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- Music Department
- Writer
- Composer
Richard Strauss was a German composer best known for symphonic poem 'Also sprach Zarathustra' (Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 1896) used as the music score in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) by director Stanley Kubrick.
He was born Richard Georg Strauss on June 11, 1864, in Munich, Bavaria (now Germany). His father, named Franz Strauss, was the principal horn player at the Royal Opera in Munich. Young Strauss was taught music by his father. He wrote his first composition at the age of 6. From the age of 10 he studied music theory and orchestration with an assistant conductor of the Munich Court Orchestra. He was also attending orchestral rehearsals. In 1874 Strauss heard operas by Richard Wagner, but his father did not share his son's interest and forbade him to study Wagner's music until the age of 16.
Strauss studied philosophy and art history at Munich University, then at Berlin University. In 1885 he replaced Hans von Bulow as the principal conductor of the Munich Orchestra. Strauss emerged from under his father's influence when he met Alexander Ritter, a composer, and the husband of one of the nieces of Richard Wagner. He abandoned his father's conservative style and began writing symphonic tone poems. In 1894, Strauss married soprano singer Pauline Maria de Ahna. She was famous for being dominant and ill-tempered, but she was also a source of inspiration to Strauss, resulting in the preferred use of the soprano voice in his compositions.
The image of Richard Strauss and his music was abused by the Nazi propaganda machine, to a point of damaging the composer's posthumous reputation. Richard Strauss was trapped in Nazi Germany just as the Russian intellectuals were under Stalin in the Soviet regime. Strauss' name and music was used by the Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, who appointed Strauss, without his consent, to the State Music Bureau, as a mask on the ugly regime. Strauss was commissioned to write the Olympic Hymn for the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. His cautious apolitical position was the only way to survive and to protect his daughter-in-law Alice, who was Jewish.
In 1935 Strauss was fired from his job at the State Music Bureau. He refused to remove from the playbill the name of his friend and opera librettist, the writer Stefan Zweig, who was Jewish. Later Gestapo intercepted a letter from Strauss to Zweig, where Strauss condemned the Nazis. Strauss' daughter-in-law Alice was placed under the house arrest in 1938. In 1942 Strauss managed to move his Jewish relatives to Vienna. There Alice and Strauss's son were later again arrested and imprisoned for two nights. Only Strauss' personal effort saved them. They were returned under house arrest until the end of the Second World War.
Richard Strauss died on September 8, 1949, in Garmish-Partenkirchen, Germany at the age of 85. Strauss' symphonic poem 'Also sprach Zarathustra' (Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 1896) was recorded under the baton of Herbert von Karajan and was used as the music score in '2001: A Space Odyssey' by director Stanley Kubrik, as well as in many other films.- Actress
- Additional Crew
- Soundtrack
Maria Landrock was born on 3 July 1923 in Köpenick, Berlin, Germany. She was an actress, known for Aufruhr im Damenstift (1941), Pedro soll hängen (1941) and Aus erster Ehe (1940). She died in 1992 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany.- Director
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Rudolf Noelte was born on 20 March 1921 in Berlin, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for The Castle (1968), Die Kassette (1961) and Woyzeck (1966). He was married to Cordula Trantow. He died on 7 November 2002 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany.- Tamme Hanken was born on 16 May 1960 in Filsum, Lower Saxony, Germany. He was married to Carmen Cürten. He died on 10 October 2016 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany.
- Actor
- Director
- Soundtrack
Fritz Kampers was born on 14 July 1891 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Three from the Filling Station (1930), Der Bettelstudent (1936) and Der Meister der Welt (1927). He died on 1 September 1950 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany.- Ota Filip was born on 9 July 1945 in Ostrava, Moravskoslezský, Czech Republic. He was an actor, known for The Brothers Grimm (2005), Hannibal Rising (2007) and Hostel (2005). He died on 10 August 2014 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany.
- Actress
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Liesl Karlstadt was born on 12 December 1892 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. She was an actress and writer, known for Fireworks (1954), Der Sonderling (1929) and Reise in die Vergangenheit (1943). She died on 27 July 1960 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany.- Gerhard Stolze was born on 1 October 1926 in Dessau, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. He was an actor, known for Die Entführung aus dem Serail (1969), Eugen Onegin (1972) and Das Rheingold (1978). He was married to Gerda Prochaska and Gabriele Gretschel. He died on 11 March 1979 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany.
