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Ullstein-Verlag
The ''Ullstein Verlag'' was founded by Leopold Ullstein in 1877 at Berlin and is one of the largest publishing companies of Germany. It published newspapers like '' B.Z.'' and ''Berliner Morgenpost'' and books through its subsidiaries ''Ullstein Buchverlage'' and ''Propyläen''. History Founding to World War II On 14 July 1877, Leopold Ullstein purchased the ''Neue Berliner Tageblatt'' newspaper, a subsidiary of the liberal ''Berliner Tageblatt'' published by Rudolf Mosse, and on 1 January 1878 converted it into the ''Berliner Zeitung'' (''B.Z.''). In 1894 he also acquired the ''Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung'' weekly, which as technology advanced and permitted heavy use of photographs, became the most successful picture paper in Germany. The ''B.Z. am Mittag'', relaunched in 1904, became Germany's first tabloid newspaper. Ullstein's sons Rudolf, Hans, Louis, Franz and Hermann inherited the publishing house and developed it further. They acquired the reputable ''Vossische Zeit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Ullstein
Franz Ullstein (16 January 1868 – 12 November 1945) was a German Jewish publisher and art collector persecuted by the Nazis Life Franz Edgar Ullstein was born on 16 January 1868, in Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia, Germany into the famous Ullstein publishing dynasty, which published the Ullstein Verlag, the most important publishing house in Germany prior to the rise of Hitler and the Nazi dictatorship. Ullstein was a publisher and art collector. When Leopold Ullstein died in 1899, his five sons, Louis, Hand, Franz, Rudolf and Hermann, took over the business. Each son had an area of specialization. Franz was responsible for newspapers. Together, they brothers built the publishing house into a modern media company employing around 10,000 employees in 1930. Franz Ullstein's first wife Lotte died in 1928. They had a son, Kurt. The Ullsteins were a Jewish family, which led to their persecution, the loss of their publishing house and exile when the Nazis came to power in Germany. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herman Ullstein
Hermann Ullstein (born July 6, 1875, in Berlin; died November 22, 1943, in New York City) was a German Jewish publisher. Life After a commercial apprenticeship with a grain export company in Russia, Ullstein, youngest son of Leopold Ullstein (1826-1899), joined the family business Ullstein Verlag in 1902 and devoted himself to expanding the magazine and book department. After the death of his father, Ullstein ran the publishing house together with his four brothers, Hans (1859–1935), Louis (1863–1933), Franz (1868–1945) and Rudolf (1873–1964). Ullstein acquired several fashion magazines and encouraged the founding of the magazines "Die Dame" and "Uhu". When the company was converted into a public limited company in 1921, he became a member of the board and deputy chairman of the board. He joined the Society of Friends as early as 1911. In 1908, Hermann Ullstein's country house at Taunusstraße 7 in Berlin-Grunewald was completed by the Joseph Fränkel building company ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leopold Ullstein
Leopold Ullstein (6 September 1826 – 4 December 1899) was the founder and publisher of several successful German language newspapers, including '' B.Z. am Mittag'' and ''Berliner Morgenpost.'' Many of these are still published today. Ullstein was also the founder of the leading German publishing house Ullstein-Verlag. Biography Early years Leopold Ullstein was born 6 September 1826 in Fürth, Bavaria of ethnic Jewish parents. Publishing dynasty Ullstein company was a major publisher in Germany. All five of Ullstein's sons entered the family firm. Hans (1859–1935) was legal advisor. Louis (1863–1933) took over as CEO after his father's death. Franz (1868–1945) was the editorial director. Rudolf (1873–1964) became technical director and Hermann (1875–1943) managed the magazine and book departments. The Encyclopedia described some of the sons' contributions to the family publishing empire:In 1887 Louis Ullstein founded the ''Berliner Abendpost;'' in 1898 the thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicki Baum
