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The Noltenius Brothers
''The Noltenius Brothers'' (german: Die Brüder Noltenius) is a 1945 German drama film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht and starring Willy Birgel, Karl Mathias and Hilde Weissner.Bock & Bergfelder p. 52 Released in Berlin on 7 April, it was, by most accounts, the last of the twelve films released in Nazi Germany in 1945, before capitulation on 7 May ('' Via Mala'' received its first public showing on the same day in Mayrhofen, but no longer made it to the cinemas). The film's sets were designed by the art director Erich Kettelhut. Cast * Willy Birgel as Wolfgang Noltenius * Karl Mathias as Werner Noltenius * Hilde Weissner as Leonore, dessen Frau * Eugen Klöpfer as Mr. Karsten * Adelheid Seeck as Miss Karsten * Karl Schönböck as Baron Kontakt * Gunnar Möller as Jürgen Noltenius, Sohn * Ida Wüst as Baronin von Terlingen * Ernst Karchow as Bürgermeister Greifenberg * Arthur Schröder as Ingenieur Friebe * Adolf Ziegler * Robert Forsch * Hildegard Knef * Hella Thornegg * Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerhard Lamprecht
Gerhard Lamprecht (6 October 1897 – 4 May 1974) was a German film director, screenwriter and film historian. He directed 63 films between 1920 and 1958. He also wrote for 26 films between 1918 and 1958. Life and career Lamprecht was fascinated by cinema since his childhood and started to work as a film projectionist at age twelve. He studied theatre and art history in Berlin. He also took drama lessons with Paul Bildt and appeared as a stage actor under the name of "Gerhard Otto" in some minor productions.Gerhard Lamprecht at the Deutsches Filmportal Lamprecht got drafted by the German army in 1917 and was wounded in 1918. Lamprecht had sold his first film manuscript as early as 1914. With the end of |
Erich Kettelhut
Erich Karl Heinrich Kettelhut (1 November 1893 – 13 March 1979) was a German production designer, Art director#In film, art director and set decorator. Kettelhut is considered one of the most important artists in the history of early German cinema, mainly for his set direction for ''Die Nibelungen'' (1924) and his design and visual effects for ''Metropolis (1927 film), Metropolis'' (1927). His early career was defined by a working relationship with fellow designers Otto Hunte and Karl Vollbrecht, the trio working on many of Fritz Lang's early German films. Despite being best known for his iconic visuals on several of the most important films of German Expressionism, German Expressionist cinema, he is also noted for a career spanning into the 1960s and his work on more light-hearted films and musicals. Career Early career Kettelhut was born in Berlin in 1893. After leaving school, he received training at a craft school as a theatre artist. In 1909 he first met Otto Hunte, when t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leopold Von Ledebur
Leopold von Ledebur (18 May 1876 – 22 August 1955) was a German stage and film actor. Selected filmography * '' Carmen'' (1918) * ''The Serenyi'' (1918) * ''Midnight'' (1918) * ''The Foolish Heart'' (1919) * ''The Golden Lie'' (1919) * '' The Gambler'' (1919) * ''The Japanese Woman'' (1919) * ''The Loves of Käthe Keller'' (1919) * '' State Attorney Jordan'' (1919) * ''The Bodega of Los Cuerros'' (1919) * '' All Souls'' (1919) * ''Devoted Artists'' (1919) * ''The Carousel of Life'' (1919) * ''Only a Servant'' (1919) * ''The Last Sun Son'' (1919) * ''The Fairy of Saint Ménard'' (1919) * '' The Enchanted Princess'' (1919) * '' Die Spieler'' (1920) * ''Christian Wahnschaffe'' (1920) * ''In the Whirl of Life'' (1920) * '' World by the Throat'' (1920) * ''The Skull of Pharaoh's Daughter'' (1920) * ''Waves of Life and Love'' (1921) * ''The Adventure of Doctor Kircheisen'' (1921) * ''Count Varenne's Lover'' (1921) * '' The Maharaja's Favourite Wife'' (1921) * '' The House on the Moo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gertrud De Lalsky
