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(A competitive field…)
He was outspoken, opinionated, and critical of many other artists and calligraphers.
But he could back up his talk with his talent.
Today he is remembered as one of the four great calligraphers of the Song dynasty – a dynasty that was filled with great calligraphers.
He was also one of the most skilled and knowledgeable calligraphers ever to have lived.
Biography
Family background
Mi Fu’s family traced their ancestry back five generations to Mi Xin (928 – 994 AD), a founding general of the Song dynasty and commandant of the Palace Guard.
This placed his family high up in Song society. They were considered a part of the trusted elite around the dynasty’s Zhao emperors.
Mi Fu’s father, Mi Zuo, was a military man, the general of the Left Guard. He was said to have enjoyed calligraphy and conversations with scholars.
And his mother, surnamed Yan, was a midwife and wetnurse to the imperial family.
The Mi family’s ethnic origins
The Mi family were likely originally from the Xi ethnicity, who were themselves originally descended from the Xianbei (Eastern Turks).
(This was the same group that the Tang dynasty (618 – 907 AD) emperors were partially descended from).
Some scholars believe that the Mi name originates from the ancient Mi kingdom (also known as the Sogdiana kingdom) in Central Asia (today’s Uzbekistan).
This heritage went back many generations. But during Mi’s lifetime he was sensitive about the issue, which some of his critics liked to play upon.
His more immediate eventually ended up in Taiyuan (in today’s Shanxi Province), which they later considered their ancestral home.
Mi Quan’s sacrifice
One story has it that a sad story haunted Mi Fu’s ancestors.
At one point, the family had settled in a town called Shuozhou (today’s Shuoxian, Shaanxi Province).
This area fell under the control of the Song dynasty’s northern rival, the Khitan empire.
Mi Quan had successfully undertaken the dangerous crossing to the Song border town of Daizhou. Once there, he waited for the rest of his family to join him
Unfortunately, they were caught by border guards. When Mi Quan realised, he faced north and wept, exclaiming:
I’ve heard loyalty to one’s ruler and faithfulness to one’s family cannot co-exist. Having decided to sacrifice my body for my country, how can I now attend to my family?
This story’s truth is impossible to verify. However, it would likely have served as a useful way to illustrate the Mi family’s loyalty to the Han-ruled Song dynasty.
Mi Xin’s crimes
After the Song dynasty began, Mi Xin was transferred over to the position of governor of Cangzhou (today’s Hebei Province).
He was illiterate and clearly unsuited to civil administration, so his role was given to a younger governor.
He even harassed civilians. Finally, when his troops beat a servant to death he was sent to prison, where he died.
Early life
Mi Fu (米芾 [Mǐ Fú]), courtesy name Yuan Zhang, was born in Xiangyang (today’s Xiangzhou, Hubei Province) in 1051 AD.
He was one of only two children (he had a sister).
Later on, he would often refer to himself as the ‘Wild Scholar of Xianyang’.
At some point, due to his mother’s work, his family seems to have lived in the prince Zhao Shu’s (1032 – 1067 AD) royal residence.
This meant that Mi Fu grew up with the elite aristocracy of the Song dynasty.
Here he was first exposed to networks of art collectors. This includes his friend, the famous artist and art collector Wang Shen (1048 – ca. 1103 AD).
Precocious child
Mi Fu did not take the imperial exams that defined the lives of so many educated men throughout Chinese history.
However, he grew up in a cultured, learned environment and shared his father’s inclinations in these areas.
By the age of six, he was reported to have memorised one hundred poems a day.
One of his oldest friends, Cai Zhao (? – 1119 AD), later reflected on Mi Fu as a youth.
By the age of six, Cai wrote, Mi Fu memorised one hundred poems a day. (Likely an exaggeration!). He added:
He was extremely knowledgeable and well-read. He worked hard at getting the general idea of something but disliked exam preparation studies. The opinions he expressed were all according to his own ideas.
– Cai Zhao, Grave Inscription for Mi Fu (ca. 1107 AD)
Mi Fu’s personality
Mi Fu’s contemporaries knew him as an eccentric and outspoken advocate of his own strong opinions.
He is also said to have been what today we would call ‘a clean freak’ or ‘germaphobe’, or perhaps OCD (“One Clean Dude…”).
He obsessively washed himself, including before each time he did calligraphy.
And he was a fanatical collector of works of art, calligraphy and even inkstones.
His outspokenness and eccentricity are clear in his writings and the apocryphal anecdotes about him.
But alongside his idiosyncrasies lied a hardworking and discerning drive.
He stood out for his loud voice and choice of clothes: he dressed in the fashion of the Tang dynasty, some three centuries before.
倾邪险怪诡诈不近人情人谓之颠…
元章喜服唐衣冠寛袖博带。人多怪之及洁疾器用不肯执持尝衣冠出谒帽檐髙不可乘肩舆乃彻其盖见者莫不惊笑。所为𩔖多如此。
…[Mi Fu] tended towards the unorthodox and strange. Craft and deceitful, he was detached from the feelings of others… Labelled mad, some objected to his name being in the register of court officials….
Yuanzhang [Mi Fu] liked to dress in the clothing of the Tang dynasty, with wide sleeves and a broad belt. Once, he had dressed up to pay his respects to another official, but the top of his hat was too tall to allow him into the sedan chair. Consequently, it poked through the roof of the chair. All who saw this were overcome with laughter. There are many stories of this kind.
– Zeng Minxing, Duxing Zazhi
Career
1070 AD: First job: Collator in the Palace Library
Mi Fu’s family connections no-doubt helped him secure his first job when he was 18 years old.
This was not unusual for the time. Despite their growing importance, the imperial exams were not a requirement for all officials.
He did not last long in this position. This has led many to speculate that it may be an early sign of his ability to offend others…
1070 AD: Sheriff at Hanguang
Throughout much of Chinese history, government officials being sent far away from the capital was often a sign of displeasure or even punishment.
As far as most were concerned, the further south a location was, the more uncomfortable and uncivilised things were.
(The tropical climate, with its increased risk of malaria, killed some officials).
Hanguang (today’s Yingde Prefecture, Guangdong Province) was approximately 870 miles (1400 KM) from the Song capital in Bianliang (today’s Kaifeng, Henan Province).
1074: Sheriff in Linggui
Mi Fu was only briefly in Linggui (today’s Guilin, Guanxi Province). However, here he began a friendship with the local prefect, Guan Ji.
Guan showed Mi Fu a traced copy of a work by the famous Tang dynasty calligrapher Yu Shinan (558 – 638 AD).
This is a good example of the kind of friendship based on shared connoisseurship that Mi Fu formed throughout his life.
The two of them stayed in touch – and sent one another calligraphy pieces – for many years.
1075 AD: Changsha, minor official
Aged 23, Mi took a relatively lowly position in Changsha in 1075. This was a large and prosperous city due to its position along China’s trade routes.
He was already more interested in using his position to view and collect calligraphy and paintings than carry out official work.
He navigated the region via its many canals and rivers. He named his houseboat (with a large sign): The Mi Family Calligraphy and painting Barge.
(His first – of twelve – children had been born around this time: Mi Youren (1074 – 1173 AD)).
One anecdote from this period illustrates another notable Mi Fu trait – his greedy cunning:
长沙之湘西，有道林、岳麓二寺，名刹也 。[….]
米老元章为微官时，游宦过其下，舣舟湘江，就寺主僧借观，一夕张帆携之遁。[….]
官为遣健步追取还，世以为口实也。
In the Xiangxi district of Changsha, there are two famous temples: Daolin and Yuelu….
Old Mi Yuanzhang [Mi Fu] toured this area during this period as he served in minor offices. He would moor his boat along the Xiang River. He approached the head abbot of the [Daolin] temple and requested to borrow a [famous] calligraphy plaque so that he could study it.
However, one night Mi Fu set off in his boat still in possession of the plaque.
The temple monks urgently made a formal complaint and a courier was sent to retrieve the work. This became the subject of great gossip.
– Cai Tao, The Iron-Enclosed Mountain: Collected Writings《铁围山丛谈卷第四》(ca. 1130 AD)
1081 – 1091 AD: Wandering scholar and collector
Mi Fu Spend approximately 10 years travelling China between 1081 – 1091.
His main goal was to visit private art collections across the empire. (There were no museums).
The nature of Mi’s activities during these years mean that his precise movements are difficult to trace. However, some interesting information exists.
During this time, his reputation as an expert, connoisseur and great calligrapher grew.
So too did his calligraphy collection.
We know that he spent a couple of years in Suzhou. Here he grew his collection via elderly brokers of rich families going through economic difficulties.
He even secured works by the great Jin dynasty calligraphers Wang Xizhi (303 – 361 AD) and his son Wang Xianzhi (344 – 386 AD). The most significant of these was Twelth Night.
He also befriended many well-known literary and political figures across the empire.
This included two who can both be considered a mix of these two categories: Wang Anshi (1021 – 1086 AD) and Su Shi (1137 – 1101 AD).
And he completed a book, Catalogue of Precious Calligraphy Specimens Visited (1088).
1092 AD: Magistrate at Yongqiu
Mi Fu resumed his career as an official in the summer of 1092.
He appears to have enthusiastically taken part in his role. His letters from the time show him concerned and busy with the work.
However, within a couple of years, he seems to was having problems.
He was investigated (and cleared) for improper handling of tax money and requested leave from his role on health grounds.
He was transferred to superintendent of Zhongyue Temple on Mount Song, Henan Province. This role required little responsibility and official duties.
1100 AD: Huizong is crowned
At the turn of the century, the young emperor Huizong (r. 1100 – 1126 AD).
At this point (between 1099 – 1101 AD), Mi Fu had been working on the state waterways around Lake Tai (in Jiangsu Province).
Amusingly, when he wrote to friends asking them to recommend him for office under Huizong, he suggested the wording, too:
[Mi Fu] relies on his own talents and has nothing to do with factions. He is old now and hampered by his qualifications. If it were his misfortune to die one day without having had the opportunity to enrich His Majesty’s enterprise and thus embellish His Majesty’s magnanimity, this official would consider it a pity.
– Quoted from Emperor Huizong by Patricia Buckley Ebrey (London: Harvard University Press, 2014), p. 204
At this time, Huizong’s chief minister Cai Jing (1047 – 1126 AD) is said to have remarked:
芾人品诚高，所谓不可无一，不可有二者也。
Mi Fu is the kind of person we must have one of, but cannot afford to have two of!
– He Yuan, Chuju Zhiwen 春渚纪闻
Gaining an inkstone from the emperor
One anecdote has it that his obsession with collecting inkstones led him to gaining a rare inkstone from the Huizong Emperor (1082 – 1135 AD) (a famously fanatical fan of art and art collecting).
After viewing the inkstone, Mi Fu told the emperor that ‘after a lowly commoner such as myself has touched it, it’s no longer fit for your majesty.’
上大笑，因以赐之。芾蹈舞以谢，即抱负趋出，馀墨霑渍袍袖，而喜见颜色。上顾蔡京曰：“颠名不虚得也。”
The emperor laughed loudly and gave it to Mi Fu as a gift. Fu danced a jig of thanks, clasping the inkstone as he hurried out. The remaining ink spilled onto his clothes, soiling his robe and sleeve, yet there was only a look of utter glee on his face.
The emperor looked at [Cai] Jing and said, “This reputation of being mad is not empty at all.”
– Ibid.
1107: Passes away
Mi Fu did not last long working under the emperor. Details about exactly why this is aren’t clear.
Either way, he was demoted and sent to a post in Jiangsu, where he died in 1107 AD.
In 2005, his grave was discovered in Qingyuan, Guangzhou Province. Clues to its whereabouts were found by a scholar looking through Qingyuan’s historical records.
Mi Fu’s calligraphy
金井寒生一水池，
读书窗纸照萤飞。
悲欢穷泰寻常共，
掷破还须匣取归。
Lonely waters [ink] appear within the golden well [inkstone],
Dragonflies glimmer by the paper window where I read.
Together we have shared sadness, joy, poverty, and wealth,
And when we are finally worn down, we’ll return via our boxes [like used inkstones put back in their boxes].
– ‘Inkstone’ by Mi Fu
Influences
Early in life, Mi Fu primarily studied the calligraphy of the two main famous eras for it: the Jin (266 – 420 AD) and Tang (618 – 907 AD) dynasties.
And in his Autobiographical Essay, he mentions studying and imitating the works of Tang dynasty masters, including Ouyang Xun (557 – 641 AD), Chu Suiliang (597 – 658 AD) and Liu Gongquan (778 – 865 AD).
Later on, Mi Fu’s good friend and general Song dynasty ‘renaissance man’ Su Shi (1037 – 1101 AD) encouraged him to study the words of the ‘two Wangs’.
These are the most admired calligrapher in Chinese history Wang Xizhi (303 AD – 361 AD) and his son, innovative regular and cursive script master Wang Xianzhi (344 – 386 AD).
Later on, he would try to stylistically escape or surpass their influence. Some critics believe that in his later career he achieved this.
Mi Fu’s Calligraphic Style
Mi is most famous for his running script calligraphy (the semi-cursive version of standard script).
His style shows clear influence of the famous Tang dynasty running script master Yan Zhenqing (709 – 785 AD) and one of the four masters of regular script Ouyang Xun (557 – 641 AD).
His fluent strokes vary between thick and thin and occasionally feature abrupt, sharp turns of the brush.
Overall, his characters vigorous and free-flowing. The spaces within and between them are even, despite the swiftness apparent in their strokes.
Perhaps Mi Fu’s most famous remarks on calligraphy come from an idiom he coined:
无垂不缩，无往不收
[wú chuí bù suō, wú wǎng bù shōu]
Each vertical stroke should end with a contraction, each horizontal one by turning back on itself
– Mi Fu
This quote emphasises the physical nature of calligraphy. It’s no coincidence that Mi Fu was also deeply interested in martial arts.
His friend, Su Shi, described Mi Fu’s style as ‘battleships in full sail, or war-horses charging into the enemy’s positions.’
One of the four great calligraphers of the Song dynasty
Mi Fu has long been considered one of the four great calligraphers of the Song dynasty. The other three are:
Cai Xiang (1012 – 1067): a famous reformist politician and influential calligraphy innovator
Su Shi (1037 – 1101): Mi Fu’s friend and one of the most famous intellectuals and artists in Chinese history
Huang Tingjian (1045 – 1105): the cursive script master with calligraphy that looked like ‘ripples on water’.
All four figures lived during the Northern Song period, which was later cherished as the Song dynasty’s cultural and political golden age.
Shuazi
Mi Fu was inspired by the calligrapher Duan Jizhan to adopt a calligraphic method termed shuazi (which can be roughly translated as ‘coating’ or ‘whitewashing’).
It involves calligraphers apply ink to paper or silk in the same manner they would on a wall. The idea is to maintain a steady rhythm that applies the right amount of ink evenly.
(Mi Fu liked to write on walls after drinking, and even apologised to friends for doing so at times!).
Mi Fu’s artistic philosophy
Mi Fu practiced calligraphy very diligently each day. In doing so, he believed he was emulating the ancients. But at the same time, he also liked to emphasise how he treated calligraphy as ‘just a game’.
何必识难字， 辛苦笑扬雄。
自古为字人， 用字或不通。
要之皆一戏， 不当问拙工。
意足我自足， 放笔一戏空。
Is it really necessary to recognise difficult characters?
We laugh at the lengths Yang Xiong went to.
Since ancient times, calligraphers
Have not known [all] characters correctly.
It’s all just a game.
One shouldn’t question clumsiness or skill.
If my mind is satisfied, then I am satisfied.
When I put down the brush, the game is over.
– ‘Reply To Shaopeng’s Remarks on Being Unable to Read Difficult Characters’, Mi Fu
The Song dynasty was a period when the concept of scholar-artists developed greatly.
These were usually officials, or at least independent and educated individuals who expressed themselves with calligraphy, painting, and poetry.
They saw themselves as different to the more technically proficient artists hired by the government to work on realistic, official paintings and murals.
Unlike this group, who worked for money, scholar-artists saw their work as a reflection of their inner cultivation of Daoist, Confucian, and Buddhist principles.
The reality wasn’t always so clear cut. But intellectuals such as Mi Fu, Su Shi, and others, often thought and wrote about art theory in these terms.
They also emphasised the individual nature of art. Each artist must pursue their own path, wherever it may lead. Unlike professional artists, commissioned to represent others’ orders, the scholar-artist has to find his own vision.
A good example of this ethos can even be seen in how Mi Fu wrote about his beloved inkstones.
He often painted scenes of hilly landscapes in mist or just before rain. When doing this, Mi declared that an exact model was not needed.
Generally, in painting animals and human figures, one does a sketch and it resembles the object, but in doing landscapes, reproduction will not succeed. In landscapes, the level at which the artist’s mind is satisfied is high.
– On Painting, Mi Fu
As in calligraphy, Mi felt that it was the artist’s mind and self-expression was more important than technical abilities. | |||||
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One reason for the peripheral focus in this regard is surely its wide reception as being of generally lesser artistic value than Huang’s painting, and its labeling thus as merely “painters calligraphy” (huajia zi 畫家字). The present thesis seeks to counter this lack in scholarship. Here, special attention is paid to the aesthetic concept of neimei, “interior beauty”, which finds particular pronunciation in Huang Binhong’s brush-and-ink art. As a concept primarily stemming from this artist’s theoretical and practical dealings with calligraphy, neimei 內美 constitutes the core of Huang’s aesthetic terminology; one that is, moreover, reiterated in discourse on his art––inasmuch as it appears to comply with certain themes running through the narratives of Chinese art history up to the present day. It is argued that an investigation of this ubiquitous (yet all the more elusive) concept can effectively expose neimei as a highly charged discursive term manifesting a set of aesthetic ideas and ideals, and with this, certain body-related inhibitions that underlie art criticism and theory on the traditional brush-and-ink arts in China. In assessing various meanings and implications of neimei in an art historiographical context, a grave discrepancy that prevails among symptomatically dichotomous, essentialist conceptions of “interior mind” and “outer form”, respectively, can be revealed. Against this backdrop, one of the aims of the study is to show in what way a decidedly somaesthetic approach allows us to reconsider presumedly familiar issues: specifically, the art of Huang Binhong, whom we foremost know as a landscape painter, especially through his much-praised, idiosyncratic late-period style, widely understood as a testimony to his accomplishments within the Chinese tradition of literati ink painting; and, more broadly, the complex phenomenon of calligraphy (shufa 書法) itself, particular to the cultures and art histories of China, and whose inadequate translation as “beautiful writing” (derived from the Greek terms kallós κάλλος [beauty] and gráphein γράφειν [to write]) carries notoriously misleading implications. The title of the study, with its designation of “inner workings”, addresses the inner workings of calligraphy as a classical genre of Chinese literati art theory and practice in its entirety: a formal and material system of brush and ink methods, aesthetic frameworks, and established traditions of style. Moreover, the study encompasses the larger scope of Chinese brush-and-ink discourse, and its inner workings as a recursive space of art historiographical construction; an ideologically framed, and time and again highly contested domain that possesses essentially self-sustaining qualities of sociopolitical nature. --- Beschreibung: Angesichts des Status von Huang Binhong 黃賓虹 (1865–1955) innerhalb der Kunstgeschichte als einer der wichtigsten Vertreter der chinesischen Tuschekunst des vergangenen Jahrhunderts ist es eine bemerkenswerte Tatsache, dass sein Schaffenswerk trotz eines geradezu überfülligen Maßes an vorhandenen Forschungspublikationen ein bislang nur unzureichend systematisch untersuchtes Gebiet aufweist: Zwar hat dieses in vergangenen Jahren bereits mehr Berücksichtigung in der Forschung erhalten, dennoch stellt das schriftkünstlerische Werk Huang Binhongs nach wie vor ein Forschungsdesiderat dar. Die periphäre Aufmerksamkeit diesbezüglich ist sicherlich der Tatsache mitverschuldet, dass Huang Binhongs Kalligrafie im Vergleich zu seiner Malerei im Allgemeinen als qualitativ geringfügiger rezipiert und entsprechend als sogenannte „Malerkalligrafie“ (huajia zi 畫家字) herabgewürdigt worden ist. Die vorliegende Arbeit sucht diesem Defizit entgegenzuwirken. Hierbei wird das ästhetische Konzept neimei 內美, „innerliche Schönheit“, in den Fokus genommen, welches im Kontext von Huang Binhongs Pinsel-und-Tusche-Kunst partikuläre Formulierung findet. Primär der theoretischen und praktischen Auseinandersetzung Huang Binhongs mit der Kalligrafie entstammend steht neimei im Kern der ästhetischen Terminologie dieses Künstlers. Darüber hinaus stellt neimei einen Begriff dar, der auch im Kunstdiskurs über Huang Binhong bis hin zur Gegenwart Wiederholung findet, so dieser mit bestimmten Narrativen der chinesischen Kunstgeschichte übereinzustimmen scheint. In der Arbeit wird argumentiert, dass eine Untersuchung dieses omnipräsenten (dafür umso diffuseren) Begriffs es vermag, neimei als eine bedeutungsvoll aufgeladene Idee effektiv zu exponieren, in welcher sich ein Rahmenwerk ästhetischer Ideen und Ideale manifestiert, dem bestimmte, körperbezogene Voreingenommenheiten in der Kunstkritik und -theorie über die traditionellen Pinsel-und-Tusche-Künste Chinas zugrunde liegen. Durch die Eruierung verschiedener Bedeutungen und Implikationen von neimei im kunsthistoriografischen Kontext kann eine gravierende Diskrepanz deutlich gemacht werden, welche symptomatisch auf einem essenzialisierenden Binarismus „inneren Geistes“ und „äußerer Form“ beruht. Vor diesem Hintergrund besteht ein Anliegen der Arbeit darin aufzuzeigen, auf welche Weise eine dezidiert somästhetische Betrachtung es uns ermöglicht, vermeintlich vertraute Themenkomplexe zu überdenken und neu zu betrachten: im Speziellen, das Schaffen Huang Binhongs, welches uns vor allem durch Huangs Landschaftsmalerei bekannt ist, hier insbesondere in Form der hoch gepriesenen Spätwerke, die als Zeugnis der Errungenschaften des Künstlers auf dem Gebiet der traditionellen chinesischen Literatenmalerei verstanden werden; und im erweiterten Sinne, das komplexe kulturspezifische Phänomen der chinesischen Kalligrafie (shufa 書法) selbst, welches mit der defizitären Übersetzung als „Schönschrift“ notorisch irreführende Implikationen trägt. Die Bezeichnung des „Innenlebens“ bzw. „inneren Getriebes“ im Titel der Arbeit adressiert das Gebiet der Kalligrafie in seiner Gesamtheit als klassisches Genre chinesischer Literatenkunst in Theorie und Praxis: ein formales und materielles System von Pinsel- und Tuschemethoden, etablierten ästhetischen Gerüsten und stilistischen Traditionen. Überdies beabsichtigt die Arbeit den weiter gefassten Geltungsbereich eines inneren Getriebes von Pinsel-und-Tusche- Diskurs als rekursives Feld der kunsthistoriografischen Konstruktion abzustecken; eine ideologisch geprägte, zuweilen stark umfochtene Domäne, welche essenziell selbsterhaltende Qualitäten soziopolitischer Natur besitzt. URL: https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/1580?show=full | |||||
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Hans Schweikart was born on October 1, 1895, in Berlin, Berlin, Germany. His birth geographical coordinates are 52° 31’ 28” North latitude and 13° 24’ 38” East longitude, with an altitude of 74 meters above sea level. Hans Schweikart passed away at the age of 80 in 1975.
Astrologically, Hans Schweikart falls under the Sun sign of Libra, with Sagittarius as his Ascendant, Pisces as his Moon sign, and Pisces as his Black Moon Lilith sign.
Planets
Planets represent different aspects of personality, life themes, and energies within a birth chart, influencing individual characteristics, motivations, and experiences.
Planets in Signs
Planets in a zodiac sign denote how the energies and qualities associated with those planets express themselves within the context of the themes and attributes of that particular zodiac sign.
Sun Libra Moon Pisces Mercury Scorpio Venus Virgo Mars Libra Jupiter Leo Saturn Scorpio Uranus Scorpio Neptune Gemini Pluto Gemini Ceres Capricorn Chiron Libra Eros Leo Hygiea Aquarius Juno Capricorn Pallas Sagittarius Vesta Aquarius Ascendant Sagittarius Black Moon Lilith Pisces Midheaven Libra North Node Pisces South Node Virgo Part of Fortune Taurus Vertex Cancer
Sunin Libra8° 1’ 4”
The Sun in Libra in the Natal Chart makes you compassionate. You are artistic and sincere, making others comfortable. You can be friendly and attract […] Read more »
Moonin Pisces10° 50’ 2”
The Moon in Pisces in the Natal Chart makes you expressive and inspiring. You are sensitive and understand other people’s needs. You are gentle and […] Read more »
Mercuryin Scorpio3° 36’ 3”
Mercury in Scorpio in the Natal Chart makes you intense and focused. You are thoughtful and communicate your strategic ideas. You are determined to succeed […] Read more »
Venusin Virgo19° 37’ 12”
Virgo Venus in the Natal Chart makes you helpful and innocent in relationships. You seek ways to nurture others. You are charming and can be […] Read more »
Marsin Libra11° 15’ 28”
Libra Mars in the Natal Chart makes you long for balance. You are motivated to express your unique fantasies and find the passion and motivation […] Read more »
Jupiterin Leo4° 37’ 8”
Leo Jupiter in the Natal Chart makes you open about your ideals. You pursue your desires and can be creative and expressive. You are charming, […] Read more »
Saturnin Scorpio6° 14’ 9”
Is Saturn in Scorpio good or bad? Scorpio Saturn in the Natal Chart is an ideal placement for a generation obsessed with security and power. […] Read more »
Uranusin Scorpio17° 45’ 51”
Uranus in Scorpio in the Natal Chart makes you eager to pursue your higher mission. You are focused and obsessed with rebelling against the status […] Read more »
Neptunein Gemini18° 2’ 1”
Gemini Neptune in the Natal Chart is an ideal placement for a generation with a desire to find unity through communication. You are part of […] Read more »
Plutoin Gemini12° 41’ 41”
Gemini Pluto in the Natal Chart makes you part of a generation born to change how people communicate. Your generation shifts the power and helps […] Read more »
Ceresin Capricorn2° 41’ 45”
Ceres in Capricorn in the Natal Chart indicates a generation committed to making others comfortable. You are sensitive to others’ needs and can be compassionate […] Read more »
Chironin Libra14° 5’ 1”
Chiron in Libra in the Natal Chart makes you devoted to helping society embrace healing and balance. You bring harmony to the world by showing […] Read more »
Erosin Leo18° 58’ 35”
Leo Eros in the Natal Chart makes you an intense lover. You crave attention in the bedroom and find admiration arousing. You are excited to […] Read more »
Hygieain Aquarius16° 19’ 40”
Aquarius Hygiea in the Natal Chart makes you stand out from the crowd for an unusual take on healing and wellness. You follow strange habits […] Read more »
Junoin Capricorn13° 39’ 21”
Juno in Capricorn in the Natal Chart makes you a supportive partner. You prioritize your family and work diligently to provide for your loved ones. […] Read more »
Pallasin Sagittarius18° 8’ 50”
Pallas in Sagittarius in the Natal Chart makes you determined and focused. You are generous and can be a natural leader who inspires others to […] Read more »
Vestain Aquarius25° 48’ 30”
Vesta in Aquarius in the Natal Chart indicates a unique perspective. You can be rebellious and devoted to breaking tradition. You are passionate about your […] Read more »
Ascendantin Sagittarius8° 40’ 46”
Sagittarius Ascendant in the Natal Chart makes you daring and passionate. You are intense and can be determined to succeed. You can be enthusiastic and […] Read more »
Black Moon Lilithin Pisces11° 25’ 36”
Pisces Black Moon Lilith in the Natal Chart makes you daring and excitable. You are rebellious in relationships and can be dreamy and erotic in […] Read more »
Midheavenin Libra9° 4’ 34”
The Libra Midheaven in the Natal Chart makes you an ideal marriage and relationship counselor. You are imaginative and help others express love and beauty. […] Read more »
North Nodein Pisces11° 22’ 15”
Pisces North Node in the Natal Chart makes you more open to your spiritual mission. You are influenced by your moods and can be prone […] Read more »
South Nodein Virgo11° 22’ 15”
Virgo South Node in the Natal Chart indicates you are a humble and comforting person. You have a grounded personality and can be gentle and […] Read more »
Part of Fortunein Taurus11° 29’ 44”
Taurus Part of Fortune in the Natal Chart makes you genuine and trusting. You are transparent and can be reliable and patient. You are grounded […] Read more »
Vertexin Cancer23° 53’ 10”
Cancer Vertex in the Natal Chart makes you affectionate and loving. Your instincts can bring you closer to your purpose. Your destiny relies on your […] Read more »
Planets in Elements
Planets in elements denote how the fundamental energies and qualities associated with those planets interact with the elemental nature of the signs they inhabit, shaping an individual’s overall temperament and approach to life.
Air Element
The air element in astrology corresponds to three signs; Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius. This element is associated with new insights and perspectives. The air element […] Read more »
Water Element
Astrologers and other occultists study the water element to understand emotional healing. This element relates to love and compassion. Numerous planets in water signs in […] Read more »
Earth Element
The earth element in astrology is associated with practicality and grounding. This element is associated with career and wealth. Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn are signs […] Read more »
Fire Element
The fire element in astrology is associated with passion and motivation. This element brings creativity and intensifies planets and natal houses. Your competitive nature comes […] Read more »
Planets in Qualities
Planets in qualities signify how the inherent attributes and tendencies of those planets align with the modalities of the signs they occupy, influencing an individual’s style of action, decision-making, and engagement with the world.
Mutable Quality
The third Quality astrological signs are grouped into is mutable. Mutable Signs come at the end of a season. Mutable Signs are associated with flexibility […] Read more »
Fixed Quality
The second Quality in astrology is the Fixed modality. Fixed Signs follow the Cardinal Signs, bringing strength and endurance. These signs build upon the foundation […] Read more »
Cardinal Quality
The Cardinal quality in astrology is associated with new seasons and initiative. Cardinal signs mark the equinoxes and solstices. The Cardinal modality represents the extremes […] Read more »
Planets in Houses
Planets in a zodiac house signify where in life’s areas and experiences the energies and influences of those planets are predominantly focused and expressed.
Sun Ninth House Moon Third House Mercury Tenth House Venus Ninth House Mars Tenth House Jupiter Eighth House Saturn Eleventh House Uranus Eleventh House Neptune Seventh House Pluto Seventh House Ceres First House Chiron Tenth House Eros Eighth House Hygiea Second House Juno First House Pallas First House Vesta Second House Black Moon Lilith Third House North Node Third House South Node Ninth House Part of Fortune Fifth House Vertex Eighth House
Aspects
Aspects reveal the dynamic relationships and interactions between planets within a birth chart, influencing the way their energies combine and manifest in an individual’s life experiences and personality traits.
Within this birth chart, there are 19 major aspects, alongside 21 minor aspects, as well as 8 extra aspects.
Major Aspects
Major aspects highlight significant connections between planets, providing insights into key dynamics, challenges, and potentials shaping an individual’s life journey and psychological makeup.
Moon Quincunx Mars Uranus Quincunx Neptune Mercury Square Jupiter Mars Trine Pluto Moon Square Pluto Venus Sextile Uranus Venus Square Neptune Jupiter Square Saturn Sun Quincunx Moon Sun Conjunct Mars Sun Sextile Jupiter Mercury Conjunct Saturn Sun Trine Pluto Moon Trine Saturn Neptune Conjunct Pluto Moon Trine Mercury Moon Trine Uranus Venus Square Pluto Mars Trine Neptune
Explore detailed articles on the major aspects in this birth chart, gaining deeper insights into this cosmic identity. Dive into each aspect and uncover how it shapes Hans Schweikart’s life journey.
Moon Quincunx Marsorb: 0°
When the Moon is quincunx Mars in a Natal Chart, there will be many inconsistencies in how this person expresses their emotions. Emotional outbursts are […] Read more »
Uranus Quincunx Neptuneorb: 0°
Uranus quincunx Neptune in a chart creates conflict between Neptune’s idealism and Uranus’ eccentricity. They may feel they are being pulled back and forth by […] Read more »
Mercury Square Jupiterorb: 1°
Mercury square Jupiter in a Natal Chart can create the desire to succeed but an inability to follow through and do the necessary work. Someone […] Read more »
Moon Square Plutoorb: 2°
The Moon square Pluto in a Natal Chart can bring a lot of challenges, but it also comes with huge benefits if a person can […] Read more »
Venus Sextile Uranusorb: 2°
Venus sextile Uranus in a chart typically indicates that a person is open-minded, artistic, and innovative. They are likely noticeably unique or different in some […] Read more »
Sun Quincunx Moonorb: 3°
The Sun quincunx Moon pulls you in conflicting directions. In the Natal Chart, this aspect can challenge you to be true to yourself. You have […] Read more »
Sun Conjunct Marsorb: 3°
Your Natal Chart aspects describe your personality and individualistic qualities. These placements create a lifelong influence on your personality. When the Sun is conjunct Mars […] Read more »
Sun Sextile Jupiterorb: 3°
The Sun sextile Jupiter in the Natal Chart makes you idealistic and expansive. You are outgoing and love meeting new people and can be thoughtful […] Read more »
Mercury Conjunct Saturnorb: 3°
Mercury conjunct Saturn in the Natal Chart makes you a practical and traditional thinker. You are stoic and hold firm beliefs. You are not adaptable […] Read more »
Sun Trine Plutoorb: 5°
The Sun trine Pluto in a Natal Chart makes you self-assured and intense. You have a magnetic personality and exude charm. You may be mysterious […] Read more »
Moon Trine Saturnorb: 5°
The Moon trine Saturn in a chart typically indicates that a person is self-reliant, emotionally mature, and calm. They express their emotions instead of hiding […] Read more »
Neptune Conjunct Plutoorb: 5°
Neptune conjunct Pluto in a chart typically creates the energy for intense evolution. This transformative aspect can connect someone to the unconscious mind and allow […] Read more »
Moon Trine Mercuryorb: 7°
When the Moon trines Mercury, there is a strong connection between the mind and the heart. It is not difficult for a person with this […] Read more »
Moon Trine Uranusorb: 7°
The Moon trine Uranus in a chart typically brings a free, innovative, and unique energy. Someone with this aspect in their Natal Chart might be […] Read more »
Minor Aspects
Minor aspects represent subtler connections between planets, offering additional nuances and layers of interpretation to understand more detailed influences on an individual’s personality and experiences.
Mars Quincunx Black Moon Lilith Mars Quincunx North Node Mars Quincunx Part of Fortune Neptune Opposite Pallas Sun Sextile Ascendant Sun Conjunct Midheaven Moon Conjunct Black Moon Lilith Moon Conjunct North Node Moon Opposite South Node Moon Sextile Part of Fortune Mercury Sextile Ceres Venus Square Pallas Uranus Square Eros Uranus Square Hygiea Neptune Sextile Eros Pluto Trine Chiron Pluto Quincunx Juno Pluto Square Black Moon Lilith Pluto Square North Node Pluto Square South Node Neptune Trine Hygiea
Discover additional layers of meaning with this collection of articles on the minor aspects found in Hans Schweikart’s birth chart. Delve deeper into these cosmic nuances to gain a richer understanding of this astrological profile.
Mars Quincunx Black Moon Lilithorb: 0°
Mars quincunx Black Moon Lilith in a chart indicates that Mars’ passion and assertiveness are not aligned with Black Moon Lilith’s desire for freedom, expression, […] Read more »
Mars Quincunx North Nodeorb: 0°
Mars quincunx the North Node in a chart creates tension between the ambitious nature of Mars and the life path the North Node sets a […] Read more »
Mars Quincunx Part of Fortuneorb: 0°
Mars quincunx the Part of Fortune in a chart can cause a disconnect between Mars’ confidence, assertive, and driven side and the Part of Fortune’s […] Read more »
Sun Sextile Ascendantorb: 1°
The Sun sextile Ascendant in the Natal Chart makes you friendly and entertaining. You have a gift for sharing your creative talents. Being around friends […] Read more »
Sun Conjunct Midheavenorb: 1°
The Sun conjunct Midheaven makes you outspoken and authentic. You openly share your talents and align your unique abilities with your public status. You are […] Read more »
Moon Conjunct Black Moon Lilithorb: 1°
The Moon conjunct Black Moon Lilith in the Natal Chart makes you dramatic and expressive. You are intuitive and can be frightened by your inner […] Read more »
Moon Conjunct North Nodeorb: 1°
The Moon conjunct North Node in a Natal Chart gives you a soul-level urge to push through barriers and pursue your mission. You strive to […] Read more »
Extra Aspects
Extra aspects, though less emphasized than major or minor aspects, contribute subtle nuances and intricacies to the overall astrological interpretation, offering additional insights into an individual’s personality traits and life experiences.
Chiron Square Juno Ascendant Sextile Midheaven Black Moon Lilith Conjunct North Node Black Moon Lilith Opposite South Node Black Moon Lilith Sextile Part of Fortune North Node Sextile Part of Fortune South Node Trine Part of Fortune Eros Trine Pallas
Explore how these extra aspects contribute to the intricate tapestry of Hans Schweikart’s life path through subtler influences. Dive into each extra aspect and uncover the hidden gems that shape a unique cosmic identity.
Black Moon Lilith Sextile Part of Fortuneorb: 0°
Black Moon Lilith sextile of the Part of Fortune in the Natal Chart makes you ambitious and determined to succeed. You are true to your […] Read more »
North Node Sextile Part of Fortuneorb: 0°
The North Node sextile of the Part of Fortune in the Natal Chart makes you open to embracing your destiny. You face growth and advancement […] Read more »
South Node Trine Part of Fortuneorb: 0°
The South Node trine the Part of Fortune in the Natal Chart makes you comfortable and secure with your past. You avoid change and seek […] Read more »
Houses
A house starting in a zodiac sign indicates the area of life where the qualities and themes of that sign are particularly emphasized and influential within an individual’s birth chart. | ||||
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German actor Otto Gebuhr (1877 – 1954) appeared in 102 films between 1917 and 1962 (!). He is best known for his interpretation of Friedrich II (Frederick the Great), a role he played in 16 films and countless stage performances. He was one the most famous actors of the Weimar period, and thanks to his authoratitive roles the Nazis gave him the title Actor of the State.
Otto Gebuhr was born in 1877, Kettwig (now Essen), Germany. He was the son of merchant Otto Gebuhr and his wife Fanny Mathilde, nee Moll. He grew up in Hulsenbusch, a part of Gummersbach, and after his father’s death in Koln (Cologne). After attending gymnasium he had a trade training at a wool firm. In 1896 he worked as a correspondent in foreign languages for a firm in Berlin, but he also had acting classes. For a while he then worked as a strolling actor till he got a contract at the Stadttheater Gorlitz. From 1898 till 1908 he worked at the Koniglichen Hoftheater in Dresden, and till 1914 at the Lessingtheater and the Theater in der Koniggratzer Stra?e, both in Berlin. During the First World War he was an army volunteer for the field artillery regiment and became a second lieutenant. After this he worked from 1917 till 1919 for famous director Max Reinhardt at the Deutschen Theater in Berlin. At the same time he began to appear in films. His film debut was Der Richter/The Judge (1917, Hans Land) for the Messter company. Gebuhr was a look-a-like of king Friedrich II (1712-1786), and ‘Friedrich dem Gro?en’ would become his role of a lifetime. Introduced by his colleague Paul Wegener, director Carl Boese cast him as the king of Prussia in the silent film Die Tanzerin Barberina (1920, Carl Boese). The role would become his breakthrough. He would play Friedrich several times, but initially in the very successful, four-part-film-series Fridericus Rex (1920-1923). To his other well-known silent films belong the crime film Whitechapel (1920, Ewald Andre Dupont), the worldwide success Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam/The Golem: How He Came Into the World (1920, Carl Boese, Paul Wegener), Wilhelm Tell (1923, Rudolf Dworsky, Rudolf Walther-Fein), Die Perucke/The Wig (1925, Berthold Viertel), Die Gesunkenen/The Sunken (1925, Rudolf Walther-Fein, Rudolf Dworsky) and Waterloo (1928, Karl Grune).
After the introduction of the sound film, Otto Gebuhr again had a huge success as the king of Prussia in Flotenkonzert in Sanssouci/The Flute Concert of Sans-Souci (1930, Gustav Ucicky). He repeats his role in Die Tanzerin von Sanssouci/Barberina (1932, Friedrich Zelnik) at the side of Lil Dagover and Hans Stuwe. He was the cinematic incarnation of the heroic prussian. His type was popular during the Third Reich. Gebuhr was a voluntarily pawn in the propaganda machine of the Nazis and appeared in several films, including Fridericus (1937, Johannes Meyer) with Lil Dagover, as the ‘First National Socialist’, like propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels had called him. In 1938 he gave Gebuhr the titel Staatsschauspieler (Actor of the State). He is then one of the four highest paid and most famous actors of Germany (the others were Heinz Ruhmann, Hans Albers and Heinrich George). Among his entertainment films were Der Choral von Leuthen/The Anthem of Leuthen (1933, Carl Froelich, Arzen von Cserepy) with Olga Tschechowa, Nanon (1938, Herbert Maisch) with Johannes Heesters, and Casanova heiratet/Casanova Marries (1939, Viktor de Kowa), big hits. Some of his roles, like Blucher in Waterloo (1928) and the king of Saxony in Bismarck (1940, Wolfgang Liebeneiner), had the same authoritative features as Friedrich II. He again appeared as Friedrich II in Veit Harlan’s epic Der gro?e Konig/The Great King (1942, Veit Harlan). Till the end of the Third Reich he appeared in more light entertainment films like Immensee (1943, Veit Harlan) starring Kristina Soderbaum and Carl Raddatz, Die goldene Spinne/The Golden Spider (1943, Erich Engels), and Der Erbforster/The Hereditary Forester (1945, Alois Johannes Lippl).
From 1947 on Otto Gebuhr was permitted to work again in the theatre. His first post-war film was the drama …und uber uns der Himmel/ …and the Sky Above Us (1947, Josef von Baky) starring Hans Albers. Till his death he appeared in many entertainment films. He played the odd companion or the cheerful senile maverick in such Heimatfilms as Melodie des Schicksals/Melody of Destiny (1950, Hans Schweikart) with Brigitte Horney, and Grun ist die Heide/The Heath Is Green (1951, Hans Deppe) starring Sonja Ziemann and Rudolf Prack. Again he also appeared under the direction of Veit Harlan in Unsterbliche Geliebte/Immortal Beloved (1951) with Kristina Soderbaum. His final film Die Blonde Frau des Maharadscha/The Blonde Wife of the Maharadja, (1962, Veit H
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 676/1, 1919-1924. Photo: Decla-Ufa-Film. Publicity still for Die Nibelungen (1924, Fritz Lang).
Margarete Schon (1895 – 1985) is best known for her role as Kriemhild, the beautiful but revengeful princess of Burgundy in Fritz Lang’s silent epic Die Nibelungen (1924). The career of this German stage and film actress spanned nearly fifty years.
Margarete Schon was born as Margarete Schippang in Magdeburg, Germany in 1895. She received private acting lessons with the theatre actor Hans Calm in Dessau. In 1912 she made her stage debut in Bad Freienwalde. Shortly thereafter, she received a commitment at the municipal theatre of Bromberg (now, Bydgoszcz, Poland). From 1915 to 1918 she was part of the ensemble cast of the Deutsches Theater in Hannover, and from 1918 to 1945 she performed at the Staatstheater Berlin (Berlin State Theatre). According to Wikipedia and IMDb, Schon made her film debut in the silent Du meine Himmelskonigin/You are my queen of heaven (1919, Carl Wilhelm). Philippe Pelletier at Cine Artistes and Thomas Staedeli at Cyranos write that her first appearance was a year earlier, in Schirokko (1918, Edmund Heuberger) with Kurt Brenkendorf. She would spend the next years in small roles for directors Carl Froelich, Hanna Henning, and Walter Schmidthassler. She had bigger parts in Die Pflicht zu leben/The obligation to live (1919, Carl Wilhelm) with Reinhold Schunzel, and Die goldene Krone/The Golden Crown (1920, Alfred Halm) starring Henny Porten. She worked several times with the Danish director Robert Dinesen who was her husband at the time. Among their films were Frauen vom Gnadenstein/Women of Gnadenstein (1920, Joe May, Robert Dinesen), and Der Leidensweg der Inge Krafft/Inge Krafft’s Calvary (1921, Robert Dinesen) featuring Mia May. Schon had a leading role as Hannele’s (Margarete Schlegel) mother in the popular drama Hanneles Himmelfahrt/ Hannele’s Ascension (1922, Urban Gad), based on the Traumgedicht (dream poem) by Gerhart Hauptman. For Frederic Zelnik she appeared in Erniedrigte und beleidigte (1922) starring Lya Mara. Then she really became a star after the release of Fritz Lang’s two-part mythical fantasy Die Nibelungen (1924). Lang and his wife at the time, Thea von Harbou, had written a script based on the epic poem Nibelungenlied written around AD 1200. Schon had a starring role as the vengeful Kriemhild, opposite Paul Richter as the epic hero Siegfried. Its success would cement her popularity in Germany and she achieved international recognition as an actress. Strangely, there was not a real follow-up film. She appeared in several unremarkable films and in the more interesting films, like her husband’s Der Weg durch die Nacht/The Way Through the Night (1929, Robert Dinesen), she only had a supporting part.
Margarete Schon made the transition to sound films with ease and through the 1930’s and 1940’s she was a popular character actress. She often portrayed parts as the wife or the mother. For the UFA she played princess Amalie in Das flotenkonzert von Sans-Souci/The Flute Concert of Sans-Souci (1930, Gustav Ucicky) starring Otto Gebuhr as King Frederick II of Prussia, Madame Mercier in the Chopin biography Abschiedswalzer/Farewell Waltz (1934, Geza von Bolvary), and the mother of Ilse Werner in Ihr erstes Erlebnis/Her First Experience (1939, Joseph von Baky). In 1931 she even co-directed a film herself, Schon ist die Manoverzeit/Manoeuver Time Is Fine (1931, Margarete Schon, Erich Schonfelder) with Ida Wust. It would stay her only direction. During the Second World War she appeared in approximately ten films, but generally avoided roles in Nazi propaganda films and stayed decidedly apolitical. One exception was an uncredited bit part in Veit Harlan’s nationalistic film Kolberg (1945, Veit Harlan) starring Heinrich George. One of her most popular roles of the era was the character Frau Knauer opposite Heinz Ruhmann in the classic comedy Die Feuerzangenbowle/The Punch Bowl (1944, Helmut Weiss) for Terra-Filmkunst studios. After the Second World War, Schon worked extensively for the radio and also worked as a voice actor for the synchronisation of foreign films. From 1948 to 1950 she played for the Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft (DEFA), the state-owned film studio of East Germany. There she appeared in small roles in such films as Affaire Blum/The Blum Affair (1948, Erich Engel) about an anti-Semitic court case in Weimar Germany, Die blauen Schwerter/The Blue Swords (1949, Wolfgang Schleif) starring Hans Quest as the inventor of blue porcelain, and the biography Semmelweis – Retter der Mutter/Dr. Semmelweis (1950, Georg C. Klaren) with Kathe Braun. Back in West-Germany she had parts in such films as the thriller Rittmeister Wronski/Cavalry Captain Wronski (1954, Ulrich Erfurth) starring Willi Birgel, and Oberwachtmeister Borck/Sergeant Borck (1955, Gerhard Lamprecht). Her last screen appearance was in the TV film Ich r | ||
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(CNN) -- We received thousands of e-mails in the days after December's tsunamis from people seeking news of friends and relatives in areas affected by the disaster.
The e-mails are alphabetized by the missing person's last name. E-mails received before December 29 are not sorted.
A-H | I-O | P-Z | Unalphabetized | Bottom
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Padi, Tolga Sevel
Tolga Sevel Padi, diving instructor, working in and around Koh Lanta.
Palynx
I am trying to locate my e-mail pal, Mr. Palynx. He is from California, in his late 30s, 5'7", short blondish/brown hair and an engineer. He is on vacation. He was traveling to Singapore, to Phuket Island and then back to Singapore. If anyone has seen him, let him know his e-mail pal's concerned.
Panaino, Louis and Bevan
Desperately seeking Louis and Bevan Panaino. Last seen on Phi Phi Islands at the Princess Resort. Please if you have any information contact us.
Patani, Khilan
My son, Khilan Patani studying in Melbourne, Australia told me he was going to Thailand on Dec. 29. I don't know if he went earlier or what -- have not heard from him since Dec. 24 when he sent me his e-mail telling me of his trip and he is not answering his mobile.
Paul, Allan R.
Looking for Allan R. Paul. His address was Box 165, Patong Beach, Phuket 83150. I had no phone number or e-mail address for him.
Pavan, Matteo
We are looking for Matteo Pavan an Italian (from Venice) who lives in London. He is 37 years old and he was staying in a bungalow at Home Parklong Seaside in Phi Phi Island.
Pawson, Matthew and Lyn
From Holland. The last time we have known about them they are staying in Phuket. Matt has been working in Phuket.
Page, John and Su
Looking for information on John & Su Page. They are from Sterling VA. John is American & Su is a native Thai.
Pardede, Ferdinand and Erna
Ferdinand & Erna Pardede from Everett, Washington, USA. Left from US approximately December 20, 2004. Not heard by phone or by e-mail yet.
Part, Timothy and Pauline
From Bath, England, they were spending the Christmas holidays in Thailand on the coast with their two young sons.
Patterson, Larry
Late 40s, 5''7",caucasian with light brown/reddish hair and goatee. Last known whereabouts: Phuket, checking on a beach house under construction.
Update: Larry Patterson is safely back in the U.S.
Pavan, Matteo
I'm looking for my friend Matteo Pavan from London England, 37 years old, who was vacationing in the Phi Phi Islands. Matteo is originally from Venice, Italy and works for Lehman Bank in London.
Pecarich, Patterson
Patterson Pecarich, from Taos, New Mexico, age 50. Please any information of having seen him would be greatly appreciated. Usually at Christmas in Phuket or near Karon Beach or Ruam Thep Inn. His little girl and family are waiting for info.
Pechmann, Beate
I am searching for Beate Pechmann. We were supposed to meet in Phuket for Christmas and I was not able to make it. She was still heading there. She is a German national who was coming from London for a vacation. She's about 5'8", slender, with blond hair, blue eyes. I haven't been able to get in touch with her since the tsunamis. If anyone knows her or has any information, please e-mail.
Peignault, Pascal and Megumi
Both are from Kyoto and were in Phuket, Thailand.
Penz, Gerald
We are searching our dear friend, Dr. Gerald Penz, from 6800 Feldkirch, Austria. Born on May 12, 1955. He was on holiday with his girlfriend, Mrs. Monika Feusi (from Switzerland), who has been found in Bangkok Hospital. They stayed in Khao Lak at the Hotel "Palm Andaman Beach." He was on his way with FTI tours. At the time the waves hit the beach, they had been on the beach and were separated there. Height 173 cm, very light and due to his dark skin not very easily taken for a European.
Perisamy, Banumathi
Banumathi Perisamy was visiting Thailand on Dec. 26, 2004, and I have not heard from her. I sent an email and but have not had a reply. Can you tell me if she is safe?
Peters, Kelly
Our friends Kelly Peters (early 20s, Temple University college student) and her mom are visiting Thailand where her mom spent some time years ago. Anyone with news, please let us know.
Pfeiffer, Peter
About 60 years old, retired and living in Phuket. Canadian citizen. Please forward any information at all.
Phan, Emily
I'm looking for my Thai girlfriend, Emily Phan, 24, 5'4". I'm frantically surfing to find information. Please email me.
Phinney, Laurie and Lloyd
I am looking for my friends in Thailand. The Phinneys Laurie and Lloyd. Lloyd is in the military and Laurie is mom to three children. They have been stationed there for two years. thanks.
Phosook, Sithinan
I am looking for Sithinan Phosook. He is about 10 years old. He was my sponsored child through World Vision. I do not know where he would have been during the tsunami.
Phrakonkham, Johnny
Last heard from on December 23 in Bangkok. 22 years old, male, family nationality Laotian, Canadian. His family was vacationing in Thailand to visit family. They have not been heard of since. His father's name is Som Phrakonkam. Would like to hear if they are still alive.
Pickering, Nathan
I am desperately looking for Nathan Pickering (22) and his girlfriend Jo (28). Nathan is an Australian national, Jo is English. Both arrived in Thailand on Christmas Day, and I have been unable to contact them since. Nathan can be identified by tattoos on his left arm of a hibiscus flower. He has sandy blonde hair and is about 5'7" with a decent build. Jo is about 5'5" and has blonde hair, both are attractive and outgoing people. Any information good or bad is appreciated.
Pickering, Roger and Saitong
Pierce, Ryan
A colleague of mine recently moved to Thailand. His name is Ryan Pierce and is 34 years of age. All the news we have here is that there are five Canadians listed as deceased, but no names. If you are able to find out any info on Ryan it would be greatly appreciated.
Pink, Cheryl
Looking for Cheryl Pink, 50, of British nationality, blond hair, blue eyes, 5'6", 120 pounds, resident of Buckinghamshire, England. Last known whereabouts on holiday with her boyfriend, Gordan (also a UK national), at a resort in Thailand.
Piwtong, Nancy
Visiting Thailand for the holidays with her son and family.
Update: Nancy Piwtong has been found safe. Thank you for your help.
Polikashin, Alexander
Born 1959, arrived in Bangkok on 24 December.
Polo, John
Lives in Thailand and I am desperately trying to find if he is okay or is missing
Pomeroy, Tom
He and a friend, John, were together in Phuket. Tom is 6'3" with short dark hair, green eyes, about 170 lbs. He's a teacher in Atlanta, trying to find out his whereabouts before facing students on Tuesday.
Poolsin, Kittikorn
Looking for Mr. Kittikorn Poolsin, chief engineer for The Le Meridien hotel in Phuket.
Poonatong, Supachai
He stays on Phi Phi Island.
Potts family
Looking for information on Richard and Susan Potts, vacationing with children Lucy and William.
Price, Bethan
An English citizen living in Australia. She was either on Phuket or Phi Phi. She is travelling with a friend called Rachel also English. Beth has a tattoo of a frangipani on her lower torso.
Price, Frank
Frank Price was to be married in Thailand on January 1, 2005. He was believed to be in Thailand when the tsunami hit. His bride to be is named Songsiri. Frank is from Colorado and is in his mid 50's.
Prudhomme, Jean-Paul
Age around 55, from Montreal, Québec, Canada, is on holiday in Thailand. He called his friend Laurier on December 23 from Bangkok to inform him that he was on his way to the coast (Phuket I think). No news since this phone call.
Puckett, Johnny
Blonde hair and blue eyes, him and his girlfriend were going Island hopping.
Punchept, Winnichatta
My husband and I are very concern about a young child named Winnichatta Punchept. We are sponsoring her through the Christian Foundation. She is living with her two brothers and grandmother. They live in Bankoc, Thailand. I believe it is 100 miles north of where tsunami hit. We are really hoping and praying the horrifying disaster did not affect her or her family.
Purtscher, Evelyn and Gregor
Purtscher, Evelyn and Gregor are on holiday in Thailand and we have no contact with them.
Puttawan, Sak
We are desperately looking for some news from our Thai friend, Sak Puttawan, and his family. They are living on Phi Phi Island. Sak is a diver, underwater photographer, working on the island. Send us news if you know anything.
Queiros, Paola
Looking to find out about Paola Queiros, she is from Mozambique, her husband is a Swiss national. She is five months pregnant. Last time we spoke she was going to Phuket for Christmas and New Year. I have called her home and mobile phone numbers but no one answers.
Raadahl, Sunniva
Sunniva Raadahl (3) adopted from South Korea, Norwegian citizen. Was lost from her parents at the beach in Khao Lak. She is wearing a small red/rose swimming-trunk with laces up to the waist. The swimming-trunk was from "Hennes&Mauritz." She is 99 cm tall.
Raagas, Erwin
I am still looking for my friend, Erwin Raagas, a Filipino-Swiss national who was in Phuket when the tsunami hit that area. I have read in some papers that he was one of the survivors and was confined in one hospital in Phuket. I have tried looking in hospital listings in Phuket but didn't see his name and didn't get any information about him. I'm very worried about my friend. Any information about him would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Rabin family
Ariel, Shira, Orley and Daniel who were supposed to be on the island of Phi Phi.
Rackow, Manfred
Looking for friend Manfred Rackow, a dive boat captain in Phuket, Thailand. Please notify us if anyone knows of him and his survival or not.
Rai, Gillian
I am trying to locate a Mr. Gillian Rai. He is a tailor with a shop in Patong Beach, Thailand.
Rakelsdotter, Sonja
Sonja Rakelsdotter was taking a divers certificate on the Similan Islands, Thailand. No-one has yet heard from her despite several e-mails and text messages.
Raksajit, Rewat Ao Nang, Krabi.
Please get in touch.
Ramsey, Rebecka
I'm searching for information about a dear friend of mine called Rebecka Ramsey. She's Australian, from around Melbourne. I can't find this type of information anywhere else. I'm truly worried!
Rassmussen, Hans
I'm looking for Hans Bent Rassmussen. He's Canadian with a Danish background. 5'6" tall, approx. 145lb, light brown hair. Last known to be working as a diving instructor, somewhere in Thailand.
Ravenna, Ineke
Desperately looking for my very good friend Ineke Ravenna. She was going to see her sons Giulio and Marco with his family on some island in Thailand for Christmas.
Update: My friend Ineke Ravenna just contacted me a few hours after I had announced her missing. I am so happy she is safe.
Rea, Sandra
Sandra Rea, teacher, Colorado.
Ready, Ron
Looking for Ron Ready, recently moved to the Phuket area from Maui.
Reber, Horst and Tanida
I am trying to find out about my Thai friend, Tanida, and her German husband, Horst Reber, who live somewhere on the coast of Thailand. Any information would be appreciated.
Redfern, Chad
Chad Redfern, mid 30s, sandy blond hair, 5'7", brown eyes. Chad is in Thailand to purchase income property and vacation. Flew into Bangkok, but was going to visit other places as well.
Reid, Emily; Washburn, David; Hoppock, David
We are looking for Emily Reid (USA, female, 24), David Washburn (USA, male, 24) and David Hoppock (Canadian, male,25), English teachers on the JET Program in Japan. Vacationing in Thailand and Southeast Asia over Xmas holidays.
Reimer family
I am looking for 5 family members! Raymond, Betty, Melony, Casey & Matthew Reimer! They are from California! Please if you have any information contact me!
Reinhardt, Samara
She is originally from Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, Canada. She has been living in Thailand since April of 2004 teaching English.
Rex, Ernets and family
Rexinger, Werner
I'm trying to locate an American person by the name of Werner Rexinger. He is living in Phuket, Thailand. He has dark hair and is about 5'7" tall, and is approx 63 to 65 years of age. Can anyone tell me his whereabouts?
Reynolds, John and Dawn
John and Dawn Reynolds
Reynolds, Mark
My friend Mark Reynolds went to Thailand in October. He was supposed to go to Phuket and on to Bangkok. He is 5'11", shaved head and he has a tattoo of a coyote on his upper left chest. I know he has a girlfriend from Phuket. Her first name is Ali. If anyone sees him could you tell him to contact his family or friends please.
Rhodes, Jacqui
Looking to hear from Jacqui and her husband, Russell, from Melbourne, Australia, believed to be in Phuket.
Riemer, Alma
Alma Riemer, Doc, and Sade from Franklin, PA. If you have any information about this family, please contact me.
Rigg, Rory
Rory Rigg, his girlfried Dong and thier baby Sophie. Living in Thailand. Dong is Thai.
Riley, Glenn Conway
My father lives somewhere in Thailand and I haven't heard from him for a long time, I need to know if he is still alive. His name is Glenn Conway Riley and he was born in Sydney, Australia on 19 April, 1949. He is 55 years old, 6'2 tall, blue eyes, brown hair.
Rimmer, Chris
Rinne, Sea
Her name is Sea Rinne and she is 17 years old and lives in Helsinki, Finland. She was at the Blue Village Pakarang Khaolak in Thailand with her mom and brother. The mom is also missing. Please find Sea Rinne!
Rita, Brian and Jung-in, Wantana
Need help locating Brian Rita from Hawaii, on honeymoon to bride from Bangkok. Her name is Wantana Jung-in.
Update: We are writing back to say that our brother Brian has called and he is safe and well in Bangkok.
Rits, Eric
I am not a "worrying" type of person, certainly not concerning my brother -- Eric Rits, born 28-10-1960, 1.78 m, blue eyes, well trained body (he's a para in the Belgian army). He is a man to say "no news is good news" but this time I am getting worried! He flew KLM Amsterdam to Thailand November 23 (I believe) and is due to come back December 30) or the day after. He travels with a friend of his (Kurt -- more or less the same age) and I believe they should be around Phuket (they sometimes go to Co Samui or Phi Phi Islands). This time he is really making me worried so I hope that he is ok and hopefully he is trying to call me or just let me know something. Thanks for "looking out" for him!
Update: I wish you all (despite what is happening) a happy and hopeful New Year! My brother -- Eric Rits -- is home and OK! Thanks a lot for all the efforts!
Ritzinger, Gunther & family
Rivera, Adonis Romualdez
Adonis Romualdez Rivera was last seen at their office near Phuket. His officemate told me thru text that he reported for work last December 25, 2004. No word from him til this day. Any information leading to him would be a great help. Thank you.
Robertson, James (Jim)
I am looking for my father last contact with him was on 12/12/04. I have been trying to call him with no luck. His name is James (Jim) Robertson. He is thin built. With a scar across his stomach from an operation. If anyone has seen him please contact worried family.
Update: My father has made contact and is ok.
Robertson, Ryan
Ryan Robertson is my friend. He is missing. He is from Vancouver, he's 5'6" and is 33 years old. He has blond hair and is about 165 lbs. Please let me know if you have seen him.
Update: Ryan Robertson from Vancouver is fine and is coming home! Thank you.
Robitaille, Pablo and Tania Marleau
Both early 30s. Last known area to visit: Koh Chang. Teachers from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, working in South Korea on visit to Thailand for the holidays. Tania is of Korean origin, but both are French Canadian. Any news would be appreciated by all their friends. Thank you.
Roda, Peter J.
We are looking for Peter J. Roda; Last time we have heard of him, he was in Thailand but we are not sure in which region he was staying. He is Canadian and speaks English. We are looking for to hearing from him as he is the father of my son.
Rodin family
Swedish father Christian and his two children Hedda (6) and Frida (3) are listed as missing. Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Rodrigues, Leonel
Portuguese male, 55 years old staying at the Meridian in Khao Lac, Phang Nga, Phuket. He was swept out by the first wave that hit the Meridian, his wife is safe and is now waiting for inf. he was last seen trying to grab on to a tree, and was wearing Blue Bermuda Shorts.
Rodriguez, Tammy
Need to hear from or about Tammy Rodriguez who spent xmas weekend in Krabbe.
Rogers, Steve
Looking for a friend of mine, Steve Rogers, who went to Thailand during Christmas vacation. No one has heard from him and many of his friends are worried about him.
Rook, Chazz
American aged 55, living in Phuket Thailand with his son ALOM aged 12.
Roseberry, Steve, Mia and Sara
I have friends that went to Thailand for Christmas. Their names are Steve and Mia Roseberry. They also had their daughter with them -- Sara Roseberry. I have heard nothing of their safety.
Rosenthal, Josh
Looking for Josh Rosenthal, an American citizen (31) working as an English teacher in Thailand.
Rouleau, Jerry
Still no word from my brother Jerry Rouleau (aka. OSAGE) who lives on the island of Phuket in Thailand with his Thai wife [Fon] and little girl Zoe. He teaches English & studies Buddhism and Kabbalah. Please, any information would be greatly appreciated.
Roy family
We are looking for the Roy family -- Elizabeth Roy, nee Aisworth, (from Vancouver, Canada) and her three grown sons, Charles (from Freidburg, Germany) Nicholas and his wife Katherine (from Philadelphia, U.S.) and Phillip (from Toronto, Canada). All were at the Princess Resort on Phi Phi Island. They could be holding British or Canadian passports. Any information regarding them or the state of the resort and/or number of survivors would be greatly appreciated.
Rozenfeld, Margarita
I'm looking for Margarita Rozenfeld who was vacationing in Thailand for the holidays. Is there anyway to confirm her safety or whereabouts? Thanks so much for this resource.
Ruedi, Markus
Information on safety of friend Markus Ruedi, 50+ yrs (August birthday), Swiss, blue eyes, dark hair; sailing from Australia to Thailand and then on to England. Planned lengthy stay in Thailand. Please e-mail if you know anything.
Ruiz, Dan and Rene
Our co-worker Dan Ruiz and his wife Renee were vacationing in Thailand and we have been unable to reach them.
Rupp, Gary
Seeking whereabouts of my cousin, Gary Rupp, last known to be in Thailand (possibly in school administration). Born in USA, parents Alvin and Ruth, approx. 57 years old.
Russel, Angus and Sue
If there is any information on the whereabouts of Angus (Gus) and Sue Russel, please let us know. Sue works in local school in Phuket. They have two children.
Rutgers, Evelien
I am searching for my good friend Evelien Rutgers, from The Netherlands. She was supposed to be on vacation in Thailand, with a friend, when the Tsunami hit. I have not heard from her, but have tried to contact her.
Update: I have located my friend Evelien Rutgers. She was on the other side of Thailand when the tragedy hit. I hope everyone many of you are lucky enough to locate your loved ones!
Sablan, Anthony
Anthony and five friends vacationing in Thailand over Christmas/New Year's holiday from Seattle WA. He's 27 years old.
Sabraliev, Assad and Emma Wolfson
Assad Sabraliev - Tajikistan Citizen; Emma Wolfson Sabralieva - British Citizen. Last heard they were off to Thailand for a honeymoon. They have not contacted home either in UK or Tajikistan.
Sachdev, Rohit
I am looking for any info on my friend Rohit Sachdev. He is 30 years old and his first language is English. His home is in Bangkok but was heading for vacation over the holidays throughout S. East Asia and I have not heard from him since. Any help in finding a site that has victims lists or some sort of info would be helpful in trying to find out if he is ok.
Sagie, Uzi and Shapira, Aya
My cousin Uzi Sagie and his girlfriend Aya Shapira are missing since the tsunami disaster. They stayed at the Ruen-Thai rest house at Khao-lak.
Saha family
We are looking for the Saha family: Vijay, Sunita and their two kids. They were last heard from on Christmas Day while in Phuket, Thailand where they were meeting other family members.
Sakornsinthu, Danai
I am looking for Danai Sakornsinthu, who lives in Thailand.
Salcido, Pedro
My father is a U.S. military retiree living in Thailand. He is 66 years old and of Mexican/American descent. Dark skin and hair, about 5'10". If you know or have seen him, please, please let me know. Thank you.
Salvato, Ariana
Seeking info on friend, Ariana Salvato, traveling with mom, Toni. Both from New York. Traveling in Thailand. Not sure of exact location when tsunami hit.
Saligumba, Rene
I'm looking for my nephew. His name is Mr. Rene Saligumba, 31, Canadian citizen from Mississauga, Ontario, who went to Bangkok, Thailand, this December for a vacation. Since the disaster took place, we haven't heard anything from him. He never called and he [was] expected to return to Ontario [on] December 27 but ... is not here. We are very worried as to his whereabouts. If anybody knows him, please contact us.
Update: I want to inform everyone that Rene Saligumba arrived safely here in Toronto, Canada. So I would like to thank all of the concerned persons who are too caring, that he is back safely.... again thank you
Saffron, Annie
My daughter is looking for her 13-year-old friend, Annie Saffron, and her family. We believe they were vacationing in Phuket at the time of the tsunamis. Annie was there with her mother, Janet Saffron, and her father and three other siblings.
Samuel, Grant
Last we have heard our very good friend Grant Samuel (of Protection Island BC) was travelling to Thailand with intentions of staying six or more months.
Sanden, Paulina
Searching for 9 year old girl, Paulina Sanden, our cousin from Bastad, Sweden. Last seen Khao Lak, Phang-nga area, the rest of her family is alive. Paulina was wearing a yellow shirt, green skirt, cross earrings with clear stones, and she has blond hair and blue eyes. Anders is in Thailand looking for her now.
Sanders, Melvin and Karen
Looking for news about Melvin & Karen Sanders, who were staying at the Meridian Hotel in Phuket.
Sanguansermsri, Hnnuwat
We are looking to get info on Hnnuwat Sanguansermsri and his family. He was our exchange student some years ago but we still keep in touch as we consider him our Thai son. His father is a doctor at the Yasothon Hospital in Yasothon. They frequently vacation and with the lack of contact, we fear they were somehow linked to the tragedy. I have phoned numerous times without luck. Any news would be appreciated.
Sartnurak, Samart
Samart Sartnurak. He, his wife and son have a home in Bangkok but may have been in Phuket during the disaster.
Savetamal, Anan
Info on Anan Savetamal of Bangbor, Smutprakan.
Sawee, Chusak (nickname Taan)
Owns Taan Service in Phuket. any info on Taan and his wife & children would be appreciated. Thank you!
Schmitt, Nicole
My friend, Nicole Schmitt, suppose to fly into Thailand around December 25th from Arizona. She had plan to visit Phuket. I need to know she is ok, please contact me if anyone knows of her status.
Update: This is an update about my friend Nicole Schmitt from Arizona. Her sister kindly contacted me that Nicole is safe. Thank you.
Schon, Carolina and family
Last I knew they were going to Thailand for the holidays. I have no way to get in touch and I need to know if they are ok. If there is any information about them please email me. Thanx!
Schulein, Jim
We are desperatly searching for our brother, Jim Schulein, 28, 1.80 m, brown eyes and hair, from the Netherlands. He was staying at the Hotel Patong Villa at Phuket and we have not heard from him since the tsunami. Please contact us if you have any information about him!!
Update: Jim Schulein from the Netherlands is home again. He is fine. We thank you all very much for your help!
Sengel, Karen and Mark
Teachers in the American school in Pattaya. We know that they generally travel at Christmas. Friends here in Karen's home town would surely like to hear they are safe. Please e-mail me you two.
Sengna, Linda
I am looking for my close friend who lives and works in Phuket. Her name is Linda Sengna. If anyone knows Linda please let me know.
Shafia, Diana
She was with her friend Rob Gilmore and Junko.
Shea, Simon
U.S. citizen, approximately 40 from Anchorage, Alaska. White male.
Shellhorn-Massey, Carol
Carol Shellhorn-Massey, American (beautiful, fit, red hair) last seen on a Thailand beach on vacation with her husband Tim Massey. He survived but Carol is still missing. Please help!
Shiu, Nicholas, Reggie, Grace, Mathew
Nicholas Shiu (14) and his family: father Reggie Shiu, mother Grace Shiu, and brother Matthew Shiu (11), were last heard of vacationing in Phuket, Thailand.
Schlosser, Michaela
Date of birth: July 6, 1968; Body height: approx. 175 cm; Body weight: approx. 58 kg; shoulder-length brown hair. Missing since Dec. 25 in Khao Lak. If anybody has news of her, please respond. Thanks.
Schneiders, Frédéric; Andrea; Kids
Living in Switzerland, the family spent X-mas holidays somewhere in Thailand.
Schork, Hannelore
I am looking for my friend Hannelore Schork (64) from Germany. Found the name of her partner, Werner Marburger, on a list with injured people; however, can't get in touch with him. Anybody have news about Hannelore?
Schroeder, Julia and Ly, David
Schulz, Nicola
Missing Nicola Schulz, German, 32, brown hair, blue eyes, 1.70, 60 kg. We are desperate; she was last seen in Khao Lak, Thailand. Thank you for any information.
Schweikart, Maike
Maike Schweikart from Germany. Missing in Khao Lak, Thailand. Age 29 years, 1.58m, 55kg, slender figure, dark blonde hair, brown eyes, belly button piercing. Last seen at Khao Lak Resort where she stayed with her boyfriend Dirk and friends. The wave separated her from Dirk who is safe and still in Thailand looking for her. Please contact me if you have any information on Maike's whereabouts since Dec. 26. Thank you very much.
Schwenzer, Peter
Looking for Peter Schwenzer (uncle). 61 years old, German citizen (Berlin). Last known in Phuket, Thailand.
Schwetz, Hubert, and Inge
Hubert & Inge Schwetz, possibly vacationing from Vienna, Austria. Is there a list of Austrian deaths (four) so far?
Scott, Michael Anthony
I'm urgently seeking information on my uncle, Michael Anthony Scott. He is a Swiss national, 57 years old and is missing in Khao Lak. He is 193cm tall and weighs 98 kilos. Please email me if you have any information.
Scully, Luke; Foust, Angela
Luke Scully and Angela Foust, they stayed at Khaolak Orchid Resort during the tsunami.
See, Daniel
Grateful for any information concerning the whereabouts of Mr. Daniel See and Mr. Sean (last name unknown), managers of the Club One Seven B&B in Patong, Phuket, Thailand.
Selander, Barbro
My Swedish friend Barbro Selander is missing. She was at Khao Lak Mai quiet zone Hotel at the day of the disaster. She is about 164 cm weighs about 58 kg. brown hair blue eyes. She was with a friend Asa. If anyone hear anything please I beg you to contact me.
Selong, Barbara
Sengel, Karen and Mark
Karen, Mark, please let us know you are OK. High school friends anxiously waiting for word.
Sengna, Linda
I am looking for my close friend who lives and works in Phuket. Her name is Linda Sengna. If anyone who knows Linda has any info please contact me.
Senthong, Piyawan
I am looking for Miss Piyawan Senthong, a Thai national who was working at the Krabi Seaview Resort in Krabi, Thailand. Piyawan was our Au Pair on the "Au Pair in American" exchange program a few years ago and is very special to us. We would be most grateful to receive any information about her whereabouts.
Setter, Betty
Betty Setter-56/50, Sorwadnogyai (5016), Nakhu Banglamung, Pattaya, Chonburi Thailand (20150). She has a son named Michael Setter she was living with. She is my aunt and is 84 years old. She moved there from Scotsdale, Arizona. Betty is 5'2" thin build, blue eyes, hair used to be reddish brown but possibly gray now.
Sheeler, Jeff
Brother is missing, last seen in Bangkok. His name is Jeff Sheeler. His home is in Tasmania.
Sherratt, Sam
Sam Sherratt emailed me a few days before the disaster to say that he was travelling to Thailand by car with his Father and Sister.
Shi, Hannah
A Chinese American. When the disaster happened, she was sleeping in the hotel in Phi Phi Island.
Shrestha, Lomash Dev, Rasila, Aayush
Family was residing in Patong Beach, Phuket, Thailand and were on holiday near Khao Lak.
Sieber, Chris and Liz
They have a diving school at Ban Kata, Tambon Karon Amphur Muang, Phuket.
Siegfried, Charles
I would like to know the whereabouts of Mr Charles Siegfried, located in Karon/Kata Beach. Been in Phuket since 1982.
Sigel, Adam; Jody Wise
Adam Sigel and Jody Wise. They are my brothers friends and have not been heard from.
Simon, Christie
Looking for Christie Simon and her boyfriend Greg, of Ontario.
Sinclair, Stuart and Yuwathida
Our friends Stuart and Yuwathida Sinclair are in Thailand with Yuwathida's family. They are Canadian, but Yuwathida is originally from Thailand. We have no way of contacting any of their family and would like information on their survival.
Update: Stu was able to call his daughter in British Columbia New Year's eve. They are in northern Thailand and were not affected. Our extreme sympathy to all who lost or have missing family.
Singh, Lana Scott and Mini
Looking for my aunt and uncle -- Lana Scott Singh and Mini Singh. They live in New Delhi but have a beach house in Thailand. Not sure where they were when the tsunami hit and we have not heard from them.
Singh, Nick
My cousin, Nick Singh, and some friends are on a vacation starting from Thailand and visiting neighboring islands and countries. I would greatly appreciate if anyone has heard or had contact with him, if you can please call or e-mail me so as to put his family's mind at ease. Thank you very much.
Sirisachdecha, Prameet
Prameet Sirisachdecha was my roommate in my first year of university. That was the 2002-03 school year. For the 2004-05 school year he decided to return home to Thailand for post-secondary education. I don't know what school he went to, all I know is that he is from Bangkok and that he returned to Thailand and last I talked to him he was near the beach.
Sivade, Carl
French citizen about 185 age 29 male. He was on 26. December in Thailand on the Phi Phi Island Charlie Beach Resort/ Loh Dalam Bay. He is living and working in Germany Munich.
Slot, Vivian
My friends Helena and Steven Slot lost their daughter Vivian in Thailand.
Smith, Ann
Ann Smith of Redding, CA, left on vacation for Bangkok, Thailand and Malaysia on Dec. 22. She is 76-years-old with short, gray hair. Any news would be appreciated. Thank you.
Smith, Bryan
Looking for Bryan Smith, a fellow classmate. He is from Berkeley, CA. Any information would be great.
Smith, Grant
I am looking for the whereabouts of Grant Smith. He was in Thailand.
Smith, James E.
Looking for brother lived in A.Klaeng, P. Rayong, Thailand. His name is James E. Smith.
Smith, Margaret
Margaret M. Smith was vacationing in Thailand before this disaster. She is a very close friend. She has no surviving family. I was to be notified in case anything happened. Please help me to locate her.
Sneelooper, David and Katrin
Missing David and Katrin Sneelooper. Last stayed in Khao Lak, Thailand. possibly traveling in Phang Nga area. Both 26 years of age. Both blond and blue eyes.
Snoodijk, Willem; Boonman, Monique
Willem is from the Netherlands, age 36, hair blond, slightly bald, eye's brown/grey. Monique has light brown hair, bleu eyes. They are missing from Khao Lak.
Soedler, Uwe
Searching for a friend, son, husband and father. His name is Uwe Soedler he is 6´2 tall and weights aprox 210 lbs. He has black hair with a bit of grey in it, short hair cut and a mustache. Last known location is Phuket, Khao Lak. His son is 7 year old Tom who was seen a lot on TV, he is found and back at home his mother was found with bad head injuries 2 days later and is now being treated in a German hospital but the worries about Uwe's wereabouts is getting to them. Please help us to find Uwe for his family.
Solares, Charles
He lives on the island of Phuket with his son Clay. Please contact me if you have any info on his whereabouts.
Solomans, Jennifer
Missing Jennifer Solomans, aged 47. Last seen on beach when the wave hit. Husband Alan and sons Richard and Ben were saved and sent home. No sign of Jenny. I was wondering if someone could check the hospitals and get in touch, if there is any news, she is about 5 ft tall with blond hair. Thanks.
Sornsongkram, Yutthana
I am looking for my foreign exchange student's brother. His name is Yutthana Sornsongkram. He attended Subiaco Academy in Subiaco, Arkansas with my little brother. We usually hear from him around the holidays. We just want to know if he and his family are alright.
Souilljee, Frans
I am looking for Frans Souilljee from the Netherlands. We don't know where is!
Sowanakul, Sontachi
We are searching for colleague Sontachi "Sonny" Sowanakul, a Thai native who was vacationing during Christmas break.
Spiller, Don
My dad, Don Spiller, lives in Thailand and no one has heard from him since the tsunami. I am hoping someone can give me some information about him.
Update: My father, Don Spiller, contacted me and is safe. He was in Malaysia visiting at the time.
Spitzbart, Martina
Looking for Martina Spitzbart of Hollgraben, Austria. Last seen in Phuket, Thailand, on December 24.
Sriprayoon, Vichai
Looking for a friend in Thailand, Vichai Sriprayoon, employee of Siam Cement in Saraburi. He was working in USA in 1997 and then went back to Thailand. Anyone who knows Vichai Sriprayoon, or knows his whereabouts, please email me asap.
Srirattanaphol, Dang
Looking for information of Dang Srirattanaphol or her family last known to be in Phuket.
Srisathapornphat, Lanilat
Searching for Lanilat (Jinnie) Srisathapornphat and family to see if they are safe after the tsunami.
Srisdum, Panya
Looking for a Thai friend living in Phuket. Small frame with black hair and about age 23.
Srisuxi, Praphun
I'm trying to find out some news about a Thai boy working at the Charlie Beach resort on pp-island. His name is Praphun Srisuxi. I'm quite sure he was working in the hotel at the time the tsunami hit the island.
Sriyotha, Piyapong and Suthilux
Piyapong Sriyotha and his spouse Suthilux Sriyotha traveled to Bangkok, Thailand over the holidays to visit family. They have not returned as scheduled and have not been heard from.
Stanely, Bruce
Looking for a very close friend. His name is Bruce Stanley and he lived in Phuket. Would appreciate any news about him.
Stanley, Craig
Age 30, from Annesley Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire, England -- a landscape gardener. [He] had also called his dad to wish him a happy birthday. Just a few hours later, tidal waves devastated shores across Southeast Asia -- and his partner Barbara McTaggart.
Stannard, Simon
I am looking for Simon Stannard. He rescued his child during the tidal wave. He and his family were in Phuket. His wife was up higher than him and survived with his children. We as a family are desperately looking for him.
Stedham, Kathryn
My dear friend, Kathryn Stedham, was supposed to be in Thailand from before Christmas until February. Neither I nor any of her friends here have heard from her. Would appreciate any word. Thanks.
Steeples, Eddie
I'm looking for Eddie Steeples, an American actor who was last seen in Thailand. He's the rubberband man from the Office Max commercials, if that helps any; black male, about 5'9", 120 pounds.
Update: Eddie's family has spoken directly with him and he is alive and well.
Steller, William
I'm looking for a close family friend William Steller, aka Dutch to his many Thai friends. He is white male, 5ft 8in tall, chubby and 63-64 years of age. He is living with a Thai family but travel to Pattya and the other islands. His travel plans included the islands hit by the tidal wave. He is a very close to friend to me and my family would like any information that could confirm his safety. Have him phone me or e-mail me. Thanks. Gods speed and grace be with all those affected by this event.
Stemp, Roy
I'm looking for my friend Roy Stemp and his Thai girlfriend. Roy is 60 years old and has gray hair. Roy comes from Rotterdam and works by Hunter and Douglas.
Stenzel, Ralph and My
Ralph and My Stenzel were travellng to Vietnam for Christmas, but we fear that they may have also visited Thailand during their visit, and we have not heard from them, nor has anyone else in our family.
Stevens, Donald
Family anxiously searching for any information. US citizen living in Bangkok and Phuket alternately since 2001. 55 years, 5'8'', about 160 lbs, clean-cut sandy brown receding hair. Disfigured hand from gun wound. Last known to be in Phuket.
Stevenson, Kylie
An Australian who is living in Phuket, working as a deep sea diver medic in decompression chambers.
Stewart, Brian
We are wanting to find out if Brian Stewart, a friend and colleague who moved to Thailand in the last year or so, is ok. We don't have his address, but understand he lived in a coastal town (near Phuket?). Before moving to Thailand he lived in Corona(?),California.
St. Jean, Cole
We are looking for any information on my brother's friend Cole St. Jean. He was last known to be somewhere in Thailand surfing with a friend and apparently they were supposed to be in Bali at the time of Black Sunday. None of his friends of family have heard from him to this day. He is about 6'2", white (probably very tan) with dark hair (may have dreadlocks) he is in very good shape and is a trained firefighter so we are wondering if he is helping victims. If anyone knows of his whereabouts please contact me so I can let his family and friend know. Thank you.
Stoelinga, Otto and Hanneke
I am looking for Otto Stoelinga and Hanneke Stoelinga. They are in Thailand, where exactly I do not know. Please help me finding them.
Stolk, Greg
Our son is missing and was last heard from just before Christmas in Bangkok. He flew into Bangkok on China Air. Was heading into the countryside (not known where) with his traveling companion, a Thai woman named SumaLee. Greg is 40, Caucasian, blue eyes, sandy curly hair. He has distinctive broken veins in the calves of his legs.
Stoneman, Mark
Mark Stoneman living in Chiang Mai.
Stosser, Franz
Franz Stosser of Munich Germany. Last known location: The Island of Ko Chang (Ranong) on the Andaman Coast, at the Bungalow known as "Mama's Bungalows".
Stout, Leen
Male. Age around 45. Nobody has heard from him. He is due to work in the Netherlands Jan. 5.
Strand, Kenneth
We are looking for a friend, Dr. Kenneth Strand, an American, last known in Thailand -- possibly in Phuket. Please, Any information would be extremely appreciated. Thank you.
Stuart, Bernarde Simon David
Bernarde Simon David Stuart, 19 years old, slim, 5'8", blue eyes, brown hair, tattoo of british bulldog with union jack incorporated on top right chest, some markings of piercing left eyebrow. Please contact me.
Sturmer, Sophia
A young German national, age 12, vacationing in Thailand. She was last seen on the beach during the tsunami near the hotel Bhandari Resort and Spa at Khao Lak. Her mother and father are currently hospitalized at the Bangkok Phuket Hospital.
Sturniolo, Christopher
Christopher Sturniolo, vacationing in Thailand.
Suessmilch, Klaus
Looking for news of my cousin Klaus Suessmilch resident of Braunchweig (Germany) on extended vacation in Phuket. Last postcard received Christmas from Phuket.
Sumo, Edi Djunaedy
My brother Edi, from Indonesia, but works in Thailand (off shore) for McDermott.
Sumrall, Robert
I am looking for my uncle. His name is Robert Sumrall. He is from Mississippi and he was last known to be in Phuket, Thailand.
Suonsivu family
We are looking Suonsivu family members, who were in Thailand for holiday. Father, Risto Suonsivu, 41, 175 cm, curly dark hair, missing. Boy, Tuukka Suonsivu, 7, blond hair, missing. Girl, Tytti Suonsivu, 5, blond hair, missing. They all were at Blue Village Pakarang in Khao Lak.
Sun, Ratavy
My friend, Ratavy Sun, lived on Nichada Thani in Nonthaburi, Thailand. However, I think her family often visited Bangkok. I haven't heard from her since the tsumani hit and am concerned. She was sixteen or seventeen years old.
Sundelis,Karin; Ehlin, David; English, Cielo
Looking for KARIN SUNDELIS (female, Swedish), DAVID EHLIN (male, Swedish) and CIELO ENGLISH (Canadian, female).
Sussman, Steve
We're looking for our friend and colleague Steve Sussman, his wife Na, and their 3 kids. They were scheduled to fly to Thailand on December 26 to visit Na's family. They may have been on the plane and arrived just after the tsunami hit, or their flight may have been diverted somewhere else. Steve, your friends at IPR are worried about you! Please email to tell us that you and your family are safe.
Stelzer, Christine
I am looking desperately for Christine Stelzer. She was in the Baan Khao Lak Resort, Phang Nga, Phuket. Nationality: Swiss Height: 1.67m Weight: 47 Kg Eyes: brown Hair color: Blond-Red complexion: Fair skin with freckles.
Swain-Dugman, Anthony (aka Snowy or Tony)
Australian, last spoken to in Thailand, staying at Phuket marina on his yacht, Onyx.
Swanton, Michael
Looking to find the whereabouts of Michael Swanton. He is 6ft tall, dark skin, brown eyes, black afro hair type and has the name "Mick" tattooed on his upper left arm. Michael was last known to be heading for Phuket looking to buy property.
Sweezea family
Scott and Lien Sweezea and four children (Gabrielle, Issiah, Alexander and Micah). They arrived in Phuket on the 18/12/2004 and were due to depart Phuket on the 5/1/2005 any information would be greatly appreciated.
Sweinberger, Helmut; Kidd, Gavin
I am searching for Helmut Swienberger and Gavin Kidd who were know to be in Phuket. Gavin owned a cycle livery and Helmut a restaurant/bar on the beach.
Swinnen, Paul
Trying to locate PAUL SWINNEN somewhere in Thailand on a vacation trip.
Talada or Tolada, Nami (Lisachan)
Nami Talada or Tolada, Japanese female staying at private residence in Phuket, was there to learn to be a diving instructor. Arrived Dec. 11, 2004. Mid to late 20s She has not responded to any e-mails.
Talrcyk, Mieszko
Mr. MIESZKO TALRCZYK, from Sweden, 30 yrs, 170 cm, has two big moles lost in PHI PHI CHALEY KRABI bald BIG BROWN BEARD.
Tate, Jim
Looking for family friends Jim Tate and his wife, vacationing in Thailand. African American couple from Greenville, SC (Simpsonville) area.
Tatiana, Fomina
Please contact me if you have any information about Ms. FOMINA TATIANA (RUSSIAN).
Taylor, Albert
Age 63, American, gray hair, tattoo above his right knee.
Taylor, Ann
Ann Taylor, last known address Bangkok on Christmas Day, traveling south, and then on to UK in the new year.
Taylor, Claire
I'm looking for Claire Taylor last known to be visiting the islands in Thailand on Boxing Day. I'm very worried & have heard she may be in hospital.
Update: I have now heard from Claire Taylor, Plymouth, UK. She and her friend are safe and well on the other coast.
Taylor, Mark
Searching for Mark Taylor.
Taylor, Susan and Daniel
Looking for family friends, Susan Taylor and her son Daniel from Dallas, TX.
Tekoz, Seda
I am looking for Seda Teköz. She stayed on Phi Phi Island.
Tellefson family
I am looking for information on the Tellefson Family from Norway. I taught their twin girls (6) and no one has had word from them since the tsunami. The girls are traveling with their mother and father and older sister (8). Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Templton, Vanessa
I am looking for a friend of mine that lives in Phuket, her name is Vanessa Templton.
Tepji-tara, Kitipong
I am looking for my friend, Kitipong 'Sui' Tepji-tara, last known residence near Phi Phi beach, in Phuket. He is a faculty member of the Krabi Technical College in Krabi, Thailand. His family -- parents, siblings, etc., reside in that area. He is single and has no children. Would be in his early 50's. Please respond with any information that you might have. I thank you so much.
Terry, Richard and Suporn
My mother's best friend and her husband went to Thailand for Christmas and we have not heard from them. We are not sure exactly where they were staying and we are very concerned. Can you help? Their names are Richard and Suporn Terry. All we know is they flew in to Bangkok on the 17 of December and are due home on the 12 of January. Thank You.
Teruya, Lisa
She was on a working visa in Japan and was on vacation at Thailand with friends. She is a Japanese American in her mid twenties and about 5'5" tall. She was traveling with others with Japan passports.
Thanapunshin, Oat
I am looking for Oat Thanapunshin. He was last living with his family near Bangkok with his family. If anyone has any information about him please let me know. Thank you.
Tharo, Krish
I am looking for a friend. His name is Krish Tharo and he works at the Tea Institute. Can you tell me if he is safe? Thank you.
Theunissen, Ria (Maria)
DOB 05-07-1947 She was travelling alone. During the tsunami tragedy she was somewhere in Phuket.
Thibodo, Chanyaporn (Chana) and George
I'm searching for Chanyaporn (Chana) and George Thibodo. They are U.S. citizens on vacation in Thailand. Any information would be much appreciated.
Thomas, Charles
Charles Thomas lives onboard his yacht MV Rover, usually around Langawe.
Update: Charles Thomas has been found safe and well in the Royal Langawe Yacht Club marina in Thailand.
Thomas, Michael
Last Known Address: F&B Manager, Novotel Lotus Hotel, Bangkok.
Thompson, Chris
Looking for information on my good friends Chris Thompson and his girlfriend Ashley from Toronto, Canada.
Thompson, Craig Kyle
Thompson, Jacqui and Langdon, John
Missing Australian couple: Jacqui Thompson (nee Halvorson) (40) and John Langdon (35) Believed on Thai island off Phuket on hired motorbike. Jacqui petite attractive blond(5ft 2inches), John, fair, athletic type, well built (5 ft 10inches).
Thompson, James Everett
Age 69, 182 cm, 90 kg, gray mustache and hair, U.S. citizen. Resident near Phang Nga, ill from bleeding ulcers. Living with companion Nuon, 46, Thai national. His brother is seeking any information.
Thornton, John
Seeking information about my brother, John Thornton, age 46, living in Thailand for the past year. He may have been in the area of Phuket during the tsunami, have not heard from him since. John is formerly from the Boston, Massachusetts area. Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Tieophanijaroen, Tongjit and Preechaya Tiranasar
I am blessed with having 2 Thai citizens as "family" to us here in the U.S.! They were students at Savannah College of Art & Design and they helped me in my art studio. They became very close and loved by us. They still live in the USA but were vacationing in Thailand... seeing their family and friends! They travel when they are at home and we pray they were not near any beaches at the time of the tsunami! We are so very worried about them and would like to know if they are okay! We pray that they are and that their family is as well! Their names are Tongjit Tieophanijaroen and Preechaya Tiranasar! They were to be in Thailand for 7 weeks... due back approximately the last week in January. It is so very hard to wait that long to know that they are okay! Please post this.. with the hopes that maybe they (or someone who knows them) will see this... and tell them we hope to hear from them. They can call us collect if it is necessary! We are happy to do ANYTHING just to know they are safe! Thank you for your good work in getting these messages out!
Titeux family
Someone has news about Family Titeux from France? They stay at Khao Lak at the Sofitel Magic blue lagoon - no news since 26.12! Thanks!
Topalo, Deniz
We desperately looking for Deniz Topalo. A Turkish man, age 25. He works in a hotel in Thailand.
Tran, Tammy N.
Tammy N. Tran (Vietnamese/American) female of 30 years of age (black hair, brown eyes with a rose tattoo on body). Just given birth to healthy baby boy, Evann Yves Mahe (12/20/2004), who is also missing. Both mother and son last seen in Sofitel Magic Lagoon in Khao Lak, Thailand.
Treuthardt, John
Looking for John Treuthardt. He is my ex-husband. He was living in Phuket Thailand. He is 5'7" tall, about 160 pounds, born 5/2/53, age 52, bald, wears glasses to read, has hazel eyes and has a tatoo on one of his sholders.
Update: John Treuthardt is ok. He emailed yesterday. Thank you for all you do!
Trinh, Peter Loan
Coworker Peter Loan Trinh went home to Thailand for Christmas holiday. No idea where. We've not heard if this young man is ok. I would say mid-20s, slender, average height, an endearing shy, lopsided grin that I sure hope to see again! Any clue is greatly appreciated!
Update: According to the travel agent who organized the tour, there are no people missing. Peter Toan (Loan) Trinh is presumed to be safe. Thanks to CNN for this service & to those who graciously sent emails with suggestions! Prayers continue for others...Aloha.
Tronsen, Enid
Looking for an elderly woman named Enid Tronsen. She was in a tour group in Thailand and we haven't heard whether she is okay or not. Enid wears hearing aids and is a wonderful Christian woman.
Trottier, Chris
Can somebody please tell me if they have seen Chris Trottier from Toronto, Canada? He left for Thailand and was thinking of staying longer than he planned. I dunno if he was in that part of Thailand affected by the tsunami.
Trudeau, Cindi
We are looking for information on Cindi Trudeau who is a friend and was vacationing in Thailand.
Trueheart, John
American John Trueheart. Last known living in Thailand. Married Thai native. Last known employer Compresourse in Dallas, Texas. Has children in Texas as well, don't know if he and his wife survived. Please help!
Trumm, Dinah Lorena
I'm looking for a friend Dinah Lorena Trumm 24, she was visiting Khao Lak at the time of the tsunami, she is still missing. She has German and Mexican nationality. If anyone has any information please contact me, Thanks.
Tucker, Charity
We are looking for our friends Charity Tucker and her boyfriend Jeff who were vacationing in Thailand. We have not been able to reach them for some time now. Please help!! Thanks!!
Tucker-Jones, Joseph and family
I am trying to find out if Joseph Tucker-Jones and his family are safe. He went to Thailand for Christmas with his mum, step dad 2 younger sisters (1 who is called bonnie) and his younger brother to see friends of his stepdads. I met him in hospital and we both have the same illness. They live in chichester. Joe is 15 with black hair (although he could have dyed since I last saw him early December) and is about 5'2". I really hope none of them have been hurt in any way and am praying for those who have suffered.
Tuemtam, Thanatcha
I have a friend that lives in Pattaya, Thailand and I don't know if she's ok. I haven't heard fom her. Her name is Thanatcha Tuemtam and if there is any way for me to find out of her condition and or location, I would appreciate it. Thanks.
Tulyayon, Jula and Sukanya
Jula and Sukanya Tulyayon live(d) at 200-46 Windmill Place -- Bangna, Bangplee, Samutprakarn 10540. Last correspondence from Bank of AYUDHYA Public Company Limited. They were to open a resort. Last worked at Andamanc. Any info would be appreciated. Thank you!
Tuominen, Eero
I'm looking for my uncle Eero Tuominen. He is a Finnish citizen and was last seen in Khao Lak, Thailand.
Turolla, Rodolfo
Looking for Rodolfo Turolla, Italian, and his wife Jennifer, American. Last known place of residence: Phuket, Thailand.
Turtle, Adam
I am looking for my cousin Adam Turtle and his Thai wife, Tukata. He normally lives in Helensburgh, Scotland, but always visited Bangkok over Xmas to be with Tukata's parents. He is about 55 years old, tall with silver hair. I have been unable to contact him so if anyone knows of him please let me know.
Tyler, Gary
We have not yet heard from our uncle, Gary Tyler, age 59. He lives in southern Thailand. Gary, please let us know if you're all right.
Tyler, Jameie
We are looking for our friend and co-worker Jameie Tyler, she was last heard to be heading to complete her master diving certification in Phuket. She is a spunky brunette from Santa Barbara. Please let us know if you have seen or heard from her -- as are all of us on this site -- we are concerned. Thank you.
Uhrmann, Kirstin
Age 26; hair: blond; eyes: grey green; height: 170 cm. Last place seen: Khao Lak, "Joe's Steakhouse."
Ukhova, Dima
My wife's brother Dima Ukhova and his girlfriend Zhenya have not been heard from since Christmas. Anyone having any information on their whereabouts please contact me as soon as possible! Thank You.
Urumovic, Vladan and Ilic, Nina
Our best friends Mr Vladan Urumovic, his wife Nina Ilic and their son are missing. They arrived to Khao Lak on Dec. 22. They were last seen at their hotel Baan Khao Lak resort, having breakfast at 9 am. We love you Nina, Alexander and Vladan and hope to see you soon.
Valekha, Dimitriy
I am seeking any information about Dimitriy Valekha, male, late 20s in age, birthplace Russian Federation, speaks Russian and English. Dimitriy's parents moved to Reisterstown, Maryland, from Bryansk, Russia, some years ago. Dimitriy "Dima" has lived in Thailand for past year or two.
Vanbaelinghem, Corinne
Nickname is Coco. She is a French woman, from Dunkerque (northern France). She is 36 years old, fair, blue eyes, 1.74 m. She was in Bangkok on December 23. We have no news from this day. Please, if you have seen her or have some news, contact me thank you.
Vaughan, Ashley Pelham
He is 32, 6'3" black hair.
Vega, Carlos
My husband and I would like to make sure Carlos Vega is okay. He moved to Thailand from Florida, (living previously in San Bernardino, CA) a little more than a month ago and we haven't heard from him. Any news would be appreciated. He has a slight build, with dark curly hair.
Venkatesan, Gopal
My friend Gopal Venkatesan went to Thailand with a group for vacation on Dec. 22nd and I last talked with him before his trip on 21st. Greatly appreciate any information about his whereabouts.
Vepsa, Mirja and Ahti
Looking for elderly Finnish couple, my parents, Mirja and Ahti Vepsa, both missing in Khao Lak. Mirja, 65 years old is 170 cm, normal weight, short thick dark hair, round blue eyes. Ahti, 68 years old, is about 170cm, thin, balding dark-grayish hair, blue eyes, very talkative. Stayed in Hotel Palm Andaman. Please contact even with a minor clue.
Vetevoog, Sven and Merle Vooder
Searching for two Estonians last seen in Phuket on the morning of December 26. Their names are Sven Vetevoog and Merle Vooder. Sven is about 183 cm tall, very athletic, tattoo of a dragon on his foot, blond hair and grey eyes. Merle is about 160 cm tall, with long blond hair and blue eyes. So if anyone has seen them please let me know.
Viliran-Hill, Maria Rica
Maria Rica Viliran-Hill, with Stefan Durst in Thailand since Dec 25. Pls forward any information.
Vincent, Rod
Searching for my father, he has been vacationing in Thailand.
Update: My father-in-law was in Cambodia; he has contacted the family and is OK. Thanks so much for everyone's help.
Vivatanawongsa, Somsri
I am looking for information regarding my friend: Somsri Vivatanawongsa, 63 Krabee Road, Phuket, Thailand.
Vlamis, Anthiny (Sonny)
A friend who lived in Phuket is not answering e-mails. His name is Anthiny Vlamis (Sonny) 64 years old, probably considered "a character" in the beach community. He loved Thailand and made Phuket his home when he was not in San Francisico. We are all anxious to here of his whereabouts.
Voelkel, Ted
He was going to Bangkok and Phuket. If anyone has any information please e-mail me.
Von Marenholtz, Alain
Fellow co-workers and friends Looking for Alain Von Marenholtz, an employee of United Airlines. Alain left for Bangkok on Dec. 23 and was headed for the beach area, either Phuket or Koh Samui and Sri Lanka. Brother in Germany has called San Francisco anxious to hear from him. Alain is age 58, German-born and holding an American passport.
Vong, David
The person I'm looking to find out about is a member of my staff who was going home for five weeks. His name is David Vong.
Voster, Amanda, Hendrik and Elektra
I believe that Amanda and Hendrik Voster were going to Thailand on holiday with their daughter Elektra, please can someone let us know if they have seen them? Anxiously waiting for a reply!
Vunnavittayasing, "Eddie" Suttisak
I am looking for ANY information about the following person, last heard from on December 23rd. His name is Suttisak "Eddie" Vunnavittayasing. He went home to Bangkok from Antwerp to visit his family on December 25, 2004 on Singapore Airlines. His address is: 25 Moo 11 Soi Khangkhan 4, Phaholyothin Rd., Khukhot, Lumlokka, Pathumthani 12130, Thailand. Pictures of him appear on his web page at: http://www.geocities.com/eddie_thai
Vuorinen, Helge and Paula
I'm looking for Helge (52) and Paula Vuorinen. They were believed to be vacationing in Thailand. To date, have not heard anything from them. They are from Laitila, Finland.
Waddell, Ana
I am a teacher at PS3 in Greenwich Village Manhattan. Both the students and I are concerned about my student teacher, who left to visit her parents who taught in Thailand. Her name is Ana Waddell and if someone has heard from her I hope that they will contact us.
Walkhoff, Alexandra
I'm looking for my friend, Alexandra Walkhoff. He is a male caucasian from Germany. He has short curly hair and stands at around 1.75 tall and skinny. He is in his 30's. Believe he is island hopping before the disaster struck. I'm very worried as he did not get in touch as usual.
Wall, Patrick and Kathleen
From Conesus, New York. [They] were visiting, and we have not heard from them. We are hoping to find info about them.
Walz, Sue Rae
Sue Rae Walz is an American citizen visiting Thailand. We have not heard from her since the tsunami and would like to know that she is safe.
Wan Ahmed, Wan Rusli
I am looking for a friend called "Weli" (full name Wan Rusli Wan Ahmed) who worked at the Aquanauts Dive Shop in Phi Phi Don. He is Malaysian, about 5"8, with shoulder length curly black hair in a pony tail, and several piercings in each ear. I would really like to hear from anyone who may know what has happened to him.
Update: I had placed an email on your site regarding Wan Rusli Wan Ahmed, who I have now been able to contact. He is safe and has returned to Malaysia. My thanks for helping me to locate him.
Ward, Bryan
I am looking for Bryan Ward. He lives in Vancouver, BC and is a photographer that I have used frequently in the past years for business purposes. He and his girlfriend Shelley, I do not have her last name, were going to vacation somewhere in Thailand. I am unsure of their exact departure date, but I believe it was somewhere around December 26, returning on January 3. I have contacted his office and a few other people that know him to no avail. I just would like to know if they are okay.
Warren, Terry and Karen
Has anyone heard of any news of South African couple, Terry and Karen Warren from Durban travelling with their two girls, Claire and Samantha ... extremely concerned!
Watterson, Sarah
PLEASE any information of my friend holidaying in Phuket at the time of tsunami.
Weber family
My friend Greg Weber and his wife, two grown daughters went to Thailand for Christmas vacation. I have not heard from him. I would like to make sure he is OK. If you have him on a list, let me know. Thank you!
Update: Greg has returned home safely.
Weingraber, Ebba
A childhood friend of mine is looking for his mother from Austria. She was last seen walking on the beach in Thailand. Her boyfriend got a call on 12/27 that she is okay and that he should take a helicopter to Bangkok -- however this was the last they've heard from/about her. She might be listed under Australia. Her name is Ebba Weingraber. Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Weissberg, Nicole
My cousin, Nicole Weissberg, age 27 of Denver, CO (student at U. of Denver Business School) was traveling alone in Kao Luk and has not been heard from since the tsunami hit.
Welch, Benjamin
Benjamin Welch worked for an off shore drilling for oil. Home base Long Beach, California. He is an American citizen. He is unmarried but has two children. He lives in Thailand.
Weldon, Brett and Nit
Looking for our dear friend Brett (from Montreal), and Nit (who is Thai). Left for Phuket, Thailand (probably Patong) in October and we haven't heard from them since the Tsunami. He has blonde, curly hair and vivid blue eyes, 5'8", 140-150 lbs. She is brunette, long straight hair, petite 110-115 lbs. Any news would be appreciated.
Update: They are alright. He called home and they're okay.
Wemple, George
Age: between 61-64, American, living full time in Thailand last known to be: Phuket, Thailand. George has many family members in the U.S. who are worried about him.
Werkelin, Max
Urgently looking for Max Werkelin, Swedish, four years old. On Max´s left wrist he has a black (yellow on the backside) textile band with yellow text in stitching saying "Kneippbyn". His mother and big brother Charlie were found dead at Bangmuang Khao Lak on Dec. 28 and Jan. 1. He was last seen alive at Coconut Grove Restaurant close to Pasha Resort Hotel in Khao Lak when the wave came.
Westlund, David
I am looking for any information concerning the whereabouts of my brother-in-law, David Westlund, who is living in Thailand with his father, step-mom and two young sisters. He is American, blond hair with blue eyes. We are not sure of location in Thailand and haven't heard from him in a long time.
White, Matt
My friend Matt White went to Thailand 12/24/04 to check on his wife's visa to speed her immigration progress up. He lives in Star, NC, and has given me no feedback on his arrival to Thailand. I am hoping for his safety and return along with new wife. Please notify me his whereabouts or status.
Widjaja, Preety
Her name is Preety Widjaja. She is Chinese/Indonesian but an American citizen working for Dell, Inc. We last heard from her on 12/20/04.
Wigton, Dana
I'm looking for my best friend Dana Wigton. She was vacationing on the beaches of Thailand with her family. Dana is 17-years old, and her parents are Pat and Marvin. She was also with her 21-year-old brother Troy. They are originally from Minnesota. Please let me know of any of their whereabouts.
Wilke, Paul Douglas
Looking for news on Paul Douglas Wilke and wife, Tip. Thought to be in Phuket last. Last received e-mail was beginning Dec. 2004. Description: White American male with very long dark blonde hair and blue eyes. Approx. 6'2". Wife is a Thai lady.
Willer, Peter
Please do you have any information on a German national living in Australia by the name of Peter Willer.
Wilson, Roslyn and Hagar, Kevin
I am looking for my sister Roslyn Wilson, 29 years old, South African, who was working on a yacht in Phuket -- she phoned about two hours after the tsunami hit Phuket and was OK, but she not made any further contact. Boyfriend is there to also missing, Kevin Hagar.
Wilson, Rich
From Santa Cruz CA, travelling in Pattaya for several months. He was heading for Ko Phi Phi with his mom for Christmas.
Wiltshire, Peter and Janet
We are looking for Peter and Janet Wiltshire, English people living in Hemer, Germany. During the disaster they were on holiday in Thailand somewhere. Did anyone hear anything about them?
Winther, Malene Juel
Desperately seeking Danish Malene Juel Winther; she was in Khao Lak. If anybody has any information on her, please give contact. She has fine short blond curls, and is a tall Scandinavian type.
Witherspoon, Mike
Looking for information on Mike Witherspoon's (Spoon's) whereabouts. He was last known to be vacationing in Thailand.
Woehl, Stephan and Tevi Ngak
My good friends Stephan Woehl and Tevi Ngak went to Cambodia for a family reunion, along with other family members here in the States. They were also planning on taking a tour of Southeast Asia, including Thailand. Many of Tevi's friends here in L.A. have been trying to contact her via e-mail and phone, but her phone has been turned off, and we have not yet received a response. Tevi is Cambodian-American, about 5 feet 3 inches tall, and Stephan is German-born, about 6 feet tall. They left for Asia mid-December, and have planned their itinerary for a full month. Please let me know if they have been identified in any of the disaster-struck areas. Thank you.
Wongsakorn
I was in Phuket last month and came to know this local tour guide - Mr. Wongsakorn. My friends and I are eager to know how is he doing now?
Woodhouse, Marilyn
She's 48 years old and a British national, vacationing in Phuket, Thailand since Dec 19th. She's blonde, 5'8" 125 lbs.
Update: I am relieved to report that she has been in contact with her family and you may remove my posting from your webpage. Thank you for all your help.
Wu, Jack
We're looking for our friend Jack Wu and his wife, from Australia. They were on a honeymoon trip on Phuket, Thailand.
Wyatt, Brandon
U.S. citizen, Caucasian, 24-years-old, long brown curly hair. Last known destination the coast of Thailand over Christmas.
Viola, Gianni and Antonella
Our dear friends, Gianni & Antonella Viola, and their 5-year-old daughter were on holiday since December 11. They were supposed to be at the JW Marriott in Bangkok awaiting an authorization form from me. They did receive it. My concern is they were only staying there until the 13th of December, we have been in contact from December 11th - the 23rd. But I have not heard from them. I do have photos from them but we have not received an e-mail from them since December 23rd. I am just afraid that they were transferred to the JW Marriott in Phuket. Please help us find them. They are from Bologna Italy. We send our prayers and love to those who are lost and deceased. We will help in anyway possible. Waiting to exhale despartely in New York.
Webb, Rebecca and Dean- Fran, Frody, Shaun and Neil
Staying at Hotel-Petong Merlin, Phuket. Traveling with mother (Fran) aged late 30s and step-father Dean Byrne, along with three brothers (Brody & Shaun, 17, Neil 18).
Welte, Mike
Mike Welte is a friend of mine that left for Thailand and Malaysia in the beginning of November. He and his brother were planning on staying at various islands for approximately one year. I have talked to other friends that know him, and no one has heard from him.
West, Kelli
I am looking for information on Kelli West. She is my niece and was traveling with her father to Thailand for the holidays.
Wheeler
We are after information on behalf of Colin and Joy Daley whose close friends Harry and Rachael Wheeler from America were last known to be vacationing with family in Thailand.
Wilcox, Terry
My friend Terry Wilcox, in his 60s, moved to Thailand in July 2004, and was retired. I have not been in touch with him since, and wonder if anyone can tell me if he is unharmed?
Wittcoff, Harold A. and Dorothy
Please furnish me with any news about my aunt and uncle who traveled to Thailand on Sunday, December 26, 2004. I shall be grateful for any info you send me.
Wittenbecher, Timo
We are looking for Timo Wittenbecher (11 years) and Maike Schweikart (29 years). Timo and Maike were stayed with Timos mother and friends in Khao Lak. We are trying to get any information about them. The mother of Timo is injured. If anyone has information about the condition and the whereabouts of Timo and Maike, please contact us. Thank you for helping.
Wong, Rubina Carmen
25 years old, Chinese Canadian, 5ft, 100lbs, shoulder length hair, tattoo of goldfishes on lower back and dragonfly on right shoulder. Last seen on the Phi Phi Island, wearing white tank top.
Wyant, Jenn; Lalonde, Derek
Seeking any information regarding my friends Jenn Wyant and her boyfriend Derek Lalonde.
Yamada, Shione
Missing since 26 December, when the Tsunami struck, she was with me in front of P. P. Charlie's Resort's reception. I lost her soon after that. Please, please any information will help.
Yangchana, Lynn
Lynn Yangchana, San Diego, California.
Yelle, Roger and Caitlin Griffith
We are looking for Roger Yelle and his wife, Caitlin Griffith, both of whom are professors at the Lunar and Planetary Lab of the University of Arizona. They are on a bicycle trip through Thailand. Their families and co-workers are anxious to know whether they are safe. Please contact us with information.
Update: The family has received postcards that indicate that Caitlin and Roger were in the Northern region of Thailand at the time of the tsunami. Thus, we are confident that they are not missing as previously reported on this Web site. Thanks for your concern.
Yepez, James
24 yrs old, short brown hair, American, he was traveling with 3 other friends & was staying in a beach house in Phuket.
Yindeewong, Duangkamol
She lives in Saimai Bangkok. Please let me know about any information, thanks.
Yodphet, Nanwadee
Miss Nanwadee Yodphet, disappeared in Khao Lak, Bang Niang Beach Road. Any information is valuable to me. Also looking for contact info regarding miss Ann...? Working at Sita Garden before tsunami. She is alive, but I need to contact her.
Young, Damon
My son, Damon Young, age 35, 6'2", mostly bald, 185 lbs, blue eyes, vacationing with buddies from Los Angeles, Ca. Middle fingers both hands scarred from injuries.
Young, Iain
Amy Ko is looking for a Canadian friend called Iain Young from Vancouver. He is around 46-years-old, height 5'8" and has red hair. He was last heard from Phuket Island, Thailand on Dec. 25. If anyone has any of news or information, please contact me.
Zana, Natacha
I'm looking for information about my friend Natacha Zana, who is 35 years old. She was born January 31, 1969, and is French. She is 61 inches tall and has black curly hair and brown eyes. Natacha was on vacation since December 23 at the Phi Phi Charlie Beach Resort (Address : 104 Moo 7, Phi Phi Island - Muang, Krabi 81000) when the tsunami disaster struck. She was probably diving at the time. You'll find a picture of her on http://www.reseaucetaces.org/indexstart.php3
Zareba, Zofia and Boleslaw
I am looking for my friends, an older couple, Zofia and Boleslaw Zareba of Woodley, Reading Berkshire, England. They left home on December 17 for their oceanfront cottage in Thailand. If anyone has any news or information about them, please contact me.
Zellin, Anna
Anna Zellin, age 15, is still missing. She was pulled away from her family by the wave.
Zimmerman, Monica
I am looking for Monica Zimmerman from Tacoma, Washington. She was going to Thailand with her boyfriend and his family for Christmas. She is blond and about 5'9" tall.
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40th Berlin International Film FestivalOpening filmSteel MagnoliasLocationWest Berlin, GermanyFounded1951AwardsGolden Bear:
Music Box
Larks on a StringNo. of films467 films[1]Festival date9 – 20 February 1990Websitehttp://www.berlinale.deBerlin International Film Festival chronology
The 40th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 9 to 20 February 1990.[2] The festival opened with Steel Magnolias by Herbert Ross, which was shown out of competition.[3]
The Golden Bear was awarded ex aequo to the American film Music Box directed by Costa-Gavras and Czechoslovak film Larks on a String directed by Jiří Menzel.[4]
The retrospective of this edition included two programs: The Year 1945, dedicated to international productions released in 1945, and 40 Years Berlinale, dedicated to some of the most significant films presented during the past editions of the festival.
Jury
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The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival:[5]
Michael Ballhaus, West-German director of photography - Jury President
Margaret Ménégoz, French producer - Jury Co-president
Vadim Abdrashitov, Soviet filmmaker
Suzana Amaral, Brazilian filmmaker
Steven Bach, American writer and producer
Roberto Benigni, Italian actor, filmmaker
Lívia Gyarmathy, Hungarian director and screenwriter
Helke Misselwitz, East-German filmmaker
Otto Sander, West-German actor
Stephen Silverman, American actor
Rita Tushingham, British actress
Official Sections
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Main Competition
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The following films were in competition for the Golden Bear:[1]
English title Original title Director(s) Country Angels Los ángeles Jacob Berger Spain, France, Switzerland, Belgium The Asthenic Syndrome Астенический синдром Kira Muratova Soviet Union Black Snow 本命年 Xie Fei China Born on the Fourth of July Born on the Fourth of July Oliver Stone United States Coming Out Heiner Carow East Germany Driving Miss Daisy Bruce Beresford United States The Handmaid's Tale Volker Schlöndorff United States, West Germany Crossing Borders Herzlich willkommen Hark Bohm West Germany The Guard Караул Aleksandr Rogozhkin Soviet Union Larks on a String Skřivánci na niti Jiří Menzel Czechoslovakia Music Box Costa-Gavras United States The Nasty Girl Das schreckliche Mädchen Michael Verhoeven West Germany The Paper Wedding Les noces de papier Michel Brault Canada Shadow Makers Roland Joffé United States The Secret Il segreto Francesco Maselli Italy Sentenced to Death A halálraítélt János Zsombolyai Hungary Silent Scream David Hayman United Kingdom The Winter War Talvisota Pekka Parikka Finland A Woman's Revenge La vengeance d'une femme Jacques Doillon France Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! ¡Átame! Pedro Almodóvar Spain The War of the Roses Danny DeVito United States
Out of competition
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300 mil do nieba, directed by Maciej Dejczer (Poland)
Everybody Wins, directed by Karel Reisz (United States, United Kingdom)
Crimes and Misdemeanors, directed by Woody Allen (United States)
Steel Magnolias, directed by Herbert Ross (United States)
A Terra-Cotta Warrior, directed by Ching Siu-tung (Hong Kong)
Conte de printemps, directed by Éric Rohmer (France)
Resan till Melonia, directed by Per Åhlin (Sweden)
Spur der Steine, directed by Frank Beyer (East Germany)
Retrospective
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The following films were shown in the retrospective titled "The Year 1945":[6]
English title Original title Director(s) Country A Defeated People Humphrey Jennings United Kingdom A Diary for Timothy Humphrey Jennings United Kingdom A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Elia Kazan United States Fall of Berlin – 1945 Берлин Berlin Yuli Raizman Soviet Union Images from German cities Bilder aus deutschen Städten (unknown) Germany Brief Encounter David Lean United Kingdom Tragic Hunt Caccia tragica Giuseppe De Santis Italy Girl No. 217 Человек No. 217 Chelovek No. 217 Mikhail Romm Soviet Union The German newsreel of 1945 Die Deutsche Wochenschau aus dem Jahr 1945 Josef von Báky Germany Night of the Twelve Die Nacht der Zwölf Hans Schweikart Germany Death Mills Die Todesmühlen Hanuš Burger Germany Journey to Happiness Fahrt ins Glück Erich Engel Germany Fallen Angel Otto Preminger United States Germany, Year Zero Germania anno zero Roberto Rossellini Italy Days of Glory Giorni di gloria Luchino Visconti, Giuseppe De Santis and Marcello Pagliero Italy Great Freedom No. 7 Große Freiheit Nr. 7 Helmut Käutner Germany Children of the Beehive 蜂の巣の子供たち Hiroshi Shimizu Japan Henry V Laurence Olivier United Kingdom Here Is Germany Frank Capra United States Hitler Lives Don Siegel United States Hollywood Victory Caravan William D. Russell United States Hunger Honger Rudi Hornecker Netherlands Hotel Berlin Peter Godfrey United States The Bandit Il bandito Alberto Lattuada Italy Ivan the Terrible Иван Грозный Sergei Eisenstein Soviet Union Victory of Women 女性の勝利 Kenji Mizoguchi Japan Kolberg Veit Harlan Germany The Battle of the Rails La Bataille du rail René Clément France Lapin tuho Brita Wrede Finland Le 6 juin à l'aube Jean Grémillon France Reunion Le Retour Henri Cartier-Bresson France The Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne Robert Bresson France Children of Paradise Les Enfants du Paradis Marcel Carné France The Damned Les Maudits René Clément France Let There Be Light John Huston United States Mathilde Möhring Rolf Hansen Germany The Famous Sword Bijomaru 名刀美女丸 Kenji Mizoguchi Japan Mildred Pierce Michael Curtiz United States Ninotchka Ernst Lubitsch United States Objective, Burma! Raoul Walsh United States Rome, Open City Roma città aperta Roberto Rossellini Italy San Francisco Willard Van Dyke United States Scarlet Street Fritz Lang United States The Battle of San Pietro John Huston United States The House on 92nd Street Henry Hathaway United States The Last Chance Die letzte Chance Leopold Lindtberg Switzerland The Lost Weekend Billy Wilder United States The Story of G.I. Joe William A. Wellman United States The Stranger Orson Welles United States The True Glory Garson Kanin and Carol Reed United Kingdom, United States They Were Expendable John Ford United States Lowlands Tiefland Leni Riefenstahl West Germany The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail 虎の尾を踏む男達 Akira Kurosawa Japan Hymn of the Nations Alexander Hammid United States To the Shores of Iwo Jima (unknown) United States Two People Tva människor Carl Theodor Dreyer Sweden Two Down and One to Go Frank Capra United States Under the Bridges Unter den Brücken Helmut Käutner Germany Somewhere in Europe Valahol Európában Géza von Radványi Hungary Via Mala Josef von Báky Germany Encounter at the Elbe Встреча на Эльбе Grigori Aleksandrov and Aleksey Utkin Soviet Union War Comes to America Frank Capra and Anatole Litvak United States The Annihilation of Berlin Zaglada Berlina Jerzy Bossak Poland
Official Awards
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The following prizes were awarded by the Jury:[4]
Golden Bear:
Music Box by Costa-Gavras
Larks on a String by Jiří Menzel
Silver Bear – Special Jury Prize: The Asthenic Syndrome by Kira Muratova
Silver Bear for Best Director: Michael Verhoeven for The Nasty Girl
Silver Bear for Best Joint Performance: Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman
Silver Bear for Best Actor: Iain Glen for Silent Scream
Silver Bear for an outstanding single achievement: Black Snow by Xie Fei
Silver Bear for an outstanding artistic contribution: Coming Out
Alfred-Bauer Prize: Karaul
FIPRESCI Award
Karaul by Aleksandr Rogozhkin
References
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Warning, the following may contain spoilers.
During Walt's fiftieth birthday party, Hank shows off a news report covering a meth bust that he had led. Later, Walt takes up Hank's offer to go on a ride-along. Based on a tip from Krazy-8, Hank's team raids a meth lab while Walt stays in the car, where he witnesses his former student Jesse Pinkman escaping the bust, but does not say anything to Hank. Secretly, Walt engages with Jesse to start to produce their own meth using chemistry equipment from the school Walt teaches at. Due to the precursors they used, the product gains a unique blue tint but has an extremely high purity. Walt takes the name "Heisenberg" as he and Jesse sell the blue meth to the local drug trade. The blue meth and "Heisenberg" quickly draw the attention of Hank and the DEA. Hank's initial lead traces back to Walt's school, but Hank wrongly arrests the school janitor. Hank generally teases Walt through this period. However, when Walt tells the family that he is suffering from inoperable lung cancer, Hank promises to be there for him, and to take care of Walter Jr. and Walt's unborn daughter should he die. He also takes Walter Jr. under his wing, trying to "scare him straight" when he believes the boy is smoking marijuana. When Hank sees Walt interacting with Jesse, Walt explains that Jesse is supplying him with marijuana.
After a drug deal goes bad, Walt and Jesse are kidnapped by the unstable Tuco Salamanca and taken to a remote abode with his uncle, retired drug cartel boss Hector Salamanca. Hank helps with efforts to find Walt, and traces him via Jesse to Tuco's abode. Just before Hank arrives, Walt and Jesse manage to escape, wounding Tuco in the process. Hank kills Tuco in a shootout and arrests Hector. Meanwhile, Walt and Jesse flee back to Albuquerque, where Walt explains his disappearance to Skyler as the result of a fugue state. Hank questions Hector on the blue meth and Heisenberg, but Hector refuses to answer. Hank also questions Jesse, but Jesse provides no conclusive statements to provide leads to Heisenberg.
Hank is promoted and transferred to the El Paso, Texas DEA office for killing Tuco. Though initially happy, Hank quickly realises he doesn't fit in with his Spanish speaking colleagues and also starts having panic attacks. During a joint DEA/Mexican police operation, an informant, Tortuga, is beheaded and his head used to hide an explosive, killing several DEA agents and officers; Hank escapes unharmed as he had fled on having a panic attack upon seeing the head of the informant. Hank develops symptoms of PTSD and transfers back to the Albuquerque office to continue his investigation into the blue meth.
Some time later, Hank receives an anonymous call from Gustavo Fring, warning him that he is about to be killed by Leonel and Marco Salamanca in revenge for killing Tuco. Hank is able to kill one brother and mortally wound the other, but he himself becomes temporarily paralyzed. Hank struggles through his recovery due to his helplessness, and tries to collect minerals to pass the time. His interest is piqued when the Albuquerque Police Department ask him to help with looking over evidence from the murder of Gale Boetticher, who had been Walt's lab assistant at Gus' meth superlab under an industrial laundry. Among the evidence is a lab notebook with Gale's notes on the construction of the lab, the synthesis of meth, and other details that leads Hank to believe Gale was Heisenberg. During a shared dinner, Hank talks about Gale's notebook, and Walt drunkenly suggests Gale was merely copying the real Heisenberg's work.
Hank is curious at this comment, and reviewing the evidence again, makes a connection between Gale and Gus. Hank, only just starting to physically recover, leans on Walt to help him investigate Gus' activities, the Los Pollos Hermanos' restaurant chain and its parent company, Madrigal Electromotive, and properties they own in Albuquerque, including the industrial laundry. Walt panics knowing that this not only may lead Hank to discover that he is Heisenberg, but may lead to Gus taking deadly action to end Hank's investigation, since Walt and Jesse were already on thin ice for killing Gale. Walt has Saul fake a threat on Hank's life, and the DEA arrange for around-the-clock protection for Hank's and Walt's families, temporarily halting Hank's investigation. This also allows Walt to operate without interference to take out Gus by working with Hector after learning he and Gus are nemeses. Hector claims to want to talk to the DEA, and Hank is brought under protection to help with the interview, but Hector then refuses to cooperate and is returned to the nursing home. This was part of Walt's plan as Gus, learning of Hector's interview, goes to see Hector, upon which Hector triggers a pipe bomb Walt had planted on his wheelchair, killing them both. Walt and Jesse subsequently destroy the superlab.
The destruction of the superlab leads to evidence directly tying to Gus and the drug trade, and Hank is heralded as a hero. By this point, Hank's superiors have concluded that Gus was Heisenberg and tell Hank to drop the case, but Hank still believes there is more, and wants to pursue the informants tied to the accounts. Walt is forced to kill Mike to get the informants' names and arrange for their murders before they can be questioned. Several months pass, in which Walt has accumulated over $80 million and has left the drug trade. With no blue meth on streets and no leads, Hank has given up his investigation and moved on. At a dinner at the Whites, Hank goes to the bathroom and while there, pages through a copy of Leaves of Grass that Gale had given Walter. He recognizes the writing from Gale's notebook, and from Gale's dedication to Walt, is shocked to conclude that Walt is Heisenberg.
Hank feigns a stomach bug to leave early, taking the copy of Leaves of Grass with him, and suffers another panic attack. Later, he sneaks a GPS onto Walt's car. Walt discovers the copy of the book missing and the GPS device, similar to the one used to track Gus, and confronts Hank. Hank asserts Walt is Heisenberg, but Walt neither confirms or denies, only that his cancer has returned and by the time Hank can prove anything, he will be dead. Hank demands Walt to tell Skyler and the children to stay with him, but Walt refuses. Hank tries to talk to Skyler, but she stays silent on what she knows. Marie learns some details through Skyler, but Hank still has insufficient evidence to go forward against Walt.
