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East-German postcard by VEB Progress Filmvertrieb, no. 966, 1959. Retail price: 0,20 DM. Photo: DEFA / Dassdorf. Publicity still for Reportage 57 (János Veiczi, 1959).
German actor Manfred Krug (1937) was often cast as a socialist hero in DEFA films of the former GDR. He also became known in East-Germany as a jazz singer. In 1977, he returned to West-Germany, where he became a popular TV star.
Manfred Krug was born in 1937 in Duisburg, Germany. His parents were Rudolf and Alma Krug. In 1949, after the divorce of his parents, the 13-years old Manfred moved with his father from Duisburg to the newly founded German Democratic Republic (GDR) . The young Krug trained as a steel smelter in Brandenburg an der Havel. A splash of liquid steel caused a distinctive scar on his forehead. Here, Krug worked for four years in a steel plant and rolling mill. In the evenings he studied and decided to go to drama school. From 1955 to 1957 he was an apprentice at Bertolt Brecht's Berliner Ensemble. In 1957, Krug made his film debut as a guitarist in Die Schönste/The most beautiful (Ernesto Remani, Walter Beck, 1957). Filmportal.de: “Because of his strong build, his powerful body language, and his rebellious presence, Krug mainly played roles of villains and young rowdies in the early years of his movie career.” He played a smuggler in the crime film Ware für Katalonien/Goods For Catalonia (Richard Groschopp, 1959), based on a true fraud: a criminal sold the entire stock of optical instruments produced by the Zeiss factory in Jena, East Germany, to the Spanish Army and to customers in Barcelona. Krug also appeared in the successful war film Fünf Patronenhülsen/Five Cartridges (Frank Beyer, 1960) opposite Erwin Geschonneck and Armin Mueller-Stahl. During the Spanish Civil War, a battalion of the International Brigades is cut off without water or ammunition. Five Cartridges won director Frank Beyer great acclaim, and also for Krug many more film roles followed. He also achieved notability as a jazz singer. He appeared in the drama Professor Mamlock (Konrad Wolf, 1961) about a Jewish surgeon (Wolfgang Heinz) in Germany of the early 1930s. It was based on the play Professor Mamlock, written by the director's father Friedrich Wolf during 1933, when he was in exile in France. Krug was often cast as the tough guy with a heart of gold, such as in Auf der Sonnenseite/On the Sunny Side (Ralf Kirsten, 1962). In this musical comedy he starred as a steel smelter and an amateur actor and jazz singer, who is sent to a drama school by his factory's committee. The film's script was largely inspired by Krug's biography: he worked in a steel factory before turning to an acting career. His jazz band and his singing career were also a central theme in the plot. DEFA historian Dagmar Schittly notes that Auf der Sonnenseite was the most popular East German film of the early 1960s, and Krug and the collective crew were awarded the Heinrich Greif Prize for their work. Krug managed to give the Communist system a human face and credibility. Krug and director Kirsten reunited for the historical adventure Mir nach, Canaillen!/Follow Me, Scoundrels (Ralf Kirsten, 1964). Two years later Krug starred in Spur der Steine/Trace of Stones (Frank Beyer,1966). After its release, the film was shown only for a few days, before being shelved due to conflicts with the Socialist Unity Party, the ruling communist party in the GDR. Krug’s portrayal of a rebellious and brash building site brigadier was deemed as too ‘anarchic’ by the censors. Filmportal.de: “Indeed, the role of the aggressive, yet down-to-earth worker who defies authority and often kicks over the traces has always been one of Krug's main roles.” Only after 23 years was the film shown again, in 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell. His other DEFA-films include Die Fahne von Kriwoj Rog/The Banner of Krivoi Rog (Kurt Maetzig, 1967) starring Erwin Geschonneck, and the contemporary Eastern road movie Weite Straßen – stille Liebe/ Wide streets, silent love (Herrmann Zschoche, 1969) with Jaecki Schwarz, which made Krug a favourite among East-German teenage filmgoers.
