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- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Debonair Viennese thespian Siegfried Breuer specialized in portraying elegant, charming rogues and profligates. The son of a Wagnerian singer, he was trained from 1924 as an actor at Vienna's Academy for Music and the Performing Arts, studying alongside Paula Wessely and Käthe Gold. He performed on the stage in Berlin under the direction of Max Reinhardt in 'The Prince of Homburg', his first leading role. In 1935, he became a member of the ensemble cast of the Deutsches Theater.
From the late 1930's, Breuer was increasingly in demand for movie roles and began to develop his particular style of suave, but shifty, bon vivant. He gave his best performance in Gustav Ucicky's classic Der Postmeister (1940), as Minskij, and in Helmut Käutner's Romanze in Moll (1943). He was occasionally seen in operatic parts which required that special Viennese charm, as in Immortal Waltz (1939) and the remake of Die Fledermaus (1946). Carol Reed cast him (for added continental flavour) alongside several other noted Austrian players in The Third Man (1949). His part, as Popescu, was quite small but integral to the progression of the story. A chain smoker, Breuer died young -- aged just 47 -- from complications due to pneumonia. In that short life, he was married six times. His wives included the Austrian star actress Maria Andergast.- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Actor
Regarded as one of the foremost exponents of cinematic expressionism in the 1920's, Fritz Arno Wagner was trained at the Ecole de Beaux Arts in Paris and began in the film industry working for Pathé Freres in 1910. Within just two years, he was promoted to head Pathé's offices in Vienna, and, subsequently, in Berlin. He briefly worked out of New York in 1913, reporting for Pathé Weekly, then returned to Germany for wartime service in the cavalry. After being invalided out, he progressed from still photographer to 2nd Cameraman. By 1919, he had advanced to full director of photography.
Wagner was noted for his moody, atmospheric lighting. He did outstanding work for the directors F.W. Murnau and Georg Wilhelm Pabst, best exemplified by his chilling, eerily-lit gothic masterpiece Nosferatu (1922), with its shadows and distorted images (the jerky, unsettlingly grotesque movements of Count Orlock -- as played by Max Schreck -- have undoubtedly served to inspire more recent examples of the genre, such as The Ring (2002)). Wagner photographed Arthur Robison's hallucinatory thriller of obsessive jealousy, Warning Shadows (1923), in a similar vein, using mirrors and light effects to convey delusions and subconscious desires. Wagner's career remained prolific during the 1930's. He worked on many more prestige films (to name but a few: Pabst's Westfront 1918 (1930), M (1931), The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933), Amphitryon (1935), Two Merry Adventurers (1937)), but the quality of his output began to decline by the mid-1930's under the artistic strictures imposed during the Nazi regime. Post-war, he directed the newsreel "Welt im Bild" and largely confined himself to work as cinematographer on mainstream popular entertainments for DEFA. At age 63, Wagner died as the result of falling from a camera truck.- Max Born was born on 11 December 1882 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. He was married to Martha Hedwig Born (born: Ehrenberg). He died on 5 January 1970 in Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany.
- Dunja Movar was born on 30 March 1940 in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. She was an actress, known for O Wildnis (1959), Die kleinen Füchse (1962) and Hamlet (1960). She died on 30 March 1963 in Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany.
- Fritz Nydegger was born on 27 February 1937 in Köniz, Bern, Switzerland. He was an actor, known for Dällebach Kari (1970), Ein Sommernachtstraum (1965) and Die sechs Kummerbuben (1968). He died on 3 August 1993 in Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany.
- Eberhard Müller-Elmau was born on 9 October 1905 in Mainberg, Schweinfurt, Bavaria, Germany. He was an actor, known for The Great British Train Robbery (1966), Königliche Hoheit (1953) and Reifende Jugend (1955). He was married to Gerda Kuntzsch. He died on 13 April 1995 in Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany.
- Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (Latin: Carolus Fridericus Gauss; 30 April 1777 - 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to many fields in mathematics and science. Sometimes referred to as the Princeps mathematicorum (Latin for '"the foremost of mathematicians"') and "the greatest mathematician since antiquity", Gauss had an exceptional influence in many fields of mathematics and science, and is ranked among history's most influential mathematicians
- Otto Hahn was born on 8 March 1879 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He was married to Edith Junghans. He died on 28 July 1968 in Göttingen, Germany.
- Production Designer
- Art Director
- Art Department
Walter Haag was born on 14 February 1898 in Berlin, Germany. He was a production designer and art director, known for Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever? (1959), Wenn wir alle Engel wären (1936) and Gitta entdeckt ihr Herz (1932). He died on 20 April 1978 in Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany.- Tilman Zülch was born on 2 September 1939 in Liebau, Sudetenland, Germany. He was married to Ines Köhler-Zülch. He died on 17 March 2023 in Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany.