Hank again approaches Jesse and finally convinces him they need to work together to stop Walt. Hank initially tries to have Jesse meet with Walt while wearing a wire tap, but Jesse backs out at the last minute, fearing Walt will kill him. Instead, Jesse suggests they target Walt's money, which they know has been hidden as cash somewhere locally. After trying to locate it on their own, Hank has Jesse call Walt pretending to have found the money and preparing to destroy it. Walt takes off to the money, and when he finds it intact, realizes Jesse has fooled him, and orders a hit on Jesse through Jack Welker. Jesse soon arrives with Hank and Gomez, and Walt tries to call off the hit, preparing to surrender himself to Hank. However, Jack's men arrive before then, and a firefight breaks out, which kills Gomez and critically wounds Hank. Walt pleads to Jack to spare Hank's life, offering his entire fortune to Jack. Hank refuses to beg for his life and asks Walt how such an intelligent man could be too naive to see that Jack had already made his decision. Hank then tells Jack to do what he has to do and Jack kills him with a shot to the head.
Jack's men bury Hank's and Gomez's bodies in the hole Walt had stored his money, stealing most of it but leaving one barrel totaling approximately $10M for Walt. The gang take Jesse back to their compound as a slave to punish him for helping Hank and Gomez. Six months later, after Walt had fled the state with a new identity, he returns to make his amends, and gives Skyler the location of the bodies, knowing it will help her to plea bargain her case. Hank and Gomez are avenged that same night when Walt poisons Lydia with ricin, kills Jack's crew with a modified machine gun in the back of his car and shoots Jack in the head, mirroring what Jack did to Hank months earlier. Walt lets Jesse strangle Jack's nephew Todd Alquist to death and escape, before dying from a shrapnel wound he received during the gunfire. Walt collapses on the floor with a look of contentment on his face, having avenged his much-loved brother-in-law.
History
Background information
Hank Schrader was born somewhere between March 13–28, in 1966. Little is known about Hank's early life. He met Marie after high school and asked her out repeatedly until she finally agreed. Hank joined the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in the late 1980s and befriended Steven Gomez at some point, and married Marie in 1998. He once recalled having a job tagging trees as a summer hire during his college years and having oral sex at a gay bar the night before his wedding with a drag performer by the name of Joan Crawford, who he took to be a woman. Shortly before he married Marie, Hank informed his brother-in-law, Walter White, about the affair. Walt told Hank to simply forget about it and that it wasn't an affair, and Hank chose to take his advice. ("Wedding Day")
Better Call Saul
Season 5
Hank arrives to work after the arrest of Krazy-8, complaining to Gomez about Marie. Hank and Gomez question Krazy-8 who offers information on dead drops in exchange for their help with his charges before the meeting is interrupted by Jimmy McGill (now practicing law under the name Saul Goodman). Hank is amused by Saul's name, recognizing the pun Saul used when choosing it. Despite Krazy-8's insistence that he doesn't need a lawyer, Saul pulls him aside and they briefly argue before Saul states that Krazy-8 wants a deal. However, Hank and Gomez prepare to leave, believing that they are just being strung along. Saul offers to have Krazy-8 give up the information in exchange for all charges being dropped once the DEA confirms it. Hank agrees and Saul adds on that he wants Krazy-8's identity as a snitch protected. After some haggling, Hank agrees to make Krazy-8 his and Gomez's person confidential informant and make it appear as if the charges were dropped due to simple lack of evidence before Krazy-8 tells them about the dead drops. Unknown to the agents, Lalo Salamanca, through Saul, purposefully set up Krazy-8 as an informant to use the DEA to disrupt Gustavo Fring's operation. ("The Guy For This")
At night, Hank and Gomez run a stakeout on one of Gus' dead drops which is located in a culvert. Hank complains about the location, causing Gomez to suggest that its moved during monsoon season. As the two men banter, they receive word that the target is approaching and Hank expresses confidence that Krazy-8's information is correct given the fact that the last two dead drops have also turned out to be real. The two agents watch and take pictures as Gus' henchman Diego retrieves the money from the dead drop before taking off, having apparently spotted the DEA agents. Correctly guessing where Diego will go, Hank is able to cut him off, forcing him to flee on foot. Hank and Gomez lose Diego, but recover the money which proves to be over $700,000 making the total recovered from the dead drops "just shy of a million dollars." Though Gomez is pleased by the result, Hank isn't as Diego got away. Hank then invites everyone who took part in the operation out for drinks. ("Namaste")
Breaking Bad
Season 1
Hank is demonstrating to the other men at Walt's 50th birthday how his gun works. When Walt holds it and mentions that it's heavy, Hank jests that it's "made for men." Hank gives Walt a quick birthday toast before urging everyone to watch an interview he did in regards to a local meth lab bust. Walt asks him how much money the rolls of cash add up to, to which Hank states is about $700,000. Hank invites Walt on a ride-along, telling him he needs some excitement in his life.
After Walt calls him one morning to take up his offer, he's seen with Walt and his fellow agent Steven Gomez waiting to bust a house. Hank and Gomez have a bet on the cook's ethnicity before the SWAT team bust through the door. Walt asks Hank if he could go inside to see the setup. Hank tells him he'll scope the lab out first and makes Walt wait outside, where he sees that his former student Jesse Pinkman escape from the neighbor's bedroom ("Pilot").
Hank is later seen during a drug bust when he gets a call from his wife, Marie, informing him of Walter White Jr.'s usage of marijuana. Though initially stating that it's Walt's job to talk to him, he eventually agrees to have a chat with his nephew. Hank brings Walter Jr. to a run-down motel that's home to many junkies—which Hank calls the Crystal Palace—tricking Walt Jr. into believing the two of them were going to get Cold Stone ice cream. Hank tries to startle his nephew out of doing drugs (unbeknownst to Hank that he wasn't doing any of them) by showing him the results meth has had on a prostitute by the name of Wendy, commenting on her rotted teeth. He then tells her to get lost and mentions that he'll bust her if he sees her working here again. Hank and Gomez are later seen out in the desert at the location of Walt and Jesse's crash site. The two of them deduce that a mobile lab caught fire and the culprits bailed. Hank wonders why a low-rider was left behind before finding some meth behind the stereo ("...and the Bag's in the River").
Hank informs his team that there is a new group of meth cooks in town, making some of the purest meth he's ever seen. He describes these "new players" as having a high skill set. Hank is later seen having dinner with the Whites, giving dating advice to Walter Jr. He's listening to Walt tell the story of how he and Skyler met until she breaks out in tears. Walt confesses that he has lung cancer. When discussing Walt's situation, Hank tells him that if anything happens he will make sure his family is safe and taken care of ("Cancer Man").
Hank is disappointed with Walter Jr. for calling him instead of his father after he got in trouble for trying to purchase alcohol as a minor. Along with the pot use earlier, Hank believes Walter Jr. is lashing out because of Walt's illness. When Walt returns home one night, Hank is found sitting with the rest of the family, waiting to give Walt an intervention on the future of his condition. When it is Hank's turn to speak, he explains through a baseball metaphor that Walt should take the money Elliott Schwartz offered him, briefly changing his mind when Marie mentions that Walt should do whatever he wants to do, believing that Walt has the right to die like a man ("Gray Matter").
Hank meets with Gomez in a parking lot, who hands him the mask they recovered at Walt's cook site. The mask was traced back to Walt's high school. Hank pays a visit to Walt after school hours and tells him that the mask was used to cook meth. After doing an inventory of the equipment, Hank notices that two respirators are missing, along with some glassware. He tells Walt to take better care of his lab equipment, and then jokes about people suspecting him. Hank is later seen arresting the janitor at Walt's school, Hugo Archilleya, as he had fit the profile. Later on, during a family poker game, Hank admits that they only found pot in his car, saying that he would nonetheless lose his job and serve time in county jail. During the game, Walt puts all his chips in, causing Hank to fold. He was disappointed to see that Walt had nothing noteworthy in his hand. ("Crazy Handful of Nothin'").
During Skyler's baby shower, Hank and Walt share drinks and Cuban cigars outside, with Hank letting Walt know that he did a favor for an FBI guy in exchange for the illegal cigars. After a brief discussion of what is and isn't legal, Walt states that the line is arbitrary. Hank responds with saying that many guys in jail have the mentality that a lot of illegal things shouldn't be, including meth ("A No-Rough-Stuff-Type Deal").
Season 2
Hank reminds Marie that her therapy appointment was the same time she planned to have dinner with Skyler. She tells him he's mistaken and runs over a neighborhood kid's remote-control car as she's leaving. Hank apologizes to the kid and whips out his wallet to compensate him. Later, Gomez shows Hank surveillance footage of a recent burglary at a chemical warehouse. Unaware that the pair of burglars are Walt and Jesse, makes fun of their criminal methods but commends their knowledge of chemistry. Hank states that they must be needing to cook a lot of meth if they needed to steal a whole barrel of methylamine and that they'll be lucky if he and his team catch them before the Cartel does.
Hank pays Skyler a visit to ask why she doesn't return any of Marie's phone calls. When he says that they all need to support Marie through this, Skyler exclaims that she is the one in need of support, as she's a 40-year-old pregnant woman with a detached husband with lung cancer and a moody son, before breaking down in front of Hank. Later on at a crime scene in a junkyard, Hank sends a photo of Gonzo and No-Doze to Walt, claiming they're the "world's dumbest criminals," ("Seven Thirty-Seven").
Hank tells his team at the DEA office of the raid on Tuco Salamanca's headquarters, telling them to "get a big-ole raging hard-on" at the thought of catching him. After getting the room to chant, he tells Gomez that he needs to take a personal leave to search for Walt, who has just gone missing. While rendezvousing at the White residence, Skyler asks about Walt's second cell phone, to which Marie suspects he was using to buy weed from a former student of his named Jesse Pinkman. Hank feels they're grasping at straws, but insist Hank question him. Hank pays a visit to Jesse's mom, Diane Pinkman, in an attempt to get any info on her son. She reveals that Jesse owns a red Monte Carlo that he converted to a low-rider. Hank calls Gomez to inquire about whether or not the low-rider may be equipped with a LoJack car tracker. This leads to Hank driving out to a shack in the desert, where Jesse's car was presumably reported to be. There, he stumbles upon a wounded Tuco, from whom Walt and Jesse have just escaped captivity. Hank briefly confuses Tuco for Jesse before the two enter a shootout. After a brief pause in fire, Hank steadies his aim while Tuco reloads his assault rifle. As he exits cover to resume fire, Hank puts a clean shot through Tuco's skull ("Grilled").
Hank is later seen giving an official statement of what went down at the desert shack. Hank diverts his attention to Jesse, whose car and money he found at the shack. After being tipped off by Badger (set up by Jesse), Hank's team raids the room Jesse and Wendy were staying in at the Crossroads Motel, bringing Jesse in for interrogation. Hank tries to intimidate Jesse into confessing he was at Tuco's shack, despite Jesse saying he was partying with Wendy all weekend and had no idea his car was stolen. During his interrogation of Wendy, she recognizes Hank from his earlier encounter with her when he tried to scare Walter Jr. into not doing drugs and she decides to vouch for Jesse's story. Gomez tells Hank to let it go, as there's no solid evidence to charge him with the crime. Having one more idea, Hank brings in Hector Salamanca, Tuco's uncle, to identify Jesse. Due to being an old-school cartel member, Hector refuses to rat Jesse out, despite being at the shack with Walt and Jesse. Hank has no choice but to buy Jesse's story.
Hank is reviewing the footage of the chemical warehouse burglary, believing that the thieves cooked the blue meth recovered from Tuco's shack, as it was the purest meth seen since the batch recovered from Walt's first cook. Hank's colleagues throw him a party in celebration of his busting of Tuco. After the party, he visits Walt (who was resting in the hospital after being found). He shows Walt the gift his colleagues gave him during the party: Tuco's grill encased in a lucite cube. Walt apologizes to Hank for putting him at risk searching for him, but tells him not to worry, as his praises are being sung back at the office ("Bit by a Dead Bee").
Hank tells his boss, ASAC George Merkert, that nobody has yet to replace the meth-supply void created by Tuco's death, though the name "Heisenberg" is being tossed around. Impressed by his work, Merkert promotes Hank to the Tri-State Border Interdiction Task Force in El Paso, meaning that he will be dividing his time between Albuquerque and El Paso. Hank thanks him and heads down to meet his co-workers for lunch, but on the elevator down, he begins to suffer a panic attack, only managing to compose himself shortly before exiting. The next day, Hank calls in sick and is found by Marie making some of his original home-made brew called Schraderbräu in his garage, much to Marie's dismay. Later, Hank and Marie invite the Whites over for a barbecue. Hank shares his experience with Tuco to Walter Jr., telling him that criminals are like cockroaches and that you should stomp them down when you see one without thinking. That night, Hank is awoken by loud gunshot-like pops coming from inside his house. Tense and alert with gun in hand, he heads to the garage, realizing that the noise was made by his beer bottles popping off. In response to the toll Tuco's death has taken on him, Hank throws the grill in a local river ("Breakage").
Once transferred to El Paso, Hank has a hard time fitting in with his new co-workers. His usual quips and racial humor that got a rise out of the department in Albuquerque are brushed off by the Mexican officers in El Paso. Hank is the only one laughing when he mocks the idea of drug dealers praying to their patron saint, Jesús Malverde. When he asks Vanco why the saint's statue sits on his desk, Vanco states that it's to help him know his enemy, an idea based on the teachings of Sun Tzu.
Hank joins Vanco and a few others during a visit to a cartel informant named Tortuga. After being mocked for not understanding Spanish as well as becoming increasingly impatient with Tortuga, Hank attempts to intimidate him into giving them the information they're after. Tortuga quickly shuts him down, stating that he may take his time, but he always wins. Hank and the others are later seen at a stakeout in Mexico. Hank is mocked behind his back in by his co-workers in Spanish, mentioning that his promotion was nothing more than politics. After Hank asks them if they're mentioning anything he should know about, they reassure him that they are only complementing him. Shortly after, Tortuga's head is spotted moving slowly in the distance. Upon getting closer, they see that it was Tortuga's severed head on a tortoise with the words "Hola DEA" painted on the side of the tortoise's shell. Hank begins to heave and runs back to the truck to catch his breath. The others surrounding the tortoise laugh at him. As one of the DEA agents begins to 'welcome him to Juarez," another touches the severed head, causing the tortoise to explode, killing the latter and severely injuring the others, Vanco in particular having his leg blown off. Despite being shaken up by the blast, Hank goes to help the injured agents ("Negro y Azul").
Hank's experience at Juarez has a profound effect on him and is shortly after sent back to Albuquerque. Hank refuses to confide in Marie, so she asks Walt for help. As Walt speaks with him, Hank tells him that the conflict in El Paso is like Apocalypse Now. He refuses to see a shrink, believing that doing so can damage his reputation and tarnish his career. When Walt states that he could talk to him about it, Hank mentions that the two of them have an "experiential overlap," as he believes Walt would fail to understand. Instead, Walt tells Hank that his experiences with his lung cancer have helped him to overcome his fears of everyday life. He urges Hank to "get out in the real world" and "kick that bastard as hard as you can, right in the teeth."
Hank arrives back at his old department and is informed by Gomez that blue meth was being sold by a man named Brandon Mayhew, also known as Badger. The two head over to the police station to question him. The two run into Saul Goodman, a local criminal attorney. After a brief exchange of insults, Saul mentions that they are only after Badger looking to find "bigger fish." Badger later informs Hank that Heisenberg is an older man in his 50s or 60s and is even balder than Hank himself.
Hank is later seen with Gomez and Detective Getz staking out the bus stop where Badger was arrested, planning to have Badger take the meth from Heisenberg in order to arrest the latter (unaware of the fact that Saul hired another man to fill in Walt's place). As they watch on, Walt pulls up in front of them and begins to feign naivety in order to buy Badger some time, as he had sat down at the wrong bench and began talking to the wrong man. Much to Hank's frustration, Walt finally leaves. Badger is seen taking the meth from James Kilkelly and the DEA go in for the arrest. Despite all this, Hank suspects that Kilkelly isn't the true Heisenberg ("Better Call Saul").
Hank is later seen with Walt and the rest of his family when Dr. Delcavoli informs them that Walt has entered remission and that his cancer has shrunk by 80% ("4 Days Out"). In support of the good news, Hank helps Skyler throw a party for Walt, where Hank is complemented for his margaritas. Hank was caught off guard when Walt ended his speech on a depressing note. Later on, Hank is seen sitting with Walt and Walter Jr. by the poolside sharing stories of his time in El Paso to Walter Jr., stating that the cartel was being 'poetic' by putting Tortuga's head on a tortoise and rigging it with an explosive. He jokingly mentions that tortuga is "bean-speak" for tortoise. Walt begins pouring shots for the two of them, only to pour one more for Walter Jr. In good faith, Hank tells Walter Jr. to make sure Skyler doesn't see. After Walt gives his son another shot, Hank questions if he's going for "father of the year." When Walt refuses to stop giving Walter Jr. shots, Hank decides that they've had the bottle for too long. When Walt angrily demands he give him back the bottle, the two have a brief stare-down before being interrupted by Walter Jr. vomiting into the pool ("Over"). After the tension between Hank and Walt were settled, the Whites invite Hank and Marie over to their house for dinner. Hank brings over some chicken from Los Pollos Hermanos, commending them for their taste ("Phoenix").
At the DEA office, Hank asks his co-workers for donations to fund Walt's surgery. Afterwards, he is seen talking about the recent murder of Combo. He regards him as a "dipshit, wannabe banger" and wonders why he was dealing blue meth. Hank notes that after his death, the aforementioned blue meth is nowhere to be found in Albuquerque, appearing instead in areas to the Southwest. He states that Heisenberg wised up and stopped "shitting where he eats." Hank concludes by believing that Heisenberg is still in town.
Some time later, ASAC Merkert introduces Hank to three local businessmen donating funds to the department. Among them is Gustavo Fring, owner of Los Pollos Hermanos. After briefly discussing the meth issue in the region and thanking them for their contributions, Gus asks Hank about Walt's photo on the donation jar. Hank informs him that Walt is his brother-in-law and is currently fighting lung cancer. After Gus generously donates some money, Hank gladly thanks him ("ABQ").
Season 3
Hank is helping Walt move as well as trying to offer advice to Walt about his relationship troubles. He struggles for a second with Walt when trying to store a bag (filled with Walt's drug money) into his car. When Hank jokes about what he might have in there, Walt tells him that he has half a million in cash. Hank laughs and brushes it off ("No Más").
Hank is discussing a recent truck explosion near the border with his team, indicating that it must be high-end cartel work, before receiving a call telling him that Walt has been arrested. After releasing him, Walt tells Hank that Skyler is divorcing him and doesn't want him near the kids. Later, Hank and the family have dinner without Walt. Hank asks Skyler why she's keeping Walt away from their kids, to which she replies "It's none of your business." Marie tells Hank that she suspects Walt of having an affair ("Caballo Sin Nombre").
Hank later tells his partner, Steve Gomez, that El Paso wants him back. He tells Gomez that errands are delaying his return to El Paso, to which Gomez questions why he isn't jumping at the opportunity to return. After a brief anxiety attack in the bathroom of a bar, he returns to his car to stash his gun before going back to the bar. He picks a fight with two "dirt-balls" and proceeds to beat them up, informing them that he's part of the DEA. Hank is later confronted by ASAC Merkert, stating that, as far as he knows, Hank was confronted when Gomez was outside calling for backup. Gomez tells Hank that he didn't mention putting his gun away before going back inside in his report ("I.F.T.").
Hank is dropped off at the airport by Marie en route to El Paso, but he gets a call shortly afterward informing him that the blue meth has returned to the streets of Albuquerque. After a brief questioning of a tweaker in an interrogation room, he is told that the blue meth's source comes from a guy whose name starts with an "M." Gomez, feeling the information is inconsequential, tells Hank he should just report to El Paso, to which Hank replies "I'm getting tired of all the second guessing." After a stern voicemail left by ASAC Merkert informs Hank that the folks in Texas are "breathing down his neck," Hank follows up on the tweaker's lead. He arrives at a gas station, where he convinces the cashier lady to tell him how she got some of the meth. She states that a man with blue eyes and an RV sold it to her, then proceeded to give it to a friend named Matt. Outside, Hank notices a camera on an ATM facing the gas pump before stating "Bingo," When Merkert asks him if he's going to El Paso, Hank tells him no, only due to being on the verge of something big ("Green Light").
Hank continues his search by staking out an RV with Gomez. He climbs up back and peers through a latch on top, only to startle an older couple playing cards. Hank suggests they keep up their search, but Gomez tells him he won't be able to, as he has to pack for El Paso. Back home, Marie asks for him to share his thoughts on Gomez going to El Paso instead of him, saying that it makes sense for him not wanting to return after what happened. Hank shouts that Mexico has nothing to do with it and that the only reason he's staying behind is to pursue leads on Heisenberg. Marie is later seen talking with Skyler on the well-being of her husband.
Back at the office, Hank asks his secretary, Janice, to check the DMV and look for any RVs they may have missed. During Gomez's farewell party, Hank gives him a statuette of Jesús Malverde after learning of his importance back in El Paso. Janice then tells Hank that she found an additional RV whose registration was never renewed, but was never reported as non-operational, stolen, or destroyed. This leads him to the home of Combo's mother, Mrs. Ortega. She tells Hank that she never reported the RV as stolen because she did not want to have her son arrested. In Combo's old room, he finds a picture of him with Jesse Pinkman in a strip club ("Más").
Hank is watching Jesse talk with Skinny Pete and Badger from afar. He gets a call from Marie asking when he'll be home. Hank tells her that he can't return until Jesse gives him a lead. She suggests he give Walt a call, as he might have sold him marijuana at some point. After Hank gives Walt a call about his theory of the RV being a mobile meth lab, Walt realizes Hank suspects Jesse. Hank continues to follow Jesse until he arrives at a junkyard where Walt and Jesse takes the RV. Hank pounds on the RV door, telling Jesse to do things the easy way. After some resistance, Hank attempts to pry the door open with a crowbar before being confronted by Old Joe, informing him that he cannot search the RV without a warrant. After finding bullet holes behind duct tape on the door, he heads back to his car to call ASAC Merkert and ask for a warrant. During this time, Saul's secretary Francesca calls Hank's cell under the guise of a police officer, informing him that his wife was in a terrible car accident as is being taken to the hospital. He leaves immediately and enters the hospital in a panic before getting a call from Marie herself, telling him about dinner plans. Hank immediately realizes he was tricked ("Sunset").
Infuriated, Hank confronts Jesse at his house and proceeded to beat him to a pulp, asking him who he's working for and how he know his wife's name. After beating him unconscious, Hank realizes he's gone overboard and calls the paramedics. Merkert tells him that he'll want to talk to a lawyer. Later, Hank makes a statement about what happened at the junkyard, but he pleads the Fifth in regards to assaulting Jesse. He is informed that Jesse is pressing charges and is asked to have pictures of his hands taken for the record. Hank meets Marie at the elevator and proceeds to break down, composing himself before the door opens.
Back home, Hank refuses to take Marie's advice on lying about his confrontation with Jesse, stating "I'm supposed to be better than that" despite Jesse being a mere 'low-life." He admits to becoming unraveled after his encounter with Tuco Salamanca and decides he's done being a cop. Back at the DEA office, Hank admits to assaulting Jesse, refusing to amend any statements on placing himself or the department in a better light. ASAC Merkert has no choice but to suspend Hank without pay and to confiscate his gun. Afterwards, Hank is told by Merkert that Jesse chose not to press charges after all. Hank asks why, to which Merkert replies, "Maybe you have a guardian angel."
Relieved and ecstatic, Hank stops by a shopping center to purchase some flowers for his wife, Marie, telling her that everything's going to be alright after all. Shortly before leaving, he receives an ominous call from an electronic voice informing him that he has one minute to leave before two men arrive to kill him. Panicking, he calls Gomez, believing it to be some sort of prank. He reaches for his gun, only to realize it was confiscated. After scanning the area for one minute, Leonel Salamanca appears behind Hank and begins shooting at him from the back of his car. Hank immediately puts his SUV in reverse and floors it, pinning Leonel between another car, despite sustaining a bullet wound to the arm. Marco Salamanca appears from the side and begins firing at Hank, who grabs the gun Leonel dropped in the back seat and dives out of the car. After Hank escapes, Marco frees Leonel, who tells him to finish off Hank. While searching for him, Hank gets the drop on Marco, only to have his shots be stopped by a Marco's bulletproof vest. Marco shoots Hank twice in the chest before going back to his car to grab an axe, as shooting him in the head would be "too easy." Meanwhile, Hank spots a bullet dropped by Marco as he was looking for him and loads it into Leonel's gun. Just before Marco returns to swing the axe into Hank's skull, he shoots him in the head, killing him instantly ("One Minute").
Hank is rushed to the hospital via ambulance and is seen being wheeled inside by Jesse, whom was just released. Merkert tells his family that Hank was attacked by two cartel hitman and, despite being shot four times, managed to kill one and critically wound the other. Numerous police officers and DEA agents donate their blood in support of Hank. A doctor announces that Hank is stabilized and out of surgery, but cannot have any visitors. Nonetheless, Marie insists on staying at the hospital. Walter Jr. later shared with his dad a book that Hank gave him about infamous druglord Pablo Escobar. He quotes Hank by stating "Good guys never get ink like the bad guys do." While Hank's family is sleeping in the waiting room, a doctor informs them that he is finally able to have visitors. Hank lies asleep in the room. Marie leans over and kisses his forehead ("I See You").
Steve Gomez visits Hank in the hospital and shows him a map detailing the blue meth's reappearance. Gomez tells him that he's the only one who saw it coming. Little to reaction is given by Hank due to his current state, however. Later, a more cognitive Hank is having the nerves in his legs tested, noting that feeling seems to be slowly returning. Marie and Skyler are pulled aside by the doctor to discuss Hank's condition, stating that a recovery is stacked against Hank's favor and that therapy could land the couple bankrupt. Despite this, Marie vows to get Hank the best physical therapists she can find ("Kafkaesque").
Hank is seen working with his physical therapist in an electromagnetic patient lifter. He struggles in pain to take another step and forces the lesson to be cut short. Marie later joyfully informs Hank that he'll soon be released, as a hospital bed and the equipment necessary for physical therapy have been installed in their home. Furious, Hank tells her to remove all the equipment from his home and that the only time he'll be leaving the hospital is when he's walking out of it by himself ("Abiquiú").
Marie and Walter Jr. are playing cards with Hank in the hospital. Marie mentions to Walter Jr. that Hank is well enough to leave the hospital, but angrily retorts that he cannot move his legs. Walter Jr. asks him if everyone in a wheelchair or crutches should be in a hospital before asking "Should I be in a hospital?" Hank does nothing but grumble. Marie is later seen giving Hank a sponge bath and playfully bets him that if she can successfully give him an erection using her hands he has to check out. Hoping to get her out of there sooner, Hank agrees, as he feels she's beating a dead horse. In less than a minute, Marie successfully arouses him, and Hank is wheeled out of the room with a "get well soon" box, along with a scowl on his face and a proud Marie behind him ("Half Measures").
Season 4
Hank, now bedridden at home, is seen bidding on a magnesite crystal online when Marie begins to praise his progress in physical therapy. He dismisses her compliment, stating that he's only covered 16 feet in 20 minutes. Humiliated, he asks her for his bedpan ("Box Cutter"). Marie finds Hank up late at night examining the minerals he's been collecting. When she mentions how late it is, he dismissively informs her that there are other bedrooms in the house. During another session of physical therapy, Hank pushes through the routine on the way to his bedroom, indicating great improvement. Elated, Marie begins to compliment him, but once the therapist leaves, he coldly tells her to get out. The next day, a deliveryman arrives with numerous boxes of minerals. Hank asks Marie to check the boxes for damage, to which she replies, "They're rocks!" Hank corrects her by stating that they're minerals and that some of them are very delicate ("Thirty-Eight Snub").
Hank is seen watching porn when Marie returns home. He promptly turns off the TV as Marie begins to unpack her shopping. Among the items is a figurine she stole, indicating that her kleptomania has returned and that Hank's hostility towards her is likely the reason. Hank later receives a phone call from Marie when she's arrested for stealing from an open house, infuriated that she's "doing this to [him] again." He tells her to sit tight while he makes a call. Later that day, APD Detective Tim Roberts, a colleague of Hank's, pays him a visit after he helps get Marie out of the police station. As a way to repay the favor, he asks for Hank's help in solving the recent murder of Gale Boetticher, speculating that the notes he has from a copy of Gale's notebook indicate a meth superlab. Hank dismisses Tim's favor as "charity," but nonetheless he halfheartedly agrees to help. Once Tim leaves, he tosses the notes on a pile of minerals and begins to watch TV. Later that night, Hank is unable to sleep. Out of boredom and curiosity, he begins to look through Gale's notebook ("Open House").
Hank invites the Whites over for dinner. During their stay, he shows a DVD of Gale Boetticher performing karaoke to Walt and Walter Jr., during which he laughs uncontrollably with Walter Jr. while Walt stares in shock. At dinner, Walt and Skyler confess to Walt having a 'gambling addiction' that landed him hundreds of thousands in winnings, explaining how they're able to afford to pay for Hank's treatment. Later, Hank goes to check up on Walt after he left to go to the bathroom (unbeknownst to him that Walt wanted to dig through Gale's lab notes in Hank's room). When he runs into him in the hallway, Hank offers to hear Walt out if he ever has any issues with gambling. In turn, Walt offers the same pertaining to anything Hank might want to share with him in regards to casework. Hank and Walt are then shown in his bedroom, discussing the files. Hank believes Gale was the infamous 'Heisenberg,' showing regret in not being the one to catch him red handed and cuff him. Hank indicates that the operation must have been making hundreds of pounds of meth weekly, if not more. Hank shows a quote written by Gale dedicated an unknown 'W.W' to Walt. Walt concludes that it was addressed to Walt Whitman, whom Gale was a fan of ("Bullet Points").
Tim Roberts visits Hank once more. Hank is joking about the odd personality displayed in Gale's notes, stating "it's like Scarface had sex with Mr. Rogers." He reveals that Jesse and Badger were the only people directly tied to the blue meth that he knows of. After revealing he has a 'history with Jesse, Hank says that he doesn't think Jesse was the murderer. After finding closure in seeing Gale - the man he thinks is Heisenberg - dead, he states to Tim that he's done with the research.
Hank and Marie have the Whites over for dinner again, where Walt is becoming increasingly drunk off of wine. Hank complements Walt on his gambling skills, only to be scolded by Marie for enabling him. When Walter Jr. asks Hank about the Boetticher case, he states that he's no longer looking into it. He states that Gale was truly a master at his craft and a genius who could've been something great had he put his talents to good use. Annoyed and tipsy, Walt dismisses the notes as likely being copies of someone else's work, telling Hank that the true mastermind might still be at large. And thus, Walt's hubris pushes Hank to pick up the case once more. The next morning, Hank tells Marie that he's continuing to look into the Boetticher case after apologizing for making a mess, indicating that his attitude towards her has been greatly reduced since returning to his usual line of work. Hank notices a leaflet from Los Pollos Hermanos in one of the pictures of Gale's house, with numbers and letters scribbled on the bottom. He asks Marie, "Since when do vegans eat fried chicken?" ("Shotgun").
Walter Jr. drives Hank to Los Pollos Hermanos, where Hank has a brief chat with Gus Fring, who recognizes him from his charity with with the DEA. Gus refills Hank's soda and offers to pay for any future meals, even offering Walter Jr. a job if he were to ever be interested. Hank thanks him and proceeds to slip the cup into an evidence bag once Gus is gone and stashes under the car seat.
Hank meets with Steven Gomez and ASAC George Merkert at the DEA office. He describes the murder of Gale Boetticher and hypothesizes that he was Heisenberg's cook. The lettering scribbled on Gale's Los Pollos Hermanos were the parts number for an industrial air-filtration system that Gale took part in delivering. Hank mentions that the unit is perfect for the "biggest meth lab north of the border." In addition, the manufacturer of the air-filtration unit, German-based Madrigal Electromotive, has a stake in Los Pollos Hermanos. He states that a vegan such as Gale would have no business going to a chicken restaurant unless he was meeting with somebody, deducing that Gustavo Fring might just be the guy. When Merkert tells Hank that he's really reaching, Hank brings out both the soda cup Gus held earlier and prints from the crime scene, indicating that they are one and the same and questions why Gus was ever at Gale's apartment ("Problem Dog").
Hank meets with the APD and DEA when Gus Fring is summoned to the APD headquarters for questioning. Gus states that Gale was the winner of a chemistry scholarship Gus established in honor of his late friend Maximino Arciniega. Gus continued by stating that Gale reconnected with him and, after inviting him over for dinner, offered a business proposal to him that he promptly declined. Hank wasn't buying his alibi, however. Hank asks if Gus Fring was his real name and proceeds to reveal to his colleagues that Gus emigrated as a Chilean national in 1986 and has no official records of himself from Chile, to which Gus explains was a result of unreliable records under the Pinochet dictatorship. After Gus leaves, Hank's colleagues seem convinced. Hank, on the other hand, finds it strange that a man who strongly supports local law enforcement didn't come forward on a murder case he's clearly aware of. The head detective informs Hank that they cannot go around investigating people on the grounds that they haven't volunteered any information.
Later at dinner, Marie brings up Hank's meeting as being something secretive, to which Hank quickly changes the subject. He asks Walt if he could drive him to a mineral show the next day, to which Walt agrees. During the drive, Hank reveals that where he really wants to go is Los Pollos Hermanos. He shares with Walt that he thinks Gus Fring is a major drug distributor and asks Walt to plant a bug on his car. After some time trying to convince Walt, he reluctantly goes to plant the bug, but not before going inside to buy a drink. As Walt returns, he goes back to actually plant the bug, much to Hank's dismay over Walt's clumsiness. Walt explains to him that he was checking to see if the device was firmly planted ("Hermanos").
After some time, Walt takes Hank back to Los Pollos Hermanos and retrieves the bug for him. Hank shares disappointment that Walt didn't go inside this time, as he was hoping for a vanilla milkshake. Upon checking the GPS data at home, he notices that Gus has only gone between his home and one Los Pollos Hermanos restaurant. Hank commends Gus for being either squeaky clean or very careful, wondering how he could catch him. Hank later proposes to Walt that they drive out to what he believes to be Gus Fring's drug distribution center, but Walt fakes an illness, delaying the trip ("Bug").
Hank and Walt eventually find themselves watching Gus's factory farm in hopes of getting a lead. Hank mentions that a big cartel incident involving many deaths occurred in Mexico before bringing up Walt's bruised face. He lets Walt know that if he's in over his head with his gambling issue, he is the first guy he should come to. As the two head out another day for the farm once more, Hank tells Walt to take a different direction and instead tells him to drive to a local industrial laundromat. He informs him of the connections the laundromat has between Madrigal Electromotive, Gus Fring's operation, and Gale Boetticher and fully believes it to be the location of the superlab. Walt, panicking from Hank's sudden state of knowledge, deliberately drives past the laundromat and into oncoming traffic. Luckily, all Hank needed from the crash was a neck brace. He mentions back at home that he's getting a car that can be driven without using floor pedals and makes fun of Walt's driving abilities. Later, Marie gets a call (set up by Walt) stating that Hank's life is in danger by the cartel and, in a panic, informs Skyler of the attack ("Crawl Space").
Skyler and her kids have taken shelter with Hank and Marie at the Schrader residence. After some arguing, Hank tells everyone to calm down and claims that this threat was only because of his insistence on tracking Gustavo Fring's operations. Gomez finally agrees to help Hank with the investigation. Hank is later seen looking at clean photos of the laundromat, frustrated that his investigation seemed to have led nowhere ("End Times").
Steve Gomez returns to Hank's house and informs him that Hector Salamanca wants to speak only to him. At the office, Hector only attempts to spell out insults to Hank before he stops him. Hank, feeling the encounter was a waste of his time, jokes that he at least "didn't shit himself this time" ("Face Off").
Season 5
After Gus's death, Hank surveys the remains of the superlab in awe that he was correct, but anger that it wasn't him who brought him down ("Live Free or Die"). George Merkert, Hank's boss, gets forced out as ASAC and the job given to Hank after the unheard success of his fixation with Gus. After Walt and Jesse's magnet heist revealed bank accounts for Gus's associates, Hank becomes obsessed with following Mike Ehrmantraut to track down the loose ends of Gus' Drug Empire ("Madrigal"). He is informed by his boss multiple times that he is to suspend the Fring/Ehrmantraut investigation, but he asks Steven Gomez to keep following Mike. He and Marie offer to take the kids from Skyler and Walt as they sort out their marital issues ("Fifty-One").
One morning, Walt talks with Hank about Skyler and begins crying. Hank excuses himself to get coffee and while he is along, Walt bugs Hank's office ("Dead Freight"). Jesse and Mike use the bug to plan their next big move which is to sell their methylamine to Declan. Mike does this by issuing a restraining order against Hank, which pisses him off("Buyout") . After Walt thwarts Mike's deal with Declan and replaces it with his own, Mike retires with his $5 million but his house is searched by Hank and the DEA, who turn up nothing. Hank is instructed by his boss to end the Fring/Ehrmantraut case for once and for all, but they manage to track Mike's lawyer who is giving cash to the henchmen's families ("Say My Name").
Without incoming funds, the henchmen begin itching for deals with the DEA. Since there are 10 men, Hank had his pick of the litter for which deal he wanted to make. Walt, however, makes a move and has all ten get shanked in jail within the same two minute span. Three days after the attack, Hank and Walt share a drink and Hank wonders if his first job, a backbreaking outdoor job was better than his current job of "hunting monsters". Weeks later at a cookout at the White's, Hank excuses himself to use the restroom, where he finds a copy of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman while searching for reading material. Hank notices that the inside cover was signed by "G.B." and addressed to "my other favorite W.W." Remembering his conversation with Walter, in which the two joked that the "W.W." mentioned in Gale Boetticher's notes referred to Walter White, Hank comes to the shocking realization that his brother-in-law was the Heisenberg he has been chasing all along ("Gliding Over All").
Hank exits the bathroom, stunned and transformed. He stows Leaves of Grass in his bag, returns to the poolside, and departs the get-together with Marie, claiming that he feels sick. The overwhelming realization of how Walter has deceived, endangered, and crippled them all blurs Hank’s vision and steals his breath, causing him to careen off the road and hit a neighbor's mailbox. Hank, fuming with rage, shame, and vertigo, is left panicked and gasping. Armed with this new lead, Hank decides to take time off work and revisit all the evidence boxes relating to the blue meth, Heisenberg, and the drug empire of Gustavo Fring. Suddenly, the boxes of evidence tell a whole new story. Hank even peers at the surveillance video of the methylamine precursor theft, and the grainy figures now clearly resolve into Walt and Jesse ("Blood Money").
Walter later discovers that Leaves of Grass is missing, connects the dots to Hank's discomfort, and confirms his suspicions by finding a tracking device on his car. Walt travels to Hank's house, where they meet in the garage. After some cordial discussion, Walt brings up the GPS device, all but sneering at Hank for his clumsy use of the same tracking device the two of them planted on Fring’s car. Hank closes the garage door, enraged, and punches Walt in the face, shouting his knowledge of Walt's true criminal nature and vows to put him under the jail. Walt does not seem concerned at all and argues that he will be dead before Hank and the law will see him put behind bars. After Hank claims he does not know who Walt is anymore, he warns a shaken, awestruck Hank: "If that's true, if you don't know who I am, then maybe your best course... would be to tread lightly" ("Blood Money").
As soon as Walt leaves Hank's house, both parties are frantically attempting to call Skyler, with Hank reaching her first and asking her to meet up in a local coffee shop to talk about everything. When they meet, Hank's demeanor is initially comforting and respectful, but soon changes to demanding and hasty as Skyler begins to see that Hank's true intention seems to be apprehending Walt rather than the welfare of the extended family. After repeatedly asking if she is under arrest, to which Hank does not directly answer, Skyler angrily leaves the premises leaving Hank to ponder his next move once more.
Some time later, Hank sends Marie to speak with Skyler but after a short but tense confrontation, he leaves with Marie who now also sees what Walt has done to her sister and he stops her from kidnapping Holly. Hank tells Marie that he requires concrete proof of his brother-in-law being Heisenberg but if he tells the office that it is Walt without evidence, his career will be over due to his familial relationship with the man. He vows that when he tells his colleagues he will bring them proof rather than suspicion and can at least be the man who ended Heisenberg and caught him. Hank returns to the DEA office, where he is notified by Steven Gomez that Jesse has been mindlessly throwing large amounts of money around Albuquerque. Meeting with the two agents who spoke to Jesse when Brock was poisoned, Hank suggests that he speak to Jesse to see what information he can draw from him. He then enters the interrogation room where Jesse remains silent ("Buried").
Hank fails to extract any information from Jesse, and a short time later he meets with Walt and Skyler. At the meeting he accuses Walt of being weak and that his only option is to admit all of the bad things he has done. Walt leaves a DVD on the table and departs with Skyler. Upon watching the DVD, Hank and Marie realize that this is not a confession, as Walt speaks of how Hank is the mastermind behind his drug empire and that he was held against his will as a chemist, while Hank used his connections to the DEA. Walt references several events that did occur and ties them in to the story (such as the attempt on Hank's life by Gus, as well as the mark left by Hank when he punched Walt), weaving an increasingly believable web. Hank finds out that Walt and Skyler paid for his medical bills when he was shot by The Cousins as Marie did not know it was drug money when she accepted it from Skyler. He claims that this has killed him, and that this is the last nail in the coffin. At the DEA offices, Hank calls off Gomez's guys as they are watching Saul's office. He decides to leave his office, cancelling a meeting in the process ("Confessions").
Later, Jesse careens Saul's car into Walt's driveway and snorts some meth before storming into the house with a gas can. He douses the living room with gasoline and attempts to spark a lighter. Hank bursts through the door and stops him, offering to help Jesse bring him down. Jesse agrees. Hank buckles Jesse into his car, and drives away just before Walt's car pulls around the corner, in a near miss. Hank suggests that things will go easier for Jesse if he agrees to act as a witness. Jesse scoffs, reminding Hank of the brutal deaths of the last witnesses against Walt in the local prisons. Hank meets Marie at the door when she arrives home and attempts to send her on an impromptu spa trip. Refusing, she demands to know why he's trying to get her out of the house. Hank shows Marie the guest bedroom, where Jesse is fast asleep. He launches into a lengthy explanation about why their house is the safest place for Jesse. Marie interrupts, and asks if having Jesse there will be bad for Walt. Hank confirms. Jesse's cell phone rings. Hank checks the voicemail and listens to Walt's message, a plan already forming in his mind ("Rabid Dog").
Jesse wakes up to find Hank and Gomez waiting for him in the Schraders' living room. Jesse argues that it's his word against Walt's, now that Walt is retired. Hank waves off Jesse's misgivings, and asks him to describe on camera everything he remembers about Walt's business dealings and criminal activity. Afterward, Gomez tells Hank privately that he believes Jesse, but agrees that they have no physical evidence against Walt. He's at a loss as to how to proceed: should they pursue Lydia, Vamonos Pest, or maybe follow up with Drew Sharp's murder. Hank answers "I say we start with this", pulling out Jesse's cell phone.
Hank plays Jesse the voicemail that Walt left him, in which Walt asks Jesse to meet him at noon the next day in Albuquerque's Civic Plaza "to talk." Jesse begins suspecting that Walt will kill him at the meeting. Hank admits that Jesse's right, but points out how much Walt seems to care for Jesse. He argues Walt would never try anything in public, and doesn't allow Jesse to refuse. While Jesse is in the bathroom, Gomez tells Hank that he agrees with Jesse that Walt might be setting a trap. Hank is unperturbed, pointing out that Jesse is a "junkie murderer" and claims that if he is killed by Walt, they will get it all on tape. ("Rabid Dog").
Later at Civic Plaza, Gomez sets up surveillance while Hank tapes a wire to Jesse's chest. After giving him a quick pep-talk, Hank ushers Jesse out into the Plaza. Jesse nervously approaches the meeting point and spots Walt sitting on a bench. Nearby, a hard-looking dude in a leather jacket is surveying the crowd. Suspecting he's a hired gun (which is false), and seemingly with new purpose, Jesse veers away and heads to a pay phone, where he calls Walt and then departs. Hank hurtles toward Jesse and forces him into the car, blasting him for backing out of the meeting. ("Rabid Dog").
Jesse gives Hank and Gomez the idea to go after Walt's money instead, as it is the only evidence that he would never destroy and finding it will be enough to put him away. While he does not know where Walt keeps his money he suspects someone who does. Hank and Gomez then go to Saul's assistant, Huell, who is being held in a DEA safe-house. In order to extract information from him they falsely tell him that Walt is on a killing spree tying up loose ends and has already killed Jesse, showing him a fake photo (taken in his kitchen) of what seems like Jesse with his brains across the floor and that Kuby is also missing and presumed dead due to his and Huell's help of moving Walt's money and Huell is next on the hit-list and that Saul has betrayed him. Huell falls for the ruse and gets worried and tells them all he did was help him move some barrels filled with money and tells them of the rental agency where he and Kuby rented the van that Walt transported the money with. Hank goes to the rental agency however the van does not have GPS due to a previous lawsuit that caused the company to get rid of it. He also intercepts a message on Jesse's phone from Andrea claiming that Walt is at her house worried about him as is she. Knowing Walt is setting a trap, Hank deletes the call and does not inform Jesse of the danger.
Gomez claims it's game over upon hearing the rental van had no GPS but Hank claims it isn't over. He realizes that Walt buried the money somewhere in the desert and is unaware that his van didn't have GPS as he didn't procure the van himself. The three then formulate a plan: Hank buys a barrel matching the ones Walt used for his money, and with the help of Jesse fills it up with some money and buries it in his backyard in an area similar to desert terrain, thus simulating the real barrels. The plan is to send Walt a photo of the open barrel as if discovered and dug up under the ruse that Jesse found the location of all 7 barrels by beating the information out of Huell and that he will burn it all unless Walt goes to the location, thus learning of the spot and gaining the necessary evidence to arrest Walt.
The plan works and Walt rushes to where his money is buried, as Hank, Jesse and Gomez follow not far behind. Jesse also gets him to unwittingly confess to a multitude of his crimes such as the money being his, that he poisoned Brock, that he killed Gus and his two dealers and also Emilio and Krazy-8. When Walt gets to the spot he realizes Jesse had just manipulated him, and runs behind a rock upon seeing a vehicle approaching and calls Todd and Jack, saying he found Jesse and needs backup. He then sees Jesse get out of the car with Hank and Steve and calls off Todd and Jack. He hangs up the phone and gives himself up. Hank handcuffs him, and puts him in the car. Hank tells Steve he is going to call the police to come and dig up the money, but instead (or before he was going to) he calls Marie, and tells her "I finally got him" as she smiles in the phone. He tells her that it will be rough the next couple of weeks but things will get better and tells her he needs to go and he tells his wife he loves her, to which she says the same. Just after he hangs up, two cars come from a distance, containing Jack and Todd, and Jack's crew who ignored Walt's cancellation of coming to protect him from Jesse. Hank and Gomez draw their weapons and reveal themselves as the police and order the thugs to drop their weapons, though Jack demands they show him their I.D. After a tense moment, both sides face off into a stand-off. Despite being heavily outnumbered and outgunned, and facing almost certain death, Hank stands his ground ("To'hajiilee").
Following the shootout, Hank is injured with a bullet wound in the leg, his gun empty, and his partner, Steve Gomez, lying on the ground dead. Hank, realizing how lost the situation is, sees Steve's gun out in the open and makes a desperate crawl to it to defend himself but as soon as he's about to reach it, Jack's foot is on it and he takes it away, rendering Hank helpless. After Kenny discovers Gomez and Hank are DEA agents, Jack prepares to shoot Hank but Walt screams for them to stop and comes out of the car trying to bargain with Jack to let him live, even offering his money. Jack plays along and questions Hank if he should let him go but Hank smarts off to Jack, knowing full well that the murderous gang leader intended to kill him the minute the shootout began and will never let him walk out of the desert alive and can now get his hands on Walt's money either way.
In his final moments, Walt begs Hank to tell the Nazis that they can work their feud out but Hank states to Walt; “You want me to beg? You’re the smartest guy I ever met, and you’re too stupid to see—he made up his mind ten minutes ago.” Hank then looks over to Jack and tells him "Do what you're gonna do", before Jack shoots him in the head, killing him. After Jack's gang digs up Walt's money, Hank is buried alongside Gomez in the middle of the Tohajiilee Indian Reservation. In a sad and ironic twist, they are buried in the same hole Walt had dug to hide his money in, a symbolic representation of the same greed and violence that they had fought against as DEA agents. ("Ozymandias")
Legacy
Ironically, despite ultimately failing to arrest Walt and being murdered, he gets his revenge on Walt and exposes his criminal activities to the world, as Marie (unaware of his death), forces Skyler to reveal the truth to Walt Jr, and the news of his death finally causes Skyler to turn on Walt, something Hank had tried to convince her to do previously. He is later mourned by his sister-in-law, nephew and widow (and, presumably, all his fellow DEA agents) after Walt takes credit for the deed in order to help clear Skyler from his criminal activities (and to ensure the Nazis didn't seek retribution against her or Walt Jr). However, it is readily apparent he is beyond devastated about Hank's death and his role in it. ("Ozymandias")
Hank's voice is heard when the Nazis are watching a confession tape of Jesse telling everything that went down between Walt. ("Granite State")
When Walt returns to Albuquerque, he meets with Skyler, and gives her the lottery ticket containing the co-ordinates to where Hank and Steve were buried. Walt also visits their old house, now vandalized, and remembers Hank's offer of a ride-along to Emilio's lab to get some excitement in his life and looks back with immense regret, since that action ultimately led to Hank and Gomez's deaths. Both Hank and Steve's deaths were avenged by Walt, who kills Jack in the same manner that he killed Hank and kills his entire crew as well ("Felina"). Walt lets Jesse strangle Jack's nephew Todd Alquist to death and escape, before dying from a shrapnel wound he received during the gunfire. Walt collapses on the floor with a look of contentment on his face, having avenged his much-loved brother-in-law. ("Felina") After Walt's death, Skyler uses the ticket to secure a plea deal with the prosecutor, indicating the bodies of Hank and Gomez were recovered by the DEA and given a proper burial. ("Breaking Bad")
After Saul Goodman is finally arrested, one of the crimes that he's charged with and ultimately imprisoned for is accessory after the fact to Hank and Gomez's murders. During the plea negotiations, Marie tells Saul about the kind of man that Hank was and is disgusted at the idea of Saul getting a plea. In turn, Saul offers Marie his condolences over the loss of Hank, having met him a few times and known that he was a good man. ("Saul Gone")
Personality and traits
"Hank is a dogged investigator who is going to be sorely disappointed when he finds out who he's been chasing all this time."
―Vince Gilligan
Boisterous and outspoken by nature, Hank can sometimes come off as rude or insensitive to the viewer or to other characters. His cavalier attitude causes him to believe that having friends and co-workers of color gives him a free pass to call Mexicans "beaners," and that working for the government entitles him to certain contraband perks, like Cuban cigars. In some ways, Hank is introduced as the antithesis of Walt, in a good way: he's popular, cheerful, successful, and constantly bragging about his skills. Walt dislikes it when Walter Jr. looks up to Hank, yet he loves Hank on some grudging level, at one point making it very clear to Saul that Hank is family. Hank has shown himself to be a good law enforcement agent and competent investigator who was able to expose Gustavo Fring for what he truly was. Despite his skills, Hank's image of Walt as a mild-mannered chemistry teacher blinded him from discovering, for a whole year, that the mysterious drug kingpin "Heisenberg" he was pursuing so vigorously was under his nose the whole time (although, admittedly, Walt's cunning schemes and lies to cover his tracks can be credited for Hank's continued ignorance as well).
In the course of his work, Hank is promoted to the prestigious yet more dangerous base in El Paso, Texas from Albuquerque for a short time, but experiences a traumatic event courtesy of the Mexican drug cartels and moves back to Albuquerque. This experience leaves him with enduring, debilitating anxiety attacks. These attacks, which reveal a more vulnerable side to Hank that he tends to disguise, increase in intensity after two brutal members, The Cousins, ambush Hank leave him with a debilitating injury. After the Cousins' shootout, Walt realizes he's partly responsible for Hank's situation and thus saves him from Gus.
Hank has a cavalier exterior, but the dark side of his job affects him more than he cares to admit. Despite his considerable shortcomings, Hank is basically a good-hearted family man. Although he is loud and opinionated, he is competent at his job and, before learning Walt's secret and Skyler's complicity, cared deeply about his in-laws. Hank brews his own beer, which he has named "Schraderbräu", in his garage, and enjoys playing fantasy football. Hank drives a midnight blue 2006 Jeep Commander until he is attacked by the Cousins. After he is well enough to drive, he drives a silver 2011 Dodge Durango. During his incapacitation following the attack by the Salamanca cousins, Hank started collecting minerals as a hobby. On several occasions, he irritably corrected people (especially Marie) when they referred to this activity as "rock collecting" ("Thirty-Eight Snub").
When Hank finally finds out that Walt is the meth kingpin and mastermind "Heisenberg" he has been searching for, he feels betrayed, humiliated, and vengeful towards Walt, swearing he will put Walt "under the jail." He plots even more feverishly to destroy Walt, trying to gather the evidence from Skyler and trying to persuade Jesse to give Walt up. Hank's single mission in life becomes trying to get Walt to pay for his crimes, and he becomes deeply invested in making sure Walt doesn't die of cancer before he can be convicted. Even after being blackmailed into silence by Walt and Skyler, Hank refuses to give up and continues to try and find a way to put Walt behind bars. Despite knowing that exposing and arresting Walt would mean the end of his DEA career, due to Walt operating for so long beneath his nose, he continues anyway. Jesse, furious at Walt for other reasons, forges an uneasy alliance with Hank, and Hank allows Jesse to stay at his house, seeing him as his only option of bringing Walt down and refuses to risk his safety by putting him in DEA protection. Hank's strong desire to bring Walt down is evident when Jesse states that he is afraid Walt will kill him at a proposed meeting and after leaving the room, Gomez is worried that the "kid" might be right about the meet being a trap and Hank corrected Gomez by saying "Oh, you mean the junkie murderer?" Hank clearly believes Jesse is just as guilty as Walt is for the crimes they have committed (most notably the Gale murder, and the manufacturing of crystal meth under Walt's drug empire). Hank tells Gomez that if Walt does kill Jesse, at least they'll get it on tape, showing that he does not care for Jesse much and is willing to sacrifice him in order to catch Walt. After tricking Walter into leading them to the location of his buried drug money and confessing to a multitude of his crimes, Hank finally succeeds at his mission to bring his brother in law to justice and is filled with joy. Unfortunately, this is short lived as Hank is almost immediately caught in a gunfight with Jack and his gang, whom Walt had called to rescue him, leaving him wounded and defeated.
Even in his final moments, Hank maintained his composure and a remarkable display of courage, even though Jack sadistically played along to Walt's offer that he would spare Hank if he agreed to let them go. Hank saw through this facade and refused to sacrifice his dignity and beg Jack for his life. He possibly gains back some small amount of respect for Walt, due to his pleading for his life and no hesitation of offering up his money to save his life, despite everything Hank had done to Walt to try and take him down. To this end, Hank accepted his death despite Walt's pleas, knowing full well that Jack intended to kill him anyway. Hank met his fate with the same disposition that he carried throughout his life. This is a direct contrast to Jack himself, who lacked the intuition Hank possessed and attempted to save his own life by attempting to bribe Walt with the promise of telling him the location of his money when faced with death, even though Walt had already made up his mind for revenge after Jack killed Hank. And despite everything, he respected Walter enough to call him the "smartest guy he's ever known".
Deaths
Murders committed by Hank
Tuco Salamanca: Shot in the forehead in self-defense. ("Grilled")
Marco Salamanca: Shot in the face in self-defense. ("One Minute")
Murders connected to Hank
Leonel Salamanca: Sent to hospital after Hank crushed his legs where Mike Ehrmantraut later poisoned him. ("I See You")
Kenny, Matt, Frankie, Lester, and two unnamed gang members: Shot by a remote-activated M60 machine gun by Walter White in revenge, six months after Hank's murder. ("Felina")
Todd Alquist: After Walt shot all of the other members of Jack's gang with the remote-activated M60 machine gun, Jesse Pinkman took a distracted and horrified Todd by surprise and snapped his neck with his chains. ("Felina")
Jack Welker: Shot in the face by Walt in revenge, six months after Hank's murder. ("Felina")
Quotes
Better Call Saul
Hank: "[pause] And you are?"
Jimmy: "Saul Goodman. I'm Mr. Molina's attorney, and you're in violation of his constitutional rights."
Hank: "Heh-heh. S'all good, man! [he and Gomez laugh] Really? Come on. That's your name?"
―Hank laughing at Jimmy McGill's nickname.[src]
Hank: "Okay, Domingo! Start talking."
Jimmy: "Go ahead."
Krazy-8: "Like I said, the dealers kick up the cash. I don't know who picks it up. All I know is that there are three dead drops they run on Thursday nights, and-"
Jimmy: "Hold on."
Hank: "What? What!?"
Jimmy: "Look, I know how this goes, alright? My guy talks to you, you squeeze him out like a sponge, then you dump him back on the street. Word gets out that he's a fink, he ends up bleeding out in front of his mother's house."
Krazy-8: "What?!"
Jimmy: "No, it's not gonna happen, okay? Do you hear what I'm saying? My client is not leaving here with a target on his back."
Hank: "[taps on the table] Fine. We'll take care of him. Assuming this isn't one big jag-off, it'll look like he got out because... his lawyer's a genius."
Jimmy: "Okay, and he's... he's not just anyone's CI, either, alright? You don't pass him around like a venereal disease. He's your personal CI. So, he gets picked up: you call me, I call you, it gets taken care of, no questions asked."
Hank: "Okay, but it's contingent."
Jimmy: "Sure."
Hank: "And it better be worth it."
―Jimmy demands protection for Krazy-8 as a confidential informant of Hank and Steven Gomez.[src]
Breaking Bad
Walter: "Hank, how much money is that?"
Hank: "It's about 700 grand. It was a pretty good haul."
Walter: "Well, that's unusual, isn't it? That kind of cash?"
Hank: "Mm. Well, it's not the most we ever took. It's easy money, till we catch you. Walt, just say the word and I'll take you on a ride-along. You can watch us knock down a meth lab, huh? Get a little excitement in your life."
Walter: "Yeah, someday."
―Walter and Hank at Walter's birthday party.[src]
"So be on notice: We got new players in town. Now we don’t know who they are or where they came from, but they possess an extremely high skill set. Me personally, I think Albuquerque might just have a new kingpin."
―Hank talking to his DEA team about Heisenberg's arrival.[src]
"Chick’s got an ass like an onion... makes me wanna cry."
―Hank after meeting Principal Carmen.[src]
Hank: "All right. Other than Gomie here pees sitting down, here's what we know. Christian Ortega, a.k.a. Combo. Shot dead by an unknown assailant last month. "Combo?" I hear you say. "Why, I'm unfamiliar with that name. Was he a Nobel laureate perchance?" No. He was a dipshit wannabe banger. Now, no arrests, save for stealing a baby Jesus from a Knights of Columbus manger back when he was 17. This dude was so low-rep, he never showed up on our radar. So why am I talking about him? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?"
Steve: "He was dealing Blue Sky."
Hank: "That's right. Now, how is it that the purest, most professional grade of meth we've ever come across is being slung by the likes of that? But wait. It gets better. Since baby-Jesus thief there slowed a bullet with his neck the blue stuff's vanished from town, okay? Not a speck to be found in Albuquerque. Now, why is that?"
Steve: "Well, because maybe your "Heisenberg"'s in prison. So says A.P.D. They think they got their man. (Hank laughs) I know you don't buy it, but maybe it's true."
Hank: "James Edward Kilkelly, yeah. A.P.D. thinks this is our mastermind. You believe that, I got a bridge to sell you."
Steve: "He copped to it, didn't he?"
Hank: "For an extra pudding cup every night at Los Lunas? Maybe if you give him a pack of cigarettes, he'll tell you what he did with Jimmy Hoffa. No, no, no. I've been thinking. Top-shelf product like this? It doesn't fall off the face of the earth. Raw talent's bound to pop up somewhere. It's like Whack-A-Mole. So I've been making phone calls. Local police departments, small-town sheriffs. Haven't had much luck inside the Land of Enchantment. But outside, I've got reports of the blue stuff making a scene here in Texas, Arizona, Colorado and Nevada. In fact, everywhere but here. Almost as if somebody wised up, stopped shitting where they eat. Now, I say Heisenberg's still out there. I say he's gone regional. Only he's still right here in town."
―Hank suggests some details about Heisenberg.[src]
"It wasn't one mistake. I've been... unraveling, y'know? I don't sleep at night anymore. I freeze, I freeze up. My chest gets all tight, I can't breathe. Just... I panic. Ever since that Salamanca thing. Tuco Salamanca, if ever a scumbag deserved a bullet between the eyes... It changed me and I can't seem to control it. I try to fight it, but then El Paso. It just got worse. What I did to Pinkman...that's not who I'm supposed to be. All this, everything that's happened, I swear to God, Marie, I think the universe is trying to tell me something and I'm finally ready to listen. I'm just not the man I thought I was. I think I'm done as a cop."
―Hank talking to his wife, Marie.[src]
"I walked sixteen feet in twenty minutes, which is up from like fifteen-and-a-half yesterday. And I had maybe this much less shit in my pants. So, yeah, Marie, if you and him and everybody else in America secretly took a vote and changed the meaning of the entire English language, yeah, I guess I broke new ground."
―Hank while recovering from The Cousins' attack.[src]
"I mean, what do we know about Gustavo Fring, huh? This whole friend of law enforcement thing? Could be a case of keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. I mean, he's got the money to finance this operation, maybe he's got the connections, too. Maybe – just maybe – he's our guy."
―Hank correctly suspecting Gustavo Fring is a drug kingpin[src]
"Yeah. It seems that, uh, Fring had all these secret offshore accounts that he would deposit money into. Like, uh, well, an even dozen of them. And they're all in the names of certain people on his payroll. There was the, uh, the manager of the laundry, umm, a couple guys from the Pollos distribution center. Uh, there was the owner of a chemical warehouse, a bunch of others, you know. Guys that must've been getting paid off the books. Anyway, one of the names...was Kaylee Ehrmantraut. Ten years old and just cute as a button. Yeah. $2 million and change we found on deposit for her. Way more than anybody else. Now, my partner here? He took one look at that and said, "Shit, man! This fifth-grade girl is the muscle behind Fring's entire operation!" I said, "Whoa, whoa, hey, partner, slow down there. Maybe it was actually her dear old granddaddy." Impressive, no? That... level of insight? He's not impressed, Gomie."
―Hank questioning Mike Ehrmantraut in a DEA interrogation room[src]
"It was you. All along, it was you! You son of a bitch. You drove into traffic to keep me from that laundry. That call I got telling me Marie was in the hospital... that wasn't Pinkman. You had my cell number. You killed ten witnesses to save your sorry ass. You bombed a nursing home. Heisenberg. Heisenberg! You lying, two-face sack of shit."
―Hank confronting Walter White after finding out he was Heisenberg.[src]
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"I swear to Christ..... I will put you under the jail."
―Hank threatening Walt.[src]
"Skyler, my– my head is spinning. And yours... I–I can't even imagine. So much makes sense to me now. You jumping in the pool. You sending us your kids, I get it. I just wished I'd seen it sooner. He's a monster. He's a– Look, I don't know what he did to you to force you to keep his secrets. If he threatened you, or whatever mind games he played. I don't know if there was abuse. But I want you to know that you can be open with me. Don't hold anything back, okay? I mean, I don't even understand if you know the full extent of this, what he's done. Not just the meth cooking, but the lives he's destroyed. But look, that's all behind you. Starting now, you're done being his victim. Because here's what we're gonna do. Sky, here's what we're gonna do: you and the kids are gonna move back to our house where you'll be safe, where he can't get to you."
―Hank to Skyler about Walt.[src]
Hank: "I mean, you see, building a case this big, gathering all this evidence, enough to get a conviction, we're talking a long-haul proposition here, and I don't want that bastard running out the clock. But with your testimony--"
Skyler: "Wait, what do you mean running out the clock?"
Hank: "His cancer. His cancer's back. So he said. He didn't tell you? Who's to say it's even true? Lying piece of shit. Look, regardless, I mean, we'll just assume. Fine. Okay? You know what? That son of a bitch looks me in the eye and he says if what I know is true, if... he'll be dead before I can prove it. The balls on that son of a– I got all these little pieces. They're all part of the story, right? But they don't mean much on their own. But when you start telling me what you know, when you start filling the gaps, I'll have him in lockup before the sun goes down."
―Hank to Skyler about Walt.[src]
"Look, the day I go in with this, it's the last day of my career, Marie. I'm going to have to walk in there, look those people in the eye and admit that the person I've been chasing the past year is my own brother-in-law. It's over for me. Ten seconds after I tell this story, I'm a civilian. Then how can we help Skyler if she comes to her senses? When I go in there, I'm bringing proof. Not suspicion. I can be the man who caught him, at least."
―Hank to Marie.[src]
Walter: "This investigation, Hank-- Do you realize what this will do to him? Hearing these things?"
Hank: "He's gonna hear it when I kick in your front door and arrest you."
―Hank to Walt about Walter Jr.[src]
Walter: "Look, Junior just found out that my cancer is back. He's already facing the idea of living without his father. To put this on top of that? It's just not right."
Hank: "I swear to God, you start throwing the word "right" at me- (...) Was it right to run a drug empire?"
Walter: "There is no drug empire."
Hank: "Lying to your son, to all of us-- is that right?"
―Walter and Hank arguing.[src]
"No, it's not a solution. He's not getting off that easy."
―Hank after hearing Marie's suggestion for Walt to kill himself.[src]
Hank: "Both of you think you're just gonna walk away from this thing? Never gonna happen."
Walter: "That is not what we're saying--"
Hank: "Enough with the bullshit. You're not gonna negotiate your way out of this thing. There's only one solution-- step up, be a man, and admit what you've done. That's it. There is no other option."
―Hank threatening Walt and Skyler.[src]
Marie: "Who do you think he's shown this to?"
Hank: "No one. It's a threat. It's what he will do if I don't back off."
Marie: "I think you should show this to Ramey. Just get ahead of it. That video is a bunch of lies, Hank. Anybody who knows you will know."
Hank: "$177,000? Hell's he talking about? Marie?"
Marie: "They told me it was gambling money."
Hank: "What was gambling money? Oh, Jesus Christ, Marie. Oh, God, no."
Marie: "How was I supposed to know? How was I supposed to know where it really came from?"
Hank: "Why were they paying for my medical bills? What about my insurance?"
Marie: "Insurance wouldn't have covered the treatment that you needed, and I... I just wanted the best for you."
Hank: "Why didn't you tell me?"
Marie: "Because I knew that you would refuse it, and without it, you may never have been able to walk again."
Hank: "Oh, Christ, Marie. You killed me here. I mean, it's the- that's the last nail. That's the last nail in the coffin."
―Hank and Marie after watching Walt's fake confession.[src]
Jesse: "He can't keep getting away with it! He can't keep getting away with it!"
Hank: "He won't. You really wanna burn him down? Let's do it together."
―Hank to Jesse about working together to take Walt down.[src]
Gomez: "What if the kid's right? What if it's a trap?"
Hank: ""The kid"? Oh, you mean the junkie murderer that's dribbling all over my guest bathroom floor? Well, then, he's right. Pinkman gets killed, and we get it all on tape."
―Hank to Gomez about Jesse.[src]
"Walter White, you have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to speak to an attorney and have an attorney present during any questioning. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you at the government's expense. Do you understand these rights as I have just recited them to you?"
―Hank reading Walt his Miranda rights after finally catching him.[src]
Hank: "Hey, baby. I got him. Dead to rights."
Marie: "You got Walt?"
Hank: "Yeah. I got him in handcuffs as we speak. Want me to wave to him for you? Huh? Well, he's not, uh-- he's not feeling too friendly."
―Hank to Marie about catching Walt.[src]
Hank: "Things are gonna be a little rough for the next couple weeks, but they'll get better. Baby, you okay?"
Marie: "I'm much better now."
Hank: "I gotta go. It may be awhile before I get home. I love you."
Marie: "I love you too."
―Hank and Marie during their final conversation.[src]
Jack: "How about it, Hank? Should I let you go?"
Hank: "My name is ASAC Schrader. And you can go fuck yourself."
―Hank refusing Jack's "offer" to be let go.[src]
"You're the smartest guy I ever met.. And you're too stupid to see... He made up his mind 10 minutes ago. [pauses] Do what you're gonna d-"
―Hank's last words before getting shot by Jack Welker[src]
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Hank's Blog
"Hank Schrader here. Thought I’d give this whole “blog” thing a try. My nephew, Walt, Jr. was telling me all about his, saying I should get one to share my “kick ass” stories on. Finally had to give in, just to get the kid to shut up. I’m kidding — I love the little bastard. Anyway he helped me set this thing up. No idea how he did it. I’m telling you, the kid’s a freaking genius. Good looking too (just like his uncle)! Better grab him up quick girls, he’s not gonna be on the market long, I can tell you that. But seriously, he’s a great kid — not one of those punk-asses I gotta deal with all the time at my job. I’m a federal agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration, so you can imagine, I deal with some serious morons. Gotta wonder about the dim-witted hordes that pass for today’s youth, but Junior here definitely gives me some hope. Not that he hasn’t had his moments, but his folks might read this, so I’m gonna stop there. (I’m joshing you Sky and Walt – you’ve got a great kid there!) Okay, this took me 45 minutes to type."
―Hank's first blog entry
"What a week, you guys. It’s like everyone’s just trying to push my buttons. I mean, I’m an easy-going guy usually, but for some reason, everything’s driving me batshit right now. I’m trying to keep the peace, playing a little game of “No, everything’s NOT completely effed up with the family” for my poor nephew. Meanwhile, my wife’s curiosity about the specifics of this whole mess is making my head hurt. Stop looking for conspiracies… men just aren’t that complicated, I’m sorry to say. Like that wasn’t enough, my wife’s all pissed that I “stole” her idea for my entry about jury duty. Baby, please… now, who had a blog first? What was that? I didn’t hear you… maybe speak up a little… Oh, I did?! That’s right! I did! So, who’s stealing ideas, sugar? Hmm… little quiet there… Alright, then — I consider that matter settled. What else, what else? Oh, yeah… Gomie’s been driving me up a freaking wall about how since I haven’t seen a certain movie (that shall remain nameless) in 3D, then I haven’t really seen it. For chrissakes — I don’t give a crap about 3D. There, I said it! I don’t care. The glasses piss me off. When the all-knowing gods of 3D figure out how to do it without the giant dorky glasses, then maybe we’ll talk. Until then, I’m sticking with the 2D classics of ass-kicking. Gimme some Aliens over that fruity 3D crap, any day."
―Hank's second blog entry
"Here’s a joke: three guys go to see this world famous doctor, who says he can cure anyone of anything. He just looks at you, knows what’s wrong, and then he fixes you: magic! Doctor calls the first guy in: “What seems to be the trouble?” Guy says: “I’m sad all the time and I want to kill myself.” Doctor says, “Aha! You’re depressed. Take some Zoloft, see a therapist, get over yourself. Next!” Next guy comes in limping. Doc: “What seems to be the trouble?” Guy says: “I cut my leg and now it’s turning colors and I can’t feel nothing.” Doctor looks at the leg, which is black from the knee down: pus, goo, blood, real nasty stuff. “Aha!” says the doc, “You’ve got gangrene. That leg’s gonna have to come off.” Final guy comes in; doc asks what’s the trouble. Guy says, “I can’t eat, I can’t sleep, and I’m bleeding from my ears and every orifice.” Doctor looks at the blood trickling out the guys ears, says “Aha! You have Ebola!” Then he prepares a syringe of green liquid — something weird, looks like jello or something — shoots it into the guy’s leg and sends him off: “You’re cured!” The guy wobbles out, still bleeding. Doctor’s nurse hears this and says: “Doctor, what are you doing? There’s no cure for Ebola.” Doctor: “Sure, there is.” Nurse: “What is it?” Doc says, “Death. Call the coroner, would you? I just injected that man with cyanide and he should be dropping over any second now.” I didn’t say it was a funny joke. I just keep thinking about it. I’m not a doctor but I feel like I’m fighting a disease. I know: calling crime a disease sounds like I’m in one of those old-time radio shows where the cops are serious all the time and never swear. But still, that’s what it feels like. I just used to think you could treat this shit. Help these douche-clowns see the error of their ways and turn back from sacks of feces into low-level human beings. Get control of the thing. Barring that, cut off the leg. You got someone on drugs, and you can’t get ’em clean?Lock that asshole up, because it’s only a matter of time before he gets it in his head to rape some kid or rob some grandma. There’s no way to know when, so you just take the scalpel and cut the rot out. You see where I’m going with this. Ebola. Incurable. Fatal. That’s the situation on the ground. Don’t believe me? I saw ten men killed today. Ten bodies, back to back, dead in ways you don’t want to think about. Mostly stabbed and bled out. You ever see a man that’s been burned alive? Yeah, I hadn’t either. It’s disgusting, man. Bloodier than you’d probably think. Pus and skin and a lot of fluid. It’s not all black char and skeleton. It doesn’t look like Luke’s Aunt and Uncle in Star Wars. And the smell: burnt hair and a stale stink like old pork rinds. That’s the fat, I guess, when it liquefies. Sticks in your nose. I hadda wash it out, use one of those saline snot-pots, no lie. Foul, foul stuff. I don’t care that they were shitbirds of the first order. I don’t care. You see something like that and you know: this isn’t a disease that has a cure. These aren’t patients any more we’re talking about. Calling them animals isn’t fair to animals. They’re not criminals, or drug-dealers, or even people. They’re monsters. Plain and simple. All you can do with a monster is all you can do with a guy with Ebola. Put him down. But first, you’ve gotta find him."
―Hank's third blog entry
Appearances
Breaking Bad
Episodes 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Season 1 ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Season 2 ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Season 3 ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Season 4 ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Season 5A ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Season 5B ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Better Call Saul
Episodes 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Season 1 Season 2 Season 3 Season 4 Season 5 ✔ ✔ Season 6
Trivia
Hank's full name, "Henry R. Schrader", is given in "Sunset", when Francesca calls him posing as a police officer. It is likely she and Saul obtained this information from Walter, as he put them up to the prank call.
Hank has been in three gunfights throughout the series due to Walt. The first was the gun battle with Tuco Salamanca, as Hank was trying to track down Walt after his mysterious disappearance. The second was the shootout with Marco & Leonel Salamanca, who were hunting Walt due to the death of Tuco, and diverted to Hank by Gus. The third and final shootout was the battle with Jack Welker's Gang, whom Walt had called to come rescue him due to Walt thinking Jesse had come to kill him and came anyway despite Walt calling them off.
Hank is the only character besides Walt and Steve Gomez to have shared a scene with every main character.
Hank is the third main character of Breaking Bad to die, and the seventh main character overall in Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul.
Hank's death in "Ozymandias" has similarities with the death of Howard Hamlin in the Better Call Saul episode "Plan and Execution".
Both characters have a large part of the final season built around their conflict with the main character (Hank's attempt to bring Walter to justice in Season 5B of Breaking Bad, and Howard being the target of Jimmy and Kim Wexler's scam in Season 6 of Better Call Saul).
Both conflicts end with a dramatic climax (Walter is caught by Hank before Jack Welker's gang intervenes with a shootout and injures Hank; and the scam against Howard succeeds, ruining his reputation, forcing the Sandpiper case to settle, and Howard having his final confrontation against Jimmy and Kim).
As soon as the climax is over, both characters are killed by a third party whom they don't know and had only just met (Jack and Lalo Salamanca) in front of the main character (Walter; and Jimmy and Kim) who watches in horror.
Both characters are killed mid-sentence in the exact same way: getting shot in the head with a pistol.
Both characters are buried in a hole alongside another deceased character (in Hank’s case his partner Gomez, in Howard’s case his own killer Lalo) at a (in Hank’s case former, in Howard’s case future) cooking location of Walter and Jesse (the Tohajiilee Indian Reservation, and the Superlab under Lavandería Brillante respectively).
In a 2015 interview, Vince Gilligan revealed that Hank almost died in season 1. In fact, he suggested the only reason Hank made it through was because of a writers strike in 2008 that shuttered production: “We were writing and shooting and editing in a vacuum, no one had seen the show yet, and I really had the feeling that I needed to throw the kitchen sink at it, that the writers and I needed to get every bit of drama. The writers strike came along, and we didn’t get to do our last two episodes. We had to end our season one with seven episodes instead of nine. Our ninth episode that year, we were seriously leaning toward killing off Hank, Walt’s brother-in-law, played by Dean Norris, in that first season... I was ready, willing to throw the kitchen sink at it, because I was afraid we wouldn’t hold people’s attention."
Hank wears his wrist watch, a Casio G-Shock, on his right wrist as seen in the final scene of "Problem Dog" and many other episodes.
On the spec script of the "Pilot", his last name was Weld.
Hank's blood type is O negative.
Hank's vehicles include:
2006 Jeep Commander
2008 Ford Taurus
2011 Dodge Durango
Hank was shot 6 times over the course of the series:
Shot once in the arm by Leonel Salamanca ("One Minute")
Shot three times by Marco Salamanca, once in the back, once in the stomach and once in the chest ("One Minute")
Shot once in the leg by a member of Jack Welker's Gang (off-screen between "To'hajiilee" and "Ozymandias")
Shot fatally in the head by Jack Welker ("Ozymandias")
A portrait of Hank can be seen hanging in the DEA office in the first El Camino trailer. | ||
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German actor <b>Gunnar Möller</b> (1928-2017) was one of the stars of the Wirtschaftswunder Kino of the 1950s. He appeared in over 160 film and television productions between 1940 and 2016. He later turned to character roles and worked for a number of years in England.
Gunnar Thor Karl Möller was born in 1928 in Berlin, Germany. He was the son of a master optician. As a child, Gunnar already took part in some 20 films during World War II. After the war, he had a stage education. The theatre offered him his first engagements, and he worked successfully on the stages of Berlin and later Munich with Gustaf Gründgens and other stage directors. Then he again gained a foothold in the film business with a role as a student in Wozzeck (Georg C. Klaren, 1947). He followed this up with parts in Heimliches Rendezvous/Secret Rendezvous (Kurt Hoffmann, 1949) with Hertha Feiler, and Hans im Glück/Lucky Hans (Peter Hamel, 1949) with Erich Ponto. In the 1950s followed the height of Gunnar Möller's career with roles in many popular productions. He was especially successful with his role in the romantic comedy Ich denke oft an Piroschka/I Often Think of Piroschka (Kurt Hoffmann, 1955) with Liselotte Pulver. Later he beame a character actor such as in the war film <i>Hunde, wollt ihr ewig leben/Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?</i> (Frank Wisbar, 1959), starring Joachim Hansen, and the British thriller SOS Pacific (Guy Green, 1959). with Richard Attenborough and Pier Angeli.
Gunnar Möller's popularity decreased in the 1960s and one of his more interesting films was Liselotte von der Pfalz (Kurt Hoffmann, 1966) featuring Heidelinde Weis. From then on his activities varied between theatre, cinema and TV. His later films included the Czech war drama Dny zrady/Days of Betrayal (Otakar Vávra, 1973) in which he played Adolf Hitler, the British thriller The Odessa File (Ronald Neame, 1974), and another Czech war drama Osvobození Prahy (Otakar Vávra, 1978). In 1979 a tragic incident happened when Möller killed his wife, the actress Brigitte Rau, with a stool during a divorce argument in London. He was sentenced to five years in prison in England because of second-degree murder. He served two years and was released on probation in 1981. He was able to continue his career in Germany and played in the films Im Zeichen des Kreuzes/The Sign of the Cross (Rainer Boldt, 1983), and the crime film Die Nacht der vier Monde/Night of the Four Moons (Jörg A. Eggers, 1984). Most often he worked in the theatre. His final film appearance was a small part in the Italian/French thriller Le confessioni/The Confessions (Roberto Andò, 2016) with Toni Servillo and Daniel Auteuil. Gunnar Möller was married from 1954 till her death in 1979 to Brigitte Rau and from 2003 till his death to actress Christiane Hammacher, with whom he had performed in Loriots Dramatische Werke (Loriot's Dramatic Works) at Frankfurt's Fritz Rémond Theater and on tour during the 1980s. Möller died in 2017 in his hometown Berlin. He had three children from his marriage with Brigitte Rau: Michael, Florian and Hillevi.
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German actor Gunnar Möller (1928-2017) was one of the stars of the Wirtschaftswunder Kino of the 1950s. He appeared in over 160 film and television productions between 1940 and 2016. He later turned to character roles and worked for a number of years in England.
Gunnar Thor Karl Möller was born in 1928 in Berlin, Germany. He was the son of a master optician. As a child, Gunnar already took part in some 20 films during World War II. After the war, he had a stage education. The theatre offered him his first engagements, and he worked successfully on the stages of Berlin and later Munich with Gustaf Gründgens and other stage directors. Then he again gained a foothold in the film business with a role as a student in Wozzeck (Georg C. Klaren, 1947). He followed this up with parts in Heimliches Rendezvous/Secret Rendezvous (Kurt Hoffmann, 1949) with Hertha Feiler, and Hans im Glück/Lucky Hans (Peter Hamel, 1949) with Erich Ponto. In the 1950s followed the height of Gunnar Möller's career with roles in many popular productions. He was especially successful with his role in the romantic comedy Ich denke oft an Piroschka/I Often Think of Piroschka (Kurt Hoffmann, 1955) with Liselotte Pulver. Later he beame a character actor such as in the war film Hunde, wollt ihr ewig leben/Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever? (Frank Wisbar, 1959), starring Joachim Hansen, and the British thriller SOS Pacific (Guy Green, 1959). with Richard Attenborough and Pier Angeli.
Gunnar Möller's popularity decreased in the 1960s and one of his more interesting films was Liselotte von der Pfalz (Kurt Hoffmann, 1966) featuring Heidelinde Weis. From then on his activities varied between theatre, cinema and TV. His later films included the Czech war drama Dny zrady/Days of Betrayal (Otakar Vávra, 1973) in which he played Adolf Hitler, the British thriller The Odessa File (Ronald Neame, 1974), and another Czech war drama Osvobození Prahy (Otakar Vávra, 1978). In 1979 a tragic incident happened when Möller killed his wife, the actress Brigitte Rau, with a stool during a divorce argument in London. He was sentenced to five years in prison in England because of second-degree murder. He served two years and was released on probation in 1981. He was able to continue his career in Germany and played in the films Im Zeichen des Kreuzes/The Sign of the Cross (Rainer Boldt, 1983), and the crime film Die Nacht der vier Monde/Night of the Four Moons (Jörg A. Eggers, 1984). Most often he worked in the theatre. His final film appearance was a small part in the Italian/French thriller Le confessioni/The Confessions (Roberto Andò, 2016) with Toni Servillo and Daniel Auteuil. Gunnar Möller was married from 1954 till her death in 1979 to Brigitte Rau and from 2003 till his death to actress Christiane Hammacher, with whom he had performed in Loriots Dramatische Werke (Loriot's Dramatic Works) at Frankfurt's Fritz Rémond Theater and on tour during the 1980s. Möller died in 2017 in his hometown Berlin. He had three children from his marriage with Brigitte Rau: Michael, Florian and Hillevi.
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German actor Otto Gebuhr (1877 – 1954) appeared in 102 films between 1917 and 1962 (!). He is best known for his interpretation of Friedrich II (Frederick the Great), a role he played in 16 films and countless stage performances. He was one the most famous actors of the Weimar period, and thanks to his authoratitive roles the Nazis gave him the title Actor of the State.
Otto Gebuhr was born in 1877, Kettwig (now Essen), Germany. He was the son of merchant Otto Gebuhr and his wife Fanny Mathilde, nee Moll. He grew up in Hulsenbusch, a part of Gummersbach, and after his father’s death in Koln (Cologne). After attending gymnasium he had a trade training at a wool firm. In 1896 he worked as a correspondent in foreign languages for a firm in Berlin, but he also had acting classes. For a while he then worked as a strolling actor till he got a contract at the Stadttheater Gorlitz. From 1898 till 1908 he worked at the Koniglichen Hoftheater in Dresden, and till 1914 at the Lessingtheater and the Theater in der Koniggratzer Stra?e, both in Berlin. During the First World War he was an army volunteer for the field artillery regiment and became a second lieutenant. After this he worked from 1917 till 1919 for famous director Max Reinhardt at the Deutschen Theater in Berlin. At the same time he began to appear in films. His film debut was Der Richter/The Judge (1917, Hans Land) for the Messter company. Gebuhr was a look-a-like of king Friedrich II (1712-1786), and ‘Friedrich dem Gro?en’ would become his role of a lifetime. Introduced by his colleague Paul Wegener, director Carl Boese cast him as the king of Prussia in the silent film Die Tanzerin Barberina (1920, Carl Boese). The role would become his breakthrough. He would play Friedrich several times, but initially in the very successful, four-part-film-series Fridericus Rex (1920-1923). To his other well-known silent films belong the crime film Whitechapel (1920, Ewald Andre Dupont), the worldwide success Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam/The Golem: How He Came Into the World (1920, Carl Boese, Paul Wegener), Wilhelm Tell (1923, Rudolf Dworsky, Rudolf Walther-Fein), Die Perucke/The Wig (1925, Berthold Viertel), Die Gesunkenen/The Sunken (1925, Rudolf Walther-Fein, Rudolf Dworsky) and Waterloo (1928, Karl Grune).
After the introduction of the sound film, Otto Gebuhr again had a huge success as the king of Prussia in Flotenkonzert in Sanssouci/The Flute Concert of Sans-Souci (1930, Gustav Ucicky). He repeats his role in Die Tanzerin von Sanssouci/Barberina (1932, Friedrich Zelnik) at the side of Lil Dagover and Hans Stuwe. He was the cinematic incarnation of the heroic prussian. His type was popular during the Third Reich. Gebuhr was a voluntarily pawn in the propaganda machine of the Nazis and appeared in several films, including Fridericus (1937, Johannes Meyer) with Lil Dagover, as the ‘First National Socialist’, like propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels had called him. In 1938 he gave Gebuhr the titel Staatsschauspieler (Actor of the State). He is then one of the four highest paid and most famous actors of Germany (the others were Heinz Ruhmann, Hans Albers and Heinrich George). Among his entertainment films were Der Choral von Leuthen/The Anthem of Leuthen (1933, Carl Froelich, Arzen von Cserepy) with Olga Tschechowa, Nanon (1938, Herbert Maisch) with Johannes Heesters, and Casanova heiratet/Casanova Marries (1939, Viktor de Kowa), big hits. Some of his roles, like Blucher in Waterloo (1928) and the king of Saxony in Bismarck (1940, Wolfgang Liebeneiner), had the same authoritative features as Friedrich II. He again appeared as Friedrich II in Veit Harlan’s epic Der gro?e Konig/The Great King (1942, Veit Harlan). Till the end of the Third Reich he appeared in more light entertainment films like Immensee (1943, Veit Harlan) starring Kristina Soderbaum and Carl Raddatz, Die goldene Spinne/The Golden Spider (1943, Erich Engels), and Der Erbforster/The Hereditary Forester (1945, Alois Johannes Lippl).
From 1947 on Otto Gebuhr was permitted to work again in the theatre. His first post-war film was the drama …und uber uns der Himmel/ …and the Sky Above Us (1947, Josef von Baky) starring Hans Albers. Till his death he appeared in many entertainment films. He played the odd companion or the cheerful senile maverick in such Heimatfilms as Melodie des Schicksals/Melody of Destiny (1950, Hans Schweikart) with Brigitte Horney, and Grun ist die Heide/The Heath Is Green (1951, Hans Deppe) starring Sonja Ziemann and Rudolf Prack. Again he also appeared under the direction of Veit Harlan in Unsterbliche Geliebte/Immortal Beloved (1951) with Kristina Soderbaum. His final film Die Blonde Frau des Maharadscha/The Blonde Wife of the Maharadja, (1962, Veit H
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 676/1, 1919-1924. Photo: Decla-Ufa-Film. Publicity still for Die Nibelungen (1924, Fritz Lang).
Margarete Schon (1895 – 1985) is best known for her role as Kriemhild, the beautiful but revengeful princess of Burgundy in Fritz Lang’s silent epic Die Nibelungen (1924). The career of this German stage and film actress spanned nearly fifty years.
Margarete Schon was born as Margarete Schippang in Magdeburg, Germany in 1895. She received private acting lessons with the theatre actor Hans Calm in Dessau. In 1912 she made her stage debut in Bad Freienwalde. Shortly thereafter, she received a commitment at the municipal theatre of Bromberg (now, Bydgoszcz, Poland). From 1915 to 1918 she was part of the ensemble cast of the Deutsches Theater in Hannover, and from 1918 to 1945 she performed at the Staatstheater Berlin (Berlin State Theatre). According to Wikipedia and IMDb, Schon made her film debut in the silent Du meine Himmelskonigin/You are my queen of heaven (1919, Carl Wilhelm). Philippe Pelletier at Cine Artistes and Thomas Staedeli at Cyranos write that her first appearance was a year earlier, in Schirokko (1918, Edmund Heuberger) with Kurt Brenkendorf. She would spend the next years in small roles for directors Carl Froelich, Hanna Henning, and Walter Schmidthassler. She had bigger parts in Die Pflicht zu leben/The obligation to live (1919, Carl Wilhelm) with Reinhold Schunzel, and Die goldene Krone/The Golden Crown (1920, Alfred Halm) starring Henny Porten. She worked several times with the Danish director Robert Dinesen who was her husband at the time. Among their films were Frauen vom Gnadenstein/Women of Gnadenstein (1920, Joe May, Robert Dinesen), and Der Leidensweg der Inge Krafft/Inge Krafft’s Calvary (1921, Robert Dinesen) featuring Mia May. Schon had a leading role as Hannele’s (Margarete Schlegel) mother in the popular drama Hanneles Himmelfahrt/ Hannele’s Ascension (1922, Urban Gad), based on the Traumgedicht (dream poem) by Gerhart Hauptman. For Frederic Zelnik she appeared in Erniedrigte und beleidigte (1922) starring Lya Mara. Then she really became a star after the release of Fritz Lang’s two-part mythical fantasy Die Nibelungen (1924). Lang and his wife at the time, Thea von Harbou, had written a script based on the epic poem Nibelungenlied written around AD 1200. Schon had a starring role as the vengeful Kriemhild, opposite Paul Richter as the epic hero Siegfried. Its success would cement her popularity in Germany and she achieved international recognition as an actress. Strangely, there was not a real follow-up film. She appeared in several unremarkable films and in the more interesting films, like her husband’s Der Weg durch die Nacht/The Way Through the Night (1929, Robert Dinesen), she only had a supporting part.
Margarete Schon made the transition to sound films with ease and through the 1930’s and 1940’s she was a popular character actress. She often portrayed parts as the wife or the mother. For the UFA she played princess Amalie in Das flotenkonzert von Sans-Souci/The Flute Concert of Sans-Souci (1930, Gustav Ucicky) starring Otto Gebuhr as King Frederick II of Prussia, Madame Mercier in the Chopin biography Abschiedswalzer/Farewell Waltz (1934, Geza von Bolvary), and the mother of Ilse Werner in Ihr erstes Erlebnis/Her First Experience (1939, Joseph von Baky). In 1931 she even co-directed a film herself, Schon ist die Manoverzeit/Manoeuver Time Is Fine (1931, Margarete Schon, Erich Schonfelder) with Ida Wust. It would stay her only direction. During the Second World War she appeared in approximately ten films, but generally avoided roles in Nazi propaganda films and stayed decidedly apolitical. One exception was an uncredited bit part in Veit Harlan’s nationalistic film Kolberg (1945, Veit Harlan) starring Heinrich George. One of her most popular roles of the era was the character Frau Knauer opposite Heinz Ruhmann in the classic comedy Die Feuerzangenbowle/The Punch Bowl (1944, Helmut Weiss) for Terra-Filmkunst studios. After the Second World War, Schon worked extensively for the radio and also worked as a voice actor for the synchronisation of foreign films. From 1948 to 1950 she played for the Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft (DEFA), the state-owned film studio of East Germany. There she appeared in small roles in such films as Affaire Blum/The Blum Affair (1948, Erich Engel) about an anti-Semitic court case in Weimar Germany, Die blauen Schwerter/The Blue Swords (1949, Wolfgang Schleif) starring Hans Quest as the inventor of blue porcelain, and the biography Semmelweis – Retter der Mutter/Dr. Semmelweis (1950, Georg C. Klaren) with Kathe Braun. Back in West-Germany she had parts in such films as the thriller Rittmeister Wronski/Cavalry Captain Wronski (1954, Ulrich Erfurth) starring Willi Birgel, and Oberwachtmeister Borck/Sergeant Borck (1955, Gerhard Lamprecht). Her last screen appearance was in the TV film Ich r | ||
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Advice and Dissent
USA, 2002, 21 minutes, color
Directed By Leib Cohen
35mm DVD VHS
A frustrated businessman, Jeffery Goldman (John Pankow) tries to end his hopeless marriage by asking his local Rabbi (Eli Wallach) to place a curse on his wife. What happens next sets in motion a chain of unexpected events. Also starring Rebecca Pidgeon. More
The Affair Blum (Affaire Blum)
East Germany, 1948, 109 minutes, B&W
German with English subtitles
Directed by Erich Engel
16mm
This early postwar suspense story, based on a well-known 1926 murder trial with Dreyfus-like overtones represents an East German reflection on Nazism. More
Ambulance (Ambulans)
Poland, 1962, 15 minutes, B&W
Music only- no narration/dialogue.
Directed by Janusz Morgenstern
16mm DVD
In this haunting short film, a group of Jewish children and their teacher are herded into ambulance (or so it appears) by Nazis. A powerful trigger for discussion, the film draws parallels to the real life fate of Janusz Korczak who died with his students at Treblinka. More
American Matchmaker (Amerikaner Shadkhn)
RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1940, 87 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
35mm 16mm DVD
Leo Fuchs, the "Yiddish Fred Astaire," stars in this musical comedy as Nat Silver, a debonair and wealthy Jewish-American businessman whose recent engagement (his eighth) goes awry. Ulmer’s last Yiddish movie was also his most modern, an art deco romantic comedy about male ambivalence and Jewish assimilation. More
Amy
USA, 1997, 8 minutes, color
Directed by Susan Rivo
DVD
A poignant and hilarious personal narrative about the filmmaker’s lifelong attachment and deep bond with a stuffed animal received at birth. More
As If Nothing Happened (Ke'Ilu Klum Lo Kara)
Israel, 1999, 50 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Ayelet Bargur
DVD
Based on the personal experience of the director, this award-winning feature film focuses on one family waiting to hear news of a son who may have been involved in a terrorist incident. More
At the End of the Day
Israel, 2000, 50 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Ayelet Bargur
DVD
Four young men, all commanders in the same Israeli Defense Force Golan Heights paratrooper unit, were killed over a 22-month period from 1995 to 1997. Their families, realizing they all suffer a common fate, agree to meet and share their stories. Mor
Aya: An Imagined Autobiography (Autobiographia Dimionit)
Israel, 1994, 87 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Michal Bat-Adam
35mm DVD
Director Michal Bet-Adam, stars in the title role as a woman driven by her father’s ambitions for her. Now she is shooting a film and fragments of dreams and fantasy alternate with reality. More
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Bar Mitzvah RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1935, 75 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Henry Lynn
DVD
Starring Yiddish theater superstar Boris Thomashefsky in his only film performance, this musical melodrama is a masterwork of shund, the bread and butter of the Yiddish theater. More
The BellsUSA, 1926, 85 minutes, B&W, Silent with English intertitles
Directed by James Young
16mm
Lionel Barrymore stars as an Alsatian innkeeper whose political ambitions drive him to commit brutal murder in this silent melodrama. The Bells is an example of one way in which Jews have been stereotyped in theater and cinema. More
Benjamin and the Miracle of Chanukah
USA, 1978, 30 minutes, color, animated
Directed by Robert Mitchell
16mm
This animated film featuring the voice of Herschel Bernardi traces the story of Chanukah through the fictional story of a young boy and his faithful donkey. More
The Benny Zinger Show
Israel, 1993, 37 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Arnon Goldfinger
DVD
Benny Zinger presents slide shows at weddings until one day, while preparing a show for a couple, he falls in love with the bride. More
The Bent Tree
USA, 1980, 8 minutes, Animated
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Sally Heckel
16mm
An animated fable based on Itzik Manger's folk tune. More
Benya Krik RESTORED BY NCJF
USSR, 1926, 90 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by V. Vilner
35mm DVD
The seamy Jewish underworld of Odessa is the setting for Isaac Babel's story based on the life of gangster king Mishka Yaponchik "Mike the Jap" Vinnitsky. Murder is a way of life for Benya and his gang until he finds himself ensnared in a Bolshevik trap. Mor
Biloxi Blues
USA, 1988, 106 minutes, color
Directed by Mike Nichols
16mm
Mike Nichols’ adaptation of Neil Simon’s play, starring Matthew Broderick. Mor
Blind Man's Bluff (Golem Ba'Maagal)
Israel, 1993, 93 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Aner Preminger
35mm DVD
In this award-winning feature film based on a novel by Lilly Perry Amitai. Trying to distance herself from her Holocaust survivor parents and ex-boyfriend, pianist Micki Stav moves out of her parents' house in search of her own identity. More
Braids (Tzamot)
Israel, 1989, 90 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Yitzhak Halutzi
16mm DVD
Based on a true story, Braids tells the tale of So'ad, a 14-year-old Jewish girl imprisoned by the Iraqi government in 1947 for her participation in the Zionist movement. More
Breaking Home Ties RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1922, 78 minutes, B&W
Silent with new English intertitles
Directed by Frank N. Seltzer & George K. Rowlands
DCP DVD Blu-ray
Long thought lost, the world's only existing print of Breaking Home Ties was discovered by NCJF in a Berlin archive in 1984. Thinking he killed his friend Paul in a blind rage, David Bergmann flees pre-revolutionary Russia for America. In New York he becomes a succesful lawyer and woos the boss' daughter Rose. More
Brighton Beach Memoirs
USA, 1986, 110 minutes, color
Directed by Gene Saks
16mm
Gene Saks’ adaptation of Neil Simon’s play in which a teenage Jewish boy recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. More
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Camera Obscura (La Camara Oscura)Argentina, 2008, 86 minutes, color/B&W
Spanish and Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed By María Victoria Menis
35mm DVD
A lyrical, inventive new film from award-winning, film festival favorite director María Victoria Menis. At the end of the 19th century, Gertrudis grows into her role as the ugly duckling in a colony of Argentinean Jews until she meets a nomadic photographer whose uncompromising vision allows her to see herself for the first time. More
A Cantor on Trial (Khazan afn Probe) RESTORED BY NCJFUSA, 1931, 10 min, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Sidney M. Goldin
35mm 16mm DVDCantor Leibele Waldman plays multiple roles in this spoof of a synagogue committee in search of a chazan (cantor). More
The Cantor's Son (Dem Khazns Zundl) RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1937, 90 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Ilya Motyleff (Sidney Goldin, uncredited)
35mm DVD
This "anti-Jazz Singer” marks the screen debut of Moishe Oysher who stars as a wayward youth who makes his way from his Polish shtetl to New York's Lower East Side where he becomes a well-known singer. Ultimately, he returns home to the Old Country and reunites with his parents and his childhood sweetheart. More
Catskill Honeymoon
USA, 1949, 93 minutes, B&W
English and Yiddish (no subtitles)
Directed by Josef Berne
16mm DVD
A Jewish resort hotel celebrates a pair of longtime customers' 50th wedding anniversary by staging an old-fashioned Borscht Belt show. Filmed on location at Young's Gap Hotel in Parksville, New York. More
Chariots of Fire UK, 1981, 124 minutes, color
Directed by Hugh Hudson
16mm
The true story of two British track athletes competing in the 1924 Summer Olympics. More
A Child of the Ghetto DIGITALLY RESTORED BY NCJFUSA, 1910, 15 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by D. W. Griffith
16mm Blu-ray DVD
This tale of New York’s Lower East Side life captures the hustle and bustle of Rivington Street through the lens of legendary Hollywood director D. W. Griffith. Ruth flees the ghetto and hides in the country, where a young farmer takes her in and they fall in love. More
The Chosen USA, 1982, 108 minutes, color
Directed by Jeremy Paul Kagan
16mm
Jeremy Kagan’s film adaptation of the classic novel by Chaim Potok. More
Chronicle of Love (Chronika Shel Ahava) Israel, 1998, 90 minutes, color
Hebrew with English Subtitles
Directed by Tzipi Trope
35mm DVD
In this the first Israeli feature film to deal with the subject of battered women. Nava, a social worker, shares the painful secret of her suffering with Jania, another woman victimized by her husband and the two form a healing bond. More
Cohen on the Telephone DIGITALLY RESTORED BY NCJFUSA, 1929, 9 minutes, B&W
with sound, in English
Directed by Robert Ross
16mm Blu-ray DVD
Trying to make a call and unfamiliar with the telephone, Cohen embroils himself in a comic monologue of misunderstanding. Here, we see how the Jewish immigrant is now characterized not simply by how he moves and looks, but by how he speaks. More
Cohen Saves the Flag PRESERVED BY NCJFUSA, 1913, 10 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Mack Sennett
16mm DVD
Cohen is a sergeant in the Union Army and the bitter rival of another officer for the attentions of Rebecca. Like most burlesque Jewish characters of this period, this caricature borders on anti-semitism. Yet Cohen is also the hero of the film. More
Cohen's Advertising Scheme PRESERVED BY NCJF USA, 1904, 1 minute, B&W
Silent without intertitles
Directed by Edwin S. Porter
16mm DVD
This may be the earliest cinematic example of the Jewish stereotype known as the "scheming merchant”. Cohen, a grotesquely made-up Jewish shop owner, tricks a passerby into wearing a coat that has a sign advertising his store attached to the back. More
Cohen's Fire Sale PRESERVED BY NCJF USA, 1907, 10 minutes, B&W
Silent without intertitles
Directed by Edwin S. Porter
16mm DVD
Cohen, made-up in grotesque vaudevillian Jewish style, pursues a trash wagon, picking up hats as they accidentally drop off. When he finds the hats are not selling, Cohen reads his insurance policy and arranges for an "accidental" fire." More
Comrade Abram (Tovarishch Abram) RESTORED BY NCJF USSR, 1919, 18 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Alexander Razumni
35mm 16mm DVD
Tne of a series of short Bolshevik propaganda films, Comrade Abram focuses on Abram Hersh, a young Jewish pogrom survivor who became a factory worker and organizer in Moscow and, eventually, a leader in the Red Army. More
The Cowboy
USA, 1968, 11 minutes, B&W
Yiddish (no subtitles)
Directed by Abe Wexler
16mm DVDIt's just your typical all-Yiddish shoot-'em-up. This hilarious spoof was made by adding a Yiddish dialogue to a 1932 Hollywood Western. More
Crossing Delancey USA, 1988, 97 minutes, color
Directed by Joan Micklin Silver
16mm
Based on Susan Sandler’s play, Crossing Delancey is a charming comedy about new world desires clashing with old world traditions. It’s a timeless tale of a woman struggling to find happiness and independence...her way. More
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The Day Grandpa Died USA, 1970, 11 minutes, color
Produced by King Screen Productions
16mm
A child comes to accept death as a part of life. More
Dear Mr. Waldman (Michtavim Le America)
Israel, 2006, 86 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Hanan Peled
35mm DVD
In Tel Aviv in the 1960s 10-year-old Hilik knows his goal in life is to compensate for the grief his parents suffered in the Holocaust. More
Disraeli USA, 1929, 89 minutes, B&W
Directed by Alfred E. Green
16mm
In the early days of sound film, one of Warner Bros.' big box-office draws was the aging stage actor George Arliss and, in Disraeli, Arliss scored his biggest box-office hit. More
The Dybbuk (Der Dibuk)
Poland, 1937, 123 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with complete new English subtitles
Directed by Michal Waszynski
Boundaries separating the natural from the supernatural dissolve as ill-fated pledges, unfulfilled passions, and untimely deaths ensnare two families in a tragic labyrinth of spiritual possession in this classic Yiddish feature film based on the celebrated play by S. Ansky. More
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East and West (Mizrekh un Mayrev/ Ost und West) RESTORED BY NCJF
Austria, 1923, 85 minutes, B&W
Silent with Yiddish & English intertitles
Added original soundtrack (1991)
Directed by Sidney M. Goldin and Ivan Abramson
16mm DVD
Morris Brown, a New York gambler acquainted more with his checkbook than his prayer book, returns to Galicia with his very American daughter, Mollie (Molly Picon) for a family wedding. But Mollie, whose exuberant antics fill the film, unexpectedly meets her match—an engaging young yeshiva scholar who forsakes tradition and joins the secular world to win her heart. More
Enemies: A Love Story USA, 1989, 119 minutes, color
Directed by Paul Mazursky
16mm
This film, based on the novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer, deals with the lives of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, who find it difficult to abide by religious morales and question a God who could let the Holocaust occur. More
Exodus USA, 1960, 212 minutes, color
Directed by Otto Preminger
16mm
A classic film starring Paul Newman, about the foundation of the state of Israel. More
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Father's Footsteps (Comme Ton Pére)France/Israel, 2007, 95 minutes, color
French & Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Marco Carmel
DVD
In the early 1970s, the Maimons, a rambunctious but tight knit Tunisian-Israeli family, settle in Paris seeking adventure and fortune. Israeli-French filmmaker Marco Carmel draws on events from his own childhood in this unusual coming of age story. Starring French celebrity actor/humorist Gad Elmaleh. More
The Feast of Passover (Di Seder Nakht)
PRESERVED BY NCJF
USA, 1931, 15 minutes, B&W
English, Hebrew, and Yiddish (no subtitles)
Produced by Sidney M. Goldin for Jacob Berkowitz
16mm DVD
A seder in the midst of North American prosperity recalls traditional Passover celebrations in Russia (with the same cast enacting both scenes). Then modernity returns with a knock at the door and a humorous twist. More
Fiddler on the Roof USA, 1971, 181 minutes, color
Directed by Norman Jewison
16mm
The film version of the stage musical, based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem. Tevye the milkman is a Jewish peasant in pre-Revolutionary Russia, coping with the day-to-day problems of shtetl life, his Jewish traditions, his family, and state-sanctioned pogroms. More
The Fifth Horseman is Fear (...a páty jezdec je Strach) Czechoslovakia, 1964, 100 minutes, B&W
Czech with English subtitles
Directed by Zbynek Brynych
16mm
In Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia a Jewish doctor, forbidden to practice, has to remove a bullet from a wounded Resistance fighter. He roams Prague streets in a desperate search for morphine while hiding his patient from the Nazis. More
The Front USA, 1976, 94 minutes, color
Directed by Woody Allen
16mm
Woody Allen plays a man of no real talent or strong political convictions who is paid to be a front for a group of black listed writers during the McCarthy period in the United States. More
Funny Girl USA, 1968, 155 minutes, color
Directed by William Wyler
16mm
The life of comedienne Fannie Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of the Lower East Side, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, including her marriage to and eventual divorce from her first husband, Nick Arnstein. More
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Gentleman's AgreementUSA, 1947, 118 minutes, B&W
Directed by Elia Kazan
16mm
A classic film in which a journalist who passes himself off as a Jew to write an article about Semitism in America, and discovers how racism affects people. More
The Giving Tree USA, 1971, 10 minutes, color
From the story by Shel Silverstein
16mm
This animated short tells the story of the relationship between a little boy and the tree which lovingly and unstintingly provides for his needs at each stage of his life. More
God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore (An uns glaubt Gott nicht mehr)
Austria, 1982, 110 minutes, B&W
German with English subtitles
Directed By Axel Corti
16mm DVD
The first film in Corti’s acclaimed epic trilogy, Where To and Back. After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, Ferry Tobler, a young Viennese Jew, flees to Prague and then Paris, lands in a French prison camp, and eventually escapes to Marseille. More
God, Man and Devil (Got, Mentsch, un Taybl) RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1949, 100 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Seiden
16mm DVD
Based on a play by Jacob Gordin, God, Man and Devil centers on a wager between God and Satan that has dire consequences. Beware, the film cautions, when money sounds sweeter than music. More
Green Fields (Grine Felder) RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1937, 95 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and Jacob Ben-Ami
35mm 16mm DVD
Voted Best Foreign Film in France 1938. Ulmer’s soulful, open-air adaptation of Peretz Hirshbein’s classic play heralded the Golden Age of Yiddish cinema. When an ascetic young scholar ventures into the countryside, searching for the city of “true Jews,” he learns some unexpected lessons from the Jewish peasants who take him in. More
GripsholmGermany, 2000, 102 minutes, color
German and Swedish with English subtitles
Directed by Xavier Koller
35mm DVD
Based on Kurt Tucholsky’s autobiographical novel about the decadent world of Berlin cabaret of the early 1930s. After writing inflammatory articles about the Nazis, Kurt (Ulrich Noethen), a German-Jewish publisher, travels to the Swedish palace of Gripsholm with his girlfriend Lydia and their friends. More
Gruber's Journey Romania, 2008, 100 minutes, color
Romanian w/ English Subtitles
Directed by Radu Gabrea
35mm DigiBeta DVD
An Italian journalist suffering from debilitating allergies searches for a Jewish allergist named Gruber amid the outrageous, and increasingly sinister, bureaucracy of Nazi-occupied Romania. What begins as an absurdist wild goose chase leads directly to the heart of the final solution, and the disastrous fate of the local Jews. Radu Gabrea’s “Perfect yet subdued” film is Romania’s first drama about the Holocaust. More
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The Hangman USA, 1964, 12 minutes, color
Directed by Paul Julian and Les Goldman
16mm
In this allegorical short, the people of a town are condemned to die one by one by a mysterious stranger who erects a gallows in the town square. The townspeople create a rationale for each hanging, until only one person is left, he who failed all along to raise his voice in protest. More
His Excellency (Yevo Prevoshoditelstvo) RESTORED BY NCJF
USSR, 1928, 76 minutes (Incomplete: missing one reel), B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Grigori Roshal
35mm 16mm DVD
This 1928 film features stylized cinematography and actors from the Moscow Art Theater in a fiction story based on the life of Jewish Labor Bund member Hirsch Lekert who attempted to assassinate the Vilna governor in 1902 to avenge the flogging of workers who participated in a May Day rally. More
His People RESTORED BY NCJFUSA, 1925, 91 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Edward Sloman
16mm DVD
The two sons of a poor Russian-Jewish pushcart peddler on New York's Lower East Side are causing their father grief. As Morris and Sammy stray from traditions cherished by their parents, each generation learns to accept change to preserve the family as a source of love and respect. More
His Wife's Lover(Zayn Vaybs Lubovnik)
RESTORED BY NCJFUSA, 1931, 80 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Sidney M. Goldin
35mm DVD
His Wife’s Lover stars the popular comedian of the Yiddish theatre Ludwig Satz. It was billed as the "first Jewish musical comedy talking picture." More
Holy For Me Israel, 1995, 34 min, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Assaf Bernstein
DVD
This fiction film spoofs tours of the "holy" sites of Israel. Join Jonah and his unwitting group of tourists on an insane two-day tour of Tel Aviv. More
House of Rothschild USA, 1934, 88 minutes, B&W
Directed by Alfred L. Werker
16mm
George Arliss stars as Nathan Rothschild in this chronicle of the famed banking family at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. More
The House on Chelouche Street (Ha-Bayit Berechov Chelouche) Israel, 1973, 115 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Moshe Mizrahi
16mm
This Academy Award-nominated feature focuses on Sami, a teenager from a newly-arrived, poor Sephardic family living in the slums of Palestine during the turbulent last days of the British Mandate. More
How Moshe Came Back PRESERVED BY NCJF USA, 1914, 10 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Produced by Crystal Films
16mm DVD
An example of Jewish characterizations in the silent film era, Moshe, a 98-pound boxer defeats his 240-pounds opponent…by cheating. More
Hungry Hearts RESTORED BY NCJF USA, 1922, 80 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Added original soundtrack (2006)
Directed by E. Mason Hopper
16mm DVD
A Hollywood adaptation of the short stories of Anzia Yezierska, the first writer to bring stories of American Jewish women to a mainstream audience, Hungry Hearts focuses on the hopes and hardships of the Levin family, Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe living on New York City's Lower East Side. More
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I Love You, Rosa (Ani Ohev Otach Rosa) Israel, 1972, 84 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Moshe Mizrachi
16mm
Academy Award nominee, Best Foreign Film. Jerusalem's Orthodox community at the turn of the century is the setting for this now-classic film about the life of a young Sephardic widow. More
I Want To Be A Boarder (Ich Vil Zeyn a Boarder) RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1937, 15 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Seiden
35mm 16mm DVD
A lively short about a husband and wife who seek to reignite their marriage by pretending to be landlady and tenant. More
The Immigrant USA, 1917, 20 minutes, b&w
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
16mm
Charlie Chaplin's hilarious portrayal of a penniless immigrant's journey to, and arrival in, America. More
The Imported Bridegroom USA, 1990, 93 minutes, color
Directed by Pamela Berger
35mm 16mm DVD
A Jewish romance begins when Asriel, a turn-of-the-century, rich Boston widower returns from a visit to the old country with a man he believes is the perfect man for his daughter. But when the two meet, his thoroughly modern daughter is appalled by this pious scholar, or is she? More
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Jakob the Liar (Jakob der Lügner) GDR/East Germany, 1975, 95 minutes, color
German with English subtitles
Directed by Frank Beyer
35mm 16mm
Jakob Heym, a Jew trapped in a Polish ghetto, overhears news of a nearby Russian victory on a Gestapo radio. Pretending to have heard the good news on his own clandestine radio, Jakob passes the word on to his neighbors. More
The Jazz Singer USA, 1927, 90 minutes, B&W
Silent with intertitles and some sound
Directed by Alan Crosland
16mm
This landmark of modern cinema, the first “talking picture,” is also a pro-assimilationist story about a cantor's son who rejects his family's tradition for Jazz and Broadway. More
The Jester (Der Purimspiler) RESTORED BY NCJF
Poland, 1937, 90 minutes, B&W with sepia tone and blue-green ton
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Green and Jan Nowina-Przybylski
35mm DVD
A parade of costume, buffoonery and music, The Jester highlights both a shoemaker's scheme to marry his daughter into a prominent family as well as the festival of Purim. More
Jewish Luck (Yevreiskoye Schastye / Menakhem Mendl) RESTORED BY NCJF
USSR, 1925, 100 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Alexander Granovsky
35mm 16mm DVD
Menakhem Mendl (one of Sholem Aleichem’s characters) is a daydreaming entrepreneur who specializes in doomed strike-it-rich schemes. Despite Jewish oppression in Tsarist Russia, Mendl continues to pursue his dreams and his continued persistence transforms him from schlemiel to hero. More
Jolly Paupers (Freylekhe Kabtsonim) RESTORED BY NCJFPoland, 1937, 62 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Leon Jeannot and Z. Turkow
35mm 16mm DVD
In this musical comedy, the comic duo Dzigan and Shumacher play two small town "entrepreneurs" who believe they have struck oil in a local field. Thus begins a comedy of errors, including millionaire investors, American schemers, and insane asylums, with a little matchmaking on the side. More
Joshua Then and Now Canada, 1985, 127 minutes, color
Directed by Ted Kotcheff
16mm
Based on a novel by Mordechai Richler, allegedly his autobiography, this film tells the story of a Jewish writer, from his life as a young boy in Montreal to his more complicated grown-up life.
Judgment at Nuremberg USA, 1961, 186 minutes, B&W
Directed by Stanley Kramer
16mm
An Oscar-winning, fictionalized film account of the Post-World War II Nuremberg Trials.
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Kazablan
Israel, 1973, 95 minutes, color
English dubbed
Directed by Menahem Golan
16mm
This Israeli West Side Story unfolds when Kazablan, a dark-skinned Sephardic Jew, takes time out from hassling the poverty-stricken tenants of the Jaffa ghetto to court the fair-skinned Rachel, an Ashkenazi Jew. More
Kol Nidre
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USA, 1939, 88 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Seiden
Digital Blu-ray DVDA melodrama -with music and romance- about a girl torn between two childhood boyfriends, this film is a suprisingly risque shund Yiddish tearjerker exploring assimilation, antisemitism and gender roles. More
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Ladies' Tailor (Damskiy portnoy) USSR, 1990, 92 minutes, color
Russian with English subtitles
Directed by Leonid Gorovets
35mm DVD
Set in Kiev, Russia, on 29 September 1941, this feature chronicles the last 24 hours in the lives of a Jewish tailor (renowned Russian actor Innokenty Smoktunovsky) and his family just prior to their deportation and execution at Babi Yar. More
Laughter Through Tears (Skvoz Slezy) RESTORED BY NCJF
USSR, 1928, 92 minutes, B&W
Silent with new English intertitles
Directed by Grigori Gricher-Cherikover
35mm 16mm DVD
Gricher-Cherikover leavens pathos with humor in this earthy portrait of pre-Revolutionary shtetl life based on two Sholem Aleichem stories. Motl's father dies, leaving him to survive on his own in a changing world while the tailor Shimen-Elye buys a she-goat which mysteriously changes gender. More
Leon the Pig Farmer
UK, 1992, 98 minutes, color
Direced by Vadim Jean and Gary Sinyor
35mm DVD
An irreverent comedy from the production company of Monty Python's Eric Idle, this zany story is set in motion when Leon Geller, a sensitive Jewish boy from London, accidentally learns that he is the product of artificial insemination. More
A Letter to Mother (A Brivele der Mamen) RESTORED BY NCJF
Poland, 1939, 106 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Green and Leon Trystand
35mm 16mm DVD
One of the last Yiddish films made in Poland, ths is story of a mother's persistent struggles to support her three children in pre-war Polish Ukraine. After her family is pulled apart by the war, she and her children make their way to New York and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. More
The Light Ahead (Fishke the Lame) RESTORED BY NCJF USA, 1939, 94 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
35mm 16mm DVD
Impoverished and disabled lovers Fishke and Hodel dream of life in the big city of Odessa, free of the poverty and old-world prejudices of the shtetl. Made on the eve of World War II, The Light Ahead is at once romantic, expressionist, and conscious of the danger about to engulf European Jews. One of four Yiddish features directed by Edgar Ulmer. More
The Living Orphan (Der Lebediker Yusem) RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1937, 97 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Seiden
35mm DVD The story of a stage couple whose marriage is strained by life in the theater. Adapted from one of the best 2nd Avenue Yiddish Theatre domestic melodramas, director Joseph Seiden’s sentimental film is drawn from life in 1930s New York City. More
Long Fliv the King PRESERVED BY NCJF USA, 1926, 22 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Leo McCarey
16mm DVD
This offbeat comedy from future Hollywood screwball director McCarey is about a princess who must find a husband in 24 hours or forfeit her throne. She quickly marries a condemned man—but the man is pardoned. More
Long is the Road (Lang ist der Veg)
RESTORED BY NCJF
U.S.-Occupied Germany, 1948, 77 minutes, B&W
Yiddish, German, Polish with new English subtitles
Directed by Herbert B. Fredersdorf & Marek Goldstein
35mm 16mm DVD
Written by Israel Becker, this is the first feature film to represent the Holocaust from a Jewish perspective. Shot on location at Landsberg, the largest DP camp in U.S.-occupied Germany, the film follows a Polish Jew from pre-war Warsaw through Auschwitz and the DP camp. More
Love and Sacrifice (Libe und Laydnshaft) RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1936, 76 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by George Roland
35mm
The tale of a middle-class matron who shoots the man who compromises her, this film is a prime example of "shund," the melodramatic escapist entertainment of the Yiddish theater. More
Love at Second Sight (Ahava Mimabat Sheni)
Israel, 1998, 90 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Michal Bat-Adam
35mm DVD
Renowned Israeli filmmaker/actress Michal Bat-Adam wrote and directed this intriguing tale of romantic obsession in present-day Tel Aviv. Michal Zuaratz stars as a young female photographer infatuated with a stranger whose image she accidentally captures on film. More
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Mahler on the Couch Austria/Germany, 2010, 97 minutes, color
German w/ English subtitles
Directed by Percy Adlon & Felix Adlon
35mm
This exuberant imagining of the real-life marriage of Gustav Mahler (Johannes Silberschneider) and his tempestuous wife Alma Schindler Mahler (the luminous Barbara Romaner) is a sensory feast of art, sex and celebrity in fin-de-siècle Vienna. Chafing under her agreement to give up her own musical ambitions, Alma seeks passion in the arms of the young, dashing architect Walter Gropius, which sends a tormented Mahler to Sigmund Freud for consultation. More
Mamele
NEW DIGITAL RESTORATION BY NCJF
Poland, 1938, 100 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Green and Konrad Tom
16mm DCP DigiBeta Blu-ray DVD
Mamele embraces the entire gamut of interwar Jewish life in Lodz—tenements and unemployed Jews, nightclubs and gangsters, religious Jews celebrating sukkot—but the film belongs to Molly Picon who romps undaunted through her dutiful daughter role, keeping the family intact, singing and acting her way through the stages of a woman's life from childhood to old age. More
Marriage in the Shadows (Ehe im Schatten) GDR/East Germany, 1947, 96 minutes, B&W
German with English subtitles
Directed by Kurt Maetzig
16mm
Based on a true story and adapted from the novel by Hans Schweikart, this fiction feature marks the German cinema's first attempt to address antisemitism and the Holocaust. More
Mirele Efros RESTORED BY NCJF USA, 1939, 80 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Berne
16mm DVD
Mirele Efros, "the Jewish Queen Lear," was the masterpiece of influential Yiddish playwright Jacob Gordin. Berta Gersten gives a memorable performance as Mirele, a wealthy and pious widow whose devotion to her children extends to hand-picking a wife for her eldest son. Unfortunately, she gravely mistakes the young woman's character. More
Motel the Operator RESTORED BY NCJF USA, 1939, 88 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Seiden
35mm DVD
Focusing on a labor dispute in the garment district of New York City, the film survives as an important historical document highlighting the hardships of the Jewish immigrant experience in America. More
Mothers of Today (Hayntige Mames)RESTORED BY NCJF USA, 1939, 85 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Henry Lynn
35mm DVD
Mothers of Today includes the sole motion picture performance of radio star Esther Field, who was well-known on the radio airwaves of the 1930's as the 'Yidishe Mama.' More
My Mother's Courage (Mutters Courage) Germany, 1996, 92 minutes, color
German with English subtitles
Directed by Michael Verhoeven
35mm
From the director of The White Rose comes this stunning adaptation of Hungarian author George Tabori’s autobiographical, somewhat surreal novel. Shifting between Nazi-occupied Budapest and modern Berlin, the film artfully depicts the true story of how Tabori’s mother Elsa escaped deportation to Auschwitz. More
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The Nasty Girl (Das schreckliche Mädchen) Germany, 1990, 92 minutes, color
German with English subtitles
Directed by Michael Verhoeven
16mm
Based on the true story of Ann Elisabeth Rosmus, Michael Verhoeven's award-winning black comedy uses sharp wit to explore Germany's Nazi past. More
Nightmare: The Immigration of Joachim and Rachel USA, 1978, 24 minutes, color/B&W
Directed by Tom Robertson
16mm
During the struggle to survive the Warsaw Ghetto, thirteen-year-old Joachim and his little sister Rachel receive final instructions from their parents: hide in an old cabinet. More
Nize People PRESERVED BY NCJFUSA, 1927, 20 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Sam Newfield
16mm
A slapstick comedy in the immigrant/vaudeville genre, Lizzie believes her necklace has been stolen, setting off a series of crazy events when Mr. O'Connor hires the "world's greatest detective," who turns out be Lunatic Louie, an escapee from an insane asylum! More
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Old Isaac, The Pawnbroker PRESERVED BY NCJF USA, 1908, 10 minutes, B&W
Silent without intertitles
Directed by Wallace McCutcheon
16mm DVD
In this film, a small girl in an urban slum seeks aid for her sick and starving mother. Trying to pawn her doll, she attracts the attention of the shop’s owner old Isaacs, who later stops the men trying to evict the sick woman. More
Operation Thunderbolt (Mivtsa Yonatan) Israel, 1977, 126 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Menahem Golan
16mm
This feature film is a stunning retelling of the famed 4 July 1976 raid by Israeli commandos to rescue 104 passengers from a hijacked plane grounded in Entebbe, Uganda, in Africa. More
Our Children (Unzere Kinder) RESTORED BY NCJF Poland, 1948, 68 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Natan Gross and Shaul Goskind
35mm 16mm DVD
In this, Poland’s last Yiddish feature film, comedy duo Dzigan and Shumacher play all the parts in a Sholem Aleichem story staged for an audience of children who survived the Holocaust. More
Overture to Glory (Der Vilner Balebesl) RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1940, 77 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Max Nosseck
35mm 16mm DVD
The story of a Vilna cantor seduced by the opera resonates with the voice of Moishe Oysher. Carefully lit cinematography, well-shaped dialogue, and Alexander Olshanetsky's musical score steer Overture clear of melodramatic excess. More
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Papa's Pest PRESERVED BY NCJF USA, 1928, 20 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Les Goodwins
16mm DVD
Another in the Izzie and Lizzie series, this film continues the slapstick style which explodes from a domestic comedy into a frenzy of wild action and fast chases. More
The Pawnbroker USA, 1965, 114 minutes, B&W
Directed by Sidney Lumet
16mm
One of the first films to deal with the effects of Nazi Germany’s concentration camps on their survivors. One survivor, played by Rod Steiger, suffers an internal conflict between submitting to the injustices he endured or resisting the injustice. More
Pillar of Salt (Natziv Hamelech) Israel, 1980, 58 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Haim Shiran
16mm DVD
Based on the autobiographical novel by sociologist Albert Memmi, this feature film about an expressive and intelligent 13-year old boy captures the cultural richness and social complexity of a Jewish boy's life in Tunisia, North Africa. More
Purple Lawns (Deshaim S'Gulim)
Israel, 1998, 56 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Dina Zvi-Riklis
DVD
In this feature film, Yael and Shlomit, two secular, free-spirited women, share a flat in Tel Aviv. Their high rent forces them to take in a third roommate, Malka, an enigmatic ultra-orthodox woman with a secret. More
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Radio Days USA, 1987, 85 minutes, color
Directed by Woody Allen
16mm
Woody Allen narrates his nostalgic look at growing up in Queens, NY in the 1940s, showing how memories of family life are intimately tied to the radio performers of the day. More
Raindrops aka If Only the Rain (Regentropfen) West Germany, 1981, 90 minutes, B&W
German with English subtitles
Directed by Michael Hoffman and Harry Raymon
16mm
Harry Raymon wrote the screenplay for this feature based on his own experiences as a young German-Jewish boy growing up amidst the rise of the Third Reich. An 8-year old boy and his family prepare to move from their small town to Cologne, on their way to America. More
The Return of Nathan Becker (Nosn Becker Fort Aheym) RESTORED BY NCJF USSR, 1932, 72 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Boris Shpis and Mark Milman
35mm DVD
Yiddish author Peretz Markish wrote the screenplay for this film about a bricklayer who returns home to Russia after 20 years in America. The only Russian-Yiddish sound film produced in the Soviet Union, the film glorifies Soviet industrial productivity as it denigrates American capitalism and assimilation. More
Romance of a Jewess PRESERVED BY NCJF USA, 1908, 10 minutes, B&W
Silent without intertitles
Directed by D.W. Griffith
16mm DVD
This early D. W. Griffith short shows the director's interest in Jewish ghetto life, portrayed here with sympathy and sentimentality. The melodramatic plot involves the conflict between generations in an immigrant Jewish family. More Rosenzweig's Freedom (Rosenzweigs Freiheit)Germany, 1998, 89 minutes, color
German with English subtitles
Directed by Liliane Targownik
35mm DVD
When Michael Rosenzweig a working-class German Jew is charged with the murder of a neo-Nazi leader, he and his family find themselves fighting for justice is the face of with a brick wall of prejudice. More
Rutenberg (Ish HaHashmal)
Israel, 2002, 90 minutes, color
English and Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Eli Cohen
35mm DVD
Cohen takes an elliptical approach in telling the story of Pinchas Rutenberg, a visionary, complex, and larger-than-life figure, who, amongst other things, brought electricity to Jewish Palestine in the early 20th century by building a hydroelectric power station. More
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Santa Fe Austria, 1985, 110 minutes, B&W
German with English Subtitles
Directed by Axel Corti
DVD
Picking up after God Does Not Believe In Us Anymore, Freddy struggles to find work after arriving in New York in 1940. His world of refugee acquaintances includes the depressed daughter of a poet/delicatessen owner, an aging surgeon who cannot find work, and a lovable charlatan photographer. Corti’s trilogy continues with Welcome In Vienna. More
SchundIsrael, 2010, 56, minutes, color
Hebrew, Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Yael Leibovitz ZandDVD In this clever and heartfelt mockumentary, a renowned Yiddish actor disappears under criminal circumstances. Searching for him twenty-five years later we meet the colorful characters that made up Israel’s vibrant Yiddish scene during the country’s first decades. More
Second Watch (Mishmeret Shniya) Israel, 1995, 14 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Udi Ben-Arie
16mm DVD
An Israeli reserve soldier on watch at a remote post along the Israeli-Jordanian border finds a Jordanian soldier who is bored to death just like him. Together they pass the time, help each other, get into trouble and still manage to get away with it. More
Seekers of Happiness (Birobidzhan) RESTORED BY NCJF USSR, 1934, 84 minutes, B&W
Russian with English subtitles
Directed by Vladimir Korsh-Sablin
DVD
During the 1920s, many Jews moved to Birobidzhan, the Soviet Jewish Autonomous Region on the Chinese border. This melodrama tells the story of a Jewish family’s immigration and their experiences as settlers on a collective farm in the area. More
The Shop on Main Street (Obchod na korze) Czechoslovakia, 1965, 128 minutes, B&W
Czech with English subtitles
Directed by Jan Kadar
16mm
This haunting tragicomedy takes place during the early days of the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. A simple, amiable carpenter appointed "aryan controller" of a Jewish shop is faced with a choice: save the shop’s elderly owner or comply with Nazi policies. More
The Shower (Ha-Miklachat) Israel, 1997, 35 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Jorge Gurvich
35mm DVD
An elderly man's anxiety in the face of loneliness and death fades and unresolved familial conflicts disappear for a few moments of grace when his son bathes him for the last time. More
The Singing Blacksmith (Yankl Der Schmid) RESTORED BY NCJF USA, 1938, 95 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
35mm 16mm DVD
Moishe Oysher gives his most robust performance as a passionate shtetl blacksmith who must struggle against temptation to become a mensch. Ulmer’s film is a musical version of David Pinski’s classic 1906 play Yankl der Schmid. More
Singing in the Dark RESTORED BY NCJF USA, 1956, 86 minutes, B&W
Directed by Max Nosseck
35mm DVD
A quirky combination of 1950s movie conventions—the musical, gangster and mystery movie—this virtually unknown independent film is one of the first American features to dramatize the Holocaust. Starring Moishe Oysher as a German concentration camp survivor suffering from traumatic amnesia who becomes a New York singing sensation. More
So We Said Goodbye (Nifradnu Kach) Israel, 1991, 26 minutes, color/B&W
Hebrew and Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Jorge Gurvich
35mm DVD
While saying goodbye to his son and grandchildren who are leaving Israel, Yackov remembers when, as a child, he also said goodbye to his family in Poland in 1937, not realizing that he would never see them again. More
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Tevye RESTORED BY NCJF USA, 1939, 96 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Maurice Schwartz
35mm 16mm DVD
Maurice Schwartz's adaptation of the classic Sholem Aleichem play centers on Khave, Tevye the Dairyman’s daughter, who falls in love with Fedye, the son of a Ukrainian peasant. More
Three Days in April (Drei Tage im April) Germany, 1995, 100 minutes, color
German with English subtitles
Directed by Oliver Storz
35mm DVD
In the small Swabian village of Nesselbühl, Germany, in April 1945, Anna still believes hope can be found in trusting the Führer. But then, three cattle cars filled with Jewish concentration camp prisoners being moved to another camp are left abandoned on the train tracks. More
The Turkey (La Dinde)
Belgium, 1998, 18 minutes, color
French with English subtitles
Directed by Sam Garbarski
35mm
Billed as "a Jewish Christmas tale," this award-winning short takes place in Brussels, 1953. More
Two Sisters (Tsvey Shvester) RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1938, 82 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Ben K. Blake
16mm DVD
Make sure there's a hanky nearby: After the death of their mother, older sister Betty works tirelessly, supporting her sister through nursing school and her fiancée through medical school only to see her happiness shattered when the two fall in love. More
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Uncle Moses
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USA, 1932, 87 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Sidney Goldin & Aubrey Scotto
16mm DVDWhen poverty and persecution compel his Polish landsmen to leave their shtetl, "Uncle" Moses, the crude and lusty former butcher, welcomes them to his Lower East Side clothing factory. More
The Unfortunate Bride (Di Umgliklikhe Kale)
(reedited reissue of 1926 silent Broken Hearts)
RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1932, 68 minutes, B&W
Yiddish and English intertitles with music and sound sequences
Directed by Maurice Schwartz35mmA film within a film where a man tells his grandchildren a cautionary tale about a Jewish political dissident who leaves his wife in Russia and heads for America, where he experiences the new value system operating among some American Jews. More
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A Vilna Legend (Dem Rebns Koyekh)(reissue of Tkies Kaf/The Vow, 1924) RESTORED BY NCJF USA, 1933, 60 minutes, B&W
Yiddish narration with English subtitles
Directed by Zygmund Turkow (1924); George Roland (1933)
35mm 16mm DVD
Starring real-life mother and daughter Ester-Rokhl Kaminska and Ida Kaminska, this film is a precursor to The Dybbuk featuring the same classic tale of frustrated love and destiny and the breaking/fulfillment of vows. More
The Vow (Tkies Kaf) RESTORED BY NCJF
Poland, 1937, 82 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Henryk Szabo
35mm DVD VHS
Two friends make a sacred pact pledging their newborn children, Rachel and Mendel, in marriage. Based on the same legend as S. Ansky's classic play The Dybbuk, this spirited film offers the divine intervention of Elijah and a happy ending. More
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The Wandering Jew (Der Vanderner Yid) RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1933, 66 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by George Roland35mm DVDA German-Jewish artist encounters anti-semitism when his masterpiece is rejected by the Academy. The figure in the painting then comes to life and tells of Jewish persecution throughout history. This unusual film ends with footage of an anti-Hitler rally at Madison Square Garden. More
The Way We Were USA, 1973, 118 minutes, color
Directed by Sydney Pollack
16mm
A love story between opposites spanning three decades: Katie, a Jewish political activist (Barbra Streisand) and Hubbell, a New York WASP writer (Robert Redford). Notable for its portrayal of a strong positive Jewish heroine and also serves as one of the few films to portray Jewish participation in the socialist movement of the '30s and the protests during the '50s.
