#Ernst May

[germanpostwarmodern]

House (1925-26) built for himself in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, by Ernst May

[roaratorio]

Mart Stam & Ladislav Zak, Villa Palička - Prague, 1932

[yama-bato]

Ernst May 1886–1970

[huariqueje]

1 May Revolution  -  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, n/d.

German , 1880 - 1938

Oil on canvas, 54 x 48 cm.

[saintbuffy]

desperately want to talk to someone about books/the stuff I’m reading

[twittercomfrnklin2001-blog]

If I Had a Million

MGM showcased its stars in GRAND HOTEL (1932) and DINNER AT EIGHT (1933), while Paramount did much the same with ALICE IN WONDERLAND (1933) and IF I HAD A MILLION (1932, Criterion until last night). Though the latter isn’t as lustrous as MGM’s projects, it sure is a lot of fun. Disgusted with friends and family, millionaire Richard Bennett decides not just to leave his fortune to eight complete strangers, but to deliver the money personally. There follow eight segments of varying quality in which he delivers checks to China store clerk Charlie Ruggles (a delight as usual), prostitute Wynne Gibson, forger George Raft, retired vaudevillian Alison Skipworth (fortuitously married to W.C. Fields), death row inmate Gene Raymond (godawful), bookkeeper Charles Laughton, marine Gary Cooper (talking rapidly for a change) and the magnificent Dame May Whitty. The prologue and epilogue are gracefully directed by Norman Taurog, whose camera moves are to be treasured. Comedy veteran Norman Z. MacLeod directed Ruggles as a clerk tired of having his salary docked for breakage and saddled with nagging wife Mary Boland (the two were a popular team for a while). He also directed Fields and Skipworth, who are hilarious together as they use her riches to get revenge on road hogs (it would take more than a million to do that in Atlanta). Whitty’s segment, directed by the little-known Stephen Roberts, paints a grim picture of life in a home for elderly women and features an exaltation of beautiful character actresses. But the highlight is Laughton’s segment, directed by Ernst Lubitsch. It’s a masterpiece of restraint by both actor and director, setting up one of the film’s most satisfying punchlines (and the rare joke that’s as funny when you don’t know what’s coming as it is when you do). Segments featuring Cary Grant, Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins and Sylvia Sidney were either left unfilmed or abandoned unfinished. For the Fields episode, Joseph L. Mankiewicz created what would become the comic’s catchphrase, “My little chickadee,” which Fields bought from him for $50.

[dalekofchaos]

Bond Villain fancast

Fun fancast where I fancast iconic Bond villains for the modern day or if they were apart of the Craig era/next Bond's era

BD Wong as Dr Julius No

Michelle Gomez as Rosa Klebb

Alexander Skarsgard as Red Grant

Brendan Gleeson as Auric Goldfinger

Benedict Wong as Oddjob

Kyle MacLachlan as Emilio Largo

Christoph Waltz, Pedro Pascal and Mark Gatiss as Ernst Stavro Blofeld

Jason Schwartzman as Mr. Wint

Jesse Plemons as Mr. Kidd

Daniel Kaluuya as Dr Kananga/Mr Big

Rory McCann as Jaws

Chiwetel Ejiofor as Francisco Scaramanga

Stellan Skarsgard as Karl Stromberg

Peter Dinklage as Hugo Drax

Mark Strong as Aris Kristatos

Oded Fehr as Kamal Khan

John Malkovich as General Orlov

Jade Cargill as May Day

Benicio del Toro as Franz Sanchez

Timothy Granaderos as Dario

Jean Dujardin as Georgi Koskov

Georges St-Pierre as Necros

Dean Norris as Brad Whittaker

Ewan McGregor as Alec Trevelyan

Jodie Comer as Xenia Onatopp

Jeremy Irons as Elliot Carver

Daniel Radcliffe as Renard

Daisy Ridley as Elektra King

James Norton as Gustav Graves

Andrew Koji as Zao

Florence Pugh as Miranda Frost

[we-just-havent-got-a-clue]

btw I know no one asked but I feel compelled to share my top 3 scrunkliest people list

Rinus Gerritsen

Andy Taylor (Duran Duran)

Ernst Jansz

[politikwatch]

„Aus der 🇩🇪 #Politik waren #Altkanzler #Schröder mit seiner Frau So-yeon Schröder-Kim, der frühere #SED-Generalsekretär Egon #Krenz, Klaus #Ernst von der Linkspartei sowie die #AfD-#Politiker Alexander #Gauland und Tino #Chrupalla erschienen.“ (Empfang in der 🇷🇺 Botschaft zum 9. Mai)

[davidhudson]

Leonora Carrington, April 6, 1917 – May 25, 2011.

