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Jeremy Irons As Odon Von Horvath, Alec Guinness As Heinrich Mann, Robin Bailey As Thomas Mann, Jack Shepherd As Bertolt Brecht, Sinead Cusack (Jeremy Iron's Real-Life Wife) As Nelly Mann, Elizabeth McGovern As Helen Schwartz And Charles Durning As An Archetypical Fictional Hollywood Producer Star In This Dramatization About The German And Austrian Exiles Of The Third Reich, Who Came To Hollywood To Live In The "Weimar On The Pacific" Community Of Writers, The Geniuses Of The International Literary Community Who During Hitler's Rise To Power Were Forced To Flee To America And Got Caught Up In The Twisted Maze Of The Hollywood Film Community As They Set About Learning How To Write For "The Pictures"! Winningly Adapted From The Brilliant, One-Of-A-Kind Play Written By Christopher Hampton, And Presented In The Highest DVD Quality MPG Video Format Of 9.1 MBPS As An MP4 Video Download Or Archival Quality All Regions Format DVD! (Color, 1992, 1 Hour 53 Minutes.) #JeremyIrons #OdonVonHorvath #AlecGuinness #HeinrichMann #RobinBailey #ThomasMann #JackShepherd #BertoltBrecht #SineadCusack #NellyMann #ElizabethMcGovern #HelenSchwartz #CharlesDurning #GermanAndAustrianExilesOfTheThirdReich #WeimarOnThePacific #ChristopherHampton #Movies #Film #MotionPictures #Cinema #Hollywood #AmericanCinema #CinemaOfTheUS #Novelists #Writers #Authors #Screenwriters #Critics #SocialCritics #Philanthropists #Essayists #NobelPrize #NobelPrizeLaureatesInLiterature #MannFamily #Exilliteratur #Literature #GermanLiterature #MP4 #VideoDownload #DVD
Odon von Horvath, nom de plume of Edmund Josef von Horvath, Austro-Hungarian playwright and novelist who wrote in German (December 9 1901 - June 1, 1938) was born in Susak, Rijeka, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Croatia), the eldest son of an Austro-Hungarian diplomat of Hungarian origins from Slavonia, Edmund (Odon) Josef Horvath, and Maria Lulu Hermine (Prehnal) Horvath, who was from an Austro-Hungarian military family. He was one of the most critically admired writers of his generation prior to his untimely death. He enjoyed a series of successes on the stage with socially poignant and romantic plays, including Revolte auf Cote 3018 (1927), Sladek (1929), Italienische Nacht (1930), Hin Und Her (1934), and Der Jungste Tag (1937). His novels include Der Ewige Spiesser (1930), Ein Kind Unserer Zeit (1938), and Jugend Ohne Gott (1937). Horvath was hit by a falling branch from a tree and killed during a thunderstorm on the Champs-Elysees in Paris, opposite the Theatre Marigny on June 1, 1938, aged 36). Ironically, only a few days earlier, Horvath had said to a friend: "I am not so afraid of the Nazis... There are worse things one can be afraid of, namely things one is afraid of without knowing why. For instance, I am afraid of streets. Roads can be hostile to one, can destroy one. Streets scare me." And a few years earlier, Horvath had written poetry about lightning: "Yes, thunder, that it can do. And bolt and storm. Terror and destruction." Horvath was buried in the Saint-Ouen Cemetery, in northern Paris. In 1988, on the 50th anniversary of his death, his remains were transferred to Vienna and reinterred at the Heiligenstadter Friedhof. Christopher Hampton chose von Horvath as a character in his play Tales From Hollywood, reimagining his life as having not ended in 1938 but instead having gone on to become a screenwriter in Hollywood who lived through the period of The Second Red Scare.
German Exilliteratur (German, "Exile Literature") is the name for works of German literature written in the German diaspora by refugee authors who fled from Nazi Germany, Nazi Austria, and the occupied territories between 1933 and 1945. These dissident writers, poets and artists, many of whom were of Jewish ancestry or held anti-Nazi beliefs, fled into exile in 1933 after the Nazi Party came to power in Germany and after Nazi Germany annexed Austria by the Anschluss in 1938, abolished the freedom of press, and started to prosecute authors and ban works.