Gertrud de Lalsky (27 January 1878 in Danzig – 16 September 1958 in Berlin) was a German actress. Selected filmography * ''Catherine the Great'' (1920) * ''Hypnosis'' (1920) * ''Fridericus Rex'' (1922) * ''The Island of Tears'' (1923) * ''Prater'' (1924) * ''Gobseck'' (1924) * ''Debit and Credit'' (1924) * ''The Humble Man and the Chanteuse'' (1925) * '' I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg'' (1926) * ''Chance the Idol'' (1927) * '' Out of the Mist'' (1927) * ''Linden Lady on the Rhine'' (1927) * ''My Heidelberg, I Can Not Forget You'' (1927) * ''The Strange Night of Helga Wangen'' (1928) * '' A Girl with Temperament'' (1928) * ''Crucified Girl'' (1929) * ''Painted Youth'' (1929) * '' The Love Waltz'' (1930) * ''The Emperor's Sweetheart'' (1931) * ''Mädchen in Uniform'' (1931) * ''Holzapfel Knows Everything'' (1932) * '' The English Marriage'' (1934) * ''The Higher Command'' (1935) * '' Dinner Is Served'' (1936) * ''The Great and the Little Love'' (1938) * ''Heimat'' (1938) * '' The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hella Thornegg
Hella Tornegg was a German stage and film actress. Selected filmography * ''Lehmann's Honeymoon'' (1916) * ''Spring Storms'' (1918) * ''Film Kathi'' (1918) * '' Nocturne of Love'' (1919) * ''The Monastery of Sendomir'' (1919) * ''Blackmailed'' (1920) * ''The Voice'' (1920) * ''Humanity Unleashed'' (1920) * '' Black Forest Girl'' (1929) * ''Bashful Felix'' (1934) * ''Inkognito'' (1936) * ''The Divine Jetta'' (1937) * ''Love Can Lie'' (1937) * ''Doctor Crippen'' (1942) * ''Bravo Acrobat!'' (1943) * '' Young Hearts'' (1944) * ''Marriage of Affection'' (1944) * ''The Noltenius Brothers ''The Noltenius Brothers'' (german: Die Brüder Noltenius) is a 1945 German drama film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht and starring Willy Birgel, Karl Mathias and Hilde Weissner.Bock & Bergfelder p. 52 Released in Berlin on 7 April, it was, by mos ...'' (1945) Bibliography * Jung, Uli & Schatzberg, Walter. ''Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene''. Berghahn Books, 1999. External links * 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hildegard Knef
Hildegard Frieda Albertine Knef (; 28 December 19251 February 2002) was a German actress, voice actress, singer, and writer. She was billed in some English-language films as Hildegard Neff or Hildegarde Neff. Early years Hildegard Knef was born in Ulm in 1925. Her parents were Hans Theodor and Friede Augustine Knef. Her father, a decorated First World War veteran, died when she was only six months old, and her mother moved to Berlin and worked in a factory. Knef began studying acting at age 14 in 1940. She left school at 15 to become an apprentice animator with Universum Film AG. After she had a successful screen test, she went to the State Film School at Babelsberg, Berlin, where she studied acting, ballet, and elocution. Joseph Goebbels, who was Hitler's propaganda minister, wrote to her and asked to meet her, but Knef's friends wanted her to stay away from him. German film career Knef appeared in several films before the fall of Nazi Germany, but most were released only a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Forsch (actor)
Robert Herbert Forsch (January 13, 1950 – November 3, 2011) was an American professional baseball player who spent most of his sixteen years in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the St. Louis Cardinals (1974–1988) before finishing his playing career with the Houston Astros (1988–1989). He was a member of the 1982 World Series Champions and National League (NL) pennant winners in 1985 and 1987. A twenty-game winner in 1977, he is fourth amongst all Cardinals pitcher in victories with 163. He is also the only player in team history to pitch more than one no-hitter, achieving it twice in 1978 and 1983. He and Ken Forsch are the only brothers to have each performed the feat in the majors. Early years Forsch graduated from Hiram Johnson High School in Sacramento, California, and attended Sacramento City College. He was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 26th round of the 1968 Major League Baseball draft as a third baseman, eight rounds after his brother was selec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolf Ziegler
Adolf Ziegler (16 October 1892 – 11 September 1959) was a German painter and politician. He was tasked by the Nazi Party to oversee the purging of what the Party described as "degenerate art", by most of the German modern artists. He was Hitler's favourite painter. He was born in Bremen and died in Varnhalt, today Baden-Baden. Life Born to an architect father and a family of architects on his mother's side, Ziegler was always surrounded by artists. He studied at the Weimar Academy from 1910 under master of technique Max Doerner at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. However, the First World War interrupted his studies when he signed up to become a front-line officer. After the war, he settled in Munich and continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich in 1919, where he attended classes by art nouveau artist Angelo Jank. He ultimately achieved the position of professor at the Munich Academy in 1933, when the Nazis came to power. His works fitted the Nazi ideal of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Schröder