Welcome in ViennaAustria, 1986, 125 Minutes, B&W
German with English Subtitles
Directed By Axel Corti
DVDThe conclusion of Axel Corti’s trilogy. Freddy and Adler, a left-wing intellectual, return to Austria in 1944 as soldiers in the U.S. Army. Freddy falls in love with the daughter of a Nazi, and Adler attempts to go over to the Communist Zone. More
When Grandpa Loved Rita Hayworth (Ab ins Paradies)
Czechoslovakia/Germany, 2000, 90 minutes, color
Czech and German with English subtitled
Directed by Iva Svarcova
35mm DVD
1969: The first winter after the violent end of the Spring of Prague. Just as three astronauts are flying to the moon, thirteen-year-old Hannah and her crazy young parents land in the German economic wonderland. More
Where is My Child? (Vu iz Mayn Kind?) RESTORED BY NCJF USA, 1937, 92 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Abraham Leff and Harry Lynn
16mm DVD
Celia Adler, doyenne of the Yiddish stage, gives a haunting performance as a new immigrant forced to give up her son. Obsessed with the thought of reuniting with him, she spends the next 25 years searching, pining, and bewailing her loss. More
The White Rose (Die weiße Rose) Germany, 1983, 108 minutes, color
German with English subtitles
Directed by Michael Verhoeven
35mm
Lena Stolze (The Nasty Girl) stars in this acclaimed film based on the true story of five German students and their professor who as the White Rose protested the Nazi regime. More
Without a Home (On a Heym) RESTORED BY NCJF
Poland, 1939, 88 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Alexander Martin
16mm DVD
This, the last Yiddish feature film made in Poland before Word War II, is the story of the hardships faced by immigrants in America at the turn of the century. After the eldest son of the Rivkin family is drowned, the father leaves his family in Europe to go to America. More
A Woman's Pale Blue Handwriting (Eine blaßblaue Frauenschrift)
Austria, 1984, 106 minutes, color
German with English subtitles
Directed by Axel Corti
DVD VHS
In October 1936, a high official in the Austrian government receives a letter from a German Jewish woman with whom he had an affair in 1925 asking him to help place an 11-year-old, half Jewish boy in a good Austrian school. More
The Wordmaker (Ish She'Ahav B'Ivrit) Israel, 1991, 90 minutes, color
Hebrew, English, French and Russian with English subtitles
Directed by Eli Cohen
16mm DVD
At the beginning of the 20th century, a language war raged in Palestine among Yiddish, Russian, French, German, English, and Hebrew, a language barely spoken for 2000 years. This feature film tells the dramatic life story of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda who championed the cause of modern Hebrew. More
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Yentl USA, 1983, 134 minutes, color
Directed by Barbra Streisand
16mm
Streisand produced, directed, co-authored and stars in this landmark musical based on Isaac Bashevis Singer's short story about a young woman who disguises herself as a boy in order to study at a yeshiva in turn-of-the-century Eastern Europe.
The Yiddisher Boy PRESERVED BY NCJF USA, 1909, 3 minutes, B&W
Silent without intertitles
Produced by the Lubin Company
16mm
Director Lubin (originally Lubszynski) was first Jewish-American filmmaker. In the film, Moses uses his last pennies to help a friend in need. 25 years later the men meet again. The film is remarkable in its depiction of tradition in the face of oppressive circumstances. More
Yiddle With His Fiddle (Yidl Mitn Fidl)
Poland, 1936, 92 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Green & Jan Nowina-Przybylski
A penniless man and his daughter (Molly Picon) decide to become traveling musicians. The daughter, disguised as a boy to relieve her father's anxiety, and her father join together with "another" father-son duo for music, comedy, and romance. More
Yizkor
RESTORED BY NCJF
Austria, 1924, 100 minutes, B&W
Silent with new English intertitles
Directed by Sidney M. Goldin
16mm DVD
This period drama set in 18th century Volhynia stars Maurice Schwartz as Leybke, a handsome Jewish guardsman who martyrs himself and saves his brethren. More
Yosl Cutler and His Puppets RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1935, 18 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
16mm DVD
Fanciful and slightly surreal sketches preserve Cutler’s work with the marionettes he designed, built, and brought to life. More
The Young Lions USA, 1958, 167 minutes, B&W
Directed by Edward Dmytryk
16mm
The destiny of two soldiers during World War II. The German officer Christian approves less and less of the war, while the American GI Ackerman climbs the military hierarchy. More
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Directed by Gene Deitch
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Celonis offers an Execution Management System that aids businesses in managing their operations.
Details of the startup:
State: Bayern
City: Munich
Started in: 2011
Founders: Alexander Rinke, Bastian Nominacher, Martin Klenk
Industries: Analytics, Business Intelligence, SaaS, Software
Number of employees: 1001-5000
Funding: $1,367,500,000
Funding rounds: 4
Number of investors: 9 (Accel, T. Rowe Price, Franklin Templeton Investments, 83North, Arena Holdings)
You can find their website here.
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2) Ada Health
Ada Health is a digital health startup that uses an AI-enabled platform to assist identify symptoms and provide therapy recommendations.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2011
Founders: Claire Novorol, Daniel Nathrath, Martin Hirsch
Industries: Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Medical, mHealth
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: $159,497,394
Funding rounds: 4
Number of investors: 10 (Vitruvian Partners, EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs, Mutschler Ventures AG, Samsung Catalyst Fund, June Fund)
You can find their website here.
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3) uberall
Uberall uses the revolutionary location marketing cloud to fuel sales using location data.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2012
Founders: David Federhen, Florian Hubner, Josha Benner
Industries: Information Technology, Location Based Services, Marketing
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: $170,800,000
Funding rounds: 8
Number of investors: 7 (Project A Ventures, United Internet Ventures, Level Equity Management, HPE Growth, Bregal Milestone)
You can find their website here.
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4) TIER Mobility
TIER Mobility is a micro-mobility firm that offers clients long-term ride-sharing options.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2018
Founders: Julian Blessin, Lawrence Leuschner, Matthias Laug
Industries: Electric Vehicle, GreenTech, Last Mile Transportation, Ride Sharing
Number of employees: 501-1000
Funding: $447,948,158
Funding rounds: 6
Number of investors: 18 (Goldman Sachs, SoftBank Vision Fund, SOSV, Goodwater Capital, Speedinvest)
You can find their website here.
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5) Foodpanda
foodpanda is a website and smartphone app that allows users to order food from nearby eateries.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2012
Founders: Benjamin Bauer, Christian Mischler, Felix Plog, Kiren Tanna, Ralf Wenzel, Rico Wyder, Rohit Chadda, Simon Schmincke
Industries: Delivery, E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Marketplace
Number of employees: 1001-5000
Funding: $749,450,000
Funding rounds: 8
Number of investors: 8 (Rocket Internet, Delivery Hero, Kinnevik AB, iMENA Group, Goldman Sachs Investment Partners)
You can find their website here.
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6) Scalable Capital
Scalable Capital is a risk management firm that specializes in digital asset management.
Details of the startup:
State: Bayern
City: Munich
Started in: 2014
Founders: Adam French, Erik Podzuweit, Florian Prucker, Manuela Rabener, Patrick Poschl, Simon Miller, Stefan Mittnik
Industries: Asset Management, Financial Services, FinTech
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: ⬠266,000,000
Funding rounds: 6
Number of investors: 10 (Tencent, BlackRock, HV Capital, Monkâs Hill Ventures, Rahul Mehta)
You can find their website here.
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7) Trade Republic
Trade Republic is a commission-free, mobile-only broker that offers investing options.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2015
Founders: Christian Hecker, Marco Cancellieri, Thomas Pischke
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Mobile
Number of employees: 251-500
Funding: $995,500,000
Funding rounds: 4
Number of investors: 8 (Accel, Founders Fund, Sequoia Capital, TCV, Project A Ventures)
You can find their website here.
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8) FlixBus
FlixBus is a hybrid of a software firm, an e-commerce platform, and a transportation provider.
Details of the startup:
State: Bayern
City: Munich
Started in: 2011
Founders: Andre Schwammlein, Daniel Krauss, Jochen Engert
Industries: Public Transportation, Transportation, Travel
Number of employees: 1001-5000
Funding: $1,213,056,722
Funding rounds: 7
Number of investors: 16 (Silver Lake, BlackRock, Daimler, General Atlantic, TCV)
You can find their website here.
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9) wefox
Wefox is a digital insurance firm that uses technology to reinvent insurance at scale in order to keep people safe and prevent danger.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2015
Founders: Dario Fazlic, Fabian Wesemann, Jonathan Seoane, Julian Teicke, Teodoro Martino
Industries: FinTech, Insurance, InsurTech, Software
Number of employees: 501-1000
Funding: $918,500,000
Funding rounds: 6
Number of investors: 38 (Goldman Sachs, Eurazeo, Salesforce Ventures, Partners Group, AngelList)
You can find their website here.
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10) SoundCloud
Anyone may produce and share sounds on SoundCloud, a social sound platform.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2007
Founders: Alexander Ljung, Eric Quidenus-Wahlforss
Industries: Apps, Audio, Independent Music, Music, Music Streaming
Number of employees: 251-500
Funding: $542,820,688
Funding rounds: 10
Number of investors: 17 (Index Ventures, GGV Capital, Temasek Holdings, Union Square Ventures, Institutional Venture Partners)
You can find their website here.
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11) Mambu
Mambu is a banking engine that provides software-as-a-service for lending and deposit services.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2011
Founders: Eugene Danilkis, Frederik Pfisterer, Sofia Nunes
Industries: Banking, Financial Services, FinTech, Lending
Number of employees: 251-500
Funding: ⬠152,000,000
Funding rounds: 6
Number of investors: 9 (TCV, Tiger Global Management, Bessemer Venture Partners, Point Nine, Acton Capital)
You can find their website here.
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12) Lilium
Lilium is a business that is working on building an electric airplane.
Details of the startup:
State: Bayern
City: WeÃling
Started in: 2015
Founders: Daniel Wiegand, Matthias Meiner, Patrick Nathen, Sebastian Born
Industries: Aerospace, Air Transportation, Transportation
Number of employees: 501-1000
Funding: $376,400,000
Funding rounds: 5
Number of investors: 6 (Tencent, Obvious Ventures, Atomico, Baillie Gifford, LGT Capital Partners)
You can find their website here.
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13) Flink Food
Flink Food is a company that creates an online platform for selling and delivering multi-category food items.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2020
Founders: Christoph Cordes, Julian Dames, Nikolas Bullwinkel, Oliver Merkel, Saad Saeed
Industries: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Grocery, Internet
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: $304,187,200
Funding rounds: 3
Number of investors: 8 (Target Global, Northzone, Cherry Ventures, Bond, Mubadala Capital | Ventures Europe)
You can find their website here.
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14) Razor Group
Razor Group is a worldwide consumer holding firm that acquires and grows brands in collaboration with e-commerce merchants.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2020
Founders: Christoph F. Gamon, Jonas Diezun, Oliver Dlugosch, Shrestha Chowdhury, Tushar Ahluwalia
Industries: Brand Marketing, Business Development, E-Commerce, Internet, Retail
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: ⬠362,333,333
Funding rounds: 6
Number of investors: 9 (BlackRock, FJ Labs, Victory Park Capital, Global Founders Capital, 468 Capital)
You can find their website here.
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15) Forto
Forto is an online freight forwarding platform.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2016
Founders: Erik Muttersbach, Fabian Heilemann, Ferry Heilemann, Michael Wax
Industries: Freight Service, Logistics, Real Time, Shipping, Software, Supply Chain Management, Transportation
Number of employees: 501-1000
Funding: $103,000,000
Funding rounds: 4
Number of investors: 13 (Global Founders Capital, Northzone, La Famiglia, Cavalry Ventures, Iris Capital)
You can find their website here.
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16) Sanity Group
Sanity Group is a European cannabis firm that focuses on health, wellness, and scientific research.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2018
Founders: Fabian Friede, Finn Age Haensel
Industries: Biotechnology, Cannabis, Medical, Wellness
Number of employees: 11-50
Funding: $78,559,152
Funding rounds: 5
Number of investors: 18 (HV Capital, Redalpine, Atlantic Food Labs, TQ Ventures, Cherry Ventures)
You can find their website here.
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17) OroraTech
OroraTech provides real-time information services to help in wildfire detection and monitoring.
Details of the startup:
State: Bayern
City: Munich
Started in: 2018
Founders: Björn Stoffers, Florian Mauracher, Rupert Amann, Thomas Grübler
Industries: Forestry, Image Recognition, Information Services, Software
Number of employees: 11-50
Funding: ⬠7,415,000
Funding rounds: 6
Number of investors: 11 (APEX Ventures, Bayern Kapital, EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs, Ananda Impact Ventures, Findus Venture)
You can find their website here.
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18) Habyt
Habyt creates and operates living places that are aesthetically designed, community-driven, and technologically advanced.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2017
Founders: Luca Bovone
Industries: Communities, Coworking, Health Care, Lifestyle, Property Management, Real Estate, Smart Building
Number of employees: 11-50
Funding: ⬠29,800,000
Funding rounds: 5
Number of investors: 6 (HV Capital, Inveready, P101, Picus Capital, Vorwerk Ventures)
You can find their website here.
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19) OneFootball
News, scores, stats, and more on the ultimate football media platform.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2008
Founders: Lucas Cranach
Industries: Apps, Mobile Apps, News, Software, Sports
Number of employees: 251-500
Funding: $141,957,137
Funding rounds: 5
Number of investors: 5 (Earlybird Venture Capital, Union Square Ventures, Lakestar, Adidas, Evolution Media)
You can find their website here.
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20) parcelLab
ParcelLab is a platform for Operations Experience Management that turns complicated data into smart solutions.
Details of the startup:
State: Bayern
City: Munich
Started in: 2015
Founders: Anton Eder, Julian Krenge, Tobias Buxhoidt
Industries: Delivery, Logistics, Shipping, Software
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: $112,055,104
Funding rounds: 5
Number of investors: 10 (Insight Partners, Capnamic Ventures, Bayern Kapital, Endeit Capital, coparion)
You can find their website here.
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21) ELEMENT Insurance
ELEMENT Insurance is a digital insurance technology business that provides custom-made, white-label product solutions.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2017
Founders: Henning GroÃ, Inna Leontenkova, Richard Hector, Sascha Herwig
Industries: B2B, Financial Services, Insurance, InsurTech
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: ⬠66,000,000
Funding rounds: 5
Number of investors: 14 (Global Brain Corporation, SBI Investment, Alma Mundi Ventures, finleap, Ilavska Vuillermoz Capital)
You can find their website here.
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22) Contentful
Contentful is a headless content management system that enables businesses to distribute information across many media.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2013
Founders: Paolo Negri, Sascha Konietzke
Industries: Apps, Cloud Computing, Content, Developer Tools, SaaS
Number of employees: 251-500
Funding: $159,600,000
Funding rounds: 7
Number of investors: 12 (General Catalyst, Salesforce Ventures, Hercules Capital, Sapphire Ventures, Balderton Capital)
You can find their website here.
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23) Spryker Systems
Spryker is a commerce technology platform that allows businesses throughout the world to create transactional business models.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2014
Founders: Alexander Graf, Boris Lokschin
Industries: B2B, B2C, E-Commerce Platforms, Enterprise Software, SaaS
Number of employees: 251-500
Funding: $152,000,000
Funding rounds: 3
Number of investors: 5 (TCV, Project A Ventures, Cherry Ventures, One Peak Partners, BPO Capital)
You can find their website here.
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24) ATAI Life Sciences
ATAI Life Sciences is a mental health therapy company that discovers novel therapies to meet large unmet medical needs.
Details of the startup:
State: Bayern
City: Munich
Started in: 2018
Founders: Christian Angermayer, Florian Brand, Lars Christian Wilde, Srinivas Rao
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science, Therapeutics
Number of employees: 11-50
Funding: $347,100,000
Funding rounds: 8
Number of investors: 31 (Gaingels, Falcon Edge Capital, Christian Angermayer, Recharge Capital, Bracket Capital)
You can find their website here.
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25) Adjust
Adjust is a mobile marketing platform with features including measurement, fraud prevention, cybersecurity, and marketing automation.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2012
Founders: Christian Henschel, Manuel Kniep, Paul Müller
Industries: Analytics, App Marketing, Apps, Marketing Automation, Software
Number of employees: 501-1000
Funding: $255,910,524
Funding rounds: 6
Number of investors: 9 (Eurazeo, Iris Capital, Capnamic Ventures, Highland Europe, Target Partners)
You can find their website here.
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26) CoachHub
CoachHub is a digital coaching company that matches consumers with business coaches using artificial intelligence.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2018
Founders: Matti Niebelschuetz, Yannis Niebelschuetz
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Corporate Training, Personal Development, SaaS, Software, Training
Number of employees: 251-500
Funding: $54,000,000
Funding rounds: 3
Number of investors: 8 (Draper Esprit, HV Capital, Speedinvest, RTP Global, Partech)
You can find their website here.
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27) Vivid Money
Vivid Money is a mobile banking app and financial platform that helps consumers save and invest their money.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2020
Founders: Alexander Emeshev, Artem Yamanov
Industries: Banking, Financial Services, FinTech, Mobile Apps
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: ⬠75,000,000
Funding rounds: 2
Number of investors: 2 (Ribbit Capital, Greenoaks Capital)
You can find their website here.
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28) DHL
DHL is a company that offers worldwide express mail services.
Details of the startup:
State: Nordrhein-Westfalen
City: Bonn
Started in: 1969
Industries: Logistics, Supply Chain Management
Number of employees: 1-10
Funding: SEK32,000,000
Funding rounds: 1
Number of investors: 1 (Catena)
You can find their website here.
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29) Infarm
Infarm is a company that creates and distributes efficient vertical farms throughout cities.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2013
Founders: Erez Galonska, Guy Galonska, Osnat Michaeli
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Internet of Things, Machine Learning
Number of employees: 251-500
Funding: $404,522,397
Funding rounds: 9
Number of investors: 20 (Balderton Capital, LocalGlobe, Atomico, Cherry Ventures, Astanor Ventures)
You can find their website here.
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30) Solarisbank
Solarisbank is a Banking-as-a-Service platform that allows other businesses to use APIs to offer their own financial services.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2016
Founders: Andreas Bittner, Marko Wenthin
Industries: Banking, Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Number of employees: 251-500
Funding: ⬠155,100,000
Funding rounds: 4
Number of investors: 16 (SoftBank, Global Brain Corporation, Visa, HV Capital, Lakestar)
You can find their website here.
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31) GetYourGuide
GetYourGuide is a website that allows you to schedule tours, sights, and activities all around the world.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2009
Founders: Johannes Reck, Martin Sieber, Tao Tao, Tobias Rein
Industries: Consumer Reviews, E-Commerce, Hospitality, Recreation, Tourism, Travel
Number of employees: 501-1000
Funding: $886,168,933
Funding rounds: 12
Number of investors: 35 (Citi, SoftBank Vision Fund, Battery Ventures, Temasek Holdings, Spark Capital)
You can find their website here.
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32) TWAICE
TWAICE is a battery business that creates analytics tools to improve battery transparency and predictability.
Details of the startup:
State: Bayern
City: Munich
Started in: 2018
Founders: Michael Baumann, Stephan Rohr
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Battery, Information Technology, Predictive Analytics, Software
Number of employees: 51-100
Funding: ⬠35,500,000
Funding rounds: 4
Number of investors: 6 (Creandum, Speedinvest, Cherry Ventures, Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners, Energize Ventures)
You can find their website here.
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33) Isar Aerospace
Isar Aerospace is a space technology firm that specializes in satellite constellation launch systems.
Details of the startup:
State: Bayern
City: Munich
Started in: 2018
Founders: Daniel Metzler, Josef Fleischmann, Markus Brandl
Industries: Aerospace, Information Technology, Space Travel
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: $176,718,945
Funding rounds: 3
Number of investors: 11 (Earlybird Venture Capital, HV Capital, Lakestar, Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners, Airbus Ventures)
You can find their website here.
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34) HomeToGo
HomeToGo provides the greatest vacation rental variety in the world, with millions of options from thousands of reputable partners.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2014
Founders: Nils Regge, Patrick Andrae, Wolfgang Heigl
Industries: Travel, Vacation Rental
Number of employees: 251-500
Funding: $176,652,718
Funding rounds: 5
Number of investors: 7 (Insight Partners, DN Capital, Lakestar, Global Founders Capital, Acton Capital)
You can find their website here.
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35) Personio
Personio is a company that creates a platform for HR management and recruiting for SMEs and startups.
Details of the startup:
State: Bayern
City: München
Started in: 2015
Founders: Arseniy Vershinin, Hanno Renner, Ignaz Forstmeier, Roman Schumacher
Industries: Employment, Human Resources, Recruiting, SaaS
Number of employees: 501-1000
Funding: $254,332,944
Funding rounds: 5
Number of investors: 17 (Accel, Index Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Northzone, Global Founders Capital)
You can find their website here.
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36) Volocopter
Volocopter is an urban air transportation business that creates environmentally friendly air taxis.
Details of the startup:
State: Baden-Wurttemberg
City: Bruchsal
Started in: 2011
Founders: Alexander Zosel, Stephan Wolf
Industries: Aerospace, Air Transportation, Drones, Robotics, Transportation
Number of employees: 251-500
Funding: ⬠369,200,000
Funding rounds: 6
Number of investors: 20 (Intel, BlackRock, Daimler, Intel Capital, Continental)
You can find their website here.
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37) Holidu
Holidu is developing a holiday rental search engine.
Details of the startup:
State: Bayern
City: Munich
Started in: 2014
Founders: Johannes Siebers, Michael Siebers, Rasmus Porsgaard
Industries: Search Engine, Travel, Vacation Rental
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: $100,363,206
Funding rounds: 6
Number of investors: 12 (EQT Ventures, 83North, Senovo, Claret Capital Partners, coparion)
You can find their website here.
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38) Avi Medical
Avi Medical is a telemedicine business that specializes in digital health care.
Details of the startup:
State: Bayern
City: Munich
Started in: 2020
Founders: Christoph Baumeister, Julian Kley, Vlad Lata
Industries: Health Care, Medical, mHealth, Personal Health
Number of employees: 11-50
Funding: ⬠38,500,000
Funding rounds: 3
Number of investors: 8 (Addition, Idinvest Partners, Picus Capital, Heal Capital, Vorwerk Ventures)
You can find their website here.
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39) Grover
Grover is a firm that allows individuals to subscribe to electronic items on a monthly basis rather than purchasing them outright.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2015
Founders: Michael Cassau
Industries: Consumer Electronics, PaaS, Rental, Sharing Economy, Subscription Service
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: ⬠342,000,000
Funding rounds: 11
Number of investors: 19 (Augmentum Fintech, Target Global, Seedcamp, Global Founders Capital, Commerzbank)
You can find their website here.
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40) Cognigy GmbH
Cognigy is the most popular Enterprise Conversational AI Platform for automating customer and employee support processes.
Details of the startup:
State: Nordrhein-Westfalen
City: Düsseldorf
Started in: 2016
Founders: Benjamin Mayr, Philipp Heltewig, Sascha Poggemann
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Customer Service, Digital Marketing, Information and Communications Technology (ICT), Information Technology, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Sales Automation, Virtual Assistant
Number of employees: 51-100
Funding: ⬠44,900,000
Funding rounds: 6
Number of investors: 6 (Global Brain Corporation, Insight Partners, DN Capital, Nordic Makers, Inventures)
You can find their website here.
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41) commercetools
commercetools is an enterprise commerce firm that specializes in current cloud-native API-driven solutions.
Details of the startup:
State: Bayern
City: München
Started in: 2006
Founders: Denis Werner, Dirk Hoerig
Industries: Cloud Computing, E-Commerce, Information Technology, SaaS, Software
Number of employees: 251-500
Funding: $167,674,186
Funding rounds: 5
Number of investors: 7 (Insight Partners, High-Tech Grunderfonds, Bayern Kapital, BayBG Venture Capital, Wecken & Cie.)
You can find their website here.
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42) Lumenaza
Lumenaza provides a software-as-a-service solution.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2013
Founders: Bernhard Bohmer, Christian Chudoba
Industries: Clean Energy, Energy Management, Green Consumer Goods, GreenTech, Information Technology, Local, Peer to Peer, Renewable Energy, Software
Number of employees: 11-50
Funding: ⬠10,300,000
Funding rounds: 4
Number of investors: 6 (IBB Ventures, E.ON, Future Energy Ventures, EnBW New Ventures, First Imagine! Ventures)
You can find their website here.
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43) Enpal
Enpal is a corporation that specializes in solar energy.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2017
Founders: Jochen Ziervogel, Mario Kohle, Viktor Wingert
Industries: Energy, Environmental Consulting, Renewable Energy, Solar
Number of employees: 251-500
Funding: ⬠10,000,000
Funding rounds: 7
Number of investors: 9 (HV Capital, Berenberg, Picus Capital, Lukasz Gadowski, Robert Gentz)
You can find their website here.
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44) Zeotap
Zeotap is a Customer Intelligence platform that lets businesses better understand and forecast their customers' behavior.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2014
Founders: Daniel Heer, Projjol Banerjea, Stephan Schwebe
Industries: Analytics, Digital Marketing, Marketing, SaaS
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: $81,200,000
Funding rounds: 5
Number of investors: 26 (SignalFire, IONIQ, Iris Capital, Capnamic Ventures, Singtel Innov8)
You can find their website here.
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45) airfocus
Airfocus is a software as a service (SaaS) firm that offers an easy-to-use prioritization and road mapping solution.
Details of the startup:
State: Hamburg
City: Hamburg
Started in: 2017
Founders: Christian Hoffmeister, Malte Scholz, Valentin Firak
Industries: Product Management, SaaS, Software
Number of employees: 11-50
Funding: $7,387,435
Funding rounds: 3
Number of investors: 3 (XAnge, Nauta Capital, Picea Capital)
You can find their website here.
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46) Morressier
Morressier is a publishing platform and virtual conference solution for professional and academic organizations.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2014
Founders: Justus Weweler, Rino Montiel, Sami Benchekroun
Industries: Analytics, Event Management, Events, Information Technology, Market Research, Meeting Software, Software, Video Conferencing
Number of employees: 11-50
Funding: $24,200,000
Funding rounds: 3
Number of investors: 6 (Owl Ventures, Cherry Ventures, Redalpine, Emerge Education, Jan Reichelt)
You can find their website here.
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47) SimScale
SimScale is a 3D simulation platform that runs on the web.
Details of the startup:
State: Bayern
City: Munich
Started in: 2012
Founders: Alexander Fischer, Anatol Dammer, David Heiny, Johannes Probst, Vincenz Dölle
Industries: 3D Technology, CAD, Cloud Computing, Internet, Product Design, Simulation, Software
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: ⬠52,000,000
Funding rounds: 6
Number of investors: 9 (Earlybird Venture Capital, Union Square Ventures, Insight Partners, High-Tech Grunderfonds, Bayern Kapital)
You can find their website here.
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48) Choco
Choco is a digital platform that connects restaurants with their suppliers to improve the food supply chain.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2018
Founders: Daniel Khachab, Julian Hammer, Rogério Da Silva Yokomizo
Industries: Delivery Service, Food and Beverage, Food Delivery, Marketing, Restaurants, Supply Chain Management
Number of employees: 251-500
Funding: $63,700,000
Funding rounds: 4
Number of investors: 8 (Target Global, Bessemer Venture Partners, Coatue, Atlantic Labs, Greyhound Capital)
You can find their website here.
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49) AUTO1 Group
AUTO1 Group is an online automotive marketplace that connects car buyers and sellers across Europe.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2012
Founders: Christian Bertermann, Hakan Koc
Industries: Automotive, Internet, Marketplace
Number of employees: 1001-5000
Funding: $1,387,053,390
Funding rounds: 10
Number of investors: 23 (Citi, Goldman Sachs, SoftBank Vision Fund, DST Global, Target Global)
You can find their website here.
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50) Finoa
Finoa is a custodial platform that allows institutional investors to securely and regulated interact with decentralized financial services.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2018
Founders: Christopher May, Henrik Gebbing
Industries: Banking, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services, FinTech
Number of employees: 11-50
Funding: ⬠20,800,000
Funding rounds: 2
Number of investors: 4 (Balderton Capital, coparion, Venture Stars, Signature Ventures)
You can find their website here.
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51) sevDesk
Accounting in the cloud for small businesses
Details of the startup:
State: Baden-Wurttemberg
City: Offenburg
Started in: 2013
Founders: Fabian Silberer, Marco Reinbold
Industries: Accounting, Cloud Computing, FinTech, Information Technology, SaaS, Small and Medium Businesses, Software
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: ⬠64,200,000
Funding rounds: 3
Number of investors: 7 (Global Founders Capital, Arena Holdings, Carsten Thoma, Wecken & Cie., MBG Baden Wuerttemberg)
You can find their website here.
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52) Signavio
Signavio offers business process management software.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2009
Founders: Gero Decker, Mathias Weske, Nicolas Peters, Torben Schreiter, Willi Tscheschner
Industries: Business Development, Computer, SaaS, Software
Number of employees: 251-500
Funding: $229,569,948
Funding rounds: 3
Number of investors: 3 (Summit Partners, DTCP, Apax Digital)
You can find their website here.
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53) Babbel
Babbel is the most popular language learning app on the market.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2007
Founders: Lorenz Heine, Markus Witte, Thomas Holl
Industries: E-Learning, EdTech, Language Learning
Number of employees: 501-1000
Funding: $33,300,000
Funding rounds: 4
Number of investors: 8 (IBB Ventures, NGP Capital, Scottish Equity Partners, European regional development fund (ERDF), REV)
You can find their website here.
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54) Silexica
Silexica offers software development services that help intelligent products, such as self-driving cars, move from concept to reality.
Details of the startup:
State: Nordrhein-Westfalen
City: Cologne
Started in: 2014
Founders: Johannes Emigholz, Maximilian Odendahl, Weihua Sheng
Industries: Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), Developer Tools, Embedded Software, Embedded Systems, Enterprise Software, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Software
Number of employees: 51-100
Funding: $29,360,037
Funding rounds: 4
Number of investors: 6 (EQT Ventures, EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs, Paua Ventures, Merus Capital, Seed Fonds Aachen)
You can find their website here.
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55) Raisin
Raisin is a savings and investment marketplace that brings together retail customers and banks aiming to expand their deposit base.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2012
Founders: Frank Freund, Michael Stephan, Tamaz Georgadze
Industries: Banking, Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Marketplace
Number of employees: 251-500
Funding: $206,007,634
Funding rounds: 7
Number of investors: 15 (Goldman Sachs, Index Ventures, Ribbit Capital, FJ Labs, DN Capital)
You can find their website here.
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56) IDnow
IDnow is a startup that offers superior machine-learning technologies as part of its Identity Verification-as-a-Service platform.
Details of the startup:
State: Bayern
City: Munich
Started in: 2014
Founders: Armin Bauer, Dennis von Ferenczy, Felix Haas, Sebastian Baerhold
Industries: Cloud Data Services, Identity Management, Information Technology, Internet, Legal, Machine Learning, Real Time, Security
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: $58,163,544
Funding rounds: 7
Number of investors: 9 (European Investment Bank, Plug and Play Tech Center, Seventure Partners, 10x Group, Corsair Capital)
You can find their website here.
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57) Pricefx
Pricefx offers a full range of price management tools that are simple to set up, utilize, and adjust to changing business demands.
Details of the startup:
State: Bayern
City: Pfaffenhofen An Der Glonn
Started in: 2011
Founders: Christian Tratz, Marcin Cichon, Martin Wricke
Industries: E-Commerce, Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Software, Information Technology, SaaS, Software
Number of employees: 251-500
Funding: $131,274,376
Funding rounds: 7
Number of investors: 7 (Talis Capital, Bain & Company, Apax Digital, Digital+ Partners, Credo Ventures)
You can find their website here.
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58) BRYTER
BRYTER is a no-code software platform that automates and assists users in the development and construction of digital applications.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2018
Founders: Michael Grupp
Industries: Compliance, Enterprise Software, Industrial Automation, Legal Tech, SaaS, Software
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: $89,000,000
Funding rounds: 4
Number of investors: 6 (Accel, Tiger Global Management, Notion Capital, Dawn Capital, Cavalry Ventures)
You can find their website here.
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59) Arabesque S-Ray
Arabesque S-Ray is a market leader in sustainability data, consulting, and research.
Details of the startup:
State: Hessen
City: Frankfurt
Started in: 2017
Founders: Andreas Feiner, Dominic Selwood, Hans-Robert Arndt, Omar Selim
Industries: Big Data, Data Center, Data Integration, Data Visualization, Database, Financial Services, Information Services, Software, Sustainability
Number of employees: 51-100
Funding: $20,000,000
Funding rounds: 2
Number of investors: 6 (Accenture Ventures, Allianz X, DWS Group, Commerz Real AG, Helaba)
You can find their website here.
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60) Camunda
Camunda is an open source software company that creates software that allows businesses to design and automate business processes.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2008
Founders: Bernd Ruecker, Jakob Freund
Industries: Enterprise Software, Information Technology, SaaS, Software
Number of employees: 251-500
Funding: ⬠107,000,000
Funding rounds: 2
Number of investors: 2 (Insight Partners, Highland Europe)
You can find their website here.
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61) tado°
Tado° provides smart thermostats and apps that adapt to residents' real-time activity in private homes and small companies.
Details of the startup:
State: Bayern
City: Munich
Started in: 2011
Founders: Christian Deilmann, Johannes Schwarz, Leopold von Bismarck, Valentin Sawadski
Industries: Clean Energy, Smart Building, Smart Home
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: $157,482,651
Funding rounds: 9
Number of investors: 15 (Siemens, Amazon, European Investment Bank, Next47, E.ON)
You can find their website here.
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62) Clark
Clark is an insurance platform that offers comprehensive coverage.
Details of the startup:
State: Hessen
City: Frankfurt
Started in: 2015
Founders: Chris Lodde, Christopher Oster, Garrett Whitmore, Marco Adelt, Steffen Glomb
Industries: FinTech, Insurance, InsurTech
Number of employees: 251-500
Funding: $128,050,383
Funding rounds: 5
Number of investors: 19 (Tencent, Target Global, Axel Springer, White Star Capital, finleap)
You can find their website here.
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63) sennder
Sennder is a digital freight forwarder that connects large commercial shippers with small freight operators.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2015
Founders: David Nothacker, Julius Koehler, Nicolaus Schefenacker
Industries: Freight Service, Industrial Automation, Logistics, Shipping
Number of employees: 501-1000
Funding: $340,000,000
Funding rounds: 8
Number of investors: 17 (Accel, Earlybird Venture Capital, Project A Ventures, HV Capital, Lakestar)
You can find their website here.
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64) SellerX
SellerX acquires and develops potential small businesses that sell on Amazon's marketplace.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2020
Founders: Malte Horeyseck, Philipp Triebel
Industries: Asset Management, Business Development, Small and Medium Businesses
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: $148,618,854
Funding rounds: 2
Number of investors: 10 (Village Global, 83North, Cherry Ventures, Felix Capital, TriplePoint Capital)
You can find their website here.
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65) Blinkist
Blinkist is an app that allows people to read the most important nonfiction book insights in 15 minutes.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2012
Founders: Holger Seim, Niklas Jansen, Sebastian Klein, Tobias Balling
Industries: Education, Mobile Apps, Reading Apps
Number of employees: 51-100
Funding: $34,771,978
Funding rounds: 5
Number of investors: 7 (Insight Partners, Greycroft, IBB Ventures, Headline, Hubraum)
You can find their website here.
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66) Omio
Omio's multi-mode search tool evaluates and mixes rail, plane, bus, and vehicle travel options for destinations.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2012
Founders: Naren Shaam
Industries: Internet, Search Engine, Travel, Travel Accommodations
Number of employees: 251-500
Funding: $396,000,000
Funding rounds: 10
Number of investors: 26 (Battery Ventures, Temasek Holdings, New Enterprise Associates, Target Global, Lakestar)
You can find their website here.
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67) EqualTo
The operating system for sales commissions
Details of the startup:
State: Baden-Wurttemberg
City: Freiburg
Started in: 2020
Founders: Diarmuid Glynn, Gijs Hubben, Kim Bergstrand
Industries: Human Resources, Information Technology, SaaS, Sales, Sales Automation, Software
Number of employees: 11-50
Funding: ⬠4,530,000
Funding rounds: 3
Number of investors: 9 (Dieter Buchl, Stephen Weich, Cavalry Ventures, Amaranthine, First Momentum Ventures)
You can find their website here.
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68) BITA
BITA is the first end-to-end infrastructure supplier for self-indexing and systematic investing in the globe.
Details of the startup:
State: Hessen
City: Frankfurt
Started in: 2018
Founders: Christoph Bruck, Paul Herrera, Ruben Feldman, Victor Hugo Gomez Zerpa
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech
Number of employees: 11-50
Funding: ⬠1,250,000
Funding rounds: 3
Number of investors: 4 (Volta Ventures, Futury Ventures, Startupbootcamp FinTech & CyberSecurity, Pamica NV)
You can find their website here.
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69) Dance
Dance is an e-bike subscription business that charges users a monthly fee to protect their bikes as well as give all-inclusive assistance.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2020
Founders: Alexander Ljung, Christian Springub, Eric Quidenus-Wahlforss
Industries: Consumer, Electric Vehicle, Internet, Subscription Service
Number of employees: 11-50
Funding: ⬠19,000,000
Funding rounds: 3
Number of investors: 11 (will.i. am, Julian Hönig, Chance the Rapper, HV Capital, La Famiglia)
You can find their website here.
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70) Transporeon
Transporeon is a cloud-based logistics platform that allows a global network of logistics professionals to collaborate.
Details of the startup:
State: Baden-Wurttemberg
City: Ulm
Started in: 2000
Founders: Leander Kling, Marc-Oliver Simon, Peter Forster
Industries: Enterprise Software, Logistics, Supply Chain Management
Number of employees: 251-500
Funding: £35,000,000
Funding rounds: 2
Number of investors: 2 (Riverside Company, HgCapital Trust plc)
You can find their website here.
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71) Taxfix
Taxfix is an app that uses a chat-like interface to simplify complex tax filing processes by only asking the user relevant questions.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2016
Founders: Lino Teuteberg, Mathis Buchi
Industries: Accounting, Apps, Software
Number of employees: 251-500
Funding: $110,000,000
Funding rounds: 4
Number of investors: 4 (Index Ventures, Creandum, Valar Ventures, Redalpine)
You can find their website here.
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72) Nuri
Nuri uses cutting-edge technology to help people manage and build their wealth.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2015
Founders: Benjamin Jones, Jan Goslicki, Jorg von Minckwitz
Industries: Banking, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services, FinTech
Number of employees: 51-100
Funding: ⬠33,296,429
Funding rounds: 7
Number of investors: 12 (Earlybird Venture Capital, Digital Currency Group, Global Brain Corporation, High-Tech Grunderfonds, EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs)
You can find their website here.
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73) Upvest
With a modular, scalable, and accessible API, Upvest enables financial institutions to provide investment products via their apps.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2017
Founders: Ivan Morozov, Jesper Noehr, Martin Kassing
Industries: Banking, Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology, Software
Number of employees: 11-50
Funding: ⬠17,700,000
Funding rounds: 5
Number of investors: 8 (Earlybird Venture Capital, HV Capital, Speedinvest, Notion Capital, Partech)
You can find their website here.
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74) Staffbase
Staffbase is an internal communication tool that enables businesses and their employees to collaborate around a single purpose.
Details of the startup:
State: Sachsen
City: Chemnitz
Started in: 2014
Founders: Frank Wolf, Lutz Gerlach, Martin Bohringer
Industries: Business Information Systems, Collaboration, Human Resources, Information Technology
Number of employees: 251-500
Funding: $190,827,764
Funding rounds: 6
Number of investors: 6 (General Atlantic, Insight Partners, Headline, Iris Capital, Capnamic Ventures)
You can find their website here.
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75) AMBOSS
Improving healthcare by making medical information more widely available.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2012
Founders: Benedikt Hochkirchen, Jan Sievert Weiss, Kenan Hasan, Madjid Salimi, Nawid Salimi
Industries: E-Learning, Education, Health Care, Hospital, Medical, mHealth, Universities
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: ⬠35,000,000
Funding rounds: 4
Number of investors: 5 (Target Global, Cherry Ventures, Partech, Wellington Partners, Holtzbrinck Digital)
You can find their website here.
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76) Tourlane
Tourlanea is an online planning and booking tool that assists tourists in researching and purchasing multi-day trips.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2016
Founders: Julian Stiefel, Julian Weselek
Industries: Internet, Leisure, Reservations, Tourism, Travel
Number of employees: 251-500
Funding: $101,000,000
Funding rounds: 5
Number of investors: 10 (Sequoia Capital, Spark Capital, HV Capital, DN Capital, Nathan Blecharczyk)
You can find their website here.
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77) Wunder Mobility
Wunder Mobility is a technology and service platform that helps businesses and towns all over the world establish and grow new mobility initiatives.
Details of the startup:
State: Hamburg
City: Hamburg
Started in: 2014
Founders: Gunnar Froh, Samuel Baker
Industries: Apps, B2B, Car Sharing, Electric Vehicle, Fleet Management, Ride Sharing, SaaS, Software
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: $70,000,000
Funding rounds: 5
Number of investors: 25 (FJ Labs, FundersClub, TA Associates, Blumberg Capital, Kingsway Capital)
You can find their website here.
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78) Centrifuge
Centrifuge is a global financial supply chain operating system that is open and decentralized.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2017
Founders: Lucas Vogelsang, Markus Ament, Martin Quensel, Philip Stehlik
Industries: Computer, FinTech, Information Technology, Software
Number of employees: 11-50
Funding: $11,800,000
Funding rounds: 4
Number of investors: 18 (Galaxy Digital, Moonwhale Ventures, Fenbushi Capital, Atlantic Labs, IOSG Ventures)
You can find their website here.
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79) Lingoda
Lingoda provides live online language classes in English, German, Spanish, and French taught by qualified native speakers.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2013
Founders: Fabian Wunderlich, Felix Wunderlich
Industries: E-Learning, EdTech, Internet, Language Learning, Online Portals
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: ⬠69,700,000
Funding rounds: 9
Number of investors: 8 (Mountain Partners, Global Founders Capital, Summit Partners, Dr. Cornelius Boersch, Conny & Co)
You can find their website here.
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80) StudySmarter
StudySmarter is an EdTech business that creates a content-agnostic, intelligent platform for lifelong learning.
Details of the startup:
State: Bayern
City: München
Started in: 2017
Founders: Christian Felgenhauer, Maurice Khudhir, Simon Hohentanner, Till Sohlemann
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Education
Number of employees: 11-50
Funding: ⬠12,400,000
Funding rounds: 4
Number of investors: 8 (Owl Ventures, Left Lane Capital, Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen, DvH Ventures, Axel Springer Plug and Play Accelerator)
You can find their website here.
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81) OptioPay
OptioPay is a customer-centric and value-add service provider based on bank account data that uses open banking technology.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2014
Founders: Marcus Borner, Mike Rötgers, Moritz Claussen, Oliver Neumann, Oliver Oster
Industries: Advertising Platforms, Banking, Financial Services, FinTech, Insurance, Personal Finance
Number of employees: 51-100
Funding: $26,398,223
Funding rounds: 7
Number of investors: 18 (NJF Capital, DvH Ventures, main incubator, Eos Venture Partners, Seed X Liechtenstein)
You can find their website here.
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82) Stocard
Stocard is a company that specializes in mobile wallets.
Details of the startup:
State: Baden-Wurttemberg
City: Mannheim
Started in: 2012
Founders: Björn GoÃ, David Handlos, Florian Barth
Industries: FinTech, Information Services, Information Technology, Internet, Mobile Apps
Number of employees: 51-100
Funding: $31,099,191
Funding rounds: 5
Number of investors: 9 (High-Tech Grunderfonds, Macquarie Capital, rocketship.vc, ALSTIN Capital, Klaas Kersting)
You can find their website here.
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83) scoutbee
For procurement and supply chain professionals, scoutbee is an AI-powered supplier finding package.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2015
Founders: Christian Heinrich, Fabian Heinrich, Gregor Stuhler, Lee Galbraith
Industries: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, B2B, Big Data, Information Technology, Logistics, Machine Learning, Procurement, SaaS, Software
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: $76,000,000
Funding rounds: 3
Number of investors: 6 (HV Capital, Lakestar, Atomico, Toba Capital, Next47)
You can find their website here.
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84) cargo.one
cargo.one is a digital platform that allows freight forwarders to find, compare, and book airline freight capacity.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2017
Founders: Mike Rötgers, Moritz Claussen, Oliver Neumann
Industries: Freight Service, Information Technology, Logistics, Supply Chain Management
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: $63,800,000
Funding rounds: 3
Number of investors: 8 (Index Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Creandum, Point Nine, Next47)
You can find their website here.
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85) Deposit Solutions
Deposit Solutions is a supplier of an open banking platform for deposits that connects depositors and institutions.
Details of the startup:
State: Hamburg
City: Hamburg
Started in: 2011
Founders: Tim Sievers
Industries: Banking, Financial Services, FinTech
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: $198,871,072
Funding rounds: 6
Number of investors: 11 (Founders Fund, Deutsche Bank, Greycroft, FinLab, Kinnevik AB)
You can find their website here.
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86) PlusDental
PlusDental is a digital dentistry-focused health-tech startup established in Berlin.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2017
Founders: Lukas Brosseder, Peter Baumgart
Industries: Dental, Health Care
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: ⬠77,000,000
Funding rounds: 6
Number of investors: 11 (HV Capital, Lakestar, Kreos Capital, Sebastian Pollok, Saarbruecker 21)
You can find their website here.
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87) KONUX
Konux is a software platform that use smart sensors and machine learning to keep railway switches in good working order.
Details of the startup:
State: Bayern
City: Munich
Started in: 2014
Founders: Andreas Kunze, Dennis Humhal, Maximilian Hasler, Michael Wax, Vlad Lata
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Machine Learning, Railroad, Software
Number of employees: 51-100
Funding: $130,614,116
Funding rounds: 10
Number of investors: 23 (Alibaba Group, Foundation Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners, Green Bay Ventures)
You can find their website here.
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88) Cosuno
Cosuno is a platform that connects the construction industry.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2018
Founders: Christoph Berner, Fritz Cramer, Maximilian Seifert
Industries: Construction, Software
Number of employees: 11-50
Funding: ⬠12,500,000
Funding rounds: 2
Number of investors: 11 (Spark Capital, Cherry Ventures, Carsten Thoma, Apic Investments, Hakan Koc)
You can find their website here.
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89) CrossLend
CrossLend is a cross-border marketplace lending platform that allows investors to invest across Europe from a single location.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2014
Founders: Oliver Schimek
Industries: Commercial Lending, Credit, Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Marketplace
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: ⬠49,000,000
Funding rounds: 7
Number of investors: 10 (Earlybird Venture Capital, Solarisbank, Lakestar, Mouro Capital, Atlantic Labs)
You can find their website here.
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90) Kontist
Kontist is a one-stop shop for freelancers looking for a neo-bank and tax advice.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2016
Founders: Alexander Baatz, Catharina Bruns, Christopher Plantener, Madison Bell, Sebastian Galonska, Sophie Pester
Industries: Accounting, Banking, Finance, Financial Services, Non Profit, Payments
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: ⬠37,500,000
Funding rounds: 4
Number of investors: 3 (Vaekstfonden, Founders, Haufe-Lexware)
You can find their website here.
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91) CHRONEXT
Clients can buy and sell luxury watches on Chronext's full-service platform for luxury watch trading.
Details of the startup:
State: Nordrhein-Westfalen
City: Cologne
Started in: 2013
Founders: Ludwig Wurlitzer, Philipp Man
Industries: Collectibles, E-Commerce, Fashion, Lifestyle, Retail
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: $116,629,212
Funding rounds: 5
Number of investors: 17 (Octopus Ventures, QVentures, Playfair Capital, Partech, Capnamic Ventures)
You can find their website here.
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92) finn.auto
finn.auto offers monthly car memberships as a way to develop a more sustainable mode of transportation.
Details of the startup:
State: Bayern
City: Munich
Started in: 2019
Founders: Andreas Wixler, Hans-Peter Ringer, Max-Josef Meier, Maximilian Wühr, Nikolai Schröder
Industries: Automotive, Leasing
Number of employees: 11-50
Funding: ⬠28,800,000
Funding rounds: 3
Number of investors: 8 (HV Capital, White Star Capital, Heartcore Capital, Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners, Picus Capital)
You can find their website here.
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93) Moonfare
Through a technology-enabled platform, Moonfare provides access to top-tier private markets investment possibilities.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2016
Founders: Alexander Argyros, Heinrich von Liechtenstein, Steffen Pauls
Industries: Asset Management, Financial Services, FinTech
Number of employees: 51-100
Funding: $28,000,000
Funding rounds: 3
Number of investors: 5 (Fidelity, Fidelity International Strategic Ventures, Thomas Ebeling, Henrik Kraft, Jens Reidel)
You can find their website here.
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94) Gorillas
Customers can get groceries and other household supplies through Gorillas, a delivery business.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2020
Founders: Jörg Kattner, KaÄan Sümer, Ronny Shibley
Industries: Delivery, Delivery Service, Grocery, Same Day Delivery
Number of employees: 1001-5000
Funding: $335,415,309
Funding rounds: 3
Number of investors: 9 (Tet Ventures, Tencent, DST Global, Greenoaks Capital, Coatue)
You can find their website here.
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95) Huuuge Games
Huuuge Games is a platform for real-time social casual gaming.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2014
Founders: Anton Gauffin
Industries: Gaming, Online Games, Social
Number of employees: 251-500
Funding: $57,199,998
Funding rounds: 3
Number of investors: 4 (Korea Investment Partners, Woori Technology Investment, Kiwoom Investment, Seoul Investment Partners)
You can find their website here.
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96) Seven Senders
Seven Senders is a shipping platform that improves operations and gives customers a one-of-a-kind buying experience.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2014
Founders: Johannes Plehn, Thomas Hagemann
Industries: Delivery Service, E-Commerce, Logistics, Shipping, Supply Chain Management
Number of employees: 51-100
Funding: $65,798,537
Funding rounds: 4
Number of investors: 6 (btov Partners, Digital+ Partners, Sebastian Pollok, Saarbruecker 21, Matthias Wilrich)
You can find their website here.
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97) Lykon
Lykon is a cutting-edge health-care startup that offers biomarker-based digital health coaching.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2015
Industries: Health Care, Internet
Number of employees: 11-50
Funding: ⬠6,400,000
Funding rounds: 2
Number of investors: 3 (Redstone, AC & Friends GmbH, Ippen Media)
You can find their website here.
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98) ResearchGate
ResearchGate is a professional network that allows scientists to communicate with one another and share and discuss their findings.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2008
Founders: Horst Fickenscher, Ijad Madisch, Sören Hofmayer
Industries: Internet, Professional Networking, Social Media
Number of employees: 251-500
Funding: $87,600,000
Funding rounds: 4
Number of investors: 22 (Accel, Founders Fund, Bill Gates, Benchmark, Wellcome Trust)
You can find their website here.
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99) Cleanhub
Cleanhub is a platform for organizing ocean cleanups.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2020
Founders: Bosse Rothe
Industries: Fast-Moving Consumer Goods, Green Consumer Goods, Internet, Supply Chain Management
Funding: ⬠4,000,000
Funding rounds: 1
Number of investors: 9 (Lakestar, 468 Capital, Charlie Songhurst, Ãbermorgen Ventures, Pirate Capital)
You can find their website here.
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100) n8n.io
Workflow automation tool that is free, open, and self-hosted.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2019
Industries: SaaS
Number of employees: 11-50
Funding: $13,500,000
Funding rounds: 2
Number of investors: 11 (Sequoia Capital, Felicis Ventures, Firstminute Capital, Runa Capital, Ilkka Paananen)
You can find their website here.
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101) Blacklane
Blacklane is a global chauffeur service that provides safe, environmentally friendly, and stress-free transportation.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2011
Founders: Frank Steuer, Jens Wohltorf
Industries: Hospitality, Professional Services, Tourism, Transportation, Travel
Number of employees: 251-500
Funding: $102,967,714
Funding rounds: 9
Number of investors: 11 (Daimler, btov Partners, Mutschler Ventures AG, Recruit Strategic Partners, RI Digital Ventures)
You can find their website here.
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102) ProGlove
ProGlove creates cutting-edge industrial wearables that help manufacturing and logistics workers perform more efficiently, safely, and effectively.
Details of the startup:
State: Bayern
City: Munich
Started in: 2014
Founders: Alexander Grots, Jonas Girardet, Manuel Boenisch, Paul Günther, Thomas Kirchner
Industries: Automotive, Industrial, Logistics, Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management, Wearables
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: $49,076,900
Funding rounds: 6
Number of investors: 5 (Intel Capital, Summit Partners, Bayern Kapital, Deutsche Invest Venture Capital, GETTYLAB)
You can find their website here.
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103) Clue
Clue is a woman's health app that keeps track of her menstruation and fertility cycle.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2012
Founders: Hans Raffauf, Ida Tin, Moritz von Buttlar
Industries: Apps, Fertility, Fitness, Health Care, mHealth, Wellness, Women's
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: $29,683,950
Funding rounds: 7
Number of investors: 19 (Draper Esprit, FJ Labs, Union Square Ventures, Atlantic Labs, Fabrice Grinda)
You can find their website here.
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104) DABBEL
DABBEL is an Ai Building Management System (Ai-BMS) that allows building control systems to self-manage.
Details of the startup:
State: Nordrhein-Westfalen
City: Düsseldorf
Started in: 2018
Founders: Abel Samaniego
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Energy Efficiency, Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Smart Building
Number of employees: 1-10
Funding: ⬠3,600,000
Funding rounds: 2
Number of investors: 4 (Target Global, main incubator, Seed X Liechtenstein, Agile Accelerator)
You can find their website here.
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105) Meditopia
Meditopia is a mental coach that can help you reduce stress, increase mental resilience, get better sleep, and make long-term changes.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2015
Founders: Ali Murat Ceylan, Berk Yilmaz, Fatih Mustafa Celebi
Industries: Apps, Fitness, Health Care, mHealth, Personal Health, Wellness
Number of employees: 51-100
Funding: $18,160,000
Funding rounds: 4
Number of investors: 11 (Atlantic Labs, Teknasyon, Vela Partners, StartersHub, Mustafa Vardalı)
You can find their website here.
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106) Baze
Through a science-led, results-driven food and supplement platform, Baze enables everyone to reach their optimum health.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2014
Founders: Crina Okumus, Isam Haddad, Jan Vichr, Markus Okumus, Philipp Schulte
Industries: Beauty, Fitness, Health Care, Wellness
Number of employees: 11-50
Funding: $6,000,000
Funding rounds: 3
Number of investors: 4 (Nature's Way, Ringier Digital Ventures, FORM Life Invest, Sanner Ventures)
You can find their website here.
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107) Endel
Endel is an audio ecosystem that works across multiple platforms.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2018
Founders: Oleg Stavitsky
Industries: Mobile, Music, Personal Health, Productivity Tools, Smart Cities, Smart Home, Software Engineering
Number of employees: 1-10
Funding: $7,501,762
Funding rounds: 5
Number of investors: 13 (Techstars, True Ventures, Target Global, Kima Ventures, Techstars Ventures)
You can find their website here.
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108) Jedox
Jedox's complete, cloud-based software solution streamlines planning, analysis, and reporting.
Details of the startup:
State: Baden-Wurttemberg
City: Freiburg
Started in: 2002
Founders: Gabriele Raue, Kristian Raue
Industries: Analytics, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, SaaS, Software
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: $140,603,952
Funding rounds: 6
Number of investors: 4 (Insight Partners, Iris Capital, Wecken & Cie., eCAPITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERS)
You can find their website here.
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109) ESL
Professional gaming, commonly known as e-sports, is the emphasis of ESL, a gaming news and information network.
Details of the startup:
State: Nordrhein-Westfalen
City: Cologne
Started in: 1996
Founders: William Perry
Industries: Electronics, eSports, Sports
Number of employees: 251-500
Funding: $30,000,000
Funding rounds: 1
You can find their website here.
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110) Metalshub
Metalshub is the most popular site for metals trading and price analysis.
Details of the startup:
State: Nordrhein-Westfalen
City: Düsseldorf
Started in: 2016
Founders: Frank Jackel, Sebastian Kreft
Industries: Logistics, Mining, Software
Number of employees: 11-50
Funding: $14,429,825
Funding rounds: 3
Number of investors: 6 (Point Nine, Acton Capital, Chromo Invest, about:seed GmbH, Sebastian Kreft)
You can find their website here.
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111) Receeve
Receeve is a computerized debt collection service.
Details of the startup:
State: Hamburg
City: Hamburg
Started in: 2019
Founders: Michael Backes, Paul Jozefak
Industries: Debt Collections, Financial Services, FinTech
Number of employees: 11-50
Funding: $19,094,510
Funding rounds: 3
Number of investors: 5 (Seedcamp, Speedinvest, Seaya Ventures, 14W, Mangrove Capital Partners)
You can find their website here.
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112) Berlin Brands Group
The Berlin Brands Group is a vertically integrated retailer that sells products in the areas of sound and light, home and lifestyle, and consumer electronics.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2005
Founders: Peter Chaljawski
Industries: Consumer Electronics, E-Commerce, Retail
Number of employees: 501-1000
Funding: $240,000,000
Funding rounds: 1
Number of investors: 3 (Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank, UniCredit Group)
You can find their website here.
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113) FinTecSystems
FinTecSystems is a financial technology company that specializes in open banking and account data analysis.
Details of the startup:
State: Bayern
City: München
Started in: 2014
Founders: Dirk Rudolf, Stefan Krautkrämer
Industries: Analytics, Banking, Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Number of employees: 51-100
Funding: ⬠4,500,000
Funding rounds: 3
Number of investors: 5 (Ventech, Heilemann Ventures, LITTLEROCK, MenschDanke Group, Reimann Investors)
You can find their website here.
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114) United Internet Ventures
United Internet is a provider of online services.
Details of the startup:
State: Rheinland-Pfalz
City: Montabaur
Started in: 2006
Founders: Ralph Dommermuth
Industries: Internet, ISP, Web Hosting
Number of employees: 5001-10000
Funding: ⬠450,000,000
Funding rounds: 1
Number of investors: 1 (Warburg Pincus)
You can find their website here.
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115) UX3D
In 3D, UX3D offers GPU-based products and solutions for disruptive technologies such as AI, XR, and eCommerce.
Details of the startup:
State: Bayern
City: Munich
Started in: 2017
Founders: Norbert Nopper, Thomas Kress
Industries: 3D Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality
Number of employees: 11-50
Funding: ⬠990,000
Funding rounds: 4
Number of investors: 1 (Unger Group)
You can find their website here.
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116) G2 Esports
G2 Esports is a world-class esports organization that represents some of the greatest players on the planet.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2013
Founders: Carlos RodrÃguez, Jens Hilgers
Industries: Digital Entertainment, eSports, Sports, Video Games
Number of employees: 51-100
Funding: $27,300,000
Funding rounds: 3
Number of investors: 13 (MaC Venture Capital, Dan Gilbert, Everblue Management, Go4it Capital, Joseph Tsai)
You can find their website here.
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117) NavVis
NavVis is a global provider of enterprise-level indoor spatial intelligence solutions.
Details of the startup:
State: Bayern
City: Munich
Started in: 2013
Founders: Felix Reinshagen, Georg Schroth, Robert Huitl, Sebastian Hilsenbeck
Industries: Indoor Positioning, Information Technology, Location Based Services, Navigation, Software
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: $68,248,577
Funding rounds: 6
Number of investors: 9 (European Investment Bank, Digital+ Partners, BayBG Venture Capital, MIG, Target Partners)
You can find their website here.
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118) Smava
Smava is an online loan comparison portal that provides clients with lower-cost lending options.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2007
Founders: Alexander Artope, Eckart Vierkant
Industries: Finance, Financial Services
Number of employees: 501-1000
Funding: $188,684,685
Funding rounds: 7
Number of investors: 15 (Earlybird Venture Capital, Verdane, Vitruvian Partners, Runa Capital, Kreos Capital)
You can find their website here.
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119) Rows
Rows is a platform that enables users to build apps using only spreadsheet skills.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2016
Founders: Humberto Ayres Pereira, Rui Maranhao, Torben Schulz
Industries: Internet, Productivity Tools, Software, Web Apps, Web Design, Web Development
Number of employees: 11-50
Funding: $25,000,000
Funding rounds: 4
Number of investors: 7 (Accel, Lakestar, Atlantic Labs, Cherry Ventures, Christian Reber)
You can find their website here.
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120) Sono Motors
Sono Motors is a company that provides transportation and energy services all over the world.
Details of the startup:
State: Bayern
City: Munich
Started in: 2016
Founders: Jona Christians, Laurin Hahn, Navina Pernsteiner
Industries: Automotive, B2B, B2C, CleanTech, Electric Vehicle, Manufacturing, Mobile Apps, Solar, Transportation
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: $126,588,253
Funding rounds: 6
Number of investors: 7 (Headline, Lorenz Bogaert, Swedbank Robur, Bollinger Investment Group, Wi Ventures)
You can find their website here.
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121) Isotopen Technologien München
Isotopen Technologien München is a biotechnology and radiopharmaceutical collection of firms that is privately held.
Details of the startup:
State: Bayern
City: Garching
Started in: 2004
Founders: Oliver Buck
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Medical Device, Pharmaceutical
Number of employees: 1-10
Funding: ⬠175,000,000
Funding rounds: 4
Number of investors: 5 (European Investment Bank, MedTech, Petrichor Healthcare Capital Management, FRIBA Investment, Portland Holdings)
You can find their website here.
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122) EGYM
EGYM uses high-tech software to develop and construct the most advanced smart connected strength training equipment.
Details of the startup:
State: Bayern
City: Munich
Started in: 2010
Founders: Florian Sauter, Philipp Roesch-Schlanderer
Industries: Fitness, Sports, Wellness
Number of employees: 251-500
Funding: $143,471,520
Funding rounds: 6
Number of investors: 7 (European Investment Bank, High-Tech Grunderfonds, NGP Capital, Bayern Kapital, Highland Europe)
You can find their website here.
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123) Global Savings Group
The Global Savings Group (GSG) is Europe's largest shopping incentives firm, enabling individuals to buy more wisely.
Details of the startup:
State: Bayern
City: Munich
Started in: 2012
Founders: Adrian Renner, Andreas Fruth, Gerhard Trautmann, Pedro ClaverÃa
Industries: Content Delivery Network, Content Discovery, E-Commerce, Internet, Publishing
Number of employees: 501-1000
Funding: ⬠65,500,000
Funding rounds: 9
Number of investors: 7 (New Enterprise Associates, Rocket Internet, HV Capital, RTP Global, Headline)
You can find their website here.
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124) AMSilk
High-quality silk biopolymers are produced and distributed by AMSilk.
Details of the startup:
State: Bayern
City: Planegg
Started in: 2008
Founders: Lin Römer
Industries: Biotechnology
Number of employees: 11-50
Funding: ⬠34,000,000
Funding rounds: 3
Number of investors: 5 (Novo Holdings, Cargill, MIG, Athos Group, E.R. Capital Holdings)
You can find their website here.
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125) Resourcify
Resourcify creates and maintains a neutral cloud platform that allows companies to manage their trash and recycling operations online.
Details of the startup:
State: Hamburg
City: Hamburg
Started in: 2015
Founders: Gary Lewis
Industries: Renewable Energy, Software, Waste Management
Number of employees: 1-10
Funding: ⬠4,000,000
Funding rounds: 2
Number of investors: 3 (Speedinvest, High-Tech Grunderfonds, IFB Innovationsstarter)
You can find their website here.
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126) HiveMQ
HiveMQ provides data movement technology for quick, efficient, and secure communication, enabling organizations to prosper in a connected world.
Details of the startup:
State: Bayern
City: Landshut
Started in: 2012
Founders: Christian Götz, Dominik Obermaier
Industries: Enterprise Software, Information Technology, Internet of Things, Software
Number of employees: 11-50
Funding: ⬠9,300,000
Funding rounds: 1
Number of investors: 6 (Earlybird Venture Capital, Charlie Songhurst, Senovo, Ali Kutay, New Forge)
You can find their website here.
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127) Productsup
Brands and merchants may use Productsup to reach more people through more channels and increase sales.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2010
Founders: Johannis Hatt, Kai Seefeldt
Industries: Cloud Data Services, Content Syndication, Data Integration, Digital Marketing, E-Commerce, E-Commerce Platforms, Information Technology, Marketing, Marketing Automation, Retail Technology, SaaS, Software
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: $20,000,000
Funding rounds: 3
Number of investors: 6 (KfW, Nordwind Capital, Deutsche Handelsbank, Moritz Zimmermann, Tobias Tschoetsch)
You can find their website here.
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128) ottonova
ottonova is a new digital health insurance company in Germany.
Details of the startup:
State: Bayern
City: Munich
Started in: 2015
Founders: Frank Birzle, Roman Rittweger, Sebastian Scheerer
Industries: Health Care, Health Insurance, Insurance
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: ⬠85,000,000
Funding rounds: 4
Number of investors: 6 (HV Capital, btov Partners, Vorwerk Ventures, TEV Ventures, STS Ventures)
You can find their website here.
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129) Building Radar
Building Radar is a website that gives thorough information about construction projects and the companies that are involved.
Details of the startup:
State: Bayern
City: Munich
Started in: 2014
Founders: Artem Ostankov, Leopold Neuerburg, Paul Indinger, Raoul Friedrich
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Construction, Lead Generation
Number of employees: 11-50
Funding: ⬠5,000,000
Funding rounds: 6
Number of investors: 10 (Picus Capital, BayBG Venture Capital, coparion, Apic Investments, PropTech1 Ventures)
You can find their website here.
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130) Planetly
Planetly is developing software that will allow you to assess, minimize, and offset your carbon impact.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2019
Founders: Benedikt Franke
Industries: Environmental Consulting, Information Technology
Number of employees: 1-10
Funding: ⬠5,200,000
Funding rounds: 2
Number of investors: 5 (Speedinvest, Cavalry Ventures, Florian Leibert, Cinco Capital, Lars Hinrichs)
You can find their website here.
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131) Coya
With an AI risk guardian and a simple, transparent, and personalized insurance cover, Coya provides scalable protection at the moment of need.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2016
Founders: Andrew Shaw, Peter Hagen, Sebastian Villarroel
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Insurance, InsurTech, Internet
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: $40,000,000
Funding rounds: 2
Number of investors: 4 (Headline, Valar Ventures, La Famiglia, MPGI)
You can find their website here.
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132) Air Up
Air Up is the world's first drinking bottle that flavors pure water just by smell.
Details of the startup:
State: Bayern
City: Munich
Started in: 2018
Industries: Food and Beverage, Sustainability
Number of employees: 51-100
Funding: ⬠18,000,000
Funding rounds: 4
Number of investors: 7 (PepsiCo, Five Seasons Ventures, Freigeist Capital, Oyster Bay, Christoph Miller)
You can find their website here.
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133) Zenjob
Zenjob is a software platform that connects large and medium-sized businesses with student workers.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2015
Founders: Cihan Aksakal, Frederik Fahning, Fritz Trott, Stephan von Perger
Industries: Employment, Human Resources, Recruiting, Staffing Agency
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: ⬠50,600,000
Funding rounds: 6
Number of investors: 7 (500 Startups, Atlantic Labs, AXA Venture Partners, Acton Capital, Redalpine)
You can find their website here.
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134) Flow Lab
Flow Lab is a mental and emotional fitness training program that helps ambitious people achieve more flow and productivity.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2018
Founders: David Jacob, Jonas Vossler Winkelmann, Peter Schwarz
Industries: Fitness, Lifestyle, Mobile Apps, Personal Health, Psychology, Wellness
Number of employees: 1-10
Funding: ⬠1,240,000
Funding rounds: 3
Number of investors: 3 (IBB Ventures, APX, VfL Wolfsburg)
You can find their website here.
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135) Helpling
Outside of the United States, Helpling is an online booking and payment platform that offers on-demand home services.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2014
Founders: Alberto Cartasegna, Alexandra Depledge, Benedikt Franke, Kai Koch, Manar Alkassar, Philip Huffmann, Yeenteck Hoe
Industries: Apps, Home Services, Internet, Marketplace, Real Estate
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: $95,048,939
Funding rounds: 6
Number of investors: 12 (Rocket Internet, Lakestar, Unilever Ventures, Point Nine, Team Europe)
You can find their website here.
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136) Senorics
Senorics develops and manufactures optical spectroscopic sensor solutions for industrial use.
Details of the startup:
State: Sachsen
City: Dresden
Started in: 2017
Founders: Karl Leo, Ronny Timmreck
Industries: Big Data, Internet of Things, Semiconductor, Sensor
Number of employees: 11-50
Funding: ⬠10,300,000
Funding rounds: 3
Number of investors: 5 (ZEISS Group, TGFS - Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen, TUDAG, FIDURA Capital Consult, Ventura Investment)
You can find their website here.
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137) Modifi
With digital trade financing, Modifi enables small and medium-sized businesses to trade worldwide.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2018
Founders: Jan Wehrs, Nelson Holzner, Sven Brauer
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech
Number of employees: 11-50
Funding: $69,599,121
Funding rounds: 3
Number of investors: 4 (Global Founders Capital, Silicon Valley Bank, Picus Capital, Maersk Growth)
You can find their website here.
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138) Mister Spex
Mister Spex is an online retailer of spectacles and contact lenses from a variety of manufacturers.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2007
Founders: Bjoern Sykora, Dirk Graber, Lukasz Gadowski, Philipp Frenkel, Thilo Hardt
Industries: E-Commerce, Eyewear, Internet, Retail, Shopping
Number of employees: 251-500
Funding: $158,009,427
Funding rounds: 10
Number of investors: 18 (Goldman Sachs, DN Capital, High-Tech Grunderfonds, Fabrice Grinda, Point Nine)
You can find their website here.
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139) Cluno
Cluno is an online automobile rental subscription service that offers rental cars without any obligations.
Details of the startup:
State: Bayern
City: Munich
Started in: 2017
Founders: Andreas Schuierer, Christina Maria Polleti, Nico Polleti
Industries: Automotive, E-Commerce, Rental, Service Industry, Subscription Service
Number of employees: 51-100
Funding: $190,190,965
Funding rounds: 4
Number of investors: 3 (Atlantic Labs, Acton Capital, Valar Ventures)
You can find their website here.
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140) shyftplan
shyftplan is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution for staff communication and management.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2013
Founders: Jan-Martin Josten, John Nitschke
Industries: Human Resources, SaaS, Scheduling, Software
Number of employees: 11-50
Funding: ⬠11,450,000
Funding rounds: 3
Number of investors: 5 (Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners, Senovo, coparion, KIZOO Technology Capital, Deutsche Invest Venture Capital)
You can find their website here.
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141) FRIDAY
FRIDAY is the first German digital insurance to offer its own vehicle prices.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2017
Founders: Christoph Samwer, Florian Eismann
Industries: Finance, Insurance, InsurTech
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: ⬠114,000,000
Funding rounds: 1
Number of investors: 3 (SevenVentures, German Media Pool, Baloise Strategic Ventures)
You can find their website here.
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142) ultimate.ai
ultimate.ai is a virtual customer care agent builder that helps firms automate multilingual customer support.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2016
Founders: Jaakko Pasanen, Markus Rautio, Reetu Kainulainen, Sarah Al-Hussaini
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, CRM, Customer Service, Enterprise Software, SaaS, Virtual Assistant
Number of employees: 51-100
Funding: $27,400,544
Funding rounds: 6
Number of investors: 7 (Techstars, Felicis Ventures, HV Capital, OMERS Ventures, European Innovation Council)
You can find their website here.
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143) simplesurance
Simplesurance combines traditional insurance industries with digital business to develop a platform for easy access to insurance.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2012
Founders: Felix Jankowski, Ismail Asci, Joachim von Bonin, Patrick Frey, Robin von Hein
Industries: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech, Insurance, InsurTech, Internet
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: $78,064,754
Funding rounds: 10
Number of investors: 19 (Rakuten, Allianz, Mountain Partners, Dr. Cornelius Boersch, Conny & Co)
You can find their website here.
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144) quantilope
Quantilope is an Agile Insights platform that improves traditional market research's speed, complexity, and quality.
Details of the startup:
State: Hamburg
City: Hamburg
Started in: 2014
Founders: Lucas Bremer, Mark Heitmann, Peter Aschmoneit, Thomas Fandrich
Industries: Information Technology, Market Research, SaaS, Software
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: $40,000,000
Funding rounds: 4
Number of investors: 5 (Dawn Capital, Silicon Valley Bank, Senovo, Digital+ Partners, Surplus Invest)
You can find their website here.
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145) Medwing
Medwing is a healthcare start-up that offers job possibilities in the medical field.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2017
Founders: Johannes Roggendorf, Timo Fischer
Industries: Health Care, Human Resources, Recruiting
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: ⬠28,000,000
Funding rounds: 5
Number of investors: 8 (Northzone, Atlantic Labs, Cherry Ventures, Cathay Innovation, H14)
You can find their website here.
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146) CrowdDesk
CrowdDesk is a software-as-a-service platform that allows financial intermediaries and enterprises to raise funds via the internet.
Details of the startup:
State: Hessen
City: Frankfurt
Started in: 2015
Founders: Jamal El Mallouki, Johannes Laub
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech, SaaS
Number of employees: 11-50
Funding: $10,300,000
Funding rounds: 2
Number of investors: 2 (Round2 Capital Partners, blueworld.group)
You can find their website here.
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147) Wandelbots
Wandelbots is a no-code robotics technology platform. Non-programmers can use it to teach industrial robots to perform precise jobs.
Details of the startup:
State: Sachsen
City: Dresden
Started in: 2017
Founders: Christian Piechnick, Christoph Biering, Frank Fitzek, Georg Puschel, Giang Nguyen, Jan Falkenberg, Maria Piechnick, Sebastian Werner
Industries: Human Computer Interaction, Industrial Automation, Machine Learning, Robotics, Wearables
Number of employees: 51-100
Funding: $38,184,408
Funding rounds: 4
Number of investors: 12 (EQT Ventures, 83North, Atlantic Labs, Next47, M12)
You can find their website here.
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148) Homeday
Homeday is a website that can help you find a new home and connect with a local realtor.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2015
Founders: Dmitri Uvarovski, Steffen Wicker
Industries: Commercial Real Estate, Real Estate, Real Estate Investment
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: $71,424,171
Funding rounds: 4
Number of investors: 10 (Axel Springer, Project A Ventures, PurpleBricks, Picus Capital, Paua Ventures)
You can find their website here.
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149) omni:us
omni:us has developed a set of insurance-specific AI solutions for claims administration.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2015
Founders: Eric Pfarl, Harald Gölles, Martin Micko, Sofie Quidenus-Wahlforss, Stephan Dorfmeister
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Information Technology, Insurance, InsurTech, Machine Learning, Software, Software Engineering
Number of employees: 51-100
Funding: $44,108,775
Funding rounds: 7
Number of investors: 17 (Target Global, MMC Ventures, Plug and Play Tech Center, Anthemis Group, European Innovation Council)
You can find their website here.
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150) Plantix
The world's largest digital agro-ecosystem for small-scale farming, including an AI-powered crop doctor, illness alarms, and the appropriate treatments.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2015
Founders: Alexander Kennepohl, Bianca Kummer, Charlotte Schuhmann, Korbinian Hartberger, Pierre Munzel, Robert Strey, Simone Strey
Industries: AgTech, Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Image Recognition
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: ⬠17,150,000
Funding rounds: 5
Number of investors: 7 (Index Ventures, RTP Global, Atlantic Labs, Piton Capital, Happiness Capital)
You can find their website here.
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151) Solactive
Solactive is an index provider that specializes in creating, calculating, and distributing custom indices around the world.
Details of the startup:
State: Hessen
City: Frankfurt
Started in: 2007
Industries: Finance, Financial Services
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: $60,400,000
Funding rounds: 1
Number of investors: 1 (Summit Partners)
You can find their website here.
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152) ABOUT YOU
ABOUT YOU is a garment, shoe, and accessory eCommerce portal.
Details of the startup:
State: Hamburg
City: Hamburg
Started in: 2014
Founders: Sebastian Betz, Tarek Muller
Industries: E-Commerce, Fashion, Marketing, Personalization, Retail, Shopping
Number of employees: 501-1000
Funding: $300,000,000
Funding rounds: 2
Number of investors: 3 (SevenVentures, Bestseller, German Media Pool)
You can find their website here.
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153) KIWI
For big multi-tenant buildings, KIWI provides safe, keyless access.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2012
Founders: Christian Bogatu, Claudia Nagel, Peter Dietrich
Industries: Cloud Computing, Hardware, Internet of Things, Real Estate, Security, Sensor, Smart Home
Number of employees: 51-100
Funding: ⬠14,000,000
Funding rounds: 4
Number of investors: 6 (Urban Us, Paua Ventures, Deutsche Wohnen, J.F. Muller & Sohn AG, Christian Oldendorff)
You can find their website here.
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154) Lamudi
Lamudi is a global online real estate marketplace that focuses on emerging markets.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2013
Founders: Jacqueline van den Ende, Kian Moini, Paul Philipp Hermann
Industries: Commercial Real Estate, E-Commerce, Internet, Real Estate
Number of employees: 251-500
Funding: $56,400,000
Funding rounds: 4
Number of investors: 6 (Axel Springer, HV Capital, TEV Ventures, Ringier, TA Capital)
You can find their website here.
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155) JenaValve Technology
JenaValve Technology creates transapical and transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) systems.
Details of the startup:
State: Bayern
City: Munich
Started in: 2006
Founders: Hans-Reiner Figulla, Ronald Reich
Industries: Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: $191,067,861
Funding rounds: 8
Number of investors: 14 (Legend Capital, Atlas Venture, Bain Capital Life Sciences, Gimv, Omega Funds)
You can find their website here.
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156) Wingcopter
Wingcopter is an unmanned eVTOL fixed-wing aircraft company dedicated to improving people's lives all around the world.
Details of the startup:
State: Hessen
City: Darmstadt
Started in: 2017
Founders: Ansgar Kadura, Jonathan Hesselbarth, Tom Plümmer
Industries: Aerospace, Air Transportation, Drones, Last Mile Transportation, Logistics
Number of employees: 51-100
Funding: $22,000,000
Funding rounds: 3
Number of investors: 5 (Xplorer Capital, Futury Ventures, Corecam Family Office, Futury Regio Growth Fund, Hessen Kapital)
You can find their website here.
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157) Foodspring
Foodspring is a premium sports nutrition and fitness food company.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2013
Founders: Marc Hermann, Philipp Schrempp, Tobias Schuele
Industries: Fitness, Food and Beverage, Health Care, Lifestyle, Marketing, Wellness
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: ⬠28,000,000
Funding rounds: 2
Number of investors: 5 (btov Partners, Fonterra Co-operative Group, Ringier Digital Ventures, ECONA AG, Deutsche Handelsbank)
You can find their website here.
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158) Everphone
B2B smartphone and tablet leasing service to increase employee productivity and satisfaction.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2016
Founders: Jan Dzulko, Nadine Kolbe
Industries: Fleet Management, Mobile, Mobile Devices, Service Industry
Number of employees: 51-100
Funding: ⬠41,427,000
Funding rounds: 4
Number of investors: 11 (Swiss Founders Fund, signals Venture Capital, Kevin Ryan, Tony Jamous, Angel Invest)
You can find their website here.
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159) Usercentrics
Usercentrics is a legal technology SaaS provider situated in Munich, Germany, that is changing the method to safeguard compliant data through consent management.
Details of the startup:
State: Bayern
City: Munich
Started in: 2018
Founders: Jürgen Weichert, Lisa Gradow, Mischa Rurup, Vinzent Ellissen
Industries: Cyber Security, Digital Marketing, Identity Management, Law Enforcement, Legal, Legal Tech, Marketing Automation, Privacy, SaaS, Software
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: ⬠21,000,000
Funding rounds: 3
Number of investors: 7 (Cavalry Ventures, ALSTIN Capital, Full In Partners, Angel Invest, Mischa Rurup)
You can find their website here.
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160) LIQID
LIQID is the foremost digital asset manager for high-net-worth individuals in Europe.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2016
Founders: Arne Zeising, Christian Schneider-Sickert, Jonas Tebbe, Kyros Khadjavi, Paul Becker
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech, Wealth Management
Number of employees: 51-100
Funding: ⬠42,500,000
Funding rounds: 4
Number of investors: 5 (Project A Ventures, DvH Ventures, Toscafund Asset Management, Berliner Volksbank Ventures, HQ Trust)
You can find their website here.
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161) Userlane
Userlane automates user onboarding and employee training for enterprises.
Details of the startup:
State: Bayern
City: München
Started in: 2015
Founders: Felix Eichler, Hartmut Hahn, Kajetan Uhlig
Industries: Information Technology, Internet, SaaS, Software, UX Design
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: ⬠14,000,000
Funding rounds: 3
Number of investors: 6 (High-Tech Grunderfonds, Capnamic Ventures, Commerzbank, Five Elms Capital, main incubator)
You can find their website here.
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162) Limehome
Limehome transforms commercial buildings into chic apart-hotels that are managed through their technology platform for business and leisure tourists.
Details of the startup:
State: Bayern
City: Munich
Started in: 2018
Founders: Josef Vollmayr, Lars Stabe
Industries: Business Travel, Hospitality, Hotel, Tourism, Travel, Travel Accommodations
Number of employees: 51-100
Funding: ⬠36,000,000
Funding rounds: 3
Number of investors: 4 (HV Capital, Lakestar, Picus Capital, Global Growth Capital)
You can find their website here.
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163) Quandoo
Quandoo is a reservation system that connects businesses and guests.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2012
Founders: Anton Rummel, Daniel Glasner, Philipp Magin, Ronny Lange, Sebastian Moser, Tim-Hendrik Meyer
Industries: Product Design, Reservations, Restaurants, Technical Support
Number of employees: 251-500
Funding: $39,500,000
Funding rounds: 5
Number of investors: 9 (HV Capital, DN Capital, Cherry Ventures, VNV Global, Recruit)
You can find their website here.
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164) GETFASTER.IO
In Germany, a new generation of express delivery grocery merchant has launched, with delivery times starting at 10 minutes.
Details of the startup:
State: Nordrhein-Westfalen
City: Düsseldorf
Started in: 2020
Founders: Anton Zakharov, Dmitry Bergelson, George Skalsky, Kirill Solonitsyn
Industries: Consumer, Consumer Goods, Delivery, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Food Delivery, Grocery, Retail, Retail Technology, Same Day Delivery
Number of employees: 11-50
Funding: ⬠1,500,000
Funding rounds: 4
Number of investors: 2 (AltaIR Capital, Startup Lab)
You can find their website here.
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165) Merantix
Merantix is an artificial intelligence research lab and venture capital firm.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2016
Founders: Adrian Locher, Rasmus Rothe
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics, Software
Number of employees: 51-100
Funding: $37,548,634
Funding rounds: 2
Number of investors: 5 (June Fund, The W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Linden Capital, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Gentian Investments)
You can find their website here.
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166) N26
Through its subsidiary, N26 provides mobile banking services to customers in the European Union.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2013
Founders: Maximilian Tayenthal, Valentin Stalf
Industries: Banking, Finance, Financial Services, FinTech
Number of employees: 1001-5000
Funding: $819,009,300
Funding rounds: 9
Number of investors: 18 (Tencent, Earlybird Venture Capital, Battery Ventures, GIC, Insight Partners)
You can find their website here.
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167) Lambus
The All-In-One travel platform aims to bring all aspects of the travel experience together on a single platform.
Details of the startup:
State: Niedersachsen
City: Osnabrück
Started in: 2018
Founders: Anja Niehoff, Hans Knöchel, Hendrik Scherer, Leon Braun, Niklas Kling, Torben Pretzel
Industries: Blogging Platforms, Collaboration, Content Discovery, Mobile Apps, Online Portals, Tourism, Travel, Web Apps
Number of employees: 11-50
Funding: $690,000
Funding rounds: 2
Number of investors: 2 (EXIST, Seedhouse)
You can find their website here.
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168) Agile Robots AG
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the actual world are becoming increasingly intertwined.
Details of the startup:
State: Bayern
City: Gilching
Started in: 2018
Founders: Peter Meusel, Zhaopeng Chen
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Industrial Automation, Machine Learning, Robotics
Number of employees: 51-100
Funding: CNÂ¥130,000,000
Funding rounds: 3
Number of investors: 8 (Sequoia Capital China, Hillhouse Capital Group, Linear Venture, C Ventures, BOCOM International)
You can find their website here.
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169) 3YOURMIND
Industry 4.0 automation software to handle part selection, ordering, and production workflows for additive manufacturing.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2014
Founders: Aleksander Ciszek, Stephan Kuehr
Industries: 3D Printing, 3D Technology, Enterprise Software, Industrial Manufacturing, Manufacturing, Software
Number of employees: 51-100
Funding: $32,859,690
Funding rounds: 6
Number of investors: 10 (Verve Ventures, Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners, coparion, European regional development fund (ERDF), TRUMPF Venture)
You can find their website here.
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170) Scantinel Photonics
Scantinel Photonics is a high-tech start-up that is working on next-generation LiDAR technology for self-driving cars.
Details of the startup:
State: Baden-Wurttemberg
City: Ulm
Started in: 2019
Industries: 3D Technology, Automotive, Autonomous Vehicles
Number of employees: 11-50
Funding: ⬠7,500,000
Funding rounds: 1
Number of investors: 1 (Scania Growth Capital)
You can find their website here.
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171) Impulse Dynamics
Impulse Dynamics is a medical device firm focused on developing new treatments for chronic heart failure (CHF).
Details of the startup:
State: Baden-Wurttemberg
City: Stuttgart
Started in: 1996
Founders: Lewis Pell, Shlomo Haim, Simos Kedikoglou
Industries: Biotechnology, Hospital, Medical, Medical Device
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: $215,250,000
Funding rounds: 4
Number of investors: 12 (Wellington Management, Perceptive Advisors, Redmile Group, Abiomed, ZOLL Medical Corporation)
You can find their website here.
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172) Riskmethods
Riskmethods makes risk exposures in 1-n-tier supply chains completely transparent.
Details of the startup:
State: Bayern
City: Munich
Started in: 2013
Founders: Heiko Schwarz, Rolf Zimmer
Industries: SaaS, Software
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: $24,269,764
Funding rounds: 5
Number of investors: 6 (EQT Ventures, Point Nine, Senovo, Bayern Kapital, Digital+ Partners)
You can find their website here.
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173) Sablono
Sablono is a Berlin-based firm that creates software for the digital planning and management of large building projects.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2013
Founders: Florian Meichsner, Lukas Olbrich, Sven Richter
Industries: Construction, Digital Marketing, Internet, Software
Number of employees: 1-10
Funding: ⬠6,300,000
Funding rounds: 5
Number of investors: 6 (High-Tech Grunderfonds, Nemetschek, EIT Digital Accelerator, Hasso Plattner Ventures, Allplan)
You can find their website here.
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174) Moss
The corporate credit card designed to cover all of your expenses.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2019
Industries: Accounting, Credit Cards, Financial Services, FinTech
Number of employees: 11-50
Funding: ⬠21,000,000
Funding rounds: 1
Number of investors: 3 (Global Founders Capital, Cherry Ventures, Valar Ventures)
You can find their website here.
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175) Schüttflix
Schüttflix is a bulk construction supply digital marketplace and delivery platform.
Details of the startup:
State: Nordrhein-Westfalen
City: Gütersloh
Started in: 2018
Founders: Christian Hülsewig, Thomas Hagedorn
Industries: Construction, Marketplace
Number of employees: 11-50
Funding: ⬠14,000,000
Funding rounds: 2
Number of investors: 2 (HV Capital, Speedinvest)
You can find their website here.
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176) Zeitgold
Zeitgold is a Berlin-based AI firm that offers a complete financial management solution for small enterprises.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2015
Founders: Jan Deepen, Kobi Eldar, Stefan Jeschonnek
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services, FinTech, Small and Medium Businesses
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: ⬠51,200,000
Funding rounds: 5
Number of investors: 9 (Battery Ventures, Deutsche Bank, HV Capital, btov Partners, Vintage Investment Partners)
You can find their website here.
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177) InstaFreight
InstaFreight is an online B2B freight forwarding company that enables freight transportation to be processed quickly and easily.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2016
Founders: Markus Doetsch, Maximilian Schaefer, Philipp Ortwein
Industries: B2B, Freight Service, Logistics, Transportation
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: ⬠31,000,000
Funding rounds: 4
Number of investors: 3 (Rocket Internet, Shell Ventures, Kaltroco LTD)
You can find their website here.
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178) Holoride
By combining XR with vehicle movement and navigation data, Holoride transforms automobiles into moving theme parks.
Details of the startup:
State: Bayern
City: Munich
Started in: 2018
Founders: Daniel Profendiner, Marcus Kühne, Nils Wollny
Industries: Automotive, Digital Entertainment, Digital Media, Software, Virtual Reality
Number of employees: 11-50
Funding: ⬠10,000,000
Funding rounds: 1
Number of investors: 1 (TerraNet AB)
You can find their website here.
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179) Asana Rebel
Asana Rebel is a young and rapidly expanding health and fitness startup dedicated to delivering highly engaging health and fitness experiences.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2015
Founders: Pascal Klein, Robin Pratap
Industries: Apps, Fitness, Health Care, Lifestyle, Nutrition, Wellness
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: $24,800,000
Funding rounds: 4
Number of investors: 9 (High-Tech Grunderfonds, Greycroft, Headline, La Famiglia, Astutia Ventures)
You can find their website here.
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180) MILES
MILES is a modern mobility and carsharing company.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2016
Founders: Alexander Eitner, Florian Haus, Timo Nuehrich
Industries: Apps, Automotive, Car Sharing
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: ⬠5,000,000
Funding rounds: 3
Number of investors: 11 (Flash, Lukasz Gadowski, Team Europe, Inventure Partners, WestTech Ventures)
You can find their website here.
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181) Spotcap
Spotcap provides customised financing to SMEs, allowing them to focus on their core business.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2014
Founders: Jens Woloszczak, Toby Triebel
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Lending, Small and Medium Businesses
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: $112,910,762
Funding rounds: 6
Number of investors: 6 (Rocket Internet, HV Capital, Kreos Capital, Access Industries, Heartland Bank)
You can find their website here.
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182) Unu motors
Unu is a battery-powered, smart electric scooter that allows people to commute in an urban area.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2013
Founders: Elias Atahi, Mathieu Caudal, Pascal Leonard Blum
Industries: Electric Vehicle, Hardware, Last Mile Transportation, Mobile, Transportation
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: $43,282,884
Funding rounds: 7
Number of investors: 8 (Iris Capital, Capnamic Ventures, Ponooc, EIT Digital Accelerator, NRW.BANK)
You can find their website here.
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183) Sunfire
Sunfire creates and produces systems for the production of renewable industrial gas and fuels.
Details of the startup:
State: Sachsen
City: Dresden
Started in: 2010
Founders: Carl Berninghausen, Christian Olshausen, Nils Aldag
Industries: Energy, Fuel, Industrial, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: ⬠39,000,000
Funding rounds: 5
Number of investors: 9 (Idinvest Partners, Total Carbon Neutrality Ventures, Neste, Inven Capital, Electranova Capital)
You can find their website here.
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184) Lengoo
Lengoo is a full-service technology platform that uses neural networks to provide customer-specific machine translation.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2014
Founders: Alexander Gigga, Christopher Kränzler, Philipp Koch-Buettner
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Translation Service
Number of employees: 11-50
Funding: $26,578,103
Funding rounds: 3
Number of investors: 14 (Techstars, INKEF Capital, Redalpine, Piton Capital, Techstars Berlin Accelerator)
You can find their website here.
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185) Aareon
Aareon is a corporation that provides systems and consulting services.
Details of the startup:
State: Rheinland-Pfalz
City: Mainz
Started in: 1957
Industries: Consulting, Software
Number of employees: 1001-5000
Funding: $308,000,000
Funding rounds: 1
Number of investors: 1 (Advent International)
You can find their website here.
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186) Comtravo
Comtravo is a travel and tourism company that focuses on travel management, business travel, and online reservations.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2015
Founders: Jannik Neumann, Michael Riegel, Simon Schmincke, Slobodan Utvic
Industries: Business Travel, Tourism, Travel
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: ⬠38,500,000
Funding rounds: 4
Number of investors: 14 (Deutsche Bank, Project A Ventures, Creandum, btov Partners, M12)
You can find their website here.
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187) ecoworks
ecoworks makes use of industrial prefabrication, computerized processes, and energy systems that are extremely efficient.
Details of the startup:
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Started in: 2018
Founders: Emanuel Heisenberg, Kristofer Fichtner
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When she was student in the university, She started acting .Her first professional role was in a T.V series called “Kohneh Savar” by Akbar Khajooi.
In an interview with Iran Theater on her new acting activities, Shiva Ebrahimi said: "I'm going to play in The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi, directed by Ehsan Falahat pisheh, I will act as Anastasia. Rehearsals started from November 5, and the show is scheduled to take place on January in the main hall of the city Theater Complex. In this show, Mohammad Sadegh Malek, Mohammad Reza Maleki, Mehdi Nosrati and Arash Falahat Pisheh will act the main roles.”
The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi (German: Die Ehe des Herrn Mississippi) is a play by the Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt. The play was written in 1950, but Dürrenmatt continued to revise it until 1980. It premiered on 26 March 1952 at the Munich Kammerspiele, directed by Hans Schweikart.The play was adapted into a 1961 film with the same title.
Shiva Ebrahimi added:” Ehsan Falahat Pesheh has made a loyal adaptation. We are currently engaged in rehearsals to find the form .The play, one of the outstanding works of Durrenmatt, has four main characters. One of them believes in the capitalist system and thinks that human welfare is in follwoing this system. St. Claude thinks only the victory of the Communist Party brings real justice and he supports it. The third character is a sacrifice doctor who donates all his money to the poor and loves humanity with all his heart. Anastasia, the only woman of the play, is a person who does not believe in any principle. She has no morality, she constantly lied. The playwright indicates that none of the male characters succeed in their idealist path, but that the world is only for those who, like Anastasia, have no morality.” | ||||
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Their courtship had been dramatic. They had started dating the summer of the previous year (after Wolfgang had initially fallen in love with Constanze’s sister). They discussed marriage, but Wolfgang’s father, Leopold, was firmly against it.
Then, in April 1782, they broke up after Constanze had played a parlor game with another young man, during which he measured her calves.
However, after a while, she and Wolfgang made up. In July of 1782, they even moved in with each other…without getting married first!
The situation proved scandalous. Wolfgang admitted to his father that they were already sleeping together, so he claimed they had no choice but to get married. Constanze’s mother was beside herself, inquiring whether the police could get involved to rescue her daughter and save her reputation.
Amidst all of this drama, the two did finally get married. The morning after their wedding, Leopold’s extremely reluctant permission arrived in the mail.
The story of Constanze’s pregnancies and their children’s lives offer a unique lens through which to understand Mozart’s biography and music. Today, we’re looking at the six children that Wolfgang and Constanze had together between 1783 and 1791.
Raimund Leopold Mozart (17 June 1783 – 19 August 1783)
On 17 June 1783, around one o’clock in the morning, Constanze Mozart went into labor with her first baby.
While Constanze gave birth, Wolfgang nervously composed two movements of his D-minor string quartet. (Constanze later claimed that the chromatic minuet was inspired by her screams.)
Mozart: String Quartet K 421 in D Minor
Five hours after Constanze’s labor began, Raimund Leopold Mozart was born: “a fine, sturdy boy, round as a butterball,” Wolfgang reported to his father in a letter the following day.
The Mozarts named the baby Raimund after their landlord. Oddly, their landlord served as the baby’s godfather instead of Leopold. According to Wolfgang, he wanted to call the baby Leopold, but the landlord offered his services as a godparent, and Wolfgang felt helpless to resist. Either Wolfgang was spineless, or it was an attempt to escape his father’s influence.
The Mozarts hired a wet nurse to help care for little Raimund. “Against my wishes and yet not altogether against my will, they brought in a wet nurse for the child!” he reported to his father.
Over the course of the summer of 1783, Wolfgang made plans to visit his father Leopold in his hometown of Salzburg. Wolfgang was leery of leaving Vienna; he was concerned about being arrested, as he’d left his job with the Salzburg archbishop without officially resigning. His father laughed these concerns off and accused his son of just not wanting to see him.
Feeling guilty about Leopold’s jab, he set off with Constanze to Salzburg six weeks after the baby had been born. They left Raimund behind in Vienna (we don’t know why or with whom), choosing not to introduce him to Leopold. Raimund died in mid-August before the visit was over.
We have very little evidence as to how Wolfgang and Constanze handled the death of their firstborn child. Mozart’s sister didn’t mention it in her diaries. A couple of months later, Mozart wrote to Leopold, “We are both very sad about our poor, bonny, fat, darling little boy.” And that’s the last we hear about him in the historical record.
Karl Thomas Mozart (21 September 1784 – 31 October 1858)
A few months later, around the start of 1784, Constanze got pregnant again. She had Karl Thomas Mozart in September.
Wolfgang died when Karl was seven years old. Later in life, he advanced the theory that his father had been poisoned, although, of course, being just a child, he couldn’t have known if such a thing had really happened.
He went to school in Prague and studied music with Franz Xaver Niemetschek (the first biographer of Wolfgang Mozart) and composer František Xaver Dušek.
When he was twenty-one, he moved to Milan, where he would live for the rest of his life. He tried to make a career in music, but in his mid-twenties he gave up and went into accounting and Italian translating instead.
He earned enough royalties from Wolfgang’s music that he was able to buy a country estate in the township of Valmorea, near Lake Como.
He never got married or had any children, and he died in 1858 at the age of seventy-four.
Johann Thomas Leopold Mozart (18 October 1786 – 15 November 1786)
In 1786, Wolfgang’s big musical project was composing and mounting The Marriage of Figaro, which premiered in May. In January 1787 he went to Prague to conduct a production of it.
In between, Constanze gave birth to their third son, but he died just a month later of “Stickfrais”, which was a term that meant breathing difficulties. It may have been something like whooping cough or lung disease.
Theresia Constanzia Adelheid Friedericke Maria Anna Mozart (27 December 1787 – 29 June 1788)
Just after Christmas 1787, Constanze gave birth to the couple’s first daughter, to whom they gave a very long name. By using the name Maria Anna, they were paying tribute to Mozart’s musician sister, Maria Anna Mozart (also known as Nannerl).
Tragically, their daughter died of intestinal trouble in the summer of 1788. This was the same summer that Mozart wrote his 39th, 40th, and 41st symphonies…a feat that’s difficult to imagine.
Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, KV 550
Anna Maria Mozart (born and died on 16 November 1789)
In the spring of 1789, when Constanze was pregnant, Wolfgang left Vienna.
He had racked up considerable debt and decided to travel to Dresden, Berlin, and Prague to give concerts to make money. For an entire month after he left, no letters arrived, to Constanze’s great distress.
Wolfgang eventually returned to Vienna, only to find Constanze sick with a leg ulcer. In fact, there was a question of whether she was going to recover. Wolfgang reported in a letter to friends that she was calmly facing her fate, whatever it might be.
Fortunately, she recovered, and after she entered her third trimester, they went to Baden, a spa resort.
Anna Maria Mozart, Wolfgang and Constanze’s fifth child and second daughter, was born in mid-November. She was named after Mozart’s late mother, who had died in 1778. Tragically, she died an hour after she was born. She was baptized before her death and buried the next day.
Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (26 July 1791 – 29 July 1844)
The Mozarts’ final baby, Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, was born in the summer of 1791. Although he was just an infant when his father died, he ended up being the child who would carry on the Mozart family reputation in the music world. He also inherited the name Wolfgang, which he’d be called by his family.
He was musically talented as a child. Although his older brother believed that their father may have been poisoned, Wolfgang the younger took lessons from Antonio Salieri, who is sometimes named as one of the potential suspects. This is perhaps proof of how unserious his mother took the poisoning rumors. He also studied with Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
Wolfgang, Jr., made his debut in Vienna in April 1805 at the Theater an der Wien, where Beethoven had given multiple legendary premieres over the previous few years.
He spent most of his career teaching and traveling, performing his own works and the works of his father.
However, he simply wasn’t as talented as his father, and he knew it.
He died a few days after his fifty-third birthday of stomach cancer. His poignant epitaph reads, “May the name of his father be his epitaph, as his veneration for him was the essence of his life.”
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Gunnar Möller's popularity decreased in the 1960s and one of his more interesting films was Liselotte von der Pfalz (Kurt Hoffmann, 1966) featuring Heidelinde Weis. From then on his activities varied between theatre, cinema and TV. His later films included the Czech war drama Dny zrady/Days of Betrayal (Otakar Vávra, 1973) in which he played Adolf Hitler, the British thriller The Odessa File (Ronald Neame, 1974), and another Czech war drama Osvobození Prahy (Otakar Vávra, 1978). In 1979 a tragic incident happened when Möller killed his wife, the actress Brigitte Rau, with a stool during a divorce argument in London. He was sentenced to five years in prison in England because of second-degree murder. He served two years and was released on probation in 1981. He was able to continue his career in Germany and played in the films Im Zeichen des Kreuzes/The Sign of the Cross (Rainer Boldt, 1983), and the crime film Die Nacht der vier Monde/Night of the Four Moons (Jörg A. Eggers, 1984). Most often he worked in the theatre. His final film appearance was a small part in the Italian/French thriller Le confessioni/The Confessions (Roberto Andò, 2016) with Toni Servillo and Daniel Auteuil. Gunnar Möller was married from 1954 till her death in 1979 to Brigitte Rau and from 2003 till his death to actress Christiane Hammacher, with whom he had performed in Loriots Dramatische Werke (Loriot's Dramatic Works) at Frankfurt's Fritz Rémond Theater and on tour during the 1980s. Möller died in 2017 in his hometown Berlin. He had three children from his marriage with Brigitte Rau: Michael, Florian and Hillevi.
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German actor Gunnar Möller (1928-2017) was one of the stars of the Wirtschaftswunder Kino of the 1950s. He appeared in over 160 film and television productions between 1940 and 2016. He later turned to character roles and worked for a number of years in England.
Gunnar Thor Karl Möller was born in 1928 in Berlin, Germany. He was the son of a master optician. As a child, Gunnar already took part in some 20 films during World War II. After the war, he had a stage education. The theatre offered him his first engagements, and he worked successfully on the stages of Berlin and later Munich with Gustaf Gründgens and other stage directors. Then he again gained a foothold in the film business with a role as a student in Wozzeck (Georg C. Klaren, 1947). He followed this up with parts in Heimliches Rendezvous/Secret Rendezvous (Kurt Hoffmann, 1949) with Hertha Feiler, and Hans im Glück/Lucky Hans (Peter Hamel, 1949) with Erich Ponto. In the 1950s followed the height of Gunnar Möller's career with roles in many popular productions. He was especially successful with his role in the romantic comedy Ich denke oft an Piroschka/I Often Think of Piroschka (Kurt Hoffmann, 1955) with Liselotte Pulver. Later he beame a character actor such as in the war film Hunde, wollt ihr ewig leben/Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever? (Frank Wisbar, 1959), starring Joachim Hansen, and the British thriller SOS Pacific (Guy Green, 1959). with Richard Attenborough and Pier Angeli.
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Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, (; German: [ˈpaɪɐls]; 5 June 1907 – 19 September 1995) was a Jewish German-born British physicist who played a major role in the Manhattan Project and Tube Alloys, Britain's nuclear programme. His obituary in Physics Today described him as "a major player in the drama of the eruption of nuclear physics into world affairs".Peierls studied physics at the University of Berlin, at the University of Munich under Arnold Sommerfeld, the University of Leipzig under Werner Heisenberg, and ETH Zurich under Wolfgang Pauli. After receiving his DPhil from Leipzig in 1929, he became an assistant to Pauli in Zurich. In 1932, he was awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship, which he used to study in Rome under Enrico Fermi, and then at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge under Ralph H. Fowler. Due to Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany, he elected to not return home in 1933, but to remain in Britain, where he worked with Hans Bethe at the University of Manchester, then at the Mond Laboratory at Cambridge. In 1937, Mark Oliphant, the newly-appointed Australian professor of physics at the University of Birmingham recruited him for a new chair there in applied mathematics. In March 1940, Peierls co-authored the Frisch–Peierls memorandum with Otto Robert Frisch. This short paper was the first to set out that one could construct an atomic bomb from a small amount of fissile uranium-235. Until then it had been assumed that such a bomb would require many tons of uranium, and consequently was impractical to build and use. The paper was pivotal in igniting the interest of first the British and later the American authorities in nuclear weapons. He was also responsible for the recruitment of his compatriot Klaus Fuchs to work on Tube Alloys, as the British nuclear weapons project was called, which resulted in Peierls falling under suspicion when Fuchs was exposed as a spy for the Soviet Union in 1950. After the war, Peierls returned to the University of Birmingham, where he worked until 1963, and then was the Wykeham Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford until he retired in 1974. At Birmingham he worked on nuclear forces, scattering, quantum field theories, collective motion in nuclei, transport theory and statistical mechanics, and was a consultant to the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell. He received many awards, including a knighthood in 1968, and wrote several books including Quantum Theory of Solids, The Laws of Nature (1955), Surprises in Theoretical Physics (1979), More Surprises in Theoretical Physics (1991) and an autobiography, Bird of Passage (1985). Concerned with the nuclear weapons he had helped to unleash, he worked on the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, was President of the Atomic Scientists' Association in the UK, and was involved in the Pugwash movement. | ||
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David Schneuer, a resident of Tel Aviv for the past 50 years, is immersed simultaneously in all the circumstances that make up his biography. His painting, however, is located somewhere outside the chronological sequence of art history. His enigmatic personality stands in stark contrast to his flowing imagination, to the pictorial diary unfolding before us in hundreds of pages, as an endless variation on a single, obsessive image. Schneuer peeps at the world, at his past and at the present only to return to his private world, conscious of, but uninvolved in times, places and situations. His feelings towards them have dissolved, they continue to exist through his imagination, out of a need to connect a restricted living-space with the outside world, reluctantly establishing minimal mutual relations. The images, however profuse and voluptuous, are alienated from external reality, as if rendered immune from it. and only its echoes penetrate the cloak of hermeticity in which he is wrapped.
It should not be assumed from the above, however, that there is anything oppressive about his art. Is it introverted then? Its configurations, devoted to the depiction of a very specific kind of society, are cast in a mould that fits the play instinct of a man who is not involved with his fellow-men. Both artist and his work are removed from any social context. And when his art does contain a statement on society, it is essentially sensuous and intuitive in its expression, existing mainly by force of inertia. Timeless and nameless, its starting point is always in the unknown.
It is a course of continuous accumulation. Accumulated experience, accumulated memories and images, accumulated fresh starts. Nevertheless, both his life and art seem completely devoid of nostalgia. His creative energy has left behind a series of disconnections. Its vitality springs from the new beginnings. The past was filtered through it, crystallizing into an airtight present — the present of a veteran artist who, as mentioned above, does not concern himself with contemporary art anyway. The majority of the Tel Aviv art galleries are concentrated at walking distance from his home, but Schneuer keeps away from them. He professes not to be an intellectual. With the same touch of irony he claims to be a craftsman, and more seriously - a craftsman who paints for pleasure,
In his top-floor Tel Aviv apartment, the artist ' who paints for pleasure has a "closed balcony" — like thousands of others, unifying gaping house-fronts in the Bauhausiau city — which functions as a studio. Its drawers overflow with hundreds of sketches, drawings and paintings, as well as postersand photographs — a medley of evidence of the “craftsman's" many years of versatile work. The alls of his spacious, very simply furnished living-room, however, are reserved for a display of his resent work: a few dozen paintings, a small cavalcade that Schneuer hangs to please himself, continually replacing the paintings with others.
These are a few examples of the late phase of his life and art, less than 20 years, devoted in the main painting.
His only language after 50 years in Tel Aviv is German, and he speaks broken Hebrew. Most of is acquaintances - artists as well as others - were “Yekkes” like himself, and a minority were of Polish extraction. Almost all were, in varying degrees, refugees of the Nazi regime, and almost ill are now dead. "The Poles regarded me as a “Yekke”, and the “Yekkes” as a Pole", recalls Schneuer. "Yekke" or Pole? Today he speaks with a touch of nostalgia of being born in the town of Przemisl, although he does not remember a thing about it. His father was born there, and his mother, a peasant's daughter, was from a neighbouring village. Przemisl, situated in Galicia, was in those days a Polish town under Austrian rule, "a place inhabited by Poles, Russians, Austrians, and what have you". Among its Jews, constituting about one-third of the population, there were many tradesmen.
Early Years
David was born in, 1905. In his early childhood the family, on its way to America, delayed in Hamburg, and eventually settled for good in Munich. "My father, a handsome man, belonged to the middle intelligentsia. He had studied in a Yeshiva and knew his Talmud. He wanted to be a writer, but was forced by circumstances to become a businessman. His German was faultless, "whereas my mother spoke a mixture of German and Yiddish", When his father was conscripted into the army during the First World War, his mother brought up the children, eking out an existence from a dress shop. "I went to a Catholic school and grew up to some extent at home, and more in the streets, playing with the Bavarian children of the neighbourhood". Towards the end of his studies at the OBERREALSCHULE (secondary school), Schneuer was a member both pf BAR KOCHBA, a non-Zionist Jewish sports club, and of BLAU-WEISS, an association preparing its members for Zipnist activity. In .this framework, Schneuer was sent to East Prussia and trained in assorted farming chores: loading the harvest on horses, sowing potatoes. Schneuer underwent some of the formative experiences of his life before the age of 20.eanwhile, he did not know whether to be a German, a German Jew or a Zionist Jew, a farmer or a merchant. Of medium height and broad-shouldered, diligent, and energetic, he was destined to become a “craftsaman”. “Farming was actually my first preparation for craftsmanship,” Says Schneuer. The turn of events, combined with his intuition and strong sensuality, were to make the craftsman onto an artist.
Upon returning from Prussia he took to lettering and painting signboards for Jewish shops in Munich. He spent six months with a sign painter in Berlin. Upon returning to Munich he applied to the Kunstgewerbeschule (school of arts and crafts) in the Louisenstrasse. Schneuer relates: “Professor Richard Klein, who was in charge of the Munchner Konstlerfeste, assigned us to design a poster for the event. I submitted two sketches and was thrown out of school for ‘insufficient talent’, only to discover that the actual poster announcing the Kunstlerfeste was based on one of my sketches”. From there he went on to the Berufsschule (vocational school) in the Werkenriederstrasse, under the direction of professor Ruckert. “it was a good school where I learned to make decorative designs”. To support himself during his studies, he designed “expressionist and simple” posters. Among his Munich friends was Georg Gidal brother of the well-known photographer Tim Gidal, and a photographer in his own right. He persuaded Schneuer to go to Paris. Schneuer followed his advice. “Why Paris?” he asks today. “For no particular reason. I was naïve. I arrived in Paris with a Scanty knowledge of French, laboriously acquired during six years of study. A friend found me a hotel in Montparnasse. For half a year I lived in a room on the sixth floor, a tiny room with a tiny table. In the evenings I would sit drawing from my imagination, and during the day I roamed the streets”. Most of the drawings he did in Paris disappeared together with his books after his release from Dachau.
Upon his return to Munich – once more taking the advice of Georg Gidal – he introduced himself at the Munchnern Kammerspiele Im Schauspielhuse, and was engaged at the theater. The first part of his artistic career had begun. It was to come to an end five years later, in 1932.
Munchen
There probably could not exist a more intimate relationship than that which was Forged between the Munich Schauspielhaus and its staff in the years preceding the rise of Nazism. It bore the imprint of a social and cultural, no less than political, destiny. The kammerspiele and the schauspielhaus companies were merged only in 1926, i.e., a few months before Schneuer began working at the theatre, but their history dates back to the early pan of the century. The monchner kammerspiele company was established in 1911. Hugo Ball, one of the founders of Zurich dada during tKe First World War, was its Dramaturg in 1913. Bertold Brecht, too, performed the functions of Chefdramaturg in the years 1922-1924, and during this period consolidated his epic theatre, and even acted together with the famous comedian Kari Valentin. From the mid-twenties, prominent names in German theatre were linked to the Munchner Kammerspiele; Otto Falckenberg functioned as its manager in 1927, seconded by the lawyer Adolf Kaufmann, the producer Julius Gell-ner and the first Dramaturg Heinrich Fischer in leading managerial tasks. Robert Forster-Larrinaga, Richard Revy and Josef diickmann produced and Otto Reigbert was the first stage designer. Among the actors there were distinguished names like Therese Giehse, Wolfgang Liebendner, Hans Schweikart and Kurt Horwitz — the character actor playing the parts of heroes and lovers. There was no fixed cast, however, and everyone tried his hand at almost everything.
Following the "Brecht period", some of the troupe members gathered around the social critic "and poet Karl Kraus, editor of the satirical periodical Du Faekel,
The year 1933 was to bring about the dispersal of this dosely-knit group. Like several Munich intellectuals - the writers Thomas and Heinrich Mann, Brono Frank and Alfred Neumann, the editor of Smpbcissimus T. T. Heine, the painters George Schrimpf, Karl Zcrbc and Richard Lindner, and tfie typographer Hans Tschihold - some of the foremost members of the company, among them the Jews Julius Gellner, Therese Giehse, Kurt Horwitz and David Schneuer, would leave Germany. Gellner was to produce the play Das Schuie-ttischt Z&ndholz in January 1933, and then depart for Prague, Therese Giehse, making her last appearance in the play, would find refuge in Zurich, Horwitz was to disappear after performing in Der Hiimul Europas in July 1933, and so was David Schneuer - after painting his last playbill for Lumpaci Vagdbundus in October 1932.
But Jet us return to the year 1927.
How did Schneuer come to be taken on at the theatre? He recalls being sent to Falckenbcrg and showing him the drawings he had brought back from Paris, According to Schncuer, Falckenberg at the time was working on the adaptation of Frank Wede-kind's play Lulu. "He asked me if I was familiar with Lulu. I said no. 'Buy the book,' he said. I read it in the evening and the next day I made a black-and-white drawing, spontaneously giving expression to my perception of the plot. When I returned to Fakkenberg J found him in the company of T.T. Heine, two giants and little me. Fakkenberg fastened the Drawing onto the door, and they both studied it and praised me for it I was engaged on the spot."
His assignment was to "make the placards, texts and pictures, for the theatre-front in Maximilian-strasse". But after only a few weeks he was offered the opportunity to make a poster for Edgar Wallace's play Der Hexer. The sets for this production were designed by Otto Reigbert, one of Germany's most prominent stage designers, who worked at the kammersfjele throughout the twenties. His designs included the powerful Expressionist-Cubist sets for Bertold Brecht's Trom-mcin in derNacht in 1922. By 1927, when Schneuer started to work tinder him, Reigbert w/as top stage designer at the theatre. It "is difficult to make a step-by-step reconstruction of Schncuer's career as playbill and stage designer during his years at the kammerspiele. The theatre archives were confiscated and virtually destroyed after the Second World War.
Schneuer has the following to say about his work as designer of playbills: 'The kammerspiele was a repertory theatre, producing a large number of plays. If the first performance was a success I was asked to design a poster. I would get down to work immediately after opening night, so that it would be possible to put the poster up the following day. I was expected to finish it by ten in the morning, and sometimes they called on me already at nine. I was a virtuoso craftsman, often completing the work within twenty minutes I worked in the courtyard. I remember how I would pass through it in the! company of the carpenter, and Gellner would glance at the poster from his window. Then we'd go and put it up."
The fact that the Schauspielhaus was suffering from financial difficulties in those years was evident not only in the cautious policy in the preparations of playbills. For various reasons, partly of a cultural and political nature, the theatre in the Maximiliansrasse failed to repeat its successes from the period in the Augustusstrasse and was forced to combine "quality" plays with box-office hits. The frugality included the playbills; "I myself executed the linocuts of my posters, having to make do with two or three colours. Later on someone else printed the linocuts”.
Munich in the twenties was a city of excellent osier designers, Karl Arnold, Josef Seche, Herlann Ketmal, Max Eschle, Julius Ussy Engelhard, Ludwig Hohlwein, Hans Tschihold, and Paul Renner among them. All their works – commercial asters, fashion and sports posters as well as art posters - were printed in the lithograph technique. Schneuer was probably one of the few, and certainly one of the first, Munich artists to make linocuts. How did Schneuer come to use it? He says: "Once I saw a capital letter cut in lino in a printing office. I decided to employ the technique for a poster, and found it easy to work in”.
The Munich poster designers were excellent typographers. Tschihold, the author of Die Neue typograpkie (Berlin, 1928), Renner, Karl Arnold and Rene Binder were eminent representatives of Constructivist typography, uniting geometric form and lettering, a vanguard typography that had already gained ground all over Europe. Keimel, Seche, Eschle and Hohlwein, on the other hand, established design and lettering as separate hut equal element? of the poster, closer in spirit to "Art Deco" than to pure Constructivism, whereas the style of Engelhard was illustrative and related to the traditional "fin de siecle" design. The expressionist style predominating in Seche's posters of the early twenties, was almost completely to disappear from Munich posters towards the end of that decade, although traces of it can still be distinguished in the sets of the plays that were staged at its theatres.
Schneuer's posters, too, were based on an equal treatment of design and lettering, and their combination is primarily an expression of his spontaneous approach and flair for improvisation. Both qualities, in his opinion, accounted for his ability to meet the pressing tune limits, to carry out die shortened route from the quick outline to the printing of the posters from the linoleum block. To a large extent the fast process determined his characteristic style, but it only partly explains it.
Schneuer was familiar with the art styles prevalent in Munich at the time, particularly the style common to several of the graphic; artists working for its magazines - caricaturists, illustrators and Advertisement designers.
Among the exhibition that be saw he refers in general terms to the expressionist ones, but emphasizes his interest in the “Neue Sachlichkeit” artists, Schrimpf, Dix and Grozs.
This shows that he was not particularly curious about modernistic painting and documents his predilection for themes of a human and social character.
Schneuer acknowledges that he liked to study copies of Simplicissimus and the drawings of Pascin which were reproduced in it. But not only the drawings of Pascin, one surmises, since the last of these seems to have been published in this magazine in November 1926. By the late twenties, it featured drawings by the editor, T.T.Heine-who was at home at the Schauspielhous – M.Frinchmann, whose figures at times reveal a Pscin-like sensuousness, E.Schilling, the poster designer Karl Arnold, and Wilhelm Schultz, E. Thony and O. Gulbransson, “the greatest of them all” in Schneuer’s estimation. The stylized character of the figures in Schneuer’s posters based primarily on an elegant, sensuous and exuberantly humorous outline, And on a surface pattern of positive and negative shape, recalls the mischievous and erotic spirit prevailing not only among Simplicissimus illustrators, but on the pages of other Munich magazines as well, such as the prestigious Munchner Jugend and the popular weekly Munchner Illustrierte Presse.
Illustration and advertising, drawing and photography merged in a new world, offering an abundance of pleasure luxury articles to the bourgeois consumer. The Jugend magazine of 1927, and the Munchner Illustrierte Presse featured photo-reportages from Paris. The twenties launched a choice of exotically performs and there were “Casanova” and “Der Rosenkavalier” cigarettes, so called after Richard Strauss’ opera. The ideal beauty was represented by American film stars.
In this realm between illustration and advertisement, eroticism reigned supreme. In the Munchner Illustrierte Presse, photographs of women were headlined “Amerikanische Sconheitsinvasion,” and the advertisements for a brand of perfume contrasted two types of feminine beauty under the slogan “Was sagt die alte Venus zur neven Venus?” The smiling woman and the femme fatale vied for the favour of the consumer, a modern woman, at once sporty and stripped. Even when she cuddled a baby in her arms, the camera exposed her hips. In 1928, Franz von Stuck, the creator of Salome (Lenbachhaus, 1906) – “the artist who established the Academy style”, according to Schneuer – died.
