Gustaf Gründgens. Film works 1930–1960 Marburg writings on media research [93] Born in Düsseldorf in 1899, Gustaf Gründgens is still one of the best-known and most controversial German personalities in the film and theater sectors. After the end of the war he completed his acting training with Gustav Lindemann and Louise Dumont, which was followed … Read more
After checking into a prominent Madrid hotel in March 1937, Virginia Cowles quickly realizes her rookie mistake: “My room at the Hotel Florida was on the fourth floor,” she recalls of her early days as a war correspondent. “People who knew their stuff lived as close to the ground as possible to get to safety … Read more
This year marks the 90th anniversary of the Venice Film Festival and the Italian lagoon city will once again bask in the glitz and glamor of the film industry. However, dark shadows hang over the birth of the festival, which was launched in 1932. The first president was Giuseppe Volpi, former finance minister of the … Read more
According to the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial site, about 100,000 prisoners were brought to Buchenwald concentration camp and its satellite camp via this stretch of track. In addition, extermination transports with children and sick prisoners to Auschwitz started at Buchenwald station. – The crime caused outrage across the country. For him, the attack on the … Read more
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– –US official Eizenstat: “The Swiss National Bank must have known that some of the gold had been stolen from occupied countries.” (dpa/picture alliance) Heidi and the Matterhorn, chocolate and precision watches – Swiss clichés. In addition, freedom-loving people like Wilhelm Tell and honorable politicians with waistcoats as pure as the mountain air. But in … Read more
Home Culture Deutschland Hamburg Memorials – Hamburg:Commemoration of the 77th anniversary of the end of the war in Neuengamme May 3, 2022 2:45 am — Directly from the dpa news channel Hamburg (dpa/lno) – Several hundred guests are expected to celebrate the 77th anniversary of the end of the war on Tuesday (5 p.m.) at … Read more
The US can no longer give advice on democracy to other countries, explained the Jurist Lawrence Lessig in somewhat excessive rhetoric that they are already one themselves failed state. All the procedural tricks that Republicans use to secure political sovereignty – partisan constituency cuts, voter discrimination, filibustering, the Electoral College, the corrupting campaign donations – … Read more
Eastern Europe 6-8/2012)”>- – Eastern Europe 6-8/2012Manfred Sapper, Volker Weichsel (eds.)Berlin (BWV) 2012 [= Osteuropa 6-8/2012]560 p., 15 maps, 53 ills.Price: € 32.00ISBN: 978-3-8305-3110-4 Contents and abstracts in English contents Marija LipmanDouble polarizationFull textRussia’s divided society Vladimir Gel’manCracks in the systemRussia’s Authoritarianism 2012 Richard SakwaAnatomy of a blockageFull textStandstill in the dual state of Russia … Read more
– Stumbling blocks Artist Gunter Demnig sweeps away the stumbling blocks he has laid in Hamburg’s Talstrasse. Photo: Axel Heimken / dpa – (Photo: dpa) – – – – “6,000 stumbling blocks in the city, that is, 6,000 times confrontation with a past for which we have to take responsibility,” said Hamburg’s Senator for Culture … Read more