''The House on the Moon'' (1921) * ''The Infernal Power'' (1922) * ''The Doll Maker of Kiang-Ning'' (1923) * '' Two Children'' (1924) * '' Hunting You'' (1929) * ''Liberated Hands'' (1939) * ''The Girl from Barnhelm'' (1940) * ''The Girl from Fano'' (1941) * '' The Comedians'' (1941 - produced) * ''The Endless Road'' (1943) * '' I Need You'' (1944) * ''Insolent and in Love'' (1948) * '' Night of the Twelve'' (1949) * ''Beloved Liar'' (1950) * ''Melody of Fate'' (1950) * ''That Can Happen to Anyone'' (1952) * '' Must We Get Divorced?'' (1953) * ''A House Full of Love'' (1954) * ''The Blue Danube'' (1955) * ''Stage Fright'' (1960) * ''Agatha, Stop T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julius Von Borsody
Julius von Borsody (8 April 1892 in Vienna – 18 January 1960, also in Vienna) was an Austrian film architect and one of the most employed set designers in the Austrian and German cinemas of the late silent and early sound film periods. His younger brother, Eduard von Borsody, was a film director in Austria and Germany. He is also the great-uncle of German actress Suzanne von Borsody. Life Julius von Borsody attended the Munich Art Academy before he started in the film industry in 1917. He began his career with Sascha-Film in Vienna, but up to 1924 also worked with other film production companies. In 1920 he was the set designer for Paul Czinner's highly significant pre-Expressionist work, ''Inferno''. Together with Emil Stepanek and Artur Berger he was also responsible in Vienna, on the epics of Michael Curtiz and Alexander Korda, for the most spectacular sets ever constructed for an Austrian film, in particular the gigantic Temple of Sodom in ''Sodom und Gomorrha'' (1922), whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karin Evans
Karin Evans (1907–2004) was a South African-born German stage and film actress. Evans was born in Johannesburg to one British and one German parent. In 1923 she moved to Berlin to study theatre, and began performing in the stage productions of Max Reinhardt. She made her film debut in the 1927 silent crime film ''The Trial of Donald Westhof'' (1927) and then appeared intermittently in a mixture of leading and supporting roles. In 1964 she appeared in the comedy ''Fanny Hill''Frasier p.205 which proved to be her final screen appearance. She was married to the painter Wolf Hoffmann. Selected filmography * ''The Trial of Donald Westhof'' (1927) * ''Boycott'' (1930) * ''The Last Company'' (1930) * '' The Concert'' (1931) * '' The Gentleman Without a Residence'' (1934) * ''My Life for Maria Isabella'' (1935) * ''Pygmalion'' (1935) * ''Ich klage an'' (1941) * ''Blum Affair'' (1948) * '' Street Acquaintances'' (1948) * '' Such a Charade'' (1953) * '' The Perfect Couple'' (1954) * ''Lov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnulf Schröder
Arnulf Schröder (born Munich, June 13, 1903 - died there, December 22, 1960) was a German actor and director. He studied at the Oberrealschule with Claire Bauroff. He spent some of his career working in the cabarets of Berlin. Selected filmography * ''The Unsuspecting Angel'' (1936) * ''Meiseken'' (1937) * ''Red Orchids'' (1938) * ''Water for Canitoga'' (1939) * ''Enemies'' (1940) * ''Chased by the Devil'' (1950) * ''Immortal Light'' (1951) * ''Arlette Conquers Paris'' (1953) * ''The Missing Miniature'' (1954) * ''Royal Hunt in Ischl'' (1955) * '' San Salvatore'' (1956) * ''Taiga'' (1958) * ''The Domestic Tyrant'' (1959) * ''Oh! This Bavaria!'' (1960) ReferencesBiography with photo(in German German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) **Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law **Ger ...) * 1903 births 1960 deaths G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Christoph Gottsched
