#gertrude berg

[citizenscreen]

Radio and TV pioneer, Gertrude Berg (October 3, 1899 – September 14, 1966)

[oldshowbiz]

Emmy Nominations of Early Television.

[cladriteradio]

Here are 10 things you should know about Gertrude Berg, born 124 years ago today. She was a remarkably accomplished woman, a true pioneer in radio and television.

[kwebtv]

From the Golden Age of Television

Episode dated May 25, 1954

The Goldbergs - Music Lover - DuMont - May 25, 1954

Sitcom

Running Time: 30 minutes

Written by Gertrude Berg 

Produced by Henry Opperman

Directed by Martin Magner

Stars:

Gertrude Berg as Molly Goldberg

Eli Mintz as Uncle David

Arlene McQuade as Rosie Goldberg

Tom Taylor as Sammy Goldberg

Robert H. Harris as Jake Goldberg

Ben Astar as Mr. Vargas

Dora Weissman as Mrs. Herman

Gene Leonard as The Critic

Regina Resnik as Eva Vargas

Leo Taubman At the piano

[opera-ghosts]

„WALKÜRE“ R. Wagner / SECOND and THIRD ACT

Some Brünnhildes

Amalie Materna as Brünnhilde; Bruxelles, 1889

Pauline Mailhac as Brünnhilde; Karlsruhe, 1891

Ellen Gulbranson as Brünnhilde; Bayreuth, 1902

Lucienne Breval as Brünnhilde; Paris, ca. 1900

Anna Bahr-Mildenburg als Brünnhilde; Vienna, ca. 1900

Laure Berge as Brünnhilde; Bruxelles, ?

Elise Beuer als Brünnhilde; ?, ?

Olga Blomé as Brünnhilde; Bayreuth, 1924

Lina Boeling as Brünnhilde; ?, ?

Helena Braun as Brünnhilde; Munich, ?

Gertrud Bindernagel as Brünnhilde; ?, ?

Berthe Briffaux as Brünnhilde; Antwerpen, 1932

Lotte Burck as Brünnhilde; Milan, 1932

Sara Cesar as Brünnhilde; Rome, 1920

Sofie Cordes-Palm as Brünnhilde; ?, ?

Erna Denera as Brünnhilde; Berlin, ?

[broadcastarchive-umd]

#RudyTuesday The Goldbergs was a comedy-drama broadcast on radio from 1929 to 1946 and on television from 1949 to 1956.  Gertrude Berg devised the program, which featured the home life of a Jewish family living in New York City. In addition to writing the scripts and directing each episode, Berg starred as bighearted, lovingly meddlesome matriarch Molly Goldberg.

The television version ran on CBS from 1949 to 1951 and then on NBC during the 1952–53 season. In 1954, the show moved to the  DuMont network for a final run. 

Above: An unidentified actor, Eli Mintz as Uncle David, Philip Loeb as Jake Goldberg, and Gertrude Berg as Molly Goldberg.

One in a series of photos from the Rudy Bretz papers at UMD.

[iirulancorrino]

Synagogues became the site of Jewishness, the sun around which my nana's Jewish world orbited, in part because religious affiliation, American Jews had learned, was comprehensible to the rest of America in a way that secular Jewish identity was not. In 1955, Will Herberg, a Jewish philosopher and former Marxist, published 'Protestant, Catholic, Jew,' a book that presented being Jewish as being about religious, not ethnic, difference. The United States, from the beginning, understood Black and white religious freedom: it was less comfortable with concepts like ethnicity and peoplehood and groups that transcend race. With synagogues, American Jews could be publicly, outwardly all-American and privately, religiously all-Jewish They could move out to the suburbs. They could move up the socioeconomic ladder like other white American families—they would just be white American families who happened to go to shul. It was, in a way, a return to the way Jewish identity was understood before there was an increase in immigration: Jews could be white Americans who prayed differently. This was reflected in how Jews were depicted on television. When Gertrude Berg's radio broadcast about a Jewish suburban family became a television show, the only signifier that the family was Jewish was a menorah on the mantelpiece. This wasn't threatening to white America. This was acceptable and comprehensible. It helped, too, that this was during the Cold War, with the United States angling to prove it was both full of faith and tolerant of all religions. In a way, this was a sort of mirror image of what the Soviet Union was doing: in the Soviet Union, religion was not tolerated, but propaganda films were made to show how racially accepting the Soviet Union was in comparison to the United States. The United States, meanwhile, wanted to show itself as a land of religious tolerance while continuing de facto and de jure racial segregation. This was part of the reason that Judaism was not only understood by Americans but was increasingly understood as being American, considered a major religion in this country despite the fact that fewer than five percent of Americans were Jews.