- Cinematographer
- Director
- Camera and Electrical Department
Georg Krause was born on 15 April 1901 in Berlin, Germany. He was a cinematographer and director, known for The Devil Strikes at Night (1957), Paths of Glory (1957) and Unser Mittwochabend (1948). He died on 3 January 1986 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany.- Writer
- Director
Willy Purucker was born on 10 August 1925 in Munich, Germany. He was a writer and director, known for Löwengrube (1989), Tatort (1970) and Und keiner weint mir nach (1996). He died on 6 February 2015 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany.- Rolf Kalmuczak was born on 17 April 1938 in Nordhausen, Thuringia, Germany. He was a writer, known for Cliff Dexter (1966), Die Journalistin (1970) and Frühstück mit dem Tod (1964). He died on 10 March 2007 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany.
- Walter Franck was born on 16 April 1896 in Hüttensteinach, Saxe-Meiningen [now Thuringia], Germany. He was an actor, known for Bismarck (1940), Zwischen Hamburg und Haiti (1940) and Eskapade (1936). He died on 10 August 1961 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany.
- Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich, born Elisabeth Charlotte Henrich, was one of the most important classical scholars of East Germany. She was born in Munich, raised in Stuttgart and later in Berlin. She studied at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-University, today the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In 1925 she made her PhD in Economics. From 1928 until 1945 she worked at the Statistisches Reichsamt. Welskopf was since 1938 member of the resistance against the Nazis. She helped prisoners of the KZs and has hided the communist Rudolf Welskopf. In 1946 both married.
Since 1949 Welskopf worked as classical scientist at the Humboldt-University, since 1960 as full Professor. In 1964 she was elected as first female member into the German Scientific Academy of East Germany in Berlin. After her scientific career, Welskopf lead two private projects, "Die Hellenistische Polis" and "Sozialen Typenbegriffe im Alten Griechenland". For both ambitious projects she brought a lot of international scientists together and financed this - absolutely untypical for East Germany - with her own money.
Welskopf was very interested in history and culture of the american Indians, With "Die Söhne der Großen Bärin" she wrote a 6-volume, very successful, opus about the life of young Indian Harka, the later chief Tokei-ihto. The story and the figures are fictional, but the background of the stories was a at this time scientific one. With the 5-volume-work "Das Blut des Adlers" she later wrote about the followers of Tokei-ihto in the 1960s and 1970s. These books were written at first for young adults, but had also success in the adult segment. Welskopf wrote some more books for children, young adults and adults, so the autobiographic novel "Jan und Jutta". With the financial success she could finance her scientific researches. - Rosi Mittermaier was born on 5 August 1950 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. She was married to Christian Neureuther. She died on 4 January 2023 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany.
- Michael Ponti was an actor, known for Bruckners Entscheidung (1995) and Music on 2 (1965). He died on 17 October 2022 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Mathieu Ahlersmeyer was born on 29 June 1896 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was an actor, known for The Marriage of Figaro (1949), Die Dubarry (1951) and Das Fräulein von Scuderi (1955). He was married to Marcia Otten. He died on 23 July 1979 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany.- Composer
- Music Department
- Actor
Fritz Wenneis was born on 30 September 1889 in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He was a composer and actor, known for Ein Unsichtbarer geht durch die Stadt (1933), Artisten (1935) and Die Welt ohne Maske (1934). He died on 4 July 1969 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany.- Hans Stuck was born on 27 December 1900 in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. He was married to Christa-Maria Thielmann and Paula von Reznicek. He died on 8 February 1978 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany.
- Avery Brundage was born on 28 September 1887 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was married to Mariann Princess Reuss and Elizabeth Dunlap. He died on 8 May 1975 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany.
- Walter Korth was born on 22 June 1901 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was an actor, known for Hallo Taxi (1958). He died on 7 February 1965 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany.
- Maxi Baier was born on 8 October 1920 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. She was an actress, known for Der bunte Traum (1952), Gleichklang der Bewegung (1941) and Der Sport-Spiegel (1963). She was married to Ernst Baier. She died on 20 October 2006 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany.
- Producer
- Production Manager
- Director
Eberhard Meichsner was born on 20 November 1917 in Cologne, Germany. He was a producer and production manager, known for The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse (1964), Turbina (1941) and The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959). He died on 10 August 2001 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany.- Actor
- Writer
Friedrich Herzfeld was an actor and writer, known for Philharmoniker (1944) and Das Leben ist die größte Schau - Seltsame Geschichten und komische Begebenheiten (1964). He died on 19 June 1967 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany.- Lotte Klein was born on 13 June 1883 in Hamburg, Germany. She was an actress, known for Miracles Still Happen (1951), Das Fräulein und der Vagabund (1949) and Bühne frei für Marika (1958). She died on 24 July 1962 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany.
- Kurt Roecken was born on 18 June 1906 in Berlin, Germany. He was a writer, known for Kennwort Machin (1939), Kronjuwelen (1950) and Night of the Vampires (1964). He was married to Marta Klose and Eva Jessl. He died on 23 February 1985 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany.