The woman who played the mother of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank in a movie is the daughter of which famous composer?
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Tatjana Blacher Tatjana Blacher (born 18 May 1956 in Berlin) is a German actress. She is the daughter of composer Boris Blacher and pianist Gerty Blacher-Herzog. Blacher studied at the Max Reinhardt seminar and at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. She is mostly known for her role as Edith Frank in "". She has been on many TV shows and has a son named Josh. She is multi-talented. She has had professional training in singing and dancing. She comes from Berlin, Germany and speaks fluent German as well as English. She had started her career in 1997 in her debut movie called "Reise in die Dunkelheit".
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Edith Frank Edith Frank (née Holländer; 16 January 1900 – 6 January 1945) was the mother of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank, the daughter-in-law of Alice Betty (nee Stern) Frank and Michael Frank, the sister-in-law of Robert, Herbert, and Helene Frank. She died from starvation at the age of 44, ten days before her 45th birthday.
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Madeleine Milhaud Madeleine Milhaud Milhaud (22 March 1902 – 17 January 2008) was a French actress and librettist. She was both cousin to and wife of composer Darius Milhaud.
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Hélène Berr Hélène Berr (27 March 1921 – April 1945) was a French woman of Jewish ancestry and faith, who documented her life in a diary during the time of Nazi occupation of France. In France she is considered to be a "French Anne Frank".
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Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter is a 1994 American documentary film directed by Deborah Hoffmann, with her wife, Frances Reid, as cinematographer. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The film is about the struggle of Doris Hoffman, mother of the director and widow of Albert Einstein's associate Banesh Hoffmann, with Alzheimer's disease.
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Anne Bancroft Anna Maria Louisa Italiano (September 17, 1931 – June 6, 2005), known professionally as Anne Bancroft, was an American actress, director, screenwriter and singer associated with the method acting school, having studied under Lee Strasberg. Respected for her acting prowess and versatility, Bancroft was acknowledged for her work in film, theatre and television. She won one Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globes, two Tony Awards and two Emmy Awards, and several other awards and nominations.
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Frédéric Alfred d'Erlanger Baron Frédéric Alfred d'Erlanger (29 May 1868 – 23 April 1943) was an Anglo-French composer, banker and patron of the arts. His father, Baron Frédéric Émile d'Erlanger, was a German head of a French banking house, his mother, Mathilde (née Slidell), was an American.
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Theater of War (film) Theater of War, a 2008 documentary film directed by John Walter, uses the rehearsal process of a play production as a lens through which to investigate German playwright Bertolt Brecht's ideas on theater, politics, and war. The chosen production is a 2006 staging of "Mother Courage and Her Children", a play that Tony Kushner calls "the greatest of the 20th century". Staged by the Public Theater in New York's Central Park, the production starred Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline, and was helmed by George C. Wolfe.
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Maria von Trapp Maria Augusta von Trapp (née Kutschera; 26 January 1905 – 28 March 1987), also known as Baroness von Trapp, was the stepmother and matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers. She wrote "The Story of the Trapp Family Singers" which was published in 1949. The story served as the inspiration for the 1956 West German film "The Trapp Family", which in turn inspired the Broadway musical "The Sound of Music" (1959) and the 1965 film of the same name.
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Nike Wagner Nike Wagner (] ) (born 9 June 1945) is a German dramaturge, arts administrator and author. She directed the festival , and has been the director of the Beethovenfest from 2014. The daughter of Wieland Wagner, she is a great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner, and a great-great‑granddaughter of Franz Liszt. She devoted books to the Wagner family and its cultural and political influence.
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Richard Bruno Heydrich Richard Bruno Heydrich (23 February 1865 – 24 August 1938) was a German opera singer (tenor), and composer. He was the father of SS Obergruppenführer and creator of the Final Solution Reinhard Heydrich, Heinz Heydrich and Maria Heydrich.
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László Weiner László Weiner (9 April 1916 in Szombathely, Hungary – 25 July 1944 in Lukov) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and conductor who perished in the Holocaust.
