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opera-ghosts · 4 months ago
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"ZU NEUEN TATEN, TEURER HELDE" Götterdämmerung - R. WAGNER Here some Siegfrieds and Brünnhildes.
Peter Cornelius as Siegfried; Copenhagen, 1905
Charles Dalmores as Siegfried; Brussels, 1902
Ejnar Forchhammer as Siegfried; ?, ?
Paul Franz as Siegfried; Paris, 1925
Hans Grahl as Siegfried; Hamburg, 1934
Alois Hadwiger as Siegfried; Coburg-Gotha, 1907
Ottfried Hagen as Siegfried; Munich, 1908
Ernst Kraus as Siegfried; Berlin, ca. 1907
Gorrhelf Pistor as Siegfried; Bayreuth, 1931
Julius Pölzer as Siegfried; Munich, 1932
Erik Schmedes as Siegfried; Vienna, ca. 1910
Josef Schöffel as Siegfried; Karlsruhe, ca. 1921
Hans Tänzler as Siegfried; Karlsruhe, 1910
Jacques Urlus as Siegfried; Berlin ?, ca. 1907
Fritz Vogelstrom as Siegfried; Mannheim, ca. 1909
Hermann Winkelmann as Siegfried; Vienna, 1880
Marie Brema as Brünnhilde; London, 1897
Louise Grandjean as Brünnhilde; Paris, 1908
Felia Litvinne as Brünnhilde with Grane; Brussels, 1902
Katharina Senger-Bettaque as Brünnhilde; Berlin, 1898
Fanni Wahrmann-Schöllinger as Brünnhilde with Grane; Hannover, 1920
Hedwig Reicher-Kindermann as Brünnhilde; Leipzig, ca. 1886
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septembergold · 10 months ago
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The Golem as a Classic Silent Movie
Actor and director Paul Wegener retold the story of the golem in the same period as Gustav Meyrick. He brought the legend to the silent screen three times in just five years: 1915, 1917, and 1920. In all three films, Wegener played the role of the golem himself, leaving a lasting mark on the visualization of the figure with his character's striking silhouette. Wegener achieved world renown for his final Golem film, made in 1920, The Golem: How He Came into the World. This classic silent film was a milestone in the horror genre.
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mask131 · 1 year ago
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Fragments of fright (9)
From Richard Cavendish’s The Great Book of the Supernatural
THE MESSENGERS OF THE AFTERLIFE
Most people do not know when they will die - but a few of them are apparently warned of their imminent demise, thanks to the appearance of a ghost. This messenger of the afterlife can be a wraith, or a mysterious animal, and many families are proud of "owning" one.
The Hohenzollern dynasty, which reigned successively over the Brandeburg, Prussia and Germany (until the abdication of the kaiser Wilhelm II at the end of WWI) was boasting the existence of a "family ghost". This specter tied to their bloodline was a White Lady - a female ghost dressed in white, with a mourning armband, usually seen before the death of a member of the family, and appearing in the royal residences of Berlin or other Germany regions. It was believed that she might be the ghost of a princess of the 15th century, who was cruelly abused by her husband, who was a Hohenzollern. The dynasty of the Hesse of Darmstadt (Germany) also had its death herald - a Black Lady this time, in a mourning outfit, her face hidden by a dark veil. This ghost was supposed to be the archduchess Maria-Anna, wife of the archduke Ferdinand.
In the Danish royal family meanwhile, disasters were believed to be announced by the apparition at Gurre, south of Helsingor (a location that inspired the setting of Shakespeare's Hamlet), of the ghost of king Valdemar IV, who ruled on the Denmark in th 14th century and died at Gure in 1375. Another strange fact of the history of the Danish crown concerns the queen Astrid, killed in 1935 by a car accident. Some times after her death, she supposedly appeared before numerous people during a spiritism séance organized at Copenhague by the medium Einar Nielsen. A picture of her "manifestation" was apparently taken - but unfortunately, these kind of pictures are very easy to falsify and thus do not make an actual, solid proof of the ghost's apparition.
The Hasburgs, who ruled over the Austro-Hungarian Empire, were traditionally warned of any upcoming tragedy by the appearance of a group of great white birds circling in the sky. They were seen in 1889, soon before the double suicide of the heir-prince Rudolf and his mistress in Mayerling. Later, the emperor Franz-Josef the First also saw them in 1898, on the eve of the murder of his beloved Elisabeth. Finally, these sinister birds were spotted in 1914, before the Sarajevo attack which killed the archduke Franz-Ferdinand and caused World War I.
The most famous of these "messengers of death" is without a doubt the Irish banshee, which makes the pride and glory of the greatest and oldest families of the island. The banshees howls and wails with a melancholic voice through the night, crying the death of a family's member soon before it actually happens. She can appear as a beautiful maiden with a red shirt, or a green dress under a gray cloak ; or she can appear as an old hag. This "dual face", the beautiful maiden and the ugly hag, were the usual manifestations and appearances of the great goddesses of the pre-Christian Celtic religion, of which the banshee seems to be a remnant. It seems that getting rid of a banshee is hard, since there are records of them still wailing near the old domains of families that left Ireland a long time ago. A few years before the publication of this book, an American that was visiting the Aran island in the Galway bay, organized a party, with lot of music and dancing. As the night was ending, the young man returned home, playing accordion. The noise he made distressed the neighborhood, and someone had to go explain to a poor frightened old man that what he heard wasn't the screams of a banshee, but the sounds of a drunk playing very badly the accordion. Reassured, the old man knew three more weeks of peace... Until he heard the ACTUAL wails of the banshee, and soon after died.
According to a very old tradition, the death of the bishops of Salisbury is announced by the arrival of mysterious white birds flyig over the plain. Other bad omens - not necessarily meaning "death" - are the black dogs, or rather the black hounds, usually of an enormous size, that supposedly haunt the British countryside. Peel's castle, on the isle of Man, is the lair of one of those monsters, the Moddy Dhu, whose mere sight causes a person's death. You will also be doomed to die if you meet the Shriker dog, which hides in the Burnley cemetery (Lancashire). Many more sinisters black hounds are believe to wander on the paths leading to cemeteries. In a lot of popular beliefs and local folklore, dogs are associated with death, probably because in the distant past hungry dogs used to dig up corpses to eat them. There could also be something related to the strong belief that dogs are able to sense entities invisible to humans. Ghosts of dogs are particularly dreaded in the East-Anglia, where strikes the formidable Black Shuck, whose only eye shines in the darkness.
During World War II, an American air-pilot and his wife lived in Walberswick, in the Suffolk, and they had there a terrifying experience. During one whole night, an enormous black dog tried to enter in their house, and they only prevented it from doing so by piling up furniture in front of the door, that the animal nearly split open. At dawn, the beast left, but without leaving any prints in the mud surrounding the house. This event happened during a storm night - which reminds one of the old beliefs claiming that storms are caused by the mad run in the countryside of a pack of infernal hounds, whose howls causes death, madness and misfortune. In some regions, these hounds are led by the "Wild Hunter". In Denmark, it is king Valdemar that leads the pack, in Normandy the Devil himself ; in northern England it is "Gabriel's hounds" led by the Angel of Death, while in the Dartmoor the dogs follow sir Francis Drake riding a hearse. All these legends inspired without a doubt Conan Doyle when he wrote one of Sherlock Holmes' most famous adventures - The Hound of the Baskervilles.
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illustratus · 13 days ago
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Brünnhilde the Valkyrie by Arthur Rackham
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the-evil-clergyman · 1 year ago
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The Rhinemaidens by Gaston Bussière (1906)
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silkwound · 4 months ago
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The legend of the Freischütz is a German folk tale that centers on a marksman who makes a pact with the devil to ensure his bullets never miss. He receives seven of them, with six hitting any desired target and the seventh controlled by the devil himself.
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peachssodapop · 1 year ago
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the mention of their different dialects and languages immediately had my enraptured
so here's a very quickly drawn comic based on I cannot seem to find a good german equivalent to silly
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itsagrummel · 1 year ago
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just a normal day on german twitter with this tweet by El Hotzo
Harry Potter:
arrogant celeb
goes to a posh school in a castle in England
did not learn something proper
needed 7 books to kill the villain
Krabat:
normal dude
works at a mill in Lusatia
based apprenticeship as a miller
1 book, quick work with the villain
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currantlee · 1 year ago
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Something I love about the memory of Zelda and Sonia in the German dub of TotK...
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(Translation: And your Link, too, is surely awaiting your return.)
Sonia uses the phrase "dein Link" ("your Link") here, which in German is a common phrase to indicate the belief that someone might have romantic feelings for another person. And the way Pauliner Weiner (Sonia's German VA) delivers this line very much indicates that she is indeed teasing Zelda a little here! Sonia ships Zelink confirmed!!
But wait. There's more!
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(Translation: May one ask who this Link is?)
