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- Klausjürgen Wussow was born on 30 April 1929 in Cammin, Pomerania, Germany [now Kamien Pomorski, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for The Black Forest Hospital (1985), Der grüne Bogenschütze (1961) and Sergeant Berry (1974). He was married to Sabine Scholz, Yvonne Wussow, Ida Krottendorf and Jolande Frantz. He died on 19 June 2007 in Rüdersdorf bei Berlin, Brandenburg, Germany.
- Harry Liedtke was born on 12 October 1882 in Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany [now Kaliningrad, Russia]. He was an actor, known for Die Konkurrenz platzt (1929), Der Mann ohne Namen - 1. Der Millionendieb (1921) and Die Liebe einer Königin (1923). He was married to Käthe Dorsch, Ernestine Emaline Johanne Proft, Christa Tordy and Hanne Schutt. He died on 28 April 1945 in Bad Saarow, Brandenburg, Germany.
- Marion Michael was born as Marion Ilonka Michaela Delonge in Königsberg, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia) in 1940. Her father was a doctor. The last months of the war she spent together with her mother and her four-year older brother on Hiddensee, a small island in the Baltic Sea. After the war, the family moved to Berlin where Marion attended a secondary school. As a ten-year-old, she made her stage debut in little theatre and was taught classical dance in the ballet school of Tatjana Gsovsky. When she was only 15, she was selected out of allegedly 12,000 entries for the lead in Liane, das Mädchen aus dem Urwald/Liane, Jungle Goddess (Eduard von Borsody, 1956). This adventure film was largely shot on location in Africa.
The story is about a girl who is discovered in the African jungle by an expedition group which includes Hardy Krüger. A tribe adores her as a goddess. It turns out that she is Liane, the long lost granddaughter of a rich shipowner in Hamburg. Her dark hair was dyed blonde and she was promoted as the 'German Brigitte Bardot'. Michael appeared topless during the first half of the film and this was part of the success of the film. However, she was acceptable for family audiences as the nature child with no obvious erotic suggestiveness.
The film was a huge box office hit, and producer Gero Wecker offered her a seven-year-contract. The press loved her, she was constantly photographed, and at the age of 18 she already owned a sports car. Unfortunately this success of her debut film would not be matched by any of her later films.
Marion Michael played next in the comedy Der tolle Bomberg/The Mad Bomberg (Rolf Thiele, 1957) opposite Hans Albers, an adaptation of the 1923 novel of the same title by Josef Winckler based on a real historical Westphalian aristocrat of the nineteenth century.
Then followed the sequel Liane, die weiße Sklavin/Jungle Girl and the Slaver (Hermann Leitner, 1957), this time opposite Adrian Hoven. Set in North Africa, this story concerns Arab slave traders who abduct Liane and members of her tribe. Later, the two Liane films were edited together and re-marketed as Liane - die Tochter des Dschungels/Liane - The Daughter of the Jungle.
In order to break away from the Liane image, Marion took dance and acting lessons and then appeared opposite Christian Wolff in Es war die erste Liebe/First Love (Fritz Stapenhorst, 1958) in which a Catholic theology student falls in love with a country girl. Tragedy came about when, during the shooting of the crime film Bomben auf Monte Carlo/Bombs on Monte Carlo (Georg Jacoby, 1960) with Eddie Constantine, she had a car accident that left her face temporarily scarred. However, she recovered and returned to acting in Schlußakkord/Festival (Wolfgang Liebeneiner, 1960), the Schlagerfilm Davon träumen alle Mädchen/That's What All The Girls Dream About (Thomas Engel, 1961), and Jack und Jenny/Jack and Jenny (Victor Vicas, 1963) with Senta Berger and Ivan Desny.
The following decade, Marion Michael mainly worked for love theatre and television. For six years she worked at the Städtischen Bühnen Köln and In 1970 gave birth to a son, Benjamin, allegedly fathered by an American director, with whom she lived in a commune and with whom she also did some street theatre. Afterwards, she suffered severe depression after a short marriage to actor Marcel Werner ended, and retired from acting in 1976. For a while she then worked as a saleswoman. In 1979 she took the unusual step of moving from West to East Germany, where she worked as a synchronisation assistant for TV.