His brand of eroticism continued to fertilize the imagination, however, and its influence was fully recognizable on the pages of magazines. There no longer seemed to be any trace of Kandinsky, who had worked in Munich until 1914. True, below the surface of the bourgeois culture, celebrating day to day life, there was the activity of intellectuals like Thomas Mann and artists of the “Neue Sachlichkeit”, who examined the fate of common man. It is also true that the basic messege of Simplicissimus, reproducing the drawings of Geoge Grosz and Alfred Kubin, was social and political. But this activity was submerged in the manic culture of consumption.
Munich theatre, more than anything, reflected the tention between the two extremes. From 1927 to 1932 they could offered a wide repertory, ranging from pure entertainment to plays defending freedom of expression. In the early twenties, the city’s three main theatres served as vehicles for the staging of modern literary dramas. From 1928, however, avant-garde plays (among them dramas dealing with political issues) met with hostile reactions. While the prestige of Reinhardt stood him in good stead when he visited Munich with his company, performing Dantons Tod in 1929, and Diener zwieier Herren in 1931, on the opening night of Ernst Krenek’s opera Johnny spielt auf at the Gartnertheater (June 1928), Nazi hoodlums bombardwd the stage with stink bomb. The attempt to set up a proletarian thetre faild, and another attempt to establish an anti-Nazi literary cabaret (featuring Therese Giehse) did not come off either. At the other extreme, Ralph Benatzky’s musical comedy Im weissen Rossel at the Deutsches theater scored the greatest success of those years., the Kammerspiele had to struggle against financial difficulties as well as against the illicit censorship. Its repertory was a combination of social comedies, classic and modern dramas, particularly after 1931, when the theatre merged with the Munchner Volkstheater, which specialized in light and musical comedies.
Little visual documentation of the activity of these two theatres has arrived: a few stage and actor photographs and posters. The only evidence of the stage sets and costumes that Schneuer designed for their productions – more than 10 sets in 1931 alone – is found in reviews in the daily papers between 1930 and 1932: a variety of popular and musical comedies, such as Das Kamel geht durch das nadelohr by Franstisek Langer (KAM – Merspiele, March 1930), Soeben Erschienen by Eduard Bourdet (Kammerspiele, probably January 1931), Der Brotverdiener, after somerset Maugham (Kammerspiele, July 1931), Madam hot Ausgang (Volkstheater; author’s name and dates unknown to us), etc
Much as these reviews praise Schneuer, they do not yield any significant information about his work. Schneuer on his part relates that he gained his experience in this field assisting Otto Reigbert the professional scene-painter, in executing his stage sets.
The tracing of Schneuer’s activity as poster designer is more tangible, albeit partial. At least the few surviving posters in Tel-Aviv can give us an indication of their character and range. The earliest of these is a poster that he designed for Edgar Wallace’s play Der Hexer, which was performed at the Kammerspiele on 20 September 1927 in a production by Foster-Larrinage. It already shows full mastery both of the technique of linocut and of surface design.
We have already mentioned the stylistic versatility, matching the style of the power with its spirit. For Joseph Ruderer’s play Die Morgenrote, which was performed on 3 August 1932 in a production by Kurt Horwitz. Schneuer designed a poster in the best 19th century tradition of popular illustration. Doubtless the action, set in Munich in 1848 required a conservative approach, both stylistically and in the relationship between text and picture, the latter taking up most of the poster surface.
In contrast, the poster that Schneuer designed for the Dreigroschenoper, written and composed by Bertold Brecht and Kurt Weill in 1928. is completely contemporary. The protagonists of the drama are beggars. The mischievous humour mocking the characters of a vaudeville show is here replaced by the realization of a human drama, achieved by purely pictorial means: the destiny of the protagonists reflect in the intensity of the colouring and dense figure composition. The style is expressionistic, and the sentiment the same as that which moved the painters of the “Neue Sachlichkeit”. The emotional intensity of this poster is exceptional, and it is found only in a few of his drawings from the same period. The Dreigroschenoper was performed at the Kammerspiele on 20 July 1929, produced by Schweikart, and with the original sets designed for the Berlin production by Casper Neher. Schneuer’s part in the production included the creation of dolls and a series of drawings witch were screened on the backdrop.
Tel - Aviv
In November 1933 Schneuer found himself walking along Allenby Street in Tel Aviv like "Gulliver among die Lilliputians". The eclectic style of the city, barely 25 years old, lent it an almost historical air, somewhere between Orientalism and the style of Eastern Europe. But the newly arrived immigrants from Germany, highly educated and employed in the liberal professions, brought with them the new BAUHAUS style of architecture -plain, unadorned, white three-storeyed houses, all but unknown in conservative Munich - and the suburbs of the "white city" began to indent the coastal dunes at a rapid rate.
The Munich period had come to an end in the first part of the same year. Schneuer was arrested, whether because of his Jewishness, or because of his Communist sympathies, and deported to Dachau. After being detained for two months, he was released and left Munich like a thief in the night, his suitcase full of drawings executed on sheets of the drawing pad purchased at the Bon Marche and a 'handful of books. Exhausted, he reached Prague, where he met friends, refugees like himself: Julius Gellner who helped him procure a small sum of money from one of the wealthy Prague Jews and Thomas Theodor Heine, frequenting an emigre cafe. A month and a half later the emigration certificate to Palestine, obtained by the instrumentality of Tim Gidal, arrived from Berlin, and Schneuer got up and left.
Here again we are in need of Schneuer's testimony in order to reconstruct the story of his life and work. However, as he likes to intertwine people and events in his reminiscences, and as he usually puts at most only his signature on his drawings, we have to go by the dates on which the posters appeared, cafes and hotels were opened, ships were launched and his friends immigrated to the country, in order to bring works of art and events together in time.
Schneuer's life in Israel can be divided into four main periods: The first Tel Aviv years (1933-1937), Jerusalem (1938-1939), back to Tel Aviv (1939-C.1965), and 1965 to the present. It is possible to define the first period as an adjustment to everyday life and to the dynamics of the rapidly emerging culture. This was a period of prosperity, culminating in the Levant Fair of 1934. The ensuing depression forced him to move to Jerusalem, but he soon returned to Tel Aviv and to a period of renewed building activity. The fourth , and final period is characterized by a gradual abandoning of applied graphics and of work in collaboration with architects, and by seclusion in the studio.
Schneuer in 1935 was hard pressed to earn a living. The "Yekkes" with whom he mingled could offer him no more than "good advice". He designed cigarette placards which appeared on the Tel Aviv kiosks, and from 1936 he was employed in the office of Ettlinger, an advertising agent producing newspaper and industrial advertisements. He designed, among other things, the trademark of Keshet, a large dry-cleaning and dyeing establishment, and the wrapping of Blueband margarine. Both belonged to the foremost Constructive! typography which went hand in hand with the new architecture of Tel Aviv.
Schneuer, however, missed the human figure and brought it back, sensuous and smiling, from 1939 onwards in works commissioned by the O.K advertising agency. On the eve of the Second World War, he drew the figure of a boy with unkempt hair and wearing a pixie cap as the trademark of the NECA company's Textile Shampoo washing powder. This boyish figure, one of the most popular images on the Israeli advertising scene, has survived to this very day, likable and nameless - a "Sabra" of "Yekkish" parentage. During and after the war, Schneuer continued to design a series of advertising campaigns in the newspapers.
Schneuer liked to work in his home at No. 3 Bograshov Street, near the sea: "I couldn't stay long in the O.K. office. I would arrive, make some sketches for Frau Kaufman and leave". He worked fast, almost hastily, an impetuous virtuoso. His, elegant line was exuberantly humourous, and Schneuer playfully exploited it for various purposes, outlining a rather complex composition with , forceful strokes, drawing a figure directly with a ! rounded, sensuous line, almost without lifting his j hand from the paper, with the assuredness of one ; who plans ahead, aiming at a simple and direct' image.
The circumstances which caused him to design posters also offered him the first sustained experience as an artist ~ long before he would be able to dedicate all his time to painting: in 1938 the graphic artist found himself out of a job and went to Jerusalem. With great effort he secured a scholarship from the JEWISH AGENCY "for the purpose of studying with Steinhardt". The Expressionist artist and the virtuoso draughtsman had nothing at all in common, but Schneuer made use of Steinhardt's friendship, the time at his disposal, and his creative urge, to draw from the model every day in the latter's spacious studio behind the yard of the BEZALEL School of Art and Crafts.
From around 1938, however, Schneuer invested his "wall decorations with definite graphic characteristics in style and execution, concentrating on pure elements of design in order to create atmosphere in a specific spatial context. In that year, Cafe PILZ, overlooking the sea, opened, the first cafe in town, according to Schneuer, with a genuinely "European style". It was planned by the architect Fenichel who commissioned Schneuer to do "wall decorations" for the cafe. The collaboration between the two was to continue for many years - into the early sixties.
Somebody once wrote in the PALESTINE POST that "all of Dizengoff (a main street) is full of Schneuer". He did wall-decorations for hotels, cafes and bars, adapting himself easily to .the customer's demands and to any style - from a stylized figurative representation to abstraction in the spirit of "Art Deco". He decorated a bar in Pinsker Street "in the Roman style". He made decorative designs for hotels such as the DAN CARMEL in Haifa, for the ZIM company's ships BILU and NILI, built in Antwerp in 1964, and for a big hotel in Abidjan, planned by Fenichel.
Without being aware of it, already in these wall decorations Schneuer kept aloof from his time. It seems paradoxical that the more designs he made for public places, the more he withdrew into an imaginary world, increasingly removed from the reality he himself witnessed.
Schneuer's withdrawal from his own times became an accomplished fact with the shift of his artistic activity from applied graphics and. architectural decoration to painting. The significance of this shift was not limited to the change per se. It implied a conversion from one kind of activity |to another - two activities constituting essentially conflicting messages. The message of applied, graphics is inherent in its very function, defined in advance by the mutual interests of client and designer, providing the means for a clear-cut collective impact. The message of art, on the other hand, is primarily the artist's personal statement. It.; rests mainly on the not necessarily deliberate' exposure of various personal strata. It has no, predetermined purpose or unequivocal addressee. The few drawings from the thirties that remain in Schneuer's portfolio dealt, in an off-hand way, with 'the reality in which he himself lived-in a penciled self-portrait - and with the surrounding world, arousing his curiosity - the exoticism of the Arab figures of Jaffa, seen through the eyes of a "Yekke", Sketchy in execution, they differ from the controlled, purposeful drawing intended for the commercial ads. The keenness of observation is translated into the sensitive line, completely devoid [of stylization and schematization. This reality finds another expression in the illustrative line of the Tel! Aviv street scenes, appearing sporadically in the PALESTINE POST
The works that Schneuer began in the late sixties - at the onset of his fourth Israeli period - deal less with reality than with its reflection. In these works he takes up images which for a long time have been suppressed, together with the past, at the back of: his mind. The new experiment occurs on a purely existential level, his artistic experience, in all its prior transmutations, having been fundamentally technical in character.
True, the human figure in the advertisements is the Very same as that represented in the paintings: stylized, sensuous, performing a part. The same, yet different. The restrictions resulting from a specific purpose are loosened and replaced by freedom of action, and by sheer creative zest.His friend Steinhardt once told him "You will become a good artist - you are not afraid of erasing". Schneuer, spontaneous as he is, composes his painting quickly, almost hurriedly. First with colour — red and blue, toned down to opaque shades of violet, grey, light-blue and Sienna red. If the hue does not seem right to him he wipes it out and starts afresh. Once, painting a ceiling, he began using the remainder of the glue in the bucket "in order to achieve delicate shades". Now he uses dirty water for the same purpose. "That's my trick", says Schneuer.
The means — the "tricks" - are simple, and employed for the final formulation of the painting. The scene is represented frontally - a theatrical parade of attractive men haunting loose girls in imaginary bars, which Schneuer, shy as he is, probably never frequented; figures from the world of Les Enfants du Paradis, La Boheme, of Baudelaire, of Toulouse-Lautrec, Cheret and Mucha – a Munich version of Paris, fashioned in Te! Aviv. All the figures arc linked, all the elements are joined I into what Schneuer regards as the main thing: "Plasticity and dynamics, balance and line". "A splash of colour turning into a body", he adds, "into a face, into hair". The composition is constructed on two levels - the division of the surface into areas of colour, which are further divided into linear rhythms, groups of figures, a female bust facing the erect, arrogant figure of a man. Both levels not only strike a harmonious chord, but primarily set up a new configuration in which Schneuer's past as stage designer and illustrator fuses and periods and memories intertwine.
"Elegance", said Raymond Radiguet, the author of Le Diable au Corps, "should look somewhat slovenly". In Schneuer's elegant figures, the "slight slovenliness" is expressed in a sense of candid eroticism which accompanies them. Perhaps this elegance is only the outer expression of an ironic ceremony in which the fashionable and ridiculed protagonists parade like actors on a stage. Schneuer admires Picasso, but unlike the latter he remains aloof and does not participate in the lives of his protagonists. In a realm of obsessed imagination, the show must go on.
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When I did not meet Dorothea Holloway at this year's ecumenical reception of the churches in Berlin, I was worried. Rightly, as it turned out soon. Shortly before the opening of the Berlinale, which she used to visit as long as I remember, the actress Dorothea Holloway, born in Weissenfels on the Saale and performing under her maiden name Moritz, died on February 3, in her 85th year of age.
In 1954 she graduated with a diploma at the State Drama School of Hamburg. Abigail in Arthur Miller’s "Hexenjagd" was her first unforgettable role, the drama being transferred to a radio play under the direction of Fritz Schröder-Jahn. Various theatre engagements in Hof, Augsburg, Bonn, Düsseldorf, Bochum, Hamburg, Berlin und Stuttgart among others followed, whereby she occasionally worked with such well-known directors as Fritz Kortner, Hans Schweikart, Gustaf Gründgens and Percy Adlon.
In addition to her participation in television productions (Stahlnetz, 1959-1963; Polizeifunk ruft, 1968; Hamburg Transit, 1972-1974; Tatort, 1975-2001), since the 1970s she regularly played in feature films, namely in films by Niklaus Schilling, Andrzej Wajda, Dieter Köster and Ulrike Ottinger among others. One of the unforgettable roles that she particularly liked to remember was that of the mother in the prize-winning film "Höhenfeuer" from 1985 by Swiss director Fredi Murer, which in Locarno not only got the Golden Leopard, but also the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and the Youth Jury. It received worldwide attention under the title "Alpine Fire" (see "Kino German-Film" No 20/1985).
Parallel to her acting, she became involved in the German-Polish reconciliation in the early 1970s, worked as a journalist and film critic, paying particular attention to Eastern European cinema. At the Film Festival Karlovy Vary she met the Catholic theologian and film journalist Ron Holloway from Chicago, who had graduated at the Protestant Faculty at the University of Hamburg with a fundamental thesis on "Beyond the image. Approaches to the Religious Dimension in the Cinema ".
When Wolf Donner, then the director of the Berlinale, appointed Ron Holloway to the selection commission with the focus "Russia" he and Dorothea moved to Berlin in 1976. Dorothea became member of the Children's Film Festival's selection committee, which she belonged to for 19 years. Ron began writing as a correspondent to various film industry publications, including the Hollywood Reporter, Variety, and the Herald Tribune, and became an intermediary for the young German film in North America. Together, they launched the English publication "Kino German Film" (www.kino-germanfilm.de) in 1977 with the aim of providing a platform for the German film in the English language and culture.
Without any public support they produced one edition after the other distributing them at the festivals in Berlin and Cannes, and even after the death of Ron in 2009, Dorothea continued tirelessly, supported by her nephew Gregor Sedlag, and also by Martin Blaney. Number 107, appearing at the Berlinale 2015, was the last printed edition. Instead of concentrating on the print product, which was now difficult to distribute, she began to publish up to three weekly blogposts on kino-germanfilm.de, thus by the end of 2015 possibly getting the most eager individual voice for German film on the web, as her nephew Gregor Sedlag emphasizes. After all, her and Ron's commitment was honoured with a number of tributes. After Ron Holloway was awarded by the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1999, the American Foundation honoured Ron and Dorothea with the award of the "Freedom Award" for "opening our eyes to the East." In 2004 they became honorary members of INTERFILM, and in 2007 Dieter Kosslick handed over to them the Berlinale Camera.
Dorothea Holloway (together with Ron) took part in the history of INTERFILM as member of its juries, as well as of ecumenical juries. Of course she has, also been called to other, partly official festival juries. She was not only in Cannes and in Berlin, or in Mannheim and Leipzig, in the ecumenical jury. At the Film Festival Max Ophuels Prize Saarbrücken, dedicated to young German-speaking filmmakers, she was a co-founder of the INTERFILM jury, which was set up in 1985, in collaboration with the former director of the festival, Albrecht Stuby, and was a member of this jury for many years. Because support and promotion of young talents was a matter close to her and Ron’s heart. In Saarbrücken 1989, I first met her personally as a jury member.
She remained an actress to the last. Since 1998, she regularly carried through readings in urban and rural cultural houses and churches, and especially in the Berlin Cathedral, whereupon she was particularly proud of. Now she rests next to her Ron in the cemetery of the Evangelical Church Community of St. John in Alt-Moabit Berlin. | |||||||
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Hans Schweikart (1 October 1895 – 1 December 1975) was a German film director, actor and screenwriter.[1] He directed 28 films between 1938 and 1968. He wrote for the film The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi, which was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival.[2]
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Everding actually discovered musical theatre relatively late in his working life, an experience which led him from Hochhut and Brecht to Wagner and Mozart. The middle period of his career was dominated by his love for opera, with productions in Beirut and at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. He also took the directorship of the Hamburg Staatsoper in 1973, a post which he left in 1977 to return to Munich.
His term at the helm of the Munich Opera House was overshadowed by a running feud with the musical director of the house, Wolfgang Sawallisch, who, Everding felt, had rather less respect for singers and directors than he did himself.
In 1980, Everding became Generalintendant of Munich, a post which was invented for him, in recognition of his outstanding ability.This promotion gave him sway over all of Munich's theatres.
Despite the considerable demands of this position, Everding still found time for an endless list of other local projects, including membership of innumerable committees, funding, restoring and reopening the Munich Prinzregententheater, founding a theatre academy and a museum of theatre. He produced plays and opera all over the world, including Verdi's I Due Foscari in Covent Garden in 1995. While his critics tended to see him as the archetypal Figaro in Rossini's opera Barber of Seville, a Jack-of-all-trades seemingly everywhere at the same time, nobody could deny his immense energy and his effectiveness.
A Westphalian by birth and educated at the universities of Bonn and Munich, he read philosophy, theology, German literature and theatre studies before becoming an assistant to Fritz Kortner and Hans Schweikart in Munich. That was the beginning of his own rapid rise, through the ranks of the Munich Kammerspiele, of which he became Intendant (general director) at 34.
A typical day in the life of this untiring creature and creator could include a broadcast discussion, rehearsal, student party, session at the theatre academy, and attending an evening performance while dictating letters and giving interviews.
He drew much of his phenomenal energy from his devout Catholic faith, which he never chose to publicise, but which also helped him feel at home in Catholic Bavaria; this southern German state was an ideal environment for his baroque personality, which combined his passion for theatre with a good deal of vanity and shrewdness.
As a director, Everding always felt underestimated and unkindly dealt with by reviewers. His unique strength was, in fact, less in directing than in lending his electrifying personality to the theatre. As such, he proved a catalyst of numerous projects which would have been impossible without him.
He leaves a wife, Gustava, and four sons. | |||||
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Therese Giehse enjoyed a great friendship with Thomas Mann and his children Klaus and Erika. On January 1, 1933, together with Erika and Klaus Mann and Magnus Henning, she founded the literary cabaret Die Pfeffermühle (The Peppermill), where anti-Nazi politics reigned supreme. After the Nazi rise to power, when Giehse emigrated to Switzerland via Austria on March 13 as a Jew and a member of the political Left, the Peppermill was moved to the Hirschen Hotel in Zürich. The shows played to full houses for many weeks. Giehse and Erika Mann toured Europe with the cabaret’s anti-fascist program, scoring a great success. The actors never referred by name to individual cities or entities. Rather, they presented parables, fables and portraits designed to draw attention to the political situation in National-Socialist Germany. Guest performances in the United States were less successful.
In 1936 Giehse married the British author John Hampson-Simpson, thus gaining British citizenship, which could protect her from potential German attacks. From 1938 to 1945 she worked at the Zürich Schauspielhaus, where Oskar Wälterlin enabled many prominent emigrés to resume their work. On April 19, 1941, under the direction of Leopold Lindtberg, she was the first to play Mother Courage in Brecht’s pacifist play and therewith found “her author”—Bertolt Brecht. For his part he referred to her as Europe’s greatest actress. The “Brechtian and Bavarian,” as Benjamin Henrichs termed it, suited her character as an actress to perfection. From 1949 to 1952 she worked at the Berliner Ensemble. Mother Courage (1952), the great female parts in Biberpelz and Gerhardt Hauptmann’s Roten Hahn (1951) and finally Martha Rull in Heinrich von Kleist’s The Broken Jug, established her reputation as an “intellectual popular actress.”
Giehse was often accused of being a difficult person and an obstinate actress. Considered stubborn, she delighted in swimming against the stream, was distant, critical, totally unsentimental, lacking in vanity (unlike many of her colleagues), and a highly disciplined actress. After 1945 further major roles included The Madwoman of Chaillot by Jean Giraudoux (1946) and Maxim Gorki’s Wassa Schelesnowa (1947).
From 1949 she was a guest actress at the Munich Kammerspiele, which from 1947 was directed by Hans Schweikart. Here she was especially brilliant in Dürenmatt roles. The Swiss playwright created his The Physicians (1962) for her: the part of the psychologist Dr. Mathilde von Zahnd was among her greatest performances. In addition to her work on the stage, Therese Giehse also appeared in films (e.g. Leopoldt Lindtberg’s The Lost Chance, 1945), radio and television productions. Form 1954 on, she once again resided in Munich. As she grew older, Giehse enjoyed working with aspiring young artists such as Peter Stein, Martin Sperr and Franz Xavier Kroetz, but not with established theater people. During the 1960s, when the extra-parliamentary opposition protest reached even the theaters, she frequently appeared with a new, radical generation of theater creators. At the opening performance at the theater on the banks of the Halle in 1970 she played the title role in Gorki’s The Mother. She bade farewell to her audiences with a highly-regarded Brecht evening at the Berliner Ensemble, with which she toured Germany in 1974, and an appearance in Louis Malle’s film, Julien. Thereafter she was seldom seen onstage, but in 1968, during the war in Vietnam, she appeared in readings of texts by Brecht and was active in the cause of disarmament.
She died in Munich on March 3, 1975.
Selected Works by Therese Giehse
“Ich hab nichts zum Sagen.” An interview with Monika Spert. Munich, Gütersloh, Vienna: 1978. | ||||
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After the Nazi party took power in 1933, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels promoted the establishment of the Reichskulturkammer (Chamber of Culture) instituition. Actors were required to apply for membership in the Theaterkammer (Chamber of Theatre) for an “Aryan certificate” which meant a prohibition (Berufsverbot) for Meta Wolff.
The couple managed to avoid the anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws and rising tide of anti-semitic violence in Nazi Germany. From 1934 Gottschalk performed at the Schauspielhaus Frankfurt and in 1938 joined the Volksbühne ensemble in Berlin. In the same year he began his film career starring in the romance You and I directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner, side by side with the popular German actress Brigitte Horney.
During World War II , Gottschalk and Horney appeared as a “dream couple” in a string of successful movies.
One day Gottschalk took his Jewish wife to a social function and introduced her to some of the prominent Nazis who were present. Although the Nazis were charmed, Goebbels learned about this incident, and decreed that Gottschalk would be required to separate from his Jewish wife. When Gottschalk refused, Goebbels ordered Gottschalk’s wife and child transported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. The minister’s Special Representative Hans Hinkel insisted on the divorce and Gottschalk was told he would never work as an actor again
Gottschalk insisted on accompanying Meta and Michael to Theresienstadt, but Goebbels ordered Gottschalk inducted into the German Army, the Wehrmacht.
On 6 November 1941, minutes before the expected arrival of the Gestapo at their house in Berlin-Grunewald, Gottschalk and his wife committed suicide by gas poisoning after sedating their son, who died with them.
They are buried at the Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery. Though warned by Minister Goebbels, Brigitte Horney and Wolfgang Liebeneiner, as well as other artists like Gustav Knuth, Hans Brausewetter, Werner Hinz, and Ruth Hellberg attended the funeral.
Goebbels ordered no further mentions of Gottschalk in the German newspapers.Because of Nazi censorship, most of his devoted fans did not learn of the awful circumstances of his death until after the war. In 1947 Kurt Maetzig directed the movie Marriage in the Shadows after a novella by Hans Schweikart based on Gottschalk and Wolff. | |||||
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During the 1930s, German stage and film star <b>Joachim Gottschalk</b> (1904-1941) was a romantic lead in the style of Clark Gable. He starred in a series of films opposite the popular German actress Brigitte Horney. When the Nazis demanded that he would separate from his Jewish wife, the Gottschalks committed suicide.
Joachim Gottschalk was born in Calau, Germany, in 1904. He was the son of a doctor. He attended the Gymnasium in Cottbus and after his exams, he went to sea. Between 1922 and 1926 he sailed on the three-master Großherzogin Elisabeth to Chile and to Australia. After leaving service, he took acting classes in Berlin and Cottbus. During an engagement at the Württembergische Volksbühne in Stuttgart, he met his future wife, the actress Meta Wolff. In May 1930 they married in Halberstadt and in February 1933 their son Michael was born. A few months later Hitler came to power. Meta was Jewish and Michael thus half-Jewish, but the Gottschalks managed to avoid the anti-Semitic Nuremberg laws and the rising tide of anti-semitic violence in Nazi Germany because of ‘Joschy’ Gottschalk's immense popularity with the public. His wife had a Berufsverbot but Gottschalk could continue his acting if he stayed secret about his family situation. After an engagement in Leipzig, Gottschalk played from 1934 to 1938 in Frankfurt am Main. There he had his breakthrough at the Municipal Theater in parts as a hero and romantic lover. In 1938 he moved to Berlin to play at the Volksbühne. There he had a smash hit in his role as Fiesco in the play by Friedrich Schiller. His theatrical successes have made him one of the most popular actors in the capital. In 1938 he also began his film career with a starring role alongside Brigitte Horney in the Tobis production Du und ich/You and I (Wolfgang Liebeneiner, 1938). The film was a success, and the two leads subsequently made four more films together. In Tripoli in Libya, they filmed Aufruhr in Damaskus/Tumult in Damascus (Gustav Ucicky, 1939). Then they starred in the successful romantic comedy Eine Frau wie du/A Woman Like You (Viktor Tourjansky, 1939) with Hans Brausewetter, which made Gottschalk the German Clark Gable’. On the island Farnö, they next filmed the romantic drama Das Mädchen von Fanö/ The Girl from Fano (Hans Schweikart, 1940) with Gustav Knuth. He also appeared with Paula Wessely in the melodrama Ein Leben lang/A whole life long (Gustav Ucicky, 1939), and with Hertha Feiler in Flucht ins Dunkel/Escape into Darkness (Arthur Maria Rabenalt, 1939).
After the start of the war, the pressure of the Propaganda Ministry on the successful Star began to increase. Hans Hinkel, Special Representative for Kulturpersonalien (cultural celebrities) demanded Joachim Gottschalk to divorce, but Gottschalk refused. He worked in the studio on Die schwedische Nachtigall/The Swedish Nightingale (Peter Paul Brauer, 1941) about the romance of fairytale writer Hans Christian Andersen (Gottschalk) and the Danish singer Jenny Lind (Ilse Werner). It was again a huge success. Another triumph was his stage role as Silvio in Carlo Goldoni's Servant of Two Masters. But in early June as Volksbühne director Eugen Klöpfer presented his next production, Faust, Gottschalk's name was not on the cast list. He was not offered any more roles at any Berlin stage. English Wikipedia explains what had caused the ban. Naively, Gottschalk had taken his Jewish wife to a film industry Artist's Association dinner and introduced her to some of the prominent Nazis who were present. Although the Nazis were charmed, the Nazi propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels learned about this incident and decreed that Gottschalk would be required to separate from his Jewish wife. (Klaus J. Hennig writes at DieZeit.de that Goebbels was present at the dinner and charmed by Gottschalk’s wife, but he became enraged later when he found out that Meta was Jewish). When Gottschalk refused to separate, Goebbels ordered Gottschalk's wife and child transported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Gottschalk insisted on accompanying Meta and Michael to Theresienstadt, but Goebbels ordered Gottschalk inducted into the German Army, the Wehrmacht. The Gottschalks saw no way out. In November 1941, minutes before the expected arrival of the Gestapo at their apartment in Berlin-Grunewald, they first sedated their nine-year-old son and then committed suicide by gas poisoning. Joachim Gottschalk was only 37 when he died.
Joachim Gottschalk was buried with his wife and son in one grave (it was forbidden to bury Jews and non-Jews together) at the Südwestkirchhof Stahnsdorf of Berlin. Only a few courageous colleagues attended the funeral, among them were Brigitte Horney, Gustav Knuth, Hans Brausewetter, Werner Hinz, Wolfgang Liebeneiner and Ruth Hellberg. Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels forbade any obituary, but word about his death got out anyway and millions of German women were in mourning. Because of Nazi censorship, most of his devoted fans did not learn the awful circumstances of his death. This incident poisoned the already-tense relationship between Goebbels and the German film community. At the end of WWII, Goebbels and his wife would also commit suicide in Hitler's Berlin bunker and poisoned their six young children. Goebbels' motive was fear of being captured by the advancing Soviet Army, which was less than a mile away. Goebbels had played a major role in the Holocaust, including the production of a series of anti-Semitic films, and he knew he would have been put on trial and executed, had he lived. After the war, the DEFA studio made a film about Joachim Gottschalk, Ehe im Schatten/Marriage in the Shadows (1947, Kurt Maetzig). Finally, the tragic fate of Gottschalk and his family became known to the German public. The film was based on the novella Es wird schon nicht so schlimm (It won’t become that bad), written by Gottschalk’s former director Hans Schweikart. Since 1999, Gottschalk’s grave is an Ehrengrab (grave of honour) for the city of Berlin.
Sources: Klaus J. Hennig (Die Zeit), Hanns-Georg Rodek (Filmportal.de) (German), Wikipedia (German and English), and IMDb.
<b>And, please check out our blog <a href="http://filmstarpostcards.blogspot.com/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">European Film Star Postcards</a>.</b> | en | https://combo.staticflickr.com/pw/favicon.ico | Flickr | https://www.flickr.com/photos/truusbobjantoo/49560029401 | German postcard by Ross-Verlag, no. A 3144/2, 1941-1944. Photo: Bavaria-Filmkunst. Joachim Gottschalk in Das Mädchen von Fanö/The Girl from Fano (Hans Schweikart, 1941).
During the 1930s, German stage and film star Joachim Gottschalk (1904-1941) was a romantic lead in the style of Clark Gable. He starred in a series of films opposite the popular German actress Brigitte Horney. When the Nazis demanded that he would separate from his Jewish wife, the Gottschalks committed suicide.
Joachim Gottschalk was born in Calau, Germany, in 1904. He was the son of a doctor. He attended the Gymnasium in Cottbus and after his exams, he went to sea. Between 1922 and 1926 he sailed on the three-master Großherzogin Elisabeth to Chile and to Australia. After leaving service, he took acting classes in Berlin and Cottbus. During an engagement at the Württembergische Volksbühne in Stuttgart, he met his future wife, the actress Meta Wolff. In May 1930 they married in Halberstadt and in February 1933 their son Michael was born. A few months later Hitler came to power. Meta was Jewish and Michael thus half-Jewish, but the Gottschalks managed to avoid the anti-Semitic Nuremberg laws and the rising tide of anti-semitic violence in Nazi Germany because of ‘Joschy’ Gottschalk's immense popularity with the public. His wife had a Berufsverbot but Gottschalk could continue his acting if he stayed secret about his family situation. After an engagement in Leipzig, Gottschalk played from 1934 to 1938 in Frankfurt am Main. There he had his breakthrough at the Municipal Theater in parts as a hero and romantic lover. In 1938 he moved to Berlin to play at the Volksbühne. There he had a smash hit in his role as Fiesco in the play by Friedrich Schiller. His theatrical successes have made him one of the most popular actors in the capital. In 1938 he also began his film career with a starring role alongside Brigitte Horney in the Tobis production Du und ich/You and I (Wolfgang Liebeneiner, 1938). The film was a success, and the two leads subsequently made four more films together. In Tripoli in Libya, they filmed Aufruhr in Damaskus/Tumult in Damascus (Gustav Ucicky, 1939). Then they starred in the successful romantic comedy Eine Frau wie du/A Woman Like You (Viktor Tourjansky, 1939) with Hans Brausewetter, which made Gottschalk the German Clark Gable’. On the island Farnö, they next filmed the romantic drama Das Mädchen von Fanö/ The Girl from Fano (Hans Schweikart, 1940) with Gustav Knuth. He also appeared with Paula Wessely in the melodrama Ein Leben lang/A whole life long (Gustav Ucicky, 1939), and with Hertha Feiler in Flucht ins Dunkel/Escape into Darkness (Arthur Maria Rabenalt, 1939).
After the start of the war, the pressure of the Propaganda Ministry on the successful Star began to increase. Hans Hinkel, Special Representative for Kulturpersonalien (cultural celebrities) demanded Joachim Gottschalk to divorce, but Gottschalk refused. He worked in the studio on Die schwedische Nachtigall/The Swedish Nightingale (Peter Paul Brauer, 1941) about the romance of fairytale writer Hans Christian Andersen (Gottschalk) and the Danish singer Jenny Lind (Ilse Werner). It was again a huge success. Another triumph was his stage role as Silvio in Carlo Goldoni's Servant of Two Masters. But in early June as Volksbühne director Eugen Klöpfer presented his next production, Faust, Gottschalk's name was not on the cast list. He was not offered any more roles at any Berlin stage. English Wikipedia explains what had caused the ban. Naively, Gottschalk had taken his Jewish wife to a film industry Artist's Association dinner and introduced her to some of the prominent Nazis who were present. Although the Nazis were charmed, the Nazi propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels learned about this incident and decreed that Gottschalk would be required to separate from his Jewish wife. (Klaus J. Hennig writes at DieZeit.de that Goebbels was present at the dinner and charmed by Gottschalk’s wife, but he became enraged later when he found out that Meta was Jewish). When Gottschalk refused to separate, Goebbels ordered Gottschalk's wife and child transported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Gottschalk insisted on accompanying Meta and Michael to Theresienstadt, but Goebbels ordered Gottschalk inducted into the German Army, the Wehrmacht. The Gottschalks saw no way out. In November 1941, minutes before the expected arrival of the Gestapo at their apartment in Berlin-Grunewald, they first sedated their nine-year-old son and then committed suicide by gas poisoning. Joachim Gottschalk was only 37 when he died.
Joachim Gottschalk was buried with his wife and son in one grave (it was forbidden to bury Jews and non-Jews together) at the Südwestkirchhof Stahnsdorf of Berlin. Only a few courageous colleagues attended the funeral, among them were Brigitte Horney, Gustav Knuth, Hans Brausewetter, Werner Hinz, Wolfgang Liebeneiner and Ruth Hellberg. Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels forbade any obituary, but word about his death got out anyway and millions of German women were in mourning. Because of Nazi censorship, most of his devoted fans did not learn the awful circumstances of his death. This incident poisoned the already-tense relationship between Goebbels and the German film community. At the end of WWII, Goebbels and his wife would also commit suicide in Hitler's Berlin bunker and poisoned their six young children. Goebbels' motive was fear of being captured by the advancing Soviet Army, which was less than a mile away. Goebbels had played a major role in the Holocaust, including the production of a series of anti-Semitic films, and he knew he would have been put on trial and executed, had he lived. After the war, the DEFA studio made a film about Joachim Gottschalk, Ehe im Schatten/Marriage in the Shadows (1947, Kurt Maetzig). Finally, the tragic fate of Gottschalk and his family became known to the German public. The film was based on the novella Es wird schon nicht so schlimm (It won’t become that bad), written by Gottschalk’s former director Hans Schweikart. Since 1999, Gottschalk’s grave is an Ehrengrab (grave of honour) for the city of Berlin.
Sources: Klaus J. Hennig (Die Zeit), Hanns-Georg Rodek (Filmportal.de) (German), Wikipedia (German and English), and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards. | ||||
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Advice and Dissent
USA, 2002, 21 minutes, color
Directed By Leib Cohen
35mm DVD VHS
A frustrated businessman, Jeffery Goldman (John Pankow) tries to end his hopeless marriage by asking his local Rabbi (Eli Wallach) to place a curse on his wife. What happens next sets in motion a chain of unexpected events. Also starring Rebecca Pidgeon. More
The Affair Blum (Affaire Blum)
East Germany, 1948, 109 minutes, B&W
German with English subtitles
Directed by Erich Engel
16mm
This early postwar suspense story, based on a well-known 1926 murder trial with Dreyfus-like overtones represents an East German reflection on Nazism. More
Ahead of Time: The Extraordinary Journey of Ruth Gruber
2009, USA/ Israel, 73 minutes, Color/ B&W
English & Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Robert Richman
DVD
Born in Brooklyn in 1911, Ruth Gruber became the youngest Ph.D. in the world before going on to become an international foreign correspondent and photojournalist at age 24. She emerged as the eyes and conscience of the world. With her love of adventure, fearlessness and powerful intellect, Ruth defied tradition in an extraordinary career that spanned more than seven decades. More
All Jews Out!(Alle Juden Raus!)
Germany, 1990, 82 minutes, color/B&W
German with English subtitles
Directed by Emanuel Rund
16mm DVD
Tracing the story of the German-Jewish Auerbacher family of Goppingen, Germany, from 1933 through 1945, Rund’s documentary utilizes the family’s home movies from the 1930s, as well as interviews and footage of the family’s return visit to their home town, and to Theresienstadt. More
Alois Brunner: The Last Nazi
USA, 2000, 60 minutes, color
Directed by Monika Kopla
DVD
Alois Brunner is the most notorious Nazi war criminal still alive. This documentary includes interviews with the last journalist to have questioned Brunner and with Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld, who has, since the end of World War II, been pursuing Brunner—the man who murdered his father. More
Altalena
Israel, 1994, 53 minutes, color/B&W
English and Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Ilana Tsur
DVD
In 1948, the Altalena arrived in Israel carrying 930 World War II refugees and ammunition amassed by the irgun in direct violation of Prime Minister David Ben Gurion's new military chain-of-command. Ben Gurion gave an order to shell the ship, forcing Jews to fire on Jews and almost sparking a civil war. More
Ambulance (Ambulans)
Poland, 1962, 15 minutes, B&W
Music only- no narration/dialogue.
Directed by Janusz Morgenstern
16mm DVD
In this haunting short film, a group of Jewish children and their teacher are herded into ambulance (or so it appears) by Nazis. A powerful trigger for discussion, the film draws parallels to the real life fate of Janusz Korczak who died with his students at Treblinka. More
America Condemns Nazi Terrorism
USA, 1938, 4 minutes, B&W
Narrator: Lowell Thomas
16mm
This Movietone newsreel from the week of 20 November 1938 is the only known filmed American news story about Kristallnacht. This rare footage shows President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, former president Herbert Hoover, Al Smith, and Alf Landon. More
American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco
USA, 2013, 57 minutes
Directed by Marc Shaffer
Blu-ray DVDThe remarkable story of the pioneering Jews of San Francisco. Drawn to California by the Gold Rush, Jews were welcomed in San Francisco. They went on to build a thriving community, the second largest Jewish community in the United States after New York. With a newfound freedom, Jews played a central role in the transformation of this once-sleepy maritime village into the largest metropolis in the American West. More
American Matchmaker (Amerikaner Shadkhn)
RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1940, 87 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
35mm 16mm DVD
Leo Fuchs, the "Yiddish Fred Astaire," stars in this musical comedy as Nat Silver, a debonair and wealthy Jewish-American businessman whose recent engagement (his eighth) goes awry. Ulmer’s last Yiddish movie was also his most modern, an art deco romantic comedy about male ambivalence and Jewish assimilation. More
Amy
USA, 1997, 8 minutes, color
Directed by Susan Rivo
DVD
A poignant and hilarious personal narrative about the filmmaker’s lifelong attachment and deep bond with a stuffed animal received at birth. More
An Appeal to the Jews of the World RESTORED BY NCJF
USSR, 1941, 6 minutes, B&W
Russian, Yiddish and English with English subtitles
16mm DVD
In 1941, a group of the Soviet Union’s most prominent Jewish writers and artists, including Solomon Mikhoels, Peretz Markish, and Sergei Eisenstein, signed an appeal to Jews throughout the world, asking them to join the Soviet people in fighting against fascism. More
Angel of Ahlem
USA, 2007, 61 minutes, color and B&W
Directed by Sandra Dickson, Churchill Roberts, Cindy Hill & Cara Pilson
DVD
While liberating the Ahlem concentration camp, GI Vernon Tott felt compelled to photograph the horror. 50 years later, Vernon sets out to find the men he photographed, a quest that transforms all their lives. The evidence—of unbearable cruelty and miraculous survival—cements a sustaining bond between Vernon and the Jewish survivors. More
Angst
Australia, 1993, 56 minutes, color
Directed by Judy Menczel
DVD
Angst looks at the lives nd performances of three Jewish comedians—Deb Filler, Sandy Gutman, and Moshe Waldoks—whose parents are concentration camp survivors. More
Appelfeld's Table
Israel, 2004, 47 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Adi Japhet Fuchs
DVD
Imagination, memories, and fiction combine in this film about the life and world of renowned Israeli writer Aharon Appelfeld. The film joins the author on his daily pilgrimages to the Jerusalem café, Anna Ticho House. More
The Arena (Ha-Zirah)
Israel, 2001, 48 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Moish Goldberg & Yonatan Gurfinke
DVD
This is a story of a town square—the Kings of Israel Square, known as Rabin Square. When a controversial plan to convert the square into a parking lot is discovered, the relevance and importance of the square are heightened. More
As If Nothing Happened (Ke'Ilu Klum Lo Kara)
Israel, 1999, 50 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Ayelet Bargur
DVD
Based on the personal experience of the director, this award-winning feature film focuses on one family waiting to hear news of a son who may have been involved in a terrorist incident. More
At the End of the Day
Israel, 2000, 50 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Ayelet Bargur
DVD
Four young men, all commanders in the same Israeli Defense Force Golan Heights paratrooper unit, were killed over a 22-month period from 1995 to 1997. Their families, realizing they all suffer a common fate, agree to meet and share their stories. More
Auschwitz (Oswiecim)
USSR, 1945, 21 minutes, B&W
English narration
Produced at the Central Documentary Film Studio
16mm DVD
This Soviet Army film of the liberation of Auschwitz Concentration Camp was awarded the Red Banner in 1945. It contains dramatic footage of the survivors and some of the atrocities perpetrated in this most notorious of camps. More
Avodah
Palestine, 1935, 50 minutes, B&W
Music only with English subtitles
Director: Helmar Lerski
35mm DVD
This landmark documentary celebrates the pioneering labors of early Jewish settlers in Palestine, recording the technological and agricultural accomplishments of the pioneers and the idea of a socialist Jewish state. More
Aya: An Imagined Autobiography (Autobiographia Dimionit)
Israel, 1994, 87 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Michal Bat-Adam
35mm DVD
Director Michal Bet-Adam, stars in the title role as a woman driven by her father’s ambitions for her. Now she is shooting a film and fragments of dreams and fantasy alternate with reality. More
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Back To Gombin
USA, 2002, 56 minutes, color
Directed by Minna Packer
DVD
A tapestry of film and photographs including rare footage shot in Gombin in 1937, this film tells the story of a group of 50 children of survivors of the Shoah, who return to their parents’ Polish village of Gombin and experience acts of reconciliation, healing, and discovery. More
Baklava and The Meaning of Life
USA, 1999, 23 minutes, color
Directed by Jamil Simon
DVD
Where does one find the meaning of life? Perhaps in the kitchen of Iraqi-born sculptor Helene Simon, where she discusses her life and shows us how to make her famous Baklava. More
The Balcony
Israel, 2000, 54 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Ruth Walk
DVD
A moving portrait of Israel Becker, a founder of the first professional Yiddish theatrical company in post-war Germany and writer and star of the 1946 autobiographic feature film Long is the Road (restored by NCJF), the first feature to portray the Holocaust from a Jewish point of view. More
Bar Mitzvah RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1935, 75 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Henry Lynn
DVD
Starring Yiddish theater superstar Boris Thomashefsky in his only film performance, this musical melodrama is a masterwork of shund, the bread and butter of the Yiddish theater. More
Being Jewish in France (Comme un juif en France)
France, 2007, 185 minutes (Part I, 73 minutes; Part II, 112 minutes), color
French with English subtitles
Written and Directed by Yves Jeuland
DVD
A sweeping documentary that explores the complex history of Jews in France--the first country to grant Jews citizenship--beginning with Revolutionary cries of Vive la France in Yiddish through the explosive Dreyfus Affair, and the absorption of Jews from Arab countries in the 1960s to charges of rising antisemitism in the 21st century. More
The BellsUSA, 1926, 85 minutes, B&W, Silent with English intertitles
Directed by James Young
16mm
Lionel Barrymore stars as an Alsatian innkeeper whose political ambitions drive him to commit brutal murder in this silent melodrama. The Bells is an example of one way in which Jews have been stereotyped in theater and cinema. More
Ben Dov: Images of a Dreamer
France, 1999, 55 minutes, color/B&W
Hebrew and French with English subtitles
Directed by Alex Szalat
16mm DVD
Yorn near Kiev in 1882, Yakov Ben Dov came to Jerusalem from the Ukraine in 1907 with little more than a still camera to his name. He became one of the most accomplished photographers and filmmakers of his time. More
The Bene Israel: A Family Portrait
India, 1994, 33 minutes, color
Marathi with English subtitles
Directed by Karen Nathanson and Jean-Francois Fernandez
DVD
This film is both an intimate family portrait and a fascinating ethnographic study of the Bene Israel, one of three groups of Jews living in India today. More
Benjamin and the Miracle of Chanukah
USA, 1978, 30 minutes, color, animated
Directed by Robert Mitchell
16mm
This animated film featuring the voice of Herschel Bernardi traces the story of Chanukah through the fictional story of a young boy and his faithful donkey. More
The Benny Zinger Show
Israel, 1993, 37 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Arnon Goldfinger
DVD
Benny Zinger presents slide shows at weddings until one day, while preparing a show for a couple, he falls in love with the bride. More
The Bent Tree
USA, 1980, 8 minutes, Animated
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Sally Heckel
16mm
An animated fable based on Itzik Manger's folk tune. More
Benya Krik RESTORED BY NCJF
USSR, 1926, 90 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by V. Vilner
35mm DVD
The seamy Jewish underworld of Odessa is the setting for Isaac Babel's story based on the life of gangster king Mishka Yaponchik "Mike the Jap" Vinnitsky. Murder is a way of life for Benya and his gang until he finds himself ensnared in a Bolshevik trap. More
Bewoket: By the Will of God
USA, 2009, 66 minutes, color
English and Amharic with English subtitles
Directed by Andrea Mydlarz Zeller & Sam Shnider
DVD
In 1990, Dr. Rick Hodes went to Ethiopia to set up medical clinics. He never left. "Dr. Rick" treats thousands of Ethiopians, among them a group of boys who live with him. An Orthodox Jew, he typifies the Jewish value of Tikkun Olam ("repairing the world"). More
Biloxi Blues
USA, 1988, 106 minutes, color
Directed by Mike Nichols
16mm
Mike Nichols’ adaptation of Neil Simon’s play, starring Matthew Broderick. More Bitter Herbs and Honey
Australia, 1996, 70 minutes, color
Directed by Monique Schwartz
16mm DVD
After World War II thousands of poor, Jewish immigrants fled Europe to rebuild their lives in Carlton, Australia. These new arrivals chose to maintain their own language, religion, and culture. More
Blood Money
The Netherlands, 2001, 58 minutes, color
Directed by Benny Brunner & Daniel Cil Brecher
BetaSP
Millions of Jewish victims of the Holocaust have claimed and obtained monetary compensation for their persecution, enslavement, and dispossession. Blood Money investigates the motivations and political maneuvers which accompanied the complex restitution agreements. More
Bonjour! Shalom!
Canada, 1991, 53 minutes, color
Directed by Garry Beitel
16mm DVD
In the small Montreal municipality of Outremont, two very different communities live side by side: Hassidic Jews and their French-Catholic neighbors. This award-winning film examines the complex dynamics involved in this clash of cultures. More Born in Berlin (Shalosh Nashim)
Israel, 1991, 85 minutes, color/B&W
German, English, Swedish and Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Naomi Ben-Natan and Leora Kamenetzky
16MM DVD
A penetrating look at the lives of three Jewish women writers: Cordelia Edvardson, Angelika Schrobsdorff, and Inge Deutschkron. All three grew up in pre-war Berlin until Nazi racial laws shattered their lives, and eventually all three made their way to Israel. More
Born in Buenos Aires
USA, 2003, 40 minutes, color
English and Spanish with English subtitles
Directed by Beth Toni Kruvant
DVD
This documentary provides personal insight into the difficult situation faced by many Jews in Argentina, particularly following the bombings of the Israeli embassy and AMIA Jewish community Center, both in Buenos Aires, in the 1990s. More
Both Sides of the Wire
Canada, 1993, 51 minutes, color
Directed by Neal Livingston
16mm DVD
In 1940, the British government shipped thousands of refugees, most of them Jews, to P.O.W. camps in Canada and Australia. The Canadian government, while still refusing entry to Jewish refugees, realized that their prisoners were civilian refugees and not the Nazis they were expecting. More
Bound for Nowhere: The St. Louis Episode
USA, 1939, 9 minutes, B&W
Produced by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
16mm DVD
The JDC produced this film to record what it thought would be a successful effort to save over 900 Jews, by sailing them from Nazi Germany to Cuba on the ship St. Louis, but Cuba and then the United States barred the refugees’ entrance. More
Braids (Tzamot)
Israel, 1989, 90 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Yitzhak Halutzi
16mm DVD
Based on a true story, Braids tells the tale of So'ad, a 14-year-old Jewish girl imprisoned by the Iraqi government in 1947 for her participation in the Zionist movement. More
Breaking Home Ties RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1922, 78 minutes, B&W
Silent with new English intertitles
Directed by Frank N. Seltzer & George K. Rowlands
DCP DVD Blu-ray
Long thought lost, the world's only existing print of Breaking Home Ties was discovered by NCJF in a Berlin archive in 1984. Thinking he killed his friend Paul in a blind rage, David Bergmann flees pre-revolutionary Russia for America. In New York he becomes a succesful lawyer and woos the boss' daughter Rose. More
Breaking the Silence: The Generation After the Holocaust
USA, 1984, 58 minutes, color
Directed by Edward A. Mason; Produced by Eva Fogelman
DVD
This classic film tells a moving story of personal growth as the children of Holocaust survivors find the strength to confront their painful legacy and overcome the barriers of unasked and unanswered questions that separate them from their parents. More
Brighton Beach Memoirs
USA, 1986, 110 minutes, color
Directed by Gene Saks
16mm
Gene Saks’ adaptation of Neil Simon’s play in which a teenage Jewish boy recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. More
The Buchenwald Ball
Australia, 2006, 52 minutes, color
Directed by Andrew Wiseman, Danny Ben-Moshe & Uri Mizrahi
DVD
Uplifting, full of swagger and joie de vivre, this film tells the story of 45 orphans who survived the Holocaust and found their way to Australia. Every year on April 11, the anniversary of their liberation from Buchenwald, the “Buchenwald Boys” hold a music and dancing ball. More
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Camera Obscura (La Camara Oscura)Argentina, 2008, 86 minutes, color/B&W
Spanish and Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed By María Victoria Menis
35mm DVD
A lyrical, inventive new film from award-winning, film festival favorite director María Victoria Menis. At the end of the 19th century, Gertrudis grows into her role as the ugly duckling in a colony of Argentinean Jews until she meets a nomadic photographer whose uncompromising vision allows her to see herself for the first time. More
A Cantor on Trial (Khazan afn Probe) RESTORED BY NCJFUSA, 1931, 10 min, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Sidney M. Goldin
35mm 16mm DVDCantor Leibele Waldman plays multiple roles in this spoof of a synagogue committee in search of a chazan (cantor). More
The Cantor's Son (Dem Khazns Zundl) RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1937, 90 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Ilya Motyleff (Sidney Goldin, uncredited)
35mm DVD
This "anti-Jazz Singer” marks the screen debut of Moishe Oysher who stars as a wayward youth who makes his way from his Polish shtetl to New York's Lower East Side where he becomes a well-known singer. Ultimately, he returns home to the Old Country and reunites with his parents and his childhood sweetheart. More
Carvalho's Journey
USA, 2015, 85 minutes
Directed by Steve Rivo
Digital Blu-ray DVD
A real life 19th-century American western adventure story, Carvalho's Journey tells the extraordinary story of Solomon Nunes Carvalho (1815-1897), an observant Sephardic Jew born in Charleston, South Carolina, and his life as a groundbreaking explorer and artist. The film interweaves stunning HD digital and 16mm film landscape cinematography, rare 19th century photographs and artwork, Carvalho’s own surviving paintings and daguerreotypes, and interviews with scholars and artists, including modern day daguerreotypist Robert Shlaer who recreates Carvalho’s original daguerreotypes on location. More
Catskill Honeymoon
USA, 1949, 93 minutes, B&W
English and Yiddish (no subtitles)
Directed by Josef Berne
16mm DVD
A Jewish resort hotel celebrates a pair of longtime customers' 50th wedding anniversary by staging an old-fashioned Borscht Belt show. Filmed on location at Young's Gap Hotel in Parksville, New York. More
Chariots of Fire UK, 1981, 124 minutes, color
Directed by Hugh Hudson
16mm
The true story of two British track athletes competing in the 1924 Summer Olympics. More
Chasing Shadows UK, 1990, 52 minutes, color/B&W
Directed by Naomi Gryn
16mm DVD
Hugo Gryn was 15 years old when he left his hometown, Berohovo, believing he would never see it again. In 1990, Gryn and his daughter, filmmaker Naomi Gryn returned to the world of his childhood, where only ghosts and shadows remain. More
A Child of the Ghetto DIGITALLY RESTORED BY NCJFUSA, 1910, 15 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by D. W. Griffith
16mm Blu-ray DVD
This tale of New York’s Lower East Side life captures the hustle and bustle of Rivington Street through the lens of legendary Hollywood director D. W. Griffith. Ruth flees the ghetto and hides in the country, where a young farmer takes her in and they fall in love. More
Children Must Laugh (Mir Kumen On) PRESERVED BY NCJFPoland, 1935, 63 minutes, B&W
English & Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Aleksander Ford for the Jewish Labor Bund
16mm DVD
One of the few surviving documentaries about Jewish life in Poland before World War II, this film was produced to raise funds for the Vladimir Medem Sanitarium which stood as the embodiment of health and enlightenment, in striking contrast to the grim images of urban Polish-Jewish poverty. More
The Children of Izieu USA, 1992, 28 minutes, color
Directed by Tom Demenkoff
DVD
In 1944, one month before the end of World War II, the Gestapo in Lyon, under the command of Klaus Barbie, sent two vans to the French village of Izieu to remove the Jewish children from an orphanage known as La Maison d’Izieu. More
The Chosen USA, 1982, 108 minutes, color
Directed by Jeremy Paul Kagan
16mm
Jeremy Kagan’s film adaptation of the classic novel by Chaim Potok. More
Chronicle of Love (Chronika Shel Ahava) Israel, 1998, 90 minutes, color
Hebrew with English Subtitles
Directed by Tzipi Trope
35mm DVD
In this the first Israeli feature film to deal with the subject of battered women. Nava, a social worker, shares the painful secret of her suffering with Jania, another woman victimized by her husband and the two form a healing bond. More
Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising According to Marek Edelman
(Kronika powstania w getcie warszawskim wg Marka Edelmana) Poland, 1994, 70 minutes, B&W
Polish with English subtitles
Directed by Jolanta Dylewska
DVD
Marek Edelman, a member of the Jewish Labor Bund and a leading participant in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, gives a daily account of events from April 19 through May 10, 1942. More
ClementineIsrael, 2009, 48 minutes
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Tal Haim Yoffe
DVD
A fascinating investigation that mirrors the development of Israel itself. Shaking his own family tree in this beautifully-crafted documentary, Tal Yoffe discovers a pioneering kibbutznik filmmaker, a Czarist army officer, a Nazi-trained blacksmith, several war heroes and a much missed father. More
Cohen on the Telephone DIGITALLY RESTORED BY NCJFUSA, 1929, 9 minutes, B&W
with sound, in English
Directed by Robert Ross
16mm Blu-ray DVD
Trying to make a call and unfamiliar with the telephone, Cohen embroils himself in a comic monologue of misunderstanding. Here, we see how the Jewish immigrant is now characterized not simply by how he moves and looks, but by how he speaks. More
Cohen Saves the Flag PRESERVED BY NCJFUSA, 1913, 10 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Mack Sennett
16mm DVD
Cohen is a sergeant in the Union Army and the bitter rival of another officer for the attentions of Rebecca. Like most burlesque Jewish characters of this period, this caricature borders on anti-semitism. Yet Cohen is also the hero of the film. More
Cohen's Advertising Scheme PRESERVED BY NCJF USA, 1904, 1 minute, B&W
Silent without intertitles
Directed by Edwin S. Porter
16mm DVD
This may be the earliest cinematic example of the Jewish stereotype known as the "scheming merchant”. Cohen, a grotesquely made-up Jewish shop owner, tricks a passerby into wearing a coat that has a sign advertising his store attached to the back. More
Cohen's Fire Sale PRESERVED BY NCJF USA, 1907, 10 minutes, B&W
Silent without intertitles
Directed by Edwin S. Porter
16mm DVD
Cohen, made-up in grotesque vaudevillian Jewish style, pursues a trash wagon, picking up hats as they accidentally drop off. When he finds the hats are not selling, Cohen reads his insurance policy and arranges for an "accidental" fire." More
Comrade Abram (Tovarishch Abram) RESTORED BY NCJF USSR, 1919, 18 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Alexander Razumni
35mm 16mm DVD
Tne of a series of short Bolshevik propaganda films, Comrade Abram focuses on Abram Hersh, a young Jewish pogrom survivor who became a factory worker and organizer in Moscow and, eventually, a leader in the Red Army. More
The Cowboy
USA, 1968, 11 minutes, B&W
Yiddish (no subtitles)
Directed by Abe Wexler
16mm DVDIt's just your typical all-Yiddish shoot-'em-up. This hilarious spoof was made by adding a Yiddish dialogue to a 1932 Hollywood Western. More
 Cubaâs Forgotten Jewels: A Haven in Havana
USA, 2017, 46 minutes, color
Directed By Robin Truesdale & Judy Kreith
DVD Blu-ray DCPExplore the little-known history of the Jewish refugees who escaped Nazi-occupied Europe for the Caribbean island of Cuba. The documentary recalls the refugees' lives in wartime Havana: the draw of Cuban food, music and dance, its language and people, and the challenges of an unfamiliar land. Shot on location in Cuba, featuring an original score of Cuban and Jewish music. More
Crossing Delancey USA, 1988, 97 minutes, color
Directed by Joan Micklin Silver
16mm
Based on Susan Sandler’s play, Crossing Delancey is a charming comedy about new world desires clashing with old world traditions. It’s a timeless tale of a woman struggling to find happiness and independence...her way. More
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Daffke...The Four Lives of Inge Deutschkron (Daffke...! Die vier Leben der Inge D.)
Germany, 1999, 90 minutes, color
(English Language version)
Directed byWolfgang Kolneder
VHS
Holocaust survivor and author Inge Deutschkron’s story comes to the screen in this film chronicling 70 years of her life and career. More
Danzig 1939 USA, 1980, 30 minutes, color/B&W
Directed by Sidney Reichman for the Jewish Museum of New York
16mm
All but approximately 100 Danzig Jews escaped the Nazi terror because local synagogue leaders made the unprecedented move of selling their religious artifacts and using the proceeds to finance the immigration of the entire community. In this film a group of reunited Danzig survivors identify the artifacts and explore the history of their families. More
Davidoff Newsreel Palestine, 1934, 10 minutes, B&W
Hebrew (an English translation sheet accompanies film)
Produced by Davidoff Newsreel Company
16mm
This newsreel segment depicts the first voyage of a Polish ocean liner to Palestine in 1934, including its departure, voyage, and the urban vistas of Haifa and Tel Aviv, which greeted its arrival. More
The Day Grandpa Died USA, 1970, 11 minutes, color
Produced by King Screen Productions
16mm
A child comes to accept death as a part of life. More
A Day In Warsaw RESTORED BY NCJF Poland, 1938, 10 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with complete new English subtitles
Produced by Shaul and Yitzhak Goskin
16mm DVD
Rare pre-war views of the lively Jewish neighborhoods of Warsaw—home to 400,000 Jews lived before World War II—including Zamenhof Street and the commercial “beehive” Nalewki Street. More
Days of Memory
Lithuania, 1999, 65 minutes, color/B&W
Lithuanian, Hebrew and Yiddish with English subtitles and English narration
Directed by Saulius Berzinis
DVD
This overview of an academic conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of the destruction of the Vilna Ghetto held in Vilna in 1993 includes contemporary footage juxtaposed with historical visual materials. More
Dear Mr. Waldman (Michtavim Le America)
Israel, 2006, 86 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Hanan Peled
35mm DVD
In Tel Aviv in the 1960s 10-year-old Hilik knows his goal in life is to compensate for the grief his parents suffered in the Holocaust. More
Death Mills aka Mills of Death (Die Todesmuhlen) USA, 1945, 22 minutes, B&W
Produced by the U.S. Department of War Information
16mm DVD
Originally made with a German soundtrack for screening in occupied Germany and Austria, this film was the first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi extermination camps: the survivors, the conditions, and the evidence of mass murder. More
Diamonds in the Snow
USA, 1994, 59 minutes, color
Directed by Mira Reym Binford
16mm DVD
Thousands of Jewish children lived in the Polish city of Bendzin before the Holocaust. Barely a dozen survived the community’s destruction. This critically-acclaimed documentary tells the story of three of these children—Ada, Shulamit, and the filmmaker herself, Mira. More
Disraeli USA, 1929, 89 minutes, B&W
Directed by Alfred E. Green
16mm
In the early days of sound film, one of Warner Bros.' big box-office draws was the aging stage actor George Arliss and, in Disraeli, Arliss scored his biggest box-office hit. More
Dream of My People USA, 1934, 66 minutes, B&W
Directed by A.J. Bloome for Palestine-American Film Co.
16mm DVD
A rare, early documentary on Palestine, featuring the last appearance of Cantor Yossele Rosenblatt. More
Dreamers and Builders Israel, 1996, 50 minutes, B&W
English
Directed by Yaakov Gross
DVD
This historic document of Palestine during the tumultuous 1920s includes footage from three rare films by Ya'akov Ben Dov, the father of Hebrew cinema, preserved in a joint project by the National Center for Jewish Film and the Israel Film Archive. More
Dreyfus Revisited: A Current Affair USA, 2006, 17 minutes
Written & Produced by: Lorraine Beitler
Directed by: Jonathan Gruber, Dawn Freer & Patricia Giniger Snyder
DVD
The Dreyfus Affair, one of history's most notorious cases of criminal injustice and antisemitism, split French public opinion and set off an international uproar that resulted in anti-Jewish riots in every major city in France, violence that served as a prelude to the Holocaust and as a catalyst to the development of modern Zionism. More
The Dybbuk (Der Dibuk)
Poland, 1937, 123 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with complete new English subtitles
Directed by Michal Waszynski
35mm 16mm DVD
Boundaries separating the natural from the supernatural dissolve as ill-fated pledges, unfulfilled passions, and untimely deaths ensnare two families in a tragic labyrinth of spiritual possession in this classic Yiddish feature film based on the celebrated play by S. Ansky. More
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East and West (Mizrekh un Mayrev/ Ost und West) RESTORED BY NCJF
Austria, 1923, 85 minutes, B&W
Silent with Yiddish & English intertitles
Added original soundtrack (1991)
Directed by Sidney M. Goldin and Ivan Abramson
16mm DVD
Morris Brown, a New York gambler acquainted more with his checkbook than his prayer book, returns to Galicia with his very American daughter, Mollie (Molly Picon) for a family wedding. But Mollie, whose exuberant antics fill the film, unexpectedly meets her match—an engaging young yeshiva scholar who forsakes tradition and joins the secular world to win her heart. More
The Eighty-First Blow (Ha-Makah Hashmonim V'Echad) Israel, 1975, 91 minutes (originally 115 minutes), B&W
Hebrew and Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by David Bergman
16mm
This Academy Award-nominated film is the first documentary of a trilogy produced under the auspices of the Israeli Ghetto Fighters' House' (Beit Lohamei Haghetaot). The project constitutes one of the most ambitious attempts at a comprehensive film history of the Holocaust. More
Einsatzgruppen: The Death Brigades (Les Commandos de la Mort) France, 2009, 180 minutes (Two parts)
English narration, French, German w/ English subtitles
Directed by Michaël Prazan
Nazi mobile killing squads, led by highly-educated officers and aided by local collaborators, systematically murdered over a million Jews. Who were the men who carried out mass murder at close range? Prazan's definitive masterwork features a powerful array of astounding, never-seen-before film and photographs. “Essential viewing” – Variety More
Enemies: A Love Story USA, 1989, 119 minutes, color
Directed by Paul Mazursky
16mm
This film, based on the novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer, deals with the lives of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, who find it difficult to abide by religious morales and question a God who could let the Holocaust occur. More
Escape to the Rising Sun (Survivre à Shanghai) Belgium, 1990, 95 minutes, color
French with English narration
Directed by Diane Perelsztejn
35mm DVD VHS
In 1939, European Jews lucky enough to escape the Nazis had only one place in the world to go that did not require an exit visa: Shanghai. Escape to the Rising Sun tells the little-known story of nearly 5,000 Jews who reached Shanghai. More
Everything's For You USA, 1989, 58 minutes, color/B&W
Directed by Abraham Ravett
16mm DVD
Ravett attempts to reconcile issues in his life as the child of a Holocaust survivor in this experimental, non-narrative film about memory, death, and what critic Bruce Jenkins calls “the power of the photographic image and sound to resurrect the past". More
Exodus USA, 1960, 212 minutes, color
Directed by Otto Preminger
16mm
A classic film starring Paul Newman, about the foundation of the state of Israel. More
Exodus to Berlin
USA/Germany, 2001, 90 minutes, color
English and German with English subtitles
Directed by Peter Laufer and Jeff Kamen
DVD VHS
The collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe unleashed anti-semitism in the former Soviet bloc, creating the first massive exodus of Jews since the end of World War II. Today, in bittersweet irony, tens of thousands of Jews escape persecution by fleeing to Germany. More
Expulsion and Memory Canada, 1996, 60 minutes, color
Directed by Simcha Jacobovici and Roger Pyke
DVD
This documentary traces the descendants of Spanish Jews who were forced to either flee or convert to Catholicism after Queen Isabella's edict of 1492. Many of these Jews had to practice their religion in secret, passing their furtively-recalled customs down through the generations. More
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Russia, 1992, 27 minutes, B&W
Russian with English subtitles
Directed by Arkadiy Yakhnis
35mm DVD
This award-winning documentary chronicles a 90-year old man’s emigration to Israel from his native shtetl in Bessabaria. This beautifully photographed film poetically captures the end of a rich Jewish heritage in Russia. More
Father's Footsteps (Comme Ton Pére)France/Israel, 2007, 95 minutes, color
French & Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Marco Carmel
DVD
In the early 1970s, the Maimons, a rambunctious but tight knit Tunisian-Israeli family, settle in Paris seeking adventure and fortune. Israeli-French filmmaker Marco Carmel draws on events from his own childhood in this unusual coming of age story. Starring French celebrity actor/humorist Gad Elmaleh. More
The Feast of Passover (Di Seder Nakht)
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USA, 1931, 15 minutes, B&W
English, Hebrew, and Yiddish (no subtitles)
Produced by Sidney M. Goldin for Jacob Berkowitz
16mm DVD
A seder in the midst of North American prosperity recalls traditional Passover celebrations in Russia (with the same cast enacting both scenes). Then modernity returns with a knock at the door and a humorous twist. More
Fiddler on the Roof USA, 1971, 181 minutes, color
Directed by Norman Jewison
16mm
The film version of the stage musical, based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem. Tevye the milkman is a Jewish peasant in pre-Revolutionary Russia, coping with the day-to-day problems of shtetl life, his Jewish traditions, his family, and state-sanctioned pogroms. More
Fiestaremos! Judy Frankel and the Sephardic Music Tradition USA, 2008, 30 minutes, color
English with songs in Ladino
Directed by Kathleen Regan
DVD
Judy Frankel was one of the leading collectors and practitioners of Sephardic folk music. Fiestaremos! includes interviews with Frankel, musical excerpts and performances in an intimate look at Frankel and Sephardic music and songs. More
The Fifth Horseman is Fear (...a páty jezdec je Strach) Czechoslovakia, 1964, 100 minutes, B&W
Czech with English subtitles
Directed by Zbynek Brynych
16mm
In Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia a Jewish doctor, forbidden to practice, has to remove a bullet from a wounded Resistance fighter. He roams Prague streets in a desperate search for morphine while hiding his patient from the Nazis. More
Finding Leah Tickotsky: A Discovery of Heritage in Poland USA, 2010, 48 minutes, color
Directed by Sarah Golabek-Goldman
DVD
This documentary explores Polish-Jewish relations as well as one filmmaker's personal journey to discover her family roots. Through her eyes, Finding Leah Tickotsky provides a perspective on one of the most painful periods in history and serves as a reminder of the extraordinary contributions Jews made to Poland over nine centuries. More
Flames in the Ashes (Pnei Hamered) Israel, 1985, 90 minutes, B&W
Yiddish and Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Haim Gouri and Jacquot Erlich
16mm
This film, the third in a trilogy (The Eighty-First Blow ,The Last Sea ) examines Jewish resistance during World War II. More
Force of Evil USA, 1989, 60 minutes, color
Produced by Steven Schlow
DVD
This Emmy Award-winning documentary traces the rise of Nazism in general and the career of Adolf Eichmann in particular by documenting the small incremental steps the Nazis took to introduce their ideology of anti-semitism in Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. More
Forgotten Children Australia, 2009, 55 minutes, color
English
Directed by Monique Schwarz
DVD
Amid the crisis surrounding the education of Aboriginal children in Australia, there is a ray of hope. The unlikely source: Israeli teachers. Follow a team of Israeli educators as they bring a new method for teaching at-risk kids to the Australian outback. More
Four Friends (Pegisha Hozeret) Israel, 2000, 60 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Esther Dar
16mm DVD
Four women—a Palestinian Moslem; a Palestinian Christian; a Jew from a prominent Zionist family; and a Jew from Tel Aviv—roommates at an Anglican boarding school in Jerusalem in 1939, meet 50 years later for a reunion. More
From Philadelphia to the Front USA, 2005, 37 minutes, color
Directed by Judy Gelles and Marianne Bernstein
DVD
This award-winning film is one of the few documentaries to explore the experiences of Jewish-American World War II soldiers. For Jews, the war to defeat Hitler had deeply personal significance. An audience favorite, this film focuses on six Philadelphia veterans, now in their 80’s. More
The Front USA, 1976, 94 minutes, color
Directed by Woody Allen
16mm
Woody Allen plays a man of no real talent or strong political convictions who is paid to be a front for a group of black listed writers during the McCarthy period in the United States. More
The Führer Gives a City to the Jews (Der Führer schenkt den Juden eine Stadt) RESTORED BY NCJFGermany, 1944, 23 minutes (incomplete), B&W
Produced by the Ministry of Propaganda of the Third Reich
16mm DVD
Germany’s Ministry of Propaganda produced this 1944 film about Theresienstadt, the “model” ghetto established by the Nazis. The film, however, is an elaborately staged hoax presenting a completely false picture of camp life. Upon completion, the director and most of the cast of prisoners were shipped to Auschwitz. More
Funny Girl USA, 1968, 155 minutes, color
Directed by William Wyler
16mm
The life of comedienne Fannie Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of the Lower East Side, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, including her marriage to and eventual divorce from her first husband, Nick Arnstein. More
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UK, 1975, 52 minutes, color/B&W
Directed by Michael Darlow
16mm VHS
Narrated by Sir Laurence Olivier, this documentary remains one of the best comprehensive overviews of the Holocaust and is an excellent tool for teacher training. More
Gentleman's AgreementUSA, 1947, 118 minutes, B&W
Directed by Elia Kazan
16mm
A classic film in which a journalist who passes himself off as a Jew to write an article about Semitism in America, and discovers how racism affects people. More
Germany Awake (Deutschland, erwache!) West Germany, 1968, 90 minutes, B&W
German with English narration and subtitles
Directed by Erwin Leiser
16mm
This compilation film examines the use of feature films as a political weapon in the Third Reich. More
Girona: The Mother of Israel, The Jews of Catalonia USA, 1989, 30 minutes, color
Directed by Patricia Giniger Snyder
DVD
This film documents Jewish daily life in Girona, a city in the northeastern Spanish region of Catalonia, from its “golden age” in the middle ages through the expulsion of Spanish Jewry in 1492 and up to the present day. More
The Giving Tree USA, 1971, 10 minutes, color
From the story by Shel Silverstein
16mm
This animated short tells the story of the relationship between a little boy and the tree which lovingly and unstintingly provides for his needs at each stage of his life. More
God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore (An uns glaubt Gott nicht mehr)
Austria, 1982, 110 minutes, B&W
German with English subtitles
Directed By Axel Corti
16mm DVD
The first film in Corti’s acclaimed epic trilogy, Where To and Back. After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, Ferry Tobler, a young Viennese Jew, flees to Prague and then Paris, lands in a French prison camp, and eventually escapes to Marseille. More
God, Man and Devil (Got, Mentsch, un Taybl) RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1949, 100 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Seiden
16mm DVD
Based on a play by Jacob Gordin, God, Man and Devil centers on a wager between God and Satan that has dire consequences. Beware, the film cautions, when money sounds sweeter than music. More
Golda Meir UK, 1971, 52 minutes, color/B&W
Produced by the BBC
16mm
A close-up documentary portrait of one of the century's outstanding women and an illustrated account of the dramatic events in which she was a leading protagonist. More
Great Cantors in Cinema/ Great Cantors of the Golden Age RESTORED BY NCJFUSA, 2006, 120 minutes, B&W/color
Hebrew, Yiddish and English with English subtitles
Directed by Rich Pontius; Produced by Cantor Murray Simon
2 DVD Set
These two films feature some of the rarest and finest performances of renowned cantors from 1910 to the 1940s, including Adolph Katchko, Yossele Rosenblatt, David Roitman, Joseph Shlisky, and Mordechai Hershman, Moshe Koussevitsky, and Leibele Waldman. More
Green Fields (Grine Felder) RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1937, 95 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and Jacob Ben-Ami
35mm 16mm DVD
Voted Best Foreign Film in France 1938. Ulmer’s soulful, open-air adaptation of Peretz Hirshbein’s classic play heralded the Golden Age of Yiddish cinema. When an ascetic young scholar ventures into the countryside, searching for the city of “true Jews,” he learns some unexpected lessons from the Jewish peasants who take him in. More
The Green Dumpster Mystery (Ha'taalumah Ba'meholah Ha'yerukah)Israel, 2008, 50 minutes
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Tal Haim Yoffe
DVD
Traveling on his scooter through Tel Aviv, filmmaker Tal Haim Yoffe finds a discarded box of old photographs in a green dumpster. This docu-detective film, slowly unwinds a family history, beginning in Lodz, Poland, and traveling through the Siberian Gulag, a Samarkand sugar plant, a Ha’apala ship and the battlefields of the Sinai Peninsula. More
GripsholmGermany, 2000, 102 minutes, color
German and Swedish with English subtitles
Directed by Xavier Koller
35mm DVD
Based on Kurt Tucholsky’s autobiographical novel about the decadent world of Berlin cabaret of the early 1930s. After writing inflammatory articles about the Nazis, Kurt (Ulrich Noethen), a German-Jewish publisher, travels to the Swedish palace of Gripsholm with his girlfriend Lydia and their friends. More
Gruber's Journey Romania, 2008, 100 minutes, color
Romanian w/ English Subtitles
Directed by Radu Gabrea
35mm DigiBeta DVD
An Italian journalist suffering from debilitating allergies searches for a Jewish allergist named Gruber amid the outrageous, and increasingly sinister, bureaucracy of Nazi-occupied Romania. What begins as an absurdist wild goose chase leads directly to the heart of the final solution, and the disastrous fate of the local Jews. Radu Gabrea’s “Perfect yet subdued” film is Romania’s first drama about the Holocaust. More
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Half Sister USA, 1985, 22 minutes, color
Directed by Abraham Ravett
16mm DVD
At 26, Abraham Ravett learned that his mother had previously been married and lost her family at Auschwitz, including his 6-year-old half-sister, Toncia. Half Sister is a cinematic amalgam of memory and imagination, inspired by Ravett’s conception of a life that would have been. More
Half the Kingdom
Canada, 1989, 58 minutes, color
Directed by Francine E. Zuckerman & Roushell N. Goldstein
DVD
In this provocative, award-winning documentary seven remarkable women from Canada, Israel, and the United States strive to find common ground between religious and cultural tradition and contemporary feminist principles. More
The Hangman USA, 1964, 12 minutes, color
Directed by Paul Julian and Les Goldman
16mm
In this allegorical short, the people of a town are condemned to die one by one by a mysterious stranger who erects a gallows in the town square. The townspeople create a rationale for each hanging, until only one person is left, he who failed all along to raise his voice in protest. More
Hatikvah: The Hope RESTORED BY NCJF Germany, 1936, 48 minutes, B&W
Silent with German and English intertitles
Produced by the German Zionist Union
16mm DVD
Made in 1936 in an effort to inspire German Jews under Nazi rule to make aliyah to Palestine, this documentary about the earliest period of Zionist history is a singular celluloid artifact. More
His Excellency (Yevo Prevoshoditelstvo) RESTORED BY NCJF
USSR, 1928, 76 minutes (Incomplete: missing one reel), B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Grigori Roshal
35mm 16mm DVD
This 1928 film features stylized cinematography and actors from the Moscow Art Theater in a fiction story based on the life of Jewish Labor Bund member Hirsch Lekert who attempted to assassinate the Vilna governor in 1902 to avenge the flogging of workers who participated in a May Day rally. More
His People RESTORED BY NCJFUSA, 1925, 91 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Edward Sloman
16mm DVD
The two sons of a poor Russian-Jewish pushcart peddler on New York's Lower East Side are causing their father grief. As Morris and Sammy stray from traditions cherished by their parents, each generation learns to accept change to preserve the family as a source of love and respect. More
His Wife's Lover(Zayn Vaybs Lubovnik)
RESTORED BY NCJFUSA, 1931, 80 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Sidney M. Goldin
35mm DVD
His Wife’s Lover stars the popular comedian of the Yiddish theatre Ludwig Satz. It was billed as the "first Jewish musical comedy talking picture." More
Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream USA, 1997, 100 minutes, color/B&W
Directed by Simcha Jacobovici
16mm
Based on Neal Gabler's best-selling book, this award-winning film tells the story of the Jewish moguls who founded Hollywood. All were immigrants, or children of immigrants, who wanted to reinvent themselves as Americans. More
The Holocaust Tourist UK, 2005, 10 min, color
Directed by Jes Benstock
DVD
A wry, animated documentary about how Holocaust tourism distorts history. A whistle-stop tour from Auschwitz hot-dogs to Krakow's kitsch Judaica. More
Holy For Me Israel, 1995, 34 min, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Assaf Bernstein
DVD
This fiction film spoofs tours of the "holy" sites of Israel. Join Jonah and his unwitting group of tourists on an insane two-day tour of Tel Aviv. More
The Holy Land
USA, 1917, 5 minutes, B&W, Silent
Produced by Conquest Pictures
16mm
This historic and rare footage of Palestine focuses on the holy Christian and Jewish sites of Jerusalem. More
Homicide USA, 1991, 102 minutes, color
Directed by David Mamet
16mm
A Jewish homicide detective investigates a seemingly minor murder and falls in with a Zionist group as a result. More
House of Rothschild USA, 1934, 88 minutes, B&W
Directed by Alfred L. Werker
16mm
George Arliss stars as Nathan Rothschild in this chronicle of the famed banking family at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. More
The House on Chelouche Street (Ha-Bayit Berechov Chelouche) Israel, 1973, 115 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Moshe Mizrahi
16mm
This Academy Award-nominated feature focuses on Sami, a teenager from a newly-arrived, poor Sephardic family living in the slums of Palestine during the turbulent last days of the British Mandate. More
How Moshe Came Back PRESERVED BY NCJF USA, 1914, 10 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Produced by Crystal Films
16mm DVD
An example of Jewish characterizations in the silent film era, Moshe, a 98-pound boxer defeats his 240-pounds opponent…by cheating. More
How To: Be Or Not To Be Netherlands, 2008, 58 minutes
English and Dutch with English subtitles
Directed by Erga Netz
DVD
Dutch, Surinamese, African, Catholics, Muslims, Jews: young people from all over The Netherlands adapt Sholem Aleichem’s 1907 novel The Bloody Hoax at a unique international, multicultural theater school in Amsterdam. More
How To Re-Establish a Vodka Empire UK, 2012, 75 minutes
Written and Directed by Dan Edelstyn
DCP, DigiBeta, BluRay, DVD
When British filmmaker Edelstyn travels to the Ukraine in search of his Jewish roots and discovers that the vodka distillery opened by his great grandfather in 1904 is still in operation, he decides--despite his utter lack of business experience--to become a liquor entrepreneur. "A barnstorming tale of vodka and revolution." --BBC Radio More
Human Failure (Menschliches Versagen) Germany, 2008, 91 minutes
German with English subtitles
Directed by Michael Verhoeven
Acclaimed filmmaker Michael Verhoeven's documentary documents the bizarre competition that developed between bureaucrats as to how to organize the robbery of the Jews prior to their deportation and death. Until just several years ago, the documents proving this planned expropriation were lost, destroyed or hidden away. More
Hungry Hearts RESTORED BY NCJF USA, 1922, 80 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Added original soundtrack (2006)
Directed by E. Mason Hopper
16mm DVD
A Hollywood adaptation of the short stories of Anzia Yezierska, the first writer to bring stories of American Jewish women to a mainstream audience, Hungry Hearts focuses on the hopes and hardships of the Levin family, Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe living on New York City's Lower East Side. More
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I Love You, Rosa (Ani Ohev Otach Rosa) Israel, 1972, 84 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Moshe Mizrachi
16mm
Academy Award nominee, Best Foreign Film. Jerusalem's Orthodox community at the turn of the century is the setting for this now-classic film about the life of a young Sephardic widow. More
I Miss the Sun USA, 1984, 20 minutes, color
Directed by Mary Halawani
16mm DVD
Halawani profiles her grandmother, Rosette Hakim, the daughter of a prominent Egyptian-Jewish family who fled her homeland in 1959 when Egyptian anti-Zionist sentiments increased and when hundreds of Jews, suspected of pro-Communist activities, were interned in detention camps. More
I Want To Be A Boarder (Ich Vil Zeyn a Boarder) RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1937, 15 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Seiden
35mm 16mm DVD
A lively short about a husband and wife who seek to reignite their marriage by pretending to be landlady and tenant. More
The Immigrant USA, 1917, 20 minutes, b&w
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
16mm
Charlie Chaplin's hilarious portrayal of a penniless immigrant's journey to, and arrival in, America. More
The Imported Bridegroom USA, 1990, 93 minutes, color
Directed by Pamela Berger
35mm 16mm DVD
A Jewish romance begins when Asriel, a turn-of-the-century, rich Boston widower returns from a visit to the old country with a man he believes is the perfect man for his daughter. But when the two meet, his thoroughly modern daughter is appalled by this pious scholar, or is she? More
In Memory USA, 1993, 13 minutes, B&W
Directed by Abraham Ravett
16mm DVD
In this non-narrative, meditative, and poignant film, footage of life from the Lodz Ghetto is juxtaposed with the chanting of “Kel Maleh Rachamim,” a plea to God to let the souls of those “slaughtered and burned” find peace. More
In Search of Jewish Amsterdam Denmark, 1975, 70 minutes, color
English, Dutch and Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Philo Bregstein
16mm DVD VHS
Through the interplay of past and present, Bregstein sets out to discover what Jewish life was like in Amsterdam before the virtual annihilation of the city's Jewish population during World War II. More
The Inheritance USA, 1964, 58 minutes, B&W
Produced by Harold Mayer
16mm DVD
A portrait of 20th century America as seen through the eyes of its working people: immigrants in the early 1900s, workers in sweatshops, coal mines, and textile mills, soldiers on the battlefields of world wars I and II and in the Civil Rights movement. More
Is There Poetry After Auschwitz? USA, 1992, 60 minutes, color
Produced by Vivienne Hermann and Dale Sonnenberg
DVD VHS
This moving portrait of artist Vivienne Hermann, who spent five years as a child in forced labor camps during World War II, answers the eponymous question with a resounding “Yes!” As Hermann says: “I am the poem. I may be a tragic poem. I may be an irritating poem. But I am the poem." More
Island of Roses: The Jews of Rhodes in Los Angeles
USA, 1995, 55 minutes, color
English, Italian, French and Ladino with English subtitles
Directed by Gregori Viens
DVD
This film visits the Los Angeles community of “Rhodeslis”—Jews who lived on the Mediterranean island of Rhodes from 1492 to World War II—who have passed down their traditions, food, songs, rituals, and their medieval Ladino Spanish dialect to their American-born descendants. More
Israel Rocks: A Journey Through Music of Visions and Divisions
Israel, 2000, 55 minutes, color
Hebrew with English Subtitles
Directed by Izzy Abrahami and Erga Netz
DVD VHS
Can you grasp the complexities, the tribulation, and the dreams of Israel by its music? This film features 20 singers, bands, and choruses, from rock to blues, folk, and rap. More
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Jakob the Liar (Jakob der Lügner) GDR/East Germany, 1975, 95 minutes, color
German with English subtitles
Directed by Frank Beyer
35mm 16mm
Jakob Heym, a Jew trapped in a Polish ghetto, overhears news of a nearby Russian victory on a Gestapo radio. Pretending to have heard the good news on his own clandestine radio, Jakob passes the word on to his neighbors. More
The Jazz Singer USA, 1927, 90 minutes, B&W
Silent with intertitles and some sound
Directed by Alan Crosland
16mm
This landmark of modern cinema, the first “talking picture,” is also a pro-assimilationist story about a cantor's son who rejects his family's tradition for Jazz and Broadway. More
The Jester (Der Purimspiler) RESTORED BY NCJF
Poland, 1937, 90 minutes, B&W with sepia tone and blue-green ton
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Green and Jan Nowina-Przybylski
35mm DVD
A parade of costume, buffoonery and music, The Jester highlights both a shoemaker's scheme to marry his daughter into a prominent family as well as the festival of Purim. More
Jewish Life in Bialystock
Jewish Life in Cracow
Jewish Life in Lwow
Jewish Life in Vilna RESTORED BY NCJF Poland, 1938 and 1939, each 10 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with complete new English subtitles
Produced by Shaul and Yitzhak Goskind
16mm DVD VHS
In 1938 and 1939, Shaul and Yitzhak Goskind of Warsaw-based Sektor Films produced six short films about urban Jewish communities in Poland. One, about Lodz, is lost. The other five—on Bialystok, Cracow, Lwow, Vilna, and Warsaw—have survived. Viewed together or separately, these rare documents present vibrant portraits of people, communities, and institutions all but completely obliterated after the Nazis invaded and occupied Poland during World War II. More
Jewish Luck (Yevreiskoye Schastye / Menakhem Mendl) RESTORED BY NCJF
USSR, 1925, 100 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Alexander Granovsky
35mm 16mm DVD
Menakhem Mendl (one of Sholem Aleichem’s characters) is a daydreaming entrepreneur who specializes in doomed strike-it-rich schemes. Despite Jewish oppression in Tsarist Russia, Mendl continues to pursue his dreams and his continued persistence transforms him from schlemiel to hero. More
Jewish Soldiers in Blue and Gray
USA, 2011, 86 minutes
Directed by Jonathan Gruber
DVD
Coinciding with the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, this exploration of the little-known history of the Jews who fought for both the Confederacy and Union is the first documentary devoted to the subject. Allegiances during the War Between the States split the Jewish community as deeply as the national debate in the country at large: some prominent Jewish voices cited the Torah to justify slavery, while others led the abolitionist movement. More
Jews of the Spanish Homeland (Los judíos de patria española) RESTORED BY NCJF Spain, 1929, 13 minutes, B&W
Silent with new English intertitles
Produced by Ernesto Giménez Caballero
35mm 16mm DVD
Shot in the 1920s, this film visits Sephardic communities in Salonika, Constantinople, Yugoslavia, and Romania as well as former centers of Jewish life in Spain. More
Jews Under the Red Star - Birobidzhan USSR/West Germany, 1989, 56 minutes, color/B&W
Russian with English narration
Directed by Irmgard von zur Mühlen
16mm
This documentary tells the astonishing story of Jewish life in Birobidzhan, a region located in the far eastern region of Siberia, near the Manchurian border. Birobidzhan was the capital of the "Jewish Autonomous Region," an area so designated by Stalin in 1928 in an attempt to oppose Zionism and as a point of military strategy. In the early 1930s, Jews from the US, South America, and Palestine joined the community, which was centered in Birobidzhan. Many of the pioneers could not adapt to the harsh climate and rural life and quickly departed; the Stalinist purges of the 1930s and 1940s devastated the community. This documentary, which was filmed during 1988-89, examines the problems facing the Jews of this region, including the questioning of their religious activities under a communist regime. Footage from American and Russian sources, from 1928 to the present, appears here for the first time.
Jolly Paupers (Freylekhe Kabtsonim) RESTORED BY NCJFPoland, 1937, 62 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Leon Jeannot and Z. Turkow
35mm 16mm DVD
In this musical comedy, the comic duo Dzigan and Shumacher play two small town "entrepreneurs" who believe they have struck oil in a local field. Thus begins a comedy of errors, including millionaire investors, American schemers, and insane asylums, with a little matchmaking on the side. More
Joshua Then and Now Canada, 1985, 127 minutes, color
Directed by Ted Kotcheff
16mm
Based on a novel by Mordechai Richler, allegedly his autobiography, this film tells the story of a Jewish writer, from his life as a young boy in Montreal to his more complicated grown-up life.
Journey Into Life: Aftermath of a Childhood in Auschwitz Germany, 1996, 130 minutes, color
German with English subtitles
Directed by Thomas Mitscherlich
16mm DVD
Journey into Life follows the struggles of three concentration camp survivors—Yehuda Bacon of Israel, Gerhard Durlacher of The Netherlands, and Ruth Kluger of the United States—in rebuilding their lives after World War II. More
Judgment at Nuremberg USA, 1961, 186 minutes, B&W
Directed by Stanley Kramer
16mm
An Oscar-winning, fictionalized film account of the Post-World War II Nuremberg Trials.
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Kazablan
Israel, 1973, 95 minutes, color
English dubbed
Directed by Menahem Golan
16mm
This Israeli West Side Story unfolds when Kazablan, a dark-skinned Sephardic Jew, takes time out from hassling the poverty-stricken tenants of the Jaffa ghetto to court the fair-skinned Rachel, an Ashkenazi Jew. More
A Kiss To This Land (Un beso a esta tierra)
Mexico, 1995, 93 minutes, color
Spanish with English subtitles
Directed by Daniel Goldberg
35mm 16mm DVD
In exploring the history of Jewish immigration to Mexico, A Kiss To This Land presents fragments of memories and oral histories together with vivid depiction of Jews in Mexico in the 1920s and 1930s. More
Kol Nidre
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USA, 1939, 88 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Seiden
Digital Blu-ray DVDA melodrama -with music and romance- about a girl torn between two childhood boyfriends, this film is a suprisingly risque shund Yiddish tearjerker exploring assimilation, antisemitism and gender roles. More
Krasnodar- The Trial of 1943 (Krasnodar - Der Prozeß von 1943)
Germany, 1987, 55 minutes, color/B&W
English and German with English subtitles
Directed by Irmgard and Bengt von Zur Mühlen
Krasnodar was the site of the first World War II war crimes trial, convened by Soviet authorities in July 1943. A Russian city of 500,000 inhabitants, Krasnodar was occupied by the Germans on August 8, 1942 and liberated February 13, 1943. During the six months of German occupation, thousands of the city’s inhabitants were murdered, beginning with and including every member of the Jewish community. Meticulously combining German and Soviet newsreel footage with the testimony of eyewitnesses and war crimes defendants, this landmark film tells the story of the six month Nazi reign of terror, the trial against eleven Russian collaborators and their public execution on July 18, 1943.
Kupishok: For Eternal MemoryUSA, 2005, 60 minutes, color
Directed by Norman Meyer and Harvey Sherzer
DVDAfter World War II, Christian midwives in Kupishok compiled a list of the town’s Jews who were murdered in the summer of 1941 by the Nazis and their Lithuanian accomplices. In 2004, fifty survivors and descendants of the Jews of Kupishok, returned to the town to dedicate a Wall of Memory. More
Kurow
Poland, 1932, 10 minutes, B&W, silent
Cinematographer: Jack Weisbord
16mm
This fascinating portrait of shtetl life was made by Jack Weisbord, an American whose father-in-law had emigrated from Kurow, a Polish town not far from Lublin. At the time, the Jewish population of Kurow comprised over 50% of the approximately 4,000 persons in the shtetl. The film shows the villagers of Kurow immersed in animated conversation; the streets and shops of a typical Polish town; a latter-day Tevye with his horse; a weary pauper resting on a curbside; several family portraits; the ancient cemetery; as well as the contrast between the local church and the old synagogue.
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L'Chaim: To Life! USA, 1973, 80 minutes, B&W/color
Directed by Harold Mayer
DVD
Produced for the Women's American ORT and narrated by Eli Wallach, this highly-acclaimed documentary describes more than a century of Jewish life in Russia. More
Labyrinth Czechoslovakia, 1991, 90 minutes, color
German with English subtitles
Directed by Jaromil Jires
35mm
Critics' Choice, AFI International Film Festival 1992. Labyrinth is an intellectually-bracing investigation of the connection between the fictional world of Franz Kafka and the historical persecution of the Jews that culminated in the Holocaust. Framing his intense drama with recitations of the human rights denied to Jews under the Third Reich, veteran Czech director Jires creates his alter ego in Maximilian Schell, who plays a director taking up residence in Prague to prepare a film about Kafka. Christopher Chaplin, son of Charlie Chaplin, plays Kafka.
Ladies' Tailor (Damskiy portnoy) USSR, 1990, 92 minutes, color
Russian with English subtitles
Directed by Leonid Gorovets
35mm DVD
Set in Kiev, Russia, on 29 September 1941, this feature chronicles the last 24 hours in the lives of a Jewish tailor (renowned Russian actor Innokenty Smoktunovsky) and his family just prior to their deportation and execution at Babi Yar. More
Land of Promise Palestine, 1935, 57 minutes, B&W
English and Hebrew
Directed by Juda Leman
DVD
This is one of Palestine's earliest sound films and part of a larger campaign to encourage settlement and investment in "the Jewish homeland." Land of Promise emphasizes secular accomplishments and portrays Zionist settlers with considerable cinematographic and editorial skill. More
The Land Was Theirs USA, 1993, 55 minutes, color/B&W
Directed by Gertrude Dubrovsky
DVD
Set in New Jersey, The Land Was Theirs profiles Jewish farmers and their communities. It opens a window on the experience of immigrants who came to America in search of a better life and found it in the rural countryside. More
The Last Chapter USA, 1966, 85 minutes, B&W
Directed and Produced by Benjamin Rothman & Lawrence Rothman
DVD
A lyrical, sweeping history of Jewish life in Poland, depicting the richness of Jewish culture both religious and secular... More
Last Journey Into Silence
Israel, 2001, 52 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Shosh Shlam
DVD
After the Holocaust, survivors who had nowhere else to go or were emotionally shattered by their experiences ended up in a mental hospital in Israel. This moving documentary follows estranged daughters as they visit mothers they have not seen in decades. More
The Last Marranos (Les derniers Marranes)
France, 1991, 64 minutes, color
Portuguese with English subtitles
Directed by Frédéric Brenner and Stan Neumann
DVD
Despite being forcibly converted to Christianity in 1497 many of the Jews of Portugal continued to practice Judaism in secret. Today, residents of the village of Belmonte practice an amalgam of Christian and Jewish rituals. More
The Last Sea (Ha-Yam Ha'Aharon) Israel, 1979, 68 minutes, B&W
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Daniel Bergman, Jacquot Erlich, Haim Gouri, Benny Shilo
16mm
In 1945, multitudes of liberated survivors of the death camps, finding themselves homeless in Europe, sought to immigrate to Israel. More
Laughter Through Tears (Skvoz Slezy) RESTORED BY NCJF
USSR, 1928, 92 minutes, B&W
Silent with new English intertitles
Directed by Grigori Gricher-Cherikover
35mm 16mm DVD
Gricher-Cherikover leavens pathos with humor in this earthy portrait of pre-Revolutionary shtetl life based on two Sholem Aleichem stories. Motl's father dies, leaving him to survive on his own in a changing world while the tailor Shimen-Elye buys a she-goat which mysteriously changes gender. More
Legado Argentina, 2004, 72 minutes, color
Spanish and Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Vivián Imar & Marcelo Trotta
DVD
Our narrator was 10 when she stepped off the boat in Moisesville, the first Jewish settlement in Argentina. Her account spans 80 years. More
The Legend of Mrs. Goldman and the Almighty God Germany, 1996, 3 minutes, color
Directed by Michael Verhoeven
35mm VHS
A short comic parable related on camera by writer George Tabori, this gem provides an ideal introduction for the Verhoeven-Tabori feature My Mother's Courage. More
Leon the Pig Farmer
UK, 1992, 98 minutes, color
Direced by Vadim Jean and Gary Sinyor
35mm DVD
An irreverent comedy from the production company of Monty Python's Eric Idle, this zany story is set in motion when Leon Geller, a sensitive Jewish boy from London, accidentally learns that he is the product of artificial insemination. More
A Letter to Mother (A Brivele der Mamen) RESTORED BY NCJF
Poland, 1939, 106 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Green and Leon Trystand
35mm 16mm DVD
One of the last Yiddish films made in Poland, ths is story of a mother's persistent struggles to support her three children in pre-war Polish Ukraine. After her family is pulled apart by the war, she and her children make their way to New York and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. More
Levy and Cohen: The Irish Comedians USA, 1903, 1 minute, B&W, Silent
Produced by American Mutoscope and Biography Company
16mm
Two vaudeville comics perform before an unappreciative audience that pelts them with various vegetables.
Liberation of Auschwitz 1945 (A Die Befreiung von Auschwitz) Germany, 1985, 55 minutes, B&W
English and German with English subtitles
Directed by Irmgard von zur Muhlen
35mm 16mm
This chilling, vitally important documentary was produced to mark the 40th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. It contains unedited, previously unavailable film footage of Auschwitz shot by the Soviet military forces in 1945 and an interview with the Soviet cameraman. More
Lies My Father Told Me Canada, 1975, 102 minutes, color
Directed by Ján Kadár
16mm
Three generations of a Russian-Jewish immigrant family in 1920s Montreal form the focus of this autobiographical tale by Ted Allen, which enjoyed success in print, radio and television before its adaptation into this film by Oscar-winning Czech director Kadar. More
The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg USA, 1999, 95 minutes, color
Directed by Aviva Kempner
35mm 16mm
As Hitler invaded Europe, a young Jewish baseball player challenged Babe Ruth’s homerun record. This is the story of how he became an American hero. More
The Life of Emile Zola USA, 1937, 116 minutes, B&W
Directed by William Dieterle
16mm
Winner of three Academy Awards including Best Picture. Paul Muni stars in this biography of the famed 19th century French writer who defended Captain Dreyfus. More
The Light Ahead (Fishke der Krumer) RESTORED BY NCJF USA, 1939, 94 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
35mm 16mm DVD
Impoverished and disabled lovers Fishke and Hodel dream of life in the big city of Odessa, free of the poverty and old-world prejudices of the shtetl. Made on the eve of World War II, The Light Ahead is at once romantic, expressionist, and conscious of the danger about to engulf European Jews. One of four Yiddish features directed by Edgar Ulmer. More
The Liquid of Life (Nozel Ha-Hayim) Israel, 2008, 50 minutes, color, Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Pini Schatz
DVD
Pini Schatz's funny and original film (subtitled How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Blood) proves there’s no reason to be afraid of the liquid that flows in our veins. Meet a cross section of unique Israeli characters including the director of Magen David Adom. And learn how to mix the perfect bloody mary. More
Lissy GDR/East Germany, 1957, 88 minutes, B&W
German with English subtitles
Directed by Konrad Wolf
16mm
Director Konrad Wolf's interpretation of Franz Weiskopf's anti-fascist novel sheds light on the parallel and differing paths of the Nazis and socialists in Germany between 1932 and 1934. More
Living For Tomorrow: Untold Stories by the Pioneering Women of Israel USA, 2000, 53 minutes, color
Hebrew and English with English subtitles
Directed by Lilach Dekel
DVD
Director Dekel’s grandmother, along with other young idealists from Eastern Europe, immigrated to Palestine in the 1920s resolved to build the kibbutz movement. Now in their 80s and 90s, these women offer candid evaluations of the their youth. More
The Living Orphan (Der Lebediker Yusem) RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1937, 97 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Seiden
35mm DVD The story of a stage couple whose marriage is strained by life in the theater. Adapted from one of the best 2nd Avenue Yiddish Theatre domestic melodramas, director Joseph Seiden’s sentimental film is drawn from life in 1930s New York City. More
Long Fliv the King PRESERVED BY NCJF USA, 1926, 22 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Leo McCarey
16mm DVD
This offbeat comedy from future Hollywood screwball director McCarey is about a princess who must find a husband in 24 hours or forfeit her throne. She quickly marries a condemned man—but the man is pardoned. More
Long is the Road (Lang ist der Veg)
RESTORED BY NCJF
U.S.-Occupied Germany, 1948, 77 minutes, B&W
Yiddish, German, Polish with new English subtitles
Directed by Herbert B. Fredersdorf & Marek Goldstein
35mm 16mm DVD
Written by Israel Becker, this is the first feature film to represent the Holocaust from a Jewish perspective. Shot on location at Landsberg, the largest DP camp in U.S.-occupied Germany, the film follows a Polish Jew from pre-war Warsaw through Auschwitz and the DP camp. More
Love and Sacrifice (Libe und Laydnshaft) RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1936, 76 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by George Roland
35mm
The tale of a middle-class matron who shoots the man who compromises her, this film is a prime example of "shund," the melodramatic escapist entertainment of the Yiddish theater. More
Love at Second Sight (Ahava Mimabat Sheni)
Israel, 1998, 90 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Michal Bat-Adam
35mm DVD
Renowned Israeli filmmaker/actress Michal Bat-Adam wrote and directed this intriguing tale of romantic obsession in present-day Tel Aviv. Michal Zuaratz stars as a young female photographer infatuated with a stranger whose image she accidentally captures on film. More
Love Inventory (Reshimat Ahava)
Israel, 2000, 90 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by David Fisher
35mm DVD
Bittersweet, honest, and touchingly funny, this multi-award-winning film chronicles Fisher’s attempt to solve a family mystery—uniting his troubled family in the process. More
Lunch with Fela
USA, 2005, 59 minutes, color
English
Directed by Abraham Ravett
DVD
Lunch with Fela is the filmmaker's response to the passing of his parent, Fela Ravett. Utilizing a combination of DV footage shot during her stay at a nearby nursing facility, excerpts from previously made 16mm films, animation sequences, plus remaining family memorabilia, the film renders the presence and absence of a much loved parent. More
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Mahler on the Couch Austria/Germany, 2010, 97 minutes, color
German w/ English subtitles
Directed by Percy Adlon & Felix Adlon
35mm
This exuberant imagining of the real-life marriage of Gustav Mahler (Johannes Silberschneider) and his tempestuous wife Alma Schindler Mahler (the luminous Barbara Romaner) is a sensory feast of art, sex and celebrity in fin-de-siècle Vienna. Chafing under her agreement to give up her own musical ambitions, Alma seeks passion in the arms of the young, dashing architect Walter Gropius, which sends a tormented Mahler to Sigmund Freud for consultation. More
Majdanek 1944 West Germany, 1986, 65 minutes, B&W
English and German with English subtitles
Directed by Irmgard and Bengt von zur Mühlen
16mm
This film explores one of the first Nazi war crimes trials, conducted even while World War II was still raging. Majdanek, a concentration and extermination camp located near Lublin, Poland, was erected in 1941 and liberated in July 1944. A month later, a joint Soviet-Polish commission heard evidence from survivors and witnesses. More
Making A Killing
UK, 1998, 52 minutes, color
Directed by Anne Webber
DVD
Directed by Anne Webber, Chair of the European Commission on Looted Art, this documentary is a compelling detective story about one family's 50-year quest to recover their missing art collection set against a backdrop of murder, greed, and corruption. More
Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women2006, USA, 85 minutes, Color
Directed by Rachel Talbot; Produced by the Jewish Women's Archive
DVD
This film festival favorite tells the story of six of the greatest female comic performers of the last century — Molly Picon, Fanny Brice, Sophie Tucker, Joan Rivers, Gilda Radner, and Wendy Wasserstein. Hosted by four of today’s funniest women — Judy Gold, Jackie Hoffman, Cory Kahaney, and Jessica Kirson — it's the true saga of what it means to be Jewish, female and funny. More
Mamadrama: The Jewish Mother in Cinema
Australia, 2000, 73 minutes, color
Written & Directed by Monique Schwarz
16mm DVD
A funny, penetrating look at how the loving and affectionate portrayals in early Yiddish and Hollywood silent movies developed into the Jewish Mother of modern Hollywood and, conversely, the more flesh and blood characterizations in contemporary Israeli cinema. More
Mamele
NEW DIGITAL RESTORATION BY NCJF
Poland, 1938, 100 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Green and Konrad Tom
16mm DCP DigiBeta Blu-ray DVD
Mamele embraces the entire gamut of interwar Jewish life in Lodz—tenements and unemployed Jews, nightclubs and gangsters, religious Jews celebrating sukkot—but the film belongs to Molly Picon who romps undaunted through her dutiful daughter role, keeping the family intact, singing and acting her way through the stages of a woman's life from childhood to old age. More
The March
USA, 1999, 25 minutes, color/B&W
Directed by Abraham Ravett
16mm DVD
Both of Ravett’s parents survived Auschwitz and the ”death march.” His mother “continuously made references to the ‘miracle’ of her survival and recounted in vivid detail what it was like to walk for miles in the bitter cold with just a blanket and a pair of wooden shoes (Trepches)" More
Marriage in the Shadows (Ehe im Schatten) GDR/East Germany, 1947, 96 minutes, B&W
German with English subtitles
Directed by Kurt Maetzig
16mm
Based on a true story and adapted from the novel by Hans Schweikart, this fiction feature marks the German cinema's first attempt to address antisemitism and the Holocaust. More
Maytal Israel, 1996, 51 minutes color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Yael Kipper Zarezhky
VHS
A 1996 terrorist bombing in Tel Aviv left 27-year-old Maytal Lederman critically injured and took the life of her brother Asaf. This documentary follows Maytal over a period of eight months in an Israeli rehabilitation hospital, as she struggles to cope with her loss and rebuild her life. More
Me and the Jewish Thing (Mig og Jøderiet) Denmark, 2009, 43 minutes, color
Directed & written by Ulrik Gutkin
DVD
A witty and thoughtful meditation on the collision of two cultures. Danish Jewish filmmaker Ulrik Gutkin and his Danish non-Jewish girlfriend find themselves on opposites sides in deciding whether to circumcise their new baby boy. More
Meet Me In Miami Beach USA, 1994, 18 minutes, color
Directed by Bonnie Cohen
16mm
This documentary focuses on three elderly Jews living out their retirement years in Miami Beach, poignantly capturing the subjects' thoughts and memories, as well as the contrast between the old and young populations of contemporary Miami Beach. More
Minyan in Kaifeng: A Modern Journey to an Ancient Chinese Jewish Community USA, 2002, 74 minutes, color
Directed by Steven Calcote and Jonathan Shulman
35mm 16mm DVD
Narrated by Leonard Nimoy. The last rabbi of Kaifeng died well over a century ago, and today's descendants of the ancient Chinese Jewish community have never celebrated Shabbat, the Jewish day of rest. More
Mirele Efros RESTORED BY NCJF USA, 1939, 80 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Berne
16mm DVD
Mirele Efros, "the Jewish Queen Lear," was the masterpiece of influential Yiddish playwright Jacob Gordin. Berta Gersten gives a memorable performance as Mirele, a wealthy and pious widow whose devotion to her children extends to hand-picking a wife for her eldest son. Unfortunately, she gravely mistakes the young woman's character. More
Motel the Operator RESTORED BY NCJF USA, 1939, 88 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Seiden
35mm DVD
Focusing on a labor dispute in the garment district of New York City, the film survives as an important historical document highlighting the hardships of the Jewish immigrant experience in America. More
Mothers of Today (Hayntige Mames)RESTORED BY NCJF USA, 1939, 85 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Henry Lynn
35mm DVD
Mothers of Today includes the sole motion picture performance of radio star Esther Field, who was well-known on the radio airwaves of the 1930's as the 'Yidishe Mama.' More
A Musical Passage USA, 1983, 73 minutes, color
Directed by Jim Brown
35mm 16mm
Since its first concert in 1978, the Soviet Emigre Orchestra has been considered one of the best chamber music ensembles in America. Here, superb performances and combined with an examination of the lives of the orchestra members. More
My 100 Children (Me'ah Yeladim Sheli)
Israel, 2003, 68 min
English, Hebrew & Polish w/ English subtitles
Directed by Amalia Margolin & Oshra Schwartz
DigiBeta DVD
When Lena Küchlar discovered dozens of orphaned Jewish children in Krakow after WWII, she employed the progressive psychiatric methods of Janusz Korczak and slowly brought these damaged kids back to life. Based on Küchlar’s best-selling autobiography. Best Documentary, Israel Film Academy. More
My Brother’s Wedding
USA, 2003, 36 minutes, color
Directed by Dan Akiba
DVD
After his brother’s radical conversion to Orthodox Judaism, Akiba found it increasingly difficult to remember the brother he once knew. In an effort to better understand his brother’s new life, Akiba documented his family’s trip to Israel in 2001 to attend his brother’s wedding. More
My Dear Clara
Canada, 2002, 44 minutes, color
Directed by Gary Beitel
DVD
When Clara Greenspan left Montreal for Warsaw in June of 1938 she could not have known how her personal destiny would soon become intertwined with unfolding events in Europe. This is the dramatic story of a Polish Jewish refugee’s survival and his Canadian wife’s unflinching battle to change her government’s immigration policies. More My Mother's Courage (Mutters Courage) Germany, 1996, 92 minutes, color
German with English subtitles
Directed by Michael Verhoeven
35mm
From the director of The White Rose comes this stunning adaptation of Hungarian author George Tabori’s autobiographical, somewhat surreal novel. Shifting between Nazi-occupied Budapest and modern Berlin, the film artfully depicts the true story of how Tabori’s mother Elsa escaped deportation to Auschwitz. More
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Nahum N. Glatzer & The German-Jewish Tradition
USA, 2011, 60 minutes
Directed by Judith Glatzer Wechsler
DVD
Filmmaker and art historian Judith Glatzer Wechsler's new documentary is a moving portrait of the life and work of her revered father and scholar Nahum N. Glatzer (1903-1990). More
Nana: Un Portrait USA, 1972, 23 minutes, color
French with English subtitles
Directed by Jamil Simon
16mm DVD
80 year-old Louise Zilkha reminisces about her traditional Jewish upbringing in Baghdad, Iraq, the often turbulent coexistence of Iraqi Jews and Moslems, and the persecution that led her family on a journey from Iraq to Beirut, to Cairo, and finally, to New York. More
The Nasty Girl (Das schreckliche Mädchen) Germany, 1990, 92 minutes, color
German with English subtitles
Directed by Michael Verhoeven
16mm
Based on the true story of Ann Elisabeth Rosmus, Michael Verhoeven's award-winning black comedy uses sharp wit to explore Germany's Nazi past. More
Nazi Concentration Camps USA, 1945, 59 minutes, B&W
Produced by the U.S. Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality
16mm DVD
This film is the official documentary report compiled from over 80,000 feet of film shot by Allied military photographers in the German concentration camps immediately after liberation. More Nemt: A Language Without a People for a People Without a Language
France, 2000, 90 minutes, color
Directed by Isabelle Rozenbaumas and Michel Grosman
DVD
A film about the identity of Yiddish culture. One of the filmmakers returns to her native Lithuania, leading to a broader series of reflections on the survival of the Yiddish language in today’s world. More
Next Year in... Argentina (El Año que Viene en... Argentina)
Israel, 2005, 62 minutes, color
Spanish with English subtitles
Directed by Jorge Gurvich and Shlomo Slutzky
DVD
Argentinean-born Israeli filmmakers Jorge Gurvich and Shlomo Slutzky met in Buenos Aires before both men immigrated to Israel. 30 years later, they take up the question of Jewish-Argentine history, identity and attitudes toward Israel. More
Nicholas Winton: The Power of Good (Síla lidskosti: Nicholas Winton) Czech Republic/ Slovak Republic, 2002, 64 minutes, color
English and Czech with English subtitles
Directed by Matej Minac
35mm DVD
A gripping documentary about the courage and determination of a young English stockbroker who saved the lives of 669 children. In 1939, Sir Nicholas Winton organized 8 transports to take children from Prague to new homes in Great Britain, and kept silent about it until his wife discovered a scrapbook documenting his unique mission in 1988. More
Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard) France, 1955, 31 minutes, color/B&W
French with English subtitles
Directed by Alain Resnais
16mm
Brutally graphic, Resnais's artistic depiction of life and death in a Nazi extermination camp combines ghostly scenes of the abandoned camp in the 1950s with Nazi and Allied stock footage and stills. More
Nightmare: The Immigration of Joachim and Rachel USA, 1978, 24 minutes, color/B&W
Directed by Tom Robertson
16mm
During the struggle to survive the Warsaw Ghetto, thirteen-year-old Joachim and his little sister Rachel receive final instructions from their parents: hide in an old cabinet. More
Nize People PRESERVED BY NCJFUSA, 1927, 20 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Sam Newfield
16mm
A slapstick comedy in the immigrant/vaudeville genre, Lizzie believes her necklace has been stolen, setting off a series of crazy events when Mr. O'Connor hires the "world's greatest detective," who turns out be Lunatic Louie, an escapee from an insane asylum! More
None So Blind
RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1923, 66 min, b&w, silent
Director: Burton King
16mm
None So Blind shows how gingerly American cinema in the 1920s dealt with Jewish-Gentile conflicts, yet its ending is clearly a plea forintegration and assimilation. More
Nuremberg USA, 1946, 76 minutes, B&W
Compiled by Pare Lorentz and Stuart Schulberg, produced by the Civil Affairs Division, US War Department
16mm
This US government film is a grim and unflinching documentary account of the Nuremberg trials, told almost totally without editorial comment. More
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Of Stars and Shamrocks: Boston's Jews and Irish USA, 1995, 55 minutes, color/B&W
Directed by John Michalczyk
DVD VHS
Both Irish and Jewish immigrants settled in Protestant Brahmin Boston in the late-19th century, and both encountered bigotry, exploitation, exclusion and discrimination. This film chronicles the interaction between the two ethnic communities over the last 100 years. More
Old Isaac, The Pawnbroker PRESERVED BY NCJF USA, 1908, 10 minutes, B&W
Silent without intertitles
Directed by Wallace McCutcheon
16mm DVD
In this film, a small girl in an urban slum seeks aid for her sick and starving mother. Trying to pawn her doll, she attracts the attention of the shop’s owner old Isaacs, who later stops the men trying to evict the sick woman. More
On My Way to Father's Land Israel, 1995, 75 minutes, color/B&W
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Aner Preminger
DVD
This film takes us on two journeys: the first to Vienna, where Preminger's father lived as a child under Nazi occupation; then to Palestine where he became a member of the first Knesset, joined the Palestine Communist Party, and established the Hebrew Communist Party. More
Operation Thunderbolt (Mivtsa Yonatan) Israel, 1977, 126 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Menahem Golan
16mm
This feature film is a stunning retelling of the famed 4 July 1976 raid by Israeli commandos to rescue 104 passengers from a hijacked plane grounded in Entebbe, Uganda, in Africa. More
Orders of Love UK, 2004, 10 minutes, color
Directed by Jes Benstock
DVD
Some family trees get more complicated with every branch. Armed with a videophone, his dad, and a therapist, director Jes Benstock explores a family history of murder, migration, breakdown, and suicide. More
Our Children (Unzere Kinder) RESTORED BY NCJF Poland, 1948, 68 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Natan Gross and Shaul Goskind
35mm 16mm DVD
In this, Poland’s last Yiddish feature film, comedy duo Dzigan and Shumacher play all the parts in a Sholem Aleichem story staged for an audience of children who survived the Holocaust. More
Our Time in the Garden
USA, 1981, 15 minutes, B&W
Directed by Ron Blau
35mm 16mm DVD
A young Jewish woman’s charmed and secure life in 1930s Berlin is shattered as the Nazis take control. The family's home movies are presented with overlapping soundtracks, in order to re-create their "time in the garden." More
Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem USA, 2014/2017, 75 minutes, color, in English
DVD has Closed Captioning & Subtitles for the Hearing Impaired Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by John Lollos
Narrated by Alan Alda
DVD Blu-ray DCP
A film festival favorite with more than 100 festival screenings. Portraits of two beloved icons--Sholom Aleichem and Theodore Bikel--are woven together in this enchanting new documentary. The two men have much in common: wit, wisdom and talent, all shot through with deep humanity and Yiddishkeit. This new film combines Bikel's charismatic storytelling and masterful performances with a broader exploration of Aleichem's remarkable life and work. More
Overture to Glory (Der Vilner Balebesl) RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1940, 77 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Max Nosseck
35mm 16mm DVD
The story of a Vilna cantor seduced by the opera resonates with the voice of Moishe Oysher. Carefully lit cinematography, well-shaped dialogue, and Alexander Olshanetsky's musical score steer Overture clear of melodramatic excess. More
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Papa's Pest PRESERVED BY NCJF USA, 1928, 20 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Les Goodwins
16mm DVD
Another in the Izzie and Lizzie series, this film continues the slapstick style which explodes from a domestic comedy into a frenzy of wild action and fast chases. More
Partisans of Vilna USA, 1986, 130 minutes, color/B&W
Directed by Josh Waletzky; Produced by Aviva Kempner
35mm 16mm DVD
The extraordinary story of the men and women who formed the Jewish partisan movement in Vilna, Lithuania, during World War II. More
The Past That Lives Netherlands, 1970, 65 minutes, B&W
English narration
Directed by Philo Bregstein
16mm DVD
This film documents the life of the late Jewish historian and author Jacques Presser, author of Ashes in the Wind: The Destruction of Dutch Jewry. More
A Pause in the Holocaust (1943 Le temps d’un répit) France, 2009, 52 minutes
French and Italian with English Subtitles
Directed by André Waksman
DVD
In the summer of 1943, thousands of Jewish refugees in Italian-occupied southern France enjoyed a rare respite from persecution, protected by an unusual force: the occupying Italian Army, who temporarily shielded local and foreign Jews despite pressure from the Germans and the French Vichy administration. More
The Pawnbroker USA, 1965, 114 minutes, B&W
Directed by Sidney Lumet
16mm
One of the first films to deal with the effects of Nazi Germany’s concentration camps on their survivors. One survivor, played by Rod Steiger, suffers an internal conflict between submitting to the injustices he endured or resisting the injustice. More
A People Chosen: Who Is a Jew? Israel, 1976, 57 minutes, color, English
Directed by Herb Krosney
DVD
Orthodox Jews, Jewish atheists, Russian immigrants, and kibbutzniks discuss their views on who is a Jew. Featuring Abba Eban, Rabbi Goren, Yigal Alon, and David Ben-Gurion. More
Pillar of Salt (Natziv Hamelech) Israel, 1980, 58 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Haim Shiran
16mm DVD
Based on the autobiographical novel by sociologist Albert Memmi, this feature film about an expressive and intelligent 13-year old boy captures the cultural richness and social complexity of a Jewish boy's life in Tunisia, North Africa. More
The Port of Last Resort: Zuflucht in Shanghai
Austria/USA, 1998, 79 minutes, color
English and German with English subtitles
Directed by Joan Grossman and Paul Rosdy
16mm DVD
This award-winning documentary presents the story of nearly 20,000 European Jewish refugees who fled to Shanghai from 1938 to 1941. Shanghai, a free port that did not require papers for entry, became the “last resort” for many Jews seeking a safe haven from the Nazis. More
Punch Me in the Stomach New Zealand, 1996, 58 minutes, color
Directed by Francine Zuckerman
16mm DVD
Multi-talented writer/performer Deb Filler stars in this adaptation of her autobiographical off-Broadway solo show about her life as the daughter of a Holocaust survivor. More
Punk Jews USA, 2012, 60 minutes, color
Directed by Jesse Zook Mann
DVD Blu-ray Digital
Profiling Hassidic punk rockers, Yiddish street performers, African-American Jewish activists and more, Punk Jews explores an emerging movement of provocateurs and committed Jews who are asking, each in his or her own way, what it means to be Jewish in the 21st century. In the process, they are challenging stereotypes and breaking down barriers. More
Purple Lawns (Deshaim S'Gulim)
Israel, 1998, 56 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Dina Zvi-Riklis
DVD
In this feature film, Yael and Shlomit, two secular, free-spirited women, share a flat in Tel Aviv. Their high rent forces them to take in a third roommate, Malka, an enigmatic ultra-orthodox woman with a secret. More
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Rabin: Shivah in November Israel, 2010/1995, 62 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Producer: Noemi Schory, Belfilms
DVD
The assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin as he left a peace rally in 1995 plunged the country into mourning. That the gunman was a 25-year old Israeli further complicated the event’s fallout. Constructed entirely from television coverage aired in the seven days following the murder, the film is a mosaic, allowing viewers to experience the events much as Israelis saw them, through the TV screen. More
Rachel USA, 1974, 3 minutes, color
16mm
This short film about intermarriage is recommended as a trigger for discussion of Jewish assimilation and religious customs.
Rachel de la Comédie-Française France, 2003, 52 minutes, color
French with English subtitles
Directed by Judith Wechsler
DVD
Before the era of Sarah Bernhardt, Rachel Felix (1821-1858) was the great actress of the Comédie-Française-and the first international dramatic star. Small, plain and fierce, Rachel's ability to convey passion in her performances thrilled audiences. More
Radio Days USA, 1987, 85 minutes, color
Directed by Woody Allen
16mm
Woody Allen narrates his nostalgic look at growing up in Queens, NY in the 1940s, showing how memories of family life are intimately tied to the radio performers of the day. More
Rain 1949
Israel, 1998, 52 minutes, color
Hebrew and Arabic with English subtitles
Directed by Ilan Yagoda
DVD
The Jewish settlers of Kibbutz Megido and the Arab villagers of Lajun appear like two entirely different groups separated one from the other. Yagoda, who served in Megido during his military service, returns to meet the refugees of the past, Jews and Arabs tied to the same plot of land. More
Raindrops aka If Only the Rain (Regentropfen) West Germany, 1981, 90 minutes, B&W
German with English subtitles
Directed by Michael Hoffman and Harry Raymon
16mm
Harry Raymon wrote the screenplay for this feature based on his own experiences as a young German-Jewish boy growing up amidst the rise of the Third Reich. An 8-year old boy and his family prepare to move from their small town to Cologne, on their way to America. More
Rendevous with Freedom USA, 1972, 56 minutes, color
Directed by Marc Siegel
16mm
Demonstrating how Jews helped shape the growing American nation, this film traces the development of American Jewry, beginning with the arrival of the first Jewish settlers in 1645 in New Amsterdam. More
René and I USA, 2005, 73 minutes, color
Directed by Gina M. Angelone
DVD
This courageous documentary tells the story of Irene and her twin brother René, Czech Jews sent to Auschwitz at age six where they were they were experimented on by Josef Mengele. More The Return of Nathan Becker (Nosn Becker Fort Aheym) RESTORED BY NCJF USSR, 1932, 72 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Boris Shpis and Mark Milman
35mm DVD
Yiddish author Peretz Markish wrote the screenplay for this film about a bricklayer who returns home to Russia after 20 years in America. The only Russian-Yiddish sound film produced in the Soviet Union, the film glorifies Soviet industrial productivity as it denigrates American capitalism and assimilation. More
Reunion (Le Retour) France, 1946, 21 minutes, B&W
French with English subtitles
Directed by Henri Cartier-Bresson for the United States Information Service
16mm
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Captain Max Pruss was in command, with three other qualified captains as watch officers; Captain Albert Sammt (who would later command LZ-130 Graf Zeppelin), Captain Heinrich Bauer, and Captain Walter Ziegler. Two other airship captains were also on board as observers; Captain Ernst Lehmann, who had commanded Hindenburg on many flights and was director of the DZR, and Captain Anton Wittemann, who was the regular captain of LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin. (Wittemann would have been in command of Graf Zeppelin at the time of the Hindenburg disaster, but he had switched positions with Captain Hans von Schiller, who took Graf Zeppelin on a roundtrip to South America so he could attend a reunion in Germany.) In all, there were six qualified zeppelin captains in the control car when Hindenburg crashed at Lakehurst.
The following list of officers and crew appeared as part of the Accident Investigation report published by the the United States Department of Commerce in the Air Commerce Bulletin of August 15, 1937 (vol. 9, no. 2):
* Indicates those who died as a result of the crash
OFFICERS
Captain Max Pruss, Commanding
Captain Albert Sammt (watch officer)
Captain Heinrich Bauer (watch officer)
[Captain] Walter Ziegler, Watch Officer
Captain Ernst Lehmann (observer)*
Captain Anton Wittemann (observer)
NAVIGATORS
Max Zabel, Navigator
Christian Nielsen, Navigator
Franz Herzog, Navigator
Kurt Bauer, Navigator
RADIO OFFICERS
Willy Speck, Chief Radio Officer*
Herbert Dowe, Radio Officer
Franz Eichelmann, Radio Officer*
Egon Schweikart, Radio Officer
ENGINEERING OFFICERS
Rudolf Sauter, Chief Engineer
Eugen Schäubel, Engineering Officer
Wilhelm Dimmler, Engineering Officer*
ELEVATORMEN
Ludwig Felber*
Ernst Huchel*
Eduard Boetius
HELMSMEN
Alfred Bernhard*
Helmut Lau
Kurt Schönherr
ELECTRICIANS
Philip Lenz, Chief Electrician
Joseph Leibrecht
Ernst Schlapp*
ENGINE MECHANICS
Walter Bahnholzer*
Eugen Bentele
August Deutschle
Rudy Bialas*
Jonny Doerflein
Adolf Fischer
Albert Holderried*
Richard Kollmer
Robert Moser*
Alois Reisacher*
Theodor Ritter
Raphael Schädler
Willy Scheef*
Josef Schreibmuller*
Wilhelm Steeb
Alfred Stöckle*
German Zettel
RIGGERS
Ludwig Knorr, Chief Rigger*
Hans Freund
Erich Spehl*
STEWARDS
Heinrich Kubis, Chief Steward
Wilhelm Balla
Fritz Deeg
Max Henneberg
Severin Klein
Eugen Nunnenmacher
Max Schulze*
Emilie Imhoff (Stewardess)*
SHIP’S DOCTOR
Dr. Kurt Rudiger | |||||
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Hans Kuhnert is a German artist, illustrator and author, born in Hannover, Germany. He is widely recognized for his distinct artistic style that is characterized by strong lines, bold colors and whimsical images. Kuhnert's work is influenced by many artistic genres, including surrealism, pop art and comic book culture. Kuhnert has a passion for art that began at a young age. He studied graphic design at Hildesheim University of Applied Sciences, where he honed his skills in illustration, animation and film. After completing his studies, Kuhnert decided to pursue a career in freelance illustration, drawing inspiration from his personal experiences and travels. Kuhnert has collaborated with various clients on a diverse range of projects. His illustrations have been used for book covers, posters, album artwork, and clothing designs, among other things. He is also the creator of several children's books, including the popular series "The Adventures of Kiki and Mimi". Kuhnert has received numerous accolades throughout his career . His work has been featured in many exhibitions, both in Germany and abroad. He has also been recognized for his contributions to the art world, winning the "Best of Show" award at the 2017 New York Book Expo for his book "The Adventures of Kiki and Mimi". With his unique artistic talent, Hans Kuhnert continues to captivate audiences with his imaginative and playful illustrations.
