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Effi Briest
''Effi Briest'' () is a realist novel by Theodor Fontane. Published in book form in 1895, ''Effi Briest'' marks both a watershed and a climax in the poetic realism of literature. It can be thematically compared to other novels on 19th-century marriage from a female perspective, such as ''Anna Karenina'' and ''Madame Bovary'', which are also adultery tragedies. Plot introduction Seventeen-year-old Effi Briest, the daughter of a German aristocrat, is married off to 38-year-old Baron Geert von Innstetten, who courted her mother Luise and was spurned for his status, which he has now improved. Plot summary Effi Briest, who is attracted by social status, moves to the fictional Pomeranian port of Kessin (loosely modeled on Swinemünde). Her husband Innstetten is away for weeks at a time, and Effi, who is shunned by local nobles, finds but one friend. Her suspicions that their house may be haunted are not entirely laid to rest by Innstetten. When she says there may be a ghost, he deri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodor Fontane
Theodor Fontane (; 30 December 1819 – 20 September 1898) was a German novelist and poet, regarded by many as the most important 19th-century German-language Literary realism, realist author. He published the first of his novels, for which he is best known today, only at age 58 after a career as a journalist. Many of his novels delve into topics that were more or less taboo for discussion in the polite society of Fontane's day, including marital infidelity, class differences, urban vs. rural differences, abandonment of children, and suicide. His novels sold well during his lifetime and several have been adapted for film or audio works. Fontane's novels are known for their complex, often sceptical view of society in the German empire. He shows different social and political parts of society meeting and sometimes clashing, his main characters range from lower-middle class to Prussian nobility. Fontane is known as a writer of realism, not only because he was conscientious about th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in the state after Cologne and the List of cities in Germany with more than 100,000 inhabitants, seventh-largest city in Germany, with a 2022 population of 629,047. The Düssel, from which the city and the borough of Düsseltal take their name, divides into four separate branches within the city, each with its own mouth into the Rhine (Lower Rhine). Most of Düsseldorf lies on the right bank of the Rhine, and the city has grown together with Neuss, Ratingen, Meerbusch, Erkrath and Monheim am Rhein. Düsseldorf is the central city of the metropolitan region Rhine-Ruhr, the List of EU metropolitan regions by GDP#2021 ranking of top four German metropolitan regions, second biggest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union, that stretches from Bonn via Cologne and Düsseldorf to the Ruhr (from Duisburg via Essen to Dortmund). The ''-dorf'' suffix mea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Jugert
Rudolf Jugert (1907–1979) was a German film director. Selected filmography * ''Film Without a Title'' (1948) * ''Hello, Fraulein!, Hallo, Fräulein!'' (1949) * ''A Day Will Come (1950 film), A Day Will Come'' (1950) * ''Nights on the Road'' (1952) * ''Illusion in a Minor Key'' (1952) * ''Jonny Saves Nebrador'' (1953) * ''Ein Herz spielt falsch'' (1953) * ''The Great Test'' (1954) * ''A Love Story (1954 film), A Love Story'' (1954) * ''Prisoners of Love (1954 film), Prisoners of Love'' (1954) * ''Crown Prince Rudolph's Last Love'' (1955) * ''Roses in Autumn'' (1955) * ''Nina (1956 film), Nina'' (1956) * ''A Piece of Heaven'' (1957) * ''Love Now, Pay Later'' (1959) * ''The Scarlet Baroness'' (1959) * ''Axel Munthe, The Doctor of San Michele'' (1962) * ''Doctor Sibelius'' (1962) * ''The River Line'' (1964) * ''Hugenberg – Gegen die Republik'' (1967, TV film) * ''Brückenallee Nr. 3'' (1967, TV film) * ''Berliner Blockade'' (1968, TV film) * ' (1968, TV film) * ''Verratener Widersta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Germany