She still occasionally acted in TV-films such as In Hassliebe Lola/In Hate Love Lola (Lothar Lambert, 1995) and Blond bis aufs Blut/Blonde Till Blood (Lothar Lambert, 1997), and in 1996 her life became the topic of a TV musical, Liane (Horst Königstein, 1996). She also played a small role in the production. The film was nominated for the Adolf Grimme award and the Prix Europa 1997.
In her later years, she still remained a well known German film icon and with her second husband, Freimut Patzner, lived in an old house in Oderbruch. In 2007 Marion Michael died of heart failure in a hospital in Gartz an der Oder. It was four days before her 67th birthday. - Actor
- Producer
- Director
Heinrich George was born on 9 October 1893 in Stettin, Pomerania, Germany [now Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]. He was an actor and producer, known for Metropolis (1927), Burning Hearts (1945) and Die Degenhardts (1944). He was married to Berta Drews. He died on 25 September 1946 in Soviet Special Camp No. 7, Oranienburg, Brandenburg, Germany.- Writer
- Director
- Producer
Director. Writer. Studied at the Deutsches Institut fuer Film und Fernsehen (DIFF) in Munich, Germany, as well as at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinematographiques (IDHEC) in Paris, France. In 1969 he founded the production company Hallelujah Film together with Volker Schlöndorff. Since 1992 he is co-manager of the Babelsberg studios in Potsdam, Germany (former UFA/DEFA).- Renate Krößner was born on 17 May 1945 in Osterode am Harz, Germany. She was an actress, known for Vergiss dein Ende (2011), Solo Sunny (1980) and Nordkurve (1992). She was married to Bernd Stegemann. She died on 25 May 2020 in Mahlow, Brandenburg, Germany.
- Actor
- Writer
- Composer
At the age of 15, Harald Juhnke was drafted into military service in the Second World War. After the end of the war he attended drama school. At the age of 24, Juhnke appeared on stage in Berlin for the first time. Three years later he took on his first film role in the film "Three Girls Are Spinning". In 1953 Juhnke married the dancer Sybil Werden, with whom he remained together until 1962. Together they became parents to their son Peer and daughter Barbara, who died at the age of 14 months. The mime now took on numerous film roles that justified his success. In 1972, Juhnke married his second wife, his girlfriend Susanne, who gave him his third child, son Oliver. In 1979, the actor achieved his final breakthrough on German television, where he hosted the TV show "Music is Trumpf" until 1982. Juhnke's achievements were awarded the "Golden Camera" in 1981. In 1983 he took over the moderation of the popular program "How about Revue today?".
The actor and TV star's track record began to suffer from unfavorable press reports in 1984: reports about Juhnke's alcoholism and the excesses associated with it increased. Nevertheless, Juhnke continued to shine in the artistic field. In 1992, Juhnke celebrated a huge success with a leading role in the film "Schtonk", which was about Adolf Hitler's fake diaries, in the role of the journalist Pit Kummer; The crowning achievement of the numerous international awards (German Film Prize in Gold, among others) was an Oscar nomination for "Best Foreign Film". In the same year he was awarded the "German Film Prize" and the "Bambi". In the 1990s, media coverage of the artist's private and health problems almost turned into a smear campaign. As alcohol addiction worsened, missteps in public also increased, with Juhnke becoming violent towards a reporter in Berlin around 1996.
In the same year he also received the "TeleStar" and the "Golden Camera" for his artistic achievements. Also in 1996, Juhnke shone in the TV film "The Captain of Köpenick". His appearance there is now one of the actor's most successful roles. In January 1997, Juhnke made the headlines because he skipped his appearance on a talk show due to excessive drinking. A month later, thoughtless racist comments in public resulted in his dismissal from Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR). Critical voices also called for a general ban on television appearances for the entertainer, who had become "unsustainable". After further alcohol escapades, Juhnke managed to temporarily overcome his addiction by staying in a clinic between 1997 and 2000. However, after the turn of the millennium, the actor succumbed to alcohol again.
