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enibas22 · 11 months ago

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from lomazoma.com - 5th January 2024

Der SemperOpernball ist für sie ein Heimspiel

Nach vierjähriger Pause punktet der 16. SemperOpernball am 23. Februar mit Heimfarbe. Denn aus dem ersten Mal werden zwei Dresden Moderieren Sie die rauschende Ballnacht: die Schauspieler Stephanie Stumph (39) und Tom Wlaschiha (50). Die beiden TV- und Kino-Lieblinge gehörten zu den über 2.000 Gästen des gesellschaftlichen Mega-Events – jetzt stehen sie vor dem Publikum.

Zwei Dresdner: Stephanie Stumph (39) und Tom Wlaschiha (50) moderieren am 23. Februar den SemperOpernball. © Norbert Neumann

„Es ist toll, in der Semperoper auf der Bühne zu stehen, ohne singen zu müssen“, scherzt „Game of Thrones“-Serienstar Wlaschiha. „Als Kind hat mein Onkel hier gesungen. Daher habe ich mich sehr über die Anfrage zur Moderation gefreut.“

So geht es auch Stephanie Stumph, deren Vater Wolfgang Stumph (77) in der Operette „Die Fledermaus“ an der Semperoper den Gefängniswärter Frosch spielt. „Papa hat bereits die Ballmedaille erhalten“, sagt Stephanie stolz. „Der Ball liegt mir wirklich am Herzen.“

Apropos Ball – die beiden werden sich während der Moderation gegenseitig zuspielen. „Wir bekommen einen Textrahmen, den wir dann aber gemeinsam erarbeiten, proben und diskutieren.“

Tom und Stephanie kennen sich schon lange. „Als Mädchen habe ich Tom in TJG vergöttert“, gibt Stephanie zu. „Und als ich etwa neun Jahre alt war, spielte Tom auch in einer Stubbe-Krimiserie mit. Tom hat damals sogar etwas in mein Gedichtalbum geschrieben.“

Ballmanager Wolf-Dieter Jacobi (57) freut sich auf das Dresdner Moderatoren-Duo.

Eine weitere Gemeinsamkeit: „Als Schüler hatten wir Tanzunterricht in der Tanzschule Nebl“, berichten die Moderatoren. Und entscheiden: „Wir werden gemeinsam auf dem Ball tanzen.“

Tom im Smoking, Stephanie in einem der drei Ballkleider, die sie an diesem Abend tragen wird. „Jedes Kleid kommt von einer Dresdner Designerin“, verweist Stephanie auf Katrin Eulenstein, Dorothea Michalk und Carla Beyer.

Wlaschiha freut sich nicht nur auf seine attraktive Co-Moderatorin, sondern auch auf das Lampenfieber.

„So ein Kribbeln gibt es beim Filmen nicht. Wenn man eine Szene vermasselt, wird sie einfach wieder in die Länge gezogen. Aber auf dem Ball ist alles live…“

#tom wlaschiha #stephanie stumph #semperopernball dresden 2024 #in february 2024 #artikel

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historyandclassicactors · 7 years ago

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Ravensbrück and the Rabbits

*TELL IT TO THE WORLD*

I know I’ve said this before, but when I started this, this post was at the top of my to-do list. The only reason I waited so long to get to it is because Elizabeth Wein’s Rose Under Fire is a companion novel to Code Name Verity (last week’s post).

Fair warning: This topic is dark and it will hopefully make you plenty angry - for the acts committed against humanity and for the fact that it isn’t discussed in history classes like it should be.

Ravensbrück

Ravensbrück was the largest all-women Nazi concentration camp. Here, “medical experimental atrocities were conducted under the watchful eye of SS chief Heinrich Himmler” whose approval “was necessary for every deadly experiment conducted at SS concentration camps” (Source). Himmler’s personal physician and the Chief Surgeon of the Reich Physician SS and Police, Dr. Karl Gebhart, was the mastermind behind the experiments. These experiments were conducted on 74 young, healthy women, mostly Polish university students and professors. There were also 12 women from other nationalities.

Ravensbrück was constructed in Northern Germany, about 50 miles north of Berlin. Construction began in November of 1938. Roughly 500 male prisoners from Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp were forced to help in the construction. It was the “administrative center of a system of over 40 subcamps with over 70,000 predominately female prisoners” (Source).

The first prisoners were 900 women from the Lichtenburg camp. They arrived in May of 1939. By the end of 1942, the camp had 10,000 prisoners and by January of 1945, they had 50,000. By their liberation in April of 1945, roughly 130,000 prisoners passed through. Inmates came from 30 countries. “The greatest numbers came from Poland (36%), Soviet Union (21%), the German Reich (18%, includes Austria), Hungary (8%), France (6%), Czechoslovakia (3%), the Benelux countries (2%), and Yugoslavia (2%)” (Source). The prisoners included political prisoners, “asocials,” Jews, Jehovah’s Witnesses, criminals, “work-shy,” and “race defilers.”