West Germany was the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. It is sometimes known as the Bonn Republic after its capital city of Bonn, or as the Second German Republic. During the Cold War, the western portion of Germany and the associated territory of West Berlin were parts of the Western Bloc. West Germany was formed as a political entity during the Allied occupation of Germany after World War II, established from 12 States of Germany, states formed in the three Allied zones of occupation held by the United States, the United Kingdom, and France. At the onset of the Cold War, Europe was divided between the Western and Eastern Bloc, Eastern blocs. Germany was divided into the two countries. Initially, West Germany claimed an exclusive mandate for all of Germany, representing itself as the sole democratically reorganised continuation of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roses In Autumn
''Roses in Autumn'' (German: ''Rosen im Herbst'') is a 1955 West German historical drama film directed by Rudolf Jugert and starring Ruth Leuwerik, Bernhard Wicki, Carl Raddatz and Lil Dagover. It is based on the 1894 novel ''Effi Briest'' by Theodor Fontane.Peucker p.395 It was shot in Eastmancolor at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art director Walter Haag and Hans Kutzner. Location shooting took place around Göttingen in Lower Saxony and the island of Sylt in Schleswig-Holstein. Cast * Ruth Leuwerik as Effi Briest * Bernhard Wicki as Geert von Innstetten * Paul Hartmann as Mr. von Briest * Carl Raddatz as Major von Crampas * Lil Dagover as Mrs. von Briest * Lotte Brackebusch as Roswitha - Kindermädchen * Günther Lüders as Alonzo Gieshübler * Margot Trooger as Johanna - Haushälterin * Heinz Hilpert as Minister von Cramer * Eva Vaitl as Mrs. von Cramer * Lola Müthel as Marietta Tripelli * Hans Cossy as Mr. von Wülle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Hartmann (actor)
Paul Wilhelm Constantin Hartmann (8 January 1889 – 30 June 1977) was a German stage and film actor. Selected filmography * ''Zofia - Kriegs-Irrfahrten eines Kindes'' (1915) * ' (1915) * ' (1916) * ' (1917) * ' (1917) as Georg * '' Christa Hartungen'' (1917) as Bernd Römer * ' (1917) as Hieronymus * '' Mountain Air'' (1917) as Egon * ' (1917) * ' (1918) * '' Es werde Licht!'' (1918) as Ernst Hartwig * ''Mouchy'' (1918) * '' The Prisoner of Dahomey'' (1918) * ''Precious Stones'' (1918) * ''Der unheimliche Gast'' (1918) as Uwe Johanssen * ''Taumel'' (1919) * '' The Loves of Käthe Keller'' (1919) * ''Die Hexe von Norderoog'' (1919) * '' The Secret of Wera Baranska'' (1919) * '' Blonde Poison'' (1919) as Georg Maudi * '' The Galley Slave'' (1919) as Rastignac * '' The Girl and the Men'' (1919) * '' Monika Vogelsang'' (1920) as Amadeo Vaselli, Kirchenmaler * '' Battle of the Sexes'' (1920) * ''Mary Magdalene'' (1920) as Karl * ''Können Gedanken töten?'' (1920) as Geliebter * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Ludwig Diehl
Karl Ludwig Diehl (14 August 1896 – 8 March 1958) was a German film actor. He appeared in 66 films between 1924 and 1957. His father was Karl Diehl, the German professor of Anarchism. Filmography * ''Die Tragödie der Entehrten'' (1924) * '' The Blame'' (1924) * '' Waltz of Love'' (1930) - Marshal * ''Masks'' (1930) - Stuart Webbs * ''Zärtlichkeit'' (1930) - Kerten * '' The Love Waltz'' (1930) - Lord Chamberlain * '' Love's Carnival'' (1930) - Oberleutnant Ferndinand von Grobitzsch * '' The Copper'' (1930) - Snorry (German Version) * ''Ash Wednesday'' (1931) - Hauptmann von Rochow * '' Queen of the Night'' (1931) - Adjudant * '' Circus Life'' (1931) - Luftakrobat * ''Täter gesucht'' (1931) - Dr. Gregor, Redakteur * '' The Squeaker'' (1931) - Captain Leslie * ''In the Employ of the Secret Service'' (1931) - Wasiljeff, kaptajn * '' Rasputin, Demon with Women'' (1932) - Fürst Jussupoff * '' Two in a Car'' (1932) - Lord Kingsdale * ''A Shot at Dawn'' (1932) - Petersen * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianne Hoppe
Marianne Hoppe (26 April 1909 – 23 October 2002) was a German theatre and film actress. Life and work Born in Rostock, Hoppe became a leading lady of stage and films in Germany. She was born into a wealthy landowning family and was initially privately educated on her father's private estate. Later she attended school in Berlin and in Weimar, where she began to attend theatre.Obituary: Marianne Hoppe. ''The Independent'' (London), 29 October 2002. Hoppe first performed at 17 as a member of Berlin's Deutsches Theater under director Max Reinhardt. In 1935 she was hired by the controversial German actor and Director of the Prussian State Theatre under the Third Reich, Gustaf Gründgens. They were married from 1936 to 1946, until their divorce. Speaking years after the marriage had ended Hoppe stated, "He was my love, but never my great love, that was work." One of the characters in the film '' Mephisto'' was reportedly based on her. Hoppe made no secret of her contacts with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustaf Gründgens
