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Herzogstraße
Herzogstraße is a 1.8-kilometer-long street in Munich's Schwabing district. The street's name came from Duke Maximilian Emanuel in Bavaria. Route Herzogstraße starts at Leopoldstraße, then crosses Belgradstraße and Schleißheimer Straße and ends at Winzererstraße. While in the area between Münchner Freiheit and Wilhelmstraße initially relatively small shops line the street, the Herzogstraße became predominantly a residential street over the years. In the area between Apianstraße and Fallmerayerstraße, numerous restaurants can be found on both sides of the street, which in the summer months, with their free play areas, shape the impression of the street. Further to the east, the Herzogstraße is primarily a residential street again. Historical buildings In the area between Münchner Freiheit and Fallmerayerstraße, Herzogstraße is part of the protected construction ensemble Nordschwabing (E-1-62-000-42). Its design, by Theodor Fischer, was set back to the expansion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winzererstraße
The Winzererstraße is a two-kilometer-long street in the Munich districts of Maxvorstadt and Schwabing. Description The Winzererstraße starts at the Hessstraße at the Massmannspark and runs almost parallel to Schleissheimer Straße, the road ends today in the North, after crossing the Ackermannstraße, southeast of the Olympiaberg. There are 11 architectural monuments, such as, the barracks building of the Prinz-Leopold-Barracks or the Obelisk in the triangle Winzererstraße / Lothstraße / Georgenstraße. The ''Bavarian Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Family and Integration'' is located on Winzererstraße 9, the ''Munich Wood Research'' (TU München) is located on Winzererstraße 45, the ''Munich Department of Finance'' is located at Winzererstraße 47a, the ''City Archive'' is located at Winzererstraße 68, an outside office of the ''Federal Office of Freight Transport'' can be found in house number 52, and the ''Higher Labor Court'' and the ''Munich Labor Court'' are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munich
Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is not a state of its own. It ranks as the 11th-largest city in the European Union. The metropolitan area has around 3 million inhabitants, and the broader Munich Metropolitan Region is home to about 6.2 million people. It is the List of EU metropolitan regions by GDP#2021 ranking of top four German metropolitan regions, third largest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. Munich is located on the river Isar north of the Alps. It is the seat of the Upper Bavaria, Upper Bavarian administrative region. With 4,500 people per km2, Munich is Germany's most densely populated municipality. It is also the second-largest city in the Bavarian language, Bavarian dialect area after Vienna. The first record of Munich dates to 1158. The city ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolf Hitler's Rise To Power
The rise to power of Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, began in the newly established Weimar Republic in September 1919, when Hitler joined the ''German Workers' Party, Deutsche Arbeiterpartei'' (DAP; German Workers' Party). He quickly rose to a place of prominence and became one of its most popular speakers. In an attempt to more broadly appeal to larger segments of the population and win over German workers, the party name was changed to the ''Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei'' (NSDAP; National Socialist German Workers' Party), commonly known as the Nazi Party, and a new platform was adopted. Hitler was made the party leader in 1921 after he threatened to otherwise leave. By 1922, his control over the party was unchallenged. The Nazis were a right-wing party, but in the early years they also had Anti-capitalism, anti-capitalist and Bourgeoisie, anti-bourgeois elements. Hitler later initiated a purge of these elements and reaffirmed the Nazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Hagen
Catharina "Nina" Hagen (; born 11 March 1955) is a German singer, songwriter, and actress. She is known for her theatrical vocals and rise to prominence during the punk and Neue Deutsche Welle movements in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She is known as "The Godmother of German Punk". Born and raised in the former East Berlin, German Democratic Republic, Hagen began her career as an actress when she appeared in several German films alongside her mother Eva-Maria Hagen. Around that same time, she joined the band Automobil and released the schlager single " Du hast den Farbfilm vergessen". After her stepfather Wolf Biermann's East German citizenship was withdrawn in 1976, Hagen followed him to Hamburg. Shortly afterwards, she was offered a record deal from CBS Records and formed the Nina Hagen Band. Their self-titled debut album was released in late 1978 to critical acclaim and was a commercial success selling over 250,000 copies. The band released one more album, '' Unbehag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bay City Rollers
The Bay City Rollers are a Scottish pop rock band known for their worldwide teen idol popularity, as a band in the 1970s. One of many 70s acts heralded as the "biggest group since the Beatles", they were called the "tartan teen sensations from Edinburgh", and sold 5 million albums. Their classic line-up during their peak popularity, included guitarists Eric Faulkner and Stuart Wood (musician), Stuart Wood, singer Les McKeown, bassist Alan Longmuir and his younger brother Derek Longmuir on drums. The Bay City Rollers' first album, ''Rollin' (Bay City Rollers album), Rollin''' (1974) debuted atop the UK Albums Charts and spent a combined total of fifty-eight weeks on the UK Albums Chart. Their follow up studio album ''Once Upon a Star'' (1975) continued this success, again, debuting atop the UK Albums Chart. The album yielded the successful singles "Bye, Bye, Baby (Baby Goodbye), Bye, Bye, Baby", which topped the charts in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Australia, and "Keep On ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marmalade (band)
Marmalade are a Scottish pop rock band originating from the east end of Glasgow, originally formed in 1961 as The Gaylords, and then later billed as Dean Ford and the Gaylords, recording four singles for Columbia (EMI). In 1966 they changed the band's name to The Marmalade and were credited as such on all of their subsequent recorded releases with CBS Records and Decca Records until 1972. Their greatest chart success was between 1968 and 1972, placing ten songs on the UK Singles Chart, and many overseas territories, including international hits " Reflections of My Life", which reached No. 10 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 Chart and No. 3 on the UK chart in January 1970, and "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da", which topped the UK chart in January 1969, the group becoming the first-ever Scottish artist to top that chart. The original members began to drift away in the early 1970s, resulting in the band departing Decca in 1972. In 1973 the first evolved line up of the band rejoined EMI Rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Searchers (band)
The Searchers are an English rock group formed in Liverpool in 1959. Part of the Merseybeat scene, they flourished during the British Invasion of the 1960s, with hits including " Sweets for My Sweet", " Love Potion No. 9", " Sugar and Spice", " Needles and Pins", " Don't Throw Your Love Away", " When You Walk in the Room", " What Have They Done to the Rain" and " Goodby My Love". With the Swinging Blue Jeans, the Searchers tied for being the second group from Liverpool, after the Beatles, to have a hit in the US, when their "Needles and Pins" and the Swinging Blue Jeans' " Hippy Hippy Shake" both reached the Hot 100 on 7 March 1964. Band history Origins Founded as a skiffle group in Liverpool in 1959 by guitarist John McNally and guitarist/singer Mike Pender, the band took their name from the 1956 John Ford western film '' The Searchers''. The band grew out of an earlier skiffle group called The Army Generations formed by McNally in 1955, with his friends Ron Woodbridge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Maffay
Peter Alexander Makkay (born 30 August 1949), known as Peter Maffay (), is a Romanian-born German musician, singer, and composer. Being a veteran musician, he is often credited for motivating audiences with his emotional lyrics and powerful melodies, establishing himself as a cornerstone of the German music scene. Early life and background Born in Braşov (), Romania, the son of a German (Transylvanian Saxons, Transylvanian Saxon), he was 14 when his family relocated to his parents' West Germany in 1963. In the same year, he started his first band, The Dukes. After completing his education and working for Chemigraphics, an art manufacturer, Maffay worked in clubs, where he distributed his music. Maffay's career started with the publication of his first single, "Du (Peter Maffay song), Du" ("You"). It was his biggest German hit in 1970 and brought him instant fame. With the 1979 album ''Steppenwolf (Peter Maffay album), Steppenwolf'', he became a major music star in Germany. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gruppe SPUR
Gruppe SPUR was an artistic collaboration formed by the Germany, German painters Heimrad Prem, Helmut Sturm, and Hans-Peter Zimmer, and the sculptor Lothar Fischer in 1957. They published a journal of the same name ''Spur''. ''Spur'' was subject to prosecution and was convicted "in the name of moral order". The Spur group joined and collaborated with the Situationist International, a restricted group of international revolutionaries, between 1959 and 1961. After a series of core divergences during 1960–1, the Spur members were officially excluded from the SI on February 10, 1962. The events that led to the exclusion were: during the Fourth SI Conference in London (December 1960), in a discussion about the political nature of the SI, Spur group disagreed with the core situationist stance of counting on a revolutionary proletariat; the accusation that their activities were based on a "systematic misunderstanding of situationist theses"; the fact that at least one Spur member, Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COBRA (avant-garde Movement)
COBRA or Cobra, often stylized as CoBrA, was a European avant-garde art group active from 1948 to 1951. The name was coined in 1948 by Christian Dotremont from the initials of the members' home countries' capital cities: Copenhagen (Co), Brussels (Br), Amsterdam (A). History During the time of Netherlands in World War II, occupation of World War II, the Netherlands had been disconnected from the art world beyond its borders. CoBrA was formed shortly thereafter. This international movement of artists who worked experimentally evolved from the criticisms of Western society and a common desire to break away from existing art movements, including the "detested" Realism (arts), naturalism and the "sterile" Abstraction (art), abstraction. Experimentation was the symbol of an unfettered freedom, which, according to Constant, was ultimately embodied by children and the expressions of children. CoBrA was formed by Karel Appel, Constant Nieuwenhuys, Constant, Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans-Peter Zimmer
Hans-Peter Zimmer (23 October 1936 - 5 September 1992) was a German art, German painter and sculpture, sculptor. He was born in Berlin and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. He formed Gruppe SPUR in 1957 with the painters Heimrad Prem, Helmut Sturm and the sculptor Lothar Fischer. After a joint exhibition at the Pavillon im Alten Botanischen Garten in Munich, they met the Denmark, Danish artist and philosopher Asger Jorn, who linked them up with the Galerie Van de Loo which exhibited them. In 1959 the group joined the Situationist International. In 1961 they were banned from the Haus der Kunst (House of Art) by the Bavarian Minister of Culture. In 1962 they were indicted for pornography and blasphemy. They were expelled from the Situationist International that year. The group SPUR broke up in 1966. In the same year, Zimmer and Helmut Sturm founded Gruppe Geflecht, but Zimmer lost interest in the group activities soon and started a solo career. He completed studies in Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helmut Sturm
Helmut Sturm (21 February 1932 – 20 February 2008) was a German painter. He was born in Furth im Wald. From 1952 to 1958, he studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich. After this he joined Heimrad Prem, Lothar Fischer and Hans-Peter Zimmer in founding Gruppe SPUR, which in 1959 entered the Situationist International. He had a six-month scholarship in Paris before returning to Munich for the SPUR exhibition in Galerie van de Loo. He collaborated with Hans Platschek, Asger Jorn, Jørgen Nash, Constant, Maurice Wyckaert, Giuseppe Pinot-Gallizio and Guy Debord. In 1961 he stayed with Nash at Oerkelljunga, Sweden with Prem, Zimmer and Dieter Kunzelmann. After the SPUR group was expelled from the Situationist International, they continued to do collaborative work, linking up with ''Wir'' in 1966 to form Geflecht. Sturm developed colorspatial anti-objects and had his first solo exhibition in the Galerie van de Loo, Munich. From 1970 he worked as an Art educator, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
