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...Several members of the family, such as the theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer (about the nearest person to a saint produced by the German opposition), General Paul von Hase and the lawyer Hans von Dohnanyi were...
...She wanted to choose a book he would love — we picked Die Leute von Muzgigl by Hermann Krekeler — and he did. Many more were to follow.”...
...Wasn’t what von Sternberg did with Dietrich (Morocco, Shanghai Express, The Scarlet Empress) exploitative? Wasn’t it all about the male gaze objectifying, even victimising, the female?...
...“Turning products people think they know and making them super-luxe is what we specialise in,” says von Halle....
...The liberals have traditionally punched above their weight, supplying Cabinet-level talent such as Hans-Dietrich Genscher, foreign minister during German reunification and right-hand man to Chancellor Helmut...
...But there are some signs that the heat is coming out of the sector, according to Dietrich Hatlapa, founder of the Historic Automobile Group International. “The market is polarising,” he said....
...An earlier owner was the Austrian-American film-maker Josef von Sternberg, who “discovered” the actress Marlene Dietrich and cast her in his 1930 hit The Blue Angel — her character Lola Lola, a cabaret singer...
...Why does the playful song “Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt” accompany a rape and a murder? Perhaps the visual imagery should not have been so penny-plain....
...Then there are Dietrich von Grebmer’s eclectic costumes, featuring everything from rococo gowns and wigs to rollerblades and baseball caps. This Rosenkavalier takes place everywhere and nowhere....
...The author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch inspired the word “masochism” and in his novel Venus in Furs was the first to map its official terrain....
...They include Adolf Hitler in 1932, Marlene Dietrich and Pope John Paul II....
...He played Raskolnikov in Josef von Sternberg’s Crime and Punishment (1935). He was a young pianist fleeing an animated severed hand in the horror mini-classic The Beast with Five Fingers (1946)....
...Critical momentum gathered behind German director Dietrich Brüggemann’s Stations of the Cross, a stylised account of a girl’s struggle with Catholic guilt....
...Once that summit was scaled, others followed and were duly forgotten, including Herbert von Karajan with the Berlin Philharmonic and James Levine at the Metropolitan Opera....
...Banton, for example, also contributed to the unrestrained fantasies of Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich but while a black tuxedo, white shirt, bow tie and hat from Morocco (1930) appear, her other...
...The composer recorded it with the Berlin Philharmonic (paired with Les Espaces du Sommeil, sung by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, its dedicatee), but that version is inferior to Salonen’s with the Los Angeles...
...One of the leading objectors to the move, Christian von Boetticher, leader of the CDU in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein, warned that it would change the character of the Bundeswehr, and appealed...
...Ironically, the attempt by Max Dietrich Kley, the outgoing chairman at Infineon and a focus of investor ire, to defend the contentious choice of Klaus Wucherer as his successor served only to highlight the...
...And he admits to a hang-up about Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the great German baritone of the postwar era, whose recordings haunt many of his successors....
...But there is something different about the world of the Bolles and Calles, Ferdinands, Mizis and Putzis, which, as Marlene Dietrich says of something else entirely, does ”something to me/ Something that...
...Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G minor will be followed by the chamber version of Gustav Mahler’s large-scale, six-movement piece, Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth)....
...Marlene Dietrich’s one-liner in Shanghai Express became a kitsch classic: “It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lili.”...
...So when Josef von Sterberg fashioned a desert romance starring Marlene Dietrich as a German singer in Africa, who gets entangled with foreign legionnaire Gary Cooper, he called it Morocco although it had...
...Anja Harteros is the generously sung Eva, Toby Spence a model David and Dietrich Henschel’s cultured baritone shifts Beckmesser away from the usual braying caricature to an affectionate variation of Roberto...
...Hampson, like Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau before him, champions a challenge usually assigned to a contralto. One always has to admire his taste, his intelligence and his valour....
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