In 1976 Manfred Krug participated in protests against the expulsion and stripping of GDR citizenship of singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann. Suddenly the popular Krug, who had won numerous awards in the years before (among them the National award and the Medal for Merit of the GDR), was subjected to sanctions and censorship. The situation escalated when Krug beat down a Stasi informer who had insulted and defamed him publicly. After six months of partly unemployment, Krug requested to leave the GDR in 1977. As soon as he got the approval he left East-Germany and moved to Schöneberg in West Berlin. Twenty years later, he wrote about these events in his book Abgehauen (1997, Pushed off). This memoir became a bestseller and in was filmed by Frank Beyer in 1998. After moving back to West Germany, Manfred Krug very soon got new roles. In 1978 he appeared as the adventurous truck driver Franz Meersdonk in the TV series Auf Achse/On the Axis. He continued to play in the series until 1995, one year before the show ended its long run. Krug's various television roles even included a two-year stint on the children's program Sesamstraße (1982-1984), the German version of the American children's program Sesame Street. He was very popular as an attorney in the Berlin-based comedic attorney TV series Liebling Kreuzberg/Darling Kreuzberg (1986-1998). From 1984 till 2001, he also starred as Hamburg-based commissioner Paul Stoever in the Krimi series Tatort, which would eventually run for a total of 41 instalments. His later feature films include the comedy Neuner (Werner Masten, 1990), and the political drama Der Blaue/The Blue One (Lienhard Wawrzyn, 1994), which was entered into the 44th Berlin International Film Festival. In 2005, his second memoir, Mein schönes Leben (2005, My beautiful life), became another bestseller. Since 1963, Manfred Krug is married with Ottilie Krug. Together they have three children, including the singer Fanny Krug. In 2002 it was announced that Manfred Krug has also an illegitimate child. Krug lives in Berlin-Charlottenburg.
Sources: Filmportal.de, AllMovie, Wikipedia (English and German) and IMDb.
a lovely unicorn card from laura manfre!
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Manfred Krug (* 8. Februar 1937 in Duisburg) ist ein deutscher Schauspieler, Sänger und Schriftsteller. Als Pseudonyme verwendete er zu DDR-Zeiten Clemens Kerber (als Liedtexter) und Isa Karfunkelstein (als Interviewer seiner selbst).
22. Oktober 2018
Testfahrer Manfred Riedl im Portrait
Alter: 62
Gewicht: 95 kg
Größe: 1,86 m
Motivation zur Teilnahme: Ich möchte die technische Entwicklung im Pedelec Sektor weiter beobachten. Außerdem suche ich nach einem neuen Pedelec.
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one of the many (thousands) of Stolperstein -'stumbling stones'- embedded in the pavement around Berlin and other cities - in memory to the victims of the Holocaust.
Born on the 12th of December 1926 in Berlin
Deported from Durchgangslager Mechelen/Belgien on the 11th of August 1942 to Auschwitz
Murdered in Auschwitz aged 16
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Without the memory of his former classmates Manfred Reiss one of the many unknown victims of the Holocaust would have remained .