Emily Tamkin, Bad Jews: A History of American Jewish Politics and Identities

[philosopherking1887]

A Penguin By Any Other Name

[Apparently it has become my habit to speculate on the origins of characters’ names if they have Jewish associations (see also here and here). Also on AO3.]

“Oswald Cobblepot,” Ed said thoughtfully, rolling the syllables around his mouth as if he were tasting an unfamiliar wine.

Oswald looked up from slathering jam on his toast (he had a sweet tooth, it seemed) with a faintly annoyed expression. “Yes, Edward Nygma?”

“It’s quite a name. Did your mother give it to you?”

Oswald stared at him, nonplussed. “You haven’t said anything about a father,” Ed explained. “So I assumed it must have been your mother’s idea.”

“Yes, my mother named me,” Oswald said shortly, then took a delicate bite from the corner of his toast.

“What was her name?”

Oswald finished chewing and swallowed his bite of toast before he replied—he always ate very decorously—fixing Ed with a suspicious gaze all the while. “Why do you want to know?” he finally asked.

“Just curious. It’s not as if I can do her any harm,” Ed pointed out.

The muscles in Oswald’s jaw clenched at this reminder, and for a moment he looked as if he wanted to jump at Ed, but he just looked down into his mug of tea. “No, I suppose not,” he said tightly. “Her name was Gertrud.”

“Gertrud Cobblepot,” Ed tried. “Also quite a name.”

“Gertrud Kapelput, actually.”

Ed raised his eyebrows. “You changed your surname?”

“No, she did. She thought it would help me to have a name that sounded as English as possible.”

“Well, ‘Oswald Cobblepot’ certainly succeeds at that.”

“Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot,” Oswald amended, with a twitch of a smile.

“Wow—very English. Where did the ‘Oswald’ and ‘Chesterfield’ come from?”

“I think she found ‘Oswald’ in a book… she said she liked that it was an aristocratic English name, because it sounded like ‘Ostwald,’ which was her mother’s maiden name. She saw ‘Chesterfield’ in a magazine and just thought it sounded distinguished.”

“Isn’t that a furniture company or something?”

“Yes. They make sofas. It’s also a town in England, apparently. I looked it up once. It’s in Derbyshire, wherever that is.” He pronounced it incorrectly, like the hat plus the place where Hobbits live.

“North-west midlands,” Ed recalled, picturing a map in his head.

Oswald rolled his eyes. “Whatever that means.”

“Ostwald is German for ‘east woods.’”

“Yes.”

“I found you in the east woods.”

“What an interesting coincidence,” Oswald said insincerely. He took a long sip of tea.

“Curious that your mother changed your surname but not her own.”

“She still had a foreign accent. What good would an English name do?”

“Fair point. A German accent? Austrian?”

“She was from Hungary… but her accent was more Yiddish than anything.” Oswald stared at Ed as if daring him to say the wrong thing.

“Hmm. Kapell means ‘chapel’ in German; Pütt means a pit or a mine. So Kapelput means ‘chapel pit.’ A crypt? Or a mine near an old chapel, maybe. That seems more likely, if it’s a Jewish name.”

Oswald shrugged. “She said her family didn’t know where the name came from.”

“Did you know, it wasn’t the Jewish tradition to have hereditary surnames? They used patronymics: son or daughter of someone. People still do that in Iceland. But in the eighteenth century, civil authorities in European states started requiring everyone to have a surname that they shared with their whole family. Easier for census and taxation purposes. So Ashkenazi Jews had to make up their own surnames. Some people just turned a patronym into a family name, like Mendelssohn or Jacobson, and some used the conventional method of naming themselves for their occupation—butcher, tailor, goldsmith, or what have you. But a lot also used place names. Sometimes the city or country they were from—like Berliner, Landau, Unger, Deutscher—but often just a local landmark near where they lived. That’s why so many Jewish names end with -berg, which means mountain; or -feld, which is field; -thal, valley; or -wald, of course. Kapelput could be one of those.”