Heinrich Mann, German writer known for his sociopolitical novels, President of the Fine Poetry Division of The Prussian Academy Of Arts, elder brother of writer Thomas Mann (March 27, 1871 - March 11, 1950) was born Luiz Heinrich Mann in The Free City of Lubeck, German Empire (modern Schleswig-Holstein And Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany), the oldest child of Senator Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann, grain merchant and finance minister of the Free City of Lubeck, a state of the German Empire, and his Brazilian wife Julia da Silva Bruhns, one of the matriarchs of the Mann family. In 1930, his book Professor Unrat was freely adapted into the movie Der Blaue Engel (The Blue Angel). Carl Zuckmayer wrote the script, and Josef von Sternberg was the director. Mann wanted his paramour, the actress Trude Hesterberg, to play the main female part as the "actress" Lola Lola (named Rosa Frohlich in the novel), but Marlene Dietrich was given the part, her first sound role. The film helped her achieve her breakthrough, including in Hollywood, and became an icon movie in film history. Together with Albert Einstein and other celebrities during 1932, Mann was a signatory to the "Urgent Call for Unity", asking voters to reject the Nazis. Heinrich Mann fierce criticism of the growing Fascism and Nazism forced him to flee Germany after the Nazis came to power during 1933. Mann became persona non grata in Nazi Germany and left before the Reichstag fire of 1933. He then lived poor and sickly in Los Angeles, supported by his brother Thomas, who lived in Pacific Palisades (Thomas Mann House). The Nazis burnt Heinrich Mann's books as "contrary to the German spirit" during the infamous book burning of May 10, 1933, which was instigated by the then-Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. During the 1930s and later in American exile, Mann's literary popularity waned. Nevertheless, he wrote Die Jugend Des Konigs Henri Quatre (The Youth Of King Henry IV and Die Vollendung Des Konigs Henri Quatre (The Accomplishment Of King Henry IV) about the French King Henry IV as part of the Exilliteratur. Heinrich Mann died sixteen days before his 79th birthday in Santa Monica, California, lonely and without much money, just months before he was to relocate to East Berlin to become President Of The East German Academy of Arts. His ashes were later taken to East Germany and were interred at the Dorotheenstadt Cemetery, a landmarked Protestant burial ground located in the Berlin district of Mitte which dates to the late 18th century. in a grave of honor.
Thomas Mann, German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (June 6, 1875 - August 12, 1955) was born Paul Thomas Mann to a bourgeois family in Lubeck, Northern Germany. Thomas Mann's highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. Mann was a member of the Hanseatic Mann family and portrayed his family and class in his first novel, Buddenbrooks. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important German writers. When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, Mann fled to Switzerland. When World War II broke out in 1939, he moved to the United States, returning to Switzerland in 1952. Thomas Mann is one of the best-known exponents of the so-called Exilliteratur, literature written in German by those who opposed or fled the Hitler regime. Mann's work influenced many future authors, including Heinrich Boll, Joseph Heller, Yukio Mishima, and Orhan Pamuk. Thomas Mann died of thrombophlebitis in his left leg in Zurich, Switzerland on August 12, 1955. He was buried in Village Cemetery, Kilchberg, Zurich.
Bertolt Brecht, German director, playwright, theatre practitioner and poet (February 10, 1898 - August 14, 1956) was born Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht in Augsburg, Germany, and came of age during Germany's Weimar Republic. He had his first successes as a playwright in Munich and moved to Berlin in 1924, where he wrote The Threepenny Opera with Kurt Weill and began a lifelong collaboration with the composer Hanns Eisler. Immersed in Marxist thought during this period, he wrote didactic Lehrstucke and became a leading theoretician of epic theatre (which he later preferred to call "dialectical theatre") and the so-called V-effect. During the Nazi period he lived in exile, first in Scandinavia, and during World War II in the United States, where he was surveilled by the FBI and subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Returning to East Berlin after the war, he established the theatre company Berliner Ensemble with his wife and long-time collaborator, actress Helene Weigel. Bertolt Brecht died in East Berlin, East Germany of a heart attack at the age of 58. He is buried in the Dorotheenstadt Cemetery on Chausseestrasse in the Mitte neighbourhood of Berlin, overlooked by the residence he shared with Helene Weigel.