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Elsa Kazi Elsa Kazi (1884–1967), commonly known as "Mother Elsa", particularly in the Sindh province of Pakistan was a German writer of one-act plays, short stories, novels and history, and a poet. She was a composer and a musician of considerable achievement, involved in virtually every conspicuous branch of fine arts. Her paintings are often seen in many distinguished family homes.
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Janny Brandes-Brilleslijper Marianne "Janny" (or "Jannie") Brandes-Brilleslijper (24 October 1916 – 15 August 2003) was a Dutch Holocaust survivor and one of the last people to see Anne Frank. She was the sister of singer Lin Jaldati (born Rebekka Brilleslijper; 1912–1988). Both Brandes-Brilleslijper and Jaldati (nicknamed "Lientje") were in the Westerbork, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camp with Anne and Anne's older sister Margot.
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Katia Mann Katia Mann (born "Katharina Hedwig Pringsheim;" July 24, 1883 – April 25, 1980) was the youngest child and only daughter (among four sons) of the German Jewish mathematician and artist Alfred Pringsheim and his wife Hedwig Pringsheim, who was an actress in Berlin before her marriage. Katia was also a granddaughter of the writer and women's rights activist Hedwig Dohm. Her twin brother Klaus Pringsheim was a conductor, composer, music writer and music pedagogue, active in Germany and Japan. She married the writer Thomas Mann.
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Stella Kunkat Kunkat attended a Montessori school in Berlin-Mitte. She sang in the children's choir of the Komische Oper Berlin where she was discovered in 2005 when she took part in the play "Madame Butterfly". At the age of eight, she played her first role in the film "March of Millions" as the daughter of the protagonist who was played by Maria Furtwängler. In 2009, she had the role of the young Romy Schneider in the TV film "Romy". Two years later, Kunkat played the young Sabine Kuegler in "Jungle Child". For that role, she was nominated as Leading Young Performer in an international feature film at the 33rd Young Artist Awards. In the German production "Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank", a film about the Holocaust victim Anne Frank, who wrote the famous diary, Kunkat plays Anne's older sister Margot Frank.
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The Diary of Anne Frank (1967 film) The Diary of Anne Frank was a 1967 TV film based on the book "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank. The teleplay was directed by Alex Segal and it was adapted from play of the same name by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich. The film starred Max von Sydow, Diana Davila, Peter Beiger, Theodore Bikel and Lilli Palmer.
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Maria Hofer Maria Hofer (1894–1977) was a renowned organist, pianist and composer. The daughter of an accomplished female singer, she was born in Amstetten, Lower Austria. Already as a child she was learning the organ, and within a few years was permitted to participate in church services as organist.
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Sandra Knight Sandra Knight (born January 1, 1940) is an American actress, painter and writer. She is best known for her work as an actor in low-budget films of the 1950s and 1960s, such as "Frankenstein's Daughter", "The Terror" where she plays an evil spirit, and "Tower of London". Knight was married to Jack Nicholson from 1962 until 1968. She is the mother of his daughter, Jennifer Nicholson.
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Whom the Gods Love (1942 film) Whom the Gods Love (German:Wen die Götter lieben) is a 1942 Austrian historical musical film directed by Karl Hartl and starring Hans Holt, Irene von Meyendorff and Winnie Markus. The film is a biopic of the Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was made as a co-production between the giant German studio UFA and Wien-Film which had been set up following the German annexation of Austria. The film was part of a wider attempt by the Nazis to portray Mozart as an authentic German hero. Like many German biopics of the war years, it portrays the composer as a pioneering visionary.
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Rita Karin Rita Karin (born Rita Karpinowicz; October 24, 1919 – September 10, 1993) was a Polish-born American actress best known for her role as Jackie Mason's mother on the 1989 TV series "Chicken Soup". She also appeared as Meryl Streep's Brooklyn landlady who appears at the beginning of "Sophie's Choice". Her voice can be heard singing children's songs from the camps in the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.
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Carlo Taube Carlo Sigmund Taube (born July 4, 1897 in Galicia, died October 1, 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau) was a pianist, composer, conductor, and victim of the Holocaust.