“How do you know all that?” Oswald demanded, eyes narrowed. “You’re not Jewish, are you?”

“No. I just heard it in a radio story once. I like to listen to the radio while I work—news, stories, quizzes, not music. It helps me focus. And I retain facts.”

“Including facts about penguins, apparently.”

Ed’s face split into a wide grin, without his quite intending it. “You remembered our first meeting.”

Oswald pulled his mouth into an exaggerated frown, a kind of facial shrug. His face was always so expressive. “It was fairly memorable. Most people don’t introduce themselves to me in quite that way.”

“No, I wouldn’t think so.”

“And what about your name, Edward Nygma?” Oswald asked pointedly. “I don’t think I’ve ever heard that last name before.”

“No, you wouldn’t have, because I made it up.”

“Of course. A man who loves riddles wouldn’t just happen to be named ‘E. Nygma’ by chance.” He smirked and took another prim bite of toast.

“Though a boy named E. Nygma would be more likely than chance to end up loving riddles.”

“Or hating them,” Oswald added, after swallowing. “Why did you change your name? Clearly you weren’t going for something that sounds English…”

Ed looked down and his hands clenched. Well, really, you should have expected that, the bolder version of his own voice drawled in his head. You’re the one who started the conversation about names.

“Had a falling-out with my parents,” he said shortly. Understatement, much? the brazen voice interjected with a snort.

“Ah. I’m sorry,” Oswald said with surprising delicacy.

“Don’t be,” Ed said brightly, forcing a smile. “No attachments means no weaknesses, remember?”

“Right, of course.” Oswald’s answering smile seemed just as forced.

“New name, new start. You became a different person when you became ‘the Penguin,’ right?”

“Yes, I suppose I did. When I stopped hating the name, anyway.”

“You made it yours, so it couldn’t hurt you anymore. You chose to become that name.”

“I guess we’ve both chosen our own names, in that respect.”

What, are we going to reclaim ‘Riddle Man’ now? ‘Psychopath’? ‘Freak’?

“And why not?” Ed retorted. “We’re free, aren’t we? We can be whoever we want.”

Oswald hummed noncommittally into his tea. They both knew that neither of them really believed that—that the names of Kristen Kringle and Gertrud Kapelput would be carved into their hearts forever, as much a part of them as their own names, and they had no choice in the matter at all.

[peterlorrefanpage]

Peter Lorre as college professor (TV)

"Can you imagine what would happen if science depended on you? We wouldn't have discovered water yet!"

Watch Peter Lorre guest star as chemistry professor Dr. Kestner in the TV sitcom, Mrs. G. Goes to College, “First Test” (Oct. 11, 1961):

But wait, there's more!

Peter reprises his role in Mrs. G. Goes to College, “The Trouble with Crayton” (Dec. 6, 1961):

Mrs. G. Goes to College is a 26-episode American sitcom starring Emmy Award-winning actress Gertrude Berg as Sarah Green, a 62-year-old widow who enters college. The sitcom aired on CBS from October 4, 1961 to April 5, 1962 and also starred Cedric Hardwicke, Skip Ward, and Mary Wickes. Wiki

[wanderingmind867]

Fun thing to kill time: I'm going to go to wikipedia and find the US TV Schedule for each year and share what shows sound good or interesting. Let's start with the 1950-1951 Primetime Schedule from Monday to Sunday:

Monday: The Goldbergs (Gertrude Berg's show, not the modern Goldbergs show), Dick Tracy, Hollywood Screen Test, the Perry Como Show. I'm interested in one other show on Mondays, but it had puppets (which are either really good or really disturbing).

Tuesday: Beulah, The Original Amateur Hour, Texaco Star Theatre and Life Begins at Eighty.

Wednesday: Four Star Revue, Arthur Godfrey and His Friends and Don McNeill's TV Club.

Thursday: The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, The Alan Young Show, Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge and Martin Kane, Private Eye.

Friday: Club Seven, Life with Linkletter, Mama, Man Against Crime, Star of the Family and Cavalcade of Stars.

Saturday: Life with the Erwins, One Man's Family, The Frank Sinatra Show, Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town, The Faye Emerson Show, The Jack Carter Show, Your Show of Shows and Your Hit Parade.