- Actor
- Director
Alwin Woesthoff was born on 1 January 1918. He was an actor and director, known for Kalamitäten (1961), Die junge Sünderin (1960) and Nacht der Entscheidung (1956). He died on 26 January 2003 in Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany.- Oliver Frank was born on 1 September 1963 in Göttingen, Germany. He died on 25 February 2022 in Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany.
- Oskar Dimroth was born on 18 July 1906 in Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany. He was an actor, known for Königliche Hoheit (1953), Schicksal aus zweiter Hand (1949) and Der Fall Rainer (1942). He died on 27 March 1955 in Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany.
- Rudolf Kippenhahn was born on 24 May 1926 in Pernink, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia. He died on 15 November 2020 in Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany.
- Hans Juergen Weidlich was born on 18 March 1905 in Holzminden, Lower Saxony, Germany. He was an actor and writer, known for The Four Companions (1938), The Thief of Bagdad (1952) and Die merkwürdigen Erlebnisse des Hansjürgen Weidlich (1961). He died on 12 June 1985 in Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany.
- Actor
- Director
- Editor
Eike Gallwitz was born on 31 March 1940 in Göttingen, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Tatort (1970), Der Springer (1968) and Nizza (1970). He died on 8 September 2010 in Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany.- Günther Brackmann was born on 1 April 1920 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for Jugend (1938), Die blonde Carmen (1935) and The Hound of the Baskervilles (1937). He died on 28 March 1949 in Göttingen, Germany.
- Elementary school in Edemissen (Northeim district) and Goethe School in Einbeck, Abitur. Studied German and English in Tübingen. 1976 to 1978 stay in the USA with Aktion Sühnezeichen/Friedensdienste in Washington D. C. and New York; employee in the boycott office of the field and migrant workers' union UFW/AFL-CIO. Studied law in Göttingen, 1983 Referendarexamen, then research assistant and work in tenant counseling, 1986 Assessorexamen.
1986 to 1990 judge at the administrative courts of Hanover and Braunschweig; in the meantime seconded to local government, 1988 to 1989 head of the legal department of the city of Münden.
Member of the Board of Trustees of the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, the Fagus Plant in Alfeld, the Max Planck Institute for Solar Physics in Lindau, the Göttingen Palliative Foundation, the Sir Hugh Carlton Greene Foundation and the Boards of Trustees of the Max Planck Institutes for Biophysical Chemistry and Experimental Medicine in Göttingen, member of the Board of Trustees of the Göttingen Civic Foundation, member of the Advisory Board of the Goethe Institutes in Germany, the Friends of the German Theater in Göttingen and the Board of the Göttingen Handel Society.
Since 1980 member of the SPD, functions in the Young Socialists as well as activity in the committees of the academic and student self-administration, since 1989 chairman of the SPD sub-district Göttingen. 1990 to 2005 Member of the State Parliament of Lower Saxony, where he was Legal Policy Spokesman from 1990 to 1998, Minister for Science and Culture from 1998 to 2003 and Economic Policy Spokesman from 2003 to 2005.
Member of the Bundestag since 2005. - Dr. Hans-Karl Galle was born 1933 in Giersdorf / Silesia, which at that time was a part of Germany. He joined the German Scientific Film Institute (IWF) in 1964 as a production manager for botanical instructional films. From 1976 until his retirement in 1996 he was the director of the IWF and also editor-in-chief of the film series Encyclopaedia Cinematographica. He died October 2nd, 2006 in Göttingen.
- Franz Barsig was born on 22 February 1924 in Bytom, Poland. He died on 20 December 1988 in Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany.
- Director
- Actor
- Writer
Heinz Hilpert was born on 1 March 1890 in Berlin, Germany. He was a director and actor, known for Lady Windermeres Fächer (1935), Drei Tage Liebe (1931) and Der Herr vom andern Stern (1948). He was married to Ursula Müller, Annelies Heuser and Amalia Mauerhoff. He died on 25 November 1967 in Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany.- Gottfried August Bürger was born on 31 December 1747 in Molmerswende, Halberstadt, Prussia, Holy Roman Empire [now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany]. He was a writer, known for The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1962), Monsieur de Crac (1912) and The Hallucinations of Baron Munchausen (1911). He died on 8 June 1794 in Göttingen, Brunswick-Lüneburg, Holy Roman Empire [now Lower Saxony, Germany].