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Die Manns – Ein Jahrhundertroman
''Die Manns – Ein Jahrhundertroman'' (; ''The Manns – Novel of a Century'') is a 2001 German Docudrama-miniseries directed by Heinrich Breloer. The miniseries is divided in three parts and tells the story of the Mann family, a family of famous writers. It deals with their personal life (passions, tragedies, rivalities), opposition to the Nazis and emigration into the United States from Nazi Germany. Between the fictional scenes, the miniseries also includes interviews with members of the Mann family and their friends. Elisabeth Mann Borgese, the only living child of Thomas Mann at the time of the filming, is shown on various locations of the film, interviewed about her family by director Breloer. Cast *Armin Mueller-Stahl as Thomas Mann *Jürgen Hentsch as Heinrich Mann *Monica Bleibtreu as Katia Mann *Sebastian Koch as Klaus Mann *Sophie Rois as Erika Mann *Veronica Ferres as Nelly Kröger *Stefanie Stappenbeck as Monika Mann *Philipp Hochmair as Golo Mann *Katharina Eckerf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich Breloer
Heinrich Breloer (, born 17 February 1942 in Gelsenkirchen) is a German author and film director. He has mainly worked on docudramas related to modern German history and has received many awards. Breloer's 2005 docudrama ''Speer und Er'' was described as a milestone in the understanding of Nazi Germany by the German people. Selected filmography * ' (co-director: , 1982, TV film) — based on a novel by Arnold Zweig * ''Treffpunkt im Unendlichen'' (co-director: Horst Königstein, 1984, TV film) — based on a novel by Klaus Mann * ' (1987, TV film) * ''The State Chancellery'' (1989, TV film) — (about Uwe Barschel) * ' (1991, TV film) — (about and the ) * ' (1993, TV film) — (about Herbert Wehner) * ' (1997, TV film) — (about the German Autumn) * '' Die Manns – Ein Jahrhundertroman'' (2001, TV miniseries) — (about Thomas Mann) * ''Speer und Er'' (2005, TV miniseries) — (about Albert Speer) * ''Buddenbrooks'' (2008) — based on the novel ''Buddenbrooks'' by Thoma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaus Mann
Klaus Heinrich Thomas Mann (18 November 1906 – 21 May 1949) was a German writer and dissident. He was the son of Thomas Mann, a nephew of Heinrich Mann and brother of Erika Mann (with whom he maintained a lifelong close relationship) and Golo Mann. Klaus moved to the United States to escape Nazism, and after training in counterintelligence as one of the Ritchie Boys, he served in Europe during World War II, becoming one of the first outsiders to witness the horrors of the concentration camps. His books '' Escape to Life'' (co-written with his sister Erika Mann), and ''The Turning Point'' have attained a historical importance as frequently cited primary documents of the experience of exile undergone by members of the German intelligentsia and arts community who fled the Third Reich. This genre is referred to as Exilliteratur. He is best known for his 1936 novel, ''Mephisto'', about an actor who sells his soul to the devil, by attaching his career to the rise of the Nazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Wessely
Rudolf Wessely (19 January 1925 – 25 April 2016) was an Austrian actor. Partial filmography * ''Guten Tag, lieber Tag'' (1961) – Strebel * ''Wo wir fröhlich gewesen sind'' (1966, TV Movie) – Lamprett Bellboys * ' (1968, TV Movie) – Dr. Wosnessensky * '' Kaddish for the Living'' (1969, TV Movie) – Bach * ' (1976) – Wieland * ' (1976) * ''Derrick'' (TV Series, 6 episodes): **''"Der Fotograf"'' (1978) – Herr Beer **''"Schubachs Rückkehr"'' (1979) – Rudolf Frank **''"Hanna, liebe Hanna"'' (1980) – Bächler **''"Die Schwester"'' (1981) – Der alte Lehrer / Old teacher **''"Eine Falle für Derrick"'' (1982) – Herr Kramer **''"Ein Spiel mit dem Tod"'' (1984) – Martin Kussloff * '' The Tailor from Ulm'' (1978) – Pointet * ' (1979, TV film) – Hans Prehl * '' Sunday Children'' (1980) * ''Die kleine Figur meines Vaters'' (1980) – Walter Henisch * ''Lieber Karl'' (1984) – Kubelka * '' Wahnfried'' (1986) – Schnappauf * ''Das Diarium des Dr. Döblinger'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hedwig Pringsheim