Jeremy Irons As Odon Von Horvath, Alec Guinness As Heinrich Mann, Robin Bailey As Thomas Mann, Jack Shepherd As Bertolt Brecht, Sinead Cusack (Jeremy Iron's Real-Life Wife) As Nelly Mann, Elizabeth McGovern As Helen Schwartz And Charles Durning As An Archetypical Fictional Hollywood Producer Star In This Dramatization About The German And Austrian Exiles Of The Third Reich, Who Came To Hollywood To Live In The "Weimar On The Pacific" Community Of Writers, The Geniuses Of The International Literary Community Who During Hitler's Rise To Power Were Forced To Flee To America And Got Caught Up In The Twisted Maze Of The Hollywood Film Community As They Set About Learning How To Write For "The Pictures"! Winningly Adapted From The Brilliant, One-Of-A-Kind Play Written By Christopher Hampton, And Presented In The Highest DVD Quality MPG Video Format Of 9.1 MBPS As An MP4 Video Download Or Archival Quality All Regions Format DVD! (Color, 1992, 1 Hour 53 Minutes.) #JeremyIrons #OdonVonHorvath #AlecGuinness #HeinrichMann #RobinBailey #ThomasMann #JackShepherd #BertoltBrecht #SineadCusack #NellyMann #ElizabethMcGovern #HelenSchwartz #CharlesDurning #GermanAndAustrianExilesOfTheThirdReich #WeimarOnThePacific #ChristopherHampton #Movies #Film #MotionPictures #Cinema #Hollywood #AmericanCinema #CinemaOfTheUS #Novelists #Writers #Authors #Screenwriters #Critics #SocialCritics #Philanthropists #Essayists #NobelPrize #NobelPrizeLaureatesInLiterature #MannFamily #Exilliteratur #Literature #GermanLiterature #MP4 #VideoDownload #DVD
Odon von Horvath, nom de plume of Edmund Josef von Horvath, Austro-Hungarian playwright and novelist who wrote in German (December 9 1901 - June 1, 1938) was born in Susak, Rijeka, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Croatia), the eldest son of an Austro-Hungarian diplomat of Hungarian origins from Slavonia, Edmund (Odon) Josef Horvath, and Maria Lulu Hermine (Prehnal) Horvath, who was from an Austro-Hungarian military family. He was one of the most critically admired writers of his generation prior to his untimely death. He enjoyed a series of successes on the stage with socially poignant and romantic plays, including Revolte auf Cote 3018 (1927), Sladek (1929), Italienische Nacht (1930), Hin Und Her (1934), and Der Jungste Tag (1937). His novels include Der Ewige Spiesser (1930), Ein Kind Unserer Zeit (1938), and Jugend Ohne Gott (1937). Horvath was hit by a falling branch from a tree and killed during a thunderstorm on the Champs-Elysees in Paris, opposite the Theatre Marigny on June 1, 1938, aged 36). Ironically, only a few days earlier, Horvath had said to a friend: "I am not so afraid of the Nazis... There are worse things one can be afraid of, namely things one is afraid of without knowing why. For instance, I am afraid of streets. Roads can be hostile to one, can destroy one. Streets scare me." And a few years earlier, Horvath had written poetry about lightning: "Yes, thunder, that it can do. And bolt and storm. Terror and destruction." Horvath was buried in the Saint-Ouen Cemetery, in northern Paris. In 1988, on the 50th anniversary of his death, his remains were transferred to Vienna and reinterred at the Heiligenstadter Friedhof. Christopher Hampton chose von Horvath as a character in his play Tales From Hollywood, reimagining his life as having not ended in 1938 but instead having gone on to become a screenwriter in Hollywood who lived through the period of The Second Red Scare.
German Exilliteratur (German, "Exile Literature") is the name for works of German literature written in the German diaspora by refugee authors who fled from Nazi Germany, Nazi Austria, and the occupied territories between 1933 and 1945. These dissident writers, poets and artists, many of whom were of Jewish ancestry or held anti-Nazi beliefs, fled into exile in 1933 after the Nazi Party came to power in Germany and after Nazi Germany annexed Austria by the Anschluss in 1938, abolished the freedom of press, and started to prosecute authors and ban works.
