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The "Gänseliesel" in front of the old town hall of Göttingen The Original of the Town Museum. The Gänseliesel (English: Goose Girl, Goose Lizzy (Liesel as pet name of Elisabeth)) is a fountain which was erected in 1901 in front of the medieval town hall of Göttingen, Germany.
Lisel Mueller (born Elisabeth Neumann, February 8, 1924 – February 21, 2020) was a German-born American poet, translator and academic teacher.Her family fled the Nazi regime, and she arrived in the U.S. in 1939 at the age of 15.
It pioneered the photo-essay, [5] [9] had a specialised staff and production unit for pictures and maintained a photo library. [4] With other news magazines like the Münchner Illustrierte Presse in Munich and Vu in France, it also pioneered the use of candid photographs taken with the new smaller cameras. [ 10 ]
In February 1938, Death tells how a young girl called Liesel Meminger had piqued his interest. In one of the opening scenes, Liesel steals her first book, titled The Grave Digger's Handbook, after her brothers death, when it falls out of the gravedigger's pocket. She meets her new foster parents Rosa Hubermann and Hans Hubermann in Munich.
One Day in September is a 1999 documentary film directed by Kevin Macdonald examining the 5 September 1972 murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. Michael Douglas provides the sparse narration throughout the film. The film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 72nd Academy Awards, on 26 ...
Liesel Carritt was born under the name Liesel Mottek into a large German-Jewish family. [3] Her father was a journalist called Heinrik (Heinz) Mottek who was the former editor of Weimar Germany's main liberal newspaper, the Frankfurter Zeitung. [2] During her teenager years Liesel became a communist and joined the Communist Party of Germany. [3]
Gallery of Beauties The Nymphenburg Palace seen from its park. The Gallery of Beauties (German: Schönheitengalerie) is a collection of 38 portraits of the most beautiful women from the nobility and bourgeoisie of Munich, Germany, gathered by King Ludwig I of Bavaria in the south pavilion of his Nymphenburg Palace. [1]
The Best of Life, 1973 David E. Scherman (March 2, 1916 – May 5, 1997) was an American photojournalist and editor. Born in Manhattan to a Celia née Harris and William Scherman, [ 1 ] Jewish family, [ 2 ] he grew up in New Rochelle, New York and then attended Dartmouth College .