Hedwig Pringsheim (born Gertrud Hedwig Anna Dohm; 13 July 1855 – 27 July 1942) was a German actress. Born in Berlin, she was the daughter of Ernst Dohm and Hedwig Dohm-Schleh, who were Jewish converts to Christianity. She married Alfred Pringsheim. They had 5 children: Erich Pringsheim, Peter Pringsheim, Heinz Pringsheim, Klaus Pringsheim Sr. and Katia Pringsheim who married Thomas Mann. Pringsheim died in Zurich at the age of 87. Works * ''Die Manns – Ein Jahrhundertroman ''Die Manns – Ein Jahrhundertroman'' (; ''The Manns – Novel of a Century'') is a 2001 German Docudrama-miniseries directed by Heinrich Breloer. The miniseries is divided in three parts and tells the story of the Mann family, a family of famou ...'' See also * Dohm–Mann family tree External links Die Manns und kein Ende: Katias Mutter - Kultur - Printarchiv - Berliner Morgenpostat www.morgenpost.de Familie Mann revisited - Walter und Inge Jens legen die Biografie Hedwig Pringsheims vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne-Marie Blanc
Anne-Marie Blanc (2 September 1919 – 5 February 2009) was a Swiss film and television actress, style icon and was commonly referred to as "The Grand Dame of the Swiss Film". Her granddaughter is the actress Mona Petri (née Fueter). Early life and education Blanc was born 2 September 1919 in Vevey, Switzerland, the eldest of three children, to Louis Blanc and Valentine Blanc (née Chevalier). Her mother hailed from a privileged banking family whom married Louis who worked land registry administrator. Unfortunately, he was a violent alcoholic and she left him in 1930 with the children and moved to Bern. Selected filmography * ''Constable Studer'' as Sonja Witschi (1939) * ''Gilberte de Courgenay'' as Gilberte Montavon (1942) * ''That's Not the Way to Die'' as Marianne (1946) * '' White Cradle Inn'' as Louise (1949) * ''Captive Soul'' as Helene (1952) * '' Palace Hotel'' as Inhaberin des Hotels (1952) * '' I'm Waiting for You'' as Frau Dr. Helm (1952) * '' Life Begins at Seven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Mann (scholar)
Michael Thomas Mann (April 21, 1919 – January 1, 1977) was a German-born musician and professor of German literature. Life Born in Munich, Michael Mann was the youngest and sixth child of writer Thomas Mann and Katia Mann. His older siblings were Erika Mann, Erika, Klaus Mann, Klaus, Golo Mann, Golo, Monika Mann, Monika and Elisabeth Mann Borgese, Elisabeth. He was of Jews, Jewish descent from his mother's side. Due to his being the grandson of Júlia da Silva Bruhns, he was also of Portuguese-Indigenous peoples in Brazil, Indigenous Brazilian partial descent. He studied viola and violin in Zürich, Paris and New York City. He was a viola player in the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra from 1942 to 1947 as well as being a solo viola player. Accompanied by pianist Yaltah Menuhin, he made a concert tour in 1951 and recorded the 1948 ''Viola Sonata'' by Ernst Krenek. He was forced to give up professional music due to a neuropathy. Mann gained a master's degree in musicology from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rüdiger Klink
Rüdiger (English ''Ruediger'', ''Rudiger'', Roger) is a German given name. The meaning comes from Old High German: ''hruod'' (fame) and ''ger'' (spear). The name became popular because of the character Rüdiger von Bechelaren from ''Nibelung''. People named Rüdiger * Aleksei Rüdiger (1929–2008), Patriarch Alexy II of the Russian Orthodox Church * Antonio Rüdiger (b. 1993), German footballer * Herbert Rudiger, (b. ), American radio technician and serial bomber who terrorized the city of Porto Alegre in Brazil with explosives in the span of one month * Prince Rüdiger of Saxony (1953–2022), German prince * Maria Rüdiger-Belyaeva, mother of John Shalikashvili * Rüdiger Abramczik (b. 1956), German footballer * Rüdiger Bieler (b. 1955), German-American biologist * Rüdiger Gamm (b. 1971), German "mental calculator" * Rüdiger von der Goltz (1865–1945), German army general during the First World War, one of the principal commanders of Finnish Civil War, Latvian War of In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katharina Eckerfeld
Katharina is a feminine given name. It is a German form of Katherine. Notable people with this name include: Television and film *Katharina Bellowitsch, Austrian radio and TV presenter *Katharina Mückstein, Austrian film director *Katharina Thalbach, German actress and film director *Katherine Pierce, a character in ''The Vampire Diaries'' originally named Katharina Petrova Arts * Katharina Bergobzoomová (1755–1788), Czech opera singer *Katharina Fröhlich (1800–1879), Austrian lover of Franz Grillparzer, patron of artists and writers * Katharina Rapp (born 1948), German artist * Katja Oxman (born 1942), born Katharina Protassowsky, German-born American visual artist Alpine skiers * Katharina Gallhuber, Austrian alpine skier *Katharina Huber, Austrian alpine skier *Katharina Liensberger, Austrian alpine skier *Katharina Truppe, Austrian alpine skier Other *Katharina Baunach, German footballer *Katharina Dalton, British physician and pioneer in the research of pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golo Mann
