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England - Die Unbekannte Insel (1945 Radio)
aka: Shakespeare Feature
Radio broadcast. Marius Goring aka Charles Richardson talks about Shakespeare’s Englishness. Includes a recitation of Caliban’s "The isle is full of noises" speech from The Tempest (in English and...
Falstaff in Wien (1940 Film)
aka: Falstaff in Vienna
- Director
- Leopold Hainisch
A musical set in old Vienna about the composer Otto Nicolai, who wrote Die Lustige Weiber von Windsor, based on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. The film incorporates some of Nicolai’s music...
Lustigen Weiber, Die (1936 Film)
aka: Merry Wives of Windsor, The
- Director
- Carl Hoffmann
Feature film. An operatic version of The Merry Wives of Windsor. The lyrics are by Willy Dehmel.
Lärm um Weidemann (1935 Film)
aka: Viel Lärm um Nichts Much Ado About Nothing
- Director
- J. A. Hübler-Kahla
- Producer
- Carl Froehlich
German burlesque film version of the play directed by J. A. Hübler-Kahla. Unemployed Berlin lawyer Hans Weisemann (Viktor de Kowa) falls in love with a woman who turns out to be the daughter of the...
Lustigen Weiber von Wien, Die (1931 Film)
aka: Merry Wives of Windsor, The
- Director
- Géza von Bolváry
- Producer
- Julius Haimann
Feature film musical comedy inspired by Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. The plot concerns the romance between Viennese official Leitner (Hörbiger) and vaudeville headliner Theresa Zalenka...
Stimmportrait Bernhard Baumeister, Rezitation aus Shakespeare (1906 Audio)
aka: Serie 2: Stimmportraits
- Series
- Tondokumente aus Dem Phonogrammarchiv der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Gesamtausgabe der Historischen Bestände 1899-1950.
- Producer
- Fritz Hauser
In this 2-minute phonogramme sample, recorded by Fritz Hauser in 1906, the 80-year old German actor and long-standing star of the Vienna Burgtheater, Bernhard Baumeister, declaims Falstaff’s speech from...
Shakespeare’s Death Mask (Video)
News compilation (mainly from German television sources recorded 1995-1996) on the Darmstadt death mask of Shakespeare.
Macbeth (Video)
- Director
- George Froscher
Recording of George Froscher’s 1988 production of Macbeth for the Freies Theater, Munich. No further information known (9/2007).
Sonette (Television)
aka: Sonnets
- Director
- Wolfgang Engel
A dramatic interpretation of the Sonnets by Wolfgang Engel. An actor, an actress, a dancer and two musicians enact some 40 sonnets. No attempt is made to impose a biographical meaning on them.
Sisi auf Schloß Gödöllö (Film)
aka: Sisi at Gödöllö Castle
- Producer
- Jost Hering; Christian Frosch
Feature film depicting a few hours of the life of Empress Elisabeth (1837-1898). Residing at the Hungarian castle Gödöllö in the company of actors, gypsies, and Siamese twins, Elisabeth (Ursula...