Gustaf Gründgens (; 22 December 1899 – 7 October 1963), born Gustav Heinrich Arnold Gründgens, was one of Germany's most famous and influential actors of the 20th century, and artistic director of theatres in Berlin, Düsseldorf, and Hamburg. His career continued unimpeded through the years of the Nazi regime; the extent to which this can be considered as deliberate collaboration with the Nazis is hotly disputed. His best-known roles were that of Mephistopheles in Goethe's ''Faust'' in 1960, and as "Der Schränker" (The Safecracker) who is the chief judge of the kangaroo court presiding over Hans Beckert (Peter Lorre) in Fritz Lang's '' M''. Early life Born in Düsseldorf, Gründgens attended the drama school of the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus after World War I and started his career at smaller theaters in Halberstadt, Kiel, and Berlin. Career In 1923, he joined the ''Kammerspiele'' in Hamburg, where he changed his first name to Gustaf and appeared as a director for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The False Step
''The False Step'' or ''The Step off the Path'' () is a 1939 German historical drama film directed by Gustaf Gründgens and starring Marianne Hoppe, Karl Ludwig Diehl and Paul Hartmann. It is an adaptation of Theodor Fontane's 1896 novel ''Effi Briest ''Effi Briest'' () is a realist novel by Theodor Fontane. Published in book form in 1895, ''Effi Briest'' marks both a watershed and a climax in the poetic realism of literature. It can be thematically compared to other novels on 19th-century m ...''. Cast References External links *''Der Schritt vom Wege''Full movie at the Deutsche Filmothek German historical drama films 1930s historical drama films Films directed by Gustaf Gründgens Films based on Effi Briest Films set in Prussia Films set in the 1880s Films of Nazi Germany German black-and-white films 1939 drama films 1930s German films 1930s German-language films Films scored by Mark Lothar German-language historical drama films {{1930s-German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1894 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1894. Events *February – Oscar Wilde's play ''Salome'' is first published in English, with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley. *February 15 – French anarchist Martial Bourdin accidentally kills himself while attempting to plant a bomb at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, a fictionalised version of which appears in Joseph Conrad's novel ''The Secret Agent'' (1907). *Early Spring – Mary Antin emigrates from White Russia (Belarus) to the United States with her mother. *April – ''The Yellow Book'' imprint, edited by Henry Harland, begins publication by John Lane and Elkin Mathews – The Bodley Head – in London. *April 21 – George Bernard Shaw's play ''Arms and the Man'' is premièred at the Avenue Theatre in London. *May – The Scottish writer William Sharp publishes ''Pharais'', his first novel under the pseudonym Fiona MacLeod. *June – The German novelist Hermann Hesse begins an app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deutsche Rundschau
''Deutsche Rundschau'' was a literary and political periodical established in 1874 by Julius Rodenberg. It strongly influenced German politics, German literature, literature and Culture of Germany, culture was considered one of the most successful launches of periodicals in Germany. Among its authors were Theodor Fontane ''(Effi Briest)'', Paul Heyse, Theodor Storm (''Der Schimmelreiter, The Dykemaster''), Gottfried Keller and Ernst Robert Curtius. Richard Moritz Meyer, a German literature historian, described ''Deutsche Rundschau'' as the printed university. It was circulated, with interruptions during the Nazi Germany, Nazi era, until 1964. History After Rodenberg's death, Bruno Hake took over as publisher, followed in 1919 by Rudolf Pechel. Until World War II, the ''Deutsche Rundschau'' was the mouthpiece of the Young Conservatives, and later of the conservative opponents of the Nazis. In 1942, Pechel was imprisoned and the periodical banned. Four years later, ''Deutsche Rundsch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