With André Breton, Marcel Duchamp, and Max Ernst, who are standing behind Morris Hirshfield’s Nude at the Window (Hot Night in July). 1942 photo by Hermann Landshoff.

[deutschland-im-krieg]

Heinkel He 280 V3 (GJ+CB). The He 280 was the world's first jet fighter, the original first generation jet fighter. Its first powered flight was on 30.3.1941. With a speed of 512mph and armed with 3 20mm or 30mm cannons, this aircraft could have been in service a year before the Me 262, late '43? Maybe just in time to make a difference against the mighty 8th Air Force? Indifference and interference by Ernst Udet and Erhard Milch, NOT GÖRING, cost Germany dearly and only nine pre-production units were made. This particular craft first flew on 5 July 42, and what was left of it (the tail), was captured in May '45 in Austria. For more, see my Facebook group - Eagles Of The Reich

[everythingunderthesky]

Which Witch? 

This moment in "Donnie vs. Witch Town" has repeatedly caught my notice, and I’ve now recovered enough to break it down! 

First off, here’s the list verbatim:

Visitors  Suzy Bannion Heather Donahue Nancy Downs Minnie Castevet Katia Vajda Miss Anjelica Ernst Samantha Stephens April O’Neil

Unfamiliar names plus cursive plus a lack of high-quality stills meant decoding this took a little longer than expected.

I have attempted to minimize spoilers for the mentioned horror movies when possible, but in pursuing two contradictory goals, I have accomplished both imperfectly. C'est la vie!

Please note: I am by no means a film buff, so feel free to add any relevant context! 

Oh, the Horror . . . [films]!

"Suzy Bannion" would be a reference to the 1977 film Suspiria in which Suzy, a ballet student, finds herself investigating a supernatural coven of witches.

"Heather Donahue" is a homage to the 1999 "found footage" movie The Blair Witch Project*, wherein three student filmmakers investigate a legend of a witch in the woods.

"Nancy Downs", from the 1996 R-rated film The Craft, is one of a trio of students rumored to be dabbling in witchcraft.

"Minnie Castevet", on the other hand, hails from the dark 1968 film Rosemary’s Baby (based on the book by Ira Levin), wherein Minnie’s character is suspected of being a member of a coven. 

"Katia Vajda", originates from the 1960 film Black Sunday, (loosely based on Nikolai Gogol’s short story "Viy"). Katia was accused of being a vampiric witch and executed by her brother—but that isn’t the end of her story.

"Miss Anjelica Ernst" simultaneously references Roald Dahl’s 1973 novel The Witches and its 1990 film adaptation of the same name. One member of the notorious child-hating coven is the Grand High Witch, Eva Ernst, who was portrayed by Anjelica Huston on the big screen.

"Samantha Stephens" lives the life of a "good witch" in the 1964 television series Bewitched.

Special Bonus!

"Abigail the Good", founder of Witch Town, may be an allusion to the character "Abigail Pershing" from the 2015 television show Good Witch. 

I’ll go ahead and credit my dad as my research assistant; he described these references as "deep cuts".

And really, what higher praise is there? 

*For more about Heather Donahue, the producer and writer of the sitcom The High Country, check out this article by GQ's Scott Meslow, The Blair Witch Project's Heather Donahue Is Alive and Well!