Arthur Schröder (20 February 1892 – 4 February 1986) was a German actor. Selected filmography * '' The Queen's Love Letter'' (1916) * '' Cain'' (1918) * '' Mania'' (1918) * '' Just Once a Great Lady'' (1934) * '' Hubertus Castle'' (1934) * '' His Late Excellency'' (1935) * '' Der Etappenhase'' (1937) * '' The Beaver Coat'' (1937) * '' The Stars Shine'' (1938) * '' Marriage in Small Doses'' (1939) * '' Robert and Bertram'' (1939) * '' The Girl at the Reception'' (1940) * '' Quax the Crash Pilot'' (1941) * '' Happiness is the Main Thing'' (1941) * '' Diesel'' (1942) * '' I Entrust My Wife to You'' (1943) *'' The Master of the Estate'' (1943) * ''The Green Salon ''The Green Salon'' (german: Der grüne Salon) is a 1944 German drama film directed by Boleslaw Barlog and starring Paul Klinger, Margarete Haagen and Dorothea Wieck. Partial cast * as Wilma *Walter Bluhm as Oswin, handyman *Hans Brausewetter as ...'' (1944) * '' The Noltenius Brothers'' (1945) * '' The Axe of Wandsbek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Karchow
Ernst Karchow (1892–1953) was a German stage and film actor.Youngkin p.432 Selected filmography * '' Lotte'' (1928) * '' We Stick Together Through Thick and Thin'' (1929) * '' The Captain from Köpenick'' (1931) * ''Inge and the Millions'' (1933) * ''Gold'' (1934) * ''Lady Windermere's Fan'' (1935) * '' One Too Many on Board'' (1935) * ''My Life for Maria Isabella'' (1935) * '' The Traitor'' (1936) * '' Patriots'' (1937) * '' The Grey Lady'' (1937) * ''Fanny Elssler'' (1937) * '' The Deruga Case'' (1938) * ''The Girl at the Reception'' (1940) * ''Front Theatre ''Front Theatre'' (German: ''Fronttheater'') is a 1942 German drama film directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt and starring Heli Finkenzeller, René Deltgen and Lothar Firmans. It was made at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin and the Cinetone Studio ...'' (1942) *'' The Master of the Estate'' (1943) * '' Back Then'' (1943) * '' Tonelli'' (1943) * '' The Noltenius Brothers'' (1945) * '' Night of the Twelve'' (1949) Referenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ida Wüst
Ida Wüst (; 10 October 1884 – 4 October 1958) was a German stage and film actress whose career was prominent in the 1920s and 1930s with Universum Film AG (UFA). Life and career Little is known about Ida Wüst's early childhood. She discovered early the world of theater, and decided to make it her career. After attending secondary school in Frankfurt am Main, Wüst took acting lessons from Thessa Klinghammer and at the age of 16 received her first engagement at the StadtTheatre of Colmar, and further stage productions in Bromberg, and in 1904 performed extensively in Leipzig. In 1907 she became a member of the ensemble of the Lessing-Theater in Berlin, where she performed roles in ''Hosenrollen'' (roles in which women impersonate men in trousers), and comedies and became sought after actress. She befriended and married actor Bruno Kastner, with whom she began writing screenplays. The couple married in 1918, divorced in 1924, and had no children. Wüst appeared in the four- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunnar Möller
Gunnar Möller (1 July 1928 – 16 May 2017) was a German television and film actor. He appeared in over 160 film and television productions between 1940 and 2016. He was most successful as a leading man in German cinema of the 1950s, especially with his role in ''I Often Think of Piroschka'' (1955) with Liselotte Pulver. He later turned to character roles and worked for a number of years in England, including the supporting role of Hans van Broecken in World War II drama series '' Secret Army'' . He was married to the actress Brigitte Rau until her death in 1979, when he killed her during an argument in London. He was sentenced to five years in prison in England, but served only two and was able to continue his career in Germany. In 2003, he married actress Christiane Hammacher, with whom he had performed in "Loriots Dramatische Werke" ("Loriot's Dramatic Works") at Frankfurt's Fritz Rémond Theater and on tour during the 1980s. Möller died on 16 May 2017 in his hometown Berl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
