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Peter Märthesheimer
Peter Märthesheimer (Kiel, 9 July 1937 – Berlin, 18 June 2004) was a German screenwriter, producer and author. Early years Märthesheimer studied economics and sociology in Frankfurt am Main. From 1964 onwards he was editor and dramaturge at WDR for ten years, then at Bavaria Film until 1981. In 1994 he became professor for screenplay and dramaturgy at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg. He was also a dramaturgy consultant at the University of Television and Film Munich and the BKM. In collaboration with Pea Fröhlich he wrote the screenplays for the Rainer Werner Fassbinder films ''The Marriage of Maria Braun'' and ''Veronika Voss''. He was a producer for the film ''Martha''. The TV series ''Eight Hours Don't Make a Day'' and ''Berlin Alexanderplatz'' he cooperated with Fassbinder. In collaboration with Wolfgang Menge he created the sensational television productions ''Das Millionenspiel'' and ''Smog'' as well as the unconventional family series ''Ein Herz und eine S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiel
Kiel ( ; ) is the capital and most populous city in the northern Germany, German state of Schleswig-Holstein. With a population of around 250,000, it is Germany's largest city on the Baltic Sea. It is located on the Kieler Förde inlet of the Bay of Kiel and lies in the southeast of the Jutland Peninsula, on the mouth of the Schwentine River, approximately northeast of Hamburg. The world's busiest artificial waterway, the Kiel Canal, has a terminus in Kiel's Holtenau district. This canal connects the Baltic to the North Sea, with its other end in Brunsbüttel. Most of Kiel is part of Holstein. The boroughs north of the Schwentine also belong to Wagria, while those north of the Kiel Canal are historically part of Southern Schleswig. Kiel is one of Germany's major maritime centres, known for a variety of international sailing events, including the annual Kiel Week, which is the biggest sailing event in the world. Kiel is also known for the Kiel mutiny, Kiel Mutiny, when sailors re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Das Millionenspiel
' ("The Game of Millions" or "Chance for a Million") is a 1970 West German action/sci-fi television film, directed by Tom Toelle and starring Jörg Pleva, Suzanne Roquette and Dieter Thomas Heck. It was aired by ARD (broadcaster) on 18 October 1970. Wolfgang Menge wrote the screenplay, adapting the short story " The Prize of Peril" by the American writer Robert Sheckley. Wolfgang Menge and Tom Toelle received the 1971 Prix Italia for best television movie. Plot ''Das Millionenspiel'' ("The Game of Millions") is a popular show on the (fictional) TETV channel. To win the grand prize of one million German marks, a candidate has to survive seven days on the run while being hunted by the Köhler gang. Of the first 14 candidates, 8 were killed during the course of the game. Bernhard Lotz from Leverkusen is the show's 15th candidate. After almost a week without sleep and little food, he is in agony and on the verge of physical collapse; Lotz could drop out, but there is the prospect of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatort
("Crime Scene") is a German-language police procedural television series that has been running continuously since 1970 with 30 feature-length episodes per year, making it the longest-running German TV drama. Developed by the German public-service broadcasting organization ARD for their channel Das Erste, it is unique in its approach in that it is jointly produced by all of the organization's regional members as well as its partnering Austrian and Swiss national public-service broadcasters, whereby every regional station contributes several episodes to a common pool. As a result of this, Tatort is a collection of different police stories where different police teams solve crimes in their own cities, with uniqueness in architecture, customs, and dialects of the cities being a distinctive part of the series. Often, the city, not the police force, is the real main character of an episode. The fact that local stations each produce a small number of episodes per year has enabled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Indecent Woman
''The Indecent Woman'' or '' De onfatsoenlijke vrouw '' is a 1991 Dutch erotic thriller film directed by Ben Verbong. Plot Cast * José Way as Emilia * Coen van Vrijberghe de Coningh as Charles *Huub Stapel as Leon * Lydia van Nergena as Anna * Marieke van Leeuwen as Simone * Theo de Groot as Marcel * Peter Bolhuis as Brig. Vermeulen * Niels Wolf as bewaker * Peter Smits as verpleegkundige * Aga de Wit as buurvrouw * Regina General as tweelingzus * Roos General as tweelingzus * Aukje Jetten as Alice * Earl van Es as antiliaan *Jack Wouterse Jack Wouterse (born 17 June 1957 in Soest) is a Dutch actor. His career as a movie actor took off with his role in the 1992 film ''The Northerners'', directed by Alex van Warmerdam. Wouterse made his international debut in an episode of the TV ... as getatoueerde man References External links * 1991 films 1990s Dutch-language films 1990s erotic thriller films Films directed by Ben Verbong Dutch erotic thriller fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cry Of The Owl (1987 German Film)
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lola (1981 Film)