Heinrich Mann, German writer known for his sociopolitical novels, President of the Fine Poetry Division of The Prussian Academy Of Arts, elder brother of writer Thomas Mann (March 27, 1871 - March 11, 1950) was born Luiz Heinrich Mann in The Free City of Lubeck, German Empire (modern Schleswig-Holstein And Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany), the oldest child of Senator Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann, grain merchant and finance minister of the Free City of Lubeck, a state of the German Empire, and his Brazilian wife Julia da Silva Bruhns, one of the matriarchs of the Mann family. In 1930, his book Professor Unrat was freely adapted into the movie Der Blaue Engel (The Blue Angel). Carl Zuckmayer wrote the script, and Josef von Sternberg was the director. Mann wanted his paramour, the actress Trude Hesterberg, to play the main female part as the "actress" Lola Lola (named Rosa Frohlich in the novel), but Marlene Dietrich was given the part, her first sound role. The film helped her achieve her breakthrough, including in Hollywood, and became an icon movie in film history. Together with Albert Einstein and other celebrities during 1932, Mann was a signatory to the "Urgent Call for Unity", asking voters to reject the Nazis. Heinrich Mann fierce criticism of the growing Fascism and Nazism forced him to flee Germany after the Nazis came to power during 1933. Mann became persona non grata in Nazi Germany and left before the Reichstag fire of 1933. He then lived poor and sickly in Los Angeles, supported by his brother Thomas, who lived in Pacific Palisades (Thomas Mann House). The Nazis burnt Heinrich Mann's books as "contrary to the German spirit" during the infamous book burning of May 10, 1933, which was instigated by the then-Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. During the 1930s and later in American exile, Mann's literary popularity waned. Nevertheless, he wrote Die Jugend Des Konigs Henri Quatre (The Youth Of King Henry IV and Die Vollendung Des Konigs Henri Quatre (The Accomplishment Of King Henry IV) about the French King Henry IV as part of the Exilliteratur. Heinrich Mann died sixteen days before his 79th birthday in Santa Monica, California, lonely and without much money, just months before he was to relocate to East Berlin to become President Of The East German Academy of Arts. His ashes were later taken to East Germany and were interred at the Dorotheenstadt Cemetery, a landmarked Protestant burial ground located in the Berlin district of Mitte which dates to the late 18th century. in a grave of honor.
Thomas Mann, German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (June 6, 1875 - August 12, 1955) was born Paul Thomas Mann to a bourgeois family in Lubeck, Northern Germany. Thomas Mann's highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. Mann was a member of the Hanseatic Mann family and portrayed his family and class in his first novel, Buddenbrooks. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important German writers. When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, Mann fled to Switzerland. When World War II broke out in 1939, he moved to the United States, returning to Switzerland in 1952. Thomas Mann is one of the best-known exponents of the so-called Exilliteratur, literature written in German by those who opposed or fled the Hitler regime. Mann's work influenced many future authors, including Heinrich Boll, Joseph Heller, Yukio Mishima, and Orhan Pamuk. Thomas Mann died of thrombophlebitis in his left leg in Zurich, Switzerland on August 12, 1955. He was buried in Village Cemetery, Kilchberg, Zurich.
Bertolt Brecht, German director, playwright, theatre practitioner and poet (February 10, 1898 - August 14, 1956) was born Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht in Augsburg, Germany, and came of age during Germany's Weimar Republic. He had his first successes as a playwright in Munich and moved to Berlin in 1924, where he wrote The Threepenny Opera with Kurt Weill and began a lifelong collaboration with the composer Hanns Eisler. Immersed in Marxist thought during this period, he wrote didactic Lehrstucke and became a leading theoretician of epic theatre (which he later preferred to call "dialectical theatre") and the so-called V-effect. During the Nazi period he lived in exile, first in Scandinavia, and during World War II in the United States, where he was surveilled by the FBI and subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Returning to East Berlin after the war, he established the theatre company Berliner Ensemble with his wife and long-time collaborator, actress Helene Weigel. Bertolt Brecht died in East Berlin, East Germany of a heart attack at the age of 58. He is buried in the Dorotheenstadt Cemetery on Chausseestrasse in the Mitte neighbourhood of Berlin, overlooked by the residence he shared with Helene Weigel.