In the years 2000 to 2001, several hospital and spa stays followed, which revealed Juhnke's poor health. Finally, on December 11, 2001, the actor's manager, Peter Wolf, announced that Juhnke would never appear in public again. In 2003, his wife Susanne Juhnke, with the support of the journalist Beate Wedekind, published her shocking and impressive memories of their life together with Harald Juhnke: "In good days and in bad days". In December 2004 it was announced that the actor, who suffered from dementia, had been admitted to hospital due to health problems.
Harald Juhnke died on April 1, 2005 as a result of his illness in Berlin.
The funeral service in the Berlin Memorial Church was attended by many fans and celebrities. Harald Juhnke was buried in an honorary grave in the forest cemetery in Dahlem.- Carl Jakob Haupt was born on 18 December 1984 in Marburg, Hesse, Germany. He was married to Giannina Haupt (born: Müller) and Bonnie Strange. He died on 19 April 2019 in Bad Saarow, Brandenburg, Germany.
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- Additional Crew
Jörg Hengstler was born on 31 October 1956 in the German Democratic Republic. He was an actor, known for Tatort (1970), Leipzig Homicide (2001) and Zum Teufel mit Harbolla (1989). He died in May 2024 in Oberkrämer, Brandenburg, Germany.- Actor
- Sound Department
- Additional Crew
Otto Mellies was born on 19 January 1931 in Stolp, Pomerania, Germany [now Slupsk, Pomorskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Stopped on Track (2011), Kabale und Liebe (1959) and Minna von Barnhelm (1962). He was married to Luise Bergner . He died on 26 April 2020 in Zeuthen, Brandenburg, Germany.- Peter Reusse was born on 15 February 1941 in Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. He was an actor, known for Johann Sebastian Bachs vergebliche Reise in den Ruhm (1980), Kiezgeschichten (1987) and Frau Venus und ihr Teufel (1967). He was married to Sigrid Göhler. He died on 11 June 2022 in Kolberg, Brandenburg, Germany.
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Hans Steinhoff was born on 10 March 1882 in Marienberg, Saxony, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for Ohm Krüger (1941), The Making of a King (1935) and Robert Koch: The Battle Against Death (1939). He died on 20 April 1945 in Luckenwalde, Brandenburg, Germany.- Erik S. Klein was born on 6 February 1926 in Radebeul, Saxony, Germany. He was an actor, known for Naked Among Wolves (1963), Unterm Birnbaum (1973) and Ich - Axel Caesar Springer (1968). He was married to Hannelore Herzberg. He died on 22 October 2002 in Eichwalde, Dahme-Spreewald district, Brandenburg, Germany.
- Christel Peters was born on 15 January 1916 in Swinemünde, Pomerania, Germany [now Swinoujscie, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for Jetzt oder nie - Zeit ist Geld (2000), Verwandte und Bekannte (1971) and Tatort (1970). She was married to Albert Bußmann and Eduard Thomalla. She died on 11 June 2009 in Brandenburg an der Havel, Brandenburg, Germany.
- Gerry Wolff was born on 23 June 1920 in Bremen, Germany. He was an actor, known for Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts (1973), Emilia Galotti (1958) and Naked Among Wolves (1963). He was married to Mirjam Asriel. He died on 16 February 2005 in Oranienburg, Brandenburg, Germany.
