Asked by cahn. This was Jud Süß (English title: Power), when I was in my 20s. One of my university classes was about propaganda movies, and in preparation for the infamous Nazi movie of the same title, several of us did a presentation on other fictional treatments of the life of Joseph Süß Oppenheimer; one of us talked about the 19th century Wilhelm ( Read more... )

Some previous replies to this question by lirazel from years ago are here, but thankfully, history offers so much territory that I can always come up with another additional potential tv series. (Btw, let me add that looking back to that five-season-of-Frederick-the-Great treatment I wrote ages ago when I knew far less: I still think it would be excellent ( Read more... )

3. Least favorite book by favorite author

I don't have one singular favorite author, but Lion Feuchtwanger certainly counts as one of my favorites, as I mentioned a couple of times, and I most definitely have a least favorite book of his ( Read more... )

If you should happen to be in or near Los Angeles during the next week, if you're interested in a) German literature, b) exiles, c) Judaism, or d) all of the above, why not check out this conference? A great many of the presentations and debates will be in English. I'll be attending as well, which means I'll be in LA from Thursday till Sunday ( ( Read more... )

The success of the Marta evening was even more enhanced when the next day, we heard Bob Dylan was in town and had given a concert that same night. And still people came to the lecture instead! (BTW Marta liked Dylan ( Read more... )

The Lion Feuchtwanger conference which I'm attending right now is proceeding smoothly, with all of the lectures so far very interesting and well attended. Last evening's lecture about Marta Feuchtwanger, Lion's widow and very much a queen of her own domain woman both when married to him and in the decades after his death (she died with 95, nearly a ( Read more... )

The conference is over, and the APs duly collected me to continue our trip. The only reason why you're not getting Las Vegas and Bryce Canyon pic spams is that photobucket warned me I nearly maxed my monthly bandwith. Which is why further uploads must wait until October 2nd, alas ( Read more... )

The heat (33 degrees Centigrade today - phew) is making me tetchy, I stop remembering that I'm not supposed to get on the net and comment when I'm tetchy, but you know, getting online was worth it anyway, because Martin Scorsese's upcoming George (Harrison) documentary has acquired this really cool trailer:

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Oh, and something else. Should you ( Read more... )

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Part of yesterday's panels at the conference were dedicated to the stage experienc, and again the people talked about ranged from the world famous (Brecht and Charles Laughton, William Dieterle) to the less known today (cabaret star Stella Kadmon) to the unknown (actor Hans Wengraf, scriptwriter Ernst Neubach). About Brecht's American exile I knew ( Read more... )