Johann Christoph Gottsched (2 February 1700 – 12 December 1766) was a German philosopher, author and critic of the Enlightenment. Biography Early life He was born at Juditten (Mendeleyevo) near Königsberg (Kaliningrad), Brandenburg-Prussia, the son of a Lutheran clergyman, and was baptised in St. Mary's Church. He studied philosophy and history at the University of Königsberg, but immediately on taking the degree of ''Magister'' in 1723, he fled to Leipzig in order to avoid being drafted into the Prussian army. In Leipzig, he enjoyed the protection of J. B. Mencke, who, under the name of "Philander von der Linde", was a well-known poet and president of the ''Deutschübende poetische Gesellschaft'' in Leipzig. Of this society, Gottsched was elected "Senior" in 1726, and in the next year reorganised it under the title of the ''Deutsche Gesellschaft''. Career As editor of the weeklies ''Die vernünftigen Tadlerinnen'' (1725–26) and ''Der Biedermann'' (1727), Gottsche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (, ; 22 January 1729 – 15 February 1781) was a philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic, and a representative of the Enlightenment era. His plays and theoretical writings substantially influenced the development of German literature. He is widely considered by theatre historians to be the first dramaturg in his role at Abel Seyler's Hamburg National Theatre. Life Lessing was born in Kamenz, a small town in Saxony, to Johann Gottfried Lessing and Justine Salome Feller. His father was a Lutheran minister and wrote on theology. Young Lessing studied at the Latin School in Kamenz from 1737 to 1741. With a father who wanted his son to follow in his footsteps, Lessing next attended the Fürstenschule St. Afra in Meissen. After completing his education at St. Afra's, he enrolled at the University of Leipzig where he pursued a degree in theology, medicine, philosophy, and philology (1746–1748). It was here that his relationship with Karoline Neube ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Janssen
Walter Janssen (7 February 1887 – 1 January 1976) was a German film actor and director. He appeared in more than 160 films between 1917 and 1970. Selected filmography * '' The Dancer'' (1919) * ''Destiny'' (1921) * ''Wandering Souls'' (1921) * '' Island of the Dead'' (1921) * ''Peter the Great'' (1922) * ''What Belongs to Darkness'' (1922) * '' Lust for Life'' (1922) * ''Carousel'' (1923) * ''La Boheme'' (1923) * '' The Love of a Queen'' (1923) * ''Shadows of the Metropolis'' (1925) * ''Tragedy'' (1925) * ''The Great Duchess'' (1926) * ''Fräulein Mama'' (1926) * ''Only a Dancing Girl'' (1926) * '' Sword and Shield'' (1926) * ''Women of Passion'' (1926) * '' The House of Lies'' (1926) * '' The Queen of Spades'' (1927) * ''The Little Slave'' (1928) * ''It's You I Have Loved'' (1929) * ''The Night Belongs to Us'' (1929) * '' Black Forest Girl'' (1929) * '' The White Roses of Ravensberg'' (1929) * ''The Flute Concert of Sanssouci'' (1930) * ''The Singing City'' (1930) * ''Two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bettina Moissi
Bettina Moissi (born 15 October 1923) is a German stage and film actress. She played the female lead in the 1948 film '' Long Is the Road'', the first German film to portray the Holocaust. Biography Moissi was born in Berlin in October 1923, the second child of leading stage actor Alexander Moissi born in Trieste to Moisi Moisiu from Kavajë in Albania), Moissi was born in Trieste to Moisi Moisiu from Kavajë in Albania, who was a rich Albanian merchant of oil and wheat, and an Arbëresh mother, Amalia de Rada, from Trieste, daughter of a Florentine doctor. Her father was often branded as Jewish due to his name (which translates as "Moses") and his outspoken defense of his fellow Jewish actors and people during a period of growing antisemitism.The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Millowitsch
