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Wunschkonzert
''Wunschkonzert'' (''Request Concert'') is a 1940 German drama propaganda film by Eduard von Borsody. After ''Die große Liebe'', it was the most popular film of wartime Germany, reaching the second highest gross. Background The popular music show ' (Request Concert for the Wehrmacht) was broadcast on the German radio network every Sunday afternoon at 3.00 from the Great Broadcasting Room of the Haus des Rundfunks on Masurenallee in Berlin. Its popularity was based in part on its claims to broadcast music requested by men in the armed forces, thus uniting the armed forces and the homefront in ''Volksgemeinschaft''. Reich Minister Goebbels insisted that all German performers contribute to it, and concluded that a film based on it would be even more successful. Plot During the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, the young Inge Wagner and Luftwaffe Fliegerleutnant (Flight Lieutenant) Herbert Koch meet, and within a few days fall in love. They make plans for their joint future, but be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduard Von Borsody
Eduard von Borsody (; 13 June 1898 – 1 January 1970) was an Austrian cameraman, film editor, film director, and screenplay writer. Biography His film career began as a cameraman. Among his first jobs were three films on which Mihály Kertész (later Michael Curtiz) carried out the production design for the Vienna-based Sascha-Film: an Arthur Schnitzler adaptation ''Der junge Medardus'' (1923), the romance ''Fiaker Nr. 13'' and the artist's life ''Der goldene Schmetterling'' (both 1926). Later he worked with such different directors as Carl Wilhelm, Ernő Metzner, Gustav Ucicky and Max Nosseck. After the switch to sound film he was engaged by the German industry leader Universum Film AG (Ufa) as a film editor (cutter). Eduard von Borsody thereafter often worked under Ucicky's direction and edited for him, among many other films, the National Socialist propaganda films '' Morgenrot'' and '' Flüchtlinge''. In 1937, after some experience as assistant director, also with Ucick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Günther Anders (cinematographer)
Günther Anders (born 8 November 1908 in Berlin;The birthdate 12 July 1902 in Breslau given by the IMDb refers to the philosopher Günther Anders died 16 September 1977 in Munich) was a German cameraman and cinematographer. Life Anders was the son of a director of the film production company Eiko, later sales director for UFA. As early as 1918 he was appearing in child roles in silent films. After leaving school in 1922 and completing an apprenticeship in the photographic department at UFA he trained at the State School of Phototechnics (''Staatliche Hochschule für Fototechnik'') in Munich. He then spent some years as an assistant to Carl Hoffmann, Karl Freund and Eugen Schüfftan. In 1934 he took full charge of the camera for the first time in ''Ich bin Du'', a short film directed by Hoffmann. After a considerable quantity of drama films Anders was reckoned among the top cameramen in the Third Reich. Besides his drama work he was involved in several significant propaganda films, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft
The Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft (RRG; ''Reich Broadcasting Corporation'') was a national network of German regional public radio and television broadcasting companies active from 1925 until 1945. RRG's broadcasts were receivable in all parts of Germany and were used extensively for Nazi propaganda after 1933. Historical recordings of RRG broadcasts are today held by the German Broadcasting Archive. History The company was established in Berlin on 15 May 1925 with a start capital of 100,000 Reichsmark as an umbrella organisation by nine regional broadcasters – that is to say, all of the German radio stations other than the Deutsche Stunde in Bayern – serving the various states of the Weimar Republic. From 1926, a majority share was held by the state-owned Deutsche Reichspost authority, represented by RF engineer and Reichspostministerium official Hans Bredow as chairman in the rank of a ''Reichs-Rundfunk-Kommissar''. The logo of the RRG was designed by German graphic de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haus Des Rundfunks