Which Enneagram Type is Hans Kuhnert?
Hans Kuhnert is an Enneagram Seven personality type with a Six wing or 7w6. They have a full tank of spontaneous energy day and night. These personalities seem to never run out of new fun stories and adventures. However, don’t mistake their enthusiasm with incompetence, for these Type 7s are mature enough to separate playtime from actual leg work. Their personable optimism makes every effort light and easy. | ||||
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Advice and Dissent
USA, 2002, 21 minutes, color
Directed By Leib Cohen
35mm DVD VHS
A frustrated businessman, Jeffery Goldman (John Pankow) tries to end his hopeless marriage by asking his local Rabbi (Eli Wallach) to place a curse on his wife. What happens next sets in motion a chain of unexpected events. Also starring Rebecca Pidgeon. More
The Affair Blum (Affaire Blum)
East Germany, 1948, 109 minutes, B&W
German with English subtitles
Directed by Erich Engel
16mm
This early postwar suspense story, based on a well-known 1926 murder trial with Dreyfus-like overtones represents an East German reflection on Nazism. More
Ahead of Time: The Extraordinary Journey of Ruth Gruber
2009, USA/ Israel, 73 minutes, Color/ B&W
English & Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Robert Richman
DVD
Born in Brooklyn in 1911, Ruth Gruber became the youngest Ph.D. in the world before going on to become an international foreign correspondent and photojournalist at age 24. She emerged as the eyes and conscience of the world. With her love of adventure, fearlessness and powerful intellect, Ruth defied tradition in an extraordinary career that spanned more than seven decades. More
All Jews Out!(Alle Juden Raus!)
Germany, 1990, 82 minutes, color/B&W
German with English subtitles
Directed by Emanuel Rund
16mm DVD
Tracing the story of the German-Jewish Auerbacher family of Goppingen, Germany, from 1933 through 1945, Rund’s documentary utilizes the family’s home movies from the 1930s, as well as interviews and footage of the family’s return visit to their home town, and to Theresienstadt. More
Alois Brunner: The Last Nazi
USA, 2000, 60 minutes, color
Directed by Monika Kopla
DVD
Alois Brunner is the most notorious Nazi war criminal still alive. This documentary includes interviews with the last journalist to have questioned Brunner and with Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld, who has, since the end of World War II, been pursuing Brunner—the man who murdered his father. More
Altalena
Israel, 1994, 53 minutes, color/B&W
English and Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Ilana Tsur
DVD
In 1948, the Altalena arrived in Israel carrying 930 World War II refugees and ammunition amassed by the irgun in direct violation of Prime Minister David Ben Gurion's new military chain-of-command. Ben Gurion gave an order to shell the ship, forcing Jews to fire on Jews and almost sparking a civil war. More
Ambulance (Ambulans)
Poland, 1962, 15 minutes, B&W
Music only- no narration/dialogue.
Directed by Janusz Morgenstern
16mm DVD
In this haunting short film, a group of Jewish children and their teacher are herded into ambulance (or so it appears) by Nazis. A powerful trigger for discussion, the film draws parallels to the real life fate of Janusz Korczak who died with his students at Treblinka. More
America Condemns Nazi Terrorism
USA, 1938, 4 minutes, B&W
Narrator: Lowell Thomas
16mm
This Movietone newsreel from the week of 20 November 1938 is the only known filmed American news story about Kristallnacht. This rare footage shows President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, former president Herbert Hoover, Al Smith, and Alf Landon. More
American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco
USA, 2013, 57 minutes
Directed by Marc Shaffer
Blu-ray DVDThe remarkable story of the pioneering Jews of San Francisco. Drawn to California by the Gold Rush, Jews were welcomed in San Francisco. They went on to build a thriving community, the second largest Jewish community in the United States after New York. With a newfound freedom, Jews played a central role in the transformation of this once-sleepy maritime village into the largest metropolis in the American West. More
American Matchmaker (Amerikaner Shadkhn)
RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1940, 87 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
35mm 16mm DVD
Leo Fuchs, the "Yiddish Fred Astaire," stars in this musical comedy as Nat Silver, a debonair and wealthy Jewish-American businessman whose recent engagement (his eighth) goes awry. Ulmer’s last Yiddish movie was also his most modern, an art deco romantic comedy about male ambivalence and Jewish assimilation. More
Amy
USA, 1997, 8 minutes, color
Directed by Susan Rivo
DVD
A poignant and hilarious personal narrative about the filmmaker’s lifelong attachment and deep bond with a stuffed animal received at birth. More
An Appeal to the Jews of the World RESTORED BY NCJF
USSR, 1941, 6 minutes, B&W
Russian, Yiddish and English with English subtitles
16mm DVD
In 1941, a group of the Soviet Union’s most prominent Jewish writers and artists, including Solomon Mikhoels, Peretz Markish, and Sergei Eisenstein, signed an appeal to Jews throughout the world, asking them to join the Soviet people in fighting against fascism. More
Angel of Ahlem
USA, 2007, 61 minutes, color and B&W
Directed by Sandra Dickson, Churchill Roberts, Cindy Hill & Cara Pilson
DVD
While liberating the Ahlem concentration camp, GI Vernon Tott felt compelled to photograph the horror. 50 years later, Vernon sets out to find the men he photographed, a quest that transforms all their lives. The evidence—of unbearable cruelty and miraculous survival—cements a sustaining bond between Vernon and the Jewish survivors. More
Angst
Australia, 1993, 56 minutes, color
Directed by Judy Menczel
DVD
Angst looks at the lives nd performances of three Jewish comedians—Deb Filler, Sandy Gutman, and Moshe Waldoks—whose parents are concentration camp survivors. More
Appelfeld's Table
Israel, 2004, 47 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Adi Japhet Fuchs
DVD
Imagination, memories, and fiction combine in this film about the life and world of renowned Israeli writer Aharon Appelfeld. The film joins the author on his daily pilgrimages to the Jerusalem café, Anna Ticho House. More
The Arena (Ha-Zirah)
Israel, 2001, 48 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Moish Goldberg & Yonatan Gurfinke
DVD
This is a story of a town square—the Kings of Israel Square, known as Rabin Square. When a controversial plan to convert the square into a parking lot is discovered, the relevance and importance of the square are heightened. More
As If Nothing Happened (Ke'Ilu Klum Lo Kara)
Israel, 1999, 50 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Ayelet Bargur
DVD
Based on the personal experience of the director, this award-winning feature film focuses on one family waiting to hear news of a son who may have been involved in a terrorist incident. More
At the End of the Day
Israel, 2000, 50 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Ayelet Bargur
DVD
Four young men, all commanders in the same Israeli Defense Force Golan Heights paratrooper unit, were killed over a 22-month period from 1995 to 1997. Their families, realizing they all suffer a common fate, agree to meet and share their stories. More
Auschwitz (Oswiecim)
USSR, 1945, 21 minutes, B&W
English narration
Produced at the Central Documentary Film Studio
16mm DVD
This Soviet Army film of the liberation of Auschwitz Concentration Camp was awarded the Red Banner in 1945. It contains dramatic footage of the survivors and some of the atrocities perpetrated in this most notorious of camps. More
Avodah
Palestine, 1935, 50 minutes, B&W
Music only with English subtitles
Director: Helmar Lerski
35mm DVD
This landmark documentary celebrates the pioneering labors of early Jewish settlers in Palestine, recording the technological and agricultural accomplishments of the pioneers and the idea of a socialist Jewish state. More
Aya: An Imagined Autobiography (Autobiographia Dimionit)
Israel, 1994, 87 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Michal Bat-Adam
35mm DVD
Director Michal Bet-Adam, stars in the title role as a woman driven by her father’s ambitions for her. Now she is shooting a film and fragments of dreams and fantasy alternate with reality. More
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Back To Gombin
USA, 2002, 56 minutes, color
Directed by Minna Packer
DVD
A tapestry of film and photographs including rare footage shot in Gombin in 1937, this film tells the story of a group of 50 children of survivors of the Shoah, who return to their parents’ Polish village of Gombin and experience acts of reconciliation, healing, and discovery. More
Baklava and The Meaning of Life
USA, 1999, 23 minutes, color
Directed by Jamil Simon
DVD
Where does one find the meaning of life? Perhaps in the kitchen of Iraqi-born sculptor Helene Simon, where she discusses her life and shows us how to make her famous Baklava. More
The Balcony
Israel, 2000, 54 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Ruth Walk
DVD
A moving portrait of Israel Becker, a founder of the first professional Yiddish theatrical company in post-war Germany and writer and star of the 1946 autobiographic feature film Long is the Road (restored by NCJF), the first feature to portray the Holocaust from a Jewish point of view. More
Bar Mitzvah RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1935, 75 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Henry Lynn
DVD
Starring Yiddish theater superstar Boris Thomashefsky in his only film performance, this musical melodrama is a masterwork of shund, the bread and butter of the Yiddish theater. More
Being Jewish in France (Comme un juif en France)
France, 2007, 185 minutes (Part I, 73 minutes; Part II, 112 minutes), color
French with English subtitles
Written and Directed by Yves Jeuland
DVD
A sweeping documentary that explores the complex history of Jews in France--the first country to grant Jews citizenship--beginning with Revolutionary cries of Vive la France in Yiddish through the explosive Dreyfus Affair, and the absorption of Jews from Arab countries in the 1960s to charges of rising antisemitism in the 21st century. More
The BellsUSA, 1926, 85 minutes, B&W, Silent with English intertitles
Directed by James Young
16mm
Lionel Barrymore stars as an Alsatian innkeeper whose political ambitions drive him to commit brutal murder in this silent melodrama. The Bells is an example of one way in which Jews have been stereotyped in theater and cinema. More
Ben Dov: Images of a Dreamer
France, 1999, 55 minutes, color/B&W
Hebrew and French with English subtitles
Directed by Alex Szalat
16mm DVD
Yorn near Kiev in 1882, Yakov Ben Dov came to Jerusalem from the Ukraine in 1907 with little more than a still camera to his name. He became one of the most accomplished photographers and filmmakers of his time. More
The Bene Israel: A Family Portrait
India, 1994, 33 minutes, color
Marathi with English subtitles
Directed by Karen Nathanson and Jean-Francois Fernandez
DVD
This film is both an intimate family portrait and a fascinating ethnographic study of the Bene Israel, one of three groups of Jews living in India today. More
Benjamin and the Miracle of Chanukah
USA, 1978, 30 minutes, color, animated
Directed by Robert Mitchell
16mm
This animated film featuring the voice of Herschel Bernardi traces the story of Chanukah through the fictional story of a young boy and his faithful donkey. More
The Benny Zinger Show
Israel, 1993, 37 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Arnon Goldfinger
DVD
Benny Zinger presents slide shows at weddings until one day, while preparing a show for a couple, he falls in love with the bride. More
The Bent Tree
USA, 1980, 8 minutes, Animated
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Sally Heckel
16mm
An animated fable based on Itzik Manger's folk tune. More
Benya Krik RESTORED BY NCJF
USSR, 1926, 90 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by V. Vilner
35mm DVD
The seamy Jewish underworld of Odessa is the setting for Isaac Babel's story based on the life of gangster king Mishka Yaponchik "Mike the Jap" Vinnitsky. Murder is a way of life for Benya and his gang until he finds himself ensnared in a Bolshevik trap. More
Bewoket: By the Will of God
USA, 2009, 66 minutes, color
English and Amharic with English subtitles
Directed by Andrea Mydlarz Zeller & Sam Shnider
DVD
In 1990, Dr. Rick Hodes went to Ethiopia to set up medical clinics. He never left. "Dr. Rick" treats thousands of Ethiopians, among them a group of boys who live with him. An Orthodox Jew, he typifies the Jewish value of Tikkun Olam ("repairing the world"). More
Biloxi Blues
USA, 1988, 106 minutes, color
Directed by Mike Nichols
16mm
Mike Nichols’ adaptation of Neil Simon’s play, starring Matthew Broderick. More Bitter Herbs and Honey
Australia, 1996, 70 minutes, color
Directed by Monique Schwartz
16mm DVD
After World War II thousands of poor, Jewish immigrants fled Europe to rebuild their lives in Carlton, Australia. These new arrivals chose to maintain their own language, religion, and culture. More
Blood Money
The Netherlands, 2001, 58 minutes, color
Directed by Benny Brunner & Daniel Cil Brecher
BetaSP
Millions of Jewish victims of the Holocaust have claimed and obtained monetary compensation for their persecution, enslavement, and dispossession. Blood Money investigates the motivations and political maneuvers which accompanied the complex restitution agreements. More
Bonjour! Shalom!
Canada, 1991, 53 minutes, color
Directed by Garry Beitel
16mm DVD
In the small Montreal municipality of Outremont, two very different communities live side by side: Hassidic Jews and their French-Catholic neighbors. This award-winning film examines the complex dynamics involved in this clash of cultures. More Born in Berlin (Shalosh Nashim)
Israel, 1991, 85 minutes, color/B&W
German, English, Swedish and Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Naomi Ben-Natan and Leora Kamenetzky
16MM DVD
A penetrating look at the lives of three Jewish women writers: Cordelia Edvardson, Angelika Schrobsdorff, and Inge Deutschkron. All three grew up in pre-war Berlin until Nazi racial laws shattered their lives, and eventually all three made their way to Israel. More
Born in Buenos Aires
USA, 2003, 40 minutes, color
English and Spanish with English subtitles
Directed by Beth Toni Kruvant
DVD
This documentary provides personal insight into the difficult situation faced by many Jews in Argentina, particularly following the bombings of the Israeli embassy and AMIA Jewish community Center, both in Buenos Aires, in the 1990s. More
Both Sides of the Wire
Canada, 1993, 51 minutes, color
Directed by Neal Livingston
16mm DVD
In 1940, the British government shipped thousands of refugees, most of them Jews, to P.O.W. camps in Canada and Australia. The Canadian government, while still refusing entry to Jewish refugees, realized that their prisoners were civilian refugees and not the Nazis they were expecting. More
Bound for Nowhere: The St. Louis Episode
USA, 1939, 9 minutes, B&W
Produced by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
16mm DVD
The JDC produced this film to record what it thought would be a successful effort to save over 900 Jews, by sailing them from Nazi Germany to Cuba on the ship St. Louis, but Cuba and then the United States barred the refugees’ entrance. More
Braids (Tzamot)
Israel, 1989, 90 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Yitzhak Halutzi
16mm DVD
Based on a true story, Braids tells the tale of So'ad, a 14-year-old Jewish girl imprisoned by the Iraqi government in 1947 for her participation in the Zionist movement. More
Breaking Home Ties RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1922, 78 minutes, B&W
Silent with new English intertitles
Directed by Frank N. Seltzer & George K. Rowlands
DCP DVD Blu-ray
Long thought lost, the world's only existing print of Breaking Home Ties was discovered by NCJF in a Berlin archive in 1984. Thinking he killed his friend Paul in a blind rage, David Bergmann flees pre-revolutionary Russia for America. In New York he becomes a succesful lawyer and woos the boss' daughter Rose. More
Breaking the Silence: The Generation After the Holocaust
USA, 1984, 58 minutes, color
Directed by Edward A. Mason; Produced by Eva Fogelman
DVD
This classic film tells a moving story of personal growth as the children of Holocaust survivors find the strength to confront their painful legacy and overcome the barriers of unasked and unanswered questions that separate them from their parents. More
Brighton Beach Memoirs
USA, 1986, 110 minutes, color
Directed by Gene Saks
16mm
Gene Saks’ adaptation of Neil Simon’s play in which a teenage Jewish boy recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. More
The Buchenwald Ball
Australia, 2006, 52 minutes, color
Directed by Andrew Wiseman, Danny Ben-Moshe & Uri Mizrahi
DVD
Uplifting, full of swagger and joie de vivre, this film tells the story of 45 orphans who survived the Holocaust and found their way to Australia. Every year on April 11, the anniversary of their liberation from Buchenwald, the “Buchenwald Boys” hold a music and dancing ball. More
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Camera Obscura (La Camara Oscura)Argentina, 2008, 86 minutes, color/B&W
Spanish and Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed By María Victoria Menis
35mm DVD
A lyrical, inventive new film from award-winning, film festival favorite director María Victoria Menis. At the end of the 19th century, Gertrudis grows into her role as the ugly duckling in a colony of Argentinean Jews until she meets a nomadic photographer whose uncompromising vision allows her to see herself for the first time. More
A Cantor on Trial (Khazan afn Probe) RESTORED BY NCJFUSA, 1931, 10 min, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Sidney M. Goldin
35mm 16mm DVDCantor Leibele Waldman plays multiple roles in this spoof of a synagogue committee in search of a chazan (cantor). More
The Cantor's Son (Dem Khazns Zundl) RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1937, 90 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Ilya Motyleff (Sidney Goldin, uncredited)
35mm DVD
This "anti-Jazz Singer” marks the screen debut of Moishe Oysher who stars as a wayward youth who makes his way from his Polish shtetl to New York's Lower East Side where he becomes a well-known singer. Ultimately, he returns home to the Old Country and reunites with his parents and his childhood sweetheart. More
Carvalho's Journey
USA, 2015, 85 minutes
Directed by Steve Rivo
Digital Blu-ray DVD
A real life 19th-century American western adventure story, Carvalho's Journey tells the extraordinary story of Solomon Nunes Carvalho (1815-1897), an observant Sephardic Jew born in Charleston, South Carolina, and his life as a groundbreaking explorer and artist. The film interweaves stunning HD digital and 16mm film landscape cinematography, rare 19th century photographs and artwork, Carvalho’s own surviving paintings and daguerreotypes, and interviews with scholars and artists, including modern day daguerreotypist Robert Shlaer who recreates Carvalho’s original daguerreotypes on location. More
Catskill Honeymoon
USA, 1949, 93 minutes, B&W
English and Yiddish (no subtitles)
Directed by Josef Berne
16mm DVD
A Jewish resort hotel celebrates a pair of longtime customers' 50th wedding anniversary by staging an old-fashioned Borscht Belt show. Filmed on location at Young's Gap Hotel in Parksville, New York. More
Chariots of Fire UK, 1981, 124 minutes, color
Directed by Hugh Hudson
16mm
The true story of two British track athletes competing in the 1924 Summer Olympics. More
Chasing Shadows UK, 1990, 52 minutes, color/B&W
Directed by Naomi Gryn
16mm DVD
Hugo Gryn was 15 years old when he left his hometown, Berohovo, believing he would never see it again. In 1990, Gryn and his daughter, filmmaker Naomi Gryn returned to the world of his childhood, where only ghosts and shadows remain. More
A Child of the Ghetto DIGITALLY RESTORED BY NCJFUSA, 1910, 15 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by D. W. Griffith
16mm Blu-ray DVD
This tale of New York’s Lower East Side life captures the hustle and bustle of Rivington Street through the lens of legendary Hollywood director D. W. Griffith. Ruth flees the ghetto and hides in the country, where a young farmer takes her in and they fall in love. More
Children Must Laugh (Mir Kumen On) PRESERVED BY NCJFPoland, 1935, 63 minutes, B&W
English & Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Aleksander Ford for the Jewish Labor Bund
16mm DVD
One of the few surviving documentaries about Jewish life in Poland before World War II, this film was produced to raise funds for the Vladimir Medem Sanitarium which stood as the embodiment of health and enlightenment, in striking contrast to the grim images of urban Polish-Jewish poverty. More
The Children of Izieu USA, 1992, 28 minutes, color
Directed by Tom Demenkoff
DVD
In 1944, one month before the end of World War II, the Gestapo in Lyon, under the command of Klaus Barbie, sent two vans to the French village of Izieu to remove the Jewish children from an orphanage known as La Maison d’Izieu. More
The Chosen USA, 1982, 108 minutes, color
Directed by Jeremy Paul Kagan
16mm
Jeremy Kagan’s film adaptation of the classic novel by Chaim Potok. More
Chronicle of Love (Chronika Shel Ahava) Israel, 1998, 90 minutes, color
Hebrew with English Subtitles
Directed by Tzipi Trope
35mm DVD
In this the first Israeli feature film to deal with the subject of battered women. Nava, a social worker, shares the painful secret of her suffering with Jania, another woman victimized by her husband and the two form a healing bond. More
Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising According to Marek Edelman
(Kronika powstania w getcie warszawskim wg Marka Edelmana) Poland, 1994, 70 minutes, B&W
Polish with English subtitles
Directed by Jolanta Dylewska
DVD
Marek Edelman, a member of the Jewish Labor Bund and a leading participant in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, gives a daily account of events from April 19 through May 10, 1942. More
ClementineIsrael, 2009, 48 minutes
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Tal Haim Yoffe
DVD
A fascinating investigation that mirrors the development of Israel itself. Shaking his own family tree in this beautifully-crafted documentary, Tal Yoffe discovers a pioneering kibbutznik filmmaker, a Czarist army officer, a Nazi-trained blacksmith, several war heroes and a much missed father. More
Cohen on the Telephone DIGITALLY RESTORED BY NCJFUSA, 1929, 9 minutes, B&W
with sound, in English
Directed by Robert Ross
16mm Blu-ray DVD
Trying to make a call and unfamiliar with the telephone, Cohen embroils himself in a comic monologue of misunderstanding. Here, we see how the Jewish immigrant is now characterized not simply by how he moves and looks, but by how he speaks. More
Cohen Saves the Flag PRESERVED BY NCJFUSA, 1913, 10 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Mack Sennett
16mm DVD
Cohen is a sergeant in the Union Army and the bitter rival of another officer for the attentions of Rebecca. Like most burlesque Jewish characters of this period, this caricature borders on anti-semitism. Yet Cohen is also the hero of the film. More
Cohen's Advertising Scheme PRESERVED BY NCJF USA, 1904, 1 minute, B&W
Silent without intertitles
Directed by Edwin S. Porter
16mm DVD
This may be the earliest cinematic example of the Jewish stereotype known as the "scheming merchant”. Cohen, a grotesquely made-up Jewish shop owner, tricks a passerby into wearing a coat that has a sign advertising his store attached to the back. More
Cohen's Fire Sale PRESERVED BY NCJF USA, 1907, 10 minutes, B&W
Silent without intertitles
Directed by Edwin S. Porter
16mm DVD
Cohen, made-up in grotesque vaudevillian Jewish style, pursues a trash wagon, picking up hats as they accidentally drop off. When he finds the hats are not selling, Cohen reads his insurance policy and arranges for an "accidental" fire." More
Comrade Abram (Tovarishch Abram) RESTORED BY NCJF USSR, 1919, 18 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Alexander Razumni
35mm 16mm DVD
Tne of a series of short Bolshevik propaganda films, Comrade Abram focuses on Abram Hersh, a young Jewish pogrom survivor who became a factory worker and organizer in Moscow and, eventually, a leader in the Red Army. More
The Cowboy
USA, 1968, 11 minutes, B&W
Yiddish (no subtitles)
Directed by Abe Wexler
16mm DVDIt's just your typical all-Yiddish shoot-'em-up. This hilarious spoof was made by adding a Yiddish dialogue to a 1932 Hollywood Western. More
 Cubaâs Forgotten Jewels: A Haven in Havana
USA, 2017, 46 minutes, color
Directed By Robin Truesdale & Judy Kreith
DVD Blu-ray DCPExplore the little-known history of the Jewish refugees who escaped Nazi-occupied Europe for the Caribbean island of Cuba. The documentary recalls the refugees' lives in wartime Havana: the draw of Cuban food, music and dance, its language and people, and the challenges of an unfamiliar land. Shot on location in Cuba, featuring an original score of Cuban and Jewish music. More
Crossing Delancey USA, 1988, 97 minutes, color
Directed by Joan Micklin Silver
16mm
Based on Susan Sandler’s play, Crossing Delancey is a charming comedy about new world desires clashing with old world traditions. It’s a timeless tale of a woman struggling to find happiness and independence...her way. More
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Daffke...The Four Lives of Inge Deutschkron (Daffke...! Die vier Leben der Inge D.)
Germany, 1999, 90 minutes, color
(English Language version)
Directed byWolfgang Kolneder
VHS
Holocaust survivor and author Inge Deutschkron’s story comes to the screen in this film chronicling 70 years of her life and career. More
Danzig 1939 USA, 1980, 30 minutes, color/B&W
Directed by Sidney Reichman for the Jewish Museum of New York
16mm
All but approximately 100 Danzig Jews escaped the Nazi terror because local synagogue leaders made the unprecedented move of selling their religious artifacts and using the proceeds to finance the immigration of the entire community. In this film a group of reunited Danzig survivors identify the artifacts and explore the history of their families. More
Davidoff Newsreel Palestine, 1934, 10 minutes, B&W
Hebrew (an English translation sheet accompanies film)
Produced by Davidoff Newsreel Company
16mm
This newsreel segment depicts the first voyage of a Polish ocean liner to Palestine in 1934, including its departure, voyage, and the urban vistas of Haifa and Tel Aviv, which greeted its arrival. More
The Day Grandpa Died USA, 1970, 11 minutes, color
Produced by King Screen Productions
16mm
A child comes to accept death as a part of life. More
A Day In Warsaw RESTORED BY NCJF Poland, 1938, 10 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with complete new English subtitles
Produced by Shaul and Yitzhak Goskin
16mm DVD
Rare pre-war views of the lively Jewish neighborhoods of Warsaw—home to 400,000 Jews lived before World War II—including Zamenhof Street and the commercial “beehive” Nalewki Street. More
Days of Memory
Lithuania, 1999, 65 minutes, color/B&W
Lithuanian, Hebrew and Yiddish with English subtitles and English narration
Directed by Saulius Berzinis
DVD
This overview of an academic conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of the destruction of the Vilna Ghetto held in Vilna in 1993 includes contemporary footage juxtaposed with historical visual materials. More
Dear Mr. Waldman (Michtavim Le America)
Israel, 2006, 86 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Hanan Peled
35mm DVD
In Tel Aviv in the 1960s 10-year-old Hilik knows his goal in life is to compensate for the grief his parents suffered in the Holocaust. More
Death Mills aka Mills of Death (Die Todesmuhlen) USA, 1945, 22 minutes, B&W
Produced by the U.S. Department of War Information
16mm DVD
Originally made with a German soundtrack for screening in occupied Germany and Austria, this film was the first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi extermination camps: the survivors, the conditions, and the evidence of mass murder. More
Diamonds in the Snow
USA, 1994, 59 minutes, color
Directed by Mira Reym Binford
16mm DVD
Thousands of Jewish children lived in the Polish city of Bendzin before the Holocaust. Barely a dozen survived the community’s destruction. This critically-acclaimed documentary tells the story of three of these children—Ada, Shulamit, and the filmmaker herself, Mira. More
Disraeli USA, 1929, 89 minutes, B&W
Directed by Alfred E. Green
16mm
In the early days of sound film, one of Warner Bros.' big box-office draws was the aging stage actor George Arliss and, in Disraeli, Arliss scored his biggest box-office hit. More
Dream of My People USA, 1934, 66 minutes, B&W
Directed by A.J. Bloome for Palestine-American Film Co.
16mm DVD
A rare, early documentary on Palestine, featuring the last appearance of Cantor Yossele Rosenblatt. More
Dreamers and Builders Israel, 1996, 50 minutes, B&W
English
Directed by Yaakov Gross
DVD
This historic document of Palestine during the tumultuous 1920s includes footage from three rare films by Ya'akov Ben Dov, the father of Hebrew cinema, preserved in a joint project by the National Center for Jewish Film and the Israel Film Archive. More
Dreyfus Revisited: A Current Affair USA, 2006, 17 minutes
Written & Produced by: Lorraine Beitler
Directed by: Jonathan Gruber, Dawn Freer & Patricia Giniger Snyder
DVD
The Dreyfus Affair, one of history's most notorious cases of criminal injustice and antisemitism, split French public opinion and set off an international uproar that resulted in anti-Jewish riots in every major city in France, violence that served as a prelude to the Holocaust and as a catalyst to the development of modern Zionism. More
The Dybbuk (Der Dibuk)
Poland, 1937, 123 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with complete new English subtitles
Directed by Michal Waszynski
35mm 16mm DVD
Boundaries separating the natural from the supernatural dissolve as ill-fated pledges, unfulfilled passions, and untimely deaths ensnare two families in a tragic labyrinth of spiritual possession in this classic Yiddish feature film based on the celebrated play by S. Ansky. More
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East and West (Mizrekh un Mayrev/ Ost und West) RESTORED BY NCJF
Austria, 1923, 85 minutes, B&W
Silent with Yiddish & English intertitles
Added original soundtrack (1991)
Directed by Sidney M. Goldin and Ivan Abramson
16mm DVD
Morris Brown, a New York gambler acquainted more with his checkbook than his prayer book, returns to Galicia with his very American daughter, Mollie (Molly Picon) for a family wedding. But Mollie, whose exuberant antics fill the film, unexpectedly meets her match—an engaging young yeshiva scholar who forsakes tradition and joins the secular world to win her heart. More
The Eighty-First Blow (Ha-Makah Hashmonim V'Echad) Israel, 1975, 91 minutes (originally 115 minutes), B&W
Hebrew and Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by David Bergman
16mm
This Academy Award-nominated film is the first documentary of a trilogy produced under the auspices of the Israeli Ghetto Fighters' House' (Beit Lohamei Haghetaot). The project constitutes one of the most ambitious attempts at a comprehensive film history of the Holocaust. More
Einsatzgruppen: The Death Brigades (Les Commandos de la Mort) France, 2009, 180 minutes (Two parts)
English narration, French, German w/ English subtitles
Directed by Michaël Prazan
Nazi mobile killing squads, led by highly-educated officers and aided by local collaborators, systematically murdered over a million Jews. Who were the men who carried out mass murder at close range? Prazan's definitive masterwork features a powerful array of astounding, never-seen-before film and photographs. “Essential viewing” – Variety More
Enemies: A Love Story USA, 1989, 119 minutes, color
Directed by Paul Mazursky
16mm
This film, based on the novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer, deals with the lives of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, who find it difficult to abide by religious morales and question a God who could let the Holocaust occur. More
Escape to the Rising Sun (Survivre à Shanghai) Belgium, 1990, 95 minutes, color
French with English narration
Directed by Diane Perelsztejn
35mm DVD VHS
In 1939, European Jews lucky enough to escape the Nazis had only one place in the world to go that did not require an exit visa: Shanghai. Escape to the Rising Sun tells the little-known story of nearly 5,000 Jews who reached Shanghai. More
Everything's For You USA, 1989, 58 minutes, color/B&W
Directed by Abraham Ravett
16mm DVD
Ravett attempts to reconcile issues in his life as the child of a Holocaust survivor in this experimental, non-narrative film about memory, death, and what critic Bruce Jenkins calls “the power of the photographic image and sound to resurrect the past". More
Exodus USA, 1960, 212 minutes, color
Directed by Otto Preminger
16mm
A classic film starring Paul Newman, about the foundation of the state of Israel. More
Exodus to Berlin
USA/Germany, 2001, 90 minutes, color
English and German with English subtitles
Directed by Peter Laufer and Jeff Kamen
DVD VHS
The collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe unleashed anti-semitism in the former Soviet bloc, creating the first massive exodus of Jews since the end of World War II. Today, in bittersweet irony, tens of thousands of Jews escape persecution by fleeing to Germany. More
Expulsion and Memory Canada, 1996, 60 minutes, color
Directed by Simcha Jacobovici and Roger Pyke
DVD
This documentary traces the descendants of Spanish Jews who were forced to either flee or convert to Catholicism after Queen Isabella's edict of 1492. Many of these Jews had to practice their religion in secret, passing their furtively-recalled customs down through the generations. More
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Russia, 1992, 27 minutes, B&W
Russian with English subtitles
Directed by Arkadiy Yakhnis
35mm DVD
This award-winning documentary chronicles a 90-year old man’s emigration to Israel from his native shtetl in Bessabaria. This beautifully photographed film poetically captures the end of a rich Jewish heritage in Russia. More
Father's Footsteps (Comme Ton Pére)France/Israel, 2007, 95 minutes, color
French & Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Marco Carmel
DVD
In the early 1970s, the Maimons, a rambunctious but tight knit Tunisian-Israeli family, settle in Paris seeking adventure and fortune. Israeli-French filmmaker Marco Carmel draws on events from his own childhood in this unusual coming of age story. Starring French celebrity actor/humorist Gad Elmaleh. More
The Feast of Passover (Di Seder Nakht)
PRESERVED BY NCJF
USA, 1931, 15 minutes, B&W
English, Hebrew, and Yiddish (no subtitles)
Produced by Sidney M. Goldin for Jacob Berkowitz
16mm DVD
A seder in the midst of North American prosperity recalls traditional Passover celebrations in Russia (with the same cast enacting both scenes). Then modernity returns with a knock at the door and a humorous twist. More
Fiddler on the Roof USA, 1971, 181 minutes, color
Directed by Norman Jewison
16mm
The film version of the stage musical, based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem. Tevye the milkman is a Jewish peasant in pre-Revolutionary Russia, coping with the day-to-day problems of shtetl life, his Jewish traditions, his family, and state-sanctioned pogroms. More
Fiestaremos! Judy Frankel and the Sephardic Music Tradition USA, 2008, 30 minutes, color
English with songs in Ladino
Directed by Kathleen Regan
DVD
Judy Frankel was one of the leading collectors and practitioners of Sephardic folk music. Fiestaremos! includes interviews with Frankel, musical excerpts and performances in an intimate look at Frankel and Sephardic music and songs. More
The Fifth Horseman is Fear (...a páty jezdec je Strach) Czechoslovakia, 1964, 100 minutes, B&W
Czech with English subtitles
Directed by Zbynek Brynych
16mm
In Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia a Jewish doctor, forbidden to practice, has to remove a bullet from a wounded Resistance fighter. He roams Prague streets in a desperate search for morphine while hiding his patient from the Nazis. More
Finding Leah Tickotsky: A Discovery of Heritage in Poland USA, 2010, 48 minutes, color
Directed by Sarah Golabek-Goldman
DVD
This documentary explores Polish-Jewish relations as well as one filmmaker's personal journey to discover her family roots. Through her eyes, Finding Leah Tickotsky provides a perspective on one of the most painful periods in history and serves as a reminder of the extraordinary contributions Jews made to Poland over nine centuries. More
Flames in the Ashes (Pnei Hamered) Israel, 1985, 90 minutes, B&W
Yiddish and Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Haim Gouri and Jacquot Erlich
16mm
This film, the third in a trilogy (The Eighty-First Blow ,The Last Sea ) examines Jewish resistance during World War II. More
Force of Evil USA, 1989, 60 minutes, color
Produced by Steven Schlow
DVD
This Emmy Award-winning documentary traces the rise of Nazism in general and the career of Adolf Eichmann in particular by documenting the small incremental steps the Nazis took to introduce their ideology of anti-semitism in Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. More
Forgotten Children Australia, 2009, 55 minutes, color
English
Directed by Monique Schwarz
DVD
Amid the crisis surrounding the education of Aboriginal children in Australia, there is a ray of hope. The unlikely source: Israeli teachers. Follow a team of Israeli educators as they bring a new method for teaching at-risk kids to the Australian outback. More
Four Friends (Pegisha Hozeret) Israel, 2000, 60 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Esther Dar
16mm DVD
Four women—a Palestinian Moslem; a Palestinian Christian; a Jew from a prominent Zionist family; and a Jew from Tel Aviv—roommates at an Anglican boarding school in Jerusalem in 1939, meet 50 years later for a reunion. More
From Philadelphia to the Front USA, 2005, 37 minutes, color
Directed by Judy Gelles and Marianne Bernstein
DVD
This award-winning film is one of the few documentaries to explore the experiences of Jewish-American World War II soldiers. For Jews, the war to defeat Hitler had deeply personal significance. An audience favorite, this film focuses on six Philadelphia veterans, now in their 80’s. More
The Front USA, 1976, 94 minutes, color
Directed by Woody Allen
16mm
Woody Allen plays a man of no real talent or strong political convictions who is paid to be a front for a group of black listed writers during the McCarthy period in the United States. More
The Führer Gives a City to the Jews (Der Führer schenkt den Juden eine Stadt) RESTORED BY NCJFGermany, 1944, 23 minutes (incomplete), B&W
Produced by the Ministry of Propaganda of the Third Reich
16mm DVD
Germany’s Ministry of Propaganda produced this 1944 film about Theresienstadt, the “model” ghetto established by the Nazis. The film, however, is an elaborately staged hoax presenting a completely false picture of camp life. Upon completion, the director and most of the cast of prisoners were shipped to Auschwitz. More
Funny Girl USA, 1968, 155 minutes, color
Directed by William Wyler
16mm
The life of comedienne Fannie Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of the Lower East Side, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, including her marriage to and eventual divorce from her first husband, Nick Arnstein. More
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UK, 1975, 52 minutes, color/B&W
Directed by Michael Darlow
16mm VHS
Narrated by Sir Laurence Olivier, this documentary remains one of the best comprehensive overviews of the Holocaust and is an excellent tool for teacher training. More
Gentleman's AgreementUSA, 1947, 118 minutes, B&W
Directed by Elia Kazan
16mm
A classic film in which a journalist who passes himself off as a Jew to write an article about Semitism in America, and discovers how racism affects people. More
Germany Awake (Deutschland, erwache!) West Germany, 1968, 90 minutes, B&W
German with English narration and subtitles
Directed by Erwin Leiser
16mm
This compilation film examines the use of feature films as a political weapon in the Third Reich. More
Girona: The Mother of Israel, The Jews of Catalonia USA, 1989, 30 minutes, color
Directed by Patricia Giniger Snyder
DVD
This film documents Jewish daily life in Girona, a city in the northeastern Spanish region of Catalonia, from its “golden age” in the middle ages through the expulsion of Spanish Jewry in 1492 and up to the present day. More
The Giving Tree USA, 1971, 10 minutes, color
From the story by Shel Silverstein
16mm
This animated short tells the story of the relationship between a little boy and the tree which lovingly and unstintingly provides for his needs at each stage of his life. More
God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore (An uns glaubt Gott nicht mehr)
Austria, 1982, 110 minutes, B&W
German with English subtitles
Directed By Axel Corti
16mm DVD
The first film in Corti’s acclaimed epic trilogy, Where To and Back. After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, Ferry Tobler, a young Viennese Jew, flees to Prague and then Paris, lands in a French prison camp, and eventually escapes to Marseille. More
God, Man and Devil (Got, Mentsch, un Taybl) RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1949, 100 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Seiden
16mm DVD
Based on a play by Jacob Gordin, God, Man and Devil centers on a wager between God and Satan that has dire consequences. Beware, the film cautions, when money sounds sweeter than music. More
Golda Meir UK, 1971, 52 minutes, color/B&W
Produced by the BBC
16mm
A close-up documentary portrait of one of the century's outstanding women and an illustrated account of the dramatic events in which she was a leading protagonist. More
Great Cantors in Cinema/ Great Cantors of the Golden Age RESTORED BY NCJFUSA, 2006, 120 minutes, B&W/color
Hebrew, Yiddish and English with English subtitles
Directed by Rich Pontius; Produced by Cantor Murray Simon
2 DVD Set
These two films feature some of the rarest and finest performances of renowned cantors from 1910 to the 1940s, including Adolph Katchko, Yossele Rosenblatt, David Roitman, Joseph Shlisky, and Mordechai Hershman, Moshe Koussevitsky, and Leibele Waldman. More
Green Fields (Grine Felder) RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1937, 95 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and Jacob Ben-Ami
35mm 16mm DVD
Voted Best Foreign Film in France 1938. Ulmer’s soulful, open-air adaptation of Peretz Hirshbein’s classic play heralded the Golden Age of Yiddish cinema. When an ascetic young scholar ventures into the countryside, searching for the city of “true Jews,” he learns some unexpected lessons from the Jewish peasants who take him in. More
The Green Dumpster Mystery (Ha'taalumah Ba'meholah Ha'yerukah)Israel, 2008, 50 minutes
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Tal Haim Yoffe
DVD
Traveling on his scooter through Tel Aviv, filmmaker Tal Haim Yoffe finds a discarded box of old photographs in a green dumpster. This docu-detective film, slowly unwinds a family history, beginning in Lodz, Poland, and traveling through the Siberian Gulag, a Samarkand sugar plant, a Ha’apala ship and the battlefields of the Sinai Peninsula. More
GripsholmGermany, 2000, 102 minutes, color
German and Swedish with English subtitles
Directed by Xavier Koller
35mm DVD
Based on Kurt Tucholsky’s autobiographical novel about the decadent world of Berlin cabaret of the early 1930s. After writing inflammatory articles about the Nazis, Kurt (Ulrich Noethen), a German-Jewish publisher, travels to the Swedish palace of Gripsholm with his girlfriend Lydia and their friends. More
Gruber's Journey Romania, 2008, 100 minutes, color
Romanian w/ English Subtitles
Directed by Radu Gabrea
35mm DigiBeta DVD
An Italian journalist suffering from debilitating allergies searches for a Jewish allergist named Gruber amid the outrageous, and increasingly sinister, bureaucracy of Nazi-occupied Romania. What begins as an absurdist wild goose chase leads directly to the heart of the final solution, and the disastrous fate of the local Jews. Radu Gabrea’s “Perfect yet subdued” film is Romania’s first drama about the Holocaust. More
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Half Sister USA, 1985, 22 minutes, color
Directed by Abraham Ravett
16mm DVD
At 26, Abraham Ravett learned that his mother had previously been married and lost her family at Auschwitz, including his 6-year-old half-sister, Toncia. Half Sister is a cinematic amalgam of memory and imagination, inspired by Ravett’s conception of a life that would have been. More
Half the Kingdom
Canada, 1989, 58 minutes, color
Directed by Francine E. Zuckerman & Roushell N. Goldstein
DVD
In this provocative, award-winning documentary seven remarkable women from Canada, Israel, and the United States strive to find common ground between religious and cultural tradition and contemporary feminist principles. More
The Hangman USA, 1964, 12 minutes, color
Directed by Paul Julian and Les Goldman
16mm
In this allegorical short, the people of a town are condemned to die one by one by a mysterious stranger who erects a gallows in the town square. The townspeople create a rationale for each hanging, until only one person is left, he who failed all along to raise his voice in protest. More
Hatikvah: The Hope RESTORED BY NCJF Germany, 1936, 48 minutes, B&W
Silent with German and English intertitles
Produced by the German Zionist Union
16mm DVD
Made in 1936 in an effort to inspire German Jews under Nazi rule to make aliyah to Palestine, this documentary about the earliest period of Zionist history is a singular celluloid artifact. More
His Excellency (Yevo Prevoshoditelstvo) RESTORED BY NCJF
USSR, 1928, 76 minutes (Incomplete: missing one reel), B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Grigori Roshal
35mm 16mm DVD
This 1928 film features stylized cinematography and actors from the Moscow Art Theater in a fiction story based on the life of Jewish Labor Bund member Hirsch Lekert who attempted to assassinate the Vilna governor in 1902 to avenge the flogging of workers who participated in a May Day rally. More
His People RESTORED BY NCJFUSA, 1925, 91 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Edward Sloman
16mm DVD
The two sons of a poor Russian-Jewish pushcart peddler on New York's Lower East Side are causing their father grief. As Morris and Sammy stray from traditions cherished by their parents, each generation learns to accept change to preserve the family as a source of love and respect. More
His Wife's Lover(Zayn Vaybs Lubovnik)
RESTORED BY NCJFUSA, 1931, 80 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Sidney M. Goldin
35mm DVD
His Wife’s Lover stars the popular comedian of the Yiddish theatre Ludwig Satz. It was billed as the "first Jewish musical comedy talking picture." More
Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream USA, 1997, 100 minutes, color/B&W
Directed by Simcha Jacobovici
16mm
Based on Neal Gabler's best-selling book, this award-winning film tells the story of the Jewish moguls who founded Hollywood. All were immigrants, or children of immigrants, who wanted to reinvent themselves as Americans. More
The Holocaust Tourist UK, 2005, 10 min, color
Directed by Jes Benstock
DVD
A wry, animated documentary about how Holocaust tourism distorts history. A whistle-stop tour from Auschwitz hot-dogs to Krakow's kitsch Judaica. More
Holy For Me Israel, 1995, 34 min, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Assaf Bernstein
DVD
This fiction film spoofs tours of the "holy" sites of Israel. Join Jonah and his unwitting group of tourists on an insane two-day tour of Tel Aviv. More
The Holy Land
USA, 1917, 5 minutes, B&W, Silent
Produced by Conquest Pictures
16mm
This historic and rare footage of Palestine focuses on the holy Christian and Jewish sites of Jerusalem. More
Homicide USA, 1991, 102 minutes, color
Directed by David Mamet
16mm
A Jewish homicide detective investigates a seemingly minor murder and falls in with a Zionist group as a result. More
House of Rothschild USA, 1934, 88 minutes, B&W
Directed by Alfred L. Werker
16mm
George Arliss stars as Nathan Rothschild in this chronicle of the famed banking family at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. More
The House on Chelouche Street (Ha-Bayit Berechov Chelouche) Israel, 1973, 115 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Moshe Mizrahi
16mm
This Academy Award-nominated feature focuses on Sami, a teenager from a newly-arrived, poor Sephardic family living in the slums of Palestine during the turbulent last days of the British Mandate. More
How Moshe Came Back PRESERVED BY NCJF USA, 1914, 10 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Produced by Crystal Films
16mm DVD
An example of Jewish characterizations in the silent film era, Moshe, a 98-pound boxer defeats his 240-pounds opponent…by cheating. More
How To: Be Or Not To Be Netherlands, 2008, 58 minutes
English and Dutch with English subtitles
Directed by Erga Netz
DVD
Dutch, Surinamese, African, Catholics, Muslims, Jews: young people from all over The Netherlands adapt Sholem Aleichem’s 1907 novel The Bloody Hoax at a unique international, multicultural theater school in Amsterdam. More
How To Re-Establish a Vodka Empire UK, 2012, 75 minutes
Written and Directed by Dan Edelstyn
DCP, DigiBeta, BluRay, DVD
When British filmmaker Edelstyn travels to the Ukraine in search of his Jewish roots and discovers that the vodka distillery opened by his great grandfather in 1904 is still in operation, he decides--despite his utter lack of business experience--to become a liquor entrepreneur. "A barnstorming tale of vodka and revolution." --BBC Radio More
Human Failure (Menschliches Versagen) Germany, 2008, 91 minutes
German with English subtitles
Directed by Michael Verhoeven
Acclaimed filmmaker Michael Verhoeven's documentary documents the bizarre competition that developed between bureaucrats as to how to organize the robbery of the Jews prior to their deportation and death. Until just several years ago, the documents proving this planned expropriation were lost, destroyed or hidden away. More
Hungry Hearts RESTORED BY NCJF USA, 1922, 80 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Added original soundtrack (2006)
Directed by E. Mason Hopper
16mm DVD
A Hollywood adaptation of the short stories of Anzia Yezierska, the first writer to bring stories of American Jewish women to a mainstream audience, Hungry Hearts focuses on the hopes and hardships of the Levin family, Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe living on New York City's Lower East Side. More
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I Love You, Rosa (Ani Ohev Otach Rosa) Israel, 1972, 84 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Moshe Mizrachi
16mm
Academy Award nominee, Best Foreign Film. Jerusalem's Orthodox community at the turn of the century is the setting for this now-classic film about the life of a young Sephardic widow. More
I Miss the Sun USA, 1984, 20 minutes, color
Directed by Mary Halawani
16mm DVD
Halawani profiles her grandmother, Rosette Hakim, the daughter of a prominent Egyptian-Jewish family who fled her homeland in 1959 when Egyptian anti-Zionist sentiments increased and when hundreds of Jews, suspected of pro-Communist activities, were interned in detention camps. More
I Want To Be A Boarder (Ich Vil Zeyn a Boarder) RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1937, 15 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Seiden
35mm 16mm DVD
A lively short about a husband and wife who seek to reignite their marriage by pretending to be landlady and tenant. More
The Immigrant USA, 1917, 20 minutes, b&w
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
16mm
Charlie Chaplin's hilarious portrayal of a penniless immigrant's journey to, and arrival in, America. More
The Imported Bridegroom USA, 1990, 93 minutes, color
Directed by Pamela Berger
35mm 16mm DVD
A Jewish romance begins when Asriel, a turn-of-the-century, rich Boston widower returns from a visit to the old country with a man he believes is the perfect man for his daughter. But when the two meet, his thoroughly modern daughter is appalled by this pious scholar, or is she? More
In Memory USA, 1993, 13 minutes, B&W
Directed by Abraham Ravett
16mm DVD
In this non-narrative, meditative, and poignant film, footage of life from the Lodz Ghetto is juxtaposed with the chanting of “Kel Maleh Rachamim,” a plea to God to let the souls of those “slaughtered and burned” find peace. More
In Search of Jewish Amsterdam Denmark, 1975, 70 minutes, color
English, Dutch and Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Philo Bregstein
16mm DVD VHS
Through the interplay of past and present, Bregstein sets out to discover what Jewish life was like in Amsterdam before the virtual annihilation of the city's Jewish population during World War II. More
The Inheritance USA, 1964, 58 minutes, B&W
Produced by Harold Mayer
16mm DVD
A portrait of 20th century America as seen through the eyes of its working people: immigrants in the early 1900s, workers in sweatshops, coal mines, and textile mills, soldiers on the battlefields of world wars I and II and in the Civil Rights movement. More
Is There Poetry After Auschwitz? USA, 1992, 60 minutes, color
Produced by Vivienne Hermann and Dale Sonnenberg
DVD VHS
This moving portrait of artist Vivienne Hermann, who spent five years as a child in forced labor camps during World War II, answers the eponymous question with a resounding “Yes!” As Hermann says: “I am the poem. I may be a tragic poem. I may be an irritating poem. But I am the poem." More
Island of Roses: The Jews of Rhodes in Los Angeles
USA, 1995, 55 minutes, color
English, Italian, French and Ladino with English subtitles
Directed by Gregori Viens
DVD
This film visits the Los Angeles community of “Rhodeslis”—Jews who lived on the Mediterranean island of Rhodes from 1492 to World War II—who have passed down their traditions, food, songs, rituals, and their medieval Ladino Spanish dialect to their American-born descendants. More
Israel Rocks: A Journey Through Music of Visions and Divisions
Israel, 2000, 55 minutes, color
Hebrew with English Subtitles
Directed by Izzy Abrahami and Erga Netz
DVD VHS
Can you grasp the complexities, the tribulation, and the dreams of Israel by its music? This film features 20 singers, bands, and choruses, from rock to blues, folk, and rap. More
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Jakob the Liar (Jakob der Lügner) GDR/East Germany, 1975, 95 minutes, color
German with English subtitles
Directed by Frank Beyer
35mm 16mm
Jakob Heym, a Jew trapped in a Polish ghetto, overhears news of a nearby Russian victory on a Gestapo radio. Pretending to have heard the good news on his own clandestine radio, Jakob passes the word on to his neighbors. More
The Jazz Singer USA, 1927, 90 minutes, B&W
Silent with intertitles and some sound
Directed by Alan Crosland
16mm
This landmark of modern cinema, the first “talking picture,” is also a pro-assimilationist story about a cantor's son who rejects his family's tradition for Jazz and Broadway. More
The Jester (Der Purimspiler) RESTORED BY NCJF
Poland, 1937, 90 minutes, B&W with sepia tone and blue-green ton
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Green and Jan Nowina-Przybylski
35mm DVD
A parade of costume, buffoonery and music, The Jester highlights both a shoemaker's scheme to marry his daughter into a prominent family as well as the festival of Purim. More
Jewish Life in Bialystock
Jewish Life in Cracow
Jewish Life in Lwow
Jewish Life in Vilna RESTORED BY NCJF Poland, 1938 and 1939, each 10 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with complete new English subtitles
Produced by Shaul and Yitzhak Goskind
16mm DVD VHS
In 1938 and 1939, Shaul and Yitzhak Goskind of Warsaw-based Sektor Films produced six short films about urban Jewish communities in Poland. One, about Lodz, is lost. The other five—on Bialystok, Cracow, Lwow, Vilna, and Warsaw—have survived. Viewed together or separately, these rare documents present vibrant portraits of people, communities, and institutions all but completely obliterated after the Nazis invaded and occupied Poland during World War II. More
Jewish Luck (Yevreiskoye Schastye / Menakhem Mendl) RESTORED BY NCJF
USSR, 1925, 100 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Alexander Granovsky
35mm 16mm DVD
Menakhem Mendl (one of Sholem Aleichem’s characters) is a daydreaming entrepreneur who specializes in doomed strike-it-rich schemes. Despite Jewish oppression in Tsarist Russia, Mendl continues to pursue his dreams and his continued persistence transforms him from schlemiel to hero. More
Jewish Soldiers in Blue and Gray
USA, 2011, 86 minutes
Directed by Jonathan Gruber
DVD
Coinciding with the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, this exploration of the little-known history of the Jews who fought for both the Confederacy and Union is the first documentary devoted to the subject. Allegiances during the War Between the States split the Jewish community as deeply as the national debate in the country at large: some prominent Jewish voices cited the Torah to justify slavery, while others led the abolitionist movement. More
Jews of the Spanish Homeland (Los judíos de patria española) RESTORED BY NCJF Spain, 1929, 13 minutes, B&W
Silent with new English intertitles
Produced by Ernesto Giménez Caballero
35mm 16mm DVD
Shot in the 1920s, this film visits Sephardic communities in Salonika, Constantinople, Yugoslavia, and Romania as well as former centers of Jewish life in Spain. More
Jews Under the Red Star - Birobidzhan USSR/West Germany, 1989, 56 minutes, color/B&W
Russian with English narration
Directed by Irmgard von zur Mühlen
16mm
This documentary tells the astonishing story of Jewish life in Birobidzhan, a region located in the far eastern region of Siberia, near the Manchurian border. Birobidzhan was the capital of the "Jewish Autonomous Region," an area so designated by Stalin in 1928 in an attempt to oppose Zionism and as a point of military strategy. In the early 1930s, Jews from the US, South America, and Palestine joined the community, which was centered in Birobidzhan. Many of the pioneers could not adapt to the harsh climate and rural life and quickly departed; the Stalinist purges of the 1930s and 1940s devastated the community. This documentary, which was filmed during 1988-89, examines the problems facing the Jews of this region, including the questioning of their religious activities under a communist regime. Footage from American and Russian sources, from 1928 to the present, appears here for the first time.
Jolly Paupers (Freylekhe Kabtsonim) RESTORED BY NCJFPoland, 1937, 62 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Leon Jeannot and Z. Turkow
35mm 16mm DVD
In this musical comedy, the comic duo Dzigan and Shumacher play two small town "entrepreneurs" who believe they have struck oil in a local field. Thus begins a comedy of errors, including millionaire investors, American schemers, and insane asylums, with a little matchmaking on the side. More
Joshua Then and Now Canada, 1985, 127 minutes, color
Directed by Ted Kotcheff
16mm
Based on a novel by Mordechai Richler, allegedly his autobiography, this film tells the story of a Jewish writer, from his life as a young boy in Montreal to his more complicated grown-up life.
Journey Into Life: Aftermath of a Childhood in Auschwitz Germany, 1996, 130 minutes, color
German with English subtitles
Directed by Thomas Mitscherlich
16mm DVD
Journey into Life follows the struggles of three concentration camp survivors—Yehuda Bacon of Israel, Gerhard Durlacher of The Netherlands, and Ruth Kluger of the United States—in rebuilding their lives after World War II. More
Judgment at Nuremberg USA, 1961, 186 minutes, B&W
Directed by Stanley Kramer
16mm
An Oscar-winning, fictionalized film account of the Post-World War II Nuremberg Trials.
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Kazablan
Israel, 1973, 95 minutes, color
English dubbed
Directed by Menahem Golan
16mm
This Israeli West Side Story unfolds when Kazablan, a dark-skinned Sephardic Jew, takes time out from hassling the poverty-stricken tenants of the Jaffa ghetto to court the fair-skinned Rachel, an Ashkenazi Jew. More
A Kiss To This Land (Un beso a esta tierra)
Mexico, 1995, 93 minutes, color
Spanish with English subtitles
Directed by Daniel Goldberg
35mm 16mm DVD
In exploring the history of Jewish immigration to Mexico, A Kiss To This Land presents fragments of memories and oral histories together with vivid depiction of Jews in Mexico in the 1920s and 1930s. More
Kol Nidre
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USA, 1939, 88 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Seiden
Digital Blu-ray DVDA melodrama -with music and romance- about a girl torn between two childhood boyfriends, this film is a suprisingly risque shund Yiddish tearjerker exploring assimilation, antisemitism and gender roles. More
Krasnodar- The Trial of 1943 (Krasnodar - Der Prozeß von 1943)
Germany, 1987, 55 minutes, color/B&W
English and German with English subtitles
Directed by Irmgard and Bengt von Zur Mühlen
Krasnodar was the site of the first World War II war crimes trial, convened by Soviet authorities in July 1943. A Russian city of 500,000 inhabitants, Krasnodar was occupied by the Germans on August 8, 1942 and liberated February 13, 1943. During the six months of German occupation, thousands of the city’s inhabitants were murdered, beginning with and including every member of the Jewish community. Meticulously combining German and Soviet newsreel footage with the testimony of eyewitnesses and war crimes defendants, this landmark film tells the story of the six month Nazi reign of terror, the trial against eleven Russian collaborators and their public execution on July 18, 1943.
Kupishok: For Eternal MemoryUSA, 2005, 60 minutes, color
Directed by Norman Meyer and Harvey Sherzer
DVDAfter World War II, Christian midwives in Kupishok compiled a list of the town’s Jews who were murdered in the summer of 1941 by the Nazis and their Lithuanian accomplices. In 2004, fifty survivors and descendants of the Jews of Kupishok, returned to the town to dedicate a Wall of Memory. More
Kurow
Poland, 1932, 10 minutes, B&W, silent
Cinematographer: Jack Weisbord
16mm
This fascinating portrait of shtetl life was made by Jack Weisbord, an American whose father-in-law had emigrated from Kurow, a Polish town not far from Lublin. At the time, the Jewish population of Kurow comprised over 50% of the approximately 4,000 persons in the shtetl. The film shows the villagers of Kurow immersed in animated conversation; the streets and shops of a typical Polish town; a latter-day Tevye with his horse; a weary pauper resting on a curbside; several family portraits; the ancient cemetery; as well as the contrast between the local church and the old synagogue.
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L'Chaim: To Life! USA, 1973, 80 minutes, B&W/color
Directed by Harold Mayer
DVD
Produced for the Women's American ORT and narrated by Eli Wallach, this highly-acclaimed documentary describes more than a century of Jewish life in Russia. More
Labyrinth Czechoslovakia, 1991, 90 minutes, color
German with English subtitles
Directed by Jaromil Jires
35mm
Critics' Choice, AFI International Film Festival 1992. Labyrinth is an intellectually-bracing investigation of the connection between the fictional world of Franz Kafka and the historical persecution of the Jews that culminated in the Holocaust. Framing his intense drama with recitations of the human rights denied to Jews under the Third Reich, veteran Czech director Jires creates his alter ego in Maximilian Schell, who plays a director taking up residence in Prague to prepare a film about Kafka. Christopher Chaplin, son of Charlie Chaplin, plays Kafka.
Ladies' Tailor (Damskiy portnoy) USSR, 1990, 92 minutes, color
Russian with English subtitles
Directed by Leonid Gorovets
35mm DVD
Set in Kiev, Russia, on 29 September 1941, this feature chronicles the last 24 hours in the lives of a Jewish tailor (renowned Russian actor Innokenty Smoktunovsky) and his family just prior to their deportation and execution at Babi Yar. More
Land of Promise Palestine, 1935, 57 minutes, B&W
English and Hebrew
Directed by Juda Leman
DVD
This is one of Palestine's earliest sound films and part of a larger campaign to encourage settlement and investment in "the Jewish homeland." Land of Promise emphasizes secular accomplishments and portrays Zionist settlers with considerable cinematographic and editorial skill. More
The Land Was Theirs USA, 1993, 55 minutes, color/B&W
Directed by Gertrude Dubrovsky
DVD
Set in New Jersey, The Land Was Theirs profiles Jewish farmers and their communities. It opens a window on the experience of immigrants who came to America in search of a better life and found it in the rural countryside. More
The Last Chapter USA, 1966, 85 minutes, B&W
Directed and Produced by Benjamin Rothman & Lawrence Rothman
DVD
A lyrical, sweeping history of Jewish life in Poland, depicting the richness of Jewish culture both religious and secular... More
Last Journey Into Silence
Israel, 2001, 52 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Shosh Shlam
DVD
After the Holocaust, survivors who had nowhere else to go or were emotionally shattered by their experiences ended up in a mental hospital in Israel. This moving documentary follows estranged daughters as they visit mothers they have not seen in decades. More
The Last Marranos (Les derniers Marranes)
France, 1991, 64 minutes, color
Portuguese with English subtitles
Directed by Frédéric Brenner and Stan Neumann
DVD
Despite being forcibly converted to Christianity in 1497 many of the Jews of Portugal continued to practice Judaism in secret. Today, residents of the village of Belmonte practice an amalgam of Christian and Jewish rituals. More
The Last Sea (Ha-Yam Ha'Aharon) Israel, 1979, 68 minutes, B&W
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Daniel Bergman, Jacquot Erlich, Haim Gouri, Benny Shilo
16mm
In 1945, multitudes of liberated survivors of the death camps, finding themselves homeless in Europe, sought to immigrate to Israel. More
Laughter Through Tears (Skvoz Slezy) RESTORED BY NCJF
USSR, 1928, 92 minutes, B&W
Silent with new English intertitles
Directed by Grigori Gricher-Cherikover
35mm 16mm DVD
Gricher-Cherikover leavens pathos with humor in this earthy portrait of pre-Revolutionary shtetl life based on two Sholem Aleichem stories. Motl's father dies, leaving him to survive on his own in a changing world while the tailor Shimen-Elye buys a she-goat which mysteriously changes gender. More
Legado Argentina, 2004, 72 minutes, color
Spanish and Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Vivián Imar & Marcelo Trotta
DVD
Our narrator was 10 when she stepped off the boat in Moisesville, the first Jewish settlement in Argentina. Her account spans 80 years. More
The Legend of Mrs. Goldman and the Almighty God Germany, 1996, 3 minutes, color
Directed by Michael Verhoeven
35mm VHS
A short comic parable related on camera by writer George Tabori, this gem provides an ideal introduction for the Verhoeven-Tabori feature My Mother's Courage. More
Leon the Pig Farmer
UK, 1992, 98 minutes, color
Direced by Vadim Jean and Gary Sinyor
35mm DVD
An irreverent comedy from the production company of Monty Python's Eric Idle, this zany story is set in motion when Leon Geller, a sensitive Jewish boy from London, accidentally learns that he is the product of artificial insemination. More
A Letter to Mother (A Brivele der Mamen) RESTORED BY NCJF
Poland, 1939, 106 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Green and Leon Trystand
35mm 16mm DVD
One of the last Yiddish films made in Poland, ths is story of a mother's persistent struggles to support her three children in pre-war Polish Ukraine. After her family is pulled apart by the war, she and her children make their way to New York and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. More
Levy and Cohen: The Irish Comedians USA, 1903, 1 minute, B&W, Silent
Produced by American Mutoscope and Biography Company
16mm
Two vaudeville comics perform before an unappreciative audience that pelts them with various vegetables.
Liberation of Auschwitz 1945 (A Die Befreiung von Auschwitz) Germany, 1985, 55 minutes, B&W
English and German with English subtitles
Directed by Irmgard von zur Muhlen
35mm 16mm
This chilling, vitally important documentary was produced to mark the 40th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. It contains unedited, previously unavailable film footage of Auschwitz shot by the Soviet military forces in 1945 and an interview with the Soviet cameraman. More
Lies My Father Told Me Canada, 1975, 102 minutes, color
Directed by Ján Kadár
16mm
Three generations of a Russian-Jewish immigrant family in 1920s Montreal form the focus of this autobiographical tale by Ted Allen, which enjoyed success in print, radio and television before its adaptation into this film by Oscar-winning Czech director Kadar. More
The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg USA, 1999, 95 minutes, color
Directed by Aviva Kempner
35mm 16mm
As Hitler invaded Europe, a young Jewish baseball player challenged Babe Ruth’s homerun record. This is the story of how he became an American hero. More
The Life of Emile Zola USA, 1937, 116 minutes, B&W
Directed by William Dieterle
16mm
Winner of three Academy Awards including Best Picture. Paul Muni stars in this biography of the famed 19th century French writer who defended Captain Dreyfus. More
The Light Ahead (Fishke der Krumer) RESTORED BY NCJF USA, 1939, 94 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
35mm 16mm DVD
Impoverished and disabled lovers Fishke and Hodel dream of life in the big city of Odessa, free of the poverty and old-world prejudices of the shtetl. Made on the eve of World War II, The Light Ahead is at once romantic, expressionist, and conscious of the danger about to engulf European Jews. One of four Yiddish features directed by Edgar Ulmer. More
The Liquid of Life (Nozel Ha-Hayim) Israel, 2008, 50 minutes, color, Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Pini Schatz
DVD
Pini Schatz's funny and original film (subtitled How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Blood) proves there’s no reason to be afraid of the liquid that flows in our veins. Meet a cross section of unique Israeli characters including the director of Magen David Adom. And learn how to mix the perfect bloody mary. More
Lissy GDR/East Germany, 1957, 88 minutes, B&W
German with English subtitles
Directed by Konrad Wolf
16mm
Director Konrad Wolf's interpretation of Franz Weiskopf's anti-fascist novel sheds light on the parallel and differing paths of the Nazis and socialists in Germany between 1932 and 1934. More
Living For Tomorrow: Untold Stories by the Pioneering Women of Israel USA, 2000, 53 minutes, color
Hebrew and English with English subtitles
Directed by Lilach Dekel
DVD
Director Dekel’s grandmother, along with other young idealists from Eastern Europe, immigrated to Palestine in the 1920s resolved to build the kibbutz movement. Now in their 80s and 90s, these women offer candid evaluations of the their youth. More
The Living Orphan (Der Lebediker Yusem) RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1937, 97 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Seiden
35mm DVD The story of a stage couple whose marriage is strained by life in the theater. Adapted from one of the best 2nd Avenue Yiddish Theatre domestic melodramas, director Joseph Seiden’s sentimental film is drawn from life in 1930s New York City. More
Long Fliv the King PRESERVED BY NCJF USA, 1926, 22 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Leo McCarey
16mm DVD
This offbeat comedy from future Hollywood screwball director McCarey is about a princess who must find a husband in 24 hours or forfeit her throne. She quickly marries a condemned man—but the man is pardoned. More
Long is the Road (Lang ist der Veg)
RESTORED BY NCJF
U.S.-Occupied Germany, 1948, 77 minutes, B&W
Yiddish, German, Polish with new English subtitles
Directed by Herbert B. Fredersdorf & Marek Goldstein
35mm 16mm DVD
Written by Israel Becker, this is the first feature film to represent the Holocaust from a Jewish perspective. Shot on location at Landsberg, the largest DP camp in U.S.-occupied Germany, the film follows a Polish Jew from pre-war Warsaw through Auschwitz and the DP camp. More
Love and Sacrifice (Libe und Laydnshaft) RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1936, 76 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by George Roland
35mm
The tale of a middle-class matron who shoots the man who compromises her, this film is a prime example of "shund," the melodramatic escapist entertainment of the Yiddish theater. More
Love at Second Sight (Ahava Mimabat Sheni)
Israel, 1998, 90 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Michal Bat-Adam
35mm DVD
Renowned Israeli filmmaker/actress Michal Bat-Adam wrote and directed this intriguing tale of romantic obsession in present-day Tel Aviv. Michal Zuaratz stars as a young female photographer infatuated with a stranger whose image she accidentally captures on film. More
Love Inventory (Reshimat Ahava)
Israel, 2000, 90 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by David Fisher
35mm DVD
Bittersweet, honest, and touchingly funny, this multi-award-winning film chronicles Fisher’s attempt to solve a family mystery—uniting his troubled family in the process. More
Lunch with Fela
USA, 2005, 59 minutes, color
English
Directed by Abraham Ravett
DVD
Lunch with Fela is the filmmaker's response to the passing of his parent, Fela Ravett. Utilizing a combination of DV footage shot during her stay at a nearby nursing facility, excerpts from previously made 16mm films, animation sequences, plus remaining family memorabilia, the film renders the presence and absence of a much loved parent. More
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Mahler on the Couch Austria/Germany, 2010, 97 minutes, color
German w/ English subtitles
Directed by Percy Adlon & Felix Adlon
35mm
This exuberant imagining of the real-life marriage of Gustav Mahler (Johannes Silberschneider) and his tempestuous wife Alma Schindler Mahler (the luminous Barbara Romaner) is a sensory feast of art, sex and celebrity in fin-de-siècle Vienna. Chafing under her agreement to give up her own musical ambitions, Alma seeks passion in the arms of the young, dashing architect Walter Gropius, which sends a tormented Mahler to Sigmund Freud for consultation. More
Majdanek 1944 West Germany, 1986, 65 minutes, B&W
English and German with English subtitles
Directed by Irmgard and Bengt von zur Mühlen
16mm
This film explores one of the first Nazi war crimes trials, conducted even while World War II was still raging. Majdanek, a concentration and extermination camp located near Lublin, Poland, was erected in 1941 and liberated in July 1944. A month later, a joint Soviet-Polish commission heard evidence from survivors and witnesses. More
Making A Killing
UK, 1998, 52 minutes, color
Directed by Anne Webber
DVD
Directed by Anne Webber, Chair of the European Commission on Looted Art, this documentary is a compelling detective story about one family's 50-year quest to recover their missing art collection set against a backdrop of murder, greed, and corruption. More
Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women2006, USA, 85 minutes, Color
Directed by Rachel Talbot; Produced by the Jewish Women's Archive
DVD
This film festival favorite tells the story of six of the greatest female comic performers of the last century — Molly Picon, Fanny Brice, Sophie Tucker, Joan Rivers, Gilda Radner, and Wendy Wasserstein. Hosted by four of today’s funniest women — Judy Gold, Jackie Hoffman, Cory Kahaney, and Jessica Kirson — it's the true saga of what it means to be Jewish, female and funny. More
Mamadrama: The Jewish Mother in Cinema
Australia, 2000, 73 minutes, color
Written & Directed by Monique Schwarz
16mm DVD
A funny, penetrating look at how the loving and affectionate portrayals in early Yiddish and Hollywood silent movies developed into the Jewish Mother of modern Hollywood and, conversely, the more flesh and blood characterizations in contemporary Israeli cinema. More
Mamele
NEW DIGITAL RESTORATION BY NCJF
Poland, 1938, 100 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Green and Konrad Tom
16mm DCP DigiBeta Blu-ray DVD
Mamele embraces the entire gamut of interwar Jewish life in Lodz—tenements and unemployed Jews, nightclubs and gangsters, religious Jews celebrating sukkot—but the film belongs to Molly Picon who romps undaunted through her dutiful daughter role, keeping the family intact, singing and acting her way through the stages of a woman's life from childhood to old age. More
The March
USA, 1999, 25 minutes, color/B&W
Directed by Abraham Ravett
16mm DVD
Both of Ravett’s parents survived Auschwitz and the ”death march.” His mother “continuously made references to the ‘miracle’ of her survival and recounted in vivid detail what it was like to walk for miles in the bitter cold with just a blanket and a pair of wooden shoes (Trepches)" More
Marriage in the Shadows (Ehe im Schatten) GDR/East Germany, 1947, 96 minutes, B&W
German with English subtitles
Directed by Kurt Maetzig
16mm
Based on a true story and adapted from the novel by Hans Schweikart, this fiction feature marks the German cinema's first attempt to address antisemitism and the Holocaust. More
Maytal Israel, 1996, 51 minutes color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Yael Kipper Zarezhky
VHS
A 1996 terrorist bombing in Tel Aviv left 27-year-old Maytal Lederman critically injured and took the life of her brother Asaf. This documentary follows Maytal over a period of eight months in an Israeli rehabilitation hospital, as she struggles to cope with her loss and rebuild her life. More
Me and the Jewish Thing (Mig og Jøderiet) Denmark, 2009, 43 minutes, color
Directed & written by Ulrik Gutkin
DVD
A witty and thoughtful meditation on the collision of two cultures. Danish Jewish filmmaker Ulrik Gutkin and his Danish non-Jewish girlfriend find themselves on opposites sides in deciding whether to circumcise their new baby boy. More
Meet Me In Miami Beach USA, 1994, 18 minutes, color
Directed by Bonnie Cohen
16mm
This documentary focuses on three elderly Jews living out their retirement years in Miami Beach, poignantly capturing the subjects' thoughts and memories, as well as the contrast between the old and young populations of contemporary Miami Beach. More
Minyan in Kaifeng: A Modern Journey to an Ancient Chinese Jewish Community USA, 2002, 74 minutes, color
Directed by Steven Calcote and Jonathan Shulman
35mm 16mm DVD
Narrated by Leonard Nimoy. The last rabbi of Kaifeng died well over a century ago, and today's descendants of the ancient Chinese Jewish community have never celebrated Shabbat, the Jewish day of rest. More
Mirele Efros RESTORED BY NCJF USA, 1939, 80 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Berne
16mm DVD
Mirele Efros, "the Jewish Queen Lear," was the masterpiece of influential Yiddish playwright Jacob Gordin. Berta Gersten gives a memorable performance as Mirele, a wealthy and pious widow whose devotion to her children extends to hand-picking a wife for her eldest son. Unfortunately, she gravely mistakes the young woman's character. More
Motel the Operator RESTORED BY NCJF USA, 1939, 88 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Seiden
35mm DVD
Focusing on a labor dispute in the garment district of New York City, the film survives as an important historical document highlighting the hardships of the Jewish immigrant experience in America. More
Mothers of Today (Hayntige Mames)RESTORED BY NCJF USA, 1939, 85 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Henry Lynn
35mm DVD
Mothers of Today includes the sole motion picture performance of radio star Esther Field, who was well-known on the radio airwaves of the 1930's as the 'Yidishe Mama.' More
A Musical Passage USA, 1983, 73 minutes, color
Directed by Jim Brown
35mm 16mm
Since its first concert in 1978, the Soviet Emigre Orchestra has been considered one of the best chamber music ensembles in America. Here, superb performances and combined with an examination of the lives of the orchestra members. More
My 100 Children (Me'ah Yeladim Sheli)
Israel, 2003, 68 min
English, Hebrew & Polish w/ English subtitles
Directed by Amalia Margolin & Oshra Schwartz
DigiBeta DVD
When Lena Küchlar discovered dozens of orphaned Jewish children in Krakow after WWII, she employed the progressive psychiatric methods of Janusz Korczak and slowly brought these damaged kids back to life. Based on Küchlar’s best-selling autobiography. Best Documentary, Israel Film Academy. More
My Brother’s Wedding
USA, 2003, 36 minutes, color
Directed by Dan Akiba
DVD
After his brother’s radical conversion to Orthodox Judaism, Akiba found it increasingly difficult to remember the brother he once knew. In an effort to better understand his brother’s new life, Akiba documented his family’s trip to Israel in 2001 to attend his brother’s wedding. More
My Dear Clara
Canada, 2002, 44 minutes, color
Directed by Gary Beitel
DVD
When Clara Greenspan left Montreal for Warsaw in June of 1938 she could not have known how her personal destiny would soon become intertwined with unfolding events in Europe. This is the dramatic story of a Polish Jewish refugee’s survival and his Canadian wife’s unflinching battle to change her government’s immigration policies. More My Mother's Courage (Mutters Courage) Germany, 1996, 92 minutes, color
German with English subtitles
Directed by Michael Verhoeven
35mm
From the director of The White Rose comes this stunning adaptation of Hungarian author George Tabori’s autobiographical, somewhat surreal novel. Shifting between Nazi-occupied Budapest and modern Berlin, the film artfully depicts the true story of how Tabori’s mother Elsa escaped deportation to Auschwitz. More
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Nahum N. Glatzer & The German-Jewish Tradition
USA, 2011, 60 minutes
Directed by Judith Glatzer Wechsler
DVD
Filmmaker and art historian Judith Glatzer Wechsler's new documentary is a moving portrait of the life and work of her revered father and scholar Nahum N. Glatzer (1903-1990). More
Nana: Un Portrait USA, 1972, 23 minutes, color
French with English subtitles
Directed by Jamil Simon
16mm DVD
80 year-old Louise Zilkha reminisces about her traditional Jewish upbringing in Baghdad, Iraq, the often turbulent coexistence of Iraqi Jews and Moslems, and the persecution that led her family on a journey from Iraq to Beirut, to Cairo, and finally, to New York. More
The Nasty Girl (Das schreckliche Mädchen) Germany, 1990, 92 minutes, color
German with English subtitles
Directed by Michael Verhoeven
16mm
Based on the true story of Ann Elisabeth Rosmus, Michael Verhoeven's award-winning black comedy uses sharp wit to explore Germany's Nazi past. More
Nazi Concentration Camps USA, 1945, 59 minutes, B&W
Produced by the U.S. Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality
16mm DVD
This film is the official documentary report compiled from over 80,000 feet of film shot by Allied military photographers in the German concentration camps immediately after liberation. More Nemt: A Language Without a People for a People Without a Language
France, 2000, 90 minutes, color
Directed by Isabelle Rozenbaumas and Michel Grosman
DVD
A film about the identity of Yiddish culture. One of the filmmakers returns to her native Lithuania, leading to a broader series of reflections on the survival of the Yiddish language in today’s world. More
Next Year in... Argentina (El Año que Viene en... Argentina)
Israel, 2005, 62 minutes, color
Spanish with English subtitles
Directed by Jorge Gurvich and Shlomo Slutzky
DVD
Argentinean-born Israeli filmmakers Jorge Gurvich and Shlomo Slutzky met in Buenos Aires before both men immigrated to Israel. 30 years later, they take up the question of Jewish-Argentine history, identity and attitudes toward Israel. More
Nicholas Winton: The Power of Good (Síla lidskosti: Nicholas Winton) Czech Republic/ Slovak Republic, 2002, 64 minutes, color
English and Czech with English subtitles
Directed by Matej Minac
35mm DVD
A gripping documentary about the courage and determination of a young English stockbroker who saved the lives of 669 children. In 1939, Sir Nicholas Winton organized 8 transports to take children from Prague to new homes in Great Britain, and kept silent about it until his wife discovered a scrapbook documenting his unique mission in 1988. More
Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard) France, 1955, 31 minutes, color/B&W
French with English subtitles
Directed by Alain Resnais
16mm
Brutally graphic, Resnais's artistic depiction of life and death in a Nazi extermination camp combines ghostly scenes of the abandoned camp in the 1950s with Nazi and Allied stock footage and stills. More
Nightmare: The Immigration of Joachim and Rachel USA, 1978, 24 minutes, color/B&W
Directed by Tom Robertson
16mm
During the struggle to survive the Warsaw Ghetto, thirteen-year-old Joachim and his little sister Rachel receive final instructions from their parents: hide in an old cabinet. More
Nize People PRESERVED BY NCJFUSA, 1927, 20 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Sam Newfield
16mm
A slapstick comedy in the immigrant/vaudeville genre, Lizzie believes her necklace has been stolen, setting off a series of crazy events when Mr. O'Connor hires the "world's greatest detective," who turns out be Lunatic Louie, an escapee from an insane asylum! More
None So Blind
RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1923, 66 min, b&w, silent
Director: Burton King
16mm
None So Blind shows how gingerly American cinema in the 1920s dealt with Jewish-Gentile conflicts, yet its ending is clearly a plea forintegration and assimilation. More
Nuremberg USA, 1946, 76 minutes, B&W
Compiled by Pare Lorentz and Stuart Schulberg, produced by the Civil Affairs Division, US War Department
16mm
This US government film is a grim and unflinching documentary account of the Nuremberg trials, told almost totally without editorial comment. More
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Of Stars and Shamrocks: Boston's Jews and Irish USA, 1995, 55 minutes, color/B&W
Directed by John Michalczyk
DVD VHS
Both Irish and Jewish immigrants settled in Protestant Brahmin Boston in the late-19th century, and both encountered bigotry, exploitation, exclusion and discrimination. This film chronicles the interaction between the two ethnic communities over the last 100 years. More
Old Isaac, The Pawnbroker PRESERVED BY NCJF USA, 1908, 10 minutes, B&W
Silent without intertitles
Directed by Wallace McCutcheon
16mm DVD
In this film, a small girl in an urban slum seeks aid for her sick and starving mother. Trying to pawn her doll, she attracts the attention of the shop’s owner old Isaacs, who later stops the men trying to evict the sick woman. More
On My Way to Father's Land Israel, 1995, 75 minutes, color/B&W
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Aner Preminger
DVD
This film takes us on two journeys: the first to Vienna, where Preminger's father lived as a child under Nazi occupation; then to Palestine where he became a member of the first Knesset, joined the Palestine Communist Party, and established the Hebrew Communist Party. More
Operation Thunderbolt (Mivtsa Yonatan) Israel, 1977, 126 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Menahem Golan
16mm
This feature film is a stunning retelling of the famed 4 July 1976 raid by Israeli commandos to rescue 104 passengers from a hijacked plane grounded in Entebbe, Uganda, in Africa. More
Orders of Love UK, 2004, 10 minutes, color
Directed by Jes Benstock
DVD
Some family trees get more complicated with every branch. Armed with a videophone, his dad, and a therapist, director Jes Benstock explores a family history of murder, migration, breakdown, and suicide. More
Our Children (Unzere Kinder) RESTORED BY NCJF Poland, 1948, 68 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Natan Gross and Shaul Goskind
35mm 16mm DVD
In this, Poland’s last Yiddish feature film, comedy duo Dzigan and Shumacher play all the parts in a Sholem Aleichem story staged for an audience of children who survived the Holocaust. More
Our Time in the Garden
USA, 1981, 15 minutes, B&W
Directed by Ron Blau
35mm 16mm DVD
A young Jewish woman’s charmed and secure life in 1930s Berlin is shattered as the Nazis take control. The family's home movies are presented with overlapping soundtracks, in order to re-create their "time in the garden." More
Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem USA, 2014/2017, 75 minutes, color, in English
DVD has Closed Captioning & Subtitles for the Hearing Impaired Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by John Lollos
Narrated by Alan Alda
DVD Blu-ray DCP
A film festival favorite with more than 100 festival screenings. Portraits of two beloved icons--Sholom Aleichem and Theodore Bikel--are woven together in this enchanting new documentary. The two men have much in common: wit, wisdom and talent, all shot through with deep humanity and Yiddishkeit. This new film combines Bikel's charismatic storytelling and masterful performances with a broader exploration of Aleichem's remarkable life and work. More
Overture to Glory (Der Vilner Balebesl) RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1940, 77 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Max Nosseck
35mm 16mm DVD
The story of a Vilna cantor seduced by the opera resonates with the voice of Moishe Oysher. Carefully lit cinematography, well-shaped dialogue, and Alexander Olshanetsky's musical score steer Overture clear of melodramatic excess. More
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Papa's Pest PRESERVED BY NCJF USA, 1928, 20 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Les Goodwins
16mm DVD
Another in the Izzie and Lizzie series, this film continues the slapstick style which explodes from a domestic comedy into a frenzy of wild action and fast chases. More
Partisans of Vilna USA, 1986, 130 minutes, color/B&W
Directed by Josh Waletzky; Produced by Aviva Kempner
35mm 16mm DVD
The extraordinary story of the men and women who formed the Jewish partisan movement in Vilna, Lithuania, during World War II. More
The Past That Lives Netherlands, 1970, 65 minutes, B&W
English narration
Directed by Philo Bregstein
16mm DVD
This film documents the life of the late Jewish historian and author Jacques Presser, author of Ashes in the Wind: The Destruction of Dutch Jewry. More
A Pause in the Holocaust (1943 Le temps d’un répit) France, 2009, 52 minutes
French and Italian with English Subtitles
Directed by André Waksman
DVD
In the summer of 1943, thousands of Jewish refugees in Italian-occupied southern France enjoyed a rare respite from persecution, protected by an unusual force: the occupying Italian Army, who temporarily shielded local and foreign Jews despite pressure from the Germans and the French Vichy administration. More
The Pawnbroker USA, 1965, 114 minutes, B&W
Directed by Sidney Lumet
16mm
One of the first films to deal with the effects of Nazi Germany’s concentration camps on their survivors. One survivor, played by Rod Steiger, suffers an internal conflict between submitting to the injustices he endured or resisting the injustice. More
A People Chosen: Who Is a Jew? Israel, 1976, 57 minutes, color, English
Directed by Herb Krosney
DVD
Orthodox Jews, Jewish atheists, Russian immigrants, and kibbutzniks discuss their views on who is a Jew. Featuring Abba Eban, Rabbi Goren, Yigal Alon, and David Ben-Gurion. More
Pillar of Salt (Natziv Hamelech) Israel, 1980, 58 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Haim Shiran
16mm DVD
Based on the autobiographical novel by sociologist Albert Memmi, this feature film about an expressive and intelligent 13-year old boy captures the cultural richness and social complexity of a Jewish boy's life in Tunisia, North Africa. More
The Port of Last Resort: Zuflucht in Shanghai
Austria/USA, 1998, 79 minutes, color
English and German with English subtitles
Directed by Joan Grossman and Paul Rosdy
16mm DVD
This award-winning documentary presents the story of nearly 20,000 European Jewish refugees who fled to Shanghai from 1938 to 1941. Shanghai, a free port that did not require papers for entry, became the “last resort” for many Jews seeking a safe haven from the Nazis. More
Punch Me in the Stomach New Zealand, 1996, 58 minutes, color
Directed by Francine Zuckerman
16mm DVD
Multi-talented writer/performer Deb Filler stars in this adaptation of her autobiographical off-Broadway solo show about her life as the daughter of a Holocaust survivor. More
Punk Jews USA, 2012, 60 minutes, color
Directed by Jesse Zook Mann
DVD Blu-ray Digital
Profiling Hassidic punk rockers, Yiddish street performers, African-American Jewish activists and more, Punk Jews explores an emerging movement of provocateurs and committed Jews who are asking, each in his or her own way, what it means to be Jewish in the 21st century. In the process, they are challenging stereotypes and breaking down barriers. More
Purple Lawns (Deshaim S'Gulim)
Israel, 1998, 56 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Dina Zvi-Riklis
DVD
In this feature film, Yael and Shlomit, two secular, free-spirited women, share a flat in Tel Aviv. Their high rent forces them to take in a third roommate, Malka, an enigmatic ultra-orthodox woman with a secret. More
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Rabin: Shivah in November Israel, 2010/1995, 62 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Producer: Noemi Schory, Belfilms
DVD
The assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin as he left a peace rally in 1995 plunged the country into mourning. That the gunman was a 25-year old Israeli further complicated the event’s fallout. Constructed entirely from television coverage aired in the seven days following the murder, the film is a mosaic, allowing viewers to experience the events much as Israelis saw them, through the TV screen. More
Rachel USA, 1974, 3 minutes, color
16mm
This short film about intermarriage is recommended as a trigger for discussion of Jewish assimilation and religious customs.
Rachel de la Comédie-Française France, 2003, 52 minutes, color
French with English subtitles
Directed by Judith Wechsler
DVD
Before the era of Sarah Bernhardt, Rachel Felix (1821-1858) was the great actress of the Comédie-Française-and the first international dramatic star. Small, plain and fierce, Rachel's ability to convey passion in her performances thrilled audiences. More
Radio Days USA, 1987, 85 minutes, color
Directed by Woody Allen
16mm
Woody Allen narrates his nostalgic look at growing up in Queens, NY in the 1940s, showing how memories of family life are intimately tied to the radio performers of the day. More
Rain 1949
Israel, 1998, 52 minutes, color
Hebrew and Arabic with English subtitles
Directed by Ilan Yagoda
DVD
The Jewish settlers of Kibbutz Megido and the Arab villagers of Lajun appear like two entirely different groups separated one from the other. Yagoda, who served in Megido during his military service, returns to meet the refugees of the past, Jews and Arabs tied to the same plot of land. More
Raindrops aka If Only the Rain (Regentropfen) West Germany, 1981, 90 minutes, B&W
German with English subtitles
Directed by Michael Hoffman and Harry Raymon
16mm
Harry Raymon wrote the screenplay for this feature based on his own experiences as a young German-Jewish boy growing up amidst the rise of the Third Reich. An 8-year old boy and his family prepare to move from their small town to Cologne, on their way to America. More
Rendevous with Freedom USA, 1972, 56 minutes, color
Directed by Marc Siegel
16mm
Demonstrating how Jews helped shape the growing American nation, this film traces the development of American Jewry, beginning with the arrival of the first Jewish settlers in 1645 in New Amsterdam. More
René and I USA, 2005, 73 minutes, color
Directed by Gina M. Angelone
DVD
This courageous documentary tells the story of Irene and her twin brother René, Czech Jews sent to Auschwitz at age six where they were they were experimented on by Josef Mengele. More The Return of Nathan Becker (Nosn Becker Fort Aheym) RESTORED BY NCJF USSR, 1932, 72 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Boris Shpis and Mark Milman
35mm DVD
Yiddish author Peretz Markish wrote the screenplay for this film about a bricklayer who returns home to Russia after 20 years in America. The only Russian-Yiddish sound film produced in the Soviet Union, the film glorifies Soviet industrial productivity as it denigrates American capitalism and assimilation. More
Reunion (Le Retour) France, 1946, 21 minutes, B&W
French with English subtitles
Directed by Henri Cartier-Bresson for the United States Information Service
16mm
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Advice and Dissent
USA, 2002, 21 minutes, color
Directed By Leib Cohen
35mm DVD VHS
A frustrated businessman, Jeffery Goldman (John Pankow) tries to end his hopeless marriage by asking his local Rabbi (Eli Wallach) to place a curse on his wife. What happens next sets in motion a chain of unexpected events. Also starring Rebecca Pidgeon. More
The Affair Blum (Affaire Blum)
East Germany, 1948, 109 minutes, B&W
German with English subtitles
Directed by Erich Engel
16mm
This early postwar suspense story, based on a well-known 1926 murder trial with Dreyfus-like overtones represents an East German reflection on Nazism. More
Ambulance (Ambulans)
Poland, 1962, 15 minutes, B&W
Music only- no narration/dialogue.
Directed by Janusz Morgenstern
16mm DVD
In this haunting short film, a group of Jewish children and their teacher are herded into ambulance (or so it appears) by Nazis. A powerful trigger for discussion, the film draws parallels to the real life fate of Janusz Korczak who died with his students at Treblinka. More
American Matchmaker (Amerikaner Shadkhn)
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USA, 1940, 87 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
35mm 16mm DVD
Leo Fuchs, the "Yiddish Fred Astaire," stars in this musical comedy as Nat Silver, a debonair and wealthy Jewish-American businessman whose recent engagement (his eighth) goes awry. Ulmer’s last Yiddish movie was also his most modern, an art deco romantic comedy about male ambivalence and Jewish assimilation. More
Amy
USA, 1997, 8 minutes, color
Directed by Susan Rivo
DVD
A poignant and hilarious personal narrative about the filmmaker’s lifelong attachment and deep bond with a stuffed animal received at birth. More
As If Nothing Happened (Ke'Ilu Klum Lo Kara)
Israel, 1999, 50 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Ayelet Bargur
DVD
Based on the personal experience of the director, this award-winning feature film focuses on one family waiting to hear news of a son who may have been involved in a terrorist incident. More
At the End of the Day
Israel, 2000, 50 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Ayelet Bargur
DVD
Four young men, all commanders in the same Israeli Defense Force Golan Heights paratrooper unit, were killed over a 22-month period from 1995 to 1997. Their families, realizing they all suffer a common fate, agree to meet and share their stories. Mor
Aya: An Imagined Autobiography (Autobiographia Dimionit)
Israel, 1994, 87 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Michal Bat-Adam
35mm DVD
Director Michal Bet-Adam, stars in the title role as a woman driven by her father’s ambitions for her. Now she is shooting a film and fragments of dreams and fantasy alternate with reality. More
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Bar Mitzvah RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1935, 75 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Henry Lynn
DVD
Starring Yiddish theater superstar Boris Thomashefsky in his only film performance, this musical melodrama is a masterwork of shund, the bread and butter of the Yiddish theater. More
The BellsUSA, 1926, 85 minutes, B&W, Silent with English intertitles
Directed by James Young
16mm
Lionel Barrymore stars as an Alsatian innkeeper whose political ambitions drive him to commit brutal murder in this silent melodrama. The Bells is an example of one way in which Jews have been stereotyped in theater and cinema. More
Benjamin and the Miracle of Chanukah
USA, 1978, 30 minutes, color, animated
Directed by Robert Mitchell
16mm
This animated film featuring the voice of Herschel Bernardi traces the story of Chanukah through the fictional story of a young boy and his faithful donkey. More
The Benny Zinger Show
Israel, 1993, 37 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Arnon Goldfinger
DVD
Benny Zinger presents slide shows at weddings until one day, while preparing a show for a couple, he falls in love with the bride. More
The Bent Tree
USA, 1980, 8 minutes, Animated
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Sally Heckel
16mm
An animated fable based on Itzik Manger's folk tune. More
Benya Krik RESTORED BY NCJF
USSR, 1926, 90 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by V. Vilner
35mm DVD
The seamy Jewish underworld of Odessa is the setting for Isaac Babel's story based on the life of gangster king Mishka Yaponchik "Mike the Jap" Vinnitsky. Murder is a way of life for Benya and his gang until he finds himself ensnared in a Bolshevik trap. Mor
Biloxi Blues
USA, 1988, 106 minutes, color
Directed by Mike Nichols
16mm
Mike Nichols’ adaptation of Neil Simon’s play, starring Matthew Broderick. Mor
Blind Man's Bluff (Golem Ba'Maagal)
Israel, 1993, 93 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Aner Preminger
35mm DVD
In this award-winning feature film based on a novel by Lilly Perry Amitai. Trying to distance herself from her Holocaust survivor parents and ex-boyfriend, pianist Micki Stav moves out of her parents' house in search of her own identity. More
Braids (Tzamot)
Israel, 1989, 90 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Yitzhak Halutzi
16mm DVD
Based on a true story, Braids tells the tale of So'ad, a 14-year-old Jewish girl imprisoned by the Iraqi government in 1947 for her participation in the Zionist movement. More
Breaking Home Ties RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1922, 78 minutes, B&W
Silent with new English intertitles
Directed by Frank N. Seltzer & George K. Rowlands
DCP DVD Blu-ray
Long thought lost, the world's only existing print of Breaking Home Ties was discovered by NCJF in a Berlin archive in 1984. Thinking he killed his friend Paul in a blind rage, David Bergmann flees pre-revolutionary Russia for America. In New York he becomes a succesful lawyer and woos the boss' daughter Rose. More
Brighton Beach Memoirs
USA, 1986, 110 minutes, color
Directed by Gene Saks
16mm
Gene Saks’ adaptation of Neil Simon’s play in which a teenage Jewish boy recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. More
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Camera Obscura (La Camara Oscura)Argentina, 2008, 86 minutes, color/B&W
Spanish and Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed By María Victoria Menis
35mm DVD
A lyrical, inventive new film from award-winning, film festival favorite director María Victoria Menis. At the end of the 19th century, Gertrudis grows into her role as the ugly duckling in a colony of Argentinean Jews until she meets a nomadic photographer whose uncompromising vision allows her to see herself for the first time. More
A Cantor on Trial (Khazan afn Probe) RESTORED BY NCJFUSA, 1931, 10 min, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Sidney M. Goldin
35mm 16mm DVDCantor Leibele Waldman plays multiple roles in this spoof of a synagogue committee in search of a chazan (cantor). More
The Cantor's Son (Dem Khazns Zundl) RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1937, 90 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Ilya Motyleff (Sidney Goldin, uncredited)
35mm DVD
This "anti-Jazz Singer” marks the screen debut of Moishe Oysher who stars as a wayward youth who makes his way from his Polish shtetl to New York's Lower East Side where he becomes a well-known singer. Ultimately, he returns home to the Old Country and reunites with his parents and his childhood sweetheart. More
Catskill Honeymoon
USA, 1949, 93 minutes, B&W
English and Yiddish (no subtitles)
Directed by Josef Berne
16mm DVD
A Jewish resort hotel celebrates a pair of longtime customers' 50th wedding anniversary by staging an old-fashioned Borscht Belt show. Filmed on location at Young's Gap Hotel in Parksville, New York. More
Chariots of Fire UK, 1981, 124 minutes, color
Directed by Hugh Hudson
16mm
The true story of two British track athletes competing in the 1924 Summer Olympics. More
A Child of the Ghetto DIGITALLY RESTORED BY NCJFUSA, 1910, 15 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by D. W. Griffith
16mm Blu-ray DVD
This tale of New York’s Lower East Side life captures the hustle and bustle of Rivington Street through the lens of legendary Hollywood director D. W. Griffith. Ruth flees the ghetto and hides in the country, where a young farmer takes her in and they fall in love. More
The Chosen USA, 1982, 108 minutes, color
Directed by Jeremy Paul Kagan
16mm
Jeremy Kagan’s film adaptation of the classic novel by Chaim Potok. More
Chronicle of Love (Chronika Shel Ahava) Israel, 1998, 90 minutes, color
Hebrew with English Subtitles
Directed by Tzipi Trope
35mm DVD
In this the first Israeli feature film to deal with the subject of battered women. Nava, a social worker, shares the painful secret of her suffering with Jania, another woman victimized by her husband and the two form a healing bond. More
Cohen on the Telephone DIGITALLY RESTORED BY NCJFUSA, 1929, 9 minutes, B&W
with sound, in English
Directed by Robert Ross
16mm Blu-ray DVD
Trying to make a call and unfamiliar with the telephone, Cohen embroils himself in a comic monologue of misunderstanding. Here, we see how the Jewish immigrant is now characterized not simply by how he moves and looks, but by how he speaks. More
Cohen Saves the Flag PRESERVED BY NCJFUSA, 1913, 10 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Mack Sennett
16mm DVD
Cohen is a sergeant in the Union Army and the bitter rival of another officer for the attentions of Rebecca. Like most burlesque Jewish characters of this period, this caricature borders on anti-semitism. Yet Cohen is also the hero of the film. More
Cohen's Advertising Scheme PRESERVED BY NCJF USA, 1904, 1 minute, B&W
Silent without intertitles
Directed by Edwin S. Porter
16mm DVD
This may be the earliest cinematic example of the Jewish stereotype known as the "scheming merchant”. Cohen, a grotesquely made-up Jewish shop owner, tricks a passerby into wearing a coat that has a sign advertising his store attached to the back. More
Cohen's Fire Sale PRESERVED BY NCJF USA, 1907, 10 minutes, B&W
Silent without intertitles
Directed by Edwin S. Porter
16mm DVD
Cohen, made-up in grotesque vaudevillian Jewish style, pursues a trash wagon, picking up hats as they accidentally drop off. When he finds the hats are not selling, Cohen reads his insurance policy and arranges for an "accidental" fire." More
Comrade Abram (Tovarishch Abram) RESTORED BY NCJF USSR, 1919, 18 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Alexander Razumni
35mm 16mm DVD
Tne of a series of short Bolshevik propaganda films, Comrade Abram focuses on Abram Hersh, a young Jewish pogrom survivor who became a factory worker and organizer in Moscow and, eventually, a leader in the Red Army. More
The Cowboy
USA, 1968, 11 minutes, B&W
Yiddish (no subtitles)
Directed by Abe Wexler
16mm DVDIt's just your typical all-Yiddish shoot-'em-up. This hilarious spoof was made by adding a Yiddish dialogue to a 1932 Hollywood Western. More
Crossing Delancey USA, 1988, 97 minutes, color
Directed by Joan Micklin Silver
16mm
Based on Susan Sandler’s play, Crossing Delancey is a charming comedy about new world desires clashing with old world traditions. It’s a timeless tale of a woman struggling to find happiness and independence...her way. More
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The Day Grandpa Died USA, 1970, 11 minutes, color
Produced by King Screen Productions
16mm
A child comes to accept death as a part of life. More
Dear Mr. Waldman (Michtavim Le America)
Israel, 2006, 86 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Hanan Peled
35mm DVD
In Tel Aviv in the 1960s 10-year-old Hilik knows his goal in life is to compensate for the grief his parents suffered in the Holocaust. More
Disraeli USA, 1929, 89 minutes, B&W
Directed by Alfred E. Green
16mm
In the early days of sound film, one of Warner Bros.' big box-office draws was the aging stage actor George Arliss and, in Disraeli, Arliss scored his biggest box-office hit. More
The Dybbuk (Der Dibuk)
Poland, 1937, 123 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with complete new English subtitles
Directed by Michal Waszynski
Boundaries separating the natural from the supernatural dissolve as ill-fated pledges, unfulfilled passions, and untimely deaths ensnare two families in a tragic labyrinth of spiritual possession in this classic Yiddish feature film based on the celebrated play by S. Ansky. More
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East and West (Mizrekh un Mayrev/ Ost und West) RESTORED BY NCJF
Austria, 1923, 85 minutes, B&W
Silent with Yiddish & English intertitles
Added original soundtrack (1991)
Directed by Sidney M. Goldin and Ivan Abramson
16mm DVD
Morris Brown, a New York gambler acquainted more with his checkbook than his prayer book, returns to Galicia with his very American daughter, Mollie (Molly Picon) for a family wedding. But Mollie, whose exuberant antics fill the film, unexpectedly meets her match—an engaging young yeshiva scholar who forsakes tradition and joins the secular world to win her heart. More
Enemies: A Love Story USA, 1989, 119 minutes, color
Directed by Paul Mazursky
16mm
This film, based on the novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer, deals with the lives of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, who find it difficult to abide by religious morales and question a God who could let the Holocaust occur. More
Exodus USA, 1960, 212 minutes, color
Directed by Otto Preminger
16mm
A classic film starring Paul Newman, about the foundation of the state of Israel. More
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Father's Footsteps (Comme Ton Pére)France/Israel, 2007, 95 minutes, color
French & Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Marco Carmel
DVD
In the early 1970s, the Maimons, a rambunctious but tight knit Tunisian-Israeli family, settle in Paris seeking adventure and fortune. Israeli-French filmmaker Marco Carmel draws on events from his own childhood in this unusual coming of age story. Starring French celebrity actor/humorist Gad Elmaleh. More
The Feast of Passover (Di Seder Nakht)
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USA, 1931, 15 minutes, B&W
English, Hebrew, and Yiddish (no subtitles)
Produced by Sidney M. Goldin for Jacob Berkowitz
16mm DVD
A seder in the midst of North American prosperity recalls traditional Passover celebrations in Russia (with the same cast enacting both scenes). Then modernity returns with a knock at the door and a humorous twist. More
Fiddler on the Roof USA, 1971, 181 minutes, color
Directed by Norman Jewison
16mm
The film version of the stage musical, based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem. Tevye the milkman is a Jewish peasant in pre-Revolutionary Russia, coping with the day-to-day problems of shtetl life, his Jewish traditions, his family, and state-sanctioned pogroms. More
The Fifth Horseman is Fear (...a páty jezdec je Strach) Czechoslovakia, 1964, 100 minutes, B&W
Czech with English subtitles
Directed by Zbynek Brynych
16mm
In Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia a Jewish doctor, forbidden to practice, has to remove a bullet from a wounded Resistance fighter. He roams Prague streets in a desperate search for morphine while hiding his patient from the Nazis. More
The Front USA, 1976, 94 minutes, color
Directed by Woody Allen
16mm
Woody Allen plays a man of no real talent or strong political convictions who is paid to be a front for a group of black listed writers during the McCarthy period in the United States. More
Funny Girl USA, 1968, 155 minutes, color
Directed by William Wyler
16mm
The life of comedienne Fannie Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of the Lower East Side, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, including her marriage to and eventual divorce from her first husband, Nick Arnstein. More
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Gentleman's AgreementUSA, 1947, 118 minutes, B&W
Directed by Elia Kazan
16mm
A classic film in which a journalist who passes himself off as a Jew to write an article about Semitism in America, and discovers how racism affects people. More
The Giving Tree USA, 1971, 10 minutes, color
From the story by Shel Silverstein
16mm
This animated short tells the story of the relationship between a little boy and the tree which lovingly and unstintingly provides for his needs at each stage of his life. More
God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore (An uns glaubt Gott nicht mehr)
Austria, 1982, 110 minutes, B&W
German with English subtitles
Directed By Axel Corti
16mm DVD
The first film in Corti’s acclaimed epic trilogy, Where To and Back. After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, Ferry Tobler, a young Viennese Jew, flees to Prague and then Paris, lands in a French prison camp, and eventually escapes to Marseille. More
God, Man and Devil (Got, Mentsch, un Taybl) RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1949, 100 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Seiden
16mm DVD
Based on a play by Jacob Gordin, God, Man and Devil centers on a wager between God and Satan that has dire consequences. Beware, the film cautions, when money sounds sweeter than music. More
Green Fields (Grine Felder) RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1937, 95 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and Jacob Ben-Ami
35mm 16mm DVD
Voted Best Foreign Film in France 1938. Ulmer’s soulful, open-air adaptation of Peretz Hirshbein’s classic play heralded the Golden Age of Yiddish cinema. When an ascetic young scholar ventures into the countryside, searching for the city of “true Jews,” he learns some unexpected lessons from the Jewish peasants who take him in. More
GripsholmGermany, 2000, 102 minutes, color
German and Swedish with English subtitles
Directed by Xavier Koller
35mm DVD
Based on Kurt Tucholsky’s autobiographical novel about the decadent world of Berlin cabaret of the early 1930s. After writing inflammatory articles about the Nazis, Kurt (Ulrich Noethen), a German-Jewish publisher, travels to the Swedish palace of Gripsholm with his girlfriend Lydia and their friends. More
Gruber's Journey Romania, 2008, 100 minutes, color
Romanian w/ English Subtitles
Directed by Radu Gabrea
35mm DigiBeta DVD
An Italian journalist suffering from debilitating allergies searches for a Jewish allergist named Gruber amid the outrageous, and increasingly sinister, bureaucracy of Nazi-occupied Romania. What begins as an absurdist wild goose chase leads directly to the heart of the final solution, and the disastrous fate of the local Jews. Radu Gabrea’s “Perfect yet subdued” film is Romania’s first drama about the Holocaust. More
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The Hangman USA, 1964, 12 minutes, color
Directed by Paul Julian and Les Goldman
16mm
In this allegorical short, the people of a town are condemned to die one by one by a mysterious stranger who erects a gallows in the town square. The townspeople create a rationale for each hanging, until only one person is left, he who failed all along to raise his voice in protest. More
His Excellency (Yevo Prevoshoditelstvo) RESTORED BY NCJF
USSR, 1928, 76 minutes (Incomplete: missing one reel), B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Grigori Roshal
35mm 16mm DVD
This 1928 film features stylized cinematography and actors from the Moscow Art Theater in a fiction story based on the life of Jewish Labor Bund member Hirsch Lekert who attempted to assassinate the Vilna governor in 1902 to avenge the flogging of workers who participated in a May Day rally. More
His People RESTORED BY NCJFUSA, 1925, 91 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Edward Sloman
16mm DVD
The two sons of a poor Russian-Jewish pushcart peddler on New York's Lower East Side are causing their father grief. As Morris and Sammy stray from traditions cherished by their parents, each generation learns to accept change to preserve the family as a source of love and respect. More
His Wife's Lover(Zayn Vaybs Lubovnik)
RESTORED BY NCJFUSA, 1931, 80 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Sidney M. Goldin
35mm DVD
His Wife’s Lover stars the popular comedian of the Yiddish theatre Ludwig Satz. It was billed as the "first Jewish musical comedy talking picture." More
Holy For Me Israel, 1995, 34 min, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Assaf Bernstein
DVD
This fiction film spoofs tours of the "holy" sites of Israel. Join Jonah and his unwitting group of tourists on an insane two-day tour of Tel Aviv. More
House of Rothschild USA, 1934, 88 minutes, B&W
Directed by Alfred L. Werker
16mm
George Arliss stars as Nathan Rothschild in this chronicle of the famed banking family at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. More
The House on Chelouche Street (Ha-Bayit Berechov Chelouche) Israel, 1973, 115 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Moshe Mizrahi
16mm
This Academy Award-nominated feature focuses on Sami, a teenager from a newly-arrived, poor Sephardic family living in the slums of Palestine during the turbulent last days of the British Mandate. More
How Moshe Came Back PRESERVED BY NCJF USA, 1914, 10 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Produced by Crystal Films
16mm DVD
An example of Jewish characterizations in the silent film era, Moshe, a 98-pound boxer defeats his 240-pounds opponent…by cheating. More
Hungry Hearts RESTORED BY NCJF USA, 1922, 80 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Added original soundtrack (2006)
Directed by E. Mason Hopper
16mm DVD
A Hollywood adaptation of the short stories of Anzia Yezierska, the first writer to bring stories of American Jewish women to a mainstream audience, Hungry Hearts focuses on the hopes and hardships of the Levin family, Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe living on New York City's Lower East Side. More
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I Love You, Rosa (Ani Ohev Otach Rosa) Israel, 1972, 84 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Moshe Mizrachi
16mm
Academy Award nominee, Best Foreign Film. Jerusalem's Orthodox community at the turn of the century is the setting for this now-classic film about the life of a young Sephardic widow. More
I Want To Be A Boarder (Ich Vil Zeyn a Boarder) RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1937, 15 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Seiden
35mm 16mm DVD
A lively short about a husband and wife who seek to reignite their marriage by pretending to be landlady and tenant. More
The Immigrant USA, 1917, 20 minutes, b&w
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
16mm
Charlie Chaplin's hilarious portrayal of a penniless immigrant's journey to, and arrival in, America. More
The Imported Bridegroom USA, 1990, 93 minutes, color
Directed by Pamela Berger
35mm 16mm DVD
A Jewish romance begins when Asriel, a turn-of-the-century, rich Boston widower returns from a visit to the old country with a man he believes is the perfect man for his daughter. But when the two meet, his thoroughly modern daughter is appalled by this pious scholar, or is she? More
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Jakob the Liar (Jakob der Lügner) GDR/East Germany, 1975, 95 minutes, color
German with English subtitles
Directed by Frank Beyer
35mm 16mm
Jakob Heym, a Jew trapped in a Polish ghetto, overhears news of a nearby Russian victory on a Gestapo radio. Pretending to have heard the good news on his own clandestine radio, Jakob passes the word on to his neighbors. More
The Jazz Singer USA, 1927, 90 minutes, B&W
Silent with intertitles and some sound
Directed by Alan Crosland
16mm
This landmark of modern cinema, the first “talking picture,” is also a pro-assimilationist story about a cantor's son who rejects his family's tradition for Jazz and Broadway. More
The Jester (Der Purimspiler) RESTORED BY NCJF
Poland, 1937, 90 minutes, B&W with sepia tone and blue-green ton
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Green and Jan Nowina-Przybylski
35mm DVD
A parade of costume, buffoonery and music, The Jester highlights both a shoemaker's scheme to marry his daughter into a prominent family as well as the festival of Purim. More
Jewish Luck (Yevreiskoye Schastye / Menakhem Mendl) RESTORED BY NCJF
USSR, 1925, 100 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Alexander Granovsky
35mm 16mm DVD
Menakhem Mendl (one of Sholem Aleichem’s characters) is a daydreaming entrepreneur who specializes in doomed strike-it-rich schemes. Despite Jewish oppression in Tsarist Russia, Mendl continues to pursue his dreams and his continued persistence transforms him from schlemiel to hero. More
Jolly Paupers (Freylekhe Kabtsonim) RESTORED BY NCJFPoland, 1937, 62 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Leon Jeannot and Z. Turkow
35mm 16mm DVD
In this musical comedy, the comic duo Dzigan and Shumacher play two small town "entrepreneurs" who believe they have struck oil in a local field. Thus begins a comedy of errors, including millionaire investors, American schemers, and insane asylums, with a little matchmaking on the side. More
Joshua Then and Now Canada, 1985, 127 minutes, color
Directed by Ted Kotcheff
16mm
Based on a novel by Mordechai Richler, allegedly his autobiography, this film tells the story of a Jewish writer, from his life as a young boy in Montreal to his more complicated grown-up life.
Judgment at Nuremberg USA, 1961, 186 minutes, B&W
Directed by Stanley Kramer
16mm
An Oscar-winning, fictionalized film account of the Post-World War II Nuremberg Trials.
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Kazablan
Israel, 1973, 95 minutes, color
English dubbed
Directed by Menahem Golan
16mm
This Israeli West Side Story unfolds when Kazablan, a dark-skinned Sephardic Jew, takes time out from hassling the poverty-stricken tenants of the Jaffa ghetto to court the fair-skinned Rachel, an Ashkenazi Jew. More
Kol Nidre
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USA, 1939, 88 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Seiden
Digital Blu-ray DVDA melodrama -with music and romance- about a girl torn between two childhood boyfriends, this film is a suprisingly risque shund Yiddish tearjerker exploring assimilation, antisemitism and gender roles. More
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Ladies' Tailor (Damskiy portnoy) USSR, 1990, 92 minutes, color
Russian with English subtitles
Directed by Leonid Gorovets
35mm DVD
Set in Kiev, Russia, on 29 September 1941, this feature chronicles the last 24 hours in the lives of a Jewish tailor (renowned Russian actor Innokenty Smoktunovsky) and his family just prior to their deportation and execution at Babi Yar. More
Laughter Through Tears (Skvoz Slezy) RESTORED BY NCJF
USSR, 1928, 92 minutes, B&W
Silent with new English intertitles
Directed by Grigori Gricher-Cherikover
35mm 16mm DVD
Gricher-Cherikover leavens pathos with humor in this earthy portrait of pre-Revolutionary shtetl life based on two Sholem Aleichem stories. Motl's father dies, leaving him to survive on his own in a changing world while the tailor Shimen-Elye buys a she-goat which mysteriously changes gender. More
Leon the Pig Farmer
UK, 1992, 98 minutes, color
Direced by Vadim Jean and Gary Sinyor
35mm DVD
An irreverent comedy from the production company of Monty Python's Eric Idle, this zany story is set in motion when Leon Geller, a sensitive Jewish boy from London, accidentally learns that he is the product of artificial insemination. More
A Letter to Mother (A Brivele der Mamen) RESTORED BY NCJF
Poland, 1939, 106 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Green and Leon Trystand
35mm 16mm DVD
One of the last Yiddish films made in Poland, ths is story of a mother's persistent struggles to support her three children in pre-war Polish Ukraine. After her family is pulled apart by the war, she and her children make their way to New York and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. More
The Light Ahead (Fishke the Lame) RESTORED BY NCJF USA, 1939, 94 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
35mm 16mm DVD
Impoverished and disabled lovers Fishke and Hodel dream of life in the big city of Odessa, free of the poverty and old-world prejudices of the shtetl. Made on the eve of World War II, The Light Ahead is at once romantic, expressionist, and conscious of the danger about to engulf European Jews. One of four Yiddish features directed by Edgar Ulmer. More
The Living Orphan (Der Lebediker Yusem) RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1937, 97 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Seiden
35mm DVD The story of a stage couple whose marriage is strained by life in the theater. Adapted from one of the best 2nd Avenue Yiddish Theatre domestic melodramas, director Joseph Seiden’s sentimental film is drawn from life in 1930s New York City. More
Long Fliv the King PRESERVED BY NCJF USA, 1926, 22 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Leo McCarey
16mm DVD
This offbeat comedy from future Hollywood screwball director McCarey is about a princess who must find a husband in 24 hours or forfeit her throne. She quickly marries a condemned man—but the man is pardoned. More
Long is the Road (Lang ist der Veg)
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U.S.-Occupied Germany, 1948, 77 minutes, B&W
Yiddish, German, Polish with new English subtitles
Directed by Herbert B. Fredersdorf & Marek Goldstein
35mm 16mm DVD
Written by Israel Becker, this is the first feature film to represent the Holocaust from a Jewish perspective. Shot on location at Landsberg, the largest DP camp in U.S.-occupied Germany, the film follows a Polish Jew from pre-war Warsaw through Auschwitz and the DP camp. More
Love and Sacrifice (Libe und Laydnshaft) RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1936, 76 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by George Roland
35mm
The tale of a middle-class matron who shoots the man who compromises her, this film is a prime example of "shund," the melodramatic escapist entertainment of the Yiddish theater. More
Love at Second Sight (Ahava Mimabat Sheni)
Israel, 1998, 90 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Michal Bat-Adam
35mm DVD
Renowned Israeli filmmaker/actress Michal Bat-Adam wrote and directed this intriguing tale of romantic obsession in present-day Tel Aviv. Michal Zuaratz stars as a young female photographer infatuated with a stranger whose image she accidentally captures on film. More
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Mahler on the Couch Austria/Germany, 2010, 97 minutes, color
German w/ English subtitles
Directed by Percy Adlon & Felix Adlon
35mm
This exuberant imagining of the real-life marriage of Gustav Mahler (Johannes Silberschneider) and his tempestuous wife Alma Schindler Mahler (the luminous Barbara Romaner) is a sensory feast of art, sex and celebrity in fin-de-siècle Vienna. Chafing under her agreement to give up her own musical ambitions, Alma seeks passion in the arms of the young, dashing architect Walter Gropius, which sends a tormented Mahler to Sigmund Freud for consultation. More
Mamele
NEW DIGITAL RESTORATION BY NCJF
Poland, 1938, 100 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Green and Konrad Tom
16mm DCP DigiBeta Blu-ray DVD
Mamele embraces the entire gamut of interwar Jewish life in Lodz—tenements and unemployed Jews, nightclubs and gangsters, religious Jews celebrating sukkot—but the film belongs to Molly Picon who romps undaunted through her dutiful daughter role, keeping the family intact, singing and acting her way through the stages of a woman's life from childhood to old age. More
Marriage in the Shadows (Ehe im Schatten) GDR/East Germany, 1947, 96 minutes, B&W
German with English subtitles
Directed by Kurt Maetzig
16mm
Based on a true story and adapted from the novel by Hans Schweikart, this fiction feature marks the German cinema's first attempt to address antisemitism and the Holocaust. More
Mirele Efros RESTORED BY NCJF USA, 1939, 80 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Berne
16mm DVD
Mirele Efros, "the Jewish Queen Lear," was the masterpiece of influential Yiddish playwright Jacob Gordin. Berta Gersten gives a memorable performance as Mirele, a wealthy and pious widow whose devotion to her children extends to hand-picking a wife for her eldest son. Unfortunately, she gravely mistakes the young woman's character. More
Motel the Operator RESTORED BY NCJF USA, 1939, 88 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Seiden
35mm DVD
Focusing on a labor dispute in the garment district of New York City, the film survives as an important historical document highlighting the hardships of the Jewish immigrant experience in America. More
Mothers of Today (Hayntige Mames)RESTORED BY NCJF USA, 1939, 85 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Henry Lynn
35mm DVD
Mothers of Today includes the sole motion picture performance of radio star Esther Field, who was well-known on the radio airwaves of the 1930's as the 'Yidishe Mama.' More
My Mother's Courage (Mutters Courage) Germany, 1996, 92 minutes, color
German with English subtitles
Directed by Michael Verhoeven
35mm
From the director of The White Rose comes this stunning adaptation of Hungarian author George Tabori’s autobiographical, somewhat surreal novel. Shifting between Nazi-occupied Budapest and modern Berlin, the film artfully depicts the true story of how Tabori’s mother Elsa escaped deportation to Auschwitz. More
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The Nasty Girl (Das schreckliche Mädchen) Germany, 1990, 92 minutes, color
German with English subtitles
Directed by Michael Verhoeven
16mm
Based on the true story of Ann Elisabeth Rosmus, Michael Verhoeven's award-winning black comedy uses sharp wit to explore Germany's Nazi past. More
Nightmare: The Immigration of Joachim and Rachel USA, 1978, 24 minutes, color/B&W
Directed by Tom Robertson
16mm
During the struggle to survive the Warsaw Ghetto, thirteen-year-old Joachim and his little sister Rachel receive final instructions from their parents: hide in an old cabinet. More
Nize People PRESERVED BY NCJFUSA, 1927, 20 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Sam Newfield
16mm
A slapstick comedy in the immigrant/vaudeville genre, Lizzie believes her necklace has been stolen, setting off a series of crazy events when Mr. O'Connor hires the "world's greatest detective," who turns out be Lunatic Louie, an escapee from an insane asylum! More
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Old Isaac, The Pawnbroker PRESERVED BY NCJF USA, 1908, 10 minutes, B&W
Silent without intertitles
Directed by Wallace McCutcheon
16mm DVD
In this film, a small girl in an urban slum seeks aid for her sick and starving mother. Trying to pawn her doll, she attracts the attention of the shop’s owner old Isaacs, who later stops the men trying to evict the sick woman. More
Operation Thunderbolt (Mivtsa Yonatan) Israel, 1977, 126 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Menahem Golan
16mm
This feature film is a stunning retelling of the famed 4 July 1976 raid by Israeli commandos to rescue 104 passengers from a hijacked plane grounded in Entebbe, Uganda, in Africa. More
Our Children (Unzere Kinder) RESTORED BY NCJF Poland, 1948, 68 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Natan Gross and Shaul Goskind
35mm 16mm DVD
In this, Poland’s last Yiddish feature film, comedy duo Dzigan and Shumacher play all the parts in a Sholem Aleichem story staged for an audience of children who survived the Holocaust. More
Overture to Glory (Der Vilner Balebesl) RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1940, 77 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Max Nosseck
35mm 16mm DVD
The story of a Vilna cantor seduced by the opera resonates with the voice of Moishe Oysher. Carefully lit cinematography, well-shaped dialogue, and Alexander Olshanetsky's musical score steer Overture clear of melodramatic excess. More
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Papa's Pest PRESERVED BY NCJF USA, 1928, 20 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Les Goodwins
16mm DVD
Another in the Izzie and Lizzie series, this film continues the slapstick style which explodes from a domestic comedy into a frenzy of wild action and fast chases. More
The Pawnbroker USA, 1965, 114 minutes, B&W
Directed by Sidney Lumet
16mm
One of the first films to deal with the effects of Nazi Germany’s concentration camps on their survivors. One survivor, played by Rod Steiger, suffers an internal conflict between submitting to the injustices he endured or resisting the injustice. More
Pillar of Salt (Natziv Hamelech) Israel, 1980, 58 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Haim Shiran
16mm DVD
Based on the autobiographical novel by sociologist Albert Memmi, this feature film about an expressive and intelligent 13-year old boy captures the cultural richness and social complexity of a Jewish boy's life in Tunisia, North Africa. More
Purple Lawns (Deshaim S'Gulim)
Israel, 1998, 56 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Dina Zvi-Riklis
DVD
In this feature film, Yael and Shlomit, two secular, free-spirited women, share a flat in Tel Aviv. Their high rent forces them to take in a third roommate, Malka, an enigmatic ultra-orthodox woman with a secret. More
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Radio Days USA, 1987, 85 minutes, color
Directed by Woody Allen
16mm
Woody Allen narrates his nostalgic look at growing up in Queens, NY in the 1940s, showing how memories of family life are intimately tied to the radio performers of the day. More
Raindrops aka If Only the Rain (Regentropfen) West Germany, 1981, 90 minutes, B&W
German with English subtitles
Directed by Michael Hoffman and Harry Raymon
16mm
Harry Raymon wrote the screenplay for this feature based on his own experiences as a young German-Jewish boy growing up amidst the rise of the Third Reich. An 8-year old boy and his family prepare to move from their small town to Cologne, on their way to America. More
The Return of Nathan Becker (Nosn Becker Fort Aheym) RESTORED BY NCJF USSR, 1932, 72 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Boris Shpis and Mark Milman
35mm DVD
Yiddish author Peretz Markish wrote the screenplay for this film about a bricklayer who returns home to Russia after 20 years in America. The only Russian-Yiddish sound film produced in the Soviet Union, the film glorifies Soviet industrial productivity as it denigrates American capitalism and assimilation. More
Romance of a Jewess PRESERVED BY NCJF USA, 1908, 10 minutes, B&W
Silent without intertitles
Directed by D.W. Griffith
16mm DVD
This early D. W. Griffith short shows the director's interest in Jewish ghetto life, portrayed here with sympathy and sentimentality. The melodramatic plot involves the conflict between generations in an immigrant Jewish family. More Rosenzweig's Freedom (Rosenzweigs Freiheit)Germany, 1998, 89 minutes, color
German with English subtitles
Directed by Liliane Targownik
35mm DVD
When Michael Rosenzweig a working-class German Jew is charged with the murder of a neo-Nazi leader, he and his family find themselves fighting for justice is the face of with a brick wall of prejudice. More
Rutenberg (Ish HaHashmal)
Israel, 2002, 90 minutes, color
English and Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Eli Cohen
35mm DVD
Cohen takes an elliptical approach in telling the story of Pinchas Rutenberg, a visionary, complex, and larger-than-life figure, who, amongst other things, brought electricity to Jewish Palestine in the early 20th century by building a hydroelectric power station. More
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Santa Fe Austria, 1985, 110 minutes, B&W
German with English Subtitles
Directed by Axel Corti
DVD
Picking up after God Does Not Believe In Us Anymore, Freddy struggles to find work after arriving in New York in 1940. His world of refugee acquaintances includes the depressed daughter of a poet/delicatessen owner, an aging surgeon who cannot find work, and a lovable charlatan photographer. Corti’s trilogy continues with Welcome In Vienna. More
SchundIsrael, 2010, 56, minutes, color
Hebrew, Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Yael Leibovitz ZandDVD In this clever and heartfelt mockumentary, a renowned Yiddish actor disappears under criminal circumstances. Searching for him twenty-five years later we meet the colorful characters that made up Israel’s vibrant Yiddish scene during the country’s first decades. More
Second Watch (Mishmeret Shniya) Israel, 1995, 14 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Udi Ben-Arie
16mm DVD
An Israeli reserve soldier on watch at a remote post along the Israeli-Jordanian border finds a Jordanian soldier who is bored to death just like him. Together they pass the time, help each other, get into trouble and still manage to get away with it. More
Seekers of Happiness (Birobidzhan) RESTORED BY NCJF USSR, 1934, 84 minutes, B&W
Russian with English subtitles
Directed by Vladimir Korsh-Sablin
DVD
During the 1920s, many Jews moved to Birobidzhan, the Soviet Jewish Autonomous Region on the Chinese border. This melodrama tells the story of a Jewish family’s immigration and their experiences as settlers on a collective farm in the area. More
The Shop on Main Street (Obchod na korze) Czechoslovakia, 1965, 128 minutes, B&W
Czech with English subtitles
Directed by Jan Kadar
16mm
This haunting tragicomedy takes place during the early days of the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. A simple, amiable carpenter appointed "aryan controller" of a Jewish shop is faced with a choice: save the shop’s elderly owner or comply with Nazi policies. More
The Shower (Ha-Miklachat) Israel, 1997, 35 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Jorge Gurvich
35mm DVD
An elderly man's anxiety in the face of loneliness and death fades and unresolved familial conflicts disappear for a few moments of grace when his son bathes him for the last time. More
The Singing Blacksmith (Yankl Der Schmid) RESTORED BY NCJF USA, 1938, 95 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
35mm 16mm DVD
Moishe Oysher gives his most robust performance as a passionate shtetl blacksmith who must struggle against temptation to become a mensch. Ulmer’s film is a musical version of David Pinski’s classic 1906 play Yankl der Schmid. More
Singing in the Dark RESTORED BY NCJF USA, 1956, 86 minutes, B&W
Directed by Max Nosseck
35mm DVD
A quirky combination of 1950s movie conventions—the musical, gangster and mystery movie—this virtually unknown independent film is one of the first American features to dramatize the Holocaust. Starring Moishe Oysher as a German concentration camp survivor suffering from traumatic amnesia who becomes a New York singing sensation. More
So We Said Goodbye (Nifradnu Kach) Israel, 1991, 26 minutes, color/B&W
Hebrew and Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Jorge Gurvich
35mm DVD
While saying goodbye to his son and grandchildren who are leaving Israel, Yackov remembers when, as a child, he also said goodbye to his family in Poland in 1937, not realizing that he would never see them again. More
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Tevye RESTORED BY NCJF USA, 1939, 96 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Maurice Schwartz
35mm 16mm DVD
Maurice Schwartz's adaptation of the classic Sholem Aleichem play centers on Khave, Tevye the Dairyman’s daughter, who falls in love with Fedye, the son of a Ukrainian peasant. More
Three Days in April (Drei Tage im April) Germany, 1995, 100 minutes, color
German with English subtitles
Directed by Oliver Storz
35mm DVD
In the small Swabian village of Nesselbühl, Germany, in April 1945, Anna still believes hope can be found in trusting the Führer. But then, three cattle cars filled with Jewish concentration camp prisoners being moved to another camp are left abandoned on the train tracks. More
The Turkey (La Dinde)
Belgium, 1998, 18 minutes, color
French with English subtitles
Directed by Sam Garbarski
35mm
Billed as "a Jewish Christmas tale," this award-winning short takes place in Brussels, 1953. More
Two Sisters (Tsvey Shvester) RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1938, 82 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Ben K. Blake
16mm DVD
Make sure there's a hanky nearby: After the death of their mother, older sister Betty works tirelessly, supporting her sister through nursing school and her fiancée through medical school only to see her happiness shattered when the two fall in love. More
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Uncle Moses
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USA, 1932, 87 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Sidney Goldin & Aubrey Scotto
16mm DVDWhen poverty and persecution compel his Polish landsmen to leave their shtetl, "Uncle" Moses, the crude and lusty former butcher, welcomes them to his Lower East Side clothing factory. More
The Unfortunate Bride (Di Umgliklikhe Kale)
(reedited reissue of 1926 silent Broken Hearts)
RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1932, 68 minutes, B&W
Yiddish and English intertitles with music and sound sequences
Directed by Maurice Schwartz35mmA film within a film where a man tells his grandchildren a cautionary tale about a Jewish political dissident who leaves his wife in Russia and heads for America, where he experiences the new value system operating among some American Jews. More
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A Vilna Legend (Dem Rebns Koyekh)(reissue of Tkies Kaf/The Vow, 1924) RESTORED BY NCJF USA, 1933, 60 minutes, B&W
Yiddish narration with English subtitles
Directed by Zygmund Turkow (1924); George Roland (1933)
35mm 16mm DVD
Starring real-life mother and daughter Ester-Rokhl Kaminska and Ida Kaminska, this film is a precursor to The Dybbuk featuring the same classic tale of frustrated love and destiny and the breaking/fulfillment of vows. More
The Vow (Tkies Kaf) RESTORED BY NCJF
Poland, 1937, 82 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Henryk Szabo
35mm DVD VHS
Two friends make a sacred pact pledging their newborn children, Rachel and Mendel, in marriage. Based on the same legend as S. Ansky's classic play The Dybbuk, this spirited film offers the divine intervention of Elijah and a happy ending. More
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The Wandering Jew (Der Vanderner Yid) RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1933, 66 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by George Roland35mm DVDA German-Jewish artist encounters anti-semitism when his masterpiece is rejected by the Academy. The figure in the painting then comes to life and tells of Jewish persecution throughout history. This unusual film ends with footage of an anti-Hitler rally at Madison Square Garden. More
The Way We Were USA, 1973, 118 minutes, color
Directed by Sydney Pollack
16mm
A love story between opposites spanning three decades: Katie, a Jewish political activist (Barbra Streisand) and Hubbell, a New York WASP writer (Robert Redford). Notable for its portrayal of a strong positive Jewish heroine and also serves as one of the few films to portray Jewish participation in the socialist movement of the '30s and the protests during the '50s.