- Heinrich von Kleist was born on the 18th of October, 1777 in Frankfurt/Oder (Germany) as the son of a priest. His father died when Heinrich was 11 so he had to earn some money early. He managed to go to the High School until 15, but was forced then to join the Prussian army in their war in the west. He climbed up the ranks until he was lieutenant, but quit then in 1799 and studied philosophy, physics, mathematics and political sciences in the town where he was born. After stays at Weimar (where Kleist met Wieland, Goethe and Schiller, other famous writers of his time), he finally entered the Prussian state as a secretary. His writings were no success at all, political life was not satisfying, and his girlfriend was ill, going to die- after all, he decided to go with her. They both met their death together, using a gun on the 21st of November, 1811 (Kleist was, as you can see, only 34). It is rather difficult to describe Kleist's role in German literature. He wrote immortal pieces of literature, such as "Prinz Friedrich von Homburg". But especially this stage play, for which he is best known, was often used as a nationalist piece of propaganda. Kleist does not belong to any literary epoch at all, but stays between the Romantik, the Klassik and the upcoming Realismus. Often underrated, Kleist was a walker between the lines. Seen in this context, his death is nothing but consequent.
- After school, Jähn completed training as a book printer from 1951 to 1955. He then did his military service in the GDR army, where he was deployed in the air force. Jähn then worked as a pilot in the Soviet Air Force in the GDR. From 1966 to 1970 he studied at the Soviet Military Academy "J. A. Gagarin" in Monino. In 1970, Jähn was appointed inspector for fighter pilot training and flight safety in the staff of the GDR air force.
He held this position until 1976. In 1976, Jähn was appointed as a cosmonaut in the GDR and as such was sent to Moscow for training, where he prepared for his future space flight. On August 26, 1978, Jähn flew in the Soviet space capsule "Soyuz 31" to the space station "Salyut-6". He spent a week there with his Soviet colleague Valeri Fyodorovich Bykowski. On the return flight, the "Soyuz 29" space capsule hit exceptionally hard, causing the GDR cosmonaut to sustain permanent back damage.
Jähn subsequently received numerous honors as the first German in space. He was made a "Hero of the GDR" and a "Hero of the Soviet Union" and the cult surrounding the GDR cosmonaut led to the renaming of numerous schools and other public institutions. Jähn then began studying physics in Potsdam, which he completed with a doctorate in 1983. After the fall of the GDR and its dissolution, Jähn worked as a consultant for the Russian cosmonaut training center and, from 1993, also for the European Space Agency (ESA).
The exhibition, which was set up in Morgenröthe-Rautenkranz in 1979, was expanded in terms of content in 1991/92 to become the "German Space Exhibition". In memory of Jähn's contributions to space travel, the planetoid 1998BF14 was named after the former GDR cosmonaut in 2001. - Director
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Slatan Dudow was born on 30 January 1903 in Zaribrod, Bulgaria. He was a director and writer, known for Frauenschicksale (1952), Verwirrung der Liebe (1959) and Christine (1963). He died on 12 July 1963 in Fürstenwalde, Brandenburg, Germany.- Horst Giese was born on 31 January 1926 in Neuruppin, Mark Brandenburg, Germany. He was an actor, known for Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1977), Nakovalnya ili chuk (1972) and Osvobozhdenie: Napravlenie glavnogo udara (1971). He died on 29 December 2008 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.
- Richard Krüger was an actor, known for The Singing Ringing Tree (1957), Zwerg Nase (1953) and Schneeweisschen und Rosenrot (1955). He died in 1995 in Prenzlau, Brandenburg, Germany.
- Peter Jahoda was born on 30 November 1952 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany. He was an actor, known for Zwerg Nase (1978), Spuk von draußen (1987) and Dein unbekannter Bruder (1982). He died in 1990 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.
- Dietrich Mechow was born on 15 April 1925 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for Die Stunde der Töchter (1981), Thomas Müntzer (1956) and Der Hut (1991). He died on 19 November 2015 in Brandenburg an der Havel, Brandenburg, Germany.
- Actress
- Additional Crew
Tilly Lauenstein was born on 28 July 1916 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Hesse, Germany. She was an actress, known for The College Girl Murders (1967), Cäsar und Cleopatra (1969) and Die Troerinnen (1966). She was married to ???. She died on 8 May 2002 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.- Director
- Actor
- Writer
Lothar Warneke was born on 15 September 1936 in Leipzig, Germany. He was a director and actor, known for Bear Ye One Another's Burden (1988), Die Beunruhigung (1982) and Addio, piccola mia (1979). He died on 5 June 2005 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.- Wolfgang Jaster was born in 1938 in Potsdam, Germany. He was an actor, known for Sherlock Holmes und die sieben Zwerge (1992), Hommage à Hölderlin (1983) and Abschied von Agnes (1994). He was married to Gudrun Jaster. He died on 13 July 2013 in Bad Belzig, Brandenburg, Germany.
- Horst Torka was born on 30 July 1926 in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany. He was an actor, known for Geheimakten Solvay (1953), Die Liebe und der Co-Pilot (1961) and Alarm at the Circus (1954). He died on 16 March 2005 in Bernau, Brandenburg, Germany.
- Angela Brunner was born on 12 January 1931 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress, known for Wolf unter Wölfen (1964), Genesung (1956) and Eine Handvoll Noten (1961). She was married to Walter Kaufmann. She died on 17 June 2011 in Kleinmachnow, Potsdam-Mittelmark, Brandenburg, Germany.
- King Frederick III of Prussia was born on 18 October 1831 in Potsdam, Kingdom of Prussia [now Brandenburg, Germany]. He was married to Princess Royal Victoria. He died on 15 June 1888 in Potsdam, Kingdom of Prussia [now Brandenburg], Germany.
- Werner Dissel was born on 26 August 1912 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was an actor, known for Das grüne Ungeheuer (1962), Immenhof (1994) and Solange Leben in mir ist (1965). He died on 22 January 2003 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.
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- Production Designer
- Set Decorator
Walter Röhrig was born on 13 April 1897 in Berlin, Germany. He was an art director and production designer, known for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), Hans im Glück (1936) and Looping the Loop (1928). He died in 1945 in Caputh, Brandenburg, Germany.- Production Designer
- Art Director
- Costume Designer
Otto Hunte qualified with a degree from the Kunstgewerbeschule in Hamburg. He first came to notice as a stage designer in Berlin around the turn of the century. When he entered films in 1919 as a set decorator and costume designer, he joined a highly skilled team (usually working in tandem with top craftsmen like Erich Kettelhut and Karl Vollbrecht), frequently for the director Fritz Lang. As production designer/art director, Hunte was especially renowned for the darkly sinister, gothic sets he created for Lang's mammoth "Nibelungen" saga. In perfect contrast to these were his stylised futuristic designs for the underground Metropolis (1927); the monumental and richly ornate architecture for the sacrificial temple of Eschnapur in the two-part epic "Das Indische Grabmal" (and, similarly, for the city of Ophir in the fifth instalment of "Die Herrin der Welt").
With the advent of sound, Hunte's work adapted to more contemporary requirements, such as the seedy night club setting for The Blue Angel (1930). An atomic reactor designed for the film Gold (1934) was apparently so convincing, that the Allies confiscated all prints of the film after the war. During the mid-1930's, Hunte sadly blotted his copy book by working on several notorious Nazi propaganda films. Ironically, his penultimate contribution was the anti-Nazi drama Murderers Among Us (1946). This, the first so-called 'Trümmer-film', was an immensely effective evocation of devastated post-war Germany.- Friedrich Kayßler was born on 7 April 1874 in Neurode, Lower Silesia, Germany [now Nowa Ruda, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Bismarck (1940), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1937) and Gold (1934). He was married to Helene Fehdmer and Luise. He died on 30 April 1945 in Kleinmachnow, Potsdam-Mittelmark, Brandenburg, Germany.
- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Konrad Petzold was born on 26 April 1930 in Radebeul, Saxony, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for Die Hosen des Ritters Bredow (1973), Natürlich die Nelli (1959) and Das Lied vom Trompeter (1964). He died on 12 November 1999 in Kleinmachnow, Brandenburg, Germany.- Actor
- Music Department
Thomas Lück was born on 14 February 1943 in Rügen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. He was an actor, known for Liebesfallen (1976), Police Call 110 (1971) and Wir kaufen eine Feuerwehr (1970). He was married to Uschi Pieplow, Aurora Lacasa and Petra Kusch-Lück. He died on 10 October 2019 in Leegebruch, Brandenburg, Germany.- Günter Guillaume was born on 1 February 1927 in Berlin, Germany. He was married to Elke Bröhl and Christel Boom. He died on 10 April 1995 in Eggersdorf, Brandenburg, Germany.
- Helga M. Novak was born on 8 September 1935 in Köpenick, Berlin, Germany. She died on 24 December 2013 in Rüdersdorf bei Berlin, Brandenburg, Germany.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Georg Leopold was born on 30 March 1920 in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Oh, diese Jugend (1962), Begegnungen (1967) and Tempel des Satans (1962). He was married to Krista-Sigrid Lau. He died on 17 June 2004 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.- Writer
- Additional Crew
Christa Müller was born on 8 March 1936 in Leipzig, Germany. She was a writer, known for Zum Beispiel Josef (1974), Der Traum vom Elch (1986) and Unser kurzes Leben (1981). She died on 2 October 2021 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.- Ludwig Joachim von Arnim was raised as an orphan by his grandmother in Berlin. His father was not only very busy as a diplomat, but also as director of the Berlin Opera and managing his estate in the Uckermark and did not find time to raise his son. Arnim studied law and natural sciences in Halle from 1798 to 1799. From 1800 he devoted himself to mathematical studies at the University of Georgia-Augusta in Göttingen. There he first met early romantics like Ludwig Tieck. After meeting Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Clemens Brentano, he became primarily interested in literature. A close, lifelong friendship and later romantic working relationship developed between Clemens Brentano and Arnim. From 1801 to 1804 he went on several educational trips through Europe with his brother - including France, Switzerland and England.
Before and during his travels, he collected oral folk songs. Then, in 1804, he began to compile the three-volume song collection "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" (1806 - 1808) with Clemens Brentano in Heidelberg. The first volume was published in 1805. Arnim didn't stop at collecting, but changed the texts, adapted them or rewritten them. In Heidelberg, Arnim and Brentano met the poets Joseph Karl Benedikt Freiherr von Eichendorff, Johann Joseph von Görres, Justinus Kerner, Ludwig Tieck and Philipp Otto Runge, with whom they formed the core of the Heidelberg Romantics. For political reasons, this circle turned to the Middle Ages in order to create national unity through this art era; the aesthetic aspect of art was of less interest. After the Peace of Tilsit in 1807, Arnim moved to Kassel and, together with Clemens Brentano, completed the second and third parts of the "Wunderhorn" with over 600 songs.
Goethe received the work with enthusiasm, which was also a great success and had a lasting effect on Romantic song poetry. The suggestions that came from this were reflected in ballads by Eduard Mörike, Heinrich Heine, Ludwig Uhland and Theodor Storm. In 1809 Arnim returned to Berlin and tried in vain to get a job in the Prussian civil service. The relationship with Clemens Brentano became even closer when Arnim married his sister Bettine Brentano. The two had already met in 1802. She became a writer herself after the death of Achim von Arnim. From 1808 to 1812, Armin joined the Berlin "Christian-German Table Society" of the patriots Heinrich Kleist, Adam Müller, Adalbert Chamisso, Ernst Moritz Arndt, Friedrich Baron da la Motte Fouqué and others who campaigned for the liberation of Prussia.
In 1813, Arnim took part in the War of Freedom as captain of a Landsturm battalion. In 1814 the von Arnim couple moved to the Wieperdorf estate, but also spent part of their time in Berlin. Armin linked his literary work to a political renewal that he saw as achievable with the help of art. The revival of traditional poetry played an important role. In the short story collection "The Winter Garden" (1809), traditional texts are edited and adapted. A year later, the novel "Poverty, Wealth, Guilt and Penance of Countess Dolores" (1810) was written, which represented a typically early romantic theme with its supernatural content and influenced other works of this era. His "Magazine for Hermits," which he published in collaboration with Brentano, also reflects this sign of renewal. In it he published numerous works by other romantics such as the brothers Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm. In book form, the journal is entitled "Solace-Loneliness".
His fantastic narrative works, such as the novella "Isabella of Egypt", which also integrate surreal, critical and historical elements, are becoming more widely known and are an important contribution to the early romantic era. His two major novels, "Countess Dolores" as a marriage novel and the fragmentary "Crown Guard" (1817) as a historical work, are period pieces that address contemporary society and address its shortcomings. With the latter work, Arnim significantly pushed forward the renewal of the historical novel in Germany. In 1818 his novella "The Mad Invalid at Fort Ratonneau" was published. Achim von Arnim's dramas are adaptations of traditional works such as the title "The Equals" or the play "Halle and Jerusalem", which goes back to Andreas Gryphius' tragedy "Cardenio and Celinde". After the freedom fights, Achim von Arnim withdrew to his estates in Wiepersdorf near Berlin and devoted himself to managing them.
Achim von Arnim died on January 21, 1831 in Wiepersdorf, Jüter district. - Christa Tordy was born on 30 June 1904 in Bremen, Germany. She was an actress, known for Prinz Louis Ferdinand (1927), The Countess of Sand (1928) and Potsdam, das Schicksal einer Residenz (1927). She was married to Harry Liedtke. She died on 28 April 1945 in Bad Saarow, Brandenburg, Germany.
- Ilse Korseck was born on 12 May 1911 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for Der Schuß im Tonfilmatelier (1930), Madame hat Ausgang (1931) and Wie werde ich reich und glücklich? (1930). She died on 22 February 1933 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.
- Arthur Fritz Eugens was born on 31 October 1930. He was an actor, known for Enemies (1940), Irrtum des Herzens (1939) and Patriots (1937). He died on 18 January 1944 in Dahmsdorf, Müncheberg, Brandenburg, Germany.
- Composer
- Music Department
- Sound Department
Dieter Rumstig was born on 10 July 1928 in Berlin, Germany. He was a composer, known for Wenn schon, denn schon (1983), Lesesaal (1971) and The Little Prince (1966). He was married to Barbara Richter. He died on 4 September 2017 in Zehdenick, Brandenburg, Germany.- Cinematographer
- Director
- Writer
Horst E. Brandt was born on 17 January 1923 in Berlin, Germany. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Brot und Rosen (1967), Zwischen Nacht und Tag (1975) and Der Lude (1984). He was married to Ingeborg Kampfert and Eva Schottek. He died on 22 August 2009 in Kleinmachnow, Potsdam-Mittelmark, Brandenburg, Germany.- Gertraud Kreissig was born in 1938 in Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany. She was an actress, known for Der Traum des Hauptmann Loy (1961), Einer muß die Leiche sein (1978) and Maria Stuart (1980). She died on 15 June 2011 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.
- German Army Gen. Kurt von Schleicher was born in 1882 in Brandenburg, Germany (then Prussia), the son of an officer in the Prussian army. He himself enlisted in the Prussian army, soon graduating from officer training school with the rank of lieutenant. In 1909 he attended the Prussian Military Academy, where he made the acquaintance of future political leader Franz von Papen. Schleicher subsequently was assigned to the Railway Department of the Prussian General Staff.
When World War I broke out Schleicher, now a captain, was attached to the General Staff at Supreme Army Command. During the year-long battle of Verdun--in which more than one million men died--Schleicher suspected that the reason many of the German artillery shells, for example, didn't explode on contact was because of shoddy workmanship due to defense contractors' greed for profits, and he wrote a blistering paper attacking war profiteering. That earned him a reputation as a liberal--not the best thing to be known as in an organization as fanatically conservative as the Prussian officer corps--and he spent the rest of the war on the General Staff. After the war he became assistant to Gen. Wilhelm Groener, who was placed in charge of the German army. In November of 1918 Germany was torn by political turmoil, much of it coming from a militant, armed leftist group known as the Spartacist League. Schleicher was used by the army as the negotiator between the civilian government and army, which wanted to enter Berlin and crush the Spartacist revolution once and for all. Schleicher managed to persuade the government to accede to the army's wishes, which caused his stock to rise in the halls of power within Germany. It was Schleicher's efforts that led to the government allowing the army to remain basically autonomous, without civilian oversight or control, in exchange for the army's promise to protect the government against any further revolutionary attacks.