The Haus des Rundfunks ("Broadcasting House"), located in the Westend district of Berlin, the capital city of Germany, is the world's oldest self-contained broadcasting centre. Designed by Hans Poelzig in 1929 after he won an architectural competition, the building contains three large centrally located broadcasting spaces, which are shielded from street noise by the surrounding office wings. It is used today by local ARD broadcaster Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) to make programmes carried by its ''Inforadio'', ''Kulturradio'', and ''Radio Berlin 88,8'' channels. The building's large broadcasting spaces are occasionally also used to host concerts. History The building, the ground plan of which is a triangle with two curved sides and a 150-metre-long straight façade clad with ceramic tiles, was constructed between 1929 and 1930 and inaugurated on 22 January 1931 as the seat of the ''Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft''. The large, central broadcasting space was finished in 1933. On ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Die Große Liebe
''The Great Love'' (German: ''Die große Liebe'') is a 1942 German drama film directed by Rolf Hansen and starring Zarah Leander, Viktor Staal and Grethe Weiser. It premiered in Berlin in 1942 and went on to become the most commercially successful film in the history of the Third Reich.Erwin Leiser, ''Nazi Cinema'' p61 It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios with location shooting taking place in Berlin, Rome and Vienna. The film's sets were designed by the art director Walter Haag. Story The attractive Oberleutnant Paul Wendlandt is stationed in North Africa as a fighter pilot. While in Berlin to deliver a report he is given a day's leave, and on the stage of the cabaret theatre "Skala" sees the popular Danish singer Hanna Holberg. For Paul it is love at first sight. When Hanna visits friends after the end of the performance, he follows her, and speaks to her in the U-Bahn. After the party in her friends' flat he accompanies her home, and chance throws them further together wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volksgemeinschaft
''Volksgemeinschaft'' () is a German expression meaning "people's community", "folk community",Richard Grunberger, ''A Social History of the Third Reich'', London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971, p. 44. "national community", or "racial community", depending on the translation of its component term ''Volk'' (cognate with the English word "folk"). This expression originally became popular during World War I as Germans rallied in support of the war, and many experienced "relief that at one fell swoop all social and political divisions could be solved in the great national equation". The idea of a ''Volksgemeinschaft'' was rooted in the notion of uniting people across class divides to achieve a national purpose,Fritzsche, p. 39. and the hope that national unity would "obliterate all conflicts - between employers and employees, town and countryside, producers and consumers, industry and craft". After Germany's defeat in World War I, the concept of ''Volksgemeinschaft'' remained popular e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Drews
Carl Drews (27 January 1894 – 3 September 1983 ) was a German cinematographer. Selected filmography * ''The Last Kolczaks'' (1920) * ''Roswolsky's Mistress'' (1921) * ''The Secret of the Mummy'' (1921) * '' The Eternal Struggle'' (1921) * ''Lucrezia Borgia'' (1922) * ''The Game with Women'' (1922) * '' Tatjana'' (1923) * ''The Third Watch'' (1924) * ''Chronicles of the Gray House'' (1925) * ''The Farmer from Texas'' (1925) * ''The Schimeck Family'' (1926) * ''The Divorcée'' (1926) * ''Vienna, How it Cries and Laughs'' (1926) * ''Derby'' (1926) * ''The Ones Down There'' (1926) * '' Sword and Shield'' (1926) * '' The House of Lies'' (1926) * ''Prinz Louis Ferdinand'' (1927) * ''The Indiscreet Woman'' (1927) * ''The Girl from Abroad'' (1927) * '' The Queen of Spades'' (1927) * ''The Trousers'' (1927) * ''Ariadne in Hoppegarten'' (1928) * '' Yacht of the Seven Sins'' (1928) * ''The Lady with the Mask'' (1928) * ''The Merry Widower'' (1929) * ''Her Dark Secret'' (1929) * ''The Hero ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Weihmayr
Franz Weihmayr (30 December 1903 – 26 May 1969) was a German cinematographer who worked on over 80 films between 1924 and 1964. He was one of the leading German cinematographers of the Nazi era, working on a number of Zarah Leander films and the 1935 propaganda documentary ''Triumph of the Will''. His marriage to Ada Tschechowa ended in divorce. After the Second World War, Weihmayr worked in West German cinema, including rubble films such as ''Love '47''. Selected filmography * ''They May Not Marry'' (1929) * '' Do You Know That Little House on Lake Michigan?'' (1929) * '' On the Reeperbahn at Half Past Midnight'' (1929) * ''The Blue Angel'' (1930) * ''Mädchen in Uniform'' (1931) * ''Anna and Elizabeth'' (1933) * ''Hans Westmar'' (1933) * ''William Tell'' (1934) * ''Elisabeth and the Fool'' (1934) * ''Miracle of Flight'' (1935) * ''Stjenka Rasin'' (1936) * ''Calling the Tune'' (1936) * ''The House of the Spaniard'' (1936) * ''The Court Concert'' (1936) * '' Moscow-Shanghai'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joachim Brennecke