Hedwig "Vicki" Baum (; ; January 24, 1888 – August 29, 1960) was an Austrian writer. She is known for the novel ''Menschen im Hotel'' ('People at a Hotel', 1929 — published in English as '' Grand Hotel''), one of her first international successes. It was made into a 1932 film and a 1989 Broadway musical. Education and personal life Baum was born in Vienna into a Jewish family. Her mother Mathilde (née Donath) suffered from mental illness, and died of breast cancer when Vicki was still a child. Her father, described as "a tyrannical, hypochondriac" man, was a bank clerk who was killed in 1942 in Novi Sad (present-day Serbia) by soldiers of the Hungarian occupation. She began her artistic career as a musician playing the harp. She studied at the Vienna Conservatory and played in the Vienna Concert Society. She went on to perform in Germany – in Kiel, Hannover, and Mannheim – in the years 1916–1923. She later worked as a journalist for the magazine '' Berliner Ill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Post
The Green Post (German: "Die Grüne Post") was a German newspaper from the Ullstein publishing house. Operations began on 10 April 1927, and the paper enjoyed a quick rise in popularity in all social classes, reaching a circulation of over one million during its first year. Its founder was a future travel writer and journalist Richard Katz. Its editor was Ehm Welk Emil "Ehm" Welk (August 29, 1884 – December 19, 1966) was a German journalist, writer, professor and founder of ''Volkshochschulen'' (adult education centres). He became known for his work ''Die Heiden von Kummerow'' (''The Heathens of Kummer ..., who would be later known for his work '' Die Heiden von Kummerow''. In 1932, the newspaper published plans for the Grüne Post airplane (named like the paper but without the article), leading to more than a hundred of these trainer gliders being constructed by hobbyists. In 1934, the Green Post ran an editorial under Welks' assumed alias ''Thomas Trimm'', entitled "A wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thea Von Harbou
Thea Gabriele von Harbou (27 December 1888 – 1 July 1954) was a German screenwriter, novelist, film director, and actress. She is remembered as the screenwriter of the science fiction film classic ''Metropolis'' (1927) and for the 1925 novel on which it was based. Von Harbou collaborated as a screenwriter with film director Fritz Lang, her husband, during the period of transition from silent to sound films. Early life, family, and education Thea von Harbou was born in Tauperlitz (now part of Döhlau), Bavaria, in 1888, into a family of minor nobility and government officials, which gave her a level of sophisticated comfort. As a child, she was educated in a convent by private tutors who taught her several languages as well as piano and violin. She was a child prodigy. Her first works, a short story published in a magazine and a volume of poems published privately, focused on perceptions of art, subjects considered unusual for a girl of thirteen. Despite her privile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Blei
Franz Blei (pseudonyms: Medardus, Dr. Peregrinus Steinhövel, Amadée de la Houlette, Franciscus Amadeus, Gussie Mc-Bill, Prokop Templin, Heliogabal, Nikodemus Schuster, L. O. G., Hans Adolar; January 18, 1871 July 10, 1942) was an essayist, playwright and translator. He was also noted as a bibliophile, a critic, an editor in chief and publisher. He was a friend and collaborator of Franz Kafka. Life He was the son of a shoemaker and trained as an architect. As a member of the literati, he was at great risk in Nazi-occupied Europe and eventually succeeded after a lengthy odyssey in reaching the USA in 1941 where he settled in New York City. Work He translated into German work by Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde and Molière among others and also published his own monograph on the paintings of the symbolist Félicien Rops. He was also a prolific editor of small-press journals. Kafka said of him: "Franz Blei is much cleverer, and greater, than what he writes." (Janouch, 1971. "C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tempelhof
Tempelhof () is a locality of Berlin within the borough of Tempelhof-Schöneberg. It is the location of the former Tempelhof Airport, one of the earliest commercial airports in the world. The former airport and surroundings are now a park called Tempelhofer Feld, making it the largest inner city open space in the world. The Tempelhof locality is located in the south-central part of the city. Before Berlin's 2001 administrative reform, the area of Tempelhof, together with the localities of Mariendorf, Marienfelde, and Lichtenrade, constituted a borough of its own, also called ''Tempelhof''. These localities grew from historic villages on the Teltow plateau founded in the early 13th century in the course of the German Ostsiedlung. History ''Tempelhove'' was first mentioned in a 1247 deed issued at the Walkenried Abbey as a ''Komturhof'' (''commander's court'', the smallest holding entity of a military order) of the Knights Templar, whose leadership and many fellow kni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonnier Group