Rauru definitely notices this too! His tone, as well as the use of the very specific article "dieser" ("this") indicate as much. If he was simply curious about who Link is in order to follow the conversation, he would more likely use the phrase "Darf ich fragen, wer Link ist?" ("May I ask who Link is?"). He is also teasing Zelda a little here.
Zelda's reply is also very sweet! While her first two lines are nothing special (she is essentially just recapping the events Breath of the Wild, as well as what led up to it), it gets interesting once Rauru reacts to her description, once again in a somewhat teasing manner (indicated by both the delivery and the language of the line):
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(Translation: Oh, a hero you say.)
To which Zelda replies with:
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(Translation: Link is the most steadfast and fearless knight who ever existed.)
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(Translation: Yes...)
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(Translation: He is so strong...)
That last line is pretty much the same in English, but Julia Casper (Zelda's German VA) does an amazing job making it sound like Zelda is not only admiring Link throughout this entire short monologue she is having, but like she is talking more to herself than to Rauru and Sonia, almost like she forgets they're there for a moment because she is thinking about Link. I really loved this little touch!
Also note that Zelda is not explicitly talking about physical strength in the last line (although she might be. It isn't clarified, leaving the interpretation of what kind of strength she is talking about up to the player).
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(Translation: ... and on top of it all, he has a good heart!)
This last part seems to be directed at Rauru and Sonia again. But we're still not done!
After Rauru remarks that Zelda seems to think highly of Link and that the way she's talking about her knight makes him want to meet him, Sonia agrees and delivers a final line that, once again, makes it very clear that the two of them are engaging in a little bit of good-mannered teasing in this scene (both from what's actually said here and how Paulina Weiner delivers the line):
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(Translation: Chivalrous, and full of gallantry...)
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(Translation: Don't make us so curious, Zelda!)
And then they all break out in light-hearted laughter.
All in all, I really love this scene! Huge respect to the German VAs, who did an absolutely stellar job (not just in this scene, but for the game in general - especially Julia Casper!).
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thefugitivesaint · 6 months ago
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Wilhelm von Kaulbach (1805-1874), ''The Heroic Life and Exploits of Siegfried, the Dragon Slayer: An Old German Story'' by Guido Görres, 1848 Source
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opera-ghosts · 6 months ago
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"NUN ZÄUME DEIN ROSS, REISIGE MAID!" DIE WALKÜRE - R. WAGNER (2 act)
Here some Brünnhildes
Mathilde Fraenkel-Claus as Brünnhilde; ?, (ca. 1902)
Marie Burk-Berger as Brünnhilde; Munich, 1907
Lucienne Breval as Brünnhilde (print); Paris, 1892
Berta Morena as Brünnhilde; Munich, 1907
Emmy Hoy as Brünnhilde; Kiel, 1912
Maria Maier as Brünnhilde; Mainz, ?
Maria Gembarzewska / Maryla von Falken as Brünnhilde; Munich, 1913
Helena Forti as Brünnhilde; Dresden, 1913
Loni Meinert as Brünnhilde; Mannheim, 1914
Gabriele Englerth as Brünnhilde; Wiesbaden, ca. 1915
Theo Drill-Oridge as Brünnhilde; Hamburg, ca. 1923
Helene Wildbrunn as Brünnhilde; Vienna, ca. 1923
Elsa Alsen as Brünnhilde; New York, 1926
Eugenie Burkhardt as Brünnhilde; Dresden, 1926
Nanny Larsén-Todsen as Brünnhilde; Bayreuth, 1927
Olga Haselbeck as Brünnhilde; Budapest, (ca. 1930)
Henriette Gottlieb as Brünnhilde; Berlin, 1930
Frida Leider as Brünnhilde; Berlin, ca. 1934
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lifepaint · 21 days ago
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I decided to join Zelink month this year @zelinkcommunity ! :D
Starting with the 1st week!
I chose to go with sword as my 1st promt owo This is based at the final battle from ocarina of time, where Zelda helps Link by throwing the master sword at his direction owo
This is also a redraw of a panel from the OOT manga! So I thought this would be neat ówo I hope this is good for the challenge ^^;
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official-german-gaming · 2 months ago
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Hey warum heißt der so
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lionofchaeronea · 1 year ago
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The Grail Castle, Hans Thoma, 1899
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illustratus · 1 month ago
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Faust and Mephistopheles by Gaston Cervelli
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the-evil-clergyman · 2 years ago
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Illustrations from Undine by Arthur Rackham (1909)
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