Welcome in ViennaAustria, 1986, 125 Minutes, B&W
German with English Subtitles
Directed By Axel Corti
DVDThe conclusion of Axel Corti’s trilogy. Freddy and Adler, a left-wing intellectual, return to Austria in 1944 as soldiers in the U.S. Army. Freddy falls in love with the daughter of a Nazi, and Adler attempts to go over to the Communist Zone. More
When Grandpa Loved Rita Hayworth (Ab ins Paradies)
Czechoslovakia/Germany, 2000, 90 minutes, color
Czech and German with English subtitled
Directed by Iva Svarcova
35mm DVD
1969: The first winter after the violent end of the Spring of Prague. Just as three astronauts are flying to the moon, thirteen-year-old Hannah and her crazy young parents land in the German economic wonderland. More
Where is My Child? (Vu iz Mayn Kind?) RESTORED BY NCJF USA, 1937, 92 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Abraham Leff and Harry Lynn
16mm DVD
Celia Adler, doyenne of the Yiddish stage, gives a haunting performance as a new immigrant forced to give up her son. Obsessed with the thought of reuniting with him, she spends the next 25 years searching, pining, and bewailing her loss. More
The White Rose (Die weiße Rose) Germany, 1983, 108 minutes, color
German with English subtitles
Directed by Michael Verhoeven
35mm
Lena Stolze (The Nasty Girl) stars in this acclaimed film based on the true story of five German students and their professor who as the White Rose protested the Nazi regime. More
Without a Home (On a Heym) RESTORED BY NCJF
Poland, 1939, 88 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Alexander Martin
16mm DVD
This, the last Yiddish feature film made in Poland before Word War II, is the story of the hardships faced by immigrants in America at the turn of the century. After the eldest son of the Rivkin family is drowned, the father leaves his family in Europe to go to America. More
A Woman's Pale Blue Handwriting (Eine blaßblaue Frauenschrift)
Austria, 1984, 106 minutes, color
German with English subtitles
Directed by Axel Corti
DVD VHS
In October 1936, a high official in the Austrian government receives a letter from a German Jewish woman with whom he had an affair in 1925 asking him to help place an 11-year-old, half Jewish boy in a good Austrian school. More
The Wordmaker (Ish She'Ahav B'Ivrit) Israel, 1991, 90 minutes, color
Hebrew, English, French and Russian with English subtitles
Directed by Eli Cohen
16mm DVD
At the beginning of the 20th century, a language war raged in Palestine among Yiddish, Russian, French, German, English, and Hebrew, a language barely spoken for 2000 years. This feature film tells the dramatic life story of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda who championed the cause of modern Hebrew. More
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Yentl USA, 1983, 134 minutes, color
Directed by Barbra Streisand
16mm
Streisand produced, directed, co-authored and stars in this landmark musical based on Isaac Bashevis Singer's short story about a young woman who disguises herself as a boy in order to study at a yeshiva in turn-of-the-century Eastern Europe.
The Yiddisher Boy PRESERVED BY NCJF USA, 1909, 3 minutes, B&W
Silent without intertitles
Produced by the Lubin Company
16mm
Director Lubin (originally Lubszynski) was first Jewish-American filmmaker. In the film, Moses uses his last pennies to help a friend in need. 25 years later the men meet again. The film is remarkable in its depiction of tradition in the face of oppressive circumstances. More
Yiddle With His Fiddle (Yidl Mitn Fidl)
Poland, 1936, 92 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Green & Jan Nowina-Przybylski
A penniless man and his daughter (Molly Picon) decide to become traveling musicians. The daughter, disguised as a boy to relieve her father's anxiety, and her father join together with "another" father-son duo for music, comedy, and romance. More
Yizkor
RESTORED BY NCJF
Austria, 1924, 100 minutes, B&W
Silent with new English intertitles
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26: Lisa A. Lindsay, 7-24-06
Basic Facts
Teaching Position: Associate Professor, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, July 2004-present (Assistant Professor, 1999-2004)
Area of Research: Lindsay teaches broadly in African history, but her research focuses primarily on the social history of West Africa, particularly Nigeria.
Education: Ph.D. in History (African), University of Michigan, 1996
Major Publications: Lindsay is author of Working with Gender: Wage Labor and Social Change in Southwestern Nigeria (Heinemann, 2003), and the coeditor with Stephan F. Miescher of Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa (Heinemann, 2003). She is currently working on Captives as Commodities: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (a textbook under contract with Prentice Hall, to be published in 2007). More recently, and inspired by her teaching on the Atlantic slave trade, Lindsay has been researching the story of a South Carolina ex-slave who in the 1850s migrated to his father’s place of origin in what is now Nigeria. During the 2004-05 academic year she was pursuing this project as a fellow at the National Humanities Center.
Awards: Lindsay is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including:
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Article Prize (for “Domesticity and Difference,” AHR, 1999);
UNC Spray-Randleigh Fellowship, 2006;
American Council of Learned Societies Ryskamp Fellowship, 2005-07;
National Humanities Center fellow, 2004-05;
UNC Center for International Studies Faculty Curriculum Development Grant, 2004;
UNC Junior Faculty Development Grant, 2003;
UNC University Research Council Grant, 2002 and 2006;
ACLS research fellowship, spring 2001;
National Endowment for the Humanities research fellowship, fall 2000.
Additional Info:
Formerly Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 1997-99, and Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History and Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan, 1996-97.
Personal Anecdote
White American girls typically do not dream of becoming historians of Africa; nor did I. But growing up in Louisiana in the civil rights era, I couldn’t help but notice the legacies of race and slavery-in the newly-integrated public schools I attended, as well as in the jazz and blues I was learning to play on the saxophone. Later in college and graduate school, I discovered an Africa that was historically connected to me as an American, somewhat familiar to me as a Southerner, and endlessly fascinating to me as a member of the human community.
In the mid-1980s, while I studied international politics at Johns Hopkins University, half a world away apartheid South Africa exploded in street demonstrations and government terror. The semester I took my first African history course, I was arrested with hundreds of others for protesting in front of the South African Embassy in Washington. My comrades and I built a shanty town on the Hopkins quad to urge divestment from South African stocks, and we even took our “port-a-shanty” to sully the premises of offending banks. My political indignation reflected my growing sense that Africa deserved Americans’ attention and fueled my curiosity about the many ways Africans and Americans have been connected in the past.
As a graduate student I concentrated on the history of West Africa because in comparison to South Africa its recent past seemed rather less terrible, and because I had a vague sense that the slave trade had given American Southerners and Atlantic Africans something of a shared history. Since 1991, when I traveled to Nigeria for the first time, I have often noticed its similarities to southern Louisiana. My family’s homeland is swampy, hot, and humid, with loquacious storytellers, lively music, thirsty mosquitoes, and spicy stews. In and around Lagos I found a region that is swampy, hot, and humid, where raconteurs share proverbs, music travels through the night air, mosquitoes never give up, and fiery pepper soup makes Tabasco seem like Cool-Aid. And then there’s the petroleum-soaked political corruption, but maybe now I’m reaching!
The year I lived in Nigeria conducting dissertation research (1993-94), I witnessed three changes of government, two general strikes, countless fuel shortages, and a military coup. I got sick with dysentery, mysterious rashes, and malaria; scabies infected my hands and arms when I worked in a particularly dusty archive. (Flea soap did the trick.) The apartment my husband and I lived in had not been inhabited for a decade, and even after we renovated it there were daily electricity outages and weeks without running water. But people looked after us, as so often happens in Africa, offering care and support as well as adventures. It was through one friend that I got to play saxophone with Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Africa’s most innovative and radical pop star, whose politically-charged, infectiously danceable music I had first come to love when I heard it in Baltimore.
Its vibrant rhythms-in music as well as in the daily human pursuits of survival, connection, and delight-are what propel my scholarship in West African history. In the classroom and on paper I try to convey both the distinctiveness of African history and the connections shared between Africa and the rest of the world. My first book was fundamentally comparative, placing southern Nigeria’s gendered labor history in a wider context. My current project emphasizes the links within one family’s history between West Africa and the United States. The goal in all of this work is to intrigue students and readers with what makes Africa different from America and at the same time provoke their empathy for fellow humans half a world away.
Quotes
By Lisa A. Lindsay
This book’s underlying concern is with a broad issue: what effect does the expansion of wage labor have on relationships between men and women and on understandings about how women and men structure their lives? Is the normative pattern that emerged in Western Europe and North America, with men working for wages and women reproducing the household in unpaid labor at home, a universal one? Does long-term wage labor necessarily become a male preserve over time? … Fundamentally, these are questions about the social reproduction of labor. … … [I]n southwestern Nigeria the gendered ideals implicit in colonial policies met an equally powerful but very different body of assumptions about the respective roles of men and women.While the colonial state created the conditions under which nearly all wage jobs were filled by men, this did not mean that it turned men into the major providers for their wives and children, especially since most people did not work for wages and women had access to their own [trading] incomes. … For trade unionists and individual wage earners, the image of male providers was useful for making demands from the colonial state, even it if sat uneasily with women’s important economic activities. At home, steady wages and the breadwinner ideal had implications for men’s marital relationships, household budgets, and self-esteem, even if those budgets were partially kept afloat through women’s contributions. And in negotiations over household resources, women drew upon the fledgling male breadwinner norm to make their own claims to men’s paychecks…. [T]he disjunctures as well as the overlaps between discourse and practice surrounding the male breadwinner norm in southwestern Nigeria suggest not only that people shape their lives according to ideas about gender, but that they shape expressions of gender in order to better their lives. — Lisa A. Lindsay in “Working with Gender”
“The 1945 [Nigerian general] strike reveals the gendered nature of colonial discrimination, and opposition to it, in Africa….In Nigeria, as in the rest of the continent, the question of applying universalistic principles to colonial workers was related to what kind of men they were and what kind of households they should live in. … Colonizers used local gender relations and household structures as justifications for racial discrimination in wage setting. At the same time, working men claimed political rights in gendered terms. … The conflicts and debates surrounding the 1945 Nigerian general strike show that tensions between universalizing impulses and African particularities, key to postwar colonial politics, rested in large part on gender and family life-for both colonial officials and African workers. In spite of the active participation of Nigerian women in politics and the economy, the male breadwinner ideal came to stand for respectability and rights, in the colony as in the metropole.” — Lisa A. Lindsay in “Domesticity and Difference,” AHR 104, 3 (June 1999)”
About Lisa A. Lindsay
“In this carefully documented archival and field research study, Lindsay takes on the literature about labor in the African formal sector through the lens of the social history of Nigerian railway workers. The choice is an inspired one…. As the title announces, the key theme is gender and domestic life. Here Lindsay presents a more historically nuanced interpretation than others, largely by including the place of the family in labor struggles for pay, benefits and working conditions alongside a social history of workers’ family life….By maintaining her own theme, Lindsay is able to give full play to her archival and interview material to show the internal complexities of the familial imagery that made it such a key resource…. This excellent study allows us to consider such a possibility, and to follow the implications for the analysis of economic life in the turbulent present.” — Jane I. Guyer reviewing “Working with Gender: Wage Labor and Social Change in Southwestern Nigeria”
“This collection of essays by twelve distinguished African, African-American, Euro-American, and European historians (plus two anthropologists and one scholar of religion) examines the construction of gender roles in twentieth-century sub-Saharan Africa. With two exceptions—an essay about Nigerian men in the 1990s and another about a female king in Nigeria—the essays are about the interaction of African men as workers, herders, teachers, soldiers, policemen, and nationalists with colonial authorities, missionaries, and colonists. The collection includes chapters covering eight countries of East, West, and Southern Africa (four are about Nigeria and two about Ghana). The theme threading through the volume is the ways in which African men responded to colonial policies that affected, and in some cases profoundly changed, their traditional gender roles…. The editors write that gender—male and female—is “crucial to understanding the history of modern Africa, its women, and its men” (p. 22). Beyond understanding, there is a need for insights into the ways these superb studies of masculinity contribute to the transformation of gender inequalities. — Meredeth Turshen, Rutgers University reviewing “Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa”
“In this anthology, scholars juggle regional studies with men’s studies. They question whether Connell’s theories on masculinities can apply to the African continent. In exploring masculinities, they see four lines of inquiry: 1) the idea of the African “big man” is changing; 2) colonialism helped to shape African views on manhood; 3) independence struggles were gendered; and 4) the modern era has affected African masculinities.
This book brilliantly discusses how Africans are subjects, rather than objects. Though whites, imperialists, and colonialists are brought up often, African wars, unionizing, bravery ceremonies, and other willful actions are emphasized. Though Foucault is never mentioned in this book, the idea that power is never absolute resounds clearly here.
Though the editors very consciously view their work as lying within the men’s studies field, in no way are women left out of the picture. The desire to find wives, keep wives, and be with wives is a continual staple of African manhood.
Traditional scholars should not be scared away from this book. Many academics may feel that masculinity is a nebulous topic that should be left for babbling postmodernists. However, this book would satisfy traditional scholars. The book discusses history, economics, and sociology in very concrete ways; it merely adds gender into the broader picture….
I liked this work. I hope more scholarship is produced on African men and other men of the developing world. This was an important intersectional work. I applaud the thinkers paving the way in this burgeoning field.” — Jeffery Mingo on Amazon.com reviewing “Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa “
“She really cares about her students. She recognizes that everyone in the class brings something unique to the class and that all opinions are worth hearing. Her enthusiasm for the subject is contagious, and even though I wasn’t too excited about taking the class at first, it wound up being one of my favorites at Carolina!”…
“Fabulous Prof-one of the best-enthusiastic without being obnoxious, highly intelligent & knowledgeable-she is the reason I chose history as my major!”…
“Professor Lindsay is the best teacher I have had at UNC. She’s lively and funny, and deeply intelligent without being hard to understand. Her common sense approach makes you feel like you understood this all along, you just hadn’t had the information you needed.”…
“Lindsay is by far one of my favorite professors at UNC. She made me switch my major to History. If you really want to learn a lot about Africa, I suggest taking her classes and talking to her about the subject matter apart from class.”…
“One of the best professors I’ve had. Amazing person and truly loves the material she teaches. Sparkling personality and enthusiasm makes subject matter come alive. Teaches clearly and will readily answer questions on the spot if you are confused. Take her classes!”…
“Dr. Lindsay is one of the most inspiring professors I’ve come across at Carolina. Her eyes sparkle when she teaches, and she cares not only about her subject matter, but about her students. I wish the history dept. had 20 more professors like her!” — Anonymous Students
Posted on Sunday, July 23, 2006 at 6:22 PM
HISTORY DOYENS
Edited by Bonnie K. Goodman
Walter T.K. Nugent, 7-17-06
What They’re Famous For
Acclaimed historian Walter Nugent is Emeritus professor of history since 2000 and was the Andrew V. Tackes Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, where he has taught since 1984. Before that he was Professor of History at Indiana University for twenty-one years. As a visiting professor he has also taught and lived in England, Israel, Germany, Poland, and Ireland. He has published 11 books and well over a hundred essays and reviews on American and comparative history. In 2000 he was awarded the Caughey prize of Western History Association for best book in Western history for Into the West: The Story of Its People which has been called “the most comprehensive and fascinating account to date of the peopling of the American West.” and an “epic social-demographic history.” He lives with his wife, the historian Suellen Hoy, in Highland Park, Illinois.
Personal Anecdote
Demography is destiny, or so it’s been for me. My enormous good luck is to have become a historian and to have been a faculty member at two excellent research universities. Good demographic timing helped produce this result, starting with being born in 1935, during the Depression. The birth rate was the lowest ever up to then. Whenever people looked for someone from my small cohort, my chances of being picked were always good.
I was also the fortunate beneficiary of discrimination — my mother was forced to quit her elementary-teaching job after she became pregnant with me. As a result, her considerable force and talent as a teacher focused on me, so that I was reading, writing, and reckoning at an early age. Two uncles, one a brother of my mother’s and the other of my father’s, both Catholic priests, also invested in me: one put me through college and saw to it that I learned how to play and sing liturgical music. That let me earn my way through graduate school. The other gave me a spinet piano when I was five and also opened my ears to Beethoven and other great music with his collection of ’78s. Benedictine monks, my undergraduate teachers at a small college in Kansas, opened for me a broad universe of history, literature, and philosophy. Most influential were Brendan Downey, a Missourian with an Oxford degree in English; Victor Gellhaus, a Kansas medievalist whose Ph.D. was from Munich; Peter Beckman, a historian of America and the West; and Eugene Dehner, an inspiring zoologist and ornithologist.
In grad school, I thought I would write a dissertation on whether there was a Catholic side to Progressivism. I did such a lousy job on my orals in that field that the faculty member I’d talked to (lengthily) about it said, “forget it.” I realized much later that the topic would have been a quagmire; I was extremely lucky to have failed my way out of it. Instead, with some personal knowledge of small farmers on the Great Plains, I decided to see if sources substantiated the then-current idea that the 1890’s Populists had been anti-Semites and nativists. I returned to Kansas, and found out that they weren’t (though some others were). This produced a dissertation, a book (The Tolerant Populists), and job offers. Again, demography favored me. Baby-boomers were entering college, enrollments were soaring, and the job market for young would-be academics was hotter than ever before or since.
Indiana University became my home for over twenty years. Then and now, it has had strong international programs. For nine years I had the honor and pleasure of directing its Overseas Study Programs. Watching the huge changes in hundreds of undergraduates who went on junior-year programs, from provincials to young cosmopolitans, was probably the most rewarding work I ever did as an educator. Travels to programs also brought invitations to lecture in Europe and Israel. In the mid-1980s, just under fifty (a good age for such invitations), the University of Notre Dame asked me to become dean of its College of Arts and Letters, which brought with it an endowed chair. I wisely decided that I’d had enough of administration and declined. But when they offered me the endowed chair anyway, I accepted and enjoyed a decade and a half of well-supported research and teaching.
After my book on Populism, the next two were in Gilded-Age economic history. Then, while I was a dean at Indiana, I turned to textbook projects. Some collapsed; others became books (e.g., From Centennial to World War, on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era). A long effort to write a text for the American history survey course fizzled out, but during it I became convinced of the great importance of the demographic substrate of passing events. This led me both to quantitative data and to Braudel. American history, it seemed to me, could be arranged into three plateaus, defined by declining rates of population growth. Just then I was invited to give the 1979 Paley lectures at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the three-fold scheme became the lectures, called “The Graying of America,” and then a small book, Structures of American Social History (1981).
Next came migration. Still influenced by Braudel, I wrote Crossings: The Great Transatlantic Migrations, 1870-1914 (1991), which treated the Atlantic and the lands around it – Europe, North America, South America – as a unified arena of human motion and action in the “age of steam.” During those years I also wrote essays on comparative migration and settlement, the processes that formed the American West. People came there from all points of the compass; the traditional east-to-west Turnerian story did not explain it. The result was Into the West: The Story of Its People (1999). About then, I retired from teaching and indulged myself by writing a family history, pulling together about twenty-five years of sporadic archival research into Making Our Way (2003). My current project is to connect the territorial acquisitions of the United States since 1782 to the process of settlement. The continental acquisitions ended in 1854 and the settlement process in the 1920s, but offshore acquisitions continued past 1945 and global empire-building into our own day. The new book will be called The Habit of Empire.
If my luck continues to hold, I will continue writing history through my eighth decade and beyond, as have exemplars such as Ed Morgan, Bob Remini, Bill McNeill, and Bernie Weisberger. If it doesn’t, I can always be thankful for an enormously satisfying (as well as lucky) life as a historian. And I haven’t even mentioned my family. That’s for another time.
Quotes
By Walter Nugent
The Populists have been accused of nativism, both of a personal kind and of an ideological kind; instead, they were friendlier and more receptive to foreign persons and foreign institutions than the average of their contemporary political opponents. They have been accused of ‘conspiracy-mindedness’; for them, however, tangible fact quite eclipsed neurotic fiction. They have been accused of anti-Semitism, both personal and ideological; instead they consistently got along well with their Jewish neighbors and consistently refrained from extending their dislike of certain financiers, who happened to be Jews, to Jews in general. They have been accused of chauvinism and jingoism, especially with reference to the Spanish-American War; instead, such lukewarm support as they gave collectively to Cuban intervention was based on quite different grounds, and as a group they strongly opposed the imperialism that the war engendered…. In the case of Kansas, the largest of the wheat-belt Populist states, the… principal criticisms of Populism voiced by recent writers… should be replaced with a viewpoint so much in contrast as to be practically the opposite…. [T]he Populists of Kansas … were people who were seeking the solution of concrete economic distress through the instrumentality of a political party…. This involved profoundly the political co-operation of the foreign-born, and it involved a deep respect and receptivity for non-American institutions and ideas. — Walter Nugent in “The Tolerant Populists: Kansas Populism and Nativism” (1963)
Anyone who has undertaken historical research or who has prepared a set of course lectures in history knows that these things involve a creative process…. But the beginning undergraduate… does not realize this. History is something fixed on a printed page; how it arrived there he seldom asks, and when he does ask he can find no answer. In his beginning chemistry or zoology course he is treated to something very different…. he finds himself in a laboratory where he must himself become involved…. If it is important for him to know how science is done, shouldn’t it also be worth knowing how history is done? — Walter Nugent in “Creative History: An Introduction to Historical Study” (1967)
The subject of this book is the response of groups in American society to changing social conditions in the years immediately following the Civil War…. In order to sketch these group changes… I will relate them here to a question of public policy that was also an economic issue, and a moral issue. This was, in contemporary language, the “money question”… fundamentally the question of what the proper standard of money ought to be. For various reasons, to be described, this was very close to saying what the proper moral standard ought to be. — Walter Nugent in “Money and American Society, 1865-1880” (1968)
The central observation of the book [is]… that the rate of population growth, although nearly always declining since the seventeenth century, did not drop steadily or constantly. The decline instead forms a pattern of several sudden drops from higher to lower plateaus. That pattern allows us to divide American history into periods in a new way and on a solid factual base. This book is not a full-scale demographic history, but a framework for a social history based on a demographic observation. — Walter Nugent in “Structures of American Social History” (1981)
…[I]f, as Braudel demonstrated, the Mediterranean was the brilliant center of the late sixteenth-century world, surely the Atlantic was the center of the late nineteenth…. Here… is the demographic mosaic of the transatlantic region from 1870 to 1914…. That region, for present purposes, includes Europe, North America, South America, and to a slight degree Africa. All of the societies of the region experienced natural demographic growth, that is, more births than deaths, but at widely varying rates. They also experienced change through migration, some as donors of people, others as receivers, and a few as both…. The cumulative picture of movement is one of a swarming or churning of people back and forth across the Atlantic highway, fed by growing railroad networks on either side of it. –- Walter Nugent in “Crossings: The Great Transatlantic Migrations, 1870-1914” (1992)
Into the West describes how the [American] West got its people: why they came and mostly stayed. What myths, ideals, and dreams drove them there? Who were they? Why did they make the West more urban, earlier, than almost anywhere else in the country? How did it become more ethnically and racially diverse than any other region…? How did the West lead the nation’s profound change from a farming people to city dwellers and suburbanites, for the West was the final, most concentrated cockpit of that transformation?…. This book is not driven by any thesis. But it does have one continuing plot line, which is also a premise and a hope. The briefest way to phrase it is e pluribus unum. … The national center of gravity has shifted and continues to shift. The worldview westward, from Manhattan to vagueness, no longer suffices. The myth of homesteading has already been consigned to the past, and gold rushing, California dreaming, and the macho cowboy are overdue for overhaul. A new national story, one that must include all the American people, whatever their ancestors’ origins, is also overdue. — Walter Nugent in “Into the West: The Story of Its People” (1999)
If this story has a moral, it may be: don’t be shocked at whom your grandchildren marry or how well they do. –- Walter Nugent in “Making Our Way: A Family History of Nugents, Kings, and Others” (2003)
About Walter Nugent
“Conceding that Kansas Populists were sometimes ‘confused, ill-informed, and behind the times,’ the author nevertheless makes a vigorous defense of their basic rationality and common sense – and this without rudeness or discourtesy to writers of the opposite persuasion. He denies that the Populists retreated to a dream world of ‘agrarian Arcadias,’ or that paranoiac thinking was characteristic of them…. His book is an even-tempered and valuable contribution to the literature on Populism.” –- C. Vann Woodward in Mississippi Valley Historical Review, on “The Tolerant Populists”
“Its greatest value lies in his demolition of the charge that Populists, at least those in Kansas, were anti-Semitic, anti-alien, and xenophobic.” –- Paul. W. Gates in Political Science Quarterly, on “The Tolerant Populists”
“On the level of the narrative itself, there is no doubt that Nugent has made a solid and fresh contribution to historical knowledge…. His scholarship is generally sound, his prose is vigorous, and he clarifies the internal relationship between the various aspects of the money question in a coherent synthesis. Most important, he keeps the subject more firmly in international context than any of his predecessors, combining his American materials with original work in European archives…. The book is a welcome and useful addition to the cumulative scholarship that is re-shaping our understanding of political and economic developments in the post-Civil War period.” –- Morton Rothstein in Political Science Quarterly on “Money and American Society, 1865-1880”
What gives Nugent’s book its distinctive character is the author’s use of the money question to explain why the 1870s constituted a ‘watershed of the future.’ Although well aware that other factors were present, Nugent contends that, in the context of the depression, it was the money question that ‘turned Arcadia into a battlefield.’ The monetary discourse of the 1870s was to be echoed in the 1890s, and its ‘spawn… were hardened rhetoric, class divisions, social antagonism, and the inability to consider a serious, wide, and realistic range of answers to the social concerns of the time.'” — Sidney Fine in Journal of American History, on “Money and American Society”
Professor Nugent’s rather inexpressive title conceals a study which should be read by all historians of the United States. It may be that a handful of them who have been trained in demographic skills will be acquainted with what he has to say; the rest, if they are honest with themselves, will find that in brief compass he has marshaled an array of facts and figures about America’s population which will force rigorous rethinking about the main trends and many of the formative factors in the development of the country. … [B]y relating each and every development in the population story to its social and economic antecedents or consequences it compels a reconsideration of the factors which lie at the heart of the American experience and obliges historians to think again about which of them are significant. -– The Economist (London), on “Structures of American Social History”
[G]iven the present state of historical research in American demographic development, this small volume is an extremely useful survey of what we know and, by implication at least, of what we do not know about the subject…. This book deserves to be popular among both those seeking a general introduction to the demographic foundations of social history and among historians and graduate students in search of research topics. — Allan G. Bogue in American Historical Review, on “Structures of American Social History”
“Nugent’s work is the ideal – the only – narrative companion to any quantitative analysis of late-nineteenth century population movements in the Atlantic economy. Crossings is a first, an ambitious and well-executed attempt to condense, synthesize, and re-examine from an international comparative perspective the captivating stories of the millions on the move in the age of mass migration.” –- Alan M. Taylor in Journal of Economic History on “Crossings: The Great Transatlantic Migrations, 1870-1914”
“This is a well-researched, wide-ranging, and serious study of migration from Europe to America (North and South)…. The U.S. experience is compared to immigration to Canada, Argentina, and Brazil and is found to be different but not unique or exceptional. The study emphasizes strong underlying similarities in immigration to North and South America in employment patterns, the effect of the expanding frontier, and the demographic structure of the immigrant population. Nugent… has given us a brilliant analysis of a critical chapter of migration history…. — Ira Glazier in American Historical Review on “Crossings”
Nugent’s primary purpose is ‘to pull together in one place the main contours of population change in the Atlantic region,’ 1870 to 1914, and to test the validity of two interpretive concepts, American exceptionalism and the theory of demographic transition, a corollary of modernization theory…. [T]he author succeeds admirably well in achieving his goals…. Nugent’s study, well illustrated and documented, deserves a wide readership and will become a must for courses on migration history. It is analytically incisive and illuminating by its comparative approach. It also stands as a model on how to overcome national narrowness.” — Dirk Hoerder in International Migration Review on “Crossings”
“Walter Nugent’s Into the West is an engaging and important book about “how the West got its people.” It is not really a demographic history, nor is it simply a history of migration, although Nugent gives at least some account of virtually every western immigrant group. It is instead an attempt to discern the motives involved in movement: why people came and why they stayed. And since motives do not translate directly into results, it tries to discern the actual results of the demographic churning of the western part of the continent…. Nugent writes compellingly about homesteading and agrarian settlement, a topic that has largely gone out of fashion…. He points to California with its own distinctive tradition of latifundia as another, longer lasting version of rural society and agricultural landholding. -– Richard White in Journal of American History on “Into the West”
Basic Facts
Teaching Positions:
University of Notre Dame, Andrew V. Tackes Professor of History, 1984-2000; emeritus, 2000-present;
Washburn University of Topeka, Instructor in History, 1957-58;
Kansas State University, Temporary Instructor 1961; Assistant Professor of American History, 1961-63;
Indiana University, Assistant Professor of History 1963-1964; Associate Professor 1964-68; Professor of History 1968-84. Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, 1967-71, and in Central Administration, 1972-76; Director of University Overseas Study Programs, 1967-76; Acting Chair, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures, 1968-69; Chair, Department of History, 1974-77.
Columbia University, lecturer, summer 1966;
New York University, lecturer, summer 1967;
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Fulbright Senior Lecturer, 1978-79;
Paley Lecturer in American Civilization, Feb. 1979; lecturer summer 1982;
Warsaw University, visiting scholar, spring 1979, spring 1982;
Hamburg University, visiting scholar, summer 1980;
Tel Aviv University, Kenneth B. Keating lecturer, Nov. 1987;
University College Dublin, Mary Ball Washington Fulbright chair, 1991-92;
Pacific Lutheran University, Schnackenberg lecturer, 1993;
Huntington Library, Ray Allen Billington lecturer, 1993; Steinbeck Centennial lecturer, Oct. 2002;
University of Indianapolis, Sutphin lecturer, Oct. 1999;
University of Utah, David E. Miller lecturer, Nov. 1999;
Calvin College, Mellema lecturer, Apr. 2001.
Area of Research:
American West; Gilded Age/Progressive Era; demographic history, especially migration; comparative history
Education:
St. Benedict’s College (Atchison, Kansas), A.B. in history, 1954
Georgetown University, M.A. in European history, 1956
University of Chicago, Ph.D. in American history, 1961
Major Publications:
The Tolerant Populists: Kansas Populism and Nativism, (University of Chicago Press, 1963).
Creative History: An Introduction to Historical Study, (J. B. Lippincott, 1967; Second edition 1973).
The Money Question during Reconstruction, (W. W. Norton, 1967).
Money and American Society, 1865-1880, (Free Press, 1968).
Modern America, (Houghton Mifflin, 1973)
From Centennial to World War: American Society 1876-1917, (Bobbs-Merrill, 1977)
Structures of American Social History, (Indiana University Press, 1981; paper, 1985)
Crossings: The Great Transatlantic Migrations, 1870-1914, (Indiana University Press, 1992. Revised edition, 1995).
Into the West: The Story of Its People, (Alfred A. Knopf, 1999).
Making Our Way: A Family History of Nugents, Kings, and Others, (privately printed, 2003).
Editor, Contributor, Joint Author:
(with Martin Ridge), The American West: The Reader, (Indiana University Press, 1999).
(0riginal co-editor with Andrzej Bartnicki), Historia Stanów Zjednoczonych. (History of the United States), 5 vols.; (Warsaw 1995).
(co-edited with Malcolm Rohrbough), The Trans-Appalachian Frontier, Book series, Six volumes now in print, since 1996.
(co-edited with Martin Ridge), The American West in the Twentieth Century, Book series, Six volumes now in print, since 1991
(consultant and co-author), Chronicle of the American West, Forthcoming, 2007.
Awards:
Newberry Library fellow, summer 1962;
Guggenheim fellow, 1964-65;
St. Benedict’s College, D. Litt. honoris causa, 1968;
NEH summer seminars, director, 1979, 1984, 1986;
NEH-Huntington Library fellow, 1979-80;
Indiana Association of Historians, President, 1980-81;
Mead Distinguished Research Fellow, Huntington Library, 1985;
Beinecke Fellow in Western Americana, Yale University, 1990;
Society of American Historians, elected a fellow, 1991;
Warsaw University, Medal of Merit, 1992;
Choice outstanding academic book, for Crossings, 1992;
U.S. Information Agency, Academic Specialist grant to Brazil, 1996;
Immigration History Society, elected to executive board, 1996-99;
Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, President, 2000-02;
Caughey prize of Western History Association for best book in Western history (Into the West), 2000;
Western History Association, honorary life member, 1998; President, 2005-06.
Additional Info:
U.S.-Israel Educational Foundation (the Fulbright Program in Israel), Board of Directors, 1985-89.
Organist, St. Bride’s Church, Chicago, 1955-57, 1958-61.
Hadassah Associates (life member).
Contributor to professional journals since 1962
Referee or consultant to various publishers and journals; to universities on tenure and promotion cases.
Member of peer review panels for Council on International Exchange of Scholars (the Fulbright Program), National Endowment for the Humanities, Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education, the Huntington Library;
Member of various book- and article-prize committees of the Western History Association, United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, Agricultural History Society.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations (New York), 1984-99.
Posted on Sunday, July 16, 2006 at 7:57 PM
TOP YOUNG HISTORIANS
Edited by Bonnie K. Goodman
25: Andrew Stuart Bergerson, 7-10-06
Basic Facts
Teaching Position: Associate Professor, History Department, University of Missouri, Kansas City, Affiliated Faculty in the Judaic Studies and Women & Gender Studies Programs
Area of Research: Modern German History; History of Everyday Life, Material Culture, Space, & Place; Cultural, Ethnographic, & Oral History; Memory; Interdisciplinarity; Critical Theory
Education: 1998, Ph. D, University of Chicago, Modern German history
Major Publications: Bergerson is author of Ordinary Germans in Extraordinary Times: the Nazi Revolution in Hildesheim (Indiana University Press, 2004) New Research Project “The Cultural History of German Bread in the Twentieth Century” and a monograph, “Alt-Hildesheim: a history of normalcy in modern Europe” and a novel, “Plain Sight.”
Awards: Bergerson is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including:
2006, Research Grant/Research Leave Winter-Summer, Hildesheim, University of Missouri Research Board;
2005, Short-listed for the First Annual Modernist Studies Book Prize, for: Ordinary Germans in Extraordinary Times;
2005, UMKC Trustee’s Faculty Fellowship Award;
2004, Mentoring Honor (student selected), Meriweather Lewis Fellow (Faculty Development),UMKC, Spring;
2001, Summer Study Grant for research on the Cultural History of German Bread in Ulm & Tübingen, Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst;
2000, Faculty Research Grant, Office of Research Administration, UMKC;
1993-94, 2-year, dissertation research grant, Friedrich-Weinhagen Stiftung, Hildesheim;
1995-97, Van Holst Prize Lectureship, & DAAD Competition for the Best Syllabi in German Studies (2nd Place) for “The Rapprochement of History & Anthropology in German Studies” (with Matti Bunzl & Daphne Berdahl);
1992, Summer Mellon Research Grant, Hildesheim;
1991, Wilhelm Meister Prize for the Screenplay “A Century of Karl May,” Germanic Languages and Literature Department, University of Chicago. Additional Info:
In 1998-99, Bergerson was a Visiting Assistant Professor, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA; 1995-98, Adjunct Faculty or Lecturer, Columbia College, Chicago, IL; Governors State University, University Park, IL; Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore, MD; University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
2004, Television Broadcast Interview, “Ordinary Germans,” The College Hour, 17 December, Channel 17.
In 2003-04, Bergerson did radio interviews for “Talking History,” which included shows on; Ken Albala, Eating Right in the Renaissance (2002); Bevin Alexander, How Wars are Won: the 13 Rule of War, (2002); William H. Colby, The Long Goodbye: The Deaths of Nancy Cruzan,(2002). Harold James, The End of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression, (2001), and Harry D. Harootunian, History’s Disquiet: modernity, cultural practice, and the question of everyday life, (2000).
In 2002 Bergerson did a radio broadcast lecture, “‘Das hat das Volk erst gar nicht mitgekriegt’: Erinnerung und Wissen um Barbarei,” Radio Dreyeckland Freiburg FM 102.3.
Personal Anecdote
Jürgen Ludewig a pseudonym loved history. He regularly participated in an adult-education class in the local historical museum in Hildesheim, Germany. While I was conducting research there for my dissertation in 1992-4, the teacher of those courses recommended that I interview him. Heide Kaiser, then a student of museum science at the local university, also recommended Jürgen as an interview partner. But she also warned me: he is to be enjoyed with care “er ist mit Vorsicht zu geniessen.” During the interviews, Jürgen turned out to be quite a cunning character. He accommodated himself to the system, be it fascist or democratic, as the situation demanded, and skeptically denied the existence of any ideal moral positions worthy of sacrifice. In many ways I found Jürgen harder to handle than Helmut a 100% Nazi. At least I knew where I stood with Helmut. And yet most Germans were like Jürgen, ethically ambiguous. More accurately, everyday life is often that complicated.
One day in 1993, before my interviews with Jürgen began, Heide and I ran into him at a museum exhibition. He had spoken to us separately about visiting him in his house to view “The Immortal Heart,” a movie directed by Veit Harlan and filmed in Hildesheim in 1938. Jürgen, it turned out, was an avid film connoisseur: he had a copy of the final cut of this movie in his extensive video library and promised to tell us about how he had watched the filming in his youth.
The ethical problem with “The Immortal Heart” is not just a matter of the striking similarity between its motifs and Nazi propaganda, but also its functionality in Nazi society. Within months of filming it in Hildesheim, the Nazi regime initiated a massive antisemitic pogrom‹the so-called Night of Broken Glass. By offering Hildesheimers this romantic fantasy-image of their town, Harlan disguised the violent realities of the Third Reich and indirectly helped the regime realize its racist goals. Yet it was Jürgen and his neighbors who first adopted the habit of imagining that they lived in Alt-Hildesheim, a premodern, cultivated, yet fantastic town. While watching the filming of “The Immortal Heart” in 1938, Jürgen imagined the disclosure, by modern technology, of a historically romantic citiscape that he and his neighbors had already learned to see.
After watching the movie in 1993, Jürgen tried to convince us that “The Immortal Heart” was not a Nazi film. At first, Heide argued with him as I listened in silence, but both of us soon thanked him for his hospitality and excused ourselves in frustration. Once we were alone in her car, Heide and I spoke of our mutual outrage. In his youth Jürgen had collaborated with the Nazis, and in his maturity he continued to justify this behavior. Then the conversation took a surprising turn. Heide did not understand why I had remained silent while Jürgen tried to justify his past. She asked whether I also let unrepentant Nazis make outright antisemitic comments during the interview process. I responded that I did, that it was not my role to try to change my interview partners from fascists into democrats, and that I could not do so even if I were to try. They had lived for eighty or more years one way; one conversation with me would not change their ways. Defensively I argued that, were I to challenge their politics in the interview process, I would not create trust and they would not speak honestly into my tape recorder. I would be ruining the purpose of the interviews. I could criticize them only after the interviews were done for instance, in my written analysis. Heide appreciated my opinion, but she was not convinced. She felt uncomfortable giving Nazis and their collaborators any opportunity to excuse their past behavior in the public sphere. In 1997 I wrote Heide, asking her to respond to my retelling of this story at the annual meeting of the Association for Integrative Studies. In her reply (11 January 1998), she explained her behavior that afternoon: “Given my conviction that National Socialism was possible because Nazi ideas had become tolerable for discussion in polite company “salonfähig” and everyone else had grown silent, I could not and had no intention of restraining myself. I had to contradict Herr Ludewig.”
To fully appreciate this comment, the reader needs to understand that Heide was raised in a postfascist society: one that is still living in the shadow of fascism, in which any respected elder, perhaps even parents or grandparents, could be a disguised murderer. So she has learned never to trust anyone over a certain age. She has also come to believe that democracy requires civic activism: she instinctively responds to fascist rhetoric with public display of democratic virtues. Though a student of museum science, she is also part of the movement of “Alltagsgeschichte.” Since the 1970s these younger researchers, amateur historians, and civic activists have been fighting to reveal the local Nazi past against an entrenched reign of silence. They seek to prevent an artificial, intellectual foreclosure on this traumatic past and to promote democratic consciousness in their communities. There are a variety of such groups in Hildesheim, for example. They have created walking tours of the local Nazi past, restored and preserved Jewish cemeteries, met survivors of Nazi terror, run intergenerational and interconfessional discussion groups, and, of course, conducted research projects in oral history. Through authentic encounters with the Nazi past, these groups try to make that past accessible and relevant to people today. Yet the everyday life historian’s interest in authenticity can be troubling, as Heide is continually reminded. By 1998, she was working at a memorial-museum located on the site of a former Naziconcentration camp. In her letter (1998), she explained that she finds herself always confronted with the desire for clear answers as to good and evil, having to endure the contradiction of wanting to preserve the remains of a horrible past, and trying to keep in mind the question of my own political and scientific intentions. That is, both the Nazi past and the everyday life history movement trying to preserve its memory raise the question at stake here in stark terms: does an authentic experience with the past, through a visit to the site of mass murder or a narrative interview with an eye-witness, in fact foster liberal values and civic virtues?
In the case of our visit with Jürgen, the answer seemed to have been: no. Jürgen insisted that “The Immortal Heart” was not a Nazi film, because he wanted to believe that Alt-Hildesheim had never been a Nazi place. In 1938, he was busy imagining a medieval dreamworld while the Jews of Hildesheim were being robbed, brutalized, and deported to concentration camps. In the 1990s, he still watched “The Immortal Heart” for the same reason: to forget the ethical complications of everyday life, past and present. Jürgen is addicted to this fantasy, and he tried to addict two young historians to it as well to validate his non-ethic of escapism. Heide and I responded with an analogous self-justification: we reasserted our antifascist positions by judging Jürgen to be a Nazi collaborator. The irony of this story is that this intergenerational encounter did not transform our values or virtues. Instead, all three of us repressed precisely what made the Nazi era so disturbing: having to make ethical choices when none of the options seemed reasonable. I am an historian of everyday life now. For my part, however, I can also now see that I did not keep my polite silence with Jürgen just for the sake of recording a truthful account of the past. This authentic encounter with the past had revealed a panoply of ethical conundrums, and I hid my anxiety about them behind a disciplinary obsession with facticity. My ongoing research agenda uses anthropology, critical theory, cultural studies, philosophy and sociology to engage historical questions about how ordinary people negotiate everyday life in the violent context of modern German history.
Quotes
By Andrew Stuart Bergerson
“”Serious revolutionaries know that a new political, social, or economic order requires new manners. Establishing a dictatorship through a coup d¹etat is one matter, but there can be no totalitarian revolution without an equally essential change in ways of life. I use the term totalitarian not to emphasize similarities between fascism and communism, but to distinguish it from the more general category of dictators. I see a significant difference between a terror state based primarily on formal authority seized from above and one grounded also in informal dynamics for laying claim to power and status from below, such that coordinated processes in state and society affirm and enforce each other. This book tells the story of that everyday, cultural revolution: of the transformation of a civil society into a fascist-racist community imbued with the principles of national socialism.” — Andrew Stuart Bergerson in “Ordinary Germans in Extraordinary Times: the Nazi Revolution in Hildesheim”
About Andrew Stuart Bergerson
This work intends to serve as “both a classic history of the Nazi revolution” and “a cultural history of everyday life.” Focusing on the second of these goals in the narrow context of a single German town means that Bergerson’s “classic history” lacks any serious discussion of Hitler, the Nazi Party, or Germany’s politics, economy, or international relations. But if readers accept Hildesheim as remarkably characteristic of interwar Germany, and if 200 hours of taped interviews with 36 representative Hildesheimers provides sufficient evidence, the book has many interesting and provocative things to say about how the town both facilitated and experienced Nazism. Ordinary people’s desire for status and power, not just Berlin’s dictates, made it possible for German society to go fascist. To make this central point, Bergerson skillfully deploys the tools of historical anthropology, minutely dissecting sociability, civility, conviviality, and the many rituals of social intercourse to chart the sometimes subtle, sometimes dramatic, changes in the life of the town. Salutations, human and animal waste, uniforms, strolling, shopping, style of dress, flags, and insignias are mined for meaning. Whether Bergerson’s unorthodox methodology succeeds in answering the important questions pertaining to the Third Reich remains an open question. — R. S. Levy, University of Illinois at Chicago reviewing “Ordinary Germans in extraordinary times: the Nazi revolution in Hildesheim”
“A well crafted, historically accurate, behind the scenes look at life during the the rise of Nazi Germany. I felt it adressed a view that few talk about in this day and age. A thought provoking read!” — Reader review of “Ordinary Germans in extraordinary times: the Nazi revolution in Hildesheim”
“Bergerson is an amazingly good lecturer, a brilliant scholar, and a demanding instructor. Bergerson can show you the characteristics, consequences, and causes behind historical events, people, and movements–which takes your understanding to new depths.”…”Knows his stuff, makes you work, and passionate.”… “Dr. Bergerson is a terrific scholar and his document-based classes are incredibly revealing if you actually bother to read. He will help anyone who asks. By the way, he just got a book published; be assured, he WILL get tenure, and we’re lucky to have him.”…”generally a very good, interesting teacher and genuinely helpful.” — Anonymous Students
Posted on Sunday, July 9, 2006 at 7:11 PM
Winthrop D. Jordan passed away on February 23, 2007. Click here for his obituary.
HISTORY DOYENS
Edited by Bonnie K. Goodman
Winthrop D. Jordan, 7-3-06
Winthrop D. Jordan passed away on February 23, 2007. Click here for his obituary.
This HNN Doyen profile was published in the summer of 2006.
What They’re Famous For
Winthrop D. Jordan is the William F. Winter Professor of History F.A.P. Barnard Distinguished Professor Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Mississippi. He received his AB from Harvard University, his MA from Clark University, and his Ph.D. from Brown University where he was awarded the Distinguishing Alumnus citation from the Graduate School. Jordan was briefly an Instructor of history at Phillips Exeter Academy and later a Professor of history at University of California, Berkeley, 1963-82, where he was also Associate Dean for Minority Group Affairs Graduate Division., 1968-70. He is the author of several books, including the award winning and groundbreaking White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 and Tumult And Silence At Second Creek, he is also the co-author of several textbooks for junior high and high school students. Jordan is the recipient of seven book awards, including the National Book Award and a two time winner of the Bancroft Prize.
Jordan retired from teaching in 2004. To mark this event his former students edited and contributed essays as a tribute to the career of one of America’s great thinkers and perhaps the most influential American historian of his generation. The anthology was published in 2005 as Affect and Power: Essays on Sex, Slavery, Race, and Religion in Appreciation of Winthrop D. Jordan. In the introduction Sheila L. Skemp described Jordan’s impact on his students: “Jordan’s legendary seminar-an introduction to the discipline, a requirement for every M.A. student in the Department of History, and experience no student will easily forget… He teaches his students to have an open mind about just what those voices from the past are saying. No matter how relevant his own work is, Jordan never allows his own political or ethical agenda to interfere with his reading of the sources, and he urged his students to put their own preconceived notions aside as well. When their work led them in new directions and they arrived, often despite themselves, at unexpected conclusions, no one was more delighted than Jordan to discover that common wisdom is neither infallible nor particularly wise.”
Personal Anecdote
My distinguished medical career ended when as a college sophomore I got a D- in Chem 1A. I took no history courses in college. Partly this was owing to being a history professor’s son, but also because I had taken a great deal of history at the secondary school level. Yet the principal reason was that Harvard offered a much less demanding major in its new Department of Social Relations. That major offered an appealingly wide range of courses in the social sciences and, fully as important, a lot less work. I spent nearly as much time singing with the Harvard Krokodiloes as going to classes.
After graduating in Social Relations I spent nearly a year in a home-office management training program at the Prudential Life Insurance Company. After several months at their headquarters in Newark, I realized that my interests and abilities were less than a good fit with bureaucratic management. So I cast about for a job teaching something ? anything (perhaps English, Physics, French, or History) ? at a prep school. Serendipitously, it turned out that Phillips Exeter was looking for someone to teach history, and we agreed that I should start work on an M.A. in U.S. history at Clark University. Teaching the extremely bright students at Exeter led me toward getting a Ph.D. In a stroke of good fortune I was denied admission at Harvard and then chose Brown because I was admitted there. I gradually became aware of how lucky I was, as I became interested in early American history because of the marvelous books at the John Carter Brown Library. Also, perhaps because of my undergraduate acquaintance with cultural anthropology, I found dealing with the 16th-18th centuries interesting and intellectually profitable because their denizens lived in cultures so different from modern ones.
At that time (the latter 1950s) the field of history was still dominated by my fellow male “WASPS.” In the 1960s I enthusiastically welcomed signs of broadening in the profession and especially the slackening of the outrageous, falsely genteel anti-Semitism that had sapped the moral integrity of the old establishment.
Thus my undergraduate background meant that my approach to history was strongly influenced by the social sciences of the early 1950s. For my Ph.D. dissertation, I chose a subject that I thought of as a study of an old culture which was still imposing a crushing weight on the nation’s publicly stated political and moral ideals. More particularly, I aimed to understand the large component of emotion and indeed irrationality that characterized the attitudes of the white majority toward “Negroes” in this country. Certainly “ideas” mattered in such an investigation, but they were often so blatantly absurd (especially in the “Age of Reason”) that I was constantly led to pondering the cultural dimensions of affect concerning “race.” No doubt I was influenced by the developing civil rights movement of the late 1950s, though I steered clear of reading much about it in newspapers. More important, the revelations about the wartime Holocaust in Europe loomed over the social sciences in those years; indeed it was no longer possible to think about “racial prejudice” without being acutely aware of the horrifying consequences of politicized anti-Semitism. I thus came to history with intellectual interests and perspectives that virtually dictated the kinds of topics that would engage my attention throughout my historical career. In addition, my mother’s side of the family was still steeped in a Quaker and strongly abolitionist tradition. Less obviously, my exposure to the barbarous prose of the social sciences led to a determination on my part to write in language that at least attempted a measure of grace and clarity.
My dissertation dealt with a matter about which historians had written little. Even after Kenneth Stampp’s revolutionary study, The Peculiar Institution (1956) and the massive amount of research stimulated by Stanley Elkins’s assertions about “Sambo” in his Slavery (1959), white opinions about blacks took a back seat to “black culture,” which by the early 1970s was being called the “hottest field” in historical studies.
Many years after publication of White over Black (1968) I wrote more directly about certain black slaves as they became involved in a conspiracy near Natchez, Mississippi. Over this long period, however, I also published short pieces on “other” subjects that seemed to me closely related to racial attitudes in American culture. These topics included past definitions of the temporal stages of the human life-cycle as well as familial imagery in political thought. Yet there was indeed an intellectual glue that bound such explorations together with my further inquiries into important matters about race that White over Black had failed to cover, including the culture of Tudor England and development of the United States’s unique one-drop racial rule. If I had to name this glue, I would call it “affect.”
Because I had focussed on “thought” that was not intellective, I warmly welcomed a recent retrospective assessment of White over Black by Lawrence Shore in History and Theory which concluded that the book had shown that “if you ignore the evidence it is easy to deny the power of the irrational.” Indeed such persistent denial must be easy, since so many historians had and have been achieving it for years. Denial has recently spilled over into discussions of “race.” I hope soon to write about the modern social and scientific conceptualizations of “race,” which has proven such an appallingly dangerous term that many critics want to ban the word itself and to claim, mistakenly, that it is totally foreign to natural science including evolutionary biology. For present purposes I will merely emphasize that human beings constitute a single entity, whether it is called a single species, a breeding population, a gene pool, children of God, or the family of man. I personally find great value and aptness in all these designations. My doubts arise only in regard to the second term in the species name, Homo sapiens.
Quotes
By Winthrop D. Jordan
This study attempts to answer a simple question: What were the attitudes of white men toward Negroes during the first two centuries of European and African settlement in what became the United States of America? It has taken a rather long time to find out, chiefly because I have had to educate myself about many matters concerning which at the outset I was very ignorant. This book does something to answer the question, but I am aware that it affords only partial illumination. Like most practicing historians today, I have assumed the task of explaining how things actually were while at the same time thinking that no one will ever really know. Which is to say that this book is one man’s answer and that other men have and will advance others. I hope that mine is a reasonably satisfactory one, but I shall be enormously surprised— and greatly disappointed—if I am not shown to be wrong on some matters. — — Winthrop D. Jordan in “White Over Black American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812”
“The dilemma was apparent. Virginia’s distress was then America’s writ large. The white American wanted, indeed had, to remain faithful to himself and to his great experiment. In doing so he was caught between the necessity, on the one hand, of maintaining his identity as the fruit of England’s and Europe’s loins and as the good seed of civilization planted in the wilderness, and on the other, the necessity of remaining faithful to his own image as the world’s exemplar of liberty and equalitarianism, as the best hope of the civilization which he cherished. Whichever path he took he seemed to abandon part of himself, so that neither could be taken with assurance or good conscience. Individual Americans divided according to their private necessities, while at the same time the nation divided in response to pressures generated by economic, demographic, and cultural differences, but no American and no section of America could rest at ease with the decision. For Virginians especially, for many Americans, and for the nation as a whole it was impossible to make a clear cut choice.
Within every white American who stood confronted by the Negro, there had arisen a perpetual duel between his higher and lower natures. His cultural conscience–his Christianity, his humanitarianism, his ideology of liberty and equality–demanded that he regard and treat the Negro as his brother and his countryman, as his equal. At the same moment, however, many of his most profound urges, especially his yearning to maintain the identity of his folk, his passion for domination, his sheer avarice, and his sexual desire, impelled him toward conceiving and treating the Negro as inferior to himself, as an American leper. At closer view, though, the duel appears more complex than a conflict between the best and worst in the white man’s nature, for in a variety of ways the white man translated his “worst” into his “best.” Raw sexual aggression became retention of purity, and brutal domination became faithful maintenance of civilized restraints. These translations, so necessary to the white man’s peace of mind, were achieved at devastating cost to another people. But the enormous toll of human wreckage was by no means paid exclusively by the Negro, for the subtle translation of basic urges in the white man necessitated his treating the Negro in a fashion which tortured his own conscience, that very quality in his being which necessitated those translations. So the peace of mind the white man sought by denying his profound inexorable drives toward creation and destruction (a denial accomplished by affirmations of virtue in himself and depravity in the Negro) was denied the white man; he sought his own peace at the cost of others and found none. In fearfully hoping to escape the animal within himself the white man debased the Negro, surely, but at the same time he debased himself.
Conceivably there was a way out from the vicious cycle of degradation, an opening of better hope demanding an unprecedented and perhaps impossible measure of courage, honesty, and sheer nerve. If the white man turned to stare at the animal within him, if he once admitted unashamedly that the beast was there, he might see that the old foe was a friend as well, that his best and his worst derived from the same deep well of energy. If he once fully acknowledged the powerful forces which drove his being, the necessity of imputing them to others would drastically diminish. If he came to recognize what had happened and was still happening with himself and the African in America, if he faced the unpalatable realities of the tragedy unflinchingly, if he were willing to call the beast no more the Negro’s than his own, then conceivably he might set foot on a better road. Common charity and his special faith demanded that he make the attempt. But there was little in his historical experience to indicate that he would succeed. — Winthrop D. Jordan in “White Over Black American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812”
About Winthrop D. Jordan
“The author has put simple solutions and flashy theories aside and brought to his task a patience, skepticism, thoroughness, and humility commensurate with the vast undertaking. He combines these qualities with imagination and insight. The result is a massive and learned work that stands as the most informed and impressive pronouncement on the subject yet made.” — C. Vann Woodward, New York Times Book Review reviewing “White Over Black American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812”
“A monumental work of scholarship, brilliant in conception and execution, humane, convincing, informed by warmth and wit, illuminating reading for all those concerned with America’s tragedy. . . . As an historian with keen psychological insights into his material, Winthrop Jordan is uniquely qualified to illuminate America’s anguished dilemma.” — Publishers Weekly reviewing “White Over Black American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812”
“White Over Black will stand as a landmark in the historiography of this generation. Its richness and insight, its sensitive, penetrating analysis of the unspoken as well as the explicit, its union of breadth with depth, make it a brilliant achievement.” — Richard D. Brown, New England Quarterly
“[A] rare thing: an original contribution to an important subject. In helping us understand today’s racial crisis, Jordan has ideally fulfilled the historian’s function of investigating the past in order to enlighten the present.” — The judges for the 1969 National Book Award for History and Biography
“This monumental study is a tremendously important block, fascinating and appalling, of American social and cultural history. . . . Though the study was begun years before the current civil rights agitation, it is quite indispensable for a full appreciation of the realities and wellsprings and the dilemmas of the contemporary struggle.” — The Phi Beta Kappa Senate award committee for the 1968 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
“One of the most remarkable feats of detective work achieved by a modern historian.” — David Brion Davis, New York Review of Books reviewing “Tumult and Silence at Second Creek An Inquiry Into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy”
“This work represents the reconstruction of history at its very best.” — John Hope Franklin reviewing “Tumult and Silence at Second Creek An Inquiry Into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy”
“ This book, Winthrop D. Jordan tells us in his opening sentence, “is a story, but at the same time it is not.” With this paradox, Mr. Jordan characterizes the outcome of more than 20 years of investigation into events that occurred nearly a century and a half ago. “Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry Into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy” is at once an effort to capture the experience of black and white Mississippians confronting the implications of the Civil War for Southern slavery and also — and perhaps even more fundamentally — an exploration into the nature of historical inquiry and interpretation.
Mr. Jordan, a professor of history and Afro-American studies at the University of Mississippi, has written a work of historical scholarship that leaves its scaffolding standing and visible, a study in which the process of discovery is at least as important as the result. He not only invites the engaged reader to participate in the struggle to understand the past, but he also includes almost all the available evidence in appendixes. — Drew Gilpin Faust reviewing “Tumult and Silence at Second Creek An Inquiry Into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy”
“What Jordan brings forth, in more subtlety and detail than space allows to examine here, is the complexity of slave life, of contradictions and ambiguities-both black and white-overloyalty and betrayal, trust and violence, sex and domination, freedom and bondage, oppression and resistance, paternalism and independence, and life and death in the slave South.
This is both a fascinating and fustrating study, fasvcinating for what Jordan is able to wring out of a small handful of skimpy documents, and fustrating for what he is unable to explain because history would surrender nothing further, even to his skilled hands.” — C. Peter Ripley, Florida State University reviewing “Tumult and Silence at Second Creek An Inquiry Into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy”
“I think it is so good for us to go back. The issue of slavery is such an enduring topic. Dr. Jordan is a premier historian in the United States. His book ‘White Over Black’ is a model for other historians.” — David Sansing, professor emeritus of history University of Mississippi at the Porter L. Fortune, Jr. History Symposium in 2000
“At the annual meeting of the Organization of American historians, in the Spring of 1998, an overflow crowd gathered to honor the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Winthrop Jordan’s magisterial work, White Over Black. Many of us old folks remembered where we were when the book first appeared, as we marveled at the impact it made on the profession then-an impact that continues to have reverberations even today. Young scholars joined the conversation, acknowledging that their comprehensive exam lists invariably include White Over Black as a “must read.” Audience members and panelists alike commented on the book’s merits and their memories of reading it in graduate seminars or undergraduate courses. The panel continued in an appropriately academic fashion, until a young woman stood up and asked to be heard. She was from the Carribean island of Dominica, and had first encountered White Over Black as a young woman. The book, she said simply changed her life. It was the first thing she had ever read that enabled her to understand herself, who she was. and what her relationship to the rest of the world was all about. The book, moreover, moved her to become a historian, so that she too, could join a community that asked the right questions and, at least on occassion, arrived at the right answers. Most historians would give anything to know that just once their work has had a profound-and positive- effect on someone’s life. Winthrop Jordan experiences that sense of satisfaction more often than most of us.” — Sheila L. Skemp in the introduction for “Affect and Power: Essays on Sex, Slavery, Race, and Religion in Appreciation of Winthrop D. Jordan”
Finally Winthrop Jordan set me off in the right direction as I began this essay as a chapter of my dissertation. His guidance, criticism, and inspiration call for a special debt of gratitude.” — David J. Libby in “Affect and Power: Essays on Sex, Slavery, Race, and Religion in Appreciation of Winthrop D. Jordan”
Basic Facts
Teaching Positions:
Brown University, Providence, RI, lecturer in history, 1959-61; College of William and Mary, Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VA, fellow, 1961-63; University of California, Berkeley, assistant professor, 1963-67, associate professor, 1967-69, professor of history, 1969-1982. William F. Winter Professor of History F.A.P. Barnard Distinguished Professor Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Mississippi, 1982-2004.
Area of Research:
Afro-American History, Early American History.
Education:
Harvard University, A.B., 1953;
Clark University, M.A., 1957;
Brown University, Ph.D., 1960
Major Publications:
White over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812, (University of North Carolina Press, for Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1968).
The White Man’s Burden, (Oxford University Press, 1974).
Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry Into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy, (Louisiana State University Press, 1993).
Editor, Contributor, Joint Author:
(Editor) Samuel Stanhope Smith, An Essay on the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human Species, Harvard University Press, 1965.
(With Miriam Greenblatt and John S. Bowes) The Americans, the History of a People and a Nation, (Science Research Associates, 1982).
(With others) The United States, (Prentice Hall, 1982).
(With Ernest R. May, James F. Marran, John S. Bowes, Miriam Greenblatt and others) The American People: A History from 1877, (McDougal, 1986).
(With Ernest R. May) The American People: A History to 1877, (McDougal, 1986).
(Editor with Sheila L. Skemp) Race and Family in the Colonial South: Essays, (University Press of Mississippi, 1987).
(With Greenblatt and Bowes) The Americans: A History, (McDougal, 1994).
(Editor) Slavery and the American South : essays and commentaries, (University Press of Mississippi, 2003).
Jordan has also contributed numerous articles and book review to professional journals
Awards:
Jordan’s many awards include fellowships from the Institute of Early American History and Culture, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Social Science Research Council and the Center for the Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences, as well as a Distinguished Alumnus Citation from Brown University’s Graduate School.
1968, Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize, Society of American Historians;
1969, Winner of the National Book Award;
1969, Winner of the Bancroft Prize, Columbia University;
1968, Winner of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, Phi Beta Kappa all for White Over Black American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812
1993, Winner of the Bancroft Prize;
1993, the Eugene M. Kayden National University Press Book Award;
1992 the Jules and Frances Landry Award all for Tumult and Silence at Second Creek An Inquiry Into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy.
1976, Fellowship Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS).
Additional Info:
Jordan worked at Prudential Life Insurance Co., Newark, NY, as a management trainee, 1953-54; and then at Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH, as an instructor in history, 1955-56.
Jordan has been widely reported in the press and has made several appearances on C-Span regarding the debate to whether Thomas Jefferson did in fact father his slave Sally Hemmings’s children, based on his claim in White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 (1968) that “She bore five, from 1795 to 1808; and though he was away from Monticello a total of roughly two-thirds of this period, Jefferson was at home nine months prior to each birth.”
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When I did not meet Dorothea Holloway at this year's ecumenical reception of the churches in Berlin, I was worried. Rightly, as it turned out soon. Shortly before the opening of the Berlinale, which she used to visit as long as I remember, the actress Dorothea Holloway, born in Weissenfels on the Saale and performing under her maiden name Moritz, died on February 3, in her 85th year of age.
In 1954 she graduated with a diploma at the State Drama School of Hamburg. Abigail in Arthur Miller’s "Hexenjagd" was her first unforgettable role, the drama being transferred to a radio play under the direction of Fritz Schröder-Jahn. Various theatre engagements in Hof, Augsburg, Bonn, Düsseldorf, Bochum, Hamburg, Berlin und Stuttgart among others followed, whereby she occasionally worked with such well-known directors as Fritz Kortner, Hans Schweikart, Gustaf Gründgens and Percy Adlon.
In addition to her participation in television productions (Stahlnetz, 1959-1963; Polizeifunk ruft, 1968; Hamburg Transit, 1972-1974; Tatort, 1975-2001), since the 1970s she regularly played in feature films, namely in films by Niklaus Schilling, Andrzej Wajda, Dieter Köster and Ulrike Ottinger among others. One of the unforgettable roles that she particularly liked to remember was that of the mother in the prize-winning film "Höhenfeuer" from 1985 by Swiss director Fredi Murer, which in Locarno not only got the Golden Leopard, but also the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and the Youth Jury. It received worldwide attention under the title "Alpine Fire" (see "Kino German-Film" No 20/1985).
Parallel to her acting, she became involved in the German-Polish reconciliation in the early 1970s, worked as a journalist and film critic, paying particular attention to Eastern European cinema. At the Film Festival Karlovy Vary she met the Catholic theologian and film journalist Ron Holloway from Chicago, who had graduated at the Protestant Faculty at the University of Hamburg with a fundamental thesis on "Beyond the image. Approaches to the Religious Dimension in the Cinema ".
When Wolf Donner, then the director of the Berlinale, appointed Ron Holloway to the selection commission with the focus "Russia" he and Dorothea moved to Berlin in 1976. Dorothea became member of the Children's Film Festival's selection committee, which she belonged to for 19 years. Ron began writing as a correspondent to various film industry publications, including the Hollywood Reporter, Variety, and the Herald Tribune, and became an intermediary for the young German film in North America. Together, they launched the English publication "Kino German Film" (www.kino-germanfilm.de) in 1977 with the aim of providing a platform for the German film in the English language and culture.
Without any public support they produced one edition after the other distributing them at the festivals in Berlin and Cannes, and even after the death of Ron in 2009, Dorothea continued tirelessly, supported by her nephew Gregor Sedlag, and also by Martin Blaney. Number 107, appearing at the Berlinale 2015, was the last printed edition. Instead of concentrating on the print product, which was now difficult to distribute, she began to publish up to three weekly blogposts on kino-germanfilm.de, thus by the end of 2015 possibly getting the most eager individual voice for German film on the web, as her nephew Gregor Sedlag emphasizes. After all, her and Ron's commitment was honoured with a number of tributes. After Ron Holloway was awarded by the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1999, the American Foundation honoured Ron and Dorothea with the award of the "Freedom Award" for "opening our eyes to the East." In 2004 they became honorary members of INTERFILM, and in 2007 Dieter Kosslick handed over to them the Berlinale Camera.
Dorothea Holloway (together with Ron) took part in the history of INTERFILM as member of its juries, as well as of ecumenical juries. Of course she has, also been called to other, partly official festival juries. She was not only in Cannes and in Berlin, or in Mannheim and Leipzig, in the ecumenical jury. At the Film Festival Max Ophuels Prize Saarbrücken, dedicated to young German-speaking filmmakers, she was a co-founder of the INTERFILM jury, which was set up in 1985, in collaboration with the former director of the festival, Albrecht Stuby, and was a member of this jury for many years. Because support and promotion of young talents was a matter close to her and Ron’s heart. In Saarbrücken 1989, I first met her personally as a jury member.
She remained an actress to the last. Since 1998, she regularly carried through readings in urban and rural cultural houses and churches, and especially in the Berlin Cathedral, whereupon she was particularly proud of. Now she rests next to her Ron in the cemetery of the Evangelical Church Community of St. John in Alt-Moabit Berlin. | |||||||
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Everding actually discovered musical theatre relatively late in his working life, an experience which led him from Hochhut and Brecht to Wagner and Mozart. The middle period of his career was dominated by his love for opera, with productions in Beirut and at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. He also took the directorship of the Hamburg Staatsoper in 1973, a post which he left in 1977 to return to Munich.
His term at the helm of the Munich Opera House was overshadowed by a running feud with the musical director of the house, Wolfgang Sawallisch, who, Everding felt, had rather less respect for singers and directors than he did himself.
In 1980, Everding became Generalintendant of Munich, a post which was invented for him, in recognition of his outstanding ability.This promotion gave him sway over all of Munich's theatres.
Despite the considerable demands of this position, Everding still found time for an endless list of other local projects, including membership of innumerable committees, funding, restoring and reopening the Munich Prinzregententheater, founding a theatre academy and a museum of theatre. He produced plays and opera all over the world, including Verdi's I Due Foscari in Covent Garden in 1995. While his critics tended to see him as the archetypal Figaro in Rossini's opera Barber of Seville, a Jack-of-all-trades seemingly everywhere at the same time, nobody could deny his immense energy and his effectiveness.
A Westphalian by birth and educated at the universities of Bonn and Munich, he read philosophy, theology, German literature and theatre studies before becoming an assistant to Fritz Kortner and Hans Schweikart in Munich. That was the beginning of his own rapid rise, through the ranks of the Munich Kammerspiele, of which he became Intendant (general director) at 34.
A typical day in the life of this untiring creature and creator could include a broadcast discussion, rehearsal, student party, session at the theatre academy, and attending an evening performance while dictating letters and giving interviews.
He drew much of his phenomenal energy from his devout Catholic faith, which he never chose to publicise, but which also helped him feel at home in Catholic Bavaria; this southern German state was an ideal environment for his baroque personality, which combined his passion for theatre with a good deal of vanity and shrewdness.
As a director, Everding always felt underestimated and unkindly dealt with by reviewers. His unique strength was, in fact, less in directing than in lending his electrifying personality to the theatre. As such, he proved a catalyst of numerous projects which would have been impossible without him.
He leaves a wife, Gustava, and four sons. | |||||
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I'm looking for any Bill of sale for enslaved Africans in Orangeburg County South Carolina/Barnwell County South Carolina owned by Andrew Govan, Daniel Govan, Nash Roach, William Gilmore Simms, Rachel Rowe Govan (Hill), Elizabeth Anna Govan Roach, Louisa Robinson Govan (Chelvittle) Andrew Robinson Govan and William Fitzpatrick Sr., owner of Bell Plantation in the Congaree River and a 10,000 acres plantation on Sandy Run Calhoun County South Carolina. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Best regards, Ahmed Franklin
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Moderated Gideon Jennings and Ann Cox 19
The lists of residents of Spanish East Florida don't include a John Cox, but there was a Charles present when the English flag was exchanged for the Spanish one in 1784. Carlos Cox was a ship's carpenter, born in England. He had a wife and 2 children, and chose to leave East Florida. The records don't say where he went. A Charles Cox, possibly the same one, got a 250-acre grant in 1774 on Turkey Creek of the Salkehatchie River (in the Barnwell end of Orangeburgh District). He was not listed in the military records on either side. There's an undated petition to the SC House of Representatives related to the question. If you search the SCDAH index site for <Jennings, Artimas> (spelled that way), it will be the only hit. The year was 1820, since the committee response to the petition is dated 13 Dec 1820. The online document was hard for me to read, but I could see that the title/description was misleading. The petition was submitted by John Cox, William Sumter, Artimas Jennings, James E. Bowdoin and Eliza [Jennings] his wife, Warren Jennings, Mary Jennings, Franklin Jennings and Derril Jennings. Their brother, Charles Cox, had recently died intestate. (He's the one buried in 1819 near Gideon and Ann Jennings.) Charles Cox was a natural child of Mrs. Ann Jennings, "late of the District of Orangeburgh and now deceased" The law said that property of an illegitimate child escheated to the state, and did not go to his siblings or half-siblings in the absence of a will. The petitioners asked that they be permitted to inherit the "Small Real and Personal estate" of their brother Charles Cox. The legislative response is indexed at SCDAH, but has no online image There is a fair chance that the maiden name of Ann (wife of Gideon Jennings) was Cox, rather than Bonsall or Brown. If the latter alternatives first appeared in the mid-20th century, it was a time when nobody would have wanted to look at documents filed under "Bastardy; Escheats". The family story about the Englishman who drowned near St. Augustine might possibly refer to Ann's father, rather than to a first husband. Harriet Imrey On 5/31/24 2:11 PM, spcox628 via groups.io wrote:
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Moderated Old Federal and Westward Migration
I gave an Oktoberfest presentation in 2014 on the Old Federal roads of Alabama and Georgia. A link to the presentation (a recorded audio slide show) is listed here, https://ogsgs.org/oktbrfest/media/2014/ses04.htm. If the link doesn't work, go to the OGSGS webpage, then Oktoberfest, then 2014 and look for the presentation with my name Larry Holman. Hope you enjoy. Larry Holman On Wednesday, June 5, 2024 at 12:09:49 PM CDT, Harriet Imrey <hhimrey@...> wrote: One account of the trip made it into a newspaper in 1986. Google the term <"Moving West to Mississippi Took Time and Patience in 1819"> to find several versions. The people who saved it were neighbors of mine in the 1950's. My sister-in-law was a reporter at the Clarion Ledger (Jackson MS) when it was published, but it wasn't her story. Harriet On 6/5/24 10:32 AM, Steve Jennings via groups.io wrote: Robert, Yes, you would think that some first-hand accounts of the migration(s) would still exist. Many people likely travelled from South Carolina to Mississippi via the "Old Federal Road". In Alabama the road (originally just a path) extended from western Georgia west-southwest across southern Alabama to old Fort Stoddert just west of the Alabama-Mobile-Tensaw Rivers system. Believe me, that river swamp is a major obstacle (I spent a couple of weeks in the middle of that mess as a young geologist "sitting" a deep oil exploration well back in the 70's). If you have a chance cross it someday on I-65. The road basically connected higher ground east of the river system around old Fort Mims in Baldwin County, AL to Fort Stoddert (current Mount Vernon, Alabama area) in Mobile County. It had to have been a perilous and exhausting journey. In Alabama, Auburn University is researching the route of the old road. From Fort Stoddert the road went approximately due west into Greene County, MS (some of that area I think later became part of Perry County, MS ?). There are some very generalized maps of the old road system in Alabama and Mississippi. I am unaware of what the extent of the roads were across Georgia and South Carolina. I don't know the exact dates of when the Jennings, Cox, Funchess, family members and others left Orangeburg, but I do know that my direct line ancestor, Franklin Henry Dana Jennings, was still a boy in the early 1820's, his father, Gideon Jennings having passed away in 1814 and his mother Ann the following year (she was only about 46 at her death, if memory serves). The Mississippi Territory (Alabama + Mississippi) was frontier land. Unfortunately, not enough people care about their family history (or any history for that matter) to hold on to accounts, Bibles, etc. I have personally found family Bibles to be treasure troves, sometimes contradicting misinformation that gets into census records and now considered "fact". Steve Jennings On Wednesday, June 5, 2024 at 09:08:53 AM CDT, Robert Abney via groups.io <rhabney@...> wrote: Stephen, It seems so many families from the Orangeburg District traveled to the Perry County area of Mississippi before spreading out into other counties (and Texas) as mine did surely some family has a diary or some written history on this migration, their route and other details. Please keep us posted if you uncover anything. Robert Abney
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Hi all, I'm new to this group which I just discovered yesterday. I have researching the Jennings family for a number of years. I'm especially interested in Gideon "Zanini" Jennings (I am a direct descendant) and wife Ursula Wolf(f,e) - who was he? where did he come from? etc. I have some information that may be interest, mainly via my Y-DNA data that has led to me to a rather different idea about the origins of the old "Italian liver" than what I have seen published and discussed. I first want to ask, however, if this has already been resolved (?). I have been looking at the archived messages; apparently his origins are still in question as of about 5 years ago. I am descended through the Mississippi Jennings (mainly Kosciusko, MS). I will be glad to share my information, but wanted to ask if there is a consensus based on data (DNA, family bibles, etc). Thank you. Stephen P. Jennings.
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Moderated Isler, Izlar, Easler 5
The Jacob Isler who lived in Orangeburgh has been correctly identified, by Cary Allen, as the one baptized in parish Guttannen, Bern, on 10 Jan 1739, son of Barbara Horger. His father, Heinrich Isler, remained in parish Uster, Zürich, having tried to disclaim paternity. Barbara brought son Jacob with her to Orangeburgh in 1742, on Peter Huber's return trip. In the past, a number of different Isler/Easler family members developed a theory for their immigrant ancestor(s) involving a 1734 emigration, death of both parents on the ship St. Andrew, and other details about the family of a Jacob Isler, shoemaker of Wildberg in Zürich. (The Jacob Isler who left there in 1734 was a tailor.) Part of the story involved a second hypothetical son for Jacob Isler and Zibilla Wolf, a boy named Tobias. Their identified son, Jacob (Jr.), b. ~1767, left a large Izlar family in Orangeburg Co SC. Tobias Easler of Fairfield/Kershaw Co was attached as a son on the basis of no other likely Isler candidates in SC. However, the lack of candidates applied only for researchers who know how to spell. The documents of colonial South Carolina are not user-friendly for good spellers. Tobias Easler certainly appears to have been born in the Dutch Fork in ~1755 to a father named Hans/John. At the time of Tobias's birth, Jacob Isler (Sr.) was an unmarried teenager in Orangeburgh Township. *2 Jan 1753. John Ischelin arrived on the ship Upton, Capt. Alex'r Gardener, with his wife and a daughter Maria Barbara, aged about 3. He was indentured to Daniel Horry, but now discharged; he petitioned for 150 acres plus the Bounty of Provision. The next petition was from John Nagel, also from the ship Upton and indentured to Horry, who had a wife and a daughter Margaretha about 10. Petitions in the following month included future neighbors Jacob Haltiwanger (on the ship Elizabeth, with a wife and 2 children, including daughter Angelica age 8) and John Swygert (also on the ship Elizabeth, with a wife and 3 children, including son John George age 9). *17 Jun 1753. Deputy Surveyor John Pearson laid out the plat of 150 acres for John Ischolin (indexed as "Ischolm" at SCDAH). It was on the southwest bank of the Broad River, with the mouth of Wateree Creek at its northern corner. The land of John Nagel (shipmate and apparent friend) adjoined the tract on its southeast. The grant was issued on 4 Jul 1743 (indexed as "Ischolm"). The location was in Lexington Co SC at its formation, in a part later annexed by Richland Co. It is across the Broad River from Fairfield Co, not far above the mouth of the Little River. *25 Mar 1773. The ownership of the John Ischelin grant had changed by 1773, when a plat of 100 acres for "Angell Waldawanger" was laid out to its southwest. Angelica Halldenwanger (b. 26 Nov 1799 in Söhnstetten, Württemberg) had married Hans Georg Schweikart (b. 13 May 1742), but her maiden name was the one under which she qualified for a Bounty grant. The land between Angell and the Broad River was identified as "Tobias Eisla's Land". No sale had taken place, so Tobias Eisla/Eisler was apparently the oldest son and heir of John Ischelin. He was born after Ischelin arrived in America, but probably not long afterwards. In the 1830 census of Fairfield Co SC (also enumerated in Kershaw Co), he reported his age as 70<80; therefore, he was born between 1753 (year of father's land petition) and 1760 (latest birth year in which he could reach age 70 by 1830). A man had to be age 21 in order to purchase land, but could acquire the title via inheritance at a younger age. *25 Oct - 24 Dec 1781. Muster of company of Lt. Col. Alexander Innes, SC Royalists, at Quarter House SC. Private #7 is Tobias Ishley. Serjeant George Swigart (neighbor at Wateree Creek) of the same company, but a prisoner of the rebels. Roughly half of the original complement of the South Carolina Royalists in 1778-79 were German-speaking residents of the Dutch Fork and Saxegotha. *25 Apr - 24 Jun 1782. Muster of company of Capt. Charles Stewart Lindsay, SC Royalists, at James Island SC. Private #38 is Tobias
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Moderated Felder villages in Switzerland 2
Hello, I am interested in learning more about the villages the Felders came from before coming to SC - Wattwil & Kappel, Switzerland, if my notes are correct. It seems in the past that several people mentioned having actually been there and I would appreciate hearing from you to learn more about your visit. Hans Heinrich Felder was my 6th great-grandfather. Thank you for contacting me. Linda Newman lnewman@...
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Moderated w, p. shuler 5
I am looking for information on my great grandfather Wadford Presley Shuler (Wad - according to his tombstone). He was born july 4 1850 orangeburg district South Carolina. Died in Oklahoma 1913. I cannpt find anything so any information would be helpful Thanks Carolyn
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Moderated Margaret Waters' Book and Joel H. Hutto's Book now available to pre-order
Hello All The PRESALE order links are now available from the Orangeburg County Historical Society. The books are expected by the end of October, but definitely before the holidays. Also, if you have a favorite library to do genealogy research, you might want to buy an extra copy for them. However, if you do donate a book to a library, please let us know which one so that we are aware which libraries will already have one. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The first link below is Margaret Waters' book: Biographical Sketches from Orangeburgh District, SC, Vol 1 - 1733-1736 (Margaret Waters) Hardcover - PRESALE $30.00 The first in a series of volumes reconstructing the lives of inhabitants of Orangeburgh District, South Carolina. In Volume 1, the author has rendered a fact-based narrative of the lives of 139 individuals involved with Orangeburgh Township between 1733 and 1736, including 47 females identified by their maiden names. Most of these were immigrants, the first sizeable group of settlers to obtain land in Orangeburgh Township. The author has used land records, church records, wills, court cases, and other original source documents to recreate the lives and the early development of Orangeburgh. You will find narratives of the successes and failures of our immigrant ancestors, along with provocative and fascinating stories, all carefully documented with footnotes, sources, and references. This first volume includes these surnames with living descendants today: Baltzegar, Bowman, Culler, Dettweiler, Dietrick, Eisenhut, Faust, Felder, Giegelman, Hesse, Horger, Huber/Hoover, Hutto, Inabinet, Kreuter/Crider, Larey, Linder, Moorer, Ott, Pfund/Pound, Rickenbacker, Robinson, Roth, Rumph, Salley, Snell, Staley, Stroman, Zorn and others. Biographical Sketches - Volume 1 - Hardcover - Presale. https://square.link/u/D4lIBfQT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The second link is my book: European Origins of the Hutto Family Of Colonial South Carolina (Joel H. Hutto) Hardcover - PRESALE $35.00 If you’ve always thought the Hutto family were originally German-Swiss or German immigrants, you must read this book. The author details the origins of a few families who came to Orangeburgh Township in 1735 from the Duchy of Palatine-Zweibrücken. Using original parish records and other primary documents, he proves their true origins and resolves long-standing questions. Focusing on the Hutto family and their close relatives, the Snell and Wern (Utsey-Conrad) families, the author follows the family lines of Isaac and Maria Catharina Hutto back to the 1600s. Other early Orangeburg immigrant families discussed in detail include Gelzer, Huber, Jaggi/Jacque, Kreuter/Crider, Kummeter, Linder, Letcher, Reber, Seebach, Wern (Utsey-Conrad), Fritchman, Schaumloffel, Shuler, Wannamaker, and Yonn. European Origins of Hutto - Hardcover - Presale. https://square.link/u/aTOFzIeh -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Regards Margaret and Joel Virus-free.www.avast.com
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Moderated Geiger, Westbury, Holman, Johnson 2
These are the families that are of interest to me. I love reading about everyone else. It is very interesting to me. IF there was a Land Grant to the Westbury family, how would I find it? My aunt Mozelle Westbury Hutto talked about it a lot...when I was not interested in such things. Mary Sue Geiger
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Moderated Gates/Gatz/Goetz, etc. 2
Wow, this is exciting to know about this German genealogy site. I wish I could find my Gates/Gatz/Goetz, etc. in Baden-Württemberg on this site Ahnenforschung.Net. Harriett do you speak German or know of someone who does? You have always been so knowledgeable of the German people who came to the Orangeburg area of SC, and thank you for sharing your knowledge and information with researchers. Davine Roberts Jacksonville, FL On Tuesday, September 5, 2023 at 07:31:02 PM EDT, Harriet Imrey <hhimrey@...> wrote: If Margaret Zimmerman is Andrew Wirosdick's second wife, then her dates need to be amended. Andrew Wirosdick (bp 10 Jun 1751) married Elizabeth Syfrett (daughter of Alexander) on 24 Mar 1771 at St. John's Lutheran in Charlestown. By the 1800 census, he was a widower with a small boy (John, b. 1794<1800). Between 1800 and 1810, he had 3 more sons by another wife. In 1810, her census age group was 26<45 (born 1765<85); in 1820, she was still in the 26<45 age group (born 1775<95). So Margaret Zimmerman, if the name is correctly reported, was born between 1775 and 1785. That's young enough to have the 3 Wirosdick boys. A woman born in 1757 would be extremely unlikely to have any children if she married in 1800 at age 43. Nearly all colonial women aged 40+ were postmenopausal. The Zimmermans of Orangeburg relocated there starting in 1764, having settled first in 1752 on a branch of Cannon's Creek of the Broad River, in what would become Newberry Co SC. The branch kept the name "Zimmerman's Branch" through the early 19th century--it was spelled "Timmerman's" on the 1825 Mills Atlas. The OGSGS First Families page covers some early members of this Zimmerman family, starting with immigrant brothers Martin and Michael. They lived in St. Matthew's Parish (current Calhoun Co, near the line with Orangeburg). The 1800 census entries for St. Matthew's were not preserved, so there's no way to see which Zimmerman household included a woman of the right age to marry Andrew Wirosdick a few years later. In 1790, there were 5 Zimmerman households listed for Orangeburg. Those were widow Margaret (possibly wife of Michael, b. 1725--he died between Jan 1783 and Feb 1786, per A.A. 8887), John (b. ~1742), Boston (Sebastian, b. 1749), Henry (b. 1755<65, oldest son of Michael), and Adam (b. 1765<75). Each of those households included an unmarried female who might possibly have married Andrew Wirosdick after 1800. A German-language genealogy forum, Ahnenforschung.Net Forum, recently added information about the origin of the Orangeburg Zimmermans--search on <Zimmermann auf Walldorf>. Ernst Jost Zimmermann and Anna Eva Bader had 10 children in the village of Reilingen, Heidelberg District, Baden. Those included Johann Martin (born 10 Sep 1706) and Johann Michael (born 17 Jul 1725). Joh. Martin Zimmermann married Anna Catharina MNU and moved to the adjacent village of Walldorf, parish Wiesloch (Lutheran). They had a daughter Eva Elisabetha (26 Feb 1732), another child (Dec 1734, not named), another Eva Elisabetha (24 Jan 1746 - 29 Jul 1748), and Sebastian (30 Jun 1749 - Jun 1799 in St. Matthew's SC). The baptism of son Johannes (b. ~1742) was not recorded in the extant Walldorf records. Martin Zimmermann of Walldorf and Michael Zimmermann of Reilingen both got permission to emigrate in 1752. The First Families history takes it from their arrival on the ship Cunliffe. The family may possibly have kept in touch with a cousin who became famous. Joh. Heinrich Zimmermann, b. 25 Dec 1741 in Walldorf to Joh. Heinrich and Anna Maria Zimmermann, left for England where he joined Captain Cook's third expedition and published its history. The account was very widely read. Tiny Walldorf had a second internationally-known resident: John Jacob Astor was born there on 17 Jul 1763. Walldorf and Reilingen are each ~20 km north of Bruchsal, also in the Heidelberg District. The Wirosdicks lived in Bruchsal, a day's walk from the Zimmermanns back in Baden. They probably didn't know one another, since the Zimmermanns were Lutheran and the Wirosdicks were Catholic. They'd
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Moderated How to spell Zimmermann 5
The Zimmermann spelling wasn't consistent throughout the province. We don't know how many people may have anglicized it to Carpenter on arrival (as Abraham Kauffman of Newberry became Chapman). The Zimmermanns who arrived in 1765 with other settlers of Hardlabour Creek in Edgefield used the sharper "Tz" pronunciation of the initial consonant, and became Timmermans, which they still are. Except for the occasional 18th-century spelling as "Timberman". This makes perfectly good sense, since timber is what wood becomes by the time it reaches the carpenter. The initial letter <T> also looked a great deal like an <L>, so there's the occasional reading as Limberman or Lumberman. Lumber, timber, carpenter, whatever... However, Johannes Lumberland of Lexington Co was not a Zimmermann--he was a Kommerlander/Comalander, etc. The spelling, transcription and indexing variants can get frustrating, but there's no reason not to enjoy them whenever we can. Did Michael Bedenbach ever find out that his land petition was written as "Pitebog"? Or Ulrich Brunner of Orangeburgh, hiding under a grant to Willrick Prun? Harriet On 9/2/23 11:45 AM, darrel@... wrote: Thanks, Lynn. Wyrosdick is spelled different ways: Werostick, Vyrostick, Wirosdick, Rostig to name a few. Zimmerman spelling seems more consistant. I appreciate your insight. Darrel Bush Ealum On 09/01/2023 4:47 PM EDT Lynn Teague <teaguelynn@...> wrote: You are right about Orangeburg ancestry for these three families.
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Moderated Wyrosdick (Rostick/Rosdick), Sojourner, Ealum (Elam), Gorum (Gorham), and others 4
Hi Darrel I am really sorry I cannot help you on the names. I am really not familiar with most of these. I knew there were Truitts in Henry County AL among my Windham ancestors, and a Castleberry was in Wilkes County, GA, but as for any of these names in Old Orangeburgh Township/District, I do not recognize any of these. There is a South Carolina Genealogy Network Facebook group that might be of help to you. Regards Joel On 9/1/2023 11:36 AM, darrel@... wrote:
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Moderated Oktoberfest 2023 - October 7 - Family Life Center 4
Hello All Registration is Live! Octoberfest 2023 will be held on Saturday, October 7, 2023 at the First Baptist Church Family Life Center. It will be an in-person, live event, so don't miss it! Please try to register by September 15, 2023 so we have a count of how many participants to expect. https://ogsgs.org/store/index4.htm Here is an article from the The Times and Democrat about it... https://thetandd.com/news/local/ogsgs-oktoberfest-set-for-oct-6-7/article_6f989dea-4044-11ee-810f-8b1bbeda19f0.html?mode=comments&fbclid=IwAR11m9oE2rh4g771_-ah_K8e_cIzVb0GqYaO3dN4l0PKMh0gd3bkCRSBrZg The story was even picked up by a news station in Pocatello Idaho. https://www.kpvi.com/news/national_news/ogsgs-oktoberfest-set-for-oct-6-7/article_5743d818-fe6d-5224-b7b2-d216270a2edb.html?fbclid=IwAR0a3VwZg4lzdhkBQrwLCf5CPWpbA71mGhJpYXiyr2l5ITh9PT9SmEj96dA All My Best Joel Virus-free.www.avast.com
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Moderated Sinne or Sinne - NOW Satira Carson of Orangeburg 2
Donnie One of the interesting things about the 1870 census is the location of family 10: Satira age 50 wife of James Pou age 55, next to family 11 Philip Carson age 27 (Satira's son according to his death certificate). However Philip's death Certificate states he was born in 1841. Also next to Philip is Rachel U(rsula Fanning) Carson who is age 55 and she is the widow of James Peter Carson who died in VA in the civil war in 1863 according to some trees. Now if you look at the 1850 Slave Schedule for Orangeburg SC for J. Carson (indexed as I Carson), he has 2 enslaved persons, a female aged 27 and a male aged 9. This could be Satira and her son Philip. In 1860 James P. Carson is listed with a female aged 38 (could be Satira) and 2 females 15 and 13 (the male is no longer here), However, 3 listings away is a Wm G. W. Pou who has 16 enslaved persons. It's definitely something worth looking into these families for possible ties. I hope this is helpful Joel On 8/31/2023 7:24 AM, Diaspora DNA wrote: Thank you Joel, I'll follow the Carson records you mentioned and Isaac Senn's Freedman's contract record with Dantzler. I do believe 1855 and 1841 P.W. Carson, who is listed as the son of Isaac Sinne and Sotara Pou is the branch I'm searching for. Sotara Pou, Satira Carson and Satyra I believe are the same person. Sinne, Senn and Senne any clues as to where the roots of that surname comes from? I'm trying to build out this paternal Orangeburg branch of my ancestry. Many thanks, Donnie Austin On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 7:53 AM Joel H. Hutto via groups.io <joelhutto@...> wrote: Hi Donnie Satira appears to possibly be born a Carson. There is a death certificate for Watson Pou (indexed as Pace) whose parents are shown Jim Pou and Satira Carson. Watson was born 1855 and died 28 Nov 1916. His information was P W CARSON (see next death cert). Phillip William CARSON's death certificate states he was born much earlier in March 17, 1841 and died 25 Dec 1916. His parents are listed as Isaac Sinne and Sotara Pou. The information was John Carson in Neese SC on the last one. With Phillip W. Carson being the informant on the first death certificate, he likely knew his mother's maiden name and was given her surname at birth. He was likely born out of wedlock so not given the Sinne surname. If you look at the 1870 census, Philip Carson is 27 years old and living next to James Pou and Satira and their children. If you look into the Freedmen's Bureau Records. There is an Isaac Senn who has a contract to work for William H. Dantzler in 1866 for one year. On a separate record there is a Satira listed as working for 1 year for Mr. E. S. Thomsen. There is no last name given for her. I would definitely look into Senn as another possibly spelling. But look into the Pou and Carson connection as well. I hope this helps. Joel H Hutto On 8/31/2023 6:18 AM, Diaspora DNA wrote: Hi, I'm a descendant of Satyra Sinne, Orangeburg, SC b. abt. 1810. I'm searching for Census records and family history of Satyra and the origins of the Sinne or Sinne surname in Orangeburg. I haven't found any known parents or siblings of Satyra yet Any help would be greatly appreciated. Donnie Austin Virus-free.www.avast.com
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Moderated Sinne or Sinne in Orangeburg 7
Hi, I'm a descendant of Satyra Sinne, Orangeburg, SC b. abt. 1810. I'm searching for Census records and family history of Satyra and the origins of the Sinne or Sinne surname in Orangeburg. I haven't found any known parents or siblings of Satyra yet Any help would be greatly appreciated. Donnie Austin
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Moderated Gates - close to St. Matthews church 5
Thank you, Joel, for your reply. My Gates owned land along the river close to the St. Mathews church. There is a graveyard on the grounds of the family and related family. I believe a Mr. "Mackie" Fuller McIver Prickett owns the propetry now or did some 20 or more years ago.He was farming the land all around the graveyard. I even have the large rubbing of standing marker for Christian Gates (Rev. War soldier, the son of George Gates who I think was the original land owner. I know that Gary Gates, who descends from them has taken a DNA test. I haven't been in touch with him recently, but I will try to get in touch with him to see if he has found out anything recently. Davine On Tuesday, August 29, 2023 at 12:16:04 PM EDT, Joel H. Hutto via groups.io <joelhutto@...> wrote: Hi Davine My book covers the Huttos and known people who came from the same vicinity in 1735-1737 period. Margaret's book covers only 1735 immigrants from all over the Palatine Region and Switzerland and others, but your line was likely later so would not be included. I started researching genealogy in 1988-1989 period and it was not until 2015 that I found the origins of the Huttos in Europe. I went there several times in the years following to verify the information I had found then started writing my book. Perhaps you should start a new thread with your oldest documented ancestors. Tell everyone who they are, when and where they were born, who are their documented or suspected children, where did they own land, etc? That might help you find others who have a common line with you. Have you DNA tested and found any matches in the Orangeburgh DNA project with those common ancestors? Do you have any males that have Y-DNA tested? That would help find matching males with same or similar surnames. You should find males with Götz, Gatz, Gates, Kitts, etc. to definitely y-DNA test and see if they match. All My Best Joel On 8/29/2023 10:55 AM, B. Davine Roberts via groups.io wrote: I read the article, and I was disappointed that my Gates, Gatz, etc., were not mentioned; although they were there by about 1747. Does anybody on here descend from them? I am interested in what part of Baden Wurtenberg, Germany (close to the Swiss border) came from to Orangeburgh. I have an opportunity to go on a trip to this part of Germany next year, and I am trying my best to find the community in which they lived before I leave so I can visit the church which holds their records. Thank you for any help, Davine Roberts 904-910-8614 On Tuesday, August 29, 2023 at 08:57:37 AM EDT, Joel H. Hutto via groups.io <joelhutto@...> wrote: Hello All Registration is Live! Octoberfest 2023 will be held on Saturday, October 7, 2023 at the First Baptist Church Family Life Center. It will be an in-person, live event, so don't miss it! Please try to register by September 15, 2023 so we have a count of how many participants to expect. https://ogsgs.org/store/index4.htm Here is an article from the The Times and Democrat about it... https://thetandd.com/news/local/ogsgs-oktoberfest-set-for-oct-6-7/article_6f989dea-4044-11ee-810f-8b1bbeda19f0.html?mode=comments&fbclid=IwAR11m9oE2rh4g771_-ah_K8e_cIzVb0GqYaO3dN4l0PKMh0gd3bkCRSBrZg The story was even picked up by a news station in Pocatello Idaho. https://www.kpvi.com/news/national_news/ogsgs-oktoberfest-set-for-oct-6-7/article_5743d818-fe6d-5224-b7b2-d216270a2edb.html?fbclid=IwAR0a3VwZg4lzdhkBQrwLCf5CPWpbA71mGhJpYXiyr2l5ITh9PT9SmEj96dA All My Best Joel Virus-free.www.avast.com
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Moderated another genealogy resource - Loyds List 5
Here is another good resource if you know the ship and year of your ancestor’s emigration. I learned of this from another post with this group an am repeating it because it was so helpful to me. The easiest way start your search on Loyds List is at https://www.maritimearchives.co.uk/lloyds-list.html Unfortunately the years start at 1741 but it worked for me. On the right of the page, clicking the year you want will link you to the proper year on https://babel.hathitrust.org You can then search in the document for the ship. It’s a lot of trouble but if this is the information you want, it’s well worth it. I had often wondered if there was any documents showing exactly when my ancestors, like thousands of others, began the journey from Germany then to Rotterdam and then from Cowes on the Isle of Wight to the colonies. In my case, the Schneider families were going to Philadelphia on the ship St. Andrew but through extenuating circumstances, landed at Charles Town. I found all the dates I wanted on the Lloyd’s List, Sailings of ships. Mine was the St. Andrew in 1744 . For example, Captain Brown Master of the St. Andrew sails from Cowes to Rotterdam to pick up his German emigrant cargo which included the Schneider brothers and their families. May 28, 1744 as listed on page #276 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015028378951&view=1up&seq=276&q1=St.%20Andrew Hope this information helps someone, Dewey Snyder arrival Advertisement in ‘The South Carolina Gazette’ January 1745
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Moderated genealogy resource 2
I would like to share a genealogy resource I recently found on the Internet. https://ken-shelton.com/ There you will find among other things, early South Carolina tax lists, quit rent lists and early grant plats.
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Moderated The Passing of Al Brodie of Perry, SC 2
It is with great sadness to share with this group that Al Brodie (90 years old) of Perry, SC, passed away on June 28, 2023. His obituary can be found at this site, https://www.blizzardfuneralhome.com/obituary/RevAlbertAl-BrodieJr. He was a great genealogist, historian and friend. I first connected with Al over 10 years ago tracking down a Seiger/Zeigler book written by Margaret Diacetis. He share some pages with me and from that time until his passing we have been friends. I would stop by and visit with him on some of my trips to Orangeburg over the years. He gave me a copy of each of 3 books he had written that mentioned Holmans and Tylers. His last great help to me was his locating in 2017 the current owner of the Busbee-Holman Family Bible that was an enormous help. He knew the brothers and got them to make photos and send to me. In just our short time of knowing each other, he was one of the nicest and friendliest person I have met. He was always willing to help. RIP Al Brodie. Larry Holman
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When I did not meet Dorothea Holloway at this year's ecumenical reception of the churches in Berlin, I was worried. Rightly, as it turned out soon. Shortly before the opening of the Berlinale, which she used to visit as long as I remember, the actress Dorothea Holloway, born in Weissenfels on the Saale and performing under her maiden name Moritz, died on February 3, in her 85th year of age.
In 1954 she graduated with a diploma at the State Drama School of Hamburg. Abigail in Arthur Miller’s "Hexenjagd" was her first unforgettable role, the drama being transferred to a radio play under the direction of Fritz Schröder-Jahn. Various theatre engagements in Hof, Augsburg, Bonn, Düsseldorf, Bochum, Hamburg, Berlin und Stuttgart among others followed, whereby she occasionally worked with such well-known directors as Fritz Kortner, Hans Schweikart, Gustaf Gründgens and Percy Adlon.
In addition to her participation in television productions (Stahlnetz, 1959-1963; Polizeifunk ruft, 1968; Hamburg Transit, 1972-1974; Tatort, 1975-2001), since the 1970s she regularly played in feature films, namely in films by Niklaus Schilling, Andrzej Wajda, Dieter Köster and Ulrike Ottinger among others. One of the unforgettable roles that she particularly liked to remember was that of the mother in the prize-winning film "Höhenfeuer" from 1985 by Swiss director Fredi Murer, which in Locarno not only got the Golden Leopard, but also the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and the Youth Jury. It received worldwide attention under the title "Alpine Fire" (see "Kino German-Film" No 20/1985).
Parallel to her acting, she became involved in the German-Polish reconciliation in the early 1970s, worked as a journalist and film critic, paying particular attention to Eastern European cinema. At the Film Festival Karlovy Vary she met the Catholic theologian and film journalist Ron Holloway from Chicago, who had graduated at the Protestant Faculty at the University of Hamburg with a fundamental thesis on "Beyond the image. Approaches to the Religious Dimension in the Cinema ".
When Wolf Donner, then the director of the Berlinale, appointed Ron Holloway to the selection commission with the focus "Russia" he and Dorothea moved to Berlin in 1976. Dorothea became member of the Children's Film Festival's selection committee, which she belonged to for 19 years. Ron began writing as a correspondent to various film industry publications, including the Hollywood Reporter, Variety, and the Herald Tribune, and became an intermediary for the young German film in North America. Together, they launched the English publication "Kino German Film" (www.kino-germanfilm.de) in 1977 with the aim of providing a platform for the German film in the English language and culture.
Without any public support they produced one edition after the other distributing them at the festivals in Berlin and Cannes, and even after the death of Ron in 2009, Dorothea continued tirelessly, supported by her nephew Gregor Sedlag, and also by Martin Blaney. Number 107, appearing at the Berlinale 2015, was the last printed edition. Instead of concentrating on the print product, which was now difficult to distribute, she began to publish up to three weekly blogposts on kino-germanfilm.de, thus by the end of 2015 possibly getting the most eager individual voice for German film on the web, as her nephew Gregor Sedlag emphasizes. After all, her and Ron's commitment was honoured with a number of tributes. After Ron Holloway was awarded by the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1999, the American Foundation honoured Ron and Dorothea with the award of the "Freedom Award" for "opening our eyes to the East." In 2004 they became honorary members of INTERFILM, and in 2007 Dieter Kosslick handed over to them the Berlinale Camera.
Dorothea Holloway (together with Ron) took part in the history of INTERFILM as member of its juries, as well as of ecumenical juries. Of course she has, also been called to other, partly official festival juries. She was not only in Cannes and in Berlin, or in Mannheim and Leipzig, in the ecumenical jury. At the Film Festival Max Ophuels Prize Saarbrücken, dedicated to young German-speaking filmmakers, she was a co-founder of the INTERFILM jury, which was set up in 1985, in collaboration with the former director of the festival, Albrecht Stuby, and was a member of this jury for many years. Because support and promotion of young talents was a matter close to her and Ron’s heart. In Saarbrücken 1989, I first met her personally as a jury member.
She remained an actress to the last. Since 1998, she regularly carried through readings in urban and rural cultural houses and churches, and especially in the Berlin Cathedral, whereupon she was particularly proud of. Now she rests next to her Ron in the cemetery of the Evangelical Church Community of St. John in Alt-Moabit Berlin. | |||||||
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Films as Cinematographer:
1919
Der Galeerensträfling (co)
1920
Arme Violetta (The Red Peacock) (Stein); Die Geshchlossene Kette (Stein); Das Martyrium (Stein); Das Skelett des Herrn Markutius (Janson)
1921
Der müde Tod (Between Two Worlds) (Lang) (co); Schloss Vogelöd (The Haunted Castle) (Murnau) (co); Nachtbesuch in der Northernbank (Grune); Pariserinnen (Lasko); Das Spiel mit dem Feuer (Wiene and Kroll)
1922
Der brennende Acker (Burning Soil) (Murnau) (co); Nosferatu (Nosferatu the Vampire) (Murnau) (co); Schatten (Warning Shadows) (Robison); Bardame (Guter); Der Graf von Essex (Felner); Das hohe Lied der Liebe (Schall); Lebenshunger (Guter); Der Ruf des Schicksals (Guter)
1923
Der Grossindustrielle (Kaufman); Die Magyarenfürstin (Funck); Zwischen Abends und Morgens (Robison)
1924
Der Sprung ins Leben (Guter)
1925
Zur Chronik von Grieshuus (At the Grey House) (von Gerlach) (co); Das Fräul ein vom Amt (Schwarz); Pietro der Korsar (Peter the Pirate) (Robison)
1926
Die drei Kuckucksuhren (Mendes); Liebeshandel (Speyer); Vater werden ist nicht schwer . . . (Schönfelder)
1927
Am Rande der Welt (Grune); Eine DuBarry von Heute (A Modern DuBarry) (Z. Korda); Der Liebe der Jeanne Ney (The Love of Jeanne Ney) (Pabst) (co)
1928
Das letzte Fort (Bernhardt); Marquis d'Eon, der Spion der Pompadour (Grune); Waterloo (Grune); Spione (Spies) (Lang)
1929
Napoleon à Sainte-Hélène (Pick); Wenn du einmal dein Herz verschenkst (Guter)
1930
Brand in der Oper (Froelich); Dolly macht Karriere (Litvak); Die Jagd nach dem Glück (Running after Luck) (Gliese and Koch); Skandal um Eva (Scandalous Eva) (Pabst); Westfront 1918 (Comrades of 1918) (Pabst) (co)
1931
M (Mörder unter uns) (Lang); Ronny (Schünzel); Kameradschaft (Comradeship ) (Pabst) (co); Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera; The Beggar's Opera) (Pabst)
1932
Es wird schon wieder besser (Gerron); Das Lied einer Nacht (Litvak); Das schöne Abenteuer (Schünzel)
1933
Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (The Testament of Dr. Mabuse) (Lang) (co); Flüchtlinge (Ucicky); Die Nacht der grossen Liebe (von Bolvary); Das Schloss im Süden (von Bolvary); Spione am Werk (Lamprecht)
1934
Liebe, Tod, und Teufel (Hilpert and Steinbicker); Ein Mann will nach deutschland (Wegener); Prinzessin Turandot (Lamprecht); Spiel mit dem Feuer (Robert)
1935
Amphitryon (Schünzel); Schwarze Rosen (Martin)
1936
Savoy-Hotel 217 (Ucicky); Unter heissem Himmel (Ucicky)
1937
Der Mann, der Sherlock Holmes war (Hartl); Tango notturno (Kirchhoff); Der zerbrochene Krug (Ucicky)
1938
Das Mädchen mit dem guten Ruf (Schweikart); Schatten über St. Pauli (Kirchhoff)
1939
Ein hoffnungloser Fall (Engel); Der Vierte kommt nicht (Kimmlich); Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes (Steinhoff)
1940
Aus erster Ehe (Verhoeven); Feinde (Tourjansky); Friedrich Schiller (Maisch); Der Fuchs von Glenarvon (Kimmich)
1941
Ohm Krüger (Steinhoff); Was geschah in dieser Nacht (Lingen)
1942
Die Entlassung (Liebeneiner); Der Fall Rainer (Verhoeven)
1943
Altes Herz wird wieder Jung (Engel); Ein glücklicher Mensch (Verhoeven); Herr Sanders lebt gefährlich (Stemmle); Lache Bajazzo (Hainisch); Ich werde dich auf Händen tragen (Hoffmann)
1945
Das kleine Hofkonzert (Verhoeven); Meine Herren Söhne (Stemmle)
1949
Die Brücke (The Bridge) (Pohl); Mädchen hinter gittern (Braun)
1950
Frauenarzt Dr. Prätorius (Goetz and Gillmann)
1952
1 April 2000 (Liebeneiner)
1954
Heideschulmeister Uwe Karsten (Deppe)
1955
Hotel Adlon (von Baky)
1956
Hochzeit auf Immenhof (von Collande)
1957
Ferien auf Immenhof (Leitner)
1958
Das Czardas-König (Philipp)
Publications
By WAGNER: articles—
Film Art (London), Summer 1934.
"I Believe in the Sound Film," in Film Art (London), vol. 3, no. 8, 1936.
On WAGNER: articles—
Kosmorama (Copenhagen), no. 39, 1958.
Focus on Film (London), no. 13, 1973.
Filme (Berlin), May-June 1981.
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Fritz Arno Wagner is responsible for photographing some of the most iconographic images in German cinema from 1919 to 1933: Max Schreck's Nosferatu looming over a ship's hold, talons extended; Peter Lorre's child murderer in M, cowering in a storeroom; Rudolf Forster's Mackie Messer in Die Dreigroschenoper, surrounded by prostitutes and observed by a fin-de-siècle statue of a negress. Except for Karl Freund, no other cameraman of the period achieved Wagner's level of versatility and technical expertise. His collaborations with G.W. Pabst, Fritz Lang and F.W. Murnau are a virtual catalog of the expressive potential of the cinematographer's art, from Expressionist Stimmung to documentary realism. Stimmung is the operative word Lotte Eisner coined to describe the mood or atmosphere evoked by many films of the German silent era—brooding and introspective in tone, illuminated by pools or shafts of light, the total effect reflecting the characters' states of mind. Wagner's most extreme contribution to this genre was Robison's Warning Shadows, in which a conjuror releases the repressed unconscious desires of the protagonists, who act out their fantasies in silhouette, shadow, or double exposure.
Ironically, the most obtrusive of Wagner's photographic contributions to Murnau's celebrated Nosferatu are what have made portions of the film date badly: undercranking the camera provides an absurd effect when Nosferatu is loading his coffins, and the use of negative film in the woods seems more perplexing than eerie or spectral. Undeniably more effective are the moments in which Wagner evokes Nosferatu's presence through naturalistic means, as in the sweepingly atmospheric natural vistas during the monster's voyage to Bremen by raft and ship. There is no denying the quasi-Expressionist treatment of the film's early sequences (the visit to Nosferatu's castle, with its alternating light and dark arches) and its climax (the vampire's shadow advancing up the wall of the stairwell). Yet it is surprising how little noted it is that Nosferatu is as much a film of daytime and nature (and its perversion) as it is of darkness.
Despite his reputation as a cinematographer of Stimmung, it could be argued that the naturalistic or documentary aspect of Wagner's work is more interesting when viewed today. In Pabst's The Love of Jeanne Ney, Wagner photographed Paris as if the camera was discovering it for the first time, tracking through the city, reveling in the details of train stations and busy streets. Yet, in the same film, Pabst could call on Wagner to diffuse the image with the facility of a portrait photographer when the hero and heroine enter a church. Lang's M permitted Wagner a synthesis of styles: on one hand, an objective study of police procedure, the camera sniffing out clues along with the protagonists; on the other hand, a shadowy emanation of the murderer's state of mind as he is progressively cornered like a rat, in one shot circumscribed in both the camera frame and a garden trellis.
Pabst's "Social Trilogy"—Westfront 1918, Kameradschaft, and Die Dreigroschenoper—represent the pinnacles of Wagner's art. His major achievement in these films is the expressive use of camera movement, so often difficult to facilitate during the early sound period. Wagner was lucky to work with collaborators who were equal to the formidable technical challenges Pabst posed in each film. The set designer Ernö Metzner worked closely with Wagner in devising apparatus to mask the movement of the camera in Pabst's astonishing evocation of a mining disaster, Kameradschaft. The horror of fire and collapsing shafts in the claustrophobic confines of the mine were recreated with painstaking verisimilitude. Wagner's camera seems to be everywhere, tracking in front of a fleeing worker or receding from a trio searching for survivors, the retreat gradually revealing more and more of Metzner's artfully designed chaos. Similarly, Wagner's camera evokes the horror of war in Westfront 1918, tracking alongside soldiers as they make their way from crater to crater. Ironically, Pabst's controversial adaptation of Die Dreigroschenoper marked a return for Wagner to the techniques of Stimmung, André Andrejew's stylized studio sets photographed in a manner recalling the gloomy visions of the 1920s. Camera movement seems less organic to this film, Pabst here more concerned with character than spectacle.
Wagner continued to work in Germany, producing competent, craftsmanlike work throughout the Second World War and up to his death in an automobile accident in 1958, but with the export or suppression of talent after 1933, opportunities became infrequent for the kind of visual experimentation that made his early work so innovative.
—Lee Tsiantis | |||||
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Atrributs of Hans Hubermann In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Hans Hubermann is presented a wonderful father to Liesel Meminger and a satisfactory husband to Rosa Hubermann. To start off, Hans is a loving and selfless father to young Liesel. In the first weeks of Liesel arriving “ He came in every night and sat with her [whispering] [s]hhhh, I’m here , It’s all right”(Markus Zusak 64) after her nightmare as he held her.
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Max Vandenburg appeared at 33 Himmel street looking for refuge from the German authorities, in the home of his late father 's friend, Hans Hubermann. Rosa and Hans took Max into their home, fed him, and nursed him back to health after he fell ill due to the severe cold in the dark hubermann basement. Although Rosa and Hans provided necessities, Liesel provided Max with well needed company and friendship. “At least once a day, hans Hubermann would descend the basement steps and share a conversation. Rosa would occasionally bring a spare crust of bread.
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“He - if there’s anything you ever need” (179). Hans Hubermann made a promise to Erik Vandenburg’s wife to help out in any way he could. He stuck to this promise and, consequently, agreed to house Max twenty years later. This shows how Hans kept to his promises and people could trust him. Housing a Jew in Nazi Germany could have lead to severe punishment, nevertheless, Hans decided to help Max in his time of need because he knew that he needed to stick to his commitment.
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One of the most important recurring themes throughout The Book Thief was Liesel’s relationships with all of the people in her life. She grows close with several different people, and trusts, loves, and cares for them all differently but equally. Three of those relationships will be explored more deeply; Liesel’s relationship with her foster father, Hans Hubermann, the Jewish man her family takes in, Max Vanderburg, and her best friend, Rudy Steiner. Liesel’s relationship with Hans is one of the most important, if not the most important, relationships in the novel. Hans is the first person Liesel trusts, and the person who stays with her and loves her until the end.
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Hans Hubermann, Liesel’s foster father, helped Jewish people in whatever way he could. When a Jewish shop named Kleinmann’s was vandalized, Hans asked the owner if he needed any help cleaning up, and promised to come back the next day and paint his door, which he did (Zusak 181-182). Hans delayed applying to the Nazi party because he didn’t agree with their beliefs, and by helping the owner he was put under more suspicion, however he felt that it was a proper action and didn’t allow danger to stop him. In addition to Hans act of kindness, the Hubermanns took a Jew named Max into their care, and allowed him to stay with them to be safe. In a book overview, Tabitha Hall observes, “Though not Jewish, Liesel and her foster parents struggle as they keep their Jewish friend hidden…” (“Overview: The Book Thief”).
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Hans is a warm-hearted and compassionate man who was the first that connected to Liesel. When Liesel first arrived at Himmel Street, she refused to leave the car and meet her new family. While it took them quite a bit of time to persuade her to leave, “It was the tall man who did it”(28). The first encounter between Liesel and Hans is a memorable and significant moment because it is the moment that shows how their friendship initiated. If Hans would not have sat by Liesel’s side and coaxed her to leave the car, then she would not have developed that initial trust that transpired through this. | ||||||
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With his sleepy eyes, distinctive eyebrows and deep, gravelly voice, English actor David Hemmings (1941 – 2003) was one of the princes of the ‘swinging London’ of the 1960’s. His role as the fashion photographer in Michelangelo Antonioni’s classic thriller Blow Up (1966) made him an international cinema icon.
David Edward Leslie Hemmings was born in Guildford, Great Britain in 1941 to a cookie merchant and his wife. He was educated at Alleyn’s School and the Glyn Grammar School (now the Glyn Technology School). This led the 9-year old to start a professional career performing as a boy soprano in several operatic works by the composer Benjamin Britten. Hemmings played the title role in Britten’s The Little Sweep (1952), which was part of Britten’s Let’s Make An Opera! children’s production. Most notably, Hemmings created the role of Miles in Britten’s chamber opera Turn of the Screw (1954) with the English Opera Group. He was renowned for his mature and intelligent vocal interpretations of these parts. His close friendship with Britten is described in John Bridcut’s book Britten’s Children (2006). Although many commentators identified Britten’s relationship with Hemmings as based on an infatuation, throughout his life the actor maintained categorically that Britten’s conduct with him was beyond reproach at all times. He briefly left the musical world when his voice changed. He studied painting at the Epsom School of Art and staged his first exhibition at 15. He returned to singing in his early 20’s, first in nightclubs, then on the musical stage. As a child actor he had made his film debut in the drama The Rainbow Jacket (1954, Basil Dearden) for Ealing Studios. He also had bit part in Saint Joan (1957, Otto Preminger) featuring Jean Seberg. When the youth culture hit Britain in the late 1950’s, Jon C Hopwood writes at IMDb: “Hemmings was in the right place at the right time to capitalize on his skills and looks. Boyish-looking, with large, protuberant blue eyes covered with heavy lids, his face was at once startling and decadent while simultaneously conveying an air of fragility”. He appeared as misunderstood youths and belligerent ‘Teddy Boys’, such as in the teen musicals Some People (1962, Clive Donner), Live It Up! (1964, Lance Comfort), and Be My Guest (1965, Lance Comfort). He also played opposite Oliver Reed in the drama The System/The Girl-Getters (1964, Michael Winner).
Then, the 24 year old David Hemmings landed his career defining role. Italian film director Michelangelo Antonioni sought to find a fresh young face for the lead in his existential thriller Blow Up/Blowup (1966) co-starring Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, Jane Birkin and Veruschka. He found Hemmings acting in a small stage theatre in London. Hemmings character was a fashionable photographer reportedly based on David Bailey. In his obituary of Hemmings in The Guardian, Tim Pulleine describes how the character “is eventually brought face to face with the illusoriness not only of success but of reality itself. The film’s conclusion, in which the photographer is gradually torn into participation in an imaginary game of tennis, must surely rank as one of the most mesmerising in all cinema. Hemmings’s physical demeanour, combining down-to-earth chippiness with an almost ethereal air of fragility, admirably embodied the themes of a groundbreaking movie, which dissolved the barriers between art and popular cinema.” Blowup made Hemmings an international star and pin-up for a while, a darling of the pop culture filmmaking that was expected to revolutionize the English-speaking cinema in the 1960’s. Following Blow Up, Hemmings appeared in a string of major British films, including the musical Camelot (1967, Joshua Logan), the war film The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968, Tony Richardson) and in the title role in the epic film Alfred the Great (1969, Clive Donner) with Michael York. His short stature, sleepy eyes and undershot jaw made him an unconventional leading man, but unconventional was right for the times, and he became one of the icons of the ‘swinging London’ scene. In 1967, Hemmings recorded a pop single, Back Street Mirror and a studio album, David Hemmings Happens, in Los Angeles, California. The album featured instrumental backing by several members of The Byrds. Later, Hemmings provided the narration for Rick Wakeman’s progressive-rock album Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1974) – an adaptation of Jules Verne’s science-fiction novel A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864). He also appeared as Dildano in the pop art fantasy Barbarella (1968, Roger Vadim) featuring Jane Fonda, convincingly portrayed a troubled schoolmaster in Unman, Wittering and Zigo, (1971, John MacKenzie) and appeared in the dud The Love Machine (1971, Jack Haley Jr.), starring John Phillip Law and based on Jacqueline Susann’s bestseller.
David Hemmings’ career took a new turn when he founded t
Dutch postcard by M. Bonnist & Zonen, Amsterdam, no. 146. Photo: Filma, Amsterdam. Still from Acht Madels im Boot/Eight Girls in a Boat (1932, Erich Waschneck).
German actress Karin Hardt (1910-1992) made her cinema debut as a pure and disarmingly natural backfisch, looking for happiness. Her impressive career with many film, theatre and television appearances lasted for six decades.
Karin Therese Meta Hardt was born in 1910 in Altona (now Hamburg), Germany. She was a daughter of a merchant. She had private acting lessons with Alex Otto and soon became theatre engagements in Monchengladbach, Rheydt and Altenburg. In 1931 she made her film debut in Vater geht auf Reisen/father Goes To Travel (1931, Carl Boese) with Lissy Arna.. She was then discovered by director Erich Waschneck, who cast her in Acht Madels im Boot/ Eight Girls in a Boat (1932, Erich Waschneck), which became her breakthrough. In the following years she became a beloved star. Karin Hardt and Erich Waschneck married in 1933, and he would go on to direct her in some of their best films, including An heiligen Wassern/Sacred Waters (1932) and Abel mit der Mundharmonika/Abel with the Mouth Organ (1933). She was the pure and disarmingly natural backfisch, who in a girly way angled for happiness. Among her best known films of the 1930’s belong Ein gewisser Herr Gran/A Certain Mr. Gran (1933, Gerhard Lamprecht) next to Hans Albers, Die blonde Christel/Blonde Christel (1933, Frans Seitz), Barcarole (1935, Gerhard Lamprecht), Die Umwege des schonen Karl/The Diversions of Handsome Karl (1938, Carl Froelich) with Heinz Ruhmann, and Menschen vom Variete/Vaudeville People (1939, Josef von Baky) as the naive, blonde competitor of La Jana. During the war years her engagements became less, but she appeared for example in Kameraden/Comrades (1941, Hans Schweikart) with Willy Birgel, Das Hochzeitshotel/The Marriage Hotel (1944, Carl Boese), and Via Mala (1944-1948, Josef von Baky) as the daughter of Carl Wery.
After the war Karin Hardt was regularly seen in the cinema. Erich Waschneck directed her in the comedy Danke es geht mir gut/Thanks, I’m alright (1948). She appeared as the the queen in the fairytale film Dornroschen/Sleeping Beauty (1955, Fritz Genschow), next to Horst Buchholz in Endstation Liebe/Last Stop Love (1957, Georg Tressler), and with Kirk Douglas in Town Without Pity (1961, Gottfried Reinhardt). She mainly appeared in the theatre, in Berlin, Hamburg, Aachen and in Koln (Cologne). From the 1960’s on she was also often seen on television, in tv-series like Bei uns zu Haus/At Our Home (1963, ), Der Forellenhof (1965) and Die Unternehmungen des Herrn Hans/The Enterprises of Mr. Hans (1976, Charles Kerremans). She also appeared in the film Schoner Gigolo, armer Gigolo/Just a Gigolo (1979; David Hemmings) with David Bowie. In 1983 she was awarded with the Filmband in Gold for her continuing attributions to the German cinema. Then she had a great comeback in the popular serial Die Schwarzwaldklinik/The Black Forest Clinic (1985-1986). Karin Hardt died of cerebral hemorrhage in 1992 in Berlin. She was married twice. First to Erich Waschneck from 1933 till his death in 1970, and then to Rolf von Goth.
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A striking face, a squeaky voice, and great versatility - for decades, Alexander Kerst was one of the most popular actors in the German television landscape. On Thursday December 9, 2010, he died at the age of 86 in Munich. His daughter said. “He had been ill for some time".
Friedrich Alexander Kerst was born on 2/23/1924 in Kralupy u Chomutova, Czechoslovakia. The Bohemian actor as a TVPioneer: Since the 1950s, he appeared in numerous television productions. In 2005 he played in the ZDFMiniseries "Die Patirarchin" and a year later he was in the critically acclaimed for his appearance on ARDTV movie "Silberhochzeit".