''Lola'' is a 1981 West German drama film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the third in his BRD Trilogy, preceded by '' The Marriage of Maria Braun'' (1978) and ''Veronika Voss'' (1982). It is a loose adaptation of Heinrich Mann's '' Professor Unrat'' (1905), which had previously been adapted for Josef von Sternberg Josef von Sternberg (; born Jonas Sternberg; May 29, 1894 – December 22, 1969) was an American filmmaker whose career successfully spanned the transition from the Silent film, silent to the Sound film, sound era, during which he worked with mos ...'s ''The Blue Angel'' (1930). Plot In 1957, in the town of Coburg, as in most of West Germany, reconstruction is the watchword, and Coburg's elite all benefit: the mayor, the police chief, the bank president, the newspaper editor and, above all, Schuckert, a property developer who owns the brothel the other men frequent. His favourite employee is its singer, Lola. This cosy arrangement is threatened by the arriva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Günter Herburger
Günter Herburger (6 April 1932 – 3 May 2018) was a German writer. He was initially counted among the "New Realists" funded by , became the author of socialist, imaginative utopian worlds since the 1970s and took an outsider position in German-language contemporary literature. He was a writer of poems, short stories, children's books, radio plays and a member of the PEN Center Germany. Early life and education Herbrger was born in Isny, Allgäu. He was the son of a veterinarian. From 1945 to 1950 he attended the Urspring School in Schelklingen. He then began studying Sanskrit at the University of Munich. He also studied philosophy and theatre studies. Career In 1954 Herburger broke off his studies and went on trips. He lived occasionally in Ibiza, in Madrid and Oran and kept afloat with occasional work. In Paris he had contact with the author Joseph Breitbach. In 1956 he was forced to return to Munich for health reasons. He worked on his first novel. After marrying his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Confessions Of Felix Krull (TV Series)
''The Confessions of Felix Krull'' (German: ''Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull'') is a 1982 adventure television series based on the novel of the same title by Thomas Mann. It was shot as a co-production between Austria, France and West Germany. The story had previously been adapted into a 1957 film ''Confessions of Felix Krull''.Bock & Bergfelder p.207 Main cast * John Moulder-Brown as Felix Krull ** as Felix Krull (Young) * Magali Noël as Mme Houpflé * Fernando Rey as Professor Kuckuck * Rita Tushingham as Mrs. Twentyman * Joss Ackland as Mr. Twentyman * Hans Heinz Moser as Herr Sturzil * Pierre Doris as Detective * as Monsieur Machatschek * Klaus Schwarzkopf as Father Krull * as Mother Krull * Mareike Carrière as Olympia * Franziska Walser as Genoveva * Rolf Zacher as Stanko * Vera Tschechowa as Maria Pia * Georgia Slowe as Zouzou * Kurt Raab as Sally Meerschaum * Nikolaus Paryla as Schimmelpreester * as Rosza * James Cossins as Lord Kilmarnock * as Zaza ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Despair (film)
''Despair'' is a 1978 film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starring Dirk Bogarde, based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov. It was Fassbinder's first English-language film and was entered into the 1978 Cannes Film Festival. Similarly to the novel, the tone of the film is ironic. The plot is mostly similar to the novel, although one of the key characters is significantly altered in the adaptation. Plot Hermann Hermann lives in Berlin during the Weimar Republic. A refugee from Soviet Russia, with a Baltic German father and a wealthy Jewish mother, he has inherited a business making chocolates. His Jewish wife Lydia, voluptuous but not intelligent, has an over-close relationship with her bachelor cousin, a painter called Ardalion. As the Great Depression bites and Nazi thugs start targeting Jewish businesses, with his firm becoming less profitable and Germany less hospitable, Hermann starts dreaming of escape. He already has moments of leaving his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lina Braake
''Lina Braake'' ( Brechtian subtitle: ''Die Interessen der Bank können nicht die Interessen sein, die Lina Braake hat'') is a 1975 West German drama film directed by Bernhard Sinkel and starring Lina Carstens, Fritz Rasp and .The A to Z of German Cinema p.23 The film's sets were designed by the art director Nicos Perakis. Cast * Lina Carstens as Lina Braake * Fritz Rasp as Gustaf Haertlein * as Johannes Koerner * Ellen Mahlke as Scholz * Benno Hoffmann as Jawlonski * Rainer Basedow as Fink * Erica Schramm as Lene Schoener * Walter Sedlmayr as Emil Schoener * Oskar von Schab as Duerr * Gustl Datz as Gruber * Ellen Frank as Mangold * Wilfried Klaus Wilfried Klaus is a German television actor best known for playing Kriminalhauptkommissar Horst Schickl in the police procedural '' SOKO München'' from 1978 to 2008. Selected filmography * '' Lina Braake'' (1975) * ''Derrick'' - Season 3, Episo ... as Wenzel * Teseo Tavernese as Ettore Falconi References B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World On A Wire
''World on a Wire'' () is a 1973 West Germany, West German science fiction Serial (radio and television), television serial, starring Klaus Löwitsch and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Shot in 16 mm film, 16 mm, it was made for West German television and originally aired in 1973 in Das Erste, ARD as a two-part miniseries. It was based on the 1964 novel ''Simulacron-3'' by Daniel F. Galouye. An adaptation of the Fassbinder version was presented as the play ''World of Wires'', directed by Jay Scheib, in 2012. Its focus is not on action, but on sophistic and philosophy, philosophic aspects of the human mind, simulation, and the role of scientific method, scientific research. A movie based on the same novel titled ''The Thirteenth Floor'' starring Craig Bierko was released in 1999. Plot In the present day, the Institute for Cybernetics and Futurology's (Institut für Kybernetik und Zukunftsforschung) new supercomputer hosts a simulation program that includes an artificial worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