Golo Mann (born Angelus Gottfried Thomas Mann; 27 March 1909 – 7 April 1994) was a popular German historian and essayist. After completing a doctorate in philosophy under Karl Jaspers at Heidelberg, in 1933 he fled Hitler's Germany. He followed his father, the writer Thomas Mann, and other members of his family in emigrating first to France, then to Switzerland and, on the eve of war, to the United States. From the late 1950s he re-established himself in Switzerland and West Germany as a literary historian. Mann was perhaps best known for his master work ''German History in the 19th and 20th Century'' (1958). A survey of German political history, it emphasised the nihilistic and aberrant nature of the Hitler regime. In his later years, Mann took issue with historians who sought to contextualise the crimes of the regime by comparing them with those of Stalinism in Soviet Union and with wartime Allied bombing. At the same time he was sharply critical of those, broadly on the lef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philipp Hochmair
Philipp Hochmair (German: �fɪǀɪp ˈhoːxmɑɪɐ; born 16 October 1973) is an Austrian theater, film and television actor. Early life Hochmair grew up in Vienna (Austria) where he discovered his passion for literature, film and theater. He studied acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna in the master class of Klaus Maria Brandauer and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique in Paris. Career Theater From 2003 to 2009 Hochmair was engaged at the Viennese Burgtheater (admitted in the gallery of honor). When he left the Burgtheater in 2009, he worked at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg until 2016. Apart from this, he had engagements at the Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Staatstheater Hannover, Volksbühne Berlin and at the Zürich Schauspielhaus. In November 2023, it was announced that Hochmair would take on the role of Jedermann (Hugo von Hofmannsthal: '' Jedermann'') at the Salzburg Festival from 2024. Movies and TV He has played in Austrian an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monika Mann
Monika Mann (7 June 1910 – 17 March 1992) was a Germans, German American author and feature writer. She was born in Munich, German Empire, Germany, the fourth of six children of the Nobel Prize–winning author Thomas Mann and Katia Mann, Katia, née Katharina Pringsheim. She trained as a pianist and her early attempts at a musical career seemed promising, but were not met with success and she instead pursued a career as a writer. She married in 1939 but lost her husband the following year, when the ship on which they were travelling to Canada was sunk by a German submarine. Later that year she joined her family in Princeton, New Jersey, and was granted US citizenship in 1952. Between 1954 and 1986, she lived with her partner Antonio Spadaro in ''Villa Monacone'' on Capri. This was her most productive time as a writer and her books and several magazine articles were written during this period. After the death of her partner she left Capri and spent her last years until her death ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefanie Stappenbeck
Stefanie Stappenbeck (born 11 April 1974) is a German actress. She has appeared in more than 100 films and television shows since 1986. Selected filmography * ''Sisters from Hell'' (1997) * ''Red as Blood'' (1998, TV film) * ' (1999, TV film) * ' (2000, TV film) * ' (2000, TV film) * ''Die Manns – Ein Jahrhundertroman'' (2001, TV film) * ' (2002, TV film) * ''September'' (2003) * ''Sex & more'' (2004, TV film) * ''Barfuss ''Barefoot'' (German title ''Barfuss'') is a 2005 romantic comedy film by German actor and director Til Schweiger. It tells the story of Nick (Schweiger), a hedonistic bachelor, who helps and eventually falls in love with Leila, an escaped psyc ...'' (2005) * ' (2006) * '' 1½ Knights – In Search of the Ravishing Princess Herzelinde'' (2008) * ' (2009, TV film) * '' Klassentreffen 1.0'' (2018) * '' The Wedding'' (2020) References External links * 1974 births Living people German film actresses Actresses from Potsdam {{Germany-screen-act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