[arqueete]

May 23, 2008 Spring Awakening proshot footage as featured in the documentary Kyle Riabko: The Lead

Kyle Riabko (Melchior), Alexandra Socha (Wendla), Blake Bashoff (Moritz), Emma Hunton (Ilse), Lilli Cooper (Martha), Matt Doyle (Hanschen), Gerard Canonico (u/s Ernst), Brian Charles Johnson (Otto), Skylar Astin (Georg), Phoebe Strole (Ana), Remy Zaken (Thea), Christine Estabrook (Adult Women), Glenn Fleshler (Adult Men)

[yama-bato]

Ernst May buildings in Frankfurt

[thatswhywelovegermany]

Die Heinzelmännchen

According to legend, the Heinzelmännchen were Cologne's house spirits. They did the residents' work at night while they were asleep. However, once they were seen doing it, they disappeared forever. In addition to their small size, typical attributes such as the pointed cap and their industriousness show that the Heinzelmännchen belong to the group of goblins, elves and dwarves.

The Cologne legend may have been based on the legend of the little people's wedding feast at Eilenburg, which was first transmitted orally in 1816 and is said to have taken place at the medieval Eilenburg Castle in Eilenburg, Saxony. The legend first appeared in writing in 1826 in a work by the Cologne writer Ernst Weyden (1805–1869) as a short prose story with the note of origin "Oral" and the introduction:

"It may not have been more than fifty years ago that the so-called Heinzelmännchen were up to their adventurous deeds in Cologne. They were small naked men who did all sorts of things, baking bread, washing and other similar household chores; so it was said, but no one had seen them."

It became popular in the 1836 ballad by the painter and poet August Kopisch (1799–1853), with which he transported the originally Rhenish legend from the Siebengebirge to Cologne:

“Oh, how comfortable it used to be in Cologne,

With the Heinzelmännchen!

For, if you were lazy: … you would lie down on the bench and take care of yourself:

Then at night,

Before you knew it,

The little men would come and swarm

And clap and make noise

And pluck and pull

And hop and trot

And clean and scrape …

And before a lazybones had even woken up, …

All his day’s work … was already done!”

Kobolds usually despise Heinzelmännchen because their activities have polar opposite goals: Whereas the Heinzelmännchen are good natured, helpful and take care of household and property, Kobolds are full of mischief and bring chaos and destruction to a home. The industriousness of the Heinzelmännchen disgusts any proper Kobold.

Close relatives of the Heinzelmännchen are the Brownies from the British Islands, the Nissen from Denmark and Norway, the Tomten from Sweden, and the Kabouters from the Netherlands. The Menehune from Hawai'i also bear a certain semblance.

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Gold clasp of eagle, possibly belonging to the House of Karen, 1st-2nd C. CE. Found in Nahavand. The House of Karen seems to have been descended from the Parni, who were themselves an offshoot of the Scythians. Ernst Herzfeld wrote that this item probably belonged to their house.

"House of Karen (Middle Persian: Kārēn; Parthian: 𐭊𐭓𐭍𐭉, romanized: Kārēn; Persian: کارن, romanized: Kārin or Kāren), also known as Karen-Pahlav (Kārēn-Pahlaw) was one of the Seven Great Houses of Iran during the rule of Parthian and Sassanian Empires. The seat of the dynasty was at Nahavand, about 65 km south of Ecbatana (present-day Hamadan, Iran). Members of House of Karen were of notable rank in the administrative structure of the Sassanian empire in multiple periods of its four century-long history.

The Karens, Karan-Vands, Qarinvand dynasty or Karen-Pahlevi as they are also called, claimed descent from Karen, a figure of folklore and son of the equally mythical Kaveh the Blacksmith. Their historical origin however may be that the Karens, along with the House of Mihran, were descended from the Arsacids. According to Movses Khorenatsi, this descent was via one of the three sons of Phraates IV, also named Karen. The fact that Karen may also have been among the family names of the Arsacid dynasty may give credence to this theory.

The first verified reference to the Karenas was during the Arsacid era, specifically as one of the feudal houses affiliated with the Parthian court. In this they were similar to the House of Suren, the only other attested feudal house of the Parthian period. Following the conquest of the Parthians, the Karenas allied themselves with the Sassanids, at whose court they were identified as one of the so-called "Parthian clans". The Armenian Kamsarakan family was a branch of the House of Karen."

-taken from Wikipedia