Kerst’s film appearances include Alfred Weidemann's "Stern von Afrika," Frank Wisbar Stalingrad-Film "Hunde, wollte ihr ewig leben" and "Mein Schulfreund" with Heinz Ruehmann. He appeared in numerous television thrillers such as "Tatort", "Derrick" and "Der Alte". Kerst had numerous guest roles, and appeared on entertainment shows like "Das Erbe der Guldenbergs” and in a Rosamunde-Pilcher-With film.
The actor appeared regularly on the theater stage. At the Munich games he acted under Kerst Hans Schweikart in leading roles in plays such as Goethe's "Faust," Büchner's "Woyzeck" and Borchert's "Draußen vor der Tür". In the weeks before Christmas 2008 Kerst had performed in the role of the grandfather Earl of Dorincourt in the musical version of the novel "Little Lord Fauntleroy" in many German theaters.
Kerst was trained at the renowned Max-Reinhardt-Seminar in Vienna. After a theater science and Germanic-Studies, he earned his living first as a radio reporter, but soon he fully concentrated on acting. His first engagement was held at the Vienna Burgtheater, also in Munich, Berlin and Hamburg. In addition to his work in theater or in front of the camera Kerst also worked as a voice actor. He was at one time married to actress Susanne Korda [1940- ].
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Therese Giehse enjoyed a great friendship with Thomas Mann and his children Klaus and Erika. On January 1, 1933, together with Erika and Klaus Mann and Magnus Henning, she founded the literary cabaret Die Pfeffermühle (The Peppermill), where anti-Nazi politics reigned supreme. After the Nazi rise to power, when Giehse emigrated to Switzerland via Austria on March 13 as a Jew and a member of the political Left, the Peppermill was moved to the Hirschen Hotel in Zürich. The shows played to full houses for many weeks. Giehse and Erika Mann toured Europe with the cabaret’s anti-fascist program, scoring a great success. The actors never referred by name to individual cities or entities. Rather, they presented parables, fables and portraits designed to draw attention to the political situation in National-Socialist Germany. Guest performances in the United States were less successful.
In 1936 Giehse married the British author John Hampson-Simpson, thus gaining British citizenship, which could protect her from potential German attacks. From 1938 to 1945 she worked at the Zürich Schauspielhaus, where Oskar Wälterlin enabled many prominent emigrés to resume their work. On April 19, 1941, under the direction of Leopold Lindtberg, she was the first to play Mother Courage in Brecht’s pacifist play and therewith found “her author”—Bertolt Brecht. For his part he referred to her as Europe’s greatest actress. The “Brechtian and Bavarian,” as Benjamin Henrichs termed it, suited her character as an actress to perfection. From 1949 to 1952 she worked at the Berliner Ensemble. Mother Courage (1952), the great female parts in Biberpelz and Gerhardt Hauptmann’s Roten Hahn (1951) and finally Martha Rull in Heinrich von Kleist’s The Broken Jug, established her reputation as an “intellectual popular actress.”
Giehse was often accused of being a difficult person and an obstinate actress. Considered stubborn, she delighted in swimming against the stream, was distant, critical, totally unsentimental, lacking in vanity (unlike many of her colleagues), and a highly disciplined actress. After 1945 further major roles included The Madwoman of Chaillot by Jean Giraudoux (1946) and Maxim Gorki’s Wassa Schelesnowa (1947).
From 1949 she was a guest actress at the Munich Kammerspiele, which from 1947 was directed by Hans Schweikart. Here she was especially brilliant in Dürenmatt roles. The Swiss playwright created his The Physicians (1962) for her: the part of the psychologist Dr. Mathilde von Zahnd was among her greatest performances. In addition to her work on the stage, Therese Giehse also appeared in films (e.g. Leopoldt Lindtberg’s The Lost Chance, 1945), radio and television productions. Form 1954 on, she once again resided in Munich. As she grew older, Giehse enjoyed working with aspiring young artists such as Peter Stein, Martin Sperr and Franz Xavier Kroetz, but not with established theater people. During the 1960s, when the extra-parliamentary opposition protest reached even the theaters, she frequently appeared with a new, radical generation of theater creators. At the opening performance at the theater on the banks of the Halle in 1970 she played the title role in Gorki’s The Mother. She bade farewell to her audiences with a highly-regarded Brecht evening at the Berliner Ensemble, with which she toured Germany in 1974, and an appearance in Louis Malle’s film, Julien. Thereafter she was seldom seen onstage, but in 1968, during the war in Vietnam, she appeared in readings of texts by Brecht and was active in the cause of disarmament.
She died in Munich on March 3, 1975.
Selected Works by Therese Giehse
“Ich hab nichts zum Sagen.” An interview with Monika Spert. Munich, Gütersloh, Vienna: 1978. | ||||
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Gustav von Wangenheim was a famous German actor, stage director, and screenwriter born in Wiesbaden, Germany, in 1895. He was one of the most prominent actors of the Weimar Republic era and gained worldwide fame for his portrayal of the character Thomas Hutter in F.W. Murnau's silent horror film, "Nosferatu." Wangenheim started his acting career in 1914 and performed in many classical plays and operas, including Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and Goethe's "Faust." In addition to acting, Gustav von Wangenheim also directed and wrote screenplays for several films. He wrote and directed his first and only film "Der Kreuzzug des Weibes" in 1921. The film was based on the popular stage play "The Women's Crusade" and was a critical success. Wangenheim also penned the screenplay for "The Haunted Castle," another popular silent horror film directed by F.W. Murnau. Moreover, Gustav von Wangenheim was one of the founding members of the Berlin-based experimental theatre group "Theater der Zeit," which was established in 1927. The group focused on creating avant-garde theatre and staged plays that dealt with social and political issues of that time. Wangenheim was an active member of this group and acted as the artistic director until 1933, when the Nazis forced the group to disband. Gustav von Wangenheim was a versatile actor, director, and screenwriter whose works were instrumental in shaping the German film and theatre industry during the Weimar Republic era. He continued his acting career until his death in 1975, appearing in many films and television series. His contribution to the world of art and culture remains significant even today.
What 16 personality type is Gustav von Wangenheim?
Gustav von Wangenheim's personality type could potentially be ISTJ, or the "The Inspector" personality type. ISTJs are known for being methodical, punctual and responsible individuals who take their duties seriously. Gustav von Wangenheim's background as a trained German actor also highlights the tendency of ISTJs to adhere to established rules and procedures, as well as their preference for familiar and traditional settings. Furthermore, Gustav von Wangenheim's portrayal as the rational and pragmatic character Knock in F.W. Murnau's "Nosferatu" also showcases the ISTJ's trait of being detail-oriented and analytical. Overall, while it is impossible to definitively determine an individual's personality type without their explicit input, Gustav von Wangenheim's notable qualities highlight characteristics that align with that of an ISTJ personality type.
Which Enneagram Type is Gustav von Wangenheim?
Based on the limited available information about Gustav von Wangenheim, it is difficult to definitively determine his Enneagram type. However, from his notable career as an actor and director, it is possible to speculate that he may have exhibited traits commonly associated with type four, the Individualist. This type is characterized by a strong desire to express their unique identity, seeking meaning and authenticity in their experiences and relationships. They are often drawn to creative pursuits and introspective self-reflection. Wangenheim's work in the Expressionist film movement and his frequent collaborations with director F.W. Murnau suggest a possible alignment with the Individualist type's artistic sensibilities and drive for self-expression. Additionally, he may have exhibited a sense of emotional intensity and introspection in his personal life, which are also hallmarks of the type four personality. It is important to note that Enneagram typing is not an exact science, and it is impossible to definitively determine someone's type without a thorough understanding of their personality and motivations. However, based on the available evidence, it is reasonable to speculate that Gustav von Wangenheim may have exhibited traits associated with the Individualist type. | ||||
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Hans Schweikart (1 October 1895 – 1 December 1975) was a German film director, actor and screenwriter.[1] He directed 28 films between 1938 and 1968. He wrote for the film The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi, which was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival.[2]
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Hans Deppe is a well-known German film director, who is famous for his contribution to German film industry. He was born on February 2, 1907, in Cologne, Germany, where he spent most of his childhood. He completed his education in the same city and later started his career as a director in the film industry. Deppe was a prolific filmmaker and contributed to German cinema for over three decades from 1935 to 1966. During this time, he directed and produced more than 60 films, including comedy, drama, and musicals, which were well received by audiences and critics alike. Some of his popular films include the 1956 musical comedy film "Zum Teufel mit der Penne," and the 1960 historical drama "Egmont." Apart from directing and producing films, Deppe was also an influential figure in the German film industry, as he helped many aspiring filmmakers to find their footing in the industry. His dedication and commitment to the craft have earned him several accolades and recognition, which includes the Filmband in Gold, a prestigious award by the German Academy of Arts and Sciences, for his contribution to German cinema. Despite his success, Deppe retired from the film industry in 1966 and passed away on December 9, 1985, in Bavaria, Germany, at the age of 78. However, his contributions to German cinema continue to inspire young filmmakers, and he remains a significant figure in the country's cultural history.
What 16 personality type is Hans Deppe?
Hans Deppe, as an ENTP, tends to be often described as being "visionaries." They are able to see the potential in people and situations. They are good at reading others and understanding their They are risk-takers who love life and will not turn down chances for enjoyment and adventure. ENTPs are always looking for new ideas, and they are not afraid to experiment. They are also open-minded and tolerant, and they respect other people's points of view. They like friends who are candid about their emotions and beliefs. Challengers do not take disagreements personally. They differ slightly in how to evaluate compatibility. It doesn't matter if they are on the same side as long as they see others standing firm. Despite their frightening look, they know how to enjoy themselves and unwind. A bottle of wine while discussing politics and other relevant matters will ignite their attention.
Which Enneagram Type is Hans Deppe?
Hans Deppe is an Enneagram Two personality type with a One wing or 2w1. 2w1s are inclined to help people but are more concerned with providing proper assistance that meshes well with their morals. They want others to see them as someone dependable. However, this makes it difficult for these individuals because of how critical they are towards themselves while also having the inability to express their own needs at times. | ||||
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Although he had collaborated with the nazis he was soon back on the stage after the war. After engagements in Kiel, Hamburg and Frankfurt am Main he returned to Berlin where he worked at the Schillertheater. The last part of his career he spent with the Berliner Ensemble. His children Hans-Peter (1926) and Jennifer (1940) also became actors.
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German actor Otto Gebuhr (1877 – 1954) appeared in 102 films between 1917 and 1962 (!). He is best known for his interpretation of Friedrich II (Frederick the Great), a role he played in 16 films and countless stage performances. He was one the most famous actors of the Weimar period, and thanks to his authoratitive roles the Nazis gave him the title Actor of the State.
Otto Gebuhr was born in 1877, Kettwig (now Essen), Germany. He was the son of merchant Otto Gebuhr and his wife Fanny Mathilde, nee Moll. He grew up in Hulsenbusch, a part of Gummersbach, and after his father’s death in Koln (Cologne). After attending gymnasium he had a trade training at a wool firm. In 1896 he worked as a correspondent in foreign languages for a firm in Berlin, but he also had acting classes. For a while he then worked as a strolling actor till he got a contract at the Stadttheater Gorlitz. From 1898 till 1908 he worked at the Koniglichen Hoftheater in Dresden, and till 1914 at the Lessingtheater and the Theater in der Koniggratzer Stra?e, both in Berlin. During the First World War he was an army volunteer for the field artillery regiment and became a second lieutenant. After this he worked from 1917 till 1919 for famous director Max Reinhardt at the Deutschen Theater in Berlin. At the same time he began to appear in films. His film debut was Der Richter/The Judge (1917, Hans Land) for the Messter company. Gebuhr was a look-a-like of king Friedrich II (1712-1786), and ‘Friedrich dem Gro?en’ would become his role of a lifetime. Introduced by his colleague Paul Wegener, director Carl Boese cast him as the king of Prussia in the silent film Die Tanzerin Barberina (1920, Carl Boese). The role would become his breakthrough. He would play Friedrich several times, but initially in the very successful, four-part-film-series Fridericus Rex (1920-1923). To his other well-known silent films belong the crime film Whitechapel (1920, Ewald Andre Dupont), the worldwide success Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam/The Golem: How He Came Into the World (1920, Carl Boese, Paul Wegener), Wilhelm Tell (1923, Rudolf Dworsky, Rudolf Walther-Fein), Die Perucke/The Wig (1925, Berthold Viertel), Die Gesunkenen/The Sunken (1925, Rudolf Walther-Fein, Rudolf Dworsky) and Waterloo (1928, Karl Grune).
After the introduction of the sound film, Otto Gebuhr again had a huge success as the king of Prussia in Flotenkonzert in Sanssouci/The Flute Concert of Sans-Souci (1930, Gustav Ucicky). He repeats his role in Die Tanzerin von Sanssouci/Barberina (1932, Friedrich Zelnik) at the side of Lil Dagover and Hans Stuwe. He was the cinematic incarnation of the heroic prussian. His type was popular during the Third Reich. Gebuhr was a voluntarily pawn in the propaganda machine of the Nazis and appeared in several films, including Fridericus (1937, Johannes Meyer) with Lil Dagover, as the ‘First National Socialist’, like propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels had called him. In 1938 he gave Gebuhr the titel Staatsschauspieler (Actor of the State). He is then one of the four highest paid and most famous actors of Germany (the others were Heinz Ruhmann, Hans Albers and Heinrich George). Among his entertainment films were Der Choral von Leuthen/The Anthem of Leuthen (1933, Carl Froelich, Arzen von Cserepy) with Olga Tschechowa, Nanon (1938, Herbert Maisch) with Johannes Heesters, and Casanova heiratet/Casanova Marries (1939, Viktor de Kowa), big hits. Some of his roles, like Blucher in Waterloo (1928) and the king of Saxony in Bismarck (1940, Wolfgang Liebeneiner), had the same authoritative features as Friedrich II. He again appeared as Friedrich II in Veit Harlan’s epic Der gro?e Konig/The Great King (1942, Veit Harlan). Till the end of the Third Reich he appeared in more light entertainment films like Immensee (1943, Veit Harlan) starring Kristina Soderbaum and Carl Raddatz, Die goldene Spinne/The Golden Spider (1943, Erich Engels), and Der Erbforster/The Hereditary Forester (1945, Alois Johannes Lippl).
From 1947 on Otto Gebuhr was permitted to work again in the theatre. His first post-war film was the drama …und uber uns der Himmel/ …and the Sky Above Us (1947, Josef von Baky) starring Hans Albers. Till his death he appeared in many entertainment films. He played the odd companion or the cheerful senile maverick in such Heimatfilms as Melodie des Schicksals/Melody of Destiny (1950, Hans Schweikart) with Brigitte Horney, and Grun ist die Heide/The Heath Is Green (1951, Hans Deppe) starring Sonja Ziemann and Rudolf Prack. Again he also appeared under the direction of Veit Harlan in Unsterbliche Geliebte/Immortal Beloved (1951) with Kristina Soderbaum. His final film Die Blonde Frau des Maharadscha/The Blonde Wife of the Maharadja, (1962, Veit H
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 676/1, 1919-1924. Photo: Decla-Ufa-Film. Publicity still for Die Nibelungen (1924, Fritz Lang).
Margarete Schon (1895 – 1985) is best known for her role as Kriemhild, the beautiful but revengeful princess of Burgundy in Fritz Lang’s silent epic Die Nibelungen (1924). The career of this German stage and film actress spanned nearly fifty years.
Margarete Schon was born as Margarete Schippang in Magdeburg, Germany in 1895. She received private acting lessons with the theatre actor Hans Calm in Dessau. In 1912 she made her stage debut in Bad Freienwalde. Shortly thereafter, she received a commitment at the municipal theatre of Bromberg (now, Bydgoszcz, Poland). From 1915 to 1918 she was part of the ensemble cast of the Deutsches Theater in Hannover, and from 1918 to 1945 she performed at the Staatstheater Berlin (Berlin State Theatre). According to Wikipedia and IMDb, Schon made her film debut in the silent Du meine Himmelskonigin/You are my queen of heaven (1919, Carl Wilhelm). Philippe Pelletier at Cine Artistes and Thomas Staedeli at Cyranos write that her first appearance was a year earlier, in Schirokko (1918, Edmund Heuberger) with Kurt Brenkendorf. She would spend the next years in small roles for directors Carl Froelich, Hanna Henning, and Walter Schmidthassler. She had bigger parts in Die Pflicht zu leben/The obligation to live (1919, Carl Wilhelm) with Reinhold Schunzel, and Die goldene Krone/The Golden Crown (1920, Alfred Halm) starring Henny Porten. She worked several times with the Danish director Robert Dinesen who was her husband at the time. Among their films were Frauen vom Gnadenstein/Women of Gnadenstein (1920, Joe May, Robert Dinesen), and Der Leidensweg der Inge Krafft/Inge Krafft’s Calvary (1921, Robert Dinesen) featuring Mia May. Schon had a leading role as Hannele’s (Margarete Schlegel) mother in the popular drama Hanneles Himmelfahrt/ Hannele’s Ascension (1922, Urban Gad), based on the Traumgedicht (dream poem) by Gerhart Hauptman. For Frederic Zelnik she appeared in Erniedrigte und beleidigte (1922) starring Lya Mara. Then she really became a star after the release of Fritz Lang’s two-part mythical fantasy Die Nibelungen (1924). Lang and his wife at the time, Thea von Harbou, had written a script based on the epic poem Nibelungenlied written around AD 1200. Schon had a starring role as the vengeful Kriemhild, opposite Paul Richter as the epic hero Siegfried. Its success would cement her popularity in Germany and she achieved international recognition as an actress. Strangely, there was not a real follow-up film. She appeared in several unremarkable films and in the more interesting films, like her husband’s Der Weg durch die Nacht/The Way Through the Night (1929, Robert Dinesen), she only had a supporting part.
Margarete Schon made the transition to sound films with ease and through the 1930’s and 1940’s she was a popular character actress. She often portrayed parts as the wife or the mother. For the UFA she played princess Amalie in Das flotenkonzert von Sans-Souci/The Flute Concert of Sans-Souci (1930, Gustav Ucicky) starring Otto Gebuhr as King Frederick II of Prussia, Madame Mercier in the Chopin biography Abschiedswalzer/Farewell Waltz (1934, Geza von Bolvary), and the mother of Ilse Werner in Ihr erstes Erlebnis/Her First Experience (1939, Joseph von Baky). In 1931 she even co-directed a film herself, Schon ist die Manoverzeit/Manoeuver Time Is Fine (1931, Margarete Schon, Erich Schonfelder) with Ida Wust. It would stay her only direction. During the Second World War she appeared in approximately ten films, but generally avoided roles in Nazi propaganda films and stayed decidedly apolitical. One exception was an uncredited bit part in Veit Harlan’s nationalistic film Kolberg (1945, Veit Harlan) starring Heinrich George. One of her most popular roles of the era was the character Frau Knauer opposite Heinz Ruhmann in the classic comedy Die Feuerzangenbowle/The Punch Bowl (1944, Helmut Weiss) for Terra-Filmkunst studios. After the Second World War, Schon worked extensively for the radio and also worked as a voice actor for the synchronisation of foreign films. From 1948 to 1950 she played for the Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft (DEFA), the state-owned film studio of East Germany. There she appeared in small roles in such films as Affaire Blum/The Blum Affair (1948, Erich Engel) about an anti-Semitic court case in Weimar Germany, Die blauen Schwerter/The Blue Swords (1949, Wolfgang Schleif) starring Hans Quest as the inventor of blue porcelain, and the biography Semmelweis – Retter der Mutter/Dr. Semmelweis (1950, Georg C. Klaren) with Kathe Braun. Back in West-Germany she had parts in such films as the thriller Rittmeister Wronski/Cavalry Captain Wronski (1954, Ulrich Erfurth) starring Willi Birgel, and Oberwachtmeister Borck/Sergeant Borck (1955, Gerhard Lamprecht). Her last screen appearance was in the TV film Ich r | ||
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After the Nazi party took power in 1933, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels promoted the establishment of the Reichskulturkammer (Chamber of Culture) instituition. Actors were required to apply for membership in the Theaterkammer (Chamber of Theatre) for an “Aryan certificate” which meant a prohibition (Berufsverbot) for Meta Wolff.
The couple managed to avoid the anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws and rising tide of anti-semitic violence in Nazi Germany. From 1934 Gottschalk performed at the Schauspielhaus Frankfurt and in 1938 joined the Volksbühne ensemble in Berlin. In the same year he began his film career starring in the romance You and I directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner, side by side with the popular German actress Brigitte Horney.
During World War II , Gottschalk and Horney appeared as a “dream couple” in a string of successful movies.
One day Gottschalk took his Jewish wife to a social function and introduced her to some of the prominent Nazis who were present. Although the Nazis were charmed, Goebbels learned about this incident, and decreed that Gottschalk would be required to separate from his Jewish wife. When Gottschalk refused, Goebbels ordered Gottschalk’s wife and child transported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. The minister’s Special Representative Hans Hinkel insisted on the divorce and Gottschalk was told he would never work as an actor again
Gottschalk insisted on accompanying Meta and Michael to Theresienstadt, but Goebbels ordered Gottschalk inducted into the German Army, the Wehrmacht.
On 6 November 1941, minutes before the expected arrival of the Gestapo at their house in Berlin-Grunewald, Gottschalk and his wife committed suicide by gas poisoning after sedating their son, who died with them.
They are buried at the Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery. Though warned by Minister Goebbels, Brigitte Horney and Wolfgang Liebeneiner, as well as other artists like Gustav Knuth, Hans Brausewetter, Werner Hinz, and Ruth Hellberg attended the funeral.
Goebbels ordered no further mentions of Gottschalk in the German newspapers.Because of Nazi censorship, most of his devoted fans did not learn of the awful circumstances of his death until after the war. In 1947 Kurt Maetzig directed the movie Marriage in the Shadows after a novella by Hans Schweikart based on Gottschalk and Wolff. | |||||
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William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914(1914-02-05) ' August 2, 1997(1997-08-02); pronounced /ËbÊ�roÊŠz/, also known by his pen name William Lee) was an American novelist, poet, essayist and spoken word performer. Burroughs was a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author who affected popular culture as well as literature. He is considered to be "one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative artists of the twentieth century."[1] Burroughs wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six collections of short stories and four collections of essays. Five books have been published of his interviews and correspondences. Burroughs also collaborated on projects and recordings with numerous performers and musicians, and made many appearances in films.
He was born to a wealthy family in St. Louis, Missouri, grandson of the founder of the Burroughs Corporation, William Seward Burroughs, and nephew of public relations manager Ivy Lee. Burroughs began writing essays and journals in early adolescence. He left home in 1932 to attend Harvard University, studying English and anthropology, but after being turned down by the Office of Strategic Services and U.S. Navy to serve in World War II, dropped out and spent the next twenty years working a variety of jobs. In 1943 while living in New York City, he befriended Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, the mutually influential foundation of what became the countercultural movement of the literary Beat Generation, while becoming involved in the drug addiction that affected him for the rest of his life.
Much of Burroughs's work is semi-autobiographical, primarily drawn from his experiences as a heroin addict, as he lived throughout Mexico City, London, Paris, the South American Amazon and Tangier in Morocco, locations he collectively referred to as "the interzone". He found success with his confessional first novel, Junkie (1953). Jack Kerouac called Burroughs the "greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift,"[2] a reputation he owes to his "lifelong subversion"[1] of the moral, political and economic systems of modern American society, articulated in often darkly humorous sardonicism. In this respect, he is perhaps best known for his third novel Naked Lunch (1959), a work wrought with controversy that underwent a court case under then sodomy laws. He also popularized the literary cut-up technique in works such as The Nova Trilogy (1961'64). In 1983, Burroughs was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and in 1984 was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by France. J. G. Ballard considered him to be "the most important writer to emerge since the Second World War", while Norman Mailer declared him "the only American writer who may be conceivably possessed by genius."[2]
Burroughs had one child in 1947, William Seward Burroughs III, with his second wife Joan Vollmer, who died in 1951 in Mexico City after Burroughs accidentally shot her in the head while drunk, an event that deeply permeated all of his writings. Burroughs died at his home in Lawrence, Kansas after suffering a heart attack in 1997.
Contents
1 Early life and education
1.1 Harvard University
1.2 Europe
2 Beginning of the Beats
2.1 Joan Vollmer
2.2 Mexico and South America
3 Beginning of literary career
3.1 Naked Lunch
3.2 Paris and the 'Beat Hotel'
3.3 The London years
3.4 Return to U.S.
3.5 Later years in Kansas
4 Death
4.1 After his death
5 Literary style and periods
5.1 Reaction to critics and view on criticism
6 Legacy
7 Appearances in media
7.1 In music
7.1.1 Band names
7.1.2 "Heavy metal"
7.2 In film and television
7.3 As a fictional character
8 Bibliography
9 Notes
10 References
11 Further reading
12 External links
[edit] Early life and education
Burroughs was born in 1914, the younger of two sons born to Mortimer Perry Burroughs (June 16, 1885 ' January 5, 1965) and Laura Hammon Lee (August 5, 1888 ' October 20, 1970). The Burroughs were a prominent family of English ancestry in St. Louis, Missouri. His grandfather, William Seward Burroughs I, founded the Burroughs Adding Machine company, which evolved into the Burroughs Corporation. Burroughs' mother, Laura Hammon Lee, was the daughter of a minister whose family claimed to be related to Robert E. Lee. His maternal uncle, Ivy Lee, was an advertising pioneer later employed as a publicist for the Rockefellers. His father ran an antique and gift shop, Cobblestone Gardens; first in St. Louis, then in Palm Beach, Florida.
As a boy, Burroughs lived on Pershing Ave. in St. Louis's Central West End. He attended John Burroughs School in St. Louis where his first published essay, "Personal Magnetism," was printed in the John Burroughs Review in 1929.[3] He then attended The Los Alamos Ranch School in New Mexico, which was stressful for him. The school was a boarding school for the wealthy, "where the spindly sons of the rich could be transformed into manly specimens."[4] Burroughs kept journals documenting an erotic attachment to another boy. According to his own account, he destroyed these later, ashamed of their content.[5] Due to the repressive context where he grew up, and from which he fled, that is, a "family where displays of affection were considered embarrassing,"[6] he kept his sexual orientation concealed well into adulthood when, ironically, he became a well known homosexual writer after the publication of Naked Lunch in 1959. Some say that he was expelled from Los Alamos after taking chloral hydrate in Santa Fe with a fellow student. Yet, according to his own account, he left voluntarily: "During the Easter vacation of my second year I persuaded my family to let me stay in St. Louis."[5]
[edit] Harvard University
He finished high school at Taylor School in St. Louis and, in 1932, left home to pursue an arts degree at Harvard University. During the summers, he worked as a cub reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, covering the police docket. He disliked the work, and refused to cover some events, like the death of a drowned child. He lost his virginity in an East St. Louis brothel that summer with a female prostitute he regularly patronized.[7] While at Harvard, Burroughs made trips to New York City and was introduced to the gay subculture there. He visited lesbian dives, piano bars, and the Harlem and Greenwich Village homosexual underground with Richard Stern, a wealthy friend from Kansas City. They would drive from Boston to New York in a reckless fashion. Once, Stern scared Burroughs so much, he asked to be let out of the vehicle.[8]
Burroughs graduated from Harvard in 1936. According to Ted Morgan's Literary Outlaw,
His parents, upon his graduation, had decided to give him a monthly allowance of $200 out of their earnings from Cobblestone Gardens, a tidy sum in those days. It was enough to keep him going, and indeed it guaranteed his survival for the next twenty-five years, arriving with welcome regularity. The allowance was a ticket to freedom; it allowed him to live where he wanted to and to forgo employment.[9]
Burroughs's parents sold the rights to his grandfather's invention and had no share in the Burroughs Corporation. Shortly before the 1929 stock market crash they sold their stock for $200,000.[10]
[edit] Europe
After leaving Harvard, Burroughs's formal education ended, except for brief flirtations as a graduate student of anthropology at Harvard and as a medical student in Vienna, Austria. He traveled to Europe, which proved a window into Austrian and Hungarian Weimar-era homosexuality; he picked up boys in steam baths in Vienna, and moved in a circle of exiles, homosexuals, and runaways. There, he met Ilse Klapper, a Jewish woman fleeing the country's Nazi government. The two were never romantically involved, but Burroughs married her, in Croatia, against the wishes of his parents, to allow her to gain a visa to the United States. She made her way to New York City, and eventually divorced Burroughs, although they remained friends for many years.[11] After returning to the U.S., he held a string of uninteresting jobs. In 1939, his emotional health became a concern for his parents, especially after he deliberately severed the last joint of his left little finger, right at the knuckle, to impress a man with whom he was infatuated.[12] This event made its way into his early fiction as the short story "The Finger."
[edit] Beginning of the Beats
Burroughs enlisted in the U.S. Army early in 1942, shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor brought the U.S. into World War II. But when he was classified as a 1-A Infantry, not an officer, he became dejected. His mother recognized her son's depression and got Burroughs a civilian disability discharge ' a release from duty based on the premise he should have not been allowed to enlist due to previous mental instability. After being evaluated by a family friend, who was also a neurologist at a psychiatric treatment center, Burroughs waited five months in limbo at Jefferson Barracks outside St. Louis before being discharged. During that time he met a Chicago soldier also awaiting release, and once Burroughs was free, he moved to Chicago and held a variety of jobs, including one as an exterminator. When two of his friends from St. Louis, Lucien Carr, a University of Chicago student, and David Kammerer, Carr's homosexual admirer, left for New York City, Burroughs followed.
[edit] Joan Vollmer
In 1944, Burroughs began living with Joan Vollmer Adams in an apartment they shared with Jack Kerouac and Edie Parker, Kerouac's first wife. Vollmer Adams was married to a GI with whom she had a young daughter, Julie Adams. Burroughs and Kerouac got into trouble with the law for failing to report a murder involving Lucien Carr, who had killed David Kammerer in a confrontation over Kammerer's incessant and unwanted advances. This incident inspired Burroughs and Kerouac to collaborate on a novel entitled And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, completed in 1945. The two fledgling authors were unable to get it published, but the manuscript was finally published in November 2008 by Grove Press and Penguin Books.
During this time, Burroughs began using morphine and quickly became addicted. He eventually sold heroin in Greenwich Village to support his habit.
Vollmer also became an addict, but her drug of choice was Benzedrine, an amphetamine sold over the counter at that time. Because of her addiction and social circle, her husband immediately divorced her after returning from the war. Vollmer would become Burroughs' common law wife. Burroughs was soon arrested for forging a narcotics prescription and was sentenced to return to his parents' care in St. Louis. Vollmer's addiction led to a temporary psychosis, which resulted in her admission to a hospital, and the custody of her child was endangered. Yet after Burroughs completed his "house arrest" in St. Louis, he returned to New York, released Vollmer from the psychiatric ward of Bellevue Hospital, and moved with her and her daughter to Texas. Vollmer soon became pregnant with Burroughs's child. Their son, William S. Burroughs, Jr., was born in 1947. The family moved briefly to New Orleans in 1948.
Burroughs was arrested after police searched his home and found letters between him and Allen Ginsberg referring to a possible delivery of marijuana.
[edit] Mexico and South America
Burroughs fled to Mexico to escape possible detention in Louisiana's Angola state prison. Vollmer and their children followed him. Burroughs planned to stay in Mexico for at least five years, the length of his charge's statute of limitations. Burroughs also attended classes at Mexico City College in 1950 studying Spanish as well as "Mexican picture writing" (codices) and the Mayan language with R.H. Barlow.
In 1951, Burroughs shot and killed Vollmer in a drunken game of "William Tell" at a party above the American-owned Bounty Bar in Mexico City. He spent 13 days in jail before his brother came to Mexico City and bribed Mexican lawyers and officials to release Burroughs on bail while he awaited trial for the killing, which was ruled culpable homicide.[13] Vollmer's daughter, Julie Adams, went to live with her grandmother, and William S. Burroughs, Jr. went to St. Louis to live with his grandparents. Burroughs reported every Monday morning to the jail in Mexico City while his prominent Mexican attorney worked to resolve the case. According to James Grauerholz two witnesses had agreed to testify that the gun had gone off accidentally while he was checking to see if it was loaded, and the ballistics experts were bribed to support this story.[14] Nevertheless, the trial was continuously delayed and Burroughs began to write what would eventually become the short novel Queer while awaiting his trial. However, when his attorney fled Mexico after his own legal problems involving a car accident and altercation with the son of a government official, Burroughs decided, according to Ted Morgan, to "skip" and return to the United States. He was convicted in absentia of homicide and sentenced to two years, which was suspended.[15] Although Burroughs was writing before the shooting of Joan Vollmer, this event marked him and, biographers argue, his work for the rest of his life.[16]
After leaving Mexico, Burroughs drifted through South America for several months, looking for a drug called yagé, which promised the user telepathy. A book, composed of letters between Burroughs and Ginsberg, The Yage Letters, was published in 1963 by City Lights Books.
[edit] Beginning of literary career
Burroughs later said that shooting Vollmer was a pivotal event in his life, and one which provoked his writing:
I am forced to the appalling conclusion that I would never have become a writer but for Joan's death, and to a realization of the extent to which this event has motivated and formulated my writing. I live with the constant threat of possession, and a constant need to escape from possession, from control. So the death of Joan brought me in contact with the invader, the Ugly Spirit, and maneuvered me into a life long struggle, in which I have had no choice except to write my way out.[17]
Yet he had begun to write in 1945. Burroughs and Kerouac collaborated on And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, a mystery novel loosely based on the Carr/Kammerer situation that was left unpublished. Years later, in the documentary What Happened to Kerouac?, Burroughs described it as "not a very distinguished work." An excerpt of this work, in which Burroughs and Kerouac wrote alternating chapters, was finally published in Word Virus,[18] a compendium of William Burroughs's writing that was published after his death in 1997.
Before Vollmer died, Burroughs had largely completed his first two novels in Mexico, although Queer was not published until 1985. Junkie was written at the urging of Allen Ginsberg, who was instrumental in getting the work published, even as a cheap mass market paperback. Ace Books published the novel in 1953 as part of an Ace Double under the pen name William Lee, retitling it Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict. (it was later republished as Junkie or Junky). In any case, the fact remains that Burroughs did not become a full time writer until after the shooting.
[edit] Naked Lunch
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During 1953, Burroughs was at loose ends. Due to legal problems, he was unable to live in the cities towards which he was most inclined. He spent time with his parents in Palm Beach, Florida, and New York City with Allen Ginsberg. When Ginsberg refused his romantic advances,[19] Burroughs went to Rome to meet Alan Ansen on a vacation financed from his parents' continuing support. When he found Rome and Ansen's company dreary, inspired by Paul Bowles' fiction, he decided to head for Tangier, Morocco.[20] In a home owned by a known procurer of homosexual prostitutes for visiting American and English men, he rented a room and began to write a large body of text that he personally referred to as Interzone.[21] Burroughs lived in Tangier for several months, before returning to the United States where he suffered several personal indignities'Ginsberg was in California and refused to see him, A. A. Wyn, the publisher of Junkie, was not forthcoming with his royalties and his parents were threatening to cut off his allowance.
All signs pointed him back to Tangier, a place where his parents would have to continue the support and one where drugs were freely available. He left in November 1954 and spent the next four years there working on the fiction that would later become Naked Lunch, as well as attempting to write commercial articles about Tangier. He sent these writings to Ginsberg, his literary agent for Junkie, but none were published until 1989 when Interzone, a collection of short stories, was published. Under the strong influence of a marijuana confection known as majoun and a German-made opioid called Eukodol, Burroughs settled in to write. Eventually, Ginsberg and Kerouac, who had traveled to Tangier in 1957, helped Burroughs type, edit, and arrange these episodes into Naked Lunch.[22]
Whereas Junkie and Queer were conventional in style, Naked Lunch was his first venture into a non-linear style. After the publication of Naked Lunch, a book whose creation was to a certain extent the result of a series of contingencies, Burroughs was exposed to Brion Gysin's cut-up technique at the Beat Hotel in Paris in September 1959. He began slicing up phrases and words to create new sentences.[23] At the Beat Hotel Burroughs discovered "a port of entry" into Gysin's canvases: "I don't think I had ever seen painting until I saw the painting of Brion Gysin."[24] The two would cultivate a long-term friendship that revolved around a mutual interest in artworks and cut-up techniques. Scenes were slid together with little care for narrative. Perhaps thinking of his crazed physician, Dr Benway, he described Naked Lunch as a book that could be cut into at any point. Although not considered science fiction, the book does seem to forecast'with eerie prescience ' such later phenomena as AIDS, liposuction, autoerotic fatalities, and the crack pandemic.[25]
Excerpts from Naked Lunch were first published in the United States in 1958. The novel was initially rejected by City Lights Books, the publisher of Ginsberg's Howl, and Olympia Press publisher Maurice Girodias, who had published English language novels in France that were controversial for their subjective views of sex and anti-social characters. But Allen Ginsberg worked to get excerpts published in Black Mountain Review and Chicago Review in 1958. Irving Rosenthal, student editor of Chicago Review, a quarterly journal partially subsidized by the university, promised to publish more excerpts from Naked Lunch, but he was fired from his position in 1958 after Chicago Daily News columnist Jack Mabley (1915'2006) called the first excerpt obscene. Rosenthal went on to publish more in his newly created literary journal Big Table No. 1; however, these copies elicited such contempt, the editors were accused of sending obscene material through the United States Mail by the United States Postmaster General, who ruled that copies could not be mailed to subscribers. This controversy made Naked Lunch interesting to Girodias again, and he published the novel in 1959.
After the novel was published, it slowly became notorious across Europe and the United States, garnering interest from not just members of the counterculture of the 1960s, but literary critics such as Mary McCarthy. Once published in the United States, Naked Lunch was prosecuted as obscene by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, followed by other states. In 1966 the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court declared the work "not obscene" on the basis of criteria developed largely to defend the book. The case against Burroughs's novel still stands as the last obscenity trial against a work of literature'that is, a work consisting of words only, and not including illustrations or photographs ' prosecuted in the United States.
The manuscripts that produced Naked Lunch also produced the later works The Soft Machine (1961), The Ticket That Exploded (1962), and Nova Express (1963). These novels feature extensive use of the cut-up technique, which influenced all of Burroughs' subsequent fiction to a degree. During his friendship and artistic collaborations with Brion Gysin and Ian Sommerville the technique was combined with images, Gysin's paintings, and sound, via Somerville's tape recorders. Burroughs was so dedicated to the cut-up method that he often defended his use of the technique before editors and publishers, most notably Dick Seaver at Grove Press in the 1960s[26] and Holt, Rinehart & Winston in the 1980s. The cut-up method, because of its random or mechanical basis for text generation, combined with the possibilities of mixing in text written by other writers, deemphasizes the traditional role of the writer as creator or originator of a string of words, while simultaneously exalting the importance of the writer's sensibility as an editor. In this sense the cut-up method may be considered as analogous to the collage method in the visual arts.
[edit] Paris and the 'Beat Hotel'
Burroughs moved to a run down hotel in Latin Quarter of Paris in 1959 when Naked Lunch was still looking for a publisher. Tangier with its easy access to drugs, small groups of homosexuals, growing political unrest and odd collection of criminals became increasingly unhealthy for Burroughs.[27] He went to Paris to meet Ginsberg and talk with Olympia Press. In so doing, he left a brewing legal problem, which eventually transferred itself to Paris. Paul Lund, a former British career criminal and cigarette smuggler Burroughs met in Tangier, was arrested on suspicion of importing narcotics into France. Lund gave up Burroughs and some evidence implicated Burroughs in the possible importation into France of narcotics. Once again, the man faced criminal charges, this time in Paris for conspiracy to import opiates, when the Moroccan authorities forwarded their investigation to French officials. Yet it was under this impending threat of criminal sanction that Maurice Girodias published Naked Lunch, and it was helpful in getting Burroughs a suspended sentence, as a literary career, according to Ted Morgan, is a respected profession in France.
The 'Beat Hotel' was a typical European style rooming house hotel, with common toilets on every floor, and a small place for personal cooking in the room. Life there was documented by the photographer Harold Chapman, who lived in the attic room. This shabby, inexpensive hotel was populated by Gregory Corso, Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky for several months after Naked Lunch first appeared. The actual process of publication was partly a function of its 'cut-up' presentation to the printer. Girodias had given Burroughs only ten days to prepare the manuscript for print galleys, and Burroughs sent over the manuscript in pieces, preparing the parts in no particular order. When it was published in this authentically random manner, Burroughs liked it better than the initial plan. International rights to the work were sold soon after, and Burroughs used the $3,000 advance from Grove Press to buy drugs.[28] Naked Lunch was featured in a 1959 Life magazine cover story, partly as an article that highlighted the growing Beat literary movement.
During this time Burroughs found outlet for material otherwise rendered unpublishable in Jeff Nuttall's My Own Mag [29]
[edit] The London years
Burroughs left Paris for London in 1966 to take the cure again with Dr. Dent, a well known English medical doctor who spearheaded a painless heroin withdrawal treatment using an electronic box affixed to the patient's temple. Keith Richards and Anita Pallenberg would take this same cure over a decade later from Dr. Dent's nurse, Smitty.[30] Though he ultimately relapsed, Burroughs ended up working out of London for six years, traveling back to the United States on several occasions, including one time escorting his son to Lexington Narcotics Farm and Prison after the younger Burroughs had been convicted of prescription fraud in Florida. In the "Afterward" to the compilation of his son's two previously published novels Speed and Kentucky Ham, Burroughs writes that he thought he had a "small habit" and left London quickly without any narcotics because he suspected the U.S. customs would search him very thoroughly on arrival. He claims he went through the most excruciating two months of opiate withdrawal while seeing his son through his trial and sentencing, traveling with Billy to Lexington, Kentucky from Miami to ensure his son entered the hospital he once spent time in as a volunteer admission.[31] Earlier Burroughs revisited St. Louis, Missouri taking a large advance from Playboy to write an article about his trip back to St. Louis that was eventually published in The Paris Review, after Burroughs refused to alter the style for Playboy's publishers. In 1968 Burroughs joined Jean Genet, John Sack, and Terry Southern in covering the 1968 Democratic National Convention for Esquire magazine. Southern and Burroughs, who had first become acquainted in London, would remain lifelong friends and collaborators. In 1972, Burroughs and Southern unsuccessfully attempted to adapt Naked Lunch for the screen in conjunction with American game show producer Chuck Barris.[32]
Burroughs supported himself and his addiction by publishing pieces in small literary presses. His avant garde reputation grew internationally as the hippie counterculture discovered his earlier works. He developed a close friendship with Anthony Balch and lived with a young hustler named John Brady who continuously brought home young women despite Burroughs' protestations. In the midst of this personal turmoil, Burroughs managed to complete two works: a novel written in screen play format, The Last Words of Dutch Schulz (1969); and the traditional prose-format novel The Wild Boys (1971).
Burroughs was a fan of Harold S. Schroeppel [33] and passionately studied the manuscripts that were made available from the Institute for Advanced Perception. The teachings were known as the Lessons in Advanced Perception. Copies of these manuscripts, dated February 1960, along with four pages of notes exist in the William S. Burroughs archives at Ohio State University.[34]
In the 1960s Burroughs joined and left the Church of Scientology. In talking about the experience, he claimed that the techniques and philosophy of Scientology helped him and that he felt that further study into Scientology would produce great results. He was skeptical of the organization itself, and felt that it fostered an environment that did not accept critical discussion.[35] His subsequent critical writings about the church and his review of Inside Scientology by Robert Kaufman led to a battle of letters between Burroughs and Scientology supporters in the pages of Rolling Stone magazine.
[edit] Return to U.S.
In 1974, concerned about his friend's well-being, Allen Ginsberg gained for Burroughs a contract to teach creative writing at the City College of New York. Burroughs successfully withdrew from heroin use and moved to New York. He eventually found an apartment, affectionately dubbed "The Bunker," on the Lower East Side of Manhattan at 222 Bowery. The dwelling was a partially converted YMCA gym, complete with lockers and communal showers. The building fell within New York City rent control policies that made it extremely cheap; it was only about four hundred dollars a month until 1981 when the rent control rules changed, doubling the rent overnight.[36] Burroughs added "teacher" to the list of jobs he did not like, as he lasted only a semester as a professor; he found the students uninteresting and without much creative talent. Although he needed income desperately, he turned down a teaching position at the University at Buffalo for $15,000 a semester. "The teaching gig was a lesson in never again. You were giving out all this energy and nothing was coming back."[37] His savior was the newly arrived, twenty-one-year-old book seller and Beat Generation devotee James Grauerholz, who worked for Burroughs part-time as a secretary as well as in a book store. It was Grauerholz who floated the idea of reading tours, something similar to rock and roll touring, or stand-up comedian dates in clubs across the country. Grauerholz had managed several rock bands in Kansas and took the lead in booking Burroughs reading tours that would help support him throughout the next two decades. It raised his public profile, which eventually aided in obtaining new publishing contracts. Through Grauerholz, Burroughs became a monthly columnist for the noted popular culture magazine Crawdaddy, for which he interviewed Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page in 1975. Burroughs decided to relocate back to the United States permanently in 1976. He then began to associate with New York cultural players such as Andy Warhol, John Giorno, Lou Reed, Patti Smith, and Susan Sontag, frequently entertaining them at the Bunker. Throughout early 1977, Burroughs collaborated with Southern and Dennis Hopper on a screen adaptation of Junky. Financed by a reclusive acquaintance of Burroughs, the project lost traction after financial problems and creative disagreements between Hopper and Burroughs.
Organized by Columbia professor Sylvère Lotringer, Giorno, and Grauerholz, the Nova Convention was a multimedia retrospective of Burroughs's work held from November 30 to December 2, 1978 at various locations throughout New York. The event included readings from Southern, Ginsberg, Smith, and Frank Zappa (who filled in at the last minute for Keith Richards, then entangled in a legal problem) in addition to panel discussions with Timothy Leary & Robert Anton Wilson and concerts featuring The B-52's, Suicide, Philip Glass, and Debbie Harry & Chris Stein.
In 1976, Billy Burroughs was eating dinner with his father and Allen Ginsberg in Boulder, Colorado, at Ginsberg's Buddhist poetry school (Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics) at Chogyam Trungpa's Naropa University when he began to vomit blood. Burroughs senior had not seen his son for over a year and was alarmed at his appearance when Billy arrived at Ginsberg's apartment. Although Billy had successfully published two short novels in the 1970s, and was deemed by literary critics like Ann Charters as a bona fide "second generation beat writer",[38] his brief marriage to a teenage waitress had disintegrated. Under his constant drinking, there were long periods where Billy was out of contact with any of his family or friends. The diagnosis was liver cirrhosis so complete that the only treatment was a rarely performed liver transplant operation. Fortunately, the University of Colorado Medical Center was one of two places in the nation that performed transplants under the pioneering work of Dr. Thomas Starzl. Billy underwent the procedure and beat the thirty-percent survival odds. His father spent many months in 1976 and 1977 in Colorado, helping Billy through many additional surgeries and complications. Ted Morgan's biography asserts that their relationship was not spontaneous and lacked real warmth or intimacy. Allen Ginsberg was supportive to both Burroughs and his son throughout the long period of recovery.[39]
In London, he had begun to write what would become the first novel of a three book trilogy. Between 1981 and 1987 he published Cities of the Red Night (1981), The Place of Dead Roads (1983) and The Western Lands (1987). Grauerholz helped edit Cities when it was first rejected by Burroughs' long-time editor Dick Seaver at Holt Rinehart, after it was deemed too disjointed. The novel was written as a straight narrative and then chopped up into a more random pattern, leaving the reader to sort through the characters and events. This technique was definitely different from the author's earlier cut-up methods, which were organically accidental from the start. Nevertheless, the novel was reassembled and published, still without a straight linear form, but with fewer breaks in the story. The back-and-forth sway of the read replicated the theme of the trilogy; time-travel adventures where Burroughs's narrators rewrite episodes in history and thus reform mankind.[40] Reviews were mixed for Cities. Novelist and critic Anthony Burgess panned the work in Saturday Review, saying Burroughs was boring readers with repetitive episodes of pederast fantasy and sexual strangulation that lacked any comprehensible world view or theology; other reviewers, like J. G. Ballard, argued that Burroughs was shaping a new literary "mythography".[40]
In 1981, Billy Burroughs died in Florida. He had cut off contact with his father several years before, even publishing an article in Esquire magazine claiming the author had poisoned his life and revealing that he had been molested by one of his father's friends as a fourteen-year-old while visiting his father in Tangier, something that he had previously kept to himself. The liver transplant had not cured his urge to drink, and Billy suffered from serious health complications years after the operation. He had stopped taking his transplant rejection drugs and was found near the side of a Florida highway by a stranger. He died shortly afterwards. Burroughs was in New York when he heard from Allen Ginsberg of the death.
Burroughs, by 1979, was once again addicted to heroin. The cheap heroin that was easily purchased outside his door on the Lower East Side "made its way" into his veins, coupled with "gifts" from the overzealous if well-intentioned admirers who frequently visited the Bunker. Although Burroughs would have episodes of being free from heroin, from this point until his death he was regularly addicted to the drug. He died in 1997 on a methadone maintenance program. In an introduction to Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz (who managed Burroughs's reading tours in the '80s and '90s) mentions that part of his job was to deal with the 'underworld' in each city to secure the author's needed drugs.[41]
[edit] Later years in Kansas
Burroughs moved to Lawrence, Kansas, in 1981 and lived the remainder of his life there, at 1927 Learnard Avenue. In 1984 he signed a seven-book deal with Viking Press after he signed with literary agent Andrew Wylie. This deal included the publication rights to the 1953 unpublished novel Queer. With this money he purchased a small bungalow for $29,000.[42] He was finally inducted into the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1983 after several attempts by Allen Ginsberg to get him accepted. He attended the induction ceremony in May 1983. Lawrence Ferlinghetti remarked the induction of Burroughs into the Academy proved Herbert Marcuse's point that capitalistic society had a great ability to incorporate its one-time outsiders.[43]
Burroughs became a counterculture figure and inspired 1970's proto punk rock band Doctors of Madness and in the 1980s collaborated with performers ranging from Bill Laswell's Material and Laurie Anderson to Throbbing Gristle, Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy and Ministry, and in Gus Van Sant's 1989 film Drugstore Cowboy, playing a character based on a short story he published in Exterminator!, "the "Priest" they called him". In 1990, he released the spoken word album Dead City Radio, with musical back-up from producers Hal Willner and Nelson Lyon, and alternative rock band Sonic Youth. A collaboration with musicians Nick Cave and Tom Waits resulted in a collection of short prose, Smack My Crack, later released as a spoken word album in 1987. He also collaborated with Tom Waits and director Robert Wilson to create The Black Rider, a play which opened at the Thalia Theatre in Hamburg in 1990, to critical acclaim, and was later performed all over Europe and the U.S. In 1991, with Burroughs's sanction, director David Cronenberg took on the seemingly impossible task of adapting Naked Lunch into a full-length feature film. The film opened to critical acclaim.
In June 1991 Burroughs underwent triple bypass surgery.[44]
He became a member of a chaos magic organization, the Illuminates of Thanateros, in 1993, a group whose very existence would not have been possible without his works.[45]
During his later years in Kansas, Burroughs also developed a painting technique whereby he created abstract compositions by placing spray paint cans in front of, and some distance from, blank canvasses, and then shooting at the paint cans with a shotgun. These splattered canvasses were shown in a Chicago gallery in the late 1980s and a New York City gallery in the early 1990s. During this same period Burroughs spent more of his time making art for its own sake including a series of file-folders featuring "automatic calligraphy" inspired by Brion Gysin, which were later dubbed "life files." He originally used the folders to mix pigments before observing that they could be viewed as art in themselves.[46]
Burroughs's final filmed performance was in the music video for "Last Night on Earth" by Irish rock band U2, filmed in Kansas City, Missouri, directed by Richie Smyth and also featuring Sophie Dahl.[47]
[edit] Death
Burroughs died in Lawrence, at 6:50 p.m. on August 2, 1997 from complications of a heart attack he had suffered the previous day.[10] He was interred in the family plot in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri,[48] with a marker bearing his full name and the epitaph "American Writer." The grave lies to the right of the white granite obelisk of William Seward Burroughs I (1857'1898).
[edit] After his death
Since 1997, several posthumous collections of Burroughs's work have been published. A few months after his death, a collection of writings spanning his entire career, Word Virus, was published (according to the book's introduction, Burroughs himself approved its contents prior to his death).[18] Aside from numerous previously released pieces, Word Virus also included one of the few surviving fragments of And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, an unpublished novel by Burroughs and Kerouac. A collection of journal entries written during the final months of Burroughs's life was published as the book Last Words in 2000. Publication of a memoir by Burroughs entitled Evil River by Viking Press has been delayed several times; after initially being announced for a 2005 release, Web retailers such as Amazon.com indicated a 2007 release, complete with an ISBN number (ISBN 0670813516), but no such release has, to date, occurred.[49] In December 2007, Ohio State University Press released Everything Lost: The Latin American Journals of William S. Burroughs. Edited by Oliver Harris, the book contains transcriptions of journal entries made by Burroughs during the time of composing Queer and The Yage Letters.[50] In addition, special editions of The Yage Letters, Naked Lunch and Junkie/Junky have been published in recent years, all containing additional material and essays on the works.
The complete Kerouac/Burroughs manuscript And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks was published for the first time in November 2008.[51]
In September 2010, Telos Publishing, a UK publisher, is scheduled to release the novel Rules of Duel, a previously unpublished late-60s collaboration between Burroughs and Graham Masterton.[52]
[edit] Literary style and periods
Burroughs's major works can be divided into four different periods. The dates refer to the time of writing, not publication, which in some cases was not until decades later:
Early Work (early 1950s): Junkie, Queer and The Yage Letters are relatively straightforward linear narratives, written in and about Burroughs's time in Mexico City and South America.
The Cut-Up Period (mid 1950s to mid 1960s): Naked Lunch is a fragmentary collection of "routines" from The Word Hoard ' manuscripts written in Tangier, Paris, London, as well as of some other texts written in South America such as "The Composite City", blending into the cut-up and fold-in fiction also heavily drawn from The Word Hoard: The Soft Machine, Nova Express, The Ticket That Exploded, also referred to as "The Nova Trilogy" or "the Nova Epic", self-described by Burroughs as an attempt to create "a mythology for the space age". Interzone also derives from this period.
Experiment & Subversion (mid 1960s to mid 1970s): This period saw Burroughs continue experimental writing with increased political content and branching into multimedia such as film and sound recording. The only major novel written in this period was The Wild Boys, but he also wrote dozens of published articles, short stories, scrap books and other works, several in collaboration with Brion Gyson. The major anthologies representing work from this period are The Burroughs File, The Adding Machine and Exterminator!.
The Red Night Trilogy (mid 1970s to mid 1980s): The books Cities of the Red Night, The Place of Dead Roads and The Western Lands came from Burroughs in a final, mature stage, creating a complete mythology.
Burroughs also produced numerous essays and a large body of autobiographical material, including a book with a detailed account of his own dreams (My Education: A Book of Dreams).
[edit] Reaction to critics and view on criticism
Several literary critics treated Burroughs's work harshly. For example Anatole Broyard and Philip Toynbee wrote devastating reviews of some of his most important books. In a short essay entitled A Review of the Reviewers, Burroughs answers his critics in this way:
Critics constantly complain that writers are lacking in standards, yet they themselves seem to have no standards other than personal prejudice for literary criticism. (...) such standards do exist. Matthew Arnold set up three criteria for criticism: 1. What is the writer trying to do? 2. How well does he succeed in doing it? (...) 3. Does the work exhibit "high seriousness"? That is, does it touch on basic issues of good and evil, life and death and the human condition. I would also apply a fourth criterion (...) Write about what you know. More writers fail because they try to write about things they don't know than for any other reason.
' William S. Burroughs, 'A Review of the Reviewers [53]
Burroughs clearly indicates here that he prefers to be evaluated against such criteria over being reviewed based on the reviewer's personal reactions to a certain book. Always a contradictory figure, Burroughs nevertheless criticized Anatole Broyard for reading authorial intentionality into his works where there is none, which sets him at odds both with New Criticism and the old school as represented by Mathew Arnold.
[edit] Legacy
Burroughs is often called one of the greatest and most influential writers of the twentieth century, most notably by Norman Mailer whose quote on Burroughs, "The only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius", appears on many Burroughs publications. Others consider his concepts and attitude more influential than his prose. Prominent admirers of Burroughs's work have included British critic and biographer Peter Ackroyd, the rock critic Lester Bangs and the authors J. G. Ballard, Angela Carter, Jean Genet, William Gibson, Charles Bukowski, Alan Moore, and Ken Kesey.
Burroughs continues to be named as an influence by contemporary writers of fiction. Both the New Wave and, especially, the cyberpunk schools of science fiction are indebted to him. Admirers from the late 1970s'early 1980s milieu of this subgenre include William Gibson and John Shirley, to name only two. First published in 1982, the British slipstream fiction magazine Interzone (which later evolved into a more traditional science fiction magazine) paid tribute to him with its choice of name. He is also cited as a major influence by musicians Roger Waters, Patti Smith, Genesis P-Orridge, Ian Curtis, Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Tom Waits and Kurt Cobain.[54]
Drugs, homosexuality and death, common among Burroughs's themes, have been taken up by Dennis Cooper, of whom Burroughs said, "Dennis Cooper, God help him, is a born writer." Cooper, in return, wrote, in his essay 'King Junk', "along with Jean Genet, John Rechy, and Ginsberg, [Burroughs] helped make homosexuality seem cool and highbrow, providing gay liberation with a delicious edge." Splatterpunk writer Poppy Z. Brite has frequently referenced this aspect of Burroughs's work. Burroughs's writing continues to be referenced years after his death; for example, a November 2004 episode of the TV series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation included an evil character named Dr. Benway (named for an amoral physician who appears in a number of Burroughs's works). This is an echo of the hospital scene in the movie Repo Man, made during Burroughs's lifetime, in which both Dr. Benway and Mr. Lee (a Burroughs pen name) are paged.
Burroughs was cited by Robert Anton Wilson as the first person to notice the "23 Enigma":
I first heard of the 23 Enigma from William S. Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch, Nova Express, etc. According to Burroughs, he had known a certain Captain Clark, around 1960 in Tangier, who once bragged that he had been sailing 23 years without an accident. That very day, Clark's ship had an accident that killed him and everybody else aboard. Furthermore, while Burroughs was thinking about this crude example of the irony of the gods that evening, a bulletin on the radio announced the crash of an airliner in Florida, USA. The pilot was another Captain Clark and the flight was Flight 23.
'Robert Anton Wilson, Fortean Times[55]
[edit] Appearances in media
[edit] In music
Burroughs appears on the cover of The Beatles' eighth studio album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Burroughs participated on numerous album releases by Giorno Poetry Systems, including The Nova Convention (featuring Frank Zappa, John Cage, and Philip Glass) and You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With (with John Giorno and Laurie Anderson). He is featured in a spoken word piece entitled "Sharkey's Night" on Laurie Anderson's album Mister Heartbreak. In addition, Burroughs provided vocal samples for the soundtrack of Anderson's 1986 concert film, Home of the Brave, and made a cameo appearance in it. He also recites the lyrics of R.E.M.'s "Star Me Kitten" for a special version of the song on the Songs in the Key of X: Music from and Inspired by the X-Files soundtrack.
In 1990, Island Records released Dead City Radio, a collection of readings set to a broad range of musical compositions. It was produced by Hal Willner and Nelson Lyon, with musical accompaniment from John Cale, Donald Fagen, Lenny Pickett, Chris Stein, Sonic Youth, and others. The remastered edition of Sonic Youth's album Goo includes a longer version of "Dr. Benway's House," which had appeared, in shorter form, on Dead City Radio.
In 1992 he recorded "Quick Fix" with Ministry, which appeared on their single for "Just One Fix." The single featured cover art by Burroughs and a remix of the song dubbed the "W.S.B. mix." Burroughs also made an appearance in the video for "Just One Fix." The same year he also recorded the EP The "Priest" They Called Him; Burroughs reads the short story of the same name, while Kurt Cobain creates layers of guitar feedback and distortion. Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic is featured on the cover as the titular "Priest." In 1992 Burroughs worked with The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy on Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales, with the duo providing musical background and accompaniment to Burroughs's spoken readings from several of his books.
Burroughs appears near the end of U2's music video "Last Night on Earth", pushing a shopping cart with a large spotlight positioned inside it. The video ends with a close up of his eyes.
In 2000, Spring Heel Jack released the album Oddities, on which appears the band's remix of Material's Road to the Western Lands, featuring Burroughs, which had originally appeared on the remix album Seven Souls.
[edit] Band names
Numerous band have found their names in Burroughs's work. The most widely known of these is Steely Dan, a group named after a dildo in Naked Lunch.[56] Also from Naked Lunch came the names The Mugwumps and The Insect Trust. British band Soft Machine took its moniker from the Burroughs novel of the same name, as did the protopunk band Dead Fingers Talk, from Hull, England; their only album was titled Storm the Reality Studios, after a quote from Nova Express. Alt-country band Clem Snide is named for a Burroughs character. Thin White Rope took their name for Burroughs's euphemism for ejaculation.[57] The American extreme metal band Success Will Write Apocalypse Across the Sky took their name from the 1989 text "Apocalypse",[58] in which Burroughs describes "art and creative expression taking a literal and physical form."[59]
[edit] "Heavy metal"
Burroughs is cited as one of the possible origins of the term heavy metal, referring to heavy metal music. The Soft Machine (1963) includes a character known as "Uranian Willy, the Heavy Metal Kid", followed by 1964's Nova Express,[60] in which the term is used as a metaphor for addictive drugs.
[edit] In film and television
Burroughs played Opium Jones in the 1966 Conrad Rooks cult film Chappaqua, which also featured cameo roles by Allen Ginsberg, Moondog, and others. In 1968, an abbreviated'77 minutes as opposed to the original's 104 minutes'version of Benjamin Christensen's 1922 film Häxan was released, subtitled Witchcraft Through The Ages. This version, produced by Anthony Balch, featured an eclectic jazz score by Daniel Humair and narration by Burroughs.[61] He also appeared in a number of short films in the 1960s directed by Balch.[62]
Burroughs narrated part of the 1980 documentary Shamans of the Blind Country by anthropologist and filmmaker Michael Oppitz.[63] He gave a reading on Saturday Night Live on November 7, 1981, in an episode hosted by Lauren Hutton.
Burroughs subsequently made cameo appearances in a number of other films and videos, such as David Blair's Wax: or the Discovery of Television among the Bees, in which he plays a beekeeper, in an elliptic story about the first Gulf War, and Decoder by Klaus Maeck.[64] He played an aging junkie priest in Gus Van Sant's 1989 film Drugstore Cowboy. He also appears briefly at the beginning of Van Sant's Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (based on the Tom Robbins novel), in which he is seen crossing a city street; as the noise of the city rises around him he pauses in the middle of the intersection and speaks the single word "ominous". Van Sant's short film "Thanksgiving Prayer" features Burroughs reading the poem "Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28, 1986," from Tornado Alley, intercut with a collage of black and white images.
A documentary titled Burroughs, directed by Howard Brookner, was released in 1984. It included footage of Burroughs and many of his friends and colleagues.
Near the end of his life, recordings of Burroughs reading his short stories "A Junky's Christmas" and "Ah Pook is Here" were used to great effect on the soundtracks of two highly acclaimed animated film adaptations.[65]
Filmmakers Lars Movin and Steen Moller Rasmussen used footage of Burroughs taken during a 1983 tour of Scandinavia in the documentary Words of Advice: William S. Burroughs on the Road.
[edit] As a fictional character
Burroughs was fictionalized in Jack Kerouac's autobiographical novel On the Road as "Old Bull Lee". In the 2004 novel Move Under Ground, Burroughs, Kerouac, and Neal Cassady team up to defeat Cthulhu.
Burroughs appears in the first part of The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson during the 1968 Democratic Convention riots and is described as a person devoid of anger, passion, indignation, hope, or any other recognizable human emotion. He is presented as a polar opposite of Allen Ginsberg, as Ginsberg believed in everything and Burroughs believed in nothing. Wilson would recount in his Cosmic Trigger II: Down to Earth having interviewed both Burroughs and Ginsberg for Playboy the day the riots began as well as his experiences with Shea during the riots, providing some detail on the creation of the fictional sequence.
[edit] Bibliography
Main article: William S. Burroughs bibliography
[edit] Notes
[edit] References
Ted Morgan: Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S.Burroughs. New York: Avon, 1988. ISBN 0-805-00901-9
James Grauerholz, Ira Silverberg, Ann Douglas (eds.): Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader. Grove Press, 2000. 576 pages. ISBN 080213694X, 9780802136947 OCLC 57590795
[edit] Further reading
Charters, Ann (ed.). The Portable Beat Reader. Penguin Books, New York 1992. ISBN 0-670-83885-3 (hc); ISBN 0-14-015102-8 (pbk).
Gilmore, John. Laid Bare: A Memoir of Wrecked Lives and the Hollywood Death Trip. Searching for Rimbaud. Amok Books, 1997.
Harris, Oliver. William S. Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, IL 2003.
Miles, Barry. William Burroughs: El Hombre Invisible, A Portrait. Hyperion, New York 1992.
Schneiderman, Davis and Philip Walsh. Retaking the Universe: William S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization. Pluto Press, LOndon 2004.
Stevens, Michael. The Road to Interzone: Reading William S. Burroughs Reading. suicide press, Archer City, Texas 2009.
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William S. Burroughs at the Internet Movie Database
Works by or about William S. Burroughs in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
Conrad Knickerbocker (Fall 1965). "William S. Burroughs, The Art of Fiction No. 36". The Paris Review. http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4424/the-art-of-fiction-no-36-william-s-burroughs.
William S. Burroughs Papers at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Columbia University
RealityStudio fan site with texts, community, scholarship, criticism
William S. Burroughs Internet Database at Southeast Missouri State University
International festivities for 50th anniversary of Naked Lunch
Burroughs multimedia directory
A gallery of Burroughs book cover designs
Artist Malcolm McNeill: On Beat Writer William Burroughs, Interview by George Laughead, August 2007
Doom Patrols: 10. WILLIAM BURROUGHS by Steven Shaviro
William Burroughs and Tom Waits
Interview excerpt from RE/Search
Shooting Joan Burroughs by George Laughead
Allen Ginsberg & William S. Burroughs, Last Public Appearance November 2, 1996 Lawrence, KS
William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch: American Literature from Morocco
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- 1860 census, Green, Lawrence, Missouri, Phelps Post Office, Roll M653_628, page 0 (111?), image 472: (no relationships listed, dated 25 Jun 1860), living in the household of Jonathan and Malindy Hunt:
Joseph A Hunt, 2.12, born Mo
- 1870 census, Green, Lawrence, Missouri, Roll M593_787, page 436, image 42 (relationships not stated, dated 8 Aug 1870): living with parents:
Alexandrew Hunt, 10, born Missouri
- 1880 census: Greene, Lawrence, Missouri, USA, Roll T9_698, FHF 1254698, pg 410.3000, Enum Dist 82, image 0301, taken 15 Jun 1880 living with parents
- 1880 census: Home in 1880: Greene, Lawrence, Missouri
Name: Joseph A. Hunt
Age: 20
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1860
Birthplace: Missouri
Relation to Head of Household: Son
Father's Name: Jonathan
Father's birthplace: Tennessee
Mother's Name: Malinda S.
Mother's birthplace: Kentucky
Occupation: Works On Farm
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Gender: Male
Household Members: Name Age
Jonathan Hunt 56
Malinda S. Hunt 37
Joseph A. Hunt 20
Julia A. Hunt 18
Susan L. Hunt 17
America Hunt 15
Henry E. Hunt 14
Ruben W. Hunt 12
Abatha E. Hunt 10
Charles D. Hunt 5
Minie E. Hunt 2
- 1880 Marriage: Jospeh A Hunt married Miss Mary J Crow in Lawrence Co, Missouri, on 1 Dec 1880:
“State of Missouri, County of Lawrence. This is to certify that on the 1st day of December AD 1880, Mr. Joseph A Hunt and Miss Mary J Crow were by me United in marriage according to the laws of God and of the State of Missouri at Round(?) Grove Lawrence County Missouri. (signed) L.E. Cassidy (?), M.G., E P Linzee, clerk, by W R Hasting D.C. Filed for record 1881, [film page 196, schedule 88]
- 1880 Marriage of JOSEPH HUNT and MARY CROW, 01 Dec 1880, Lawrence Co, MO (Source: Lawrence Co mar rec, Bk C, p 196, lds film # 930949.)
- 1900 US Federal Census: Henrietta Town, Clay, Texas:
Joseph A Hunt, head 40, May 1860, born Missouri, father in Tennessee, mother in Kentucky, farmer, farm rented, can read write and speak English
Mary J Hunt, wife, 43, Aug 1856, born Illinois, father in Kentucky, mother in Kentucky, can read write and speak English
Bessie M Hunt, daug, 13, Aug 1886, born Missouri, father Missouri, mother Illinois, at school 6 months this year, can read write and speak English
Fruisy Hunt, daug, 10, Aug 1889, born Missouri, father Missouri, mother Illinois, at school 6 months this year, can read write and speak English
Hetty A Hunt, daug, 7, Oct 1892, born Missouri, father Missouri, mother Illinois,
- 1910 US Federal Census, Elmwood, Beaver, Oklahoma, USA:
Joseph A Hunt, head, 49, born Missouri, father Kentucky, mother Kentucky, farmer
Mary J Hunt, wife, 53, born Illinois, father Illinois, mother Kentucky, had 4 children, 3 living
Bessie M Hunt, daug, 23, born Missouri, fathr Missouri, mother Illinois, teacher school home
Proncie S Hunt, daug, 19, born Missouri, father Missouri, mother Illinois teacher school home
Hetty A Hunt, daug, 16, born Missouri, father Missouri, mother Illinois
EMIGRATION & LAND
- Family story: Joseph & Mary Hunt came to Canada with a male cousin, perhaps about 1913?, and brought Hetty, and then the cousin went back right away.
- Western Land Grants (1870-1930) [no dates indexed]
Legal Land Description
1. Part Section Township Range Meridian
NW 20 64 20 W4
Reference:
Volume: 691
Folio: 125
Microfilm reel number: C-6488
Names: Joseph Alexander Hunt
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HUNT, Joseph Alexander
Section 20 Township 64 Range 20 Meridian 4
Film # 2983 in Accession # 1970.313 at Provincial Archives of Alberta
File # 2407485
- 1928 burial of Joseph A. Hunt - http://billiongraves.com/pages/record/JosephAHunt/8181066
Birth:1860
Marriage: Not Available
Death: 1928
Cemetery: Boyle Municipal Cemetery
Athabasca County No. 12, Alberta, Canada
Others Here: Mary J. Hunt (1856-1934) [I updated this with some dates and links]
- Written by his granddaughter Mildred Henson:
“Grandpa Hunt was born in Missouri and Grandma in Illinois (Mary Jane Crow). They bore three daughters; my mother, Bessie May, and Janie [Tanie] and Hettie. My Aunt Hettie married Elmer Jones and they, with Grandma and Grandpa, came to Alberta somewhere near Cash Creek. Aunt Hettie died in childbirth and the baby was also lost.
“Grandpa then moved to Boyle on a quarter, Daddy later proved up as a homestead. My parents [Bessie (Hunt) and Angus Henson] came up from the United States too, and wer living on the same place and sharing their accommodations. When our house burned down from a stove-pipe fire and all our possessions were destroyed they moved to a quarter just west of Boyle. The trees on the building site still stand, on the south side of the road. (The place was later owned by Peter Hutzel.)
“Grandpa never had good health and he passed away in the late 1920's. Grandma then moved back to the Henson yard to a little log cabin built for her by Daddy and the neighbors. (I can still remember the excitement of the 'building bee'.) Grandma was there until her passing in the early 1930's She was bedridden for several years and in those years there was no money to pay large hospital bills and no government nursing homes. They were both buried in the Boyle Cemetery.
“Grandpa did love to sing the old gospel songs. [A] picture was taken in his yard on Sunday when some of the neighbors and our family gathered for a sing-song and a visit. They lived quietly with respect for God and their fellow man. “
- Written by a descendant of Daniel Hunt:
“My g-grandfather, Daniel Hunt, was a brother of your Jonathan Hunt. My grandfather, Marion Dee Hunt and first wife, Nellie, were in Beaver Co., OK, early 1900s, when your ancestor, Joseph Alex 'Alec' Hunt was there and from what I have seen Alec and Grandpa Dee evidently worked together on the building of a church there. Nellie died there in 1904 and the body was returned to the Hunt family cemetery in Round Grove, MO. Grandpa ended up later returning permanently to Missouri and married my grandmother in 1910.”
- Family story:
“Hunt went a hunting and got a Crow!” [from V Lucas]
- Published in a Beaver County History Book, Volume I, pg 273 [my comments added]:
Joseph Alex Hunt
Joseph Alex Hunt was born in Lawrence County, Missouri, on May 13, 1860. [SW corner of MO, west of Springfield and south of Lockwood; included Mt Vernon and Aurora] He took as his bride Miss Mary Jane Crow who was born August 18, 1856, at Peoria County, Illinois, on December 1, 1880. To this union four children were born in Lawrence Coutny, Missouri, Clarence E. who died in infancy, Foncie Sultana (Tanie), Bessie and Hettie.
Being a carpenter by trade Joseph Alex and Mary decided to move their family to “No Man’s Land” [the OK panhandle] in Beaver County, Oklahoma [at the base of the OK panhandle in NW OK, with KS to the north and TX to the south; included towns of Beaver, Elmwood, Balko, Turpin, Floris, Forgan...]. They came by train in 1902 to Canadian, Texas [not too far south of Beaver Co OK, and NE of Amarillo TX], where they were met by relatives from the South Flat community. They lived on a farm owned by a cousin Tanie Poland. Alex Hunt, as he was know by all who knew him, with the help of others built the Eight Square Building or “Roundtop” on the Poland land. She donated the plot for the community cemetery. This building was on the north side of the present Sophia Cemetery, and was used for worship and as a community center for many years.
Their home was a frame house and half-dugout. Most of their supplies were bought in nearby country stores at Sophia and La Kemp, Oklahoma. Other supplies were freighted from Higgins and Glazier, Texas. Ther main source of fuel for cooking and heating was cow chips, kaffir corn and maize when coal was not availabe. Their neighbors were Lush Toben, Wesley Jenkins and Hershel Allen.
Bessie, Tanie and Hettie attended school at Old Soddy which was located across the road west of the Joe Getz home. Tanie finished her last years of school at the Elmwood School and made her home with the Billy Overton family on Clear Creek. Upon graduation and passing of the county examination, she was issued a teaching certificate and taught school in the Gray, Oklahoma community. It was during this term of teaching school that her parents decided to move, leaving her behind to finish out her term of teaching.
Alex decided to move his family to Boyle, Alberta, Canada, in 1910. Bessie and Angus Henson were married and accompanied her parents and younger sister Hettie to Canada where they all homesteaded. Their land was practically as far north as the roads permitted them to go in the wooded area. Here they cleared the timber and built their log cabins. Hettie married Elmer Jones December 18, 1913, and died in childbirth November 4, 1914, at Boyle Alberta, Canada.
Alex Hunt farmed and improved his place until his death September 18, 1928. Mrs. Hunt was cared for by her daughter Bessie and children until her death June 12, 1934.
On April 15, 1911, Froncie Sultana (Tanie) was united in marriage to Herbert R Hibbs. To this union four children were born, Paschal O Hibbs, Delia Mae Rose, Helen Eileen Slovacek and Ivan Leroy Hibbs. After marrying and raising her own family, Tanie never had the opportunity to see her parents again, but in 1945 she and her husband drove to Canada and saw her sister Bessie after thirty-five years of separation. This was indeed a joyous occasion. She visited her parent’s graves and took pictures of her parents’ first Canadian log cabin which is still standing, though unused.
Tanie and Herbert lived at “Hibbs Corner,” now known as Elmwood Oklalhoma, for several years, and then they moved to Balko until they retired in 1959 and moved to Beavr. Tanie passed away June 4, 1966.
Paschal O “Pack” Hibbs was united in marriage to Louela Smith. To this union two children were born, Leon and Connie Lou.
Delia Mae married Homer Rose, they live at Buxton, Oregon.
Helen Eileen Hibbs married Frank Slovacek. They lived on a farm in the South Flat community. They have two sons, Calvin and Jimmy Dale.
Ivan Leroy married Eloise Hancock. They have two daughters, Micki Jo and Kay Lynn.
Submitted by Helen Slovacek.
- From another researcher:
DPL -- LAWRENCE COUNTY MISSOURI HISTORY, Pub. Law. Co. Hist. Soc., p 481
JOHN HUNT (bio by Reva (Hunt) West)
"4. Jonathan, 1823-1905, Baptist Minister, married Elizabeth Poland, they had 8 children. 2nd wife was Malinda S. Poland, ... sister to Elizabeth ... Malinda & Jonathan had 7 children: ...
H. Joseph A., (b) 1860. Jonathan and Malinda's children were: I. Alexander, (b) 1860, married Mary Crow. ..."
RESEARCH NOTES
- for the history of No Man’s Land Oklahoma Territory (prior to the Hunts moving there - a wild area!) - see http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~itgenweb/noman/
- Google maps considers South Flat Church to be in Beaver Co OK but Sophia Cemetery to be in Laverne OK instead of in Beaver - the 2 locations are very close together(abt 1km), both SE of Elmwood | ||||||||
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Entry updated 11 March 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1914-1997) US author born into a successful business family, and a Harvard graduate in English literature in 1936, but a deeply transgressive and famous drop-out thereafter. He lived in Mexico, North Africa and the UK, and for many years was a heroin addict. He began writing in the late 1930s, but had no success until the early 1950s when he wrote two confessional books: Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict (1953 as by William Lee; rev as by Burroughs 1977) and Queer: A Novel (written 1950s; 1985), which were respectively about Drug-addiction and homosexuality, themes that continued to dominate Burroughs's work. Although largely unpublished at the time, Burroughs was immensely influential among the Beat writers of the 1950s – notably Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg – and already had an underground reputation before the appearance of his first important book, The Naked Lunch (1959; vt Naked Lunch 1962; vt Naked Lunch: The Restored Text 2001). This nightmarish Satire, first published by the daring and influential Olympia Press in Paris, contains large elements of sf – e.g., the Dystopias of "Freeland" and "Interzone", and some outré biological fantasy: grotesque visions of Genetic Engineering as literalizations of social control in what then could be described as the Near Future. Brilliantly written, funny and scatological, it is – the designation is as anomalous as it is merited – a modern classic; an inventive adaptation was filmed as Naked Lunch (1992) by David Cronenberg. Burroughs's writings since are a bibliographer's despair, and no attempt can be made here to register various versions of his major titles, the texts of which were kept, deliberately, in a state of flux, or to list all the pamphlets issued by various underground publishers.
The major novels of this period are The Soft Machine (1961; rev 1966), The Ticket that Exploded (1962; rev 1967), Nova Express (1964), The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead (1971; rev 1979) and Exterminator! (1973). In these works, Burroughs experimented with "cut-up" techniques (see Information Theory); the element of innovation in this performance was overemphasized at the time, as were suggestions that his texts are opaque: they now read, at points, as almost reportorial renderings of the scrambling of point-of-view and continuity now almost normal in the media where his influence remains vivid: the Cinema, Television, the Media Landscape in general. More significant is the vividness of the imagery and the urgency of the subject matter. Much concerned with the abuses of power, Burroughs uses addiction as an all-embracing metaphor for the ways in which our lives are controlled through a carnivalesque media, itself an appendix of the surveillance state. Particularly in Nova Express, he also brought into luridly exemplary perspective many sf metaphors; e.g., the "Nova Mob", galactic gangsters who are taking over our planet. Images of Space Flight and "biomorphic horror" (J G Ballard's phrase) abound.
Later work retained the corrosiveness of the worldview, but in narrations that verge, with some irony, towards the conventional. The Red Night sequence – comprising Port of Saints (1973 Switzerland; rev 1980), Cities of the Red Night (1981), The Place of Dead Roads (1984) and The Western Lands (1987) – loosely brings together a set of texts in which the genres of the West miscegenate, breed, and descry the road ahead (see Fantastika). Interzone (coll 1989) contains some surreal matter.
Burroughs borrowed ideas from all areas of popular culture – films, Comics, Westerns, sf – and the resulting powerful mélange has analogies with Pop Art (see Postmodernism and SF). He registered his long fascination with Julian Jaynes's The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976) in "An Interview with William S Burroughs" in Across the Wounded Galaxies: Interviews with Contemporary American Science Fiction Writers (coll 1990) by Larry McCaffery, identifying pre-self-conscious humans as victims of totalitarian surveillance on the part of the "gods". His influence can be detected in the sf of J G Ballard, Michael Moorcock, John T Sladek, Norman Spinrad and others. Overt pastiches of his work by sf writers include Barrington J Bayley's "The Four-Colour Problem" (in New Worlds Quarterly 2, anth 1971, ed Michael Moorcock), Philip José Farmer's "The Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod" (1968 Broadside vol 4 #2) – a Tarzan story in the manner of the "wrong" Burroughs (see Edgar Rice Burroughs) – and Iain Sinclair's Downriver (Or, the Vessels of Wrath): A Narrative in Twelve Tales (1991). [DP/JC]
see also: Cyberpunk; SF Music.
William Seward Burroughs
born St Louis, Missouri: 5 February 1914
died Lawrence, Kansas: 2 August 1997
works (selected)
series
Red Night
Port of Saints (London: Covent Garden Press/Ollon, Switzerland: Am Here Books, 1973) [Red Night: hb/]
Port of Saints (Berkeley, California: Blue Wind Press, 1980) [rev of the above: hb/]
Cities of the Red Night (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1981) [Red Night: hb/from Pieter Brueghel]
The Place of Dead Roads (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984) [Red Night: hb/Robert Reed]
The Western Lands (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1987) [Red Night: hb/David Loftus]
individual titles
The Naked Lunch (Paris: Olympia Press, 1959) [pb/nonpictorial]
Naked Lunch (New York: Grove Press, 1959) [vt of the above: hb/]
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (New York: Grove Press, 2001) [exp of the above, with notes by other hands: hb/Charles Rue Woods]
Dead Fingers Talk (London: John Calder, 1963) [an alternative version of The Naked Lunch above, but not a rewrite: hb/Ian Sommerville]
The Soft Machine (Paris: Olympia Press, 1961) [pb/Brion Gysin]
The Soft Machine (New York: Grove Press, 1966) [rev of the above: hb/William S Burroughs]
The Ticket that Exploded (Paris: Olympia Press, 1962) [pb/Ian Sommerville]
The Ticket that Exploded (New York: Grove Press, 1967) [rev of the above: hb/Roy Kuhlman]
Nova Express (New York: Grove Press, 1964) [hb/Roy Kuhlman]
The Last Words of Dutch Schultz (London: Jonathan Cape/Goliard, 1970) [play: hb/]
The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead (New York: Grove Press, 1971) [hb/]
The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead (London: Calder and Boyars, 1979) [rev of the above: hb/John Sewell]
The Soft Machine. Nova Express. The Wild Boys. Three Novels (New York: Grove Press Outrider, 1980) [omni of the three named novels: hb/]
Exterminator! (New York: Viking, 1973) [hb/]
Bladerunner: A Movie (Berkeley, California: Blue Wind Press, 1979) [chap: filmscript: not connected to the film of the same name based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) by Philip K Dick: pb/Michael Patrick Cronan]
The Cat Inside (New York: Grenfell Press, 1986) [story: chap: collaboration with illustrator Bryon Gysin: pb/Bryon Gysin]
Interzone (New York: Viking, 1989) [coll: some stories are surreal: hb/William S Burroughs]
about the author
J G Ballard. "Myth-Maker of the 20th Century" (May/June 1964 New Worlds #142) [mag/]
George Plimpton, editor. Paris Review interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Third Series (New York: Viking Compass, 1968) [nonfiction: anth: pb/]
Daniel Odier. The Job: Interviews with William Burroughs (New York: Grove Press, 1970) [nonfiction: trans of Entretiens avec William Burroughs (Paris: Pierre Belfond, 1969): hb/]
Tony Tanner. "Rub Out the Word" in City of Words: American Fiction, 1950-1970 (New York: Harper and Row, 1971) [nonfiction: coll: hb/]
Miles Associates, compilers. A Descriptive Catalogue of the William S Burroughs Archive (London: Miles Associates, 1973) [nonfiction: hb/]
Eric Mottram. William Burroughs: The Algebra of Need (Buffalo, New York: Intrepid Press, 1971) [nonfiction: hb/]
V Vale and Andrea Juno, editors. Re/Search 4/5: A Special Book Issue: William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin and Throbbing Gristle (San Francisco, California: Re/Search Publications, 1982) [Burroughs interview, article and fiction excerpts: hb/photographic]
Ted Morgan. Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs (New York: Henry Holt, 1988) [nonfiction: hb/]
Victor Bockris. William S Burroughs: A Report from the Bunker (New York: St Martin's Press, 1996) [nonfiction: coll: interviews: pb/photographic]
links
Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Picture Gallery
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William Seward Burroughs (Saint Louis, 5 de febrer del 1914 - Lawrence, 2 d'agost del 1997) va ser un novel·lista, assagista i crític social estatunidenc. (ca)
William Seward Burroughs II. (5. února 1914 St. Louis, Missouri – 2. srpna 1997 Lawrence, Kansas), obecně známý jako William S. Burroughs, člen American Academy of Arts and Letters a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres ve Francii, byl kultovní americký romanopisec, esejista, sociální kritik a malíř. Byl duchovním otcem beat generation, zakladatelem kyberpunku, původcem pojmu heavy metal, vášnivým literárním experimentátorem a zatím posledním spisovatelem amerických dějin, jehož dílu hrozil zákaz další publikace. Až do své smrti byl klientem tzv. substituční metadonové léčby. Dlouholetá opiátová závislost se projevila na jeho částečně autobiografickém díle. Jeho nejvýznamnějším překladatelem do češtiny je Josef Rauvolf. (cs)
كان ويليام سيوارد بوروز الثاني (5 فبراير 1914- 2 أغسطس 1997) كاتبًا أمريكيًا وفنانًا بصريًا ومؤلف ما بعد حداثة رئيسي وأحد الشخصيات الرئيسية التي انتمت لجيل البيت. أثرت مؤلفات ما بعد الحداثة لبوروز على الثقافة الشعبية والأدب. كتب بوروز ثمانية عشر رواية عادية وقصيرة وست مجموعات من القصص القصيرة وأربع مجموعات من المقالات. نُشِرَ أيضًا خمسة كتب عن مقابلاته ومراسلاته. ساهم بوروز أيضًا في مشاريع وتسجيلات مع العديد من الفنانين والموسيقيين وظهر في العديد من الأفلام. كتب وعُرِفَ لفترة وجيزة باسم وليام لي. أنجز وعرض بوروز آلاف اللوحات والأعمال الفنية المرئية الأخرى، بما في ذلك لوحاته الشهيرة للطلق الناري. ولد بوروز في عائلة ثرية من سانت لويس بولاية ميزوري، إذ كان حفيد مبتكر ومؤسس شركة بوروز ويليام سيوارد بوروز الأول وابن أخ مدير العلاقات العامة أيفي لي. بدأ بوروز كتابة المقالات واليوميات في بدايات مراهقته، لكنه لم يبدأ في نشر كتاباته حتى الثلاثينيات من عمره. غادر المنزل في عام 1932 للالتحاق بجامعة هارفارد حيث درس اللغة الإنجليزية ثم الأنثروبولوجيا كطالب دراسات عليا، والتحق بعد ذاك بكلية الطب في فيينا. في عام 1942، جُنِّدَ بوروز في الجيش الأمريكي خلال الحرب العالمية الثانية، ولكنه رُفِضَ من قبل مكتب الخدمات الاستراتيجية والبحرية. بعد ذلك، تورّط في إدمان المخدرات الذي أثر عليه لبقية حياته التي شَغَل فيها مجموعة متنوعة من الوظائف. أثناء إقامته في مدينة نيويورك في عام 1943، صادق ألن غينسبرغ وجاك كيروك. ومن تأثيرهم المشترك، نما أساس جيل البيت، الذي امتلك لاحقًا تأثير مميز على ثقافة الستينات المضادة. تعتبر معظم أعمال بوروز سير ذاتية تقريبًا، فهي مستمدة بشكل أساسي من تجاربه كمدمن على الهيروين، ومن تنقلاته السكنية حيث عاش في جميع أنحاء مكسيكو سيتي تقريبًا ولندن وباريس ومنطقة طنجة الدولية بالقرب من المغرب، وكذلك من رحلاته في منطقة الأمازون في أمريكا الجنوبية. تميزت أعماله أيضًا بموضوعات تناولت الروحانية والسحر والتنجيم؛ وهذا ما شغل بوروز دائمًا سواء في الخيال أو في الحياة الواقعية. قتل بوروز زوجته الثانية جوان فولمر عام 1951 في مكسيكو سيتي. ادعى بوروز في البداية أنه أطلق النار على فولمر بينما كان يُجرِّب حيلة وليام تيل وهو ثمل. أخبر المحققين لاحقًا قصة مختلفة: أن المسدس سقط وضرب الطاولة وأطلق الرصاص الذي قتل فولمر، عندما كان بوروز يعرض مسدسه لأصدقائه. بعد عودة بوروز إلى الولايات المتحدة، أُدين بتهمة القتل الخطأ غيابيًا، وحُكِمَ عليه بالسجن لمدة عامين مع وقف التنفيذ. نجح بوروز في أول رواية بوح له بعنوان «مدمن» عام 1953، لكنه اشتهر بروايته الثالثة بعنوان «الغداء العاري» عام 1959، وهو عمل مثير للجدل عُرِضَ للقضاء لانتهاكه قوانين السدومية في الولايات المتحدة. ساهم بوروز مع بريون جيسين بنشر تقنية التقطع الأدبي التي استخدمها في بعض أعماله، مثل: ثلاثية نوفا أو ثلاثية القطع 1961- 1964. في عام 1983، اختارت الأكاديمية الأمريكية ومعهد الفنون والآداب بوروز للانضمام إليها، وحصل في عام 1984 على وسام الفنون والآداب في فرنسا. وصف جاك كيرواك بوروز بأنه «أعظم كاتب ساخر شهده العالم منذ جوناثان سويفت»، وهي سمعة سببها التهديم الدائم للأنظمة الأخلاقية والسياسية والاقتصادية للمجتمع الأمريكي الحديث؛ الأمر الذي عبَّر عنه في كثير من الأحيان باستخدام التهكم الهزلي. اعتبر جيمس غراهام بالارد بوروز «أهم كاتب برز منذ الحرب العالمية الثانية»، بينما قال نورمان ميلر: «إنه ربما الكاتب الأمريكي الوحيد الممسوس بالعبقرية». عمل بوروز بالفنون المرئية طوال حياته، لكنه لم يعرضها أبدًا حتى عام 1987، بعد وفاة صديقه وشريكه بريون جيسين. خلال السنوات العشر التالية والأخيرة من حياته، عرض لوحاته ورسوماته في المتاحف والمعارض في جميع أنحاء العالم. امتلك بوروز طفل واحد يدعى وليام سيوارد بوروز جونيور (1947-1981) من زوجته الثانية جون فولمر. توفي وليام بوروز في منزله في لورانس- كانساس بعد تعرضه لنوبة قلبية في عام 1997. (ar)
Ο Γουίλιαμ Σ. Μπάροουζ ΙΙ (William Seward Burroughs II, 5 Φεβρουαρίου 1914 – 2 Αυγούστου 1997) ήταν Αμερικανός συγγραφέας, ζωγράφος και σεναριογράφος. Το περισσότερο έργο του είναι αυτοβιογραφικό, βασιζόμενο στις προσωπικές του εμπειρίες από τον εθισμό του στο όπιο, γεγονός που σημάδεψε τα τελευταία 50 χρόνια της ζωής του. Καθοριστική παρουσία της Μπητ γενιάς, ήταν ένας αβάν-γκαρντ συγγραφέας που επηρέασε την ποπ κουλτούρα αλλά και τη λογοτεχνία. Το 1984 εκλέχθηκε μέλος της . (el)
William Seward Burroughs (* 5. Februar 1914 in St. Louis, Missouri; † 2. August 1997 in Lawrence, Kansas) war ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller, der der Beat Generation zugerechnet wird. Sein bekanntestes Werk ist der Roman Naked Lunch. (de)
William Seward BURROUGHS II (ˈ|b|ʌr|oʊ|z}; ankaŭ konata per sia pseŭdonimo William Lee; naskiĝis la 5-an de februaro 1914 – mortis la 2-an de aŭgusto 1997) estis usona verkisto kaj pentristo. (eo)
William Seward Burroughs (1914ko otsailaren 5a, Saint Louis - 1997ko abuztuaren 2a, Kansas) estatubatuar eleberri- eta saiakera-idazlea eta gizarte-kritikaria izan zen.Beat belaunaldiko kide, harreman handia izan zuen Allen Ginsberg (bere maitalea), , Jack Kerouac eta idazleekin. Hala ere, Burroghsen eragina mugimendu horretatik haratago joan zen, geroagoko kontrakulturaren adierazpen artistikoetan ere nabarmenduz.1984ean kide izendatu zuten. (eu)
William Seward Burroughs (/ˈwɪljəm ˈsuɚd ˈbɜɹoʊz/), dit William S. Burroughs, né le 5 février 1914 à Saint-Louis au 4664 de Pershing Avenue dans l'État du Missouri et mort le 2 août 1997 dans sa propriété de Lawrence (Kansas) de complications liées à une crise cardiaque, est un romancier et artiste américain.Principalement connu pour ses romans hallucinés mêlant drogue, homosexualité et anticipation, il est associé à la Beat Generation et à ses figures emblématiques : ses amis Jack Kerouac et Allen Ginsberg. Il a élaboré le cut-up, technique littéraire consistant à créer un texte à partir d'autres fragments textuels d'origines diverses. (fr)
William Seward Burroughs (San Luis, Misuri, 5 de febrero de 1914-Lawrence, Kansas, 2 de agosto de 1997) fue un novelista, artista visual, ensayista y crítico social estadounidense. Renovador del lenguaje narrativo y una de las principales figuras de la Generación Beat, etiqueta con la que nunca estuvo de acuerdo. (es)
Scríbhneoir Meiriceánach a rugadh i St. Louis, Missouri ab ea William Seward Burroughs II (5 Feabhra, 1914 – 2 Lúnasa, 1997). (ga)
William Seward Burroughs II, più noto come William S. Burroughs ([ˈbʌroʊz]; Saint Louis, 5 febbraio 1914 – Lawrence, 2 agosto 1997), è stato uno scrittore, saggista e pittore statunitense, vicino al movimento della Beat Generation. Burroughs scrisse diciotto romanzi, sei raccolte di racconti e quattro raccolte di versi. Cinque sono inoltre i libri pubblicati che raccolgono interviste o corrispondenze. Apparve inoltre in vari film e collaborò con numerosi musicisti e performer. (it)
ウィリアム・シュワード・バロウズ二世（William Seward Burroughs II、1914年2月5日 - 1997年8月2日）は、アメリカ合衆国の小説家。1950年代のビート・ジェネレーションを代表する作家の一人である。 (ja)
William Seward Burroughs II (/ˈbʌroʊz/; February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist, widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced popular culture and literature. Burroughs wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six collections of short stories and four collections of essays, and five books have been published of his interviews and correspondences; he was initially briefly known by the pen name William Lee. He also collaborated on projects and recordings with numerous performers and musicians, made many appearances in films, and created and exhibited thousands of visual artworks, including his celebrated "Shotgun Art". Burroughs was born into a wealthy family in St. Louis, Missouri. He was a grandson of inventor William Seward Burroughs I, who founded the Burroughs Corporation, and a nephew of public relations manager Ivy Lee. Burroughs attended Harvard University, studied English, studied anthropology as a postgraduate, and attended medical school in Vienna. In 1942, Burroughs enlisted in the U.S. Army to serve during World War II. After being turned down by the Office of Strategic Services and the Navy, he developed a heroin addiction that affected him for the rest of his life, initially beginning with morphine. In 1943, while living in New York City, he befriended Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. Their mutual influence became the foundation of the Beat Generation, which was later a defining influence on the 1960s counterculture. Burroughs found success with his confessional first novel, Junkie (1953), but is perhaps best known for his third novel, Naked Lunch (1959). Naked Lunch became the subject of one of the last major literary censorship cases in the United States after its US publisher, Grove Press, was sued for violating a Massachusetts obscenity statute. Burroughs killed his second wife, Joan Vollmer, in 1951 in Mexico City. Burroughs initially claimed that he shot Vollmer while drunkenly attempting a "William Tell" stunt. He later told investigators that he had been showing his pistol to friends when it fell and hit the table, firing the bullet that killed Vollmer. After Burroughs returned to the United States, he was convicted of manslaughter in absentia and received a two-year suspended sentence. While heavily experimental and featuring unreliable narrators, much of Burroughs' work is semiautobiographical, and was often drawn from his experiences as a heroin addict. He lived variously in Mexico City, London, Paris and the Tangier International Zone near Morocco, and traveled in the Amazon rainforest, with these locations featuring in many of his novels and stories. With Brion Gysin, Burroughs popularized the cut-up, an aleatory literary technique, featuring heavily in works such as The Nova Trilogy (1961–1964). Burroughs' work also features frequent mystical, occult, or otherwise magical themes, which were a constant preoccupation for Burroughs, both in fiction and in real life. In 1983, Burroughs was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. In 1984, he was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by France. Jack Kerouac called Burroughs the "greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift"; he owed this reputation to his "lifelong subversion" of the moral, political, and economic systems of modern American society, articulated in often darkly humorous sardonicism. J. G. Ballard considered Burroughs to be "the most important writer to emerge since the Second World War", while Norman Mailer declared him "the only American writer who may be conceivably possessed by genius". (en)
윌리엄 S. 버로스(William Seward Burroughs II, 윌리엄 리/William Lee, 1914년 2월 5일 ~ 1997년 8월 2일)는 미국의 소설가이다. 그는 1997년 8월 2일 캔자스주 로렌스에서 심장마비로 사망했다. (ko)
William Seward Burroughs II (Saint Louis (Missouri)), 5 februari 1914 – Lawrence (Kansas), 2 augustus 1997) was een Amerikaans schrijver. Hij was, naast Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg en Gregory Corso, een van de bekendste schrijvers van de Beat Generation. (nl)
William Seward Burroughs II (ur. 5 lutego 1914 w Saint Louis, zm. 2 sierpnia 1997 w Lawrence) – amerykański pisarz i poeta, także aktor i scenarzysta filmowy. Wiele fragmentów jego twórczości zawiera elementy autobiograficzne; sam widział swoje dzieła jako jedną wielką księgę. Obok Allena Ginsberga i Jacka Kerouaca główny przedstawiciel ruchu artystycznego Beat Generation, popularny także w środowisku hippisów oraz obyczajowych rebeliantów lat 60. XX wieku. Często tematem jego dzieł były doświadczenia związane z zażywaniem opiatów oraz homoseksualizm. (pl)
Уи́льям Сью́ард Бе́рроуз (англ. William Seward Burroughs (МФА [ˈwɪljəm ˈsuɚd ˈbʌroʊz], [ˈwɪljəm ˈsuɚd ˈbɜroʊz]); 5 февраля 1914 года, Сент-Луис, Миссури, США — 2 августа 1997 года, Лоуренс, Канзас, США) — американский писатель и эссеист. Один из ключевых американских авторов второй половины XX века. Считается важнейшим представителем бит-поколения (наряду с Алленом Гинзбергом и Джеком Керуаком). Член Американской академии искусств и литературы (с 1981). Командор французского Ордена Искусств и литературы (1984). Уильям С. Берроуз родился в состоятельной семье, окончил престижный Гарвардский университет, продолжил образование в Европе, много путешествовал. В 1940-х годах познакомился с будущими членами «внутреннего круга» битников; к этому же времени относятся его первые литературные опыты. Дебютную книгу Берроуз опубликовал в довольно зрелом возрасте — в тридцать девять лет. Начало литературной славе Берроуза положил экспериментальный роман «Голый завтрак», вышедший в 1959 году. Авторству писателя принадлежит около двух десятков романов и более десяти сборников малой прозы. Его творчество оказало значительное влияние на современную поп-культуру, в особенности на литературу и музыку. После смерти Берроуза в 1997 году интерес к его литературному наследию не ослабевает. Книги Берроуза продолжают переиздаваться, в частности, увидели свет юбилейные издания романов, приуроченные к датам их первой публикации; также были напечатаны дневниковые записи писателя, его обширная переписка с друзьями, сборники интервью. Вышло значительное число литературоведческих работ, посвящённых исследованию как его сочинений, так и творчества в целом. Произведения писателя неоднократно экранизировались — наибольшую известность получил фильм «Обед нагишом» (1991), снятый Дэвидом Кроненбергом по роману «Голый завтрак». В России переводы книг Берроуза стали появляться с середины 1990-х годов. На данный момент бóльшая часть его произведений доступна на русском языке, однако адекватность некоторых переводов ставится отдельными специалистами под сомнение. (ru)
William Seward Burroughs II (St. Louis, 5 de fevereiro de 1914 — Lawrence, 2 de agosto de 1997) foi um escritor, pintor e crítico social nascido nos Estados Unidos da América. (pt)
William S. Burroughs, född 5 februari 1914 i St. Louis, Missouri, död 2 augusti 1997 i Lawrence, Kansas, var en amerikansk författare, bland annat till den hallucinatoriska Den nakna lunchen (Naked Lunch) och den självbiografiska Tjacket (Junky). Burroughs räknas som en av skaparna av den så kallade beatnik-litteraturen. Utöver författande hade Burroughs ett stort intresse för skjutvapen. Hans verk har påverkat ett antal subkulturella rörelser från 1960-talet och framåt. Romanen Den nakna lunchen (Naked Lunch) har filmatiserats av den kanadensiske regissören David Cronenberg 1991. 1983 valdes Burroughs in i , och 1984 mottog han Ordre des Arts et des Lettres av Frankrike. Jack Kerouac har kallat honom den "största satiriska författaren sedan Jonathan Swift". J. G. Ballard ansåg Burroughs vara "den viktigaste författaren som framträtt sedan andra världskriget" och Norman Mailer såg honom som "den enda amerikanska författaren som kan sägas besitta genialitet". (sv)
Ві́льям Сьюард Барро́уз (або Беррроуз, англ. William Seward Burroughs; 5 лютого 1914 — 2 серпня 1997) — американський письменник і есеїст. Один із ключових американських авторів другої половини XX століття. Вважається одним із найвпливовіших представників біт-покоління (поряд із Алленом Гінзбергом і Джеком Керуаком). Член Американської академії мистецтв і літератури (з 1981). Командор французького Ордену Мистецтв і літератури (1984). Вільям С. Барроуз народився в багатій родині, закінчив престижний Гарвардський університет, продовжив навчання в Європі, багато подорожував. У 1940-х роках познайомився з майбутніми членами «внутрішнього кола» бітників; до того ж часу належать його перші літературні починання. Дебютну книгу Барроуз опублікував у досить зрілому віці — в тридцять дев'ять років. Початок літературній славі Барроуза поклав експериментальний роман «Голий ланч», що вийшов друком 1959 року. Авторству письменника належать понад два десятки романів і понад десять збірників малої прози. Його творчість справила значний вплив на сучасну масову культуру, а особливо на літературу та музику. Після смерті Барроуза 1997 року інтерес до його літературної спадщини не слабшає. Книги Барроуза продовжують перевидаватись, зокрема побачили світ ювілейні видання романів, приурочені датам їх першої публікації; також були надруковані записи із письменникового щоденника, його обсяжне листування з друзями, збірники інтерв'ю. Вийшла значна кількість літературознавчих праць, присвячених дослідженню як його творів, так і творчості загалом. Твори письменника багаторазово екранізувались — найбільшої популярності здобув фільм «Голий ланч» (1991), знятий Девідом Кроненбергом за однойменним романом. В Україні переклади книг Барроуза почали з'являтись з 2016 року, і наразі українські переклади наявні для романів «Наркота» та «Голий ланч», які видала платформа Komubook. (uk)
小威廉·蘇厄德·柏洛茲（英語：William Seward Burroughs II，1914年2月5日－1997年8月2日）是一位美國小說家、散文家、以及說故事表演者。身為垮掉的一代的主要成員，他是影響流行文化以及文學的前衛作家。他被認為是“最會挖苦政治、最具文化影響力和最具創新力的20世紀藝術家之一”。 柏洛茲生平總共發表了18本長篇及短篇小說、6部短篇故事集和4部論文集。另外有五本書收錄了關於他的訪問及書信集。柏洛茲同時也參與了數量眾多的表演項目、音樂紀錄及電影演出。 (zh)
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William Seward Burroughs (Saint Louis, 5 de febrer del 1914 - Lawrence, 2 d'agost del 1997) va ser un novel·lista, assagista i crític social estatunidenc. (ca)
Ο Γουίλιαμ Σ. Μπάροουζ ΙΙ (William Seward Burroughs II, 5 Φεβρουαρίου 1914 – 2 Αυγούστου 1997) ήταν Αμερικανός συγγραφέας, ζωγράφος και σεναριογράφος. Το περισσότερο έργο του είναι αυτοβιογραφικό, βασιζόμενο στις προσωπικές του εμπειρίες από τον εθισμό του στο όπιο, γεγονός που σημάδεψε τα τελευταία 50 χρόνια της ζωής του. Καθοριστική παρουσία της Μπητ γενιάς, ήταν ένας αβάν-γκαρντ συγγραφέας που επηρέασε την ποπ κουλτούρα αλλά και τη λογοτεχνία. Το 1984 εκλέχθηκε μέλος της . (el)
William Seward Burroughs (* 5. Februar 1914 in St. Louis, Missouri; † 2. August 1997 in Lawrence, Kansas) war ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller, der der Beat Generation zugerechnet wird. Sein bekanntestes Werk ist der Roman Naked Lunch. (de)
William Seward BURROUGHS II (ˈ|b|ʌr|oʊ|z}; ankaŭ konata per sia pseŭdonimo William Lee; naskiĝis la 5-an de februaro 1914 – mortis la 2-an de aŭgusto 1997) estis usona verkisto kaj pentristo. (eo)
William Seward Burroughs (1914ko otsailaren 5a, Saint Louis - 1997ko abuztuaren 2a, Kansas) estatubatuar eleberri- eta saiakera-idazlea eta gizarte-kritikaria izan zen.Beat belaunaldiko kide, harreman handia izan zuen Allen Ginsberg (bere maitalea), , Jack Kerouac eta idazleekin. Hala ere, Burroghsen eragina mugimendu horretatik haratago joan zen, geroagoko kontrakulturaren adierazpen artistikoetan ere nabarmenduz.1984ean kide izendatu zuten. (eu)
William Seward Burroughs (/ˈwɪljəm ˈsuɚd ˈbɜɹoʊz/), dit William S. Burroughs, né le 5 février 1914 à Saint-Louis au 4664 de Pershing Avenue dans l'État du Missouri et mort le 2 août 1997 dans sa propriété de Lawrence (Kansas) de complications liées à une crise cardiaque, est un romancier et artiste américain.Principalement connu pour ses romans hallucinés mêlant drogue, homosexualité et anticipation, il est associé à la Beat Generation et à ses figures emblématiques : ses amis Jack Kerouac et Allen Ginsberg. Il a élaboré le cut-up, technique littéraire consistant à créer un texte à partir d'autres fragments textuels d'origines diverses. (fr)
William Seward Burroughs (San Luis, Misuri, 5 de febrero de 1914-Lawrence, Kansas, 2 de agosto de 1997) fue un novelista, artista visual, ensayista y crítico social estadounidense. Renovador del lenguaje narrativo y una de las principales figuras de la Generación Beat, etiqueta con la que nunca estuvo de acuerdo. (es)
Scríbhneoir Meiriceánach a rugadh i St. Louis, Missouri ab ea William Seward Burroughs II (5 Feabhra, 1914 – 2 Lúnasa, 1997). (ga)
William Seward Burroughs II, più noto come William S. Burroughs ([ˈbʌroʊz]; Saint Louis, 5 febbraio 1914 – Lawrence, 2 agosto 1997), è stato uno scrittore, saggista e pittore statunitense, vicino al movimento della Beat Generation. Burroughs scrisse diciotto romanzi, sei raccolte di racconti e quattro raccolte di versi. Cinque sono inoltre i libri pubblicati che raccolgono interviste o corrispondenze. Apparve inoltre in vari film e collaborò con numerosi musicisti e performer. (it)
ウィリアム・シュワード・バロウズ二世（William Seward Burroughs II、1914年2月5日 - 1997年8月2日）は、アメリカ合衆国の小説家。1950年代のビート・ジェネレーションを代表する作家の一人である。 (ja)
윌리엄 S. 버로스(William Seward Burroughs II, 윌리엄 리/William Lee, 1914년 2월 5일 ~ 1997년 8월 2일)는 미국의 소설가이다. 그는 1997년 8월 2일 캔자스주 로렌스에서 심장마비로 사망했다. (ko)
William Seward Burroughs II (Saint Louis (Missouri)), 5 februari 1914 – Lawrence (Kansas), 2 augustus 1997) was een Amerikaans schrijver. Hij was, naast Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg en Gregory Corso, een van de bekendste schrijvers van de Beat Generation. (nl)
William Seward Burroughs II (ur. 5 lutego 1914 w Saint Louis, zm. 2 sierpnia 1997 w Lawrence) – amerykański pisarz i poeta, także aktor i scenarzysta filmowy. Wiele fragmentów jego twórczości zawiera elementy autobiograficzne; sam widział swoje dzieła jako jedną wielką księgę. Obok Allena Ginsberga i Jacka Kerouaca główny przedstawiciel ruchu artystycznego Beat Generation, popularny także w środowisku hippisów oraz obyczajowych rebeliantów lat 60. XX wieku. Często tematem jego dzieł były doświadczenia związane z zażywaniem opiatów oraz homoseksualizm. (pl)
William Seward Burroughs II (St. Louis, 5 de fevereiro de 1914 — Lawrence, 2 de agosto de 1997) foi um escritor, pintor e crítico social nascido nos Estados Unidos da América. (pt)
小威廉·蘇厄德·柏洛茲（英語：William Seward Burroughs II，1914年2月5日－1997年8月2日）是一位美國小說家、散文家、以及說故事表演者。身為垮掉的一代的主要成員，他是影響流行文化以及文學的前衛作家。他被認為是“最會挖苦政治、最具文化影響力和最具創新力的20世紀藝術家之一”。 柏洛茲生平總共發表了18本長篇及短篇小說、6部短篇故事集和4部論文集。另外有五本書收錄了關於他的訪問及書信集。柏洛茲同時也參與了數量眾多的表演項目、音樂紀錄及電影演出。 (zh)
كان ويليام سيوارد بوروز الثاني (5 فبراير 1914- 2 أغسطس 1997) كاتبًا أمريكيًا وفنانًا بصريًا ومؤلف ما بعد حداثة رئيسي وأحد الشخصيات الرئيسية التي انتمت لجيل البيت. أثرت مؤلفات ما بعد الحداثة لبوروز على الثقافة الشعبية والأدب. كتب بوروز ثمانية عشر رواية عادية وقصيرة وست مجموعات من القصص القصيرة وأربع مجموعات من المقالات. نُشِرَ أيضًا خمسة كتب عن مقابلاته ومراسلاته. ساهم بوروز أيضًا في مشاريع وتسجيلات مع العديد من الفنانين والموسيقيين وظهر في العديد من الأفلام. كتب وعُرِفَ لفترة وجيزة باسم وليام لي. أنجز وعرض بوروز آلاف اللوحات والأعمال الفنية المرئية الأخرى، بما في ذلك لوحاته الشهيرة للطلق الناري. (ar)
William Seward Burroughs II. (5. února 1914 St. Louis, Missouri – 2. srpna 1997 Lawrence, Kansas), obecně známý jako William S. Burroughs, člen American Academy of Arts and Letters a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres ve Francii, byl kultovní americký romanopisec, esejista, sociální kritik a malíř. (cs)
William Seward Burroughs II (/ˈbʌroʊz/; February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist, widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced popular culture and literature. Burroughs wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six collections of short stories and four collections of essays, and five books have been published of his interviews and correspondences; he was initially briefly known by the pen name William Lee. He also collaborated on projects and recordings with numerous performers and musicians, made many appearances in films, and created and exhibited thousands of visual artworks, including his celebrated "Shotgun Art". (en)
William S. Burroughs, född 5 februari 1914 i St. Louis, Missouri, död 2 augusti 1997 i Lawrence, Kansas, var en amerikansk författare, bland annat till den hallucinatoriska Den nakna lunchen (Naked Lunch) och den självbiografiska Tjacket (Junky). Burroughs räknas som en av skaparna av den så kallade beatnik-litteraturen. Utöver författande hade Burroughs ett stort intresse för skjutvapen. Hans verk har påverkat ett antal subkulturella rörelser från 1960-talet och framåt. Romanen Den nakna lunchen (Naked Lunch) har filmatiserats av den kanadensiske regissören David Cronenberg 1991. (sv)
Уи́льям Сью́ард Бе́рроуз (англ. William Seward Burroughs (МФА [ˈwɪljəm ˈsuɚd ˈbʌroʊz], [ˈwɪljəm ˈsuɚd ˈbɜroʊz]); 5 февраля 1914 года, Сент-Луис, Миссури, США — 2 августа 1997 года, Лоуренс, Канзас, США) — американский писатель и эссеист. Один из ключевых американских авторов второй половины XX века. Считается важнейшим представителем бит-поколения (наряду с Алленом Гинзбергом и Джеком Керуаком). Член Американской академии искусств и литературы (с 1981). Командор французского Ордена Искусств и литературы (1984). (ru)
Ві́льям Сьюард Барро́уз (або Беррроуз, англ. William Seward Burroughs; 5 лютого 1914 — 2 серпня 1997) — американський письменник і есеїст. Один із ключових американських авторів другої половини XX століття. Вважається одним із найвпливовіших представників біт-покоління (поряд із Алленом Гінзбергом і Джеком Керуаком). Член Американської академії мистецтв і літератури (з 1981). Командор французького Ордену Мистецтв і літератури (1984). (uk) | ||||
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] | null | [] | 1997-08-15T00:00:00 | Just got the word that Burroughs died. A fine fellow, despite his nihilistic veneer. I spent the afternoon of his 70th birthday with him. Spoke about | en | /apple-icon-57x57.png?v=3 | https://www.austinchronicle.com/books/1997-08-15/529416/ | Just got the word that Burroughs died. A fine fellow, despite his nihilistic veneer. I spent the afternoon of his 70th birthday with him. Spoke about guns, hunting, and whether or not I should tell my mother I took LSD. In college, I published a little book of poems, Cheap Picture/Pink Poems, one of which went like this:
WILLIAM BURROUGHS IS DEAD
He is not alive.
The parasites in his body only make it appear so.
He cannot speak.
His jaw merely falls open and mad dogs leap out.
Maggots in his eye sockets lead him to food.
Toads in his mouth secure it.
Roaches in his belly consume it.
He's a home for all that slithers and crawls.
The father of a horde of leeches
Like a great sunken ship, he is lifted to the surface
by octopuses, eels and barracudas
Swim Burroughs!
Carry your entourage to parties around the world.
Shake the hands of kings and lift the skirts of queens.
Train your maggot eyes on the servant boys.
The doctor who performs your autopsy
Will open Pandora's Box #2.
A couple of months later while rehearsing with the Huns at Studio A on the UT campus, a handsome young writer named Adam Block dropped by to visit our bass player, Joel.
I was in the middle of editing my film Taking Tiger Mountain and was fantasizing about contacting William Burroughs to contribute narration. Specifically, I wanted to use an excerpt from his novelette Bladerunner which was eerily similar to my film's plot. Adam said he knew him and would be happy to put us in touch. In fact he would be meeting Burroughs in Santa Fe the following week. I gave him a script and, at the last minute, a copy of Pink Poems.
Adam called a few days later with good news. Despite the fact that he was offended by my poem, William was amenable to me using pieces from Bladerunner. I was required only to make a formal request to his secretary, James Grauerholz. I was embarrassed, flabbergasted, and filled with anxiety. How stupid of me to have sent the poem! Of course he would be offended. What was I thinking? Flabbergasted, because he was such a hero to me... and by how easy it had been to reach him. And worried that Grauerholz would turn out to be a prick, and somehow queer the deal.
The latter turned out to be totally unwarranted. Grauerholz was courteous, expedient, and excited. He was in the middle of launching a major comeback for Burroughs, which included a tour of punk clubs. I guess he saw my participation as drummer in the Huns as a certain validation. All we had to do was arrive at a price. I proposed $250 plus one (or was it one-half?) point ownership in the film. Done.
James wanted to know if I wanted Burroughs to record the narration himself and, like an idiot, I declined (because it didn't make sense for the scene).
A couple of months later the two of them came to Austin on a book signing tour of Cities of the Red Night. I met them at a book store near the Varsity Theatre. William, dapper in a wool suit, sweater, and Earth Shoes, seemed old and frail. He carried a cane. I bought every title by him that they had in the store and had them autographed: "To Mom, Williams S. Burroughs." Each signature was small but carefully rendered cursive. I wondered at the time if he had read about Mark David Chapman shooting John Lennon because his autograph was not readable.
James was tall, fit, and blonde, wearing a blue blazer and jeans. His short hair neatly parted. There was something slightly unformed in his face. He was like an overgrown boy, pretending to be an adult, albeit with impeccable breeding. He made a lot of eye contact, and spoke as if he was letting me in on privileged secrets. I liked him.
I remember thinking it was a strange ritual: All these fans lining up for a brief audience with the pope of avant garde. Each one had a little something prepared to say to his eminence. An awkward speech or attempt at humor. Burroughs was gracious through it all. Didn't seem bored, no more bored than a priest giving absolution, which is what it was.
Meanwhile, passing the time until we could talk, I perused the magazine rack and came upon an issue of Cinema Fantastique with a cover headline about a movie called Bladerunner going into production. I showed it to Grauerholz, who was almost as surprised as I was. It turned out that they had been approached about the name, but no deal had been struck. (I found out later Burroughs got $5000 -- I think -- for the use of the name. In retrospect, I think my deal was more fair.)
All the books signed, Burroughs donned his hat and cane and we walked across the street to the big rusting box on campus which housed the film school. We packed into my tiny cubicle in order to view the rough cut of Tiger Mountain on a 35mm Steenbeck. I was nervous, because even though we had a verbal agreement, we had not signed a contract or exchanged money. This was to be the moment, if Burroughs would stay or blow.
They didn't have time to sit through all 80 minutes, so I fast-forwarded, slowing mainly -- at Grauerholz's request -- at the sex scenes. Anything that touched on the homoerotic was run at extra slow motion. Burroughs sat patiently for about 30 minutes, not saying a word. Only "hmmm-hmmm," like a doctor. At the end he muttered through his teeth: "I think you've got somethin' there, kid." He nodded at James, he nodded at me. I breathed a sigh of relief and presented the contract. He signed as carefully as he'd done the books earlier. I handed William S. Burroughs a check for $250.
They had to get on to another meeting but suggested that I meet them later at their hotel. Somehow, it came out that it was William's 70th birthday. On the way to meet them, I bought a $25 bottle of wine from Steven Harding.
When I arrived, Grauerholz was opening William's mail -- lots of it -- and reading it to him. They were almost all come-ons of one form or another. Requests of William. He granted each and every one, even the one from the woman from Eastern Europe who wanted copies of all his books that were still in print. "Did she send any money?" asked William. "No," said James. "Well, what kind of idiot expects to get something for nothing...! Oh, go ahead and send them."
I got the idea that Burroughs was living his life as a penitent, each little good deed somehow paid penance for some great sin committed earlier in life. I remember thinking: "This man shot his wife between the eyes"; if he wants to go to heaven, he's got a lot cut out for him.
After every piece of mail was opened and dealt with, James announced that he was going to leave us alone for a while and walked out of the room, shutting the door. I felt very nervous, sitting there with my idol, a notorious pedophile. (Not that I was a boy, but to a 70-year-old, I figured I qualified.) Our first attempts at conversation were awkward, as I obsessed about what I'd do if he made a pass. But I was determined not to waste the opportunity. After finding him reticent to discuss anything about himself or his work, he actually offered up a subject, which I was versed in: firearms. He was fascinated by my experiences hunting live game, because his was limited to paper targets (his wife notwithstanding). In fact, I kept thinking I was going to blurt out something about his wife.
The subject drifted into drugs. I asked him how he liked LSD. He said that he didn't. He shook a bit as he talked about the unpleasant "electric" feeling that it gave him. What kind of drugs did he still take? "Marijuana, and the occasional shot of heroin," he said with an impish smile.
I told him that I was debating whether or not to tell my born-again Christian mother that I had taken acid. I thought it might be a bridge towards discussing spiritual matters with her. He advised against it, and I took it to heart. I mean, if William Burroughs deemed me worthy to receive his advice (on his 70th birthday, no less), damn if I wasn't going to follow it.
About an hour later, Grauerholz walked in with Ed Ward, who was scheduled for an interview. I asked if I could stay, but James suggested, politely, that it would be best if I didn't. They would see me later at the reading.
The auditorium was packed. Burroughs read briefly from his new book and then took questions. Someone asked him how he managed to survive all those years without a job. He mumbled something about living frugally. Like an asshole, I raised my hand and reminded him that wasn't he the scion of the Burroughs Typewriter fortune, that didn't he get a monthly royalty check of some kind all of his life? There was a slight groan from the audience and the stink-eye from Ed Ward. Burroughs was, indeed, annoyed by the question, though he answered it, attempting to play down his measly stipend: $100 a month. The crowd was sufficiently placated but the damage was done. I had accused William Burroughs of being a bourgeois dilettante, and he had copped to it like an act of contrition.
Despite my gaffe, Grauerholz invited me to Burroughs' birthday party to be held at an English professor's house. I dropped by my apartment to pick up my roommate Hunter, who had only recently lived out one of his two life-long fantasies, to be crucified, like Jesus, (at a Huns concert.) His other fantasy was to meet his favorite writer: William Burroughs. Since he had introduced me to Burrough's writing, I'd promised to introduce him to the source. When I got to the apartment, Hunter's friend Craig, a real nut-job, was hanging out and insisted on coming along.
I remember seeing William only briefly at the party, gurmed by a mob of English Lit students. He propped himself against the wall and held them at bay with his cane. I realized that this, indeed, was what the stick was for; he never used it for walking.
Craig got plastered and reportedly offered himself to Burroughs. Hunter thanked me profusely, saying it would be just fine if he died now, since he'd met William S. Burroughs. (He did die about five years later from AIDS that he contracted that winter.)
I saw Burroughs only a couple more times -- at Timothy Leary's parties --and never talked to him again. He always acknowledged my presence, but I could never think of anything to say. Grauerholz and I became friends. It was a true tribute to Burroughs' inherent goodness that he hired someone as convivial as James to run his affairs. (Someone told me that Grauerholz had hitchhiked from Kansas to NYC when he was 19, intent on meeting Allen Ginsberg. After a brief affair, Ginsberg passed him to Burroughs, who made him his secretary.)
Anyway, I could never tell if it was Grauerholz who had taken it upon himself to orchestrate the second coming of Burroughs in the 1980s, marked by maximum accessibility -- and culminating in Lauren Hutton introducing him on Saturday Night Live as "America's greatest living writer" --or if he was merely acting on Burroughs orders. Either way, they were a sort of populist centaur, James being the young, muscular equine body supporting William's wise, wizened head.
It was a unique symbiotic relationship, somewhat analogous to Diaghiliev and Nijinsky, only backwards. If Burroughs made Grauerholz into a player, Grauerholz made Burroughs into a superstar. James was a combination press agent, body guard, procurer, companion, editor, manager, entrepreneur. It was Grauerholz who marketed him to punk rockers, booked him on Saturday Night Live, brokered the Nike ads and film deals. It was also Grauerholz that kept Burroughs from becoming old hat. He understood Burrough's place in pop culture better than anybody. It was since he respected him so much that he was able to exploit him so thoroughly. If somebody tells you they knew Burroughs, most likely what they really mean is they knew Grauerholz.
I've always wondered what James would do when Burroughs passed on. It sort of chokes me up now thinking about it. I suppose he'll open a museum in Lawrence (there's plenty of stuff, as Burroughs was as much a painter as a writer); administer the Burroughs estate, establish the Burroughs Institute, hand out grants in Burroughs' name, like a whacked-out Getty Museum. (Maybe it will grow large enough to replace the floundering NEA, and someday get sued for rejecting work for being too conventional.) I suppose he'll preside over the Hollywood productions of Junkie, Queer, and The Wild Boys. There will certainly be a biopic and an A&E documentary (though it won't be as good as the one made in the early Eighties called Burroughs.) Or maybe he'll become a writer himself, keep the flame burning another way.
It occurs to me that Burroughs, Ginsberg, and Leary all died this year. (I'm proud to have met them all.) None of them were religious men, certainly not in any traditional sense. Between them, they broke all of Yahweh's 10 commandments, not to mention the other 623. If Paskal's Wager proves to providential, and a fundamentalist Judeo/Christian/Islamic God exists, none of them have a chance, though, I can't imagine they'd qualify at the other place, either, being such certifiably decent souls. If there's at least as much justice in heaven as on earth, they'll be sitting at the back of the class -- throwing spitballs, smarting off, and nodding out. But getting straight A's.
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] | null | [] | null | Follow William Burroughs and explore their bibliography from Amazon.com's William Burroughs Author Page. | en | Amazon.com | https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B000APV8VA | William Seward Burroughs II (/ˈbʌroʊz/; also known by his pen name William Lee; February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American novelist, short story writer, satirist, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer. A primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author who wrote in the paranoid fiction genre, he is considered to be "one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative artists of the 20th century". His influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature. Burroughs wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six collections of short stories and four collections of essays. Five books have been published of his interviews and correspondences. He also collaborated on projects and recordings with numerous performers and musicians, and made many appearances in films. He was born into a wealthy family in St. Louis, Missouri, grandson of the inventor and founder of the Burroughs Corporation, William Seward Burroughs I, and nephew of public relations manager Ivy Lee. Burroughs began writing essays and journals in early adolescence, but did not begin publicizing his writing until his thirties. He left home in 1932 to attend Harvard University, studied English, and anthropology as a postgraduate, and later attended medical school in Vienna. In 1942 Burroughs enlisted in the U.S. Army to serve during World War II, but was turned down by the Office of Strategic Services and Navy, after which he picked up the drug addiction that affected him for the rest of his life, while working a variety of jobs. In 1943 while living in New York City, he befriended Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, the mutually influential foundation of which grew into the Beat Generation, which was later a defining influence on the 1960s counterculture. Much of Burroughs's work is semi-autobiographical, primarily drawn from his experiences as a heroin addict, as he lived throughout Mexico City, London, Paris and Tangier in Morocco, as well as from his travels in the South American Amazon. Burroughs accidentally killed his second wife, Joan Vollmer, in 1951 in Mexico City, and was consequently convicted of manslaughter. Finding success with his confessional first novel, Junkie (1953), Burroughs is perhaps best known for his third novel Naked Lunch (1959), a highly controversial work that underwent a court case under the U.S. sodomy laws. With Brion Gysin, he also popularized the literary cut-up technique in works such as The Nova Trilogy (1961–1964). In 1983, Burroughs was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and in 1984 was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by France. Jack Kerouac called Burroughs the "greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift", a reputation he owes to his "lifelong subversion" of the moral, political and economic systems of modern American society, articulated in often darkly humorous sardonicism. J. G. Ballard considered Burroughs to be "the most important writer to emerge since the Second World War", while Norman Mailer declared him "the only American writer who may be conceivably possessed by genius". Burroughs had one child, William S. Burroughs, Jr. (1947–1981), with his second wife Joan Vollmer. William Burroughs died at his home in Lawrence, Kansas, after suffering a heart attack in 1997. Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Photo by Allen_Ginsberg_and_William_S._Burroughs.jpg: Marcelo Noah derivative work: Сдобников Андрей [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.