Joachim Brennecke (6 December 1919 – 6 September 2011) was a German stage and film actor. During the Second World War he had prominent roles in Nazi propaganda films such as ''Attack on Baku'' and ''5 June''.Kreimeier p.347 Selected filmography * ''Zwei Welten'' (1940) * ''Wunschkonzert'' (1940) * ''Above All Else in the World'' (1941) * '' U-Boote westwärts'' (1941) * ''Attack on Baku'' (1942) * ''5 June'' (1942) * ''Der Kahn der fröhlichen Leute'' (1950) * ''The Guilt of Doctor Homma'' (1951) * ''A Heidelberg Romance'' (1951) * '' Shooting Stars'' (1952) * ''The Day Before the Wedding'' (1952) * ''I'm Waiting for You'' (1952) * ''I Can't Marry Them All'' (1952) * ''House of Life'' (1952) * '' Such a Charade'' (1953) * ''Scandal at the Girls' School'' (1953) * ''The Empress of China'' (1953) * '' The Cousin from Nowhere'' (1953) * ''The Crazy Clinic'' (1954) * ''Sun Over the Adriatic'' (1954) * ''The Inn on the Lahn'' (1955) * ''I'll See You at Lake Constance ''I'll See You ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Raddatz
Carl Raddatz (13 March 1912 – 19 May 2004) was a German stage and film actor. Raddatz was a leading man of German cinema during the Nazi era appearing in a number of propaganda films and romances. Later in his career he developed a reputation for playing benevolent father figures. Raddatz was briefly married to actress Hannelore Schroth, but the union ended in divorce. Partial filmography * '' Urlaub auf Ehrenwort'' (1938) - Grenadier Dr.Jens Kirchhoff * ''Faded Melody'' (1938) - Werner Gront * ''Liebelei und Liebe'' (1938) - Günther Windgassen * ''Silvesternacht am Alexanderplatz'' (1939) - Reinhardt * ''Twelve Minutes After Midnight'' (1939) - Juwelenmakler Griffin * ''Liberated Hands'' (1939) - Graf Joachim von Erken * ''We Danced Around the World'' (1939) - Harvey Swington * ''Twilight'' (1940) - Robert Thiele * ''Golowin geht durch die Stadt'' (1940) - Dr. Robert Cannenburgh * ''Wunschkonzert'' (1940) - Herbert Koch * ''Above All Else in the World'' (1941) - Carl Wiegand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilse Werner
Ilse Werner (; born Ilse Charlotte Still, 11 July 1921 – 8 August 2005) was a Dutch-German actress, singer, and musical whistler. Life She was born in Batavia (present-day Jakarta, Indonesia) to a Dutch father, merchant and plantation owner, and a German mother. Werner was Dutch by birth; although she lived most of her life and spent her career with great successes in Austria and Germany, mainly during the time of the Third Reich. She did not assume German citizenship until 1955. Arriving in Frankfurt, Germany at the age of 10, Werner's family in 1934 moved to Vienna, where she attended the Max Reinhardt Seminar drama school and gave her debut at the Theater in der Josefstadt in 1937. She later made her name at the legendary UFA Studios near Berlin. She starred in popular wartime films including '' Die schwedische Nachtigall'' ("The Swedish Nightingale"), ''Wir machen Musik'' ("We're Making Music"), the musical drama ''Große Freiheit Nr. 7'' and '' Münchhausen''. She was th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hauptmann
is a German word usually translated as captain when it is used as an officer's rank in the German, Austrian, and Swiss armies. While in contemporary German means 'main', it also has and originally had the meaning of 'head', i.e. ' literally translates to 'head-man', which is also the etymological root of ''captain'' (from Latin , 'head'). It equates to the rank of captain in the British and US Armies, and is rated OF-2 in NATO. Currently there is no female form, like ''Hauptfrau'' within the military, the correct form of address is "''Frau Hauptmann''". More generally, a Hauptmann can be the head of any hierarchically structured group of people, often as a compound word. For example, a is the captain of a fire brigade, while refers to the leader of a gang of robbers. Official Austrian and German titles incorporating the word include , , , and . In Saxony during the Weimar Republic, the titles of , and were held by senior civil servants. (from Early Modern High German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