Bonnier AB (), also the Bonnier Group, is a Privately held company, privately held Swedish media conglomerate, media group of 175 companies operating in 15 countries. It is controlled by the Bonnier family. Background The company was founded in 1804 by Gerhard Bonnier in Copenhagen, Denmark, when Bonnier published his first book, ''Underfulde og sandfærdige kriminalhistorier''. Gerhard's sons later moved to Sweden. The Bonnier book publishing companies in Sweden that are part of book publishing house Bonnierförlagen now include Albert Bonniers förlag, Wahlström & Widstrand, Forum, and Bonnier Carlsen, as well as other book publishers and imprints in Sweden. Bonnier Tidskrifter publishes magazines, including ''Veckans Affärer'', ''Damernas Värld'', ''Amelia (magazine), Amelia'', ''Sköna hem'', ''Teknikens Värld'', ''Resumé (magazine), Resume'', nearly a dozen crossword magazines, and the tablet magazine ''C Mode''. Other subsidiaries include the film production companies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brick Expressionism
The term Brick Expressionism () describes a specific variant of Expressionist architecture that uses bricks, tiles or clinker bricks as the main visible building material. Buildings in the style were erected mostly in the 1920s, primarily in Germany and the Netherlands, where the style was created. The style's regional centres were the larger cities of Northern Germany and the Ruhr area, but the Amsterdam School belongs to the same movement, which can be found in many of the larger Dutch cities like Amsterdam, Utrecht and Groningen. The style also had some impact outside the areas mentioned. Style Brick Expressionism developed at the same time as the "New Objectivity" of Bauhaus architecture. But whereas the Bauhaus architects argued for the removal of all decorative elements, or ornaments, expressionist architects developed a distinctive form or ornamentation, often using rough, angular or pointy elements. They were meant to express the dynamic of the period, its intensity ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jews In Germany
The history of the Jews in Germany goes back at least to the year 321 CE, and continued through the Early Middle Ages (5th to 10th centuries CE) and High Middle Ages (c. 1000–1299 CE) when Jewish immigrants founded the Ashkenazi Jewish community. The community survived under Charlemagne, but suffered during the Crusades. Accusations of well poisoning during the Black Death (1346–1353) led to mass slaughter of German Jews, while others fled in large numbers to Poland. The Jewish communities of the cities of Mainz, Speyer and Worms became the center of Jewish life during medieval times. "This was a golden age as area bishops protected the Jews, resulting in increased trade and prosperity." The First Crusade began an era of persecution of Jews in Germany. Entire communities, like those of Trier, Worms, Mainz and Cologne, were slaughtered. The Hussite Wars became the signal for renewed persecution of Jews. The end of the 15th century was a period of religious hatred that ascri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German Reich, German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a Totalitarianism, totalitarian dictatorship. The Third Reich, meaning "Third Realm" or "Third Empire", referred to the Nazi claim that Nazi Germany was the successor to the earlier Holy Roman Empire (800–1806) and German Empire (1871–1918). The Third Reich, which the Nazis referred to as the Thousand-Year Reich, ended in May 1945, after 12 years, when the Allies of World War II, Allies defeated Germany and entered the capital, Berlin, End of World War II in Europe, ending World War II in Europe. After Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the Nazi Party began to eliminate political opposition and consolidate power. A 1934 German referendum confirmed Hitler as sole ''Führer'' (leader). Power was centralised in Hitler's person, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