Manfred Reiss was born on 12 December 1926 in a Residential home in Berlin- Schöneberg . His father, Leo Leiba Reiss (born July 2, 1895 in Grabowitz / Grabowiec ) , was a carpet merchant and married 1920, the Berlin-born Herta Paula Lewin (born 11.11.1899 ) . Manfred was the only child of Herta and Leiba Reiss, the family lived in a spacious apartment in the Luther Road 29 (now Martin- Luther-Straße 17). The father's carpet business was only a short distance from the apartment in the Motz 17
Manfred was in the 12th Enrolled elementary school in the Hohenstaufenstraße , here met him Wolfgang Rutschow know who remembers . " The teacher showed me the seat next to Manfred to the first day of our school days were Manfred and I were picked up by our parents or by their agents , and in this occasion we found that we could walk a good part of the way together ... " This results in a typical childhood friendship with mutual visits developed to play and invitations to children's birthday . In Manfred Reiss these birthday invitations found with numerous cousins instead , the young crowd of visitors was on this day for their games the entire apartment, with the exception of the dining room - there sat the adult guests . Wolfgang Rutschow also remembers Manfred's mother : an elegant appearance , when he saw red-painted fingernails for the first time and the laying of solitaire . Manfred Reiss lived opposite the " Scala " , a famous vaudeville theater. The father hung promotional posters of the " Scala " in his shop , the family Reiss every once received free tickets . Together with his friend Wolfgang Rutschow Manfred Reiss was allowed to sometimes visit the matinees of " Scala " .
Manfred Reiss moved in 1936 to a Jewish school in Joachimsthalerstrasse 13, his school friend and he lost largely out of sight. The regulations and laws on the exclusion of Jews from everyday life were adopted at ever shorter intervals , until the Kristallnacht put the signal for many Jews in the desperate search for a way to emigrate. That may have been similar in Manfred's parents.
In the spring of 1939, Manfred Reiss was able to emigrate to relatives in the Netherlands with the parents. They arrived on 26 April 1939 in The Hague , where they lived first in various homes . Then the family moved to the 6th February 1941 to Hilversum in the Wezellaan 8, during this time Manfred Reiss was a member of the chess club " de Gooische gates " . The family moved back to Amsterdam and lived there until 23 July 1942 the first Bachstraat
From the 15th July 1942 began the systematic deportation of Jews from the Netherlands to Auschwitz. To escape the now begins arrests , the family fled to Belgium Reiss .
On 24 July 1942 Manfred Reiss was arrested along with his parents in Brussels / Saint Gilles for illegal border crossing and on 3 August brought in the location south of Antwerp transit camp Mechelen ( Malines ) . From there, Manfred Reiss was with his parents Herta and Leiba Reiss on 11 August deported to Auschwitz. Of the total of 999 people in this transport 481 were gassed immediately upon arrival two days later at Auschwitz. Whether Manfred Reiss and his parents were among them , can not be determined with absolute certainty , their track is lost with this transport . They were later pronounced dead.
…enjoy AC/DC and the Do-it-Yourself-USB-Dunny – AUGE!
Thank you everyone for a great 2011 and looking forward to 2012 !
Manfred Schmidt, Düsseldorf
Die Sonne brennt gnadenlos auf das Airportcenter nieder, wo mehr als tausend Kinder zum Pinsel greifen und das bei 35°C Höchsttemperatur. Wasser wird nur mehr im Six-Pack getrunken und die Eiswürfel werden bereits unter der Hand gehandelt. Desto trotz warten die jungen Künstler mit Höchstleistungen auf. Der Weltrekord "größtes Kinderbild" wird um vieles übertroffen.
Ein 3300 Quadratmeter großes Kunstwerk entsteht in Salzburg, ca. 800 Kg Farbe und 100 Pinsel fallen den Kinderhänden zum Opfer.
Nach vollendetem Kunstwerk genossen alle die Einladung bei Mc Donald's.
"ICH WAR DABEI"
GRÖSSTES KINDERBILD DER WELT
Danke an alle Helfer, Betreuer und natürlich bei den Künstlern für die Rekordleistung.
Mitinitiator Manfred Kielnhofer
Catalog #: 02-V-00148
Last Name: Von Richthofen
First Name: Manfred
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
Catalog #: 02-V-00158
Last Name: Von Richthofen
First Name: Manfred
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
In 1968, during the summer following the murder of Dr. King, civil rights activists in Louisville demonstrated to demand fair treatment in housing and other areas of civic life. These photos are of the 50th anniversary celebration of the event near the original site and features many of those who were there. Others pictured here include the next generation of folks who continue to support fair and equal treatment of all.