One problem the army had was that, due to the Treaty of Versailles' restrictions on the size of the newly re-formed German army, many of the troops left in the army couldn't be counted on to remain completely loyal. Schleicher solved that problem by helping to form "freikorps", or paramilitary-type militia units, which consisted mainly of disaffected German veterans, in addition to street toughs, ex-convicts and convicted criminals. These units, while not officially part of the German army, were used to crush political opposition--the Spartacist League, for example, was effectively destroyed by the freikorps--in either street battles or straight-out assassinations, often in close cooperation with army officials. Adolf Hitler's feared "Storm Troopers", and later his even more feared SS, originally consisted mostly of former or current freikorps members. The German army did not consider the Weimar Republic, the elected government at the time, to be legitimate, and did everything it could to sabotage and undermine it. Schleicher's main function was to ensure that the army stayed independent of the government and got what it wanted without giving anything up, a task at which he succeeded admirably.
Schleicher rose quickly through the ladders of power in the German army and government, gaining a reputation for ambition and ruthlessness combined with a knack for ingratiating himself with the powers-that-be and a mastery of the intricacies and intrigues of the cutthroat--and lethal--politics of the time. He became a proponent of the philosophy of "total war" against Germany's real and perceived enemies and found ways around the disarmament clauses of the Treaty of Versailles, meant to ensure that Germany would never re-arm itself to the point where it would pose another threat to peace in Europe. He used the freikorps to crush street protests against the government and even to assassinate political opponents. He became a close confidant and adviser to German President Paul von Hindenburg through his friendship with Hindenburg's son, a fellow army officer. In that capacity he exercised immense power and used that power to undermine the democratic process in Germany--he believed that only a military dictatorship, with him as head, could "make Germany great again"--and decided to use the ever-increasing power of Adolf Hitler's Nazi movement to accomplish that. He believed that he could use the Nazis to crush all domestic opposition and put them in power, then destroy them himself. However, Nazi officials knew Schleicher better than he thought they did--Herman Goering once quipped that "any Chancellor who has Herr von Schleicher on his side must expect sooner or later to be sunk by the Schleicher torpedo"--and they had no illusions as to what he had in store for them.
Schleicher's rise to power eventually resulted in his being appointed Chancellor. However, his term turned out to be a disaster. His relations with the Cabinet were frosty at best, and his once solid friendship with President Hindenburg's son evaporated over some sort of personal affront--it's never been made clear exactly what happened--but it also resulted in the loss of his access to President von Hindenburg himself. Schleicher's skills at political intrigue didn't translate into skills at governing, and he alienated practically every level of the German government and society itself. Matters finally came to a head when the army leadership demanded that Hindenburg fire Schleicher as Chancellor and install Hitler, which Hindenburg did on January 30, 1933.
Schleicher tried to ingratiate himself with the new Hitler government, but with little success. Hearing of the growing rift between Hitler and SA (Storm Trooper) leader Ernst Röhm, Schleicher decided to throw in with Rohm against Hitler. That proved to be his undoing. Hitler, fearing that Rohm was organizing a coup against him by the SA, moved against Rohm on June 30, 1934, thereafter known as "The Night of the Long Knives". Rohm and the top SA leadership and their associates were arrested and imprisoned--many, including Rohm, were murdered in their cells by SS executioners--and many more were simply shot as soon as they were found. Unfortunately for Schleicher, he was one of them. SS assassins burst into his house that night and shot and killed Schleicher and his wife. - Actor
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