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Email UsMary CHALLIS was born on 20 JAN 1707/8 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. SOURCES: (1) "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (2) "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970. Parents: Thomas CHALLIS and Mary COLBY.
Spouse: Aaron ROWELL. Aaron ROWELL and Mary CHALLIS were married on 18 FEB 1735/36 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Children were: Mary ROWELL.
Miriam CHALLIS was born on 2 DEC 1747 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850 for Amesbury.) She died on 10 AUG 1828 at Poplin (Fremont), Rockingham County, New Hampshire. She was buried in the Hoyt-Currier Cemetery at Fremont, Rockingham County, New Hampshire Parents: Thomas CHALLIS and Rhoda BAGLEY.
Spouse: Stephen COLBY. Stephen COLBY and Miriam CHALLIS were married about 1772. Children were: Rhoda COLBY, John COLBY, Miriam COLBY, Eunice C. COLBY, Thomas Chellis COLBY, Sarah COLBY, Stephen COLBY, Rhoda Chellis COLBY.
Mr. CHALLIS was born date unknown.
Spouse: Mary TEWKSBURY. Mr. CHALLIS and Mary TEWKSBURY were married before 1772.
Philip CHALLIS was born about 1670 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (BOOK SOURCE: "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt.)
Parents: Lieut. Phillip CHALLIS and Mary SARGENT. Philip CHALLIS was born on 16 NOV 1697 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He was living in 1729 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. SOURCES: (1) "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (2) "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970. Parents: Thomas CHALLIS and Mary COLBY.
Spouse: Dorothy WEED. Philip CHALLIS and Dorothy WEED were married on 2 DEC 1725 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.
Philip CHALLIS was born on 15 DEC 1718 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850 for Amesbury.) Parents: John CHALLIS and Sarah FRAME. Lieut. Phillip CHALLIS was born about 1617 in England. He died in 1681 at Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He was a farmer. Lt. Philip Challis - (Challice or Chellis) of Salisbury & Amesbury, MA. "Planter", b. abt. 1617; Received land in the first division in 1640 and 1644; was earlier at Ipswich, where he had a house-lot in 1637. His name is on most of the early Salisbury and Amesbury lists; was a Representative in 1662. An original settle of Amesbury, where he received land in 1654, 1658, and 1659 and later "Children's land for his son in 1659, and a Township" for one of his sons in 1659, also. But he seems to have been a member of the Salisbury Church in 1667, as was his widow in 1687. He married about 1652, Mary Sargent, daughter of William 1st; died in Amesbury about 1681. Inventory of his estate presented 4/22/1691; Widow Mary died 9/27/1716. Philip Challis married 1652, Mary Sargent (2), daughter of William and Judith (Perkins) Sergent; b. ---, m. 1652; d. Sep 27, 1716.
Spouse: Mary SARGENT. Lieut. Phillip CHALLIS and Mary SARGENT were married about 1652. Children were: John CHALLIS, John CHALLIS, William CHALLIS, Phillip Watson CHALLIS, Elizabeth CHALLIS, William CHALLIS, Lydia CHALLIS, Mary CHALLIS, Philip CHALLIS, Thomas CHALLIS, Hannah CHALLIS, John CHALLIS.
Phillip Watson CHALLIS was born on 19 DEC 1658 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died young. SOURCES: (1) "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (2) Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850. Salisbury. Parents: Lieut. Phillip CHALLIS and Mary SARGENT. Sarah CHALLIS was born on 15 MAR 1710/11 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850 for Amesbury.) Parents: John CHALLIS and Sarah FRAME.
Spouse: Theophilus FOOT. Theophilus FOOT and Sarah CHALLIS were married on 14 APR 1736 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850 for Amesbury.) Children were: Elizabeth FOOTE, Challis FOOT, Thomas FOOT, Sarah FOOT, Ann FOOTE, Theophilus FOOT, Thomas FOOT, Pasco FOOTE, Samuel FOOTE.
Sarah CHALLIS was born on 10 JUN 1741 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850 for Amesbury.) Parents: John CHALLIS and Anne SARGENT.
Spouse: John COLLINS. John COLLINS and Sarah CHALLIS were married on 1 OCT 1761 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Children were: Winthrop COLLINS, Charles COLLINS, John COLLINS, Cartlet COLLINS, Joseph COLLINS, Enoch COLLINS, Enos COLLINS, Sarah COLLINS, Anna COLLINS, Seth COLLINS.
Susana CHALLIS was born on 15 DEC 1705 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850 for Amesbury.) Parents: John CHALLIS and Sarah FRAME. Thomas CHALLIS was born on 22 JUN 1673 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died at Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He has Ancestral File Number C2FD-Q9. Thomas was a planter of Salisbury and Amesbury, and was a "snow shoe" man, 1708.
SOURCES: (1) "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (2) "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970. Parents: Lieut. Phillip CHALLIS and Mary SARGENT.
Spouse: Mary COLBY. Thomas CHALLIS and Mary COLBY were married on 3 SEP 1696 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Children were: Philip CHALLIS, Anne CHALLIS, Judith CHALLIS, Mary CHALLIS, Thomas CHALLIS.
Thomas CHALLIS was born on 18 DEC 1709 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He signed a will on 8 JAN 1750 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died on 12 MAR 1752 at Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He had his estate probated on 6 APR 1752 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. SOURCES: (1) Early Vital Records of Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, to 1850; (2) "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (3) "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970. Parents: Thomas CHALLIS and Mary COLBY.
Spouse: Sarah WEED. Thomas CHALLIS and Sarah WEED were married on 22 SEP 1727 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.
Thomas CHALLIS was born on 15 OCT 1720 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850 for Amesbury.) Parents: John CHALLIS and Sarah FRAME.
Spouse: Rhoda BAGLEY. Thomas CHALLIS and Rhoda BAGLEY were married on 22 NOV 1744 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850 for Amesbury.) Children were: Eunice CHALLIS, Miriam CHALLIS, John CHALLIS.
Timothy CHALLIS was born on 12 SEP 1733 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850 for Amesbury.) He died young. Parents: John CHALLIS and Anne SARGENT. Timothy CHALLIS was born on 3 SEP 1738 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850 for Amesbury.) Parents: John CHALLIS and Anne SARGENT. William CHALLIS was born after 1655 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died on 19 DEC 1657 at Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. SOURCES: (1) "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (2) Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850. Salisbury. Parents: Lieut. Phillip CHALLIS and Mary SARGENT. William CHALLIS was born on 18 MAY 1663 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. SOURCES: (1) "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (2) Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850. Salisbury. Parents: Lieut. Phillip CHALLIS and Mary SARGENT.
Spouse: Margaret FOWLER. William CHALLIS and Margaret FOWLER were married on 2 JAN 1698/99 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850 for Amesbury.) Children were: Elizabeth CHALLIS, William CHALLIS.
William CHALLIS was born on 6 JUL 1711 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Parents: William CHALLIS and Margaret FOWLER.
Spouse: Hannah WEED. William CHALLIS and Hannah WEED were married on 9 OCT 1734 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Children were: Eleanor CHALLIS.
Carrie CHALMERS was born on 26 MAR 1864. She died on 6 MAR 1885.
Spouse: Ebenezer T. E. COLBY. Ebenezer T. E. COLBY and Carrie CHALMERS were married on 25 DEC 1884 in Erie County, New York.
Wallace CHALMERS was born about 1865.
Spouse: Anna Belle COLBY. Wallace CHALMERS and Anna Belle COLBY were married about 1888.
Catherine CHAMBERLAIN was born on 27 MAY 1839 in Forked River, Ocean County, New Jersey. She died on 18 NOV 1916 at Ogden, Weber County, Utah.
Spouse: William Randolph TEEPLES. William Randolph TEEPLES and Catherine CHAMBERLAIN were married in 1866 in Provo, Utah County, Utah. Children were: Sarah Elizabeth TEEPLES.
Clella CHAMBERLAIN was born on 21 NOV 1925. She died on 18 AUG 1953. She was buried in Glenwood, Sevier County, Utah.
Spouse: Ossil Leyond MEACHAM. Ossil Leyond MEACHAM and Clella CHAMBERLAIN were married on 7 MAY 1948 in Manti, Sanpete County, Utah.
Mary Lizza CHAMBERLAIN was born in JUL 1846 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. (Daughter of Edward Chamberlain and Lucy.) She appeared in the census in 1900 in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio. (7 Children, 5? living.) She appeared in the census in 1910 in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio. (7 children, 6 living.) She died on 6 FEB 1919 at Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio. She was buried on 8 FEB 1919 in the Woodland Cemetery at Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio
Spouse: Reverend Henry Francis COLBY. Reverend Henry Francis COLBY and Mary Lizza CHAMBERLAIN were married on 5 MAY 1870 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: NEHGS, Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910.) Children were: Mary Low COLBY, Edward Chamberlain COLBY, Francis Gardner COLBY, Henry Roberts COLBY, Alfred Mansfield COLBY, Eleanor Thresher COLBY.
Ray CHAMBERLAIN was born date unknown.
Spouse: Sarah Fay COLBY. Ray CHAMBERLAIN and Sarah Fay COLBY were married date unknown.
Sophia CHAMBERLAIN was born in JUL 1802. She appeared in the census on 29 JUL 1850 in Rockland, Knox County, Maine. She died on 29 SEP 1851 at Hallowell, Kennebec County, Maine.
Spouse: Dr. Zenas COLBY. Dr. Zenas COLBY and Sophia CHAMBERLAIN were married on 30 JUL 1826 in Augusta, Kennebec County, Maine. Children were: Mary Heller COLBY, Delia Francis COLBY, Adelaide W. COLBY, Orrin S. COLBY.
Francis CHAMBERLIN was born in 1822 in Canada.
Spouse: Caroline COLBY. Francis CHAMBERLIN and Caroline COLBY were married on 29 DEC 1844 in Geauga County, Ohio.
Mary F. CHAMBERLIN was born on 6 APR 1819 in Colebrook, Coos County, New Hampshire. Daughter of Edmund and Polly Chamberlin. She appeared in the census in 1850 in Colebrook, Coos County, New Hampshire. She appeared in the census in 1870 in Colebrook, Coos County, New Hampshire. She appeared in the census in 1880 in Colebrook, Coos County, New Hampshire. She appeared in the census in 1900 in Colebrook, Coos County, New Hampshire. She died on 18 NOV 1900 at Colebrook, Coos County, New Hampshire.
Spouse: Ethan COLBY. Ethan COLBY and Mary F. CHAMBERLIN were married on 29 MAR 1843 in Colebrook, Coos County, New Hampshire. Children were: Edward Chamberlin COLBY, Charles B. COLBY, Sarah COLBY.
Clifford Jackson CHAMBERS was born on 10 APR 1917 in Connecticut. He died on 1 DEC 1996 at South Paris, Oxford County, Maine.
Spouse: Ethelyn R. COLBY. Clifford Jackson CHAMBERS and Ethelyn R. COLBY were married date unknown.
Mary W. CHAMBERS was born on 4 JAN 1843 in Hyde Park, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Daughter of CASS & Hannah BROWN. She appeared in the census in 1900 in Bradford, Merrimack County, New Hampshire. She died on 19 FEB 1916 at Claremont, Sullivan County, New Hampshire.
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She was buried on 20 FEB 1916 in the Union Cemetery at Bradford, Merrimack County, New Hampshire
Spouse: Stephen Augustus COLBY. Stephen Augustus COLBY and Mary W. CHAMBERS were married on 12 MAR 1885 in New Hampshire. SOURCE: FHL Number 1000976; COLBY, Stephen A. Age: 52 years, Marriage: Marry W. CHAMBRS Age: 41 years, Date: 12 Mar 1885; Recorded in: Birth and Marriage Index for New Hampshire. Husband previously married. Wife previously married.
Dorothy Ann CHAMPAIN was born on 28 MAR 1950.
Spouse: Joseph Scott COLBY. Joseph Scott COLBY and Dorothy Ann CHAMPAIN were married on 6 JUN 1970. Children were: Lora Lee COLBY, Richard Glen COLBY.
Sarah CHAMPION was born date unknown.
Spouse: Henry BENNETT. Henry BENNETT and Sarah CHAMPION were married date unknown. Children were: Caleb BENNETT, Sarah BENNETT, Love BENNETT.
Charles Colby CHANDLER was born on 30 JUN 1849 in Vermont. He appeared in the census on 23 JUL 1850 in Concord, Merrimack County, New Hampshire. (living at home with father and mother.) He appeared in the census on 9 AUG 1860 in Concord, Merrimack County, New Hampshire. (living at home with father and mother.) He appeared in the census in 1870 in Westborough, Worcester County, Massachusetts. (living at home with father and mother.) Parents: George Bowen CHANDLER and Helen Maria COLBY. Daniel CHANDLER was born in 1786.
Spouse: Mehitable COLBY. Daniel CHANDLER and Mehitable COLBY were married on 19 MAR 1825 in Fryeburg, Oxford County, Maine. March 5, 1825 Marr. Intent Mr. Daniel Chandler and Mifs Mehitable Colby, both of Fryeburg. Cert. granted Mar. 19, 1825.
(SOURCE: The Fryeburg Historical Society. "1777 thru 1844 Marriage intentions - Vol. 1 and Marriages - Vol. 1.")
Delia Gott CHANDLER was born on 5 OCT 1853 in Hopkinton, Merrimack County, New Hampshire. (Daughter of Horatio S. CHANDLER and Susan V. Currier.) She appeared in the census on 13 JUL 1870 in Derry, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. She appeared in the census on 4 JUN 1880 in Derry, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. She appeared in the census on 23 JUN 1900 in Derry, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. She appeared in the census on 29 APR 1910 in Lawrence, Essex County, Massachusetts. She appeared in the census on 16 JAN 1920 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. (living with daughter Fannie.) She appeared in the census on 5 APR 1930 in Hopkinton, Merrimack County, New Hampshire. She died on 12 AUG 1938 at Hopkinton, Merrimack County, New Hampshire. She was buried in the Contoocook Village Cemetery at Hopkinton, Merrimack County, New Hampshire
Spouse: George Owen COLBY. George Owen COLBY and Delia Gott CHANDLER were married on 8 NOV 1869 in Hopkinton, Merrimack County, New Hampshire. (SOURCE: FHL Number 1000976; COLBY, George O., Age: 25 years; Marriage: Delia G. CHANDLER, Age: 18 years; Date: 08 Nov 1869; Recorded in: Birth and Marriage Index for New Hampshire.) Children were: Vina G. COLBY, Frances E. "Fannie" COLBY.
Druscilla Richardson CHANDLER was born in 1837 in Maine.
Spouse: Marshall WALKER. Marshall WALKER and Druscilla Richardson CHANDLER were married on 24 APR 1860 in Maine.
Edward Phelps CHANDLER was born on 17 NOV 1852 in Concord, Merrimack County, New Hampshire. He appeared in the census on 9 AUG 1860 in Concord, Merrimack County, New Hampshire. (living at home with father and mother.) He appeared in the census in 1870 in Westborough, Worcester County, Massachusetts. (living at home with father and mother.) Parents: George Bowen CHANDLER and Helen Maria COLBY. Elizabeth Nelson CHANDLER was born on 20 APR 1865 in Concord, Merrimack County, New Hampshire. She appeared in the census in 1870 in Westborough, Worcester County, Massachusetts. (living at home with father and mother.) Parents: George Bowen CHANDLER and Helen Maria COLBY. Fanny G. CHANDLER was born in MAR 1869. Of Concord, NH.
Spouse: Charles A. BURROUGHS. Charles A. BURROUGHS and Fanny G. CHANDLER were married about 1889. Children were: Maud Alice BURROUGHS, Marietta BURROUGHS, James BURROUGHS.
Frank P. CHANDLER was born in JUN 1846. He appeared in the census in JUN 1880 in Laconia, Belknap County, New Hampshire. He appeared in the census on 1 JUN 1900 in Nashua, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.
Spouse: Sarah Elizabeth COLBY. Frank P. CHANDLER and Sarah Elizabeth COLBY were married on 8 OCT 1878 in New Hampshire.
George Bowen CHANDLER was born on 17 JUN 1803 in Peacham, Caledonia County, Vermont. He appeared in the census on 23 JUL 1850 in Concord, Merrimack County, New Hampshire. He appeared in the census on 9 AUG 1860 in Concord, Merrimack County, New Hampshire. He appeared in the census in 1870 in Westborough, Worcester County, Massachusetts. He died on 28 OCT 1878 at Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan.
Spouse: Helen Maria COLBY. George Bowen CHANDLER and Helen Maria COLBY were married on 27 MAY 1846 in Auburn, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. Children were: John Winthrop CHANDLER, Charles Colby CHANDLER, Edward Phelps CHANDLER, Susan CHANDLER, Samuel CHANDLER, Elizabeth Nelson CHANDLER.
Helen C. CHANDLER was born on 20 JAN 1881 in Kansas. She appeared in the census on 16 APR 1910 in Berkeley, Alameda County, California. (living at home with father and mother.) She appeared in the census on 16 APR 1930 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California. (living at home with mother.) She died on 21 FEB 1975 at Los Angeles County, California.
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Name: CHANDLER, HELEN C
Social Security #: 549665743
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Birth Date: 20 Jan 1881
Birthplace: KANSAS
Death Date: 21 Feb 1975
Death Place: LOS ANGELES
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Parents: John Winthrop CHANDLER and Georgine CLARKE. John Winthrop CHANDLER was born on 22 MAR 1847 in Vermont. He appeared in the census on 23 JUL 1850 in Concord, Merrimack County, New Hampshire. (living at home with father and mother.) He appeared in the census on 9 AUG 1860 in Concord, Merrimack County, New Hampshire. (living at home with father and mother.) He appeared in the census on 10 JUN 1880 in Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas. He appeared in the census on 16 APR 1910 in Berkeley, Alameda County, California. He died in 1912 at Berkeley, Alameda County, California. He was buried in the Mountain View Cemetery at Piedmont, Alameda County, California Parents: George Bowen CHANDLER and Helen Maria COLBY.
Spouse: Georgine CLARKE. John Winthrop CHANDLER and Georgine CLARKE were married about 1875. Children were: John Winthrop CHANDLER, Helen C. CHANDLER.
John Winthrop CHANDLER was born in 1878 in Kansas. He appeared in the census on 10 JUN 1880 in Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas. (living at home with father and mother.) Parents: John Winthrop CHANDLER and Georgine CLARKE. Joseph Colby CHANDLER was born on 1 NOV 1824 in Fryeburg, Oxford County, Maine.
Joseph C. CHANDLER, claim agent of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, located in the city of Madison, Dane County, WI, was born in Fryeburg, Oxford County, ME, 01 Nov 1824, son of Hon. Josephus and Sarah (COLBY) CHANDLER, who were natives of the same place. By occupation the father was a farmer and our subject was reared to agricultural pursuits. He attended the common schools and this was supplemented by a few terms at the Freyburgh Academy, a place of learning known over the country because its first preceptor was the great Daniel WEBSTER.
Our subject became a manager of some public works in the city of Lawrence [Essex County, MA] at the age of 19, also in the city of Lowell [in Middlesex County; or possibly "Lowell Junction" in Essex County], MA. He was engaged in railroad work at an early age on the Maine Central, and then on the Androscoggin & Kennebec, and still afterward on the Grand Trunk. He continued in that line until the road was carried into Canada, in 1852. In 1854 he came to WI and located on a farm in Madison Township, Dane County.
The parents of our subject, Josephus and Sarah (COLBY) CHANDLER, had come here in 1852, locating in Primrose Township, Dane County, WI, and while living here the father had represented his township on the county board; Josephus CHANDLER was a man of prominence, having been a member of the ME Legislature. Sarah (COLBY) CHANDLER, the mother of our subject, died when Joseph C. CHANDLER was but four years of age, and he was her only son. The father, Josephus CHANDLER, remarried and had a family of five children by his second union, three boys and two girls; he died in Primrose Township, Dane County, WI, in 1858.
Joseph C. CHANDLER remained on the farm in Madison Township, Dane County, WI, but sold that farm and then bought another near Judge BRYANT's place. Later he sold this and bought the place where he has lived for the past 30 years, and from that time he has been in the employ of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad and also the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad as their claim agent and the manager of the commissary department in the buying of wood and coal. He removed to the city of Madison, Dane County, WI, in 1862, and has resided here almost ever since he came to the State, excepting a few years in Stoughton [Dane County], WI. For the past six or seven years he has been a member of the Board of Supervisors of the 6th Ward of the city of Madison. In politics Joseph C. CHANDLER is a very outspoken Democrat. In religion he leans toward the Universalist faith, believing firmly in the carrying out of the Golden Rule in life.
Joseph C. CHANDLER was married in Fryeburg, [Oxford County], ME, in Dec 1852, to Miss Sarah E. THOMAS, of Conway, [County], NH, born in the same place. They have had three children: Sarah, born 15 Jan 1854 in NH, died 15 Jul 1885; Alice, born in Nov 1858 in WI, who was spared for 22 years; and Charles N., born in May 1855, in WI, who was for five years before his death, in Apr 1890, at the age of 35 years, ticket agent for the Northwestern Railroad Company at Madison, WI.
WI BIO - Dane Co - CHANDLER, Joseph C. Biographical Review of Dane County, WI. Chicago: Biographical Review Pub. Co. 1893. Vol II, pp 379-380
Parents: Josephus CHANDLER and Sally Osgood COLBY. Josephus CHANDLER was born on 29 AUG 1796 in Fryeburg, Oxford County, Maine. He died on 17 FEB 1859 at Primrose, Dane County, Wisconsin.
Spouse: Sally Osgood COLBY. Josephus CHANDLER and Sally Osgood COLBY were married on 20 OCT 1822 in Fryeburg, Oxford County, Maine. Sep 30, 1822 Marr. Intent Mr. Josephus Chandler and Mifs Sarah C. Colby. Cert. granted Oct. 20, 1822.
(SOURCE: The Fryeburg Historical Society. "1777 thru 1844 Marriage intentions - Vol. 1 and Marriages - Vol. 1.") Children were: Joseph Colby CHANDLER.
Lillian CHANDLER was born about 1870.
Spouse: Henry Albert COLBY. Henry Albert COLBY and Lillian CHANDLER were married about 1885. Children were: Alta M. COLBY.
Mary CHANDLER was born on 26 JAN 1760 in Concord, Merrimack County, New Hampshire. She died on 7 MAY 1831 at Concord, Merrimack County, New Hampshire.
Spouse: Richard FLANDERS. Richard FLANDERS and Mary CHANDLER were married on 20 MAR 1777 in Concord, Merrimack County, New Hampshire. Children were: Hannah FLANDERS.
Mary Jeane CHANDLER was born on 1 JUN 1842 in Hillsborough, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. Daughter of Charles G. CHANDLER. She died on 31 MAY 1871 at Henniker, Merrimack County, New Hampshire.
Spouse: Robert Carter COLBY. Robert Carter COLBY and Mary Jeane CHANDLER were married on 23 NOV 1862 in Deering, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. (SOURCE: FHL Number 1000976; COLBY, Robert Carter Age: 21 years, Marriage: Mary Jane or Jennie M. CHANDLER Age: 20 years, Date: 27 Nov 1862; Recorded in: Birth and Marriage Index for New Hampshire.) Children were: Edith J. COLBY, Isora Marion COLBY, Nellie COLBY.
Roseline CHANDLER was born on 15 MAR 1840 in New York City, New York County, New York. She died on 8 SEP 1914 at Richfield, Sevier County, Utah. She was buried in Holden, Millard County, Utah.
Spouse: Ansel Perse HARMON. Ansel Perse HARMON and Roseline CHANDLER were married on 29 NOV 1862 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah. Children were: Anna Rose HARMON, Zina Belle HARMON. | ||||||||
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William Seward Burroughs II ( ; February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist. He is widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced popular culture and literature.[2][3][4] Burroughs wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six collections of short stories and four collections of essays, and five books have been published of his interviews and correspondences; he was initially briefly known by the pen name William Lee. He also collaborated on projects and recordings with numerous performers and musicians, made many appearances in films, and created and exhibited thousands of visual artworks, including his celebrated "shotgun art".[5]
Burroughs was born into a wealthy family in St. Louis, Missouri. He was a grandson of inventor William Seward Burroughs I, who founded the Burroughs Corporation, and a nephew of public relations manager Ivy Lee. Burroughs attended Harvard University, studied English, studied anthropology as a postgraduate, and attended medical school in Vienna. In 1942, Burroughs enlisted in the U.S. Army to serve during World War II. After being turned down by the Office of Strategic Services and the Navy, he developed a heroin addiction that affected him for the rest of his life, initially beginning with morphine. In 1943, while living in New York City, he befriended Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. Their mutual influence became the foundation of the Beat Generation, which was later a defining influence on the 1960s counterculture. Burroughs found success with his confessional first novel, Junkie (1953), but is perhaps best known for his third novel, Naked Lunch (1959). Naked Lunch became the subject of one of the last major literary censorship cases in the United States after its US publisher, Grove Press, was sued for violating a Massachusetts obscenity statute.
Burroughs killed his second wife, Joan Vollmer, in 1951 in Mexico City. Burroughs initially claimed that he shot Vollmer while drunkenly attempting a "William Tell" stunt.[6] He later told investigators that he had been showing his pistol to friends when it fell and hit the table, firing the bullet that killed Vollmer.[7] After Burroughs fled back to the United States, he was convicted of manslaughter in absentia and received a two-year suspended sentence.
While heavily experimental and featuring unreliable narrators, much of Burroughs' work is semiautobiographical, and was often drawn from his experiences as a heroin addict. He lived variously in Mexico City, London, Paris and the Tangier International Zone near Morocco, and traveled in the Amazon rainforest, with these locations featuring in many of his novels and stories. With Brion Gysin, Burroughs popularized the cut-up, an aleatory literary technique, featuring heavily in works such as The Nova Trilogy (1961–1964). Burroughs' work also features frequent mystical, occult, or otherwise magical themes, which were a constant preoccupation for Burroughs, both in fiction and in real life.[4][8]
In 1983, Burroughs was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. In 1984, he was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by France.[9] Jack Kerouac called Burroughs the "greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift";[10] he owed this reputation to his "lifelong subversion"[11] of the moral, political, and economic systems of modern American society, articulated in often darkly humorous sardonicism. J. G. Ballard considered Burroughs to be "the most important writer to emerge since the Second World War", while Norman Mailer declared him "the only American writer who may be conceivably possessed by genius".[10]
Burroughs was born in 1914, the younger of two sons born to Mortimer Perry Burroughs (June 16, 1885 – January 5, 1965) and Laura Hammon Lee (August 5, 1888 – October 20, 1970). His family was of prominent English ancestry in St. Louis, Missouri. His grandfather, William Seward Burroughs I, founded the Burroughs Adding Machine company, which evolved into the Burroughs Corporation. Burroughs' mother was Laura Hammond Lee Burroughs, whose brother, Ivy Lee, was an advertising pioneer later employed as a publicist for the Rockefellers. His father ran an antique and gift shop, Cobblestone Gardens in St. Louis, and later in Palm Beach, Florida, when they relocated. Burroughs would later write of growing up in a "family where displays of affection were considered embarrassing".[8]: 26
It was during his childhood that Burroughs' developed a lifelong interest in magic and the occult – topics which would find their way into his work repeatedly across the years.[a] Burroughs later described how he saw an apparition of a green reindeer in the woods as a child, which he identified as a totem animal,[b] as well as a vision of ghostly grey figures at play in his bedroom.[c]
As a boy, Burroughs lived on Pershing Avenue (now Pershing Place) in St. Louis' Central West End. He attended John Burroughs School in St. Louis, where his first published essay – "Personal Magnetism", which revolved around telepathic mind-control – was printed in the John Burroughs Review in 1929.[15] He then attended the Los Alamos Ranch School in New Mexico, which was stressful for him. The school was a boarding school for the wealthy, "where the spindly sons of the rich could be transformed into manly specimens".[8]: 44 Burroughs kept journals documenting an erotic attachment to another boy. According to his own account, he destroyed these later, ashamed of their content.[16] He kept his sexual orientation concealed from his family well into adulthood. A common story says[17] that he was expelled from Los Alamos after taking chloral hydrate in Santa Fe with a fellow student. Yet, according to his own account, he left voluntarily: "During the Easter vacation of my second year I persuaded my family to let me stay in St. Louis."[16]
Burroughs finished high school at Taylor School in Clayton, Missouri, and in 1932 left home to pursue an arts degree at Harvard University, where he was affiliated with Adams House. During the summers, he worked as a cub reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, covering the police docket. He disliked the work, and refused to cover some events, like the death of a drowned child. He lost his virginity in an East St. Louis, Illinois, brothel that summer with a female prostitute whom he regularly patronized.[8]: papers, p.62 While at Harvard, Burroughs made trips to New York City and was introduced to the gay subculture there. He visited lesbian dives, piano bars, and the Harlem and Greenwich Village homosexual underground with Richard Stern, a wealthy friend from Kansas City. They would drive from Boston to New York in a reckless fashion. Once, Stern scared Burroughs so badly that he asked to be let out of the vehicle.[8]: 611
Burroughs graduated from Harvard in 1936. According to Ted Morgan's Literary Outlaw,[8]
His parents, upon his graduation, had decided to give him a monthly allowance of $200 out of their earnings from Cobblestone Gardens, a substantial sum in those days. It was enough to keep him going, and indeed it guaranteed his survival for the next twenty-five years, arriving with welcome regularity. The allowance was a ticket to freedom; it allowed him to live where he wanted to and to forgo employment.[8]: 69–70
Burroughs' parents sold the rights to his grandfather's invention and had no share in the Burroughs Corporation. Shortly before the 1929 stock market crash, they sold their stock for $200,000 (equivalent to approximately $3,500,000 in today's funds[18]).[19]
After Burroughs graduated from Harvard, his formal education ended, except for brief flirtations with graduate study of anthropology at Columbia and medicine in Vienna, Austria. He traveled to Europe and became involved in Austrian and Hungarian Weimar-era LGBT culture; he picked up young men in steam baths in Vienna and moved in a circle of exiles, homosexuals, and runaways. There, he met Ilse Klapper, born Herzfeld (1900–1982), a Jewish woman fleeing the country's Nazi government.[1] The two were never romantically involved, but Burroughs married her, in Croatia, against the wishes of his parents, to allow her to gain a visa to the United States. She made her way to New York City, and eventually divorced Burroughs, although they remained friends for many years.[8]: 65–68
After returning to the United States, he held a string of uninteresting jobs. In 1939, his mental health became a concern for his parents, especially after he deliberately severed the last joint of his left little finger at the knuckle to impress a man with whom he was infatuated.[20] This event made its way into his early fiction as the short story "The Finger".
Burroughs enlisted in the U.S. Army early in 1942, shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor brought the United States into World War II. But when he was classified as a 1-A infantry, not an officer, he became dejected. His mother recognized her son's depression and got Burroughs a civilian disability discharge – a release from duty based on the premise that he should have not been allowed to enlist due to previous mental instability. After being evaluated by a family friend, who was also a neurologist at a psychiatric treatment center, Burroughs waited five months in limbo at Jefferson Barracks outside St. Louis before being discharged. During that time he met a Chicago soldier also awaiting release, and once Burroughs was free, he moved to Chicago and held a variety of jobs, including one as an exterminator. When two of his friends from St. Louis – University of Chicago student Lucien Carr and his admirer, David Kammerer – left for New York City, Burroughs followed.
In 1945, Burroughs began living with Joan Vollmer Adams in an apartment they shared with Jack Kerouac and Edie Parker, Kerouac's first wife.[21] Vollmer Adams was married to a G.I. with whom she had a young daughter, Julie Adams.
Burroughs and Kerouac got into trouble with the law for failing to report a murder involving Lucien Carr, who had killed David Kammerer in a confrontation over Kammerer's incessant and unwanted advances. This incident inspired Burroughs and Kerouac to collaborate on a novel titled And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, completed in 1945. The two fledgling authors were unable to get it published, but the manuscript was eventually published in November 2008 by Grove Press and Penguin Books.
During this time, Burroughs began using morphine and became addicted. He eventually sold heroin in Greenwich Village to support his habit. Vollmer also became an addict, but her drug of choice was Benzedrine, an amphetamine sold over the counter at that time. Because of her addiction and social circle, her husband immediately divorced her after returning from the war. With urging from Allen Ginsberg, and also perhaps Kerouac, Burroughs became intellectually and emotionally linked with Vollmer and by summer 1945, had moved in with Vollmer and her daughter. In spring 1946, Burroughs was arrested for forging a narcotics prescription. Vollmer asked her psychiatrist, Lewis Wolberg, to sign a surety bond for Burroughs' release. As part of his release, Burroughs returned to St. Louis under his parents' care, after which he left for Mexico to get a divorce from Ilse Klapper. Meanwhile, Vollmer's addiction led to a temporary psychosis that resulted in her admission to Bellevue Hospital, which endangered the custody of her child. Upon hearing this, Burroughs immediately returned to New York City to gain her release, asking her to marry him. Their marriage was never formalized, but she lived as his common-law wife.
They returned to St. Louis to visit Burroughs' parents and then moved with her daughter to Texas.[22] Vollmer soon became pregnant with Burroughs' child. Their son, William S. Burroughs Jr., was born in 1947. The family moved briefly to New Orleans in 1948.[23]
In New Orleans, police stopped Burroughs' car one evening. They found an unregistered handgun belonging to him as well as a letter from Ginsberg that contained details about the sale of marijuana. The police then searched Burroughs’s home, where they discovered his stash of drugs and half a dozen or more firearms.[24] Burroughs fled to Mexico to escape possible detention in Louisiana's Angola State Prison. Vollmer and their children followed him. Burroughs planned to stay in Mexico for at least five years, the length of his charge's statute of limitations. Burroughs also attended classes at the Mexico City College in 1950, studying Spanish, as well as Mesoamerican manuscripts (codices) and the Mayan language with R. H. Barlow.
Their life in Mexico was by all accounts an unhappy one.[25] Without heroin and suffering from Benzedrine abuse, Burroughs began to pursue other men as his libido returned, while Vollmer, feeling abandoned, started to drink heavily and mock Burroughs openly.[22]
One night, while drinking with friends at a party above the Bounty Bar in Mexico City,[26] a drunk Burroughs allegedly took his handgun from his travel bag and told his wife, "It's time for our William Tell act." There is no indication that they had performed such an action previously.[25] Vollmer, who was also drinking heavily and undergoing amphetamine withdrawal, allegedly obliged him by putting a highball glass on her head. Burroughs shot Vollmer in the head, killing her almost immediately.[27]
Soon after the incident, Burroughs changed his account, claiming that he had dropped his gun and it had accidentally fired.[28] Burroughs spent 13 days in jail before his brother came to Mexico City and bribed Mexican lawyers and officials to release Burroughs on bail while he awaited trial for the killing, which was ruled culpable homicide.
Vollmer's daughter, Julie Adams, went to live with her grandmother, and William S. Burroughs Jr. went to St. Louis to live with his grandparents. Burroughs reported every Monday morning to the jail in Mexico City while his prominent Mexican attorney worked to resolve the case. According to James Grauerholz, two witnesses had agreed to testify that the gun had fired accidentally while he was checking to see if it was loaded, with ballistics experts bribed to support this story.[8]: 202 Nevertheless, the trial was continuously delayed and Burroughs began to write what would eventually become the short novel Queer while awaiting his trial. Upon Burroughs' attorney fleeing Mexico in light of his own legal problems, Burroughs decided, according to Ted Morgan, to "skip" and return to the United States. He was convicted in absentia of homicide and was given a two-year suspended sentence.[8]: 214
Although Burroughs was writing before his murder of Joan Vollmer, this event marked him and, biographers argue, his work for the rest of his life.[8]: 197–198 Vollmer's death also resonated with Allen Ginsberg, who wrote of her in Dream Record: June 8, 1955, "Joan, what kind of knowledge have the dead? Can you still love your mortal acquaintances? What do you remember of us?" In Burroughs: The Movie, Ginsberg claimed that Vollmer had seemed possibly suicidal in the weeks leading up to her death, and he suggested that this may have been a factor in her willingness to take part in the risky William Tell stunt.[29]
After leaving Mexico, Burroughs drifted through South America for several months, seeking out a drug called yagé, which promised to give the user telepathic abilities. A book composed of letters between Burroughs and Ginsberg, The Yage Letters, was published in 1963 by City Lights Books. In 2006, a re-edited version, The Yage Letters Redux, showed that the letters were largely fictionalised from Burroughs' notes.
Burroughs described Vollmer's death as a pivotal event in his life, and one that provoked his writing by exposing him to the risk of possession by a malevolent entity he called "the Ugly Spirit":
I am forced to the appalling conclusion that I would never have become a writer but for Joan's death, and to a realization of the extent to which this event has motivated and formulated my writing. I live with the constant threat of possession, and a constant need to escape from possession, from Control. So the death of Joan brought me in contact with the invader, the Ugly Spirit, and maneuvered me into a life long struggle, in which I have had no choice except to write my way out.[30]
As Burroughs makes clear, he meant this reference to "possession" to be taken absolutely literally, stating: "My concept of possession is closer to the medieval model than to modern psychological explanations ... I mean a definite possessing entity."[30] Burroughs' writing was intended as a form of "sorcery", in his own words[31] – to disrupt language via methods such as the cut-up technique, and thus protect himself from possession.[d][e][f][g] Later in life, Burroughs described the Ugly Spirit as "Monopolistic, acquisitive evil. Ugly evil. The ugly American", and took part in a shamanic ceremony with the explicit aim of exorcising the Ugly Spirit.[36]
Oliver Harris has questioned Burroughs' claim that Vollmer's death catalysed his writing, highlighting the importance for Queer of Burroughs' traumatic relationship with the boyfriend fictionalized in the story as Eugene Allerton, rather than Burroughs' shooting of Vollmer. In any case, he had begun to write in 1945. Burroughs and Kerouac collaborated on And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, a mystery novel loosely based on the Carr–Kammerer situation and that at the time remained unpublished. Years later, in the documentary What Happened to Kerouac?, Burroughs described it as "not a very distinguished work". An excerpt of this work, in which Burroughs and Kerouac wrote alternating chapters, was finally published in Word Virus,[37] a compendium of William Burroughs' writing that was published by his biographer after his death in 1997. The complete novel was finally published by Grove Press in 2008.
Before killing Vollmer, Burroughs had largely completed his first novel, Junkie, which he wrote at the urging of Allen Ginsberg, who was instrumental in getting the work published as a cheap mass-market paperback.[38] Ace Books published the novel in 1953 as part of an Ace Double under the pen name William Lee, retitling it Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict (it was later republished as Junkie, then in 1977 as Junky, and finally in 2003 as Junky: the definitive text of 'Junk', edited by Oliver Harris).[38]
During 1953, Burroughs was at loose ends. Due to legal problems, he was unable to live in the cities toward which he was most inclined. He spent time with his parents in Palm Beach, Florida, and in New York City with Allen Ginsberg. When Ginsberg refused his romantic advances,[39] Burroughs went to Rome to meet Alan Ansen on a vacation financed from his parents' continuing support. He found Rome and Ansen's company dreary and, inspired by Paul Bowles' fiction, he decided to head for the Tangier International Zone,[8]: 232–234 where he rented a room and began to write a large body of text that he personally referred to as Interzone.[40]
To Burroughs, all signs directed a return to Tangier, a city where drugs were freely available and where financial support from his family would continue. He realized that in the Moroccan culture he had found an environment that synchronized with his temperament and afforded no hindrances to pursuing his interests and indulging in his chosen activities. He left for Tangier in November 1954 and spent the next four years there working on the fiction that would later become Naked Lunch, as well as attempting to write commercial articles about Tangier. He sent these writings to Ginsberg, his literary agent for Junkie, but none were published until 1989 when Interzone, a collection of short stories, was published. Under the strong influence of a marijuana confection known as majoun and a German-made opioid called Eukodol, Burroughs settled in to write. Eventually, Ginsberg and Kerouac, who had traveled to Tangier in 1957, helped Burroughs type, edit, and arrange these episodes into Naked Lunch.[8]: 238–242
Further information: Naked Lunch
Whereas Junkie and Queer were conventional in style, Naked Lunch was his first venture into a nonlinear style. After the publication of Naked Lunch, a book whose creation was to a certain extent the result of a series of contingencies, Burroughs was exposed to Brion Gysin's cut-up technique at the Beat Hotel in Paris in October 1959. He began slicing up phrases and words to create new sentences.[41] At the Beat Hotel, Burroughs discovered "a port of entry" into Gysin's canvases: "I don't think I had ever seen painting until I saw the painting of Brion Gysin."[42] The two would cultivate a long-term friendship that revolved around a mutual interest in artworks and cut-up techniques. Scenes were slid together with little care for narrative.
Excerpts from Naked Lunch were first published in the United States in 1958. The novel was initially rejected by City Lights Books, the publisher of Ginsberg's Howl; and Olympia Press publisher Maurice Girodias, who had published English-language novels in France that were controversial for their subjective views of sex and antisocial characters. Nevertheless, Ginsberg managed to get excerpts published in Black Mountain Review and Chicago Review in 1958. Irving Rosenthal, student editor of Chicago Review, a quarterly journal partially subsidized by the university, promised to publish more excerpts from Naked Lunch, but he was fired from his position in 1958 after Chicago Daily News columnist Jack Mabley called the first excerpt obscene. Rosenthal went on to publish more in his newly created literary journal Big Table No. 1; however, the United States Postmaster General ruled that copies could not be mailed to subscribers on the basis of obscenity laws. John Ciardi did get a copy and wrote a positive review of the work, prompting a telegram from Allen Ginsberg praising the review.[43] This controversy made Naked Lunch interesting to Girodias again, and he published the novel in 1959.[44]
After the novel was published, it became notorious across Europe and the United States, garnering interest from not just members of the counterculture of the 1960s, but also literary critics such as Mary McCarthy. Once published in the United States, Naked Lunch was prosecuted as obscene by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, followed by other states. In 1966, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court declared the work "not obscene" on the basis of criteria developed largely to defend the book. The case against Burroughs' novel still stands as the last obscenity trial against a work of literature – that is, a work consisting of words only, and not including illustrations or photographs – prosecuted in the United States.
The Word Hoard, the collection of manuscripts that produced Naked Lunch, also produced parts of the later works The Soft Machine (1961), The Ticket That Exploded (1962), and Nova Express (1964). These novels feature extensive use of the cut-up technique that influenced all of Burroughs' subsequent fiction to a degree. During Burroughs' friendship and artistic collaborations with Gysin and Ian Sommerville, the technique was combined with images, Gysin's paintings, and sound, via Somerville's tape recorders. Burroughs was so dedicated to the cut-up method that he often defended his use of the technique before editors and publishers, most notably Dick Seaver at Grove Press in the 1960s[8]: 425 and Holt, Rinehart & Winston in the 1980s. The cut-up method, because of its random or mechanical basis for text generation, combined with the possibilities of mixing in text written by other writers, deemphasizes the traditional role of the writer as creator or originator of a string of words, while simultaneously exalting the importance of the writer's sensibility as an editor.[citation needed] In this sense, the cut-up method may be considered as analogous to the collage method in the visual arts.[citation needed] New restored editions of The Nova Trilogy (or Cut-Up Trilogy), edited by Oliver Harris (President of the European Beat Studies Network) and published in 2014, included notes and materials to reveal the care with which Burroughs used his methods and the complex histories of his manuscripts.
Burroughs moved into a rundown hotel in the Latin Quarter of Paris in 1959 when Naked Lunch was still looking for a publisher. Tangier, with its political unrest, and criminals with whom he had become involved, became dangerous to Burroughs.[45] He went to Paris to meet Ginsberg and talk with Olympia Press. He left behind a criminal charge which eventually caught up with him in Paris. Paul Lund, a British former career criminal and cigarette smuggler whom Burroughs met in Tangier, was arrested on suspicion of importing narcotics into France. Lund gave up Burroughs, and evidence implicated Burroughs in the importation of narcotics into France. When the Moroccan authorities forwarded their investigation to French officials, Burroughs faced criminal charges in Paris for conspiracy to import opiates. It was during this impending case that Maurice Girodias published Naked Lunch; its appearance helped to get Burroughs a suspended sentence, since a literary career, according to Ted Morgan, is a respected profession in France.
The "Beat Hotel" was a typical European-style boarding house hotel, with common toilets on every floor, and a small place for personal cooking in the room. Life there was documented by the photographer Harold Chapman, who lived in the attic room. This shabby, inexpensive hotel was populated by Gregory Corso, Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky for several months after Naked Lunch first appeared.
Burroughs' time at the Beat Hotel was dominated by occult experiments – "mirror-gazing, scrying, trance and telepathy, all fuelled by a wide variety of mind-altering drugs".[46] Later, Burroughs would describe "visions" obtained by staring into the mirror for hours at a time – his hands transformed into tentacles,[h] or his whole image transforming into some strange entity,[i] or visions of far-off places,[48] or of other people rapidly undergoing metamorphosis.[j] It was from this febrile atmosphere that the famous cut-up technique emerged.
The actual process by which Naked Lunch was published was partly a function of its "cut-up" presentation to the printer. Girodias had given Burroughs only ten days to prepare the manuscript for print galleys, and Burroughs sent over the manuscript in pieces, preparing the parts in no particular order. When it was published in this authentically random manner, Burroughs liked it better than the initial plan. International rights to the work were sold soon after, and Burroughs used the $3,000 advance from Grove Press to buy drugs (equivalent to approximately $31,000 in today's funds[18]).[8]: 316–326 Naked Lunch was featured in a 1959 Life magazine cover story, partly as an article that highlighted the growing Beat literary movement. During this time Burroughs found an outlet for material otherwise rendered unpublishable in Jeff Nuttall's My Own Mag.[49] Also, poetry by Burroughs' appeared in the avant garde little magazine Nomad at the beginning of the 1960s.
Burroughs left Paris for London in 1960 to visit Dr. Dent, a well-known English medical doctor who spearheaded a reputedly painless heroin withdrawal treatment using the drug apomorphine.[50] Dent's apomorphine cure was also used to treat alcoholism, although it was held by several people who undertook it to be no more than straightforward aversion therapy. Burroughs, however, was convinced. Following his first cure, he wrote a detailed appreciation of apomorphine and other cures, which he submitted to The British Journal of Addiction (Vol. 53, 1956) under the title "Letter From A Master Addict To Dangerous Drugs"; this letter is appended to many editions of Naked Lunch.
Though he ultimately relapsed, Burroughs ended up working out of London for six years, traveling back to the United States on several occasions, including one time escorting his son to the Lexington Narcotics Farm and Prison after the younger Burroughs had been convicted of prescription fraud in Florida. In the "Afterword" to the compilation of his son's two previously published novels Speed and Kentucky Ham, Burroughs writes that he thought he had a "small habit" and left London quickly without any narcotics because he suspected the U.S. customs would search him very thoroughly on arrival. He claims he went through the most excruciating two months of opiate withdrawal while seeing his son through his trial and sentencing, traveling with Billy to Lexington, Kentucky from Miami to ensure that his son entered the hospital that he had once spent time in as a volunteer admission.[51] Earlier, Burroughs revisited St. Louis, Missouri, taking a large advance from Playboy to write an article about his trip back to St. Louis, one that was eventually published in The Paris Review, after Burroughs refused to alter the style for Playboy’s publishers. In 1968 Burroughs joined Jean Genet, John Sack, and Terry Southern in covering the 1968 Democratic National Convention for Esquire magazine. Southern and Burroughs, who had first become acquainted in London, would remain lifelong friends and collaborators. In 1972, Burroughs and Southern unsuccessfully attempted to adapt Naked Lunch for the screen in conjunction with American game-show producer Chuck Barris.[52]
Burroughs supported himself and his addiction by publishing pieces in small literary presses. His avant-garde reputation grew internationally as hippies and college students discovered his earlier works. He developed a close friendship with Antony Balch and lived with a young hustler named John Brady who continuously brought home young women despite Burroughs' protestations. In the midst of this personal turmoil, Burroughs managed to complete two works: a novel written in screenplay format, The Last Words of Dutch Schultz (1969); and the traditional prose-format novel The Wild Boys (1971).
It was during his time in London that Burroughs began using his "playback" technique in an attempt to place curses on various people and places who had drawn his ire, including the Moka coffee bar[53][k] and the London HQ of Scientology.[l] Burroughs himself related the Moka coffee bar incident:
Here is a sample operation carried out against the Moka Bar at 29 Frith Street, London, W1, beginning on August 3, 1972. Reverse Thursday. Reason for operation was outrageous and unprovoked discourtesy and poisonous cheesecake. Now to close in on the Moka Bar. Record. Take pictures. Stand around outside. Let them see me. They are seething around in there ... Playback would come later with more pictures ... Playback was carried out a number of times with more pictures. Their business fell off. They kept shorter and shorter hours. October 30, 1972, the Moka Bar closed. The location was taken over by the Queen's Snack Bar.[56]
In the 1960s, Burroughs joined and then left the Church of Scientology. In talking about the experience, he claimed that the techniques and philosophy of Scientology helped him and that he felt that further study of Scientology would produce great results.[57] He was skeptical of the organization itself, and felt that it fostered an environment that did not accept critical discussion.[58] His subsequent critical writings about the church and his review of Inside Scientology by Robert Kaufman led to a battle of letters between Burroughs and Scientology supporters in the pages of Rolling Stone magazine.
In 1974, concerned about his friend's well-being, Allen Ginsberg gained for Burroughs a contract to teach creative writing at the City College of New York. Burroughs successfully withdrew from heroin use and moved to New York. He eventually found an apartment, affectionately dubbed "The Bunker", on the Lower East Side of Manhattan at 222 Bowery.[59] The dwelling was a partially converted YMCA gym, complete with lockers and communal showers. The building fell within New York City rent control policies that made it extremely cheap; it was only about four hundred dollars a month until 1981 when the rent control rules changed, doubling the rent overnight.[60] Burroughs added "teacher" to the list of jobs he did not like, as he lasted only a semester as a professor; he found the students uninteresting and without much creative talent. Although he needed income desperately, he turned down a teaching position at the University at Buffalo for $15,000 a semester. "The teaching gig was a lesson in never again. You were giving out all this energy and nothing was coming back."[8]: 477 His savior was the newly arrived twenty-one-year-old bookseller and Beat Generation devotee James Grauerholz, who worked for Burroughs part-time as a secretary as well as in a bookstore. Grauerholz suggested the idea of reading tours. Grauerholz had managed several rock bands in Kansas and took the lead in booking for Burroughs reading tours that would help support him throughout the next two decades. It raised his public profile, eventually aiding in his obtaining new publishing contracts. Through Grauerholz, Burroughs became a monthly columnist for the noted popular culture magazine Crawdaddy, for which he interviewed Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page in 1975. Burroughs decided to relocate back to the United States permanently in 1976. He then began to associate with New York cultural players such as Andy Warhol, John Giorno, Lou Reed, Patti Smith, and Susan Sontag, frequently entertaining them at the Bunker; he also visited venues like CBGB to watch the likes of Patti Smith perform.[61] Throughout early 1977, Burroughs collaborated with Southern and Dennis Hopper on a screen adaptation of Junky. It was reported in The New York Times that Burroughs himself would appear in the film. Financed by a reclusive acquaintance of Burroughs, the project lost traction after financial problems and creative disagreements between Hopper and Burroughs.[62][63]
In 1976, he appeared in Rosa von Praunheim's New York documentary Underground & Emigrants.
Organized by Columbia professor Sylvère Lotringer, Giorno, and Grauerholz, the Nova Convention was a multimedia retrospective of Burroughs' work held from November 30 to December 2, 1978, at various locations throughout New York. The event included readings from Southern, Ginsberg, Smith, and Frank Zappa (who filled in at the last minute for Keith Richards, then entangled in a legal problem), in addition to panel discussions with Timothy Leary and Robert Anton Wilson and concerts featuring The B-52's, Suicide, Philip Glass, and Debbie Harry and Chris Stein.
In 1976, Burroughs was having dinner with his son, William S. "Billy" Burroughs Jr., and Allen Ginsberg in Boulder, Colorado, at Ginsberg's Buddhist poetry school (Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics) at Chogyam Trungpa's Naropa University when Billy began to vomit blood. Burroughs Sr. had not seen his son for over a year and was alarmed at his appearance when Billy arrived at Ginsberg's apartment. Although Billy had successfully published two short novels in the 1970s and was deemed by literary critics like Ann Charters as a bona fide "second generation beat writer",[64] his brief marriage to a teenage waitress had disintegrated. Billy was a constant drinker, and there were long periods when he was out of contact with any of his family or friends. The diagnosis was liver cirrhosis so complete that the only treatment was a rarely performed liver transplant operation. Fortunately, the University of Colorado Medical Center was one of two places in the nation that performed transplants under the pioneering work of Dr. Thomas Starzl. Billy underwent the procedure and beat the thirty-percent survival odds. His father spent time in 1976 and 1977 in Colorado, helping Billy through additional surgeries and complications. Ted Morgan's biography asserts that their relationship was not spontaneous and lacked real warmth or intimacy. Allen Ginsberg was supportive to both Burroughs and his son throughout the long period of recovery.[8]: 495–536
In London, Burroughs had begun to write what would become the first novel of a trilogy, published as Cities of the Red Night (1981), The Place of Dead Roads (1983), and The Western Lands (1987). Grauerholz helped edit Cities when it was first rejected by Burroughs' long-time editor Dick Seaver at Holt Rinehart, after it was deemed too disjointed. The novel was written as a straight narrative and then chopped up into a more random pattern, leaving the reader to sort through the characters and events. This technique differed from the author's earlier cut-up methods, which were accidental from the start. Nevertheless, the novel was reassembled and published, still without a straight linear form, but with fewer breaks in the story. The trilogy featured time-travel adventures in which Burroughs' narrators rewrote episodes from history to reform mankind.[8]: 565 Reviews were mixed for Cities. Novelist and critic Anthony Burgess panned the work in Saturday Review, saying Burroughs was boring readers with repetitive episodes of pederast fantasy and sexual strangulation that lacked any comprehensible world view or theology; other reviewers, like J. G. Ballard, argued that Burroughs was shaping a new literary "mythography".[8]: 565
In 1981, Billy Burroughs died in Florida. He had cut off contact with his father several years before, even publishing an article in Esquire magazine claiming his father had poisoned his life and claiming that he had been molested as a fourteen-year-old by one of his father's friends while visiting Tangier. The liver transplant had not cured his urge to drink, and Billy suffered from serious health complications years after the operation. After he had stopped taking his transplant rejection drugs, he was found near the side of a Florida highway by a stranger. He died shortly afterward. Burroughs was in New York when he heard from Allen Ginsberg of Billy's death.
Burroughs, by 1979, was once again addicted to heroin. The cheap heroin that was easily purchased outside his door on the Lower East Side "made its way" into his veins, coupled with "gifts" from the overzealous if well-intentioned admirers who frequently visited the Bunker. Although Burroughs would have episodes of being free from heroin, from this point until his death he was regularly addicted to the drug. In an introduction to Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz (who managed Burroughs' reading tours in the 1980s and 1990s) mentions that part of his job was to deal with the "underworld" in each city to secure the author's drugs.[65]
Burroughs moved to Lawrence, Kansas, in 1981, taking up residence at 1927 Learnard Avenue where he would spend the rest of his life. He once told a Wichita Eagle reporter that he was content to live in Kansas, saying, "The thing I like about Kansas is that it's not nearly as violent, and it's a helluva lot cheaper. And I can get out in the country and fish and shoot and whatnot."[66] In 1984, he signed a seven-book deal with Viking Press after he signed with literary agent Andrew Wylie. This deal included the publication rights to the unpublished 1952 novel Queer. With this money he purchased a small bungalow for $29,000.[8]: 596 He was finally inducted into the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1983 after several attempts by Allen Ginsberg to get him accepted. He attended the induction ceremony in May 1983. Lawrence Ferlinghetti remarked the induction of Burroughs into the Academy proved Herbert Marcuse's point that capitalistic society had a great ability to incorporate its one-time outsiders.[8]: 577
By this point, Burroughs was a counterculture icon. In his final years, he cultivated an entourage of young friends who replaced his aging contemporaries. In the 1980s he collaborated with performers ranging from Bill Laswell's Material and Laurie Anderson to Throbbing Gristle. Burroughs and R.E.M. collaborated on the song "Star Me Kitten" on the Songs in the Key of X: Music from and Inspired by the X-Files album. A collaboration with musicians Nick Cave and Tom Waits resulted in a collection of short prose, Smack My Crack, later released as a spoken-word album in 1987. In 1989, he appeared with Matt Dillon in Gus Van Sant's film, Drugstore Cowboy. In 1990, he released the spoken word album Dead City Radio, with musical backup from producers Hal Willner and Nelson Lyon, and alternative rock band Sonic Youth. He collaborated with Tom Waits and director Robert Wilson on The Black Rider, a play that opened at the Thalia Theatre in Hamburg in 1990 to critical acclaim, one that was later performed across Europe and the U.S. In 1991, with Burroughs' approval, director David Cronenberg adapted Naked Lunch into a feature film, which opened to critical acclaim.
During 1982, Burroughs developed a painting technique whereby he created abstract compositions by placing spray paint cans in front of blank surfaces, and then shooting at the paint cans with a shotgun. These splattered and shot panels and canvasses were first exhibited in the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in New York City in 1987. By this time he had developed a comprehensive visual art practice, using ink, spray paint, collage and unusual things such as mushrooms and plungers to apply the paint. He created file-folder paintings featuring these mediums as well as "automatic calligraphy" inspired by Brion Gysin. He originally used the folders to mix pigments before observing that they could be viewed as art in themselves. He also used many of these painted folders to store manuscripts and correspondence in his personal archive[67] Until his last years, he prolifically created visual art. Burroughs' work has since been featured in more than fifty international galleries and museums including Royal Academy of the Arts, Centre Pompidou, Guggenheim Museum, ZKM Karlsruhe, Sammlung Falckenberg, New Museum, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum, and Whitney Museum of American Art.[68]
According to Ministry frontman Al Jourgensen, "We hung out at Burroughs's house one time in '93. So he decides to shoot up heroin and he takes out this utility belt full of syringes. Huge, old-fashioned ones from the '50s or something. Now, I have no idea how an 80 year old guy finds a vein, but he knew what he was doing. So we're all laying around high and stuff and then I notice in the pile of mail on the coffee table that there's a letter from the White House. I said 'Hey, this looks important.' and he replies 'Nah, it's probably just junk mail.' Well, I open the letter and it's from President Clinton inviting Burroughs to the White House for a poetry reading. I said 'Wow, do you have any idea how big this is!?' So he says 'What? Who's president nowadays?' and it floored me. He didn't even know who our current president was."[69]
In 1990, Burroughs was honored with a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame.[70]
In June 1991, Burroughs underwent triple bypass surgery.[71]
He became a member of a chaos magic organization, the Illuminates of Thanateros, in 1993.[72]
He was a voice actor in the 1995 video game The Dark Eye based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe, in which he recites "Annabel Lee".
Burroughs' last filmed performance was in the music video for "Last Night on Earth" by Irish rock band U2, filmed in Kansas City, Missouri, directed by Richie Smyth and also featuring Sophie Dahl.[73]
The only newspaper columnist Burroughs admired was Westbrook Pegler, a right-wing opinion shaper for the William Randolph Hearst newspaper chain.[8]: 170 Burroughs believed in frontier individualism, which he championed as "our glorious frontier heritage on minding your own business." Burroughs came to equate liberalism with bureaucratic tyranny, viewing government authority as a collective of meddlesome forces legislating the curtailment of personal freedom. According to his biographer Ted Morgan, his philosophy for living one's life was to adhere to a laissez-faire path, one without encumbrances – in essence a credo shared with the capitalist business world.[8]: 55 His abhorrence of the government did not prevent Burroughs from using its programs to his own advantage. In 1949 he enrolled in Mexico City College under the GI Bill, which paid for part of his tuition and books and provided him with a seventy-five-dollar-per-month stipend. He maintained, "I always say, keep your snout in the public trough."[8]: 173
Burroughs was a gun enthusiast and owned several shotguns, a Colt .45 and a .38 Special. Sonic Youth vocalist Thurston Moore recounted meeting Burroughs: "he had a number of Guns and Ammo magazines laying about, and he was only very interested in talking about shooting and knifing ... I asked him if he had a Beretta and he said: 'Ah, that's a ladies' pocket-purse gun. I like guns that shoot and knives that cut.'" Hunter S. Thompson gave him a one-of-a-kind .454 caliber pistol.[74] Burroughs was also a staunch supporter of the Second Amendment, being quoted as saying: "I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military."[75]
Burroughs had a longstanding preoccupation with magic and the occult, dating from his earliest childhood, and was insistent throughout his life that we live in a "magical universe".[76] As he himself explained:
In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen. The dogma of science is that the will cannot possibly affect external forces, and I think that's just ridiculous. It's as bad as the church. My viewpoint is the exact contrary of the scientific viewpoint. I believe that if you run into somebody in the street it's for a reason. Among primitive people they say that if someone was bitten by a snake he was murdered. I believe that.[77]
Or, speaking in the 1970s:
Since the word "magic" tends to cause confused thinking, I would like to say exactly what I mean by "magic" and the magical interpretation of so-called reality. The underlying assumption of magic is the assertion of "will" as the primary moving force in this universe – the deep conviction that nothing happens unless somebody or some being wills it to happen. To me this has always seemed self evident ... From the viewpoint of magic, no death, no illness, no misfortune, accident, war or riot is accidental. There are no accidents in the world of magic.[78]
This was no idle passing interest – Burroughs also actively practiced magic in his everyday life: seeking out mystical visions through practices like scrying,[79][80][48] taking measures to protect himself from possession,[81][82][35][36] and attempting to lay curses on those who had crossed him.[53][54][83] Burroughs spoke openly about his magical practices, and his engagement with the occult is attested from a multitude of interviews,[m][n][85] as well as personal accounts from those who knew him.[53][54][35]
Biographer Ted Morgan has argued that: "As the single most important thing about Graham Greene was his viewpoint as a lapsed Catholic, the single most important thing about Burroughs was his belief in the magical universe. The same impulse that led him to put out curses was, as he saw it, the source of his writing ... To Burroughs behind everyday reality there was the reality of the spirit world, of psychic visitations, of curses, of possession and phantom beings."[8][86]
Burroughs was unwavering in his insistence that his writing itself had a magical purpose.[o][p][q][r][91] This was particularly true when it came to his use of the cut-up technique. Burroughs was adamant that the technique had a magical function, stating "the cut ups are not for artistic purposes".[92] Burroughs used his cut-ups for "political warfare, scientific research, personal therapy, magical divination, and conjuration"[92] – the essential idea being that the cut-ups allowed the user to "break down the barriers that surround consciousness".[93] As Burroughs himself stated:
I would say that my most interesting experience with the earlier techniques was the realization that when you make cut-ups you do not get simply random juxtapositions of words, that they do mean something, and often that these meanings refer to some future event. I've made many cut-ups and then later recognized that the cut-up referred to something that I read later in a newspaper or a book, or something that happened ... Perhaps events are pre-written and pre-recorded and when you cut word lines the future leaks out.[93]
In the final decade of his life, Burroughs became heavily involved in the chaos magic movement. Burroughs' magical techniques – the cut-up, playback, etc. – had been incorporated into chaos magic by such practitioners as Phil Hine,[94][95][96] Dave Lee[97] and Genesis P-Orridge.[98][53] P-Orridge in particular had known and studied under Burroughs and Brion Gysin for over a decade.[53] This led to Burroughs contributing material to the book Between Spaces: Selected Rituals & Essays From The Archives Of Templum Nigri Solis[99] Through this connection, Burroughs came to personally know many of the leading lights of the chaos magic movement, including Hine, Lee, Peter J. Carroll, Ian Read and Ingrid Fischer, as well as Douglas Grant, head of the North American section of chaos magic group the Illuminates of Thanateros (IOT).[76][100] Burroughs' involvement with the movement further deepened, as he contributed artwork and other material to chaos magic books,[101] addressed an IOT gathering in Austria,[102] and was eventually fully initiated into the Illuminates of Thanateros.[s][103][76] As Burroughs' close friend James Grauerholz states: "William was very serious about his studies in, and initiation into the IOT ... Our longtime friend, Douglas Grant, was a prime mover."[100]
Burroughs died August 2, 1997, at age 83, in Lawrence, Kansas, from complications of a heart attack he had suffered the previous day.[19] He was interred in the family plot in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri,[105] with a marker bearing his full name and the epitaph "American Writer". His grave lies to the right of the white granite obelisk of William Seward Burroughs I (1857–1898).
Since 1997, several posthumous collections of Burroughs' work have been published. A few months after his death, a collection of writings spanning his entire career, Word Virus, was published (according to the book's introduction, Burroughs himself approved its contents prior to his death). Aside from numerous previously released pieces, Word Virus also included what was promoted as one of the few surviving fragments of And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, a novel by Burroughs and Kerouac. The complete Kerouac/Burroughs manuscript And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks was published for the first time in November 2008.[106]
A collection of journal entries written during the final months of Burroughs' life was published as the book Last Words in 2000. Publication of a memoir by Burroughs entitled Evil River by Viking Press has been delayed several times; after initially being announced for a 2005 release, online booksellers indicated a 2007 release, complete with an ISBN (ISBN 0-670-81351-6), but it remains unpublished.[107]
New enlarged or unexpurgated editions of numerous texts have been published in recent years as "Restored Text" or "Redux" editions all containing additional material and essays on the works or incorporating material edited out of previous versions. Beginning with Barry Miles and James Grauerholz's 2003 edition of Naked Lunch, followed by Oliver Harris's reconstructions of three trilogies of writings. The first of these are the early writings: Junky:the definitive text of "Junk" (2003), Queer: 25th-Anniversary Edition (2010) and The Yage Letters Redux (2006). Following the publication of the latter in December 2007, Ohio State University Press released Everything Lost: The Latin American Journals of William S. Burroughs also edited by Harris, the book contains transcriptions of journal entries made by Burroughs during the time of composing Queer and The Yage Letters, with cover art and review information. There followed "restored text" versions of some of Burroughs' best known novels The Soft Machine, The Ticket that Exploded and Nova Express (styled "the Cut Up Trilogy" officially here for the first time) from Penguin in 2014, and of Burroughs' more obscure collaborative poetic experiments of 1960 Minutes to Go: Redux and The Exterminator: Redux by Moloko Press in 2020. These books, originally pamphlets, are bulked out to three times their original size and the "trilogy" is complete with the completely new BATTLE INSTRUCTIONS an allied experimental collaboration, composited by Harris from unpublished drafts and recordings of the same period.
Burroughs' major works can be divided into four different periods. The dates refer to the time of writing, not publication, which in some cases was not until decades later:
Early work (early 1950s)
Junkie, Queer and The Yage Letters are relatively straightforward linear narratives, written in and about Burroughs' time in Mexico City and South America.
The cut-up period (mid-1950s to mid-1960s)
Although published before Burroughs discovered the cut-up technique, Naked Lunch is a fragmentary collection of "routines" from The Word Hoard – manuscripts written in Tangier, Paris, London, as well as of other texts written in South America such as "The Composite City", blending into the cut-up and fold-in fiction also partly drawn from The Word Hoard: The Soft Machine, Nova Express, The Ticket That Exploded, also referred to as "The Nova Trilogy" or "The Cut-Up Trilogy", self-described by Burroughs as an attempt to create "a mythology for the space age". Interzone also derives from the mid-1950s.
Experiment and subversion (mid-1960s to mid-1970s)
This period saw Burroughs continue experimental writing with increased political content and branching into multimedia such as film and sound recording. Perhaps the defining and most important of which works is The Third Mind (with Brion Gysin) announced in 1966 and not published until the late '70s. The only major novels written in this period are The Wild Boys, and Port of Saints (republished in a different rewritten form in 1980, in the style Burroughs would adopt at that time). However, he also wrote dozens of published articles, short stories, scrap books and other works, several in collaboration with Brion Gysin. The major anthologies representing work from this period are The Burroughs File, The Adding Machine and Exterminator!.
The Red Night trilogy (mid-1970s to mid-1980s)
The books Cities of the Red Night, The Place of Dead Roads and The Western Lands came from Burroughs in a final, mature stage, creating a complete mythology.
Burroughs also produced numerous essays and a large body of autobiographical material, including a book with a detailed account of his own dreams (My Education: A Book of Dreams).
Several literary critics treated Burroughs' work harshly. For example, Anatole Broyard and Philip Toynbee wrote devastating reviews of some of his most important books. In a short essay entitled "A Review of the Reviewers", Burroughs answers his critics in this way:
Critics constantly complain that writers are lacking in standards, yet they themselves seem to have no standards other than personal prejudice for literary criticism. ... such standards do exist. Matthew Arnold set up three criteria for criticism: 1. What is the writer trying to do? 2. How well does he succeed in doing it? ... 3. Does the work exhibit "high seriousness"? That is, does it touch on basic issues of good and evil, life and death and the human condition. I would also apply a fourth criterion ... Write about what you know. More writers fail because they try to write about things they don't know than for any other reason.
— William S. Burroughs, "A Review of the Reviewers"[108]
[unreliable source?]
Burroughs clearly indicates here that he prefers to be evaluated against such criteria over being reviewed based on the reviewer's personal reactions to a certain book. Always a contradictory figure, Burroughs nevertheless criticized Anatole Broyard for reading authorial intent into his works where there is none, which sets him at odds both with New Criticism and the old school as represented by Matthew Arnold.
Burroughs used photography extensively throughout his career, both as a recording medium in planning his writings, and as a significant dimension of his own artistic practice, in which photographs and other images feature as significant elements in cut-ups. With Ian Sommerville, he experimented with photography's potential as a form of memory-device, photographing and rephotographing his own pictures in increasingly complex time-image arrangements.[109]
Burroughs is often called one of the greatest and most influential writers of the 20th century, most notably by Norman Mailer whose quote on Burroughs, "The only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius", appears on many Burroughs publications. Others consider his concepts and attitude more influential than his prose. Prominent admirers of Burroughs' work have included British critic and biographer Peter Ackroyd, the rock critic Lester Bangs, the philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the authors Michael Moorcock. J. G. Ballard, Angela Carter, Jean Genet, William Gibson, Alan Moore, Kathy Acker and Ken Kesey. Burroughs had an influence on the German writer Carl Weissner, who in addition to being his German translator was a novelist in his own right and frequently wrote cut-up texts in a manner reminiscent of Burroughs.[110]
Burroughs continues to be named as an influence by contemporary writers of fiction. Both the New Wave and, especially, the cyberpunk schools of science fiction are indebted to him. Admirers from the late 1970s – early 1980s milieu of this subgenre include William Gibson and John Shirley, to name only two. First published in 1982, the British slipstream fiction magazine Interzone (which later evolved into a more traditional science fiction magazine) paid tribute to him with its choice of name. He is also cited as a major influence by musicians Roger Waters, David Bowie, Patti Smith, Genesis P-Orridge,[111] Ian Curtis, Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Todd Tamanend Clark, John Zorn, Tom Waits, Gary Numan and Kurt Cobain.[112]
In the film William S. Burroughs: A Man Within, Ira Silverberg commented on Burroughs' development as a writer:
Usually, the most radical work tends to come from the upper classes, because they're trying so hard to shop so hard to get away from their roots. So he's a fascinating character uniquely American in that regard. I don't think that work could have existed had he not been breaking away from an incredibly patrician Midwestern background.
Drugs, homosexuality, and death, common among Burroughs' themes, have been taken up by Dennis Cooper, of whom Burroughs said, "Dennis Cooper, God help him, is a born writer".[113] Cooper, in return, wrote, in his essay 'King Junk', "along with Jean Genet, John Rechy, and Ginsberg, [Burroughs] helped make homosexuality seem cool and highbrow, providing gay liberation with a delicious edge". Splatterpunk writer Poppy Z. Brite has frequently referenced this aspect of Burroughs' work. Burroughs' writing continues to be referenced years after his death; for example, a November 2004 episode of the TV series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation included an evil character named Dr. Benway (named for an amoral physician who appears in a number of Burroughs' works.) This is an echo of the hospital scene in the movie Repo Man, made during Burroughs' life-time, in which both Dr. Benway and Mr. Lee (a Burroughs pen name) are paged.
Burroughs had an impact on twentieth-century esotericism and occultism as well, most notably through disciples like Peter Lamborn Wilson and Genesis P-Orridge. Burroughs is also cited by Robert Anton Wilson as the first person to notice the "23 Enigma":
I first heard of the '23 Enigma' from William S. Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch, Nova Express, etc. According to Burroughs, he had known a certain Captain Clark, around 1960 in Tangier, who once bragged that he had been sailing 23 years without an accident. That very day, Clark's ship had an accident that killed him and everybody else aboard. Furthermore, while Burroughs was thinking about this crude example of the irony of the gods that evening, a bulletin on the radio announced the crash of an airliner in Florida, USA. The pilot was another Captain Clark and the flight was Flight 23.
— Robert Anton Wilson, Fortean Times[114]
Some research[115] suggests that Burroughs is arguably the progenitor of the 2012 phenomenon, a belief of New Age Mayanism that an apocalyptic shift in human consciousness would occur at the end of the Mayan Long Count calendar in 2012. Although never directly focusing on the year 2012 himself, Burroughs had an influence on early 2012 proponents such as Terence McKenna and Jose Argüelles, and as well had written about an apocalyptic shift of human consciousness at the end of the Long Count as early as 1960's The Exterminator.[116]
Main article: William S. Burroughs bibliography
Burroughs, William S. (2012). The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs. Penguin UK. ISBN 978-0-14-190358-3.
Grant, Douglas (2015). "Magick and Photography". Ashé Journal .
Harris, Oliver (2017). "William S. Burroughs: Beating Postmodernism". In Belletto, Steven (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to the Beats. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-18445-9.
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The final journals of Beat legend William S. Burroughs reveal the kinder, gentler last days of an "evil old man."
"Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs"
Edited and with an introduction by James Grauerholz
Grove Press, 273 pages, Nonfiction
(SALON) -- Last testaments promise to deliver a final truth. Forget my trumped-up masterpieces with their pancake makeup and professional lighting, the ghostly author seems to whisper -- if you want the goods, visit my deathbed.
Of course, they rarely do deliver. Writers are such costumed creatures, so adept at creating (or distorting) who they are, that even a work written with one foot in the grave often conceals as much as it reveals. And even when a late work does shed some light on a writer's biographical "truth," that truth is often irrelevant or, worse, boring. The simple fact is that most of the time, the creation is more interesting than the creator.
But we're drawn to swan songs for another reason. Revelatory or not, first-rate or not, they are a record -- good, bad or indifferent -- of the universal human encounter with The End. And that is one scene we never tire of watching.
"Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs" holds out a special interest. For Burroughs was singularly enigmatic, and anything promising to shed light on him is hard to resist.
Burroughs is one of the weirdest writers ever to graduate from Harvard, become a junkie and shoot his wife in the head while playing William Tell in Mexico City. Michel Foucault, an odd duck himself, could have had Burroughs in mind when he closed "The Order of Things" with the famous line imagining a future when "man will be erased, like a face drawn in sand at the edge of the sea."
Burroughs' claim to literary greatness is inextricably tied to the shocking inhumanity of his fiction, its quality of notes found in outer space. That alien feeling is heightened by his famous "cut-up" technique, which shattered his authorial persona into thousands of linguistic fragments.
But the true source of Burroughs' weirdness wasn't his avant-garde style (which in any case he abandoned) -- it was his mind. He is one of the most obsessive writers of the 20th century, returning again and again over a period of more than 40 years to the same scenes and fixations, composed of equal parts sexual wish fulfillment, rage at authority and pure, nihilistic glee. Feral homosexual boys battling an ominous, quasi-metaphysical "Control System"; hanged men ejaculating; extraterrestrial villains letting loose grotesque sexual viruses upon the planet; hideous centipedes chewing through screaming human flesh -- these riffs pop up with such regularity that you can almost set your watch by them.
It's natural, after stumbling with glassy eyes through this bizarre yet increasingly monotonous 50-hour movie (Burroughs never came close to equaling his awe-inspiring 1959 masterpiece, "Naked Lunch"), to wonder to what degree the author actually believed in his fictional world. Was he as out in the ozone as L. Ron Hubbard or Elijah Muhammad, whose sinister, vaguely Gnostic cosmologies resemble his, or was he a wild satirist who immersed himself profoundly in his science-fiction world but knew that it was all made up?
More the latter, surely, but enough of the former to move into that familiar area where genius is inseparable from ridiculousness. The question of what Burroughs "rationally" believed goes to the mysterious heart of his creativity. For Burroughs, rationality was the enemy, a tentacle of the Control System dragging its victims toward the sucking maw of the Terminally Normal. It seems likely that he could never have created the amazingly original world of "Naked Lunch" unless he believed, at some impossible-to-locate level in the galactic parking structure of his mind, that the world he was writing about was real. Psychosis? No. Controlled psychosis? Yes.
"Last Words," which covers the months from Nov. 14, 1996, to Aug. 1, 1997 (the day before Burroughs died), sheds some light on the mystery of Burroughs, but the 83-year-old writer it sheds light on is a galaxy removed from the one whose shocking, amoral, trancelike imagination jammed a speedball shot into the jugular vein of American lit. The Burroughs of "Last Words" is an old and tired man who no longer has the energy for psychosis, controlled or uncontrolled, and knows it. The combination of this self-knowledge and his dogged insistence on practicing his craft right to the end as a member of what he calls the "Shakespeare Squadron" gives these journals a certain poignancy. Exhaustion, physical and spiritual, is the deepest note here -- and yet Burroughs keeps writing right up to the day of his death. Even readers who find him distasteful (although the authorial presence here is far more sympathetic than in his earlier books) must find something admirable in that.
Old age mellowed Burroughs, but only to a point. His governing obsessions are still on display, but now they've shriveled into crankiness -- in both senses of the word. (Unfortunately, his world-class humor, in the form of those hilariously sick cosmic jokes uttered in a deadpan tough-guy rhetoric he picked up from Dashiell Hammett, has faded.) He rages predictably against William Bennett, Newt Gingrich and President Clinton as peddlers of anti-drug messages, an animus that seems as tired and cornball as the messages themselves. He denounces the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan, but his obvious belief that Hiroshima was part of a larger pattern of evil deeds and lies perpetrated by "them," whoever they are, undercuts his outrage. "We have been abandoned here on this planet, ruled by lying bastards of modest brain power ... Lying worthless bastards," he screeches. These bombastic outbursts will strike all but the most sentimental apologists of "the literature of rebellion" as at best politically naive, at worst flat-out paranoid.
Indeed, Burroughs' political ravings exemplify a strain of Looney Tunes leftism that can still be found squirming under various mossy post-hippie rocks. This paranoia isn't surprising -- Burroughs and his Beat brethren helped invent the "Whoa, dude, the Man is watching us through our TV sets" strain of analysis. (His fascination with alien-abduction theorist Whitley Streiber fits right in.)
And some of his rages are still less attractive. Just three weeks before he died, brooding over a report in the Weekly World News (if this publication was Burroughs' lifeline to reality, many questions are answered) that Oklahoma City mass murderer Timothy McVeigh broke down like a coward in his jail cell, Burroughs rants, "If they have faked it ... then they have perped a viler attack than his, to take from him any dignity and acceptance and eye-to-eye contact."
Even taking Burroughs' point that the worst villains still deserve to be treated uprightly, it's obscene to assert that not doing so would be worse than killing 168 people. And his next sentence does not make matters better: "Now what Tim did was stupid, of course: sensibly he should have sought out the individuals responsible for Waco, and whacked them." Burroughs, always an original, reveals himself to be not just the ur-Beat but the ur-Black Helicopter conspiracy theorist, the original crossover lefty-righty: a counterculture icon who is also a government-hating, gun-worshiping frontiersman on a first-name basis with Tim McVeigh.
"Last Words" isn't just a catalog of rants. Part working notes, part sui generis fragments and part personal confession, it wanders from remorse-filled meditations on the people he let down to unsettling declarations ("I have no real feeling against murder") to weird set pieces (a country boy's demonic fiddling causing two FBI agents to crash their car and die) to denunciations of the soullessness of the contemporary world (the replacement of the romantic four-master ship logo on Old Spice after-shave by a "little boat with outsize sails" -- a "meaningless smear"). Readers who think of Burroughs as existing apart from the literary tradition will find it fascinating that he spends much time mulling over, and quoting from memory, writers as disparate as Joseph Conrad (a particular favorite), Paul Verlaine, Mario Puzo, T.S. Eliot, Andrew Marvell and Petronius.
But though there are a few chuckles, and though an occasional outburst of energetic bile faintly recalls his high invective, nothing here comes close in quality even to such inferior later works as "Cities of the Red Night," let alone "Naked Lunch." Burroughs is painfully aware of this deficiency, as the following characteristically fragmented passage, which follows a short attempt at a sketch, makes sadly clear:
What I am writing here is lifeless and flat as old mud-spattered snow. They have sucked my talent away. Why should I longer stay? "It stinks and I am ready to depart." George Sanders, I think. "I leave you to this sweet cesspool." Suicide note of George Sanders, actor, Barcelona. Overdose of sleeping pills.
The most allusive and fascinating sections of "Last Words," for me, are a few scattered passages that cryptically recall long-lost wild and mysterious days. "How I miss the old Agent days of total fear and alertness," Burroughs writes; and "Can I bring it back, the magic and danger and fear of those days in 9 Rye Git-le-Coeur and London and Tangier ..."
Enigmatically referring to a "war" during which "they" turned on a "withering heat," he writes,
We had to retreat -- so many times. And we came back maimed. Whole areas of thought and feeling burned out ... Wonder what casualties the others suffered? Remember Mikey's black lover, who was psychic, said, "It is terrible here. Spirits fighting."
In another place:
I invoke: rows of naked red male forms moving forward in a definite pattern -- a killing fan-out: Kill! Kill! Kill! Like we used to kill. The pure killing purpose. Now? Turned out to pasture like old horses, is it? Well, I got one good kick left.
In these enigmatic lines, the man's life and his strange work come together in a mysterious and oddly harmonious way.
But if "Last Words" reveals Burroughs dreaming of the "war," it also reveals a gentler, more intimate side. The end of the final entry, which gained a measure of fame when the New Yorker published portions of "Last Words" after Burroughs' death, reads:
Thinking is not enough.
Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience -- any fucking thing. No Holy Grail, no Final Satori, no final solution. Just conflict.
Only thing can resolve conflict is love, like I felt for Fletch and Ruski, Spooner and Calico. Pure love.
What I feel for my cats present and past.
Love? What is It?
Most natural painkiller what there is.
LOVE.
In his informative, heartfelt introduction to the book, editor James Grauerholz (who was Burroughs' best friend and lived with him in the writer's house in Lawrence, Kan.) writes that these words represent a kind of spiritual breakthrough for Burroughs, an epiphany: "In the last years of his life William Burroughs was allowed -- by effort, suffering and grace -- to finish his education."
Grauerholz is obviously in a far better position than a reviewer to evaluate Burroughs' spiritual education. But based on Burroughs' own declarations in "Last Words," it would seem that that education came sadly late. Burroughs himself confesses to a monumental case of arrested development. "One more thing to learn, and always too late," he laments. A few weeks later, he writes, "So at 83, I finally catch up with myself. In terms of where I came from, I am just emerging from a stormy adolescence with a modicum of sense."
That "modicum of sense" meant turning away from the anger and hatred that had consumed him and toward greater emotional openness. "I find myself knocking myself out to be charming, and how I love it -- to see the subject glow in response," he writes. "It's a great feeling, that I have only experienced in the last few years. Putting out charm and watching it hit. This [is] completely different from the fear hit, putting out fear and watching it hit and twist in a cold sore."
It is strange, and half-sweet, to think of Burroughs -- the ultimate naysayer, who confesses to having "a weakness for evil old men"; the man who in the course of his savage career burned down his relationships with his father, his mother, his wife, Joan, and his neglected, alcoholic, doomed son, Billy -- becoming a have-a-nice-day kind of guy. And his declaration that love is the "most natural painkiller what there is" is undeniably moving. But there is something irredeemably sad about "Last Words" as well, and the sadness outweighs Burroughs' late attempt at emotional redemption. Even the deepest, most genuine emotion in the book, his love for his cats, arouses pity more than any other feeling: What was it that channeled this man's emotions away from human beings?
Burroughs gives the answer:
The things I had to do to do the things I had to do. I sound like some tiresome old mean typhoon -- I mean tycoon, of course, mulling over all the people that he trampled down, like the bloody horse's ass he was. And I was obsessed, possessed by writing, after a late start at thirty-five with "Junky." Forgot about the cat that caught food in its paw. Forgot about Mother and Dad, Joan and Billy. I had to keep moving, New York.
In another passage, he writes, "Mother, Dad, Mort, Billy -- I failed them all."
And in perhaps the most painful passage in the book, written just days before his death, the thought of his mother unleashes an anguished stream-of-consciousness cry:
Mother said about Joan: "She was just like a tigress."Said no to any enforced confinement. She was right there, and other where's and there's. What can I say -- Why who where when can I say -- Tears are worthless unless genuine, tears from the soul and the guts, tears that ache and wrench and hurt and tear. Tears for what was.
The terrible, barely coherent fragment "Why who where when can I say" recalls the despairing words of another old man at the end of his life: Lear's lament that Cordelia will come no more -- "Never, never, never, never, never!" And when in the very next line Burroughs mourns his beloved Fletch, the link between his love of his cats and his failure to love human beings is inescapable. "In despair he threw himself somewhere, and was saved by his love for cats," he writes. This may be a salvation of sorts, an illumination, but it is an illumination that casts a pitiless light on a haunted, blasted past.
In the end, the paradox of Burroughs, and the contradiction that makes "Last Words" not just fragmentary in form but fragmentary in thought and feeling, are that this writer created his life's work out of barrenness -- out of a rage, hatred, nihilism and rebellion that at the end he began to realize were fatally limited. Burroughs truly was an inhuman writer; his muse descended from a planet wandering in the void, out beyond good and evil. This is why his gestures toward a positive morality are hopelessly confused -- and why he vacillates between celebrating his old, nihilistic self and embracing his new, softer one. He was far too intelligent not to know that it wasn't the gentler William S. Burroughs who was responsible for "Naked Lunch." Readers of "Last Words" may find the human Burroughs more congenial -- but if it hadn't been for the alien Burroughs, they wouldn't be reading him at all.
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William Seward Burroughs was born on February 5, 1914, in St. Louis, Missouri. His grandfather founded the Burroughs Adding Machine company, which later merged with Sperry Univac to form Unisys. He dreamed of becoming a writer as a young boy. His first literary endeavor was called The Autobiography of a Wolf, which he wrote after reading The Biography of a Grizzly Bear.
From there, Burroughs’ interests and writing experiments ranged from gangster stories to tales of English high society. When he was 15 years old he was sent to the Los Alamos Ranch School, an activity-based camp and school, which he did not enjoy. Burroughs found Harvard University to be more to his liking, and while doing graduate work there in anthropology he wrote several unconventional short stories with his friends. He was married for the first time in 1937, to Ilse Herzfeld Klapper. They divorced in 1946.
In his early 30s Burroughs decided to join the gangster underground of New York City, where he became addicted to heroin and was befriended by Herbert Huncke. In 1943 Burroughs met Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, who were then students at Columbia University. Huncke, Kerouac, and Ginsberg were leading figures of the beat generation—the name for a group of young literary nonconformists who experimented with alternative lifestyles and drugs in the 1950s. Although Burroughs was older than they, he was greatly influenced by their ideas, as they were by his. Burroughs and Kerouac collaborated on a novel that they chose not to publish.
From New York Burroughs moved to eastern Texas, where he lived with Huncke and Joan Vollmer Adams, who became his wife. Together with two children, one from Adams’ first marriage and one the child of Adams and Burroughs, they lived on a farm where they fed their drug habits and grew oranges, cotton, and marijuana. Kerouac visited the farm and described his outlandish experiences there in On the Road. Burroughs himself did not produce any writing during this period.
From 1948 to 1951 Burroughs attended Mexico City College. During this time he wrote a hard-edged look at his life as a drug addict, Junkie (subtitled Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict). Ginsberg arranged for the publication of Junkie as a pulp paperback in 1953 under Burroughs’ pseudonym of William Lee; in 1964 it was reissued as Junky under Burroughs’ name. He also wrote Queer, an autobiographical study of his homosexuality. Queer was not published until 1985.
Burroughs was fascinated with guns. He once shot a mouse in a bar with a pistol. At a drunken party in Mexico City in 1951, Burroughs proclaimed to his wife that it was time for their “William Tell” act. He pulled out a gun and attempted to shoot a cocktail glass off the top of Adams’ head. He missed and shot her in the head from 6 feet (1.8 meters) away, killing her. The authorities punished him with a fine and a few weeks in jail.
This killing propelled Burroughs into a writing career; in his later years he said that he might never have become an author if he had not killed his wife. In 1959, two years after leaving a drug rehabilitation program, he published what many considered to be his masterpiece, Naked Lunch. The book was assembled in two weeks using what Burroughs called the “cut-up” technique. Similar to the montage method in painting, it consisted of him cutting random paragraphs and pages from his writings and gluing them together on a separate page. The result was a book without traditional form or structure, linked by images and recurring general themes.
Naked Lunch was nontraditional in content as well. Burroughs wrote about everything from bodily functions to political oppression to media manipulation. His topics were so controversial, in fact, that in 1965 the state of Massachusetts attempted to ban Naked Lunch on charges of obscenity. Authors Norman Mailer and Allen Ginsberg testified on behalf of the book, and the state lost its case. Naked Lunch was one of the last books of the period to lead to an obscenity trial.
Burroughs spent much of the 1960s traveling the world, living and writing in Morocco, South America, and other locations. Books published during that decade included The Soft Machine (1961), The Ticket That Exploded (1962), and Nova Express (1964). In much of his fiction, Burroughs used his addiction to drugs as a metaphor for other addictions he believed plagued society at that time, such as addictions to sex, money, and power.
Along with writing fiction, Burroughs recorded audio tapes of himself reading his work, often in combination with music. In Call Me Burroughs (1965), You’re the Man I Want to Share My Money With (1981), and The “Priest” They Called Him (1992, with Kurt Cobain) and other recordings, Burroughs blurred the lines between poetry and narrative fiction. The rhythm and tone in which the words were spoken, as well as the words themselves, conveyed meaning.
Another novel, The Wild Boys, was published in 1971. Burroughs returned to the United States in 1974 and wrote his first straight narrative, Cities of the Red Night (1981). Along with it, two other books, The Place of Dead Roads (1984) and The Western Lands (1987), complete a thematic trilogy. In these books Burroughs examined humanity’s ability to adapt to its future, which he believed inevitably included space and time travel. A volume of his correspondence, Letters 1945–59, was published in 1993, and a memoir called My Education: A Book of Dreams followed in 1994.
In 1991 David Cronenberg directed a film entitled Naked Lunch, which depicted Burroughs’ real life and also incorporated aspects of the book. The film, extensive Internet exposure, and Burroughs’ own life and work all contributed to his status as a cultural icon. Burroughs was appealing to many people looking for an alternative to the political and cultural status quo. He was an antihero and an underground curiosity, all the more interesting for his incongruous grandfatherly appearance and bizarre life experiences.
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Burroughs's move seemed illogical to outsiders, who evaluated the relocation with an air of elitist presumption concerning Kansas. Accounts of Burroughs’s time in Lawrence suggest he approached life there with the attitude of a local. He shared his small home with three cats, maintained a garden in the backyard, and could often be seen walking with his cane to the local grocery store, Dillons. He built an Orgone Accumulator Box in his backyard and shot his beloved guns with the same fervor of any born and bred Kansan hunter.
Documentation of his life in Kansas can be seen in various lo-res videos have been achieved online. One video shows Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth and Michael Stipe of R.E.M. visiting Burroughs in 1995. In another video, Burroughs is shooting one of his infamous “Shotgun Paintings” somewhere in the country. A series of Burroughs’ “home videos,” shows Allen Ginsberg, Steve Buscemi, and Patti Smith in his living room. A low analog buzz plays underneath the clips as Patti Smith strums her acoustic guitar and sings along. Shot by Wayne Propost and edited by Michelle Tran, the videos show Burroughs and Ginsberg seated around the warm light of a kitchen table lamp, the former petting his cat and flipping through a magazine. Friends and local teenagers wander in and out of the frame, milling about among the counterculture celebrities. Smith’s singing and playing are edited as non-diegetic sound, carrying across clips where she is not seen. In these shots, Burroughs gestures emphatically about guns, or books, or whatever topic he was likely lingering on. The second part of the home movies are edited in roughly the same way as the first, with Smith’s music complementing the warm domesticity of the visual material. Near the end of both parts of the videos, Smith’s audio presence cuts out as Burrough’s voice briefly becomes the focus, his raspy speech adding to the personal and intimate nature of the fleeting moments.
Four years prior, Nirvana played a show at the Outhouse, a venue whose status remains legendary nearly two decades since its closure. The Outhouse sits among the cornfields between Lawrence and neighboring Eudora, my hometown and the town where Burroughs and Nirvana’s collaboration “The ‘Priest’ They Called Him” at Red House Studios in 1992.
In 1979, Bill Rich — who later became the Outhouse’s promoter— began a local fanzine in Lawrence, Talk Talk. Soon after, he opened Fresh Sounds Records, an independent recording label, and began releasing cassette compilations and flexi discs featuring local bands. By in 1985, Lawrence promoters began hosting concerts at the Outhouse in response to the growing scene and the increasing police crackdowns of house shows.
The Outhouse then began its transformation into a full-fledged punk venue. At first, shows were primarily booked by KJHK, the University of Kansas student radio station, attracting college students and high schoolers alike. It was not long before a general community of maladjusted children of Evangelicals and conservatives began flocking to the fields on a regular basis.
The venue attracted negative attention shortly after opening. Neighbors complained of shaking windows during shows and flocks of teenagers showing up to their homes at 3am, asking to use the bathroom. Official complaints started coming to the county commissioner in February 1986, but local perceptions surrounding the venue became increasingly hysterical and as the venue grew and concerts became a daily occurrence — the pervasive effects of The Satanic Panic and the 1980s Culture Wars only exacerbating the problem.
Brad Norman directed the 2017 documentary The Outhouse: The Film (1985-1997), which constructs a genealogy of the venue and local scene through the lens of performers, concertgoers, and nearby neighbors who despised its very existence. The documentary portrays the esteemed status the venue held for not only local punks, but for legendary musicians whose preconceived stereotypes about Kansas often faded away within a single night at the Outhouse. Interviews featured in the documentary include the likes of Black Flag’s Henry Rollins, Bad Brains’s H.R., Fugazi's Ian MacKaye, and Fishbone’s Angelo Moore and Norwood Fisher, “It was like CBGB’s out there in the middle of the cornfield.”
Despite best intentions, the Outhouse did ultimately experience undesirable consequences of a subculture splintering into different groups –– punks, skinheads, metalheads, communist punks –– fights became common at the Outhouse. Racist skinheads infiltrated the scene and attempted to take over security positions at the door. Already a white cinder block building in the middle of nowhere Kansas, with no access to life beyond the cornfield, the threat of racist skinheads made the space even more dangerous.
That said, the Outhouse’s ethos was fundamentally opposed to any form of fascism and racism. In response to white supremacists invading the space, four anti-racist skinheads,colloquially called the “Four Horsemen,” assumed roles as de facto leaders and formed “Skin Heads Against Racial Prejudice” (SHARP) in 1989. Not only were they anti-Nazi and anti-racist, but violently so. If anyone was caught exhibiting racism at a show, SHARP would beat them up, throw them out, and cut up their cherished Dr. Martens.
As a space made by, for punks, the Outhouse was radically resistant to hegemonic discourses and solutions. Internal problems were handled from within the community, never capitulating to outside policing. Routine concertgoers, bonded through the physical space and their mutual disdain for mainstream culture in Kansas, took care of one another and supported each other’s art. It was not merely a space for degeneracy or pessimism, but instead a space in which one could imagine a future world. “Punk rock style may look apocalyptic, yet its temporality is nonetheless futuristic,” José Esteban Muñoz writes, “letting young punks imagine a time and a place where their desires are not toxic.”
Many of the cornerstones of American punk and post-punk passed through the Outhouse over its 12-year reign. Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Bad Brains, Fugazi, Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Green Day, Rollins Band, and Fishbone are just some of the names who paid a visit to that small box in the middle of a cornfield. By the early 90s however, the Outhouse had already departed from its primarily punk and post-punk origins. Metal and Ska became more common as punk was becoming obsolete nationwide. The community, which at times had quite literally burst beyond its means, declined with the venue’s genre expansion. The decline was furthered by the concomitant mainstream success of Grunge and the rise of new and diluted genres like Pop-Punk.
By the mid-90s, the Outhouse ultimately whitewashed its interior walls, effacing years of sedimented graffiti in order to make it a more “neutral” space for any form of “alternative” music. However, without the definitive aesthetics or touchstones which punk subcultures had provided the space with for so long, the space became less and less suitable for any community to form around underground music. The space was later painted black, and crowds became older and smaller with time. Without a central image, the Outhouse slowly died out. On January 4, 1998, just a few months after Burroughs’ death, the venue hosted its final show and officially closed its doors.
Burroughs, himself, was not unfamiliar with the Outhouse. Of course, artists who paid him a visit often did so at the same time they were playing a gig there. However, his relationship to the scene was much closer than that. In 1983, Burroughs wrote the lyrics for “Old Lady Sloan,” a song by the Lawrence punk band The Micronotz. He also released multiple spoken-word records with Fresh Sounds Records, promoter Bill Rich’s independent label based in Lawrence. There is no evidence of him attending a show at the Outhouse, but there are many images of him making his shotgun paintings on the property.
Now a strip club, the Outhouse has not hosted a concert in over two decades. However, like other histories of Lawrence — whether it be its status as the center of the anti-slavery “Bleeding Kansas” movement or its storied protests of the 1960s and 70s — the legacy of the city’s subcultural practices at the end of the 20th century continue to play out in the present. The punk sensibilities of creating alternative spaces, communal and mutual forms of care, and fostering community through live music which were crucial to the Outhouse are also key to a radically new scene which has emerged from the isolation of the pandemic.
Unlike the Outhouse, whose scene operated in a sort of vacuum free from cares about the outside world, today’s new scene expands beyond any original sense of genre, community, or venue. Not limited to the DIY punk and hardcore scenes often associated with the Midwest, many DJs, rappers, experimental musicians, and post-punk bands define the new sound of Lawrence. That said, like many punk or DIY scenes, it embraces amateurism, growth, performance, collaboration, movement, and fluidity, but flatly rejects gatekeeping. At the same time, it embraces values of intimate community-building, and collapses the local with wider movements of music, as local artists routinely open for bigger acts like Club Eat, Yves Tumor, Coucou Chloe, AceMo, Machine Girl, and Hook at shows in Lawrence.
Like the Outhouse, the current community is, in a way, performing utopia. Taking from the Frankfurt School idea that utopia is above-all a critique of the here and now, José Esteban Muñoz constructs an idea of the utopian performative in his book, Cruising Utopia. Muñoz is concerned with the ways in which queer and punk subcultures enact ways of doing that are always in progress, never finished, and are based on shifts between acts of repetition and reiteration. “Utopian performativity is often fueled by the past,” Muñoz writes, “The past, or at least narratives of the past, enable utopian imaginings of another time and place that is not yet here but nonetheless functions as a doing for futurity, a conjuring of both future and past to critique presentness.”
Lawrence subculture today seems to do just that — to (un)consciously garner its methods and drives of subversion from the city’s historical legacy, to imagine a future which obliterates divisions between genres, groups, spheres of existence in a way that critiques the present. Like the Outhouse, it resists the threat of cultural hegemony affecting all subcultural spaces while repudiating the particular form of suburbanization impacting Lawrence today. Built on a foundation of interpersonal and mutual forms of care, support, and collaboration, the scene is constantly evoking an affect which will long outlive its life, and which will stay with those who will inevitably move out of the area to bigger cities. “This potentiality is always in the horizon and, like performance, never completely disappears but, instead, lingers and serves as a conduit for knowing and feeling other people.”
After all, did Burroughs himself not find a bit of utopia in Lawrence, too? After a career of writing on dystopias, drug-fueled apocalypses , surveillance, and urban degradation, Burroughs began exploring utopias and the more compassionate visions of his mind in Lawrence. There, he opened a new and sympathetic facet within himself and became somewhat of an animal activist. Concerned more with animals than with humans, Burroughs’ utopic imaginings were posthuman, in a way — he would dream of hybrid animal species, creatures which may one day evolve into being. Although not utopic in an anthropocentric sense, this shift in Burroughs’ thinking and writing was nonetheless utopic when compared to his earlier envisioning of hellish futures and vitiated landscapes. Like punks stumbling upon the nondescript building of the Outhouse in the 80s and 90s, and today’s scene gravitating toward various venues such as The Bottleneck, The Toilet Bowl, and Replay Lounge, Burroughs found and staged utopia in Kansas, among the historical remnants of past utopic efforts and the stray cats that wandered about his property. | |||||
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] | null | [] | 2016-09-19T00:00:00 | Twenty years after his death William S Burroughs still has the power to keep media writing about him. This week The News Hub recounted how Burroughs was arrested in France in 1959 for importing opiates into the country but he was released after trial. The reason? "Burroughs was excused and given a suspended sentence because… | en | https://s1.wp.com/i/favicon.ico | Woolly Days | https://woollydays.wordpress.com/2016/09/19/remembering-william-s-burroughs/ | Twenty years after his death William S Burroughs still has the power to keep media writing about him. This week The News Hub recounted how Burroughs was arrested in France in 1959 for importing opiates into the country but he was released after trial. The reason? “Burroughs was excused and given a suspended sentence because his work ‘The Naked Lunch’ was considered to have too much artistic value to leave the man rotting in a Paris prison.” The French appreciated Burrough’s debauched writings, while his native America was “too caught up in Protestant predispositions to appreciate a great artist.”
The story is true, but it underestimates Burroughs’ intrinsic American-ness. In his biography “The ‘Priest’ They Called Him” author Graham Caveny said Burroughs was “as American as the electric chair”. William Burroughs was the grandson of William Seward Burroughs I who founded the Burroughs Adding Machine company. In 1885 the elder Burroughs patented the first workable adding and listing machine in St. Louis. His grandson William Seward Burroughs II was born in St Louis 29 years later in 1914 just as Europe was about to go to war. His father Mortimer Perry had no desire to join the family business and ran an antique shop. But family wealth gave young William a good education.
He went to John Burroughs school in St Louis. There was no relation nor was there an affinity and Burroughs the boy left Burroughs the school without graduating. He was sent to the private Los Alamos Ranch School for boys in New Mexico. In this rustic scout-like setting, Burroughs discovered sex and drugs. He was gay but was expelled for taking chloral hydrate, a sedative drug used for insomnia. Disgraced and back in St Louis he kept his head down long enough to finish high school and enrolled for Harvard.
He arrived there in 1932 at the bottom of the depression. There were 25 million unemployed and the US was deep in debt. He buckled down and got an arts degree in four years. In 1936 he did the Grand Tour of Europe. There he found homosexual freedom he could not find in the US. Nonetheless, he married Austrian Jew Ilse Klapper who needed an American visa to flee the Nazis. Klapper was living in London and her visa was about to expire when Burroughs saved her life. They married in Athens and then separated. She lived in New York until the end of the war and divorced Burroughs before settling in Zurich. They remained friends.
Burroughs returned alone to St Louis. His parents were distraught he had treated his wife so shabbily but did not stop his sizeable allowance. Burroughs mooched around following boyfriends until Pearl Harbor. He was drafted but his mother had him declared mentally unsuitable for military service. The punishment was a six month stint in a psychiatric evaluation unit. On the advice of someone he met there, he travelled to Chicago where men were scarce and jobs were easy to get.
He became a “bugman” for AJ Cohen Exterminators, an experience that informed his writing. The thrill of killing cockroaches quickly died and he followed a lover to New York. He settled in Greenwich Village and was introduced to a shy young Jewish boy from New Jersey named Allen Ginsberg. Through Ginsberg he became friends with Jack Kerouac. Kerouac and Burroughs were arrested when Lucien Carr, another friend, killed his male lover. Carr told Kerouac and Burroughs he had stabbed him after a row and dumped the body in the Hudson river. Burroughs advised him to find a lawyer. Carr turned himself in after two days and after plea bargaining down to manslaughter he served two years at a reformatory. Burroughs and Kerouac were charged for a failure to report a crime but released.
Burroughs had written sporadically but the murder spurred him into action. Ginsberg and Kerouac helped on his manuscripts. Burroughs experimented heavily with drugs and persuaded doctors to write morphine prescriptions. As the war ended, he got involved with another woman. Joan Vollmer was a Beatnik, a smart lady and a match for Burroughs. She knew he was gay but said “he made love like a pimp”. She was addicted to benzedrine. Their house was raided and Burroughs was given a four month suspended sentence for forging prescriptions.
He returned to St Louis and Joan deteriorated. Burroughs came back to her when he found out how bad her condition was. In 1947 they moved to a ranch in Texas where they took drugs unmolested. Joan gave birth to William Burroughs III that year. The Burroughs left Texas after he was arrested and lost his licence for having sex with Joan in his car. They moved on from New Orleans after police there took an interest in his drug habits.
They went to Mexico where their mutual self-destruction took a sudden turn. When drunk in their apartment, they decided to play William Tell. He placed an apple on her head but missed the apple and shot a bullet through her head. Burroughs was released on bail after 13 days and was told the trial for her murder would be a year later. Burroughs fled to New York.
The incident was the catalyst for literary greatness. “I am forced to the appalling conclusion that I would have never become a writer but for Joan’s death,” he wrote. He quickly put out two novels about his main predilections: “Junky” and “Queer”. “Junky” was released in 1953 under the name of William Lee.
Burroughs travelled to Europe and settled in the Moroccan city of Tangier where he could indulge his taste in drugs and men. With Ginsberg’s help he published The Naked Lunch in 1959. It was banned in Britain (the Lady Chatterley’s Lover court case had yet to decide if it one could read it to one’s wife and servants). Burroughs said Jack Kerouac suggested the title. “The title means exactly what the words say: naked lunch, a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork.”
The non-linear story of sex and drugs was published in the US in 1962. Boston Police arrested a bookseller for obscenity when he tried to sell the book. It took two years for the trial to come to court. Norman Mailer defended the Naked Lunch speaking of “artistry… more deliberate and profound than I thought before”. In 1966 the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court declared the work “not obscene” based on criteria developed largely to defend the book. The case against Burroughs’s novel remains the last US obscenity trial against a work of literature.
Burroughs moved to Paris, home from home for American intellectuals. In an intense period he produced The Soft Machine (1961), The Ticket That Exploded (1962), and Nova Express (1963). By 1967 he was famous enough to merit a spot on the album cover of Sergeant Pepper. He returned to New York where he was the darling of a set mixing with Warhol, Basquiat and Ginsberg. Ginsberg also looked after Burroughs’ son. Father and son never got on and young Billy Burroughs turned his hostility into autobiographical published works. He was also drug dependent (probably since birth) and died of liver cancer in 1981. By now Burroughs was a giant of counter-culture. He released voice albums and starred in movies. In Gus Van Sant’s “Drugstore Cowboy”, he played himself in the role of Father Tom a defrocked priest and junkie.
In 1983 he moved to St Lawrence, Kansas, where aged almost 70, he bought his first and only home. David Cronenberg filmed the unfilmable Naked Lunch and Burroughs returned to New York occasionally to meet old friends. There weren’t many left, dying off due to their extravagant lifestyles but Burroughs seemed to outlast them all. Allen Ginsberg died in April 1997 and that was enough for Burroughs; he finally threw in his chips four months later. He was 83 and an opiate addict for the last 40 years of his life. Through his life he kept another addiction; that of guns, sleeping with one every night. | ||||
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The American writer, painter and spoken-word pioneer William S. Burroughs on Feb. 5, 1914, in St. Louis. He died — after an improbably long life, considering the self-inflicted abuse he endured through the years — at 83 in Lawrence, Kansas. It’s somehow perversely appropriate that an iconoclast of Burroughs’ power and scope, who so brutally skewered middle-class hypocrisy in so many of his works, lived a life that began and ended in the middle of middle America.
Born into a wealthy Missouri family, Burroughs attended Harvard (as well as medical school in Vienna) and was, seemingly, on track for a relatively unadventurous life and career. But in the 1940s—having been rejected by the U.S. Navy in the middle of World War II—he set a far different course for himself. He became a heroin addict. In New York, he met and influenced Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and the biggest voices of the Beat generation. In 1951, in Mexico City, he shot and killed his common-law wife, Joan Vollmer, in what was reportedly a drunken, catastrophic game of William Tell gone wrong. Ultimately convicted in absentia of homicide (he had fled back to the States by then) and given a two-year suspended sentence, the scarred Burroughs embarked on the journeys—London, Paris (where the photos in this gallery were made in 1959), the Amazon, Tangier and beyond—that would shape and define so much of the rest of his life.
And always, everywhere, he wrote. He wrote short stories, essays and hilarious, harrowing, difficult, indispensable novels. Junkie (later Junky), Naked Lunch, The Ticket That Exploded and other classics established him as a singular force in the postmodern cultural landscape. Other writers sang his praises, with some—like J.G. Ballard—arguing that Burroughs was the premier writer of the post-war age. (Many critics, on the other hand, weren’t quite so impressed, especially when the revolutionary cut-up technique Burroughs employed when constructing many of his books made their heads spin.)
Later in life, Burroughs became something of an éminence grise of the post-punk demimonde, collaborating with Sonic Youth, Nick Cave, the experimental English “noise” collective, Throbbing Gristle, and many others. His influence on music, literature and the visual arts can’t be overstated.
Many artists are desperate to be seen as rebels; in Burroughs, we find the unlikely real deal: the born rebel who could never stop creating art. | |||||
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Burroughs is often called one of the greatest and most influential writers of the 20th century.
Early life and education
Burroughs was born in 1914, the younger of two sons born to Mortimer Perry Burroughs (June 16, 1885 – January 5, 1965) and Laura Hammon Lee (August 5, 1888 – October 20, 1970). His family was of prominent English ancestry in St. Louis, Missouri. His grandfather, William Seward Burroughs I, founded the Burroughs Adding Machine company, which evolved into the Burroughs Corporation. Burroughs' mother was Laura Hammond Lee Burroughs, whose brother, Ivy Lee, was an advertising pioneer later employed as a publicist for the Rockefellers. His father ran an antique and gift shop, Cobblestone Gardens in St. Louis; and later in Palm Beach, Florida when they relocated. Burroughs would later write of growing up in a "family where displays of affection were considered embarrassing".
It was during his childhood that Burroughs' developed a lifelong interest in magic and the occult – topics which would find their way into his work repeatedly across the years. Burroughs later described how he saw an apparition of a green reindeer in the woods as a child, which he identified as a totem animal, as well as a vision of ghostly grey figures at play in his bedroom.
As a boy, Burroughs lived on Pershing Avenue (now Pershing Place) in St. Louis' Central West End. He attended John Burroughs School in St. Louis where his first published essay, "Personal Magnetism" – which revolved around telepathic mind-control – was printed in the John Burroughs Review in 1929. He then attended the Los Alamos Ranch School in New Mexico, which was stressful for him. According to his own account, he left the school of his own will: "During the Easter vacation of my second year I persuaded my family to let me stay in St. Louis."
Burroughs attended Harvard University, studied English, studied anthropology as a postgraduate, and attended medical school in Vienna. In 1942, Burroughs enlisted in the U.S. Army to serve during World War II, but was turned down by the Office of Strategic Services and the Navy. In 1943, while living in New York City, he befriended Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. Their mutual influence became the foundation of the Beat Generation, which was later a defining influence on the 1960s counterculture.
Joan Vollmer
In 1944, Burroughs began living with Joan Vollmer Adams in an apartment they shared with Jack Kerouac and Edie Parker, Kerouac's first wife. Vollmer soon became pregnant with Burroughs' child. Their son, William S. Burroughs Jr., was born in 1947.
In 1950, Burroughs, Vollmer and their children moved to Mexico. Their life in Mexico was by all accounts an unhappy one.
One night while at a party in the American-owned Bounty Bar in Mexico City, Burroughs, unsober, killed Vollmer while attempting to perform a "William Tell" stunt. Soon after the incident, Burroughs changed his account, claiming that he had dropped his gun and it had accidentally fired. Burroughs spent 13 days in jail before his brother came to Mexico City and bribed Mexican lawyers and officials to release Burroughs on bail. After Burroughs returned to the United States, he was convicted of manslaughter in absentia and received a two-year suspended sentence.
Vollmer's daughter, Julie Adams, went to live with her grandmother, and William S. Burroughs Jr. went to St. Louis to live with his grandparents.
Burroughs described Vollmer's death as a pivotal event in his life, and one that provoked his writing by exposing him to the risk of possession by a malevolent entity he called "the Ugly Spirit":
Literary career
While heavily experimental and featuring unreliable narrators, much of Burroughs' work is semiautobiographical. He lived variously in Mexico City, London, Paris and the Tangier International Zone near Morocco, and traveled in the Amazon rainforest, with these locations featuring in many of his novels and stories. With Brion Gysin, Burroughs popularized the cut-up, an aleatory literary technique, featuring heavily in works such as The Nova Trilogy (1961–1964). Burroughs' work also features frequent mystical, occult, or otherwise magical themes, which were a constant preoccupation for Burroughs, both in fiction and in real life.
Burroughs' major works can be divided into four different periods:
Early work (early 1950s)
Junkie, Queer and The Yage Letters are relatively straightforward linear narratives, written in and about Burroughs' time in Mexico City and South America.
The cut-up period (mid-1950s to mid-1960s) includes such works as Naked Lunch , The Word Hoard, The Soft Machine, Nova Express, The Ticket That Exploded.
Experiment and subversion (mid-1960s to mid-1970s)
This period saw Burroughs continue experimental writing with increased political content and branching into multimedia such as film and sound recording. Perhaps the defining and most important of which works is The Third Mind (with Brion Gysin) announced in 1966 and not published until the late '70s. The only major novels written in this period are The Wild Boys, and Port of Saints (republished in a different rewritten form in 1980, in the style Burroughs would adopt at that time). However he also wrote dozens of published articles, short stories, scrap books and other works, several in collaboration with Brion Gysin. The major anthologies representing work from this period are The Burroughs File, The Adding Machine and Exterminator!.
The Red Night trilogy (mid-1970s to mid-1980s)
The books Cities of the Red Night, The Place of Dead Roads and The Western Lands came from Burroughs in a final, mature stage, creating a complete mythology.
Burroughs also produced numerous essays and a large body of autobiographical material, including a book with a detailed account of his own dreams (My Education: A Book of Dreams).
Burroughs moved to Lawrence, Kansas in 1981, taking up residence at 1927 Learnard Avenue where he would spend the rest of his life. He once told a Wichita Eagle reporter that he was content to live in Kansas, saying, "The thing I like about Kansas is that it's not nearly as violent, and it's a [...] lot cheaper. And I can get out in the country and fish and shoot and whatnot." In 1984, he signed a seven-book deal with Viking Press after he signed with literary agent Andrew Wylie. This deal included the publication rights to the unpublished 1952 novel Queer. With this money he purchased a small bungalow for $29,000. He was finally inducted into the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1983 after several attempts by Allen Ginsberg to get him accepted. He attended the induction ceremony in May 1983. Lawrence Ferlinghetti remarked the induction of Burroughs into the Academy proved Herbert Marcuse's point that capitalistic society had a great ability to incorporate its one-time outsiders.
By this point, Burroughs was a counterculture icon. In his final years, he cultivated an entourage of young friends who replaced his aging contemporaries. In the 1980s he collaborated with performers ranging from Bill Laswell's Material and Laurie Anderson to Throbbing Gristle. Burroughs and R.E.M. collaborated on the song "Star Me Kitten" on the Songs in the Key of X: Music from and Inspired by the X-Files album. In 1989, he appeared with Matt Dillon in Gus Van Sant's film, Drugstore Cowboy. In 1990, he released the spoken word album Dead City Radio, with musical backup from producers Hal Willner and Nelson Lyon, and alternative rock band Sonic Youth. He collaborated with Tom Waits and director Robert Wilson on The Black Rider, a play that opened at the Thalia Theatre in Hamburg in 1990 to critical acclaim, one that was later performed across Europe and the U.S. In 1991, with Burroughs' approval, director David Cronenberg adapted Naked Lunch into a feature film, which opened to critical acclaim.
During 1982, Burroughs developed a painting technique whereby he created abstract compositions by placing spray paint cans in front of blank surfaces, and then shooting at the paint cans with a shotgun. These splattered and shot panels and canvasses were first exhibited in the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in New York City in 1987. By this time he had developed a comprehensive visual art practice, using ink, spray paint, collage and unusual things such as mushrooms and plungers to apply the paint. He created file-folder paintings featuring these mediums as well as "automatic calligraphy" inspired by Brion Gysin. He originally used the folders to mix pigments before observing that they could be viewed as art in themselves. He also used many of these painted folders to store manuscripts and correspondence in his personal archive Until his last years, he prolifically created visual art. Burroughs' work has since been featured in more than fifty international galleries and museums including Royal Academy of the Arts, Centre Pompidou, Guggenheim Museum, ZKM Karlsruhe, Sammlung Falckenberg, New Museum, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum, and Whitney Museum of American Art.
In 1990, Burroughs was honored with a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame.
In June 1991, Burroughs underwent triple bypass surgery.
In 1983, Burroughs was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. In 1984, he was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by France. Jack Kerouac called Burroughs the "greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift". J. G. Ballard considered Burroughs to be "the most important writer to emerge since the Second World War", while Norman Mailer declared him "the only American writer who may be conceivably possessed by genius".
He became a member of a chaos magic organization, the Illuminates of Thanateros, in 1993.
He was a voice actor in the 1995 video game The Dark Eye based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe, in which he recites "Annabel Lee".
Burroughs' last filmed performance was in the music video for "Last Night on Earth" by Irish rock band U2, filmed in Kansas City, Missouri, directed by Richie Smyth and also featuring Sophie Dahl.
Death
Burroughs died August 2, 1997, in Lawrence, Kansas, from complications of a heart attack he had suffered the previous day. He was interred in the family plot in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri, with a marker bearing his full name and the epitaph "American Writer". His grave lies to the right of the white granite obelisk of William Seward Burroughs I (1857–1898).
Posthumous works
Since 1997, several posthumous collections of Burroughs' work have been published. A few months after his death, a collection of writings spanning his entire career, Word Virus, was published (according to the book's introduction, Burroughs himself approved its contents prior to his death). Aside from numerous previously released pieces, Word Virus also included what was promoted as one of the few surviving fragments of And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, a novel by Burroughs and Kerouac. The complete Kerouac/Burroughs manuscript And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks was published for the first time in November 2008.
A collection of journal entries written during the final months of Burroughs' life was published as the book Last Words in 2000. Publication of a memoir by Burroughs entitled Evil River by Viking Press has been delayed several times; after initially being announced for a 2005 release, online booksellers indicated a 2007 release, complete with an ISBN (ISBN: 0-670-81351-6), but it remains unpublished.
New enlarged or unexpurgated editions of numerous texts have been published in recent years as "Restored Text" or "Redux" editions all containing additional material and essays on the works or incorporating material edited out of previous versions.
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William S. Burroughs' childhood home on Pershing Place in St. Louis
William S. Burroughs Video, Color Laserprint by Christiaan Tonnis, 2006
David Bowie (l.) and Burroughs (m.) together with journalist A. Craig Copetas (r.) for an interview in February 1974 for Rolling Stone.
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In 1962, writer Norman Mailer described him as "the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius."
Burroughs was born 100 years ago Wednesday.
'Life Is A Cut-Up'
Burroughs believed words took on new meaning if you could see them or hear them in a new way. So beginning in 1959, he made his "cut-up" recordings: Using reel-to-reel tape, Burroughs recorded snippets of everything from readings to TV and radio clips, then rewound, randomly stopped and recorded over the original sounds.
It's the same technique Burroughs used in his masterpiece novel Naked Lunch — he shuffled the sections of that manuscript before submitting it to the publisher. The result is a story that jumps from scene to scene, idea to idea, narrator to narrator, in a random, disjointed manner.
As Burroughs told me in 1987 — in the New York apartment he called "The Bunker" — the idea for the cut-ups came from his friend and collaborator, the late avant-garde artist Brion Gysin.
"He was, of course, the inventor of the cut-up method, which did introduce an element of chance into selection of material for writing," Burroughs said. "And of course then he realized that life is a cut-up. Every time you walk down the street or look out the window, you're conscious is being cut by these random factors. So it's really closer to the actual facts of perception."
Burroughs' perception while writing Naked Lunch was affected by heroin — and withdrawal from it. In a commercial recording, he extrapolated the terror of that withdrawal into a vivid scene of horrible creatures drinking in a dark cafe:
The vivid language and erotic fantasies in Naked Lunch led to an obscenity trial, which the writer and his publisher won.
Three Beats And One 'New Vision'
Barry Miles, author of the new, 600-page biography Call Me Burroughs, says the central theme of much of what Burroughs wrote is the attempt of those in power to control those who aren't.
"I think his main role has been to look for control systems," he says. "Find out who you really are rather than who other people want you to be or what circumstances have made you. And [that] I think we need [more] than ever, quite honestly. I mean, this society becomes more and more a surveillance society and less and less a democratic society."
Yet Burroughs still came from society. He was named for his grandfather, the inventor of the adding machine and founder of the Burroughs Corp. He went to Harvard and studied English, but had no intention of writing until he met 17-year-old poet Allen Ginsberg and 21-year-old novelist Jack Kerouac. They shared an apartment, and what they called "a new vision."
"Artistically, we were doing completely different things," Burroughs said in 1987. "It comes down to the fact that we did have quite a lot in common: being interested in expanded awareness and being completely disillusioned with all the old answers."
A Pivotal Moment In Mexico City
It was the beginning of what came to be known as the Beat Generation, and in its circle Burroughs found a soul mate. Joan Vollmer became his common-law wife of six years, even though he himself was gay (he preferred the word "queer").
In 1951, they were living in Mexico City when they found themselves drunk at a party.
"It was during this party that at one point he just told Joan, 'Let's do our William Tell act,' " Miles says. "And she put this shot glass on her head and he whipped out his gun, and he missed. He shot low and got her in the forehead. It was quite clearly an accident, but he felt that some bad part of him, some evil spirit in him, had motivated him."
In 1985, Burroughs told me he spent the rest of his life trying to write his way out of Joan's death.
"It was an event that made me see, or, made me into a writer," he said. "And of course, a writer often has — all his work will pivot around some simple idea, like Poe, the fear of being buried alive, which happened in those days. But it was a sort of a pivotal event."
Before that, in novels like Queer and Junky, Burroughs' writing was more or less straightforward autobiography. Afterward, he began to write the denser, visionary prose of Naked Lunch, The Soft Machine and Nova Express. Even autobiographical characters, like Kim Carsons of 1984's The Place Of Dead Roads, became more fantastic. Here's how Burroughs describes Carsons in the book:
'We've Barely Started To Touch Him'
Burroughs became a magnet for artists, musicians and wannabe hipsters, but biographer Miles says the writer's influence is yet to be completely understood.
"I think the Beats have now, they've all died — all the main ones except Lawrence Ferlinghetti. And we're now starting to be able to see them from a distance and appreciate who was really important and who wasn't," he says. "And I think Burroughs is possibly now the leader, really the lead contender. [He's] someone whose work is so deep and on so many levels ... that we've barely started to touch him."
William S. Burroughs died in 1997 at the age of 83.
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Who Was William S. Burroughs?
William S. Burroughs became one of the founding figures of the Beat Movement. An addict for years, he crafted books like Junky and Naked Lunch, which were harrowing, often grotesque looks at drug culture. He is cited as a major influence on countercultural figures in the world of music as well and worked on several recording projects.
School and Travels
Born on February 5, 1914, in St. Louis, Missouri, Burroughs was born to Laura Lee and Mortimer Burroughs. Burroughs was named after his famous grandfather, an inventor who was a pioneer in adding-machine technology.
Burroughs attended prep schools and later studied English literature at Harvard University, where he graduated in 1936. He traveled to Europe and met and married Ilse Klapper for the purpose of allowing her entry into the United States. The two ended the union upon their entry into the states.
Meeting Fellow Beats Ginsberg and Kerouac
Trying different career paths to no avail, Burroughs eventually traveled to New York and met writers Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac in the mid-1940s. The three would be heralded as starting the Beat Movement, an artistic outpouring of nontraditional, free expression.
During the mid-1940s, Burroughs and Kerouac collaborated on a novel about the murder of a friend—And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks—that was published decades later posthumously. Burroughs developed a relationship with Joan Vollmer during this time as well and they would live together as husband and wife starting in 1945. Burroughs was also open about his attraction to men, and he and Ginsberg had been lovers.
Burroughs had started to use opiates and descended into heroin addiction. He was also a gun enthusiast and, while living with his family in Mexico City in 1951, played a drunken game of target practice with Vollmer and accidentally shot her to death. He did not receive major prison time, yet would struggle with demons for years to come as a result of the killing.
Writing 'Junky' and 'Naked Lunch'
Burroughs published his first novel, Junky, in 1953 under the name William Lee. The work featured an unflinching, semi-autobiographical look at drug, or "junk," culture. He continued to travel and eventually ended up in Tangiers, strung out and running out of financial resources. He realized he would perish if he didn’t change his path and so traveled to London to receive apomorphine treatments, which he credits as curing his addiction.
With the help of Ginsberg and Kerouac, Burroughs wrote the novel Naked Lunch in Tangiers, which continued to follow the exploits of William Lee in a disturbing drug culture journey. The book featured nonlinear narrative forms with elements of sadomasochism, metamorphoses and satire. Published in 1959, the book wouldn’t be released in the United States until the 1960s due to a highly publicized governmental ban over its content, which pushed Burroughs into the spotlight. He became a figure both acclaimed and spurned.
Around the time of Lunch's release, inspired by artist Brion Gysin, Burroughs began to experiment with the cut-up technique, where random lines of text were cut from a page and rearranged to form new sentences, with the intention of freeing reader's minds from conventional, linear modes of thought. Using this technique with elements of satire and sci-fi, the 1960s saw Burroughs releasing novels like The Soft Machine (1961) and Nova Express (1964), which indicted consumerism and social repression, and the nonfiction work The Yage Letters (1963).
Musical Influence
Burroughs played with audio cut-ups as well via tape recordings. He released his first album in 1965, Call Me Burroughs, which featured his readings of text from Naked Lunch and The Soft Machine. Burroughs not only made waves in the literary world but became a huge influence for many musical artists of the day. The acts Soft Machine and Steely Dan took their names from the writer’s work and Burroughs went on to collaborate with artists of the avant-garde like Laurie Anderson, Sonic Youth and Genesis P-Orridge.
Burroughs continued his literary pursuits as well in the early 1970s, publishing The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead (1971) and Exterminator! (1973) and penning a screenplay, The Last Words of Dutch Schulz. By the end of the decade, he worked on a book with Gysin that delved into their cut-up philosophy—The Third Mind (1978).
Burroughs would face family tragedy yet again as his son Billy Burroughs Jr., also a writer, succumbed to substance addiction and died from alcohol-related trauma in 1981.
Death
Burroughs died in Lawrence, Kansas, in 1997.
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