Lucy Millowitsch (8 November 1905 – 21 June 1990) was a German stage-actress, screen star, stage director/producer, theatre co-owner/manager and dramatist. Later she teamed up with her brother to run the Cologne Millowitsch Theatre, which became known at the time as a venue for "popular, low-brow comedies". Life Lucy Millowitsch was born in Chemnitz. She was born into a long-established theatrical dynasty. Michael Millowitsch, her great-great-great grandfather, had created a successful puppet theatre in Cologne as far back as the late eighteenth century. Her father was the stage actor and theatre impresario Peter Wilhelm Millowitsch (1880–1945). Her mother, born Käthe Planck, came originally from Vienna. Her father's younger sister was the stage and screen performer Cordy Millowitsch. Lucy and her younger brother Willy Millowitsch were appearing on the stage with their father from an early age. In 1936, as the German economy recovered, and after several years w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanswurst
Hanswurst or Hans Wurst (German for "Johnny Sausage") was a popular coarse-comic figure of German-speaking impromptu comedy. He is "a half doltish, half cunning, partly stupid, partly knowing, enterprising and cowardly, self indulgent and merry fellow, who, in accordance with circumstances, accentuated one or other of these characteristics." Through the 16th and 17th centuries, he was a buffoon character in rural carnival theaters and touring companies. The name first appeared in a Middle Low German version of Sebastian Brant's ''Ship of Fools'' (1494) (using the name Hans myst). "Hanswurst" was also a mockery and insult. Martin Luther used it in his 1541 pamphlet (''Against Hanswurst''), when he railed against the Catholic Duke Henry of Brunswick. In 1712, Joseph Anton Stranitzky developed and popularized the role of Hanswurst. The theater historian Otto Rommel saw this as the beginning of the so-called Viennese popular theater. Stranitzky's Hanswurst wore the garb of a pea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludwig Schmitz
Ludwig Schmitz (January 28, 1884 – June 28, 1954) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than forty films during his career including the 1951 comedy '' The Heath Is Green''. He was part of the popular comedy duo Tran and Helle along with Joseph Hussels. Schmitz was a member of the SS from 1 March 1934 and a member of the Nazi Party from May 1937, however he was barred from the German film industry from 1941 "due to unworthy behavior". It was only in the 1950s that the popular comedian was seen again in the West German cinema. He died of a heart attack in 1954. Selected filmography * ''The Unsuspecting Angel'' (1936) * '' A Night in May'' (1938) * '' The Muzzle'' (1938) * ''Hurrah! I'm a Father'' (1939) * '' Wibbel the Tailor'' (1939) * '' The Comedians'' (1941) * '' The Heath Is Green'' (1951) * '' Pension Schöller'' (1952) * ''The Land of Smiles'' (1952) * ''At the Well in Front of the Gate'' (1952) * ''Rose of the Mountain'' (1952) * ''A Thousand Red Roses Bloom'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Domin
Friedrich Domin (15 May 1902 – 18 December 1961) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 60 films between 1939 and 1961. He was born in Beuthen, Germany (now Bytom, Poland) and died in Munich, Germany. Selected filmography * ''Das Lied der Wüste'' (1939) - Sir Collins, ihr Stiefvater * ''Der siebente Junge'' (1941) - Baron Florian von Roeckel * '' The Comedians'' (1941) - Johann Neuber * ''Alarmstufe V'' (1941) - Prof. Crusius * ''The Little Residence'' (1942) - Waldemar Prinz von Lauffenberg * ''Fünftausend Mark Belohnung'' (1942) - Joachim Wengraf * ''The Endless Road'' (1943) - Fürst Metternich * ''Man rede mir nicht von Liebe'' (1943) - Van Italy * ''Melusine'' (1944) - Professor von Hardegg * ''Wo ist Herr Belling?'' (1945) - Dr. Fiedler * ''In the Temple of Venus'' (1948) - Richard Doysen * ''The Last Illusion'' (1949) - Prof. Helfert * '' Trouble Backstairs'' (1949) - Justizrat Dr. Horn, sein Vater * '' Regimental Music'' (1950) - Herr von Wahl * ''Nach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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