Camp administrators included male SS, but mostly female civilian employees of the SS. Female SS guards were also trained here.

“The main camp contained 18 barracks; two of these barracks served as a prisoners' sickbay, two served as warehouses, one served as a penal block, and one functioned as the camp prison until 1939 when a separate prison was built. The remaining 12 barracks served as the prisoners' housing, in which prisoners slept in three-tiered wooden bunks. Each barrack had one washroom and toilets, but the sanitary conditions were poor and greatly deteriorated after 1943” (Source).

Food rations included a cup of substitute coffee in the morning and weak soup with stale bread for lunch and supper. Between overcrowding and poor sanitary conditions, typhus spread throughout camp.

Compared to other concentration camps, Ravensbrück was relatively hospitable. “The German communist, Margarete Buber-Neumann, who came to the camp after spending time in a Russian gulag said: ‘This is a concentration camp?’” (Source).

Prisoners were used for slave labor at Siemens Electric Company, making and assembling V-1 and V-2 rockets. They could also be used as slave labor for Dachau Enterprises, remodeling leather and textiles or in tailor shops making uniforms for both the SS and the prisoners. They also worked construction or administration. Those too old or too crippled to work, knit socks for German soldiers or cleaned.

Ravensbrück was liberated by the Allies on April 29-30, 1945. They “found approximately 3,500 extremely ill prisoners living at the camp; the Nazis had sent the other remaining women on a death march. It is estimated that 50,000 women died at Ravensbrück, either from harsh living conditions, slave labor or were put to death” (Source).

[Dr. Alexander shows a off a Rabbit’s scars during the doctors Nuremberg Trials]

The Rabbits

The Ravensbrück experiments were designed to “maim and cripple the healthy beings” but were passed off as experiments to learn how to treat wounded German soldiers on the Eastern Front.

“Their leg bones were broken, pieces of bone extracted; nerves and muscles torn. To simulate battle injuries, the doctors sought to maximize infection by deliberately infecting the wounds using increasingly more potent bacteria cultures; rubbing the surgical wounds with bacteria, sawdust, rusty nails, and slivers of glass. They found the use of gangrenous cultures resulted in the most “successful” severe infections within 24 hours. Other radical surgical experiments were purely exploratory; to see what happens when parts of bone, nerve and muscle are cut, removed. In some experiments limbs were amputated and transplanted.” (Source).

Many Rabbits died from the experiments, and those who survived were permanently “mutilated, crippled, and susceptible to infection” (Source).

In addition to experiments, the SS doctors also “carried out sterilization experiments on women and children, many of them Roma (Gypsies)” (Source).

Punishments, Selections, and the Gas Chambers

Periodically, prisoners were subjected to “selections,” where prisoners who were too weak or injured to work were shot. As of 1942, however, those selected were sent to a sanitarium in Bernburg to be gassed. Between 1942-1944, roughly 60 transports left Ravensbrück for Hartheim, near Linz, Austria, with 60-100 prisoners each. Construction of a gas chamber at Ravensbrück began in early 1945. They gassed between 5,000-6,000 prisoners before liberation.

“Between being selected and being gassed, prisoners got taken to another camp, about a mile away, where they were locked in unheated barracks without food or blankets and left to starve or freeze to death to make it easier on the limited capacity of Ravensbrück’s makeshift gas chamber” (Wein 350).

Between 1942-1943, the Jewish prisoners were removed, either being sent to Auschwitz or to the gas chamber in Bernburg.

Severe punishment was inflicted. “Solitary confinement in the dark and airless prison cells of the “Bunker . . . was often accompanied by severe beatings or other torture” (Source). There was also a punishment block, where SS Reichsführer Himmler ordered whippings.

Nuremberg Trials

Twenty-one women were charged during the Hamburg Ravensbrück war crime trials. One of them was Dorothea Binz, the Assistant Chief Warden or Oberaufseherin, who’s crimes included shooting, whipping, and setting dogs on prisoners. She was sentenced to death and “executed at the Hameln Prison on May 2, 1947” (Source). Another was Herta Oberheuster, a doctor who helped with the experiments. She was sentenced to twenty years in prison, but was quietly released after five, then continued to practice medicine in Northern Germany. “There, she was recognized by a Ravensbruck survivor who quickly got word to French survivors, who contacted Caroline Ferriday. . . . But before long Caroline and others’ hard work resulted in a victory for the victims of the experiments and Herta’s medical license was permanently revoked” (Source).

List of the 74 Polish women who were operated on.

[Below: Himmler at the entrance to Ravensbrück.]

Wein, Elizabeth. Rose Under Fire. New York: Disney Hyperion, 2013.

I also recommend:

1. Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly

Up Next: D-Day: The Battle of Normandy

#WWII #History Series #Ravensbrück Concentration Camp #Ravensbrück Rabbits #History #Rose Under Fire

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