Sunday: The Jack Benny Show, The Colgate Comedy Hour, Garroway at Large and What's My Line?

Whew, this took a while to write. Like a few hours to write down. It's very dull work. but I'm posting this anyway. I came too far to not post it. Maybe I'll do a few more of these (but probably never one for each year). Maybe three each decade, if we're lucky and I'm bored enough to commit to this.

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 10.3

Beer Birthdays

John Gorrie (1803)

John Gund (1830)

Fred Horix (1843)

F.D. Radeke (1843)

Alois Alexander Assman (1856)

Sean Lewis (1984)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Harvey Kurtzman; cartoonist, Mad magazine founder (1924)

Clive Owen; actor (1964)

Greg Proops; comedian (1959)

Stevie Ray Vaughan; rock guitarist (1954)

Gore Vidal; writer (1925)

Famous Birthdays

Louis Aragon; French writer (1897)

P. P. Arnold; soul singer (1946)

Dr. Atl; Mexican painter (1875)

John Perry Barlow; poet & songwriter (1947)

Giovanni Battista Beccaria; Italian physicist (1716)

Gertrude Berg; actress & screenwriter (1899)

Pierre Bonnard; French artist (1867)

Benjamin Boretz; composer & theorist (1934)

Wade Boteler; actor & screenwriter (1888)

James M. Buchanan; economist (1919)

Lindsay Buckingham; rock guitarist (1949)

Johnny Burke; songwriter (1908)

Neve Campbell; actor (1973)

Natalie Savage Carlson; author (1906)

Chubby Checker; pop singer (1941)

Eddie Cochran; rock singer (1938)

Chris Collingwood; English-American singer-songwriter (1967)

Giovanni Comisso; Italian author and poet (1895)

Antoine Dauvergne; French violinist & composer (1713)

Pierre Deligne; Belgian mathematician (1944)

Gerardo Diego; Spanish poet (1896)

Jean Grémillon; French director, composer & screenwriter (1901)

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brook; English poet (1554)

Eirik Hegdal; Norwegian saxophonist & composer (1973)

James Herriot; English writer (1916)

Roy Horn; illusionist, with Siegfried (1944)

A.Y. Jackson; Canadian artist (1882)

Allan Kardec; French author (1804)

Jessica Parker Kennedy; Canadian actress (1984)

Pyotr Kozlov; Russian archaeologist & explorer (1863)

Ronnie Laws; jazz, R&B, & funk saxophone player (1950)

Tommy Lee; rock drummer (1962)

Henry Lerolle; French painter (1848)

Rob Liefeld; author and illustrator (1967)

Gustave Loiseau; French painter (1865)

G. Love; singer-songwriter & guitarist (1972)

Leo McCarey; film director (1898)

Keb' Mo'; blues singer, songwriter (1951)

Janel Moloney; actress (1969)

Alan O'Day; singer-songwriter (2940)

Emily Post; etiquette columnist (1872)

Steve Reich; modern composer (1936)

Kevin Richardson; singer-songwriter & actor (1971)

Aleksandr Rogozhkin; Russian director & screenwriter (1949)

John Ross; Cherokee nation chief (1790)

Josephine Sabel; singer & comedian (1866)

Sebastian Anton Scherer; German organist & composer (1631)

Seann William Scott; actor (1976)

Al Sharpton; politician, civil rights activist (1954)

Jake Shears; singer-songwriter (1978)

Laurie Simmons; photographer & director (1949)

Ashlee Simpson; singer-songwriter & actress (1984)

Shannyn Sossamon; actress (1978)

Gwen Stefani; rock singer (1969)

C. J. Stroud; football player (2001)

Tessa Thompson; actress (1983)

Sophie Treadwell; playwright & journalist (1885)

Johann Uz; German poet & judge (1720)

Buket Uzuner; Turkish author (1955)

Carl von Ossietzky; German journalist & activist (1889)

Jack Wagner; actor and singer (1959)

Dave Winfield; San Diego Padres OF (1951)

Thomas Wolfe; writer (1900)

Allen Woody; bass player & songwriter (1955)

Sergei Yesenin; Russian poet (1895)

[citizenscreen]

“The Goldbergs,” originally titled “The Rise of the Goldbergs,” premiered on NBC radio on November 20, 1929. A popular radio series for 15 years, “The Goldbergs” moved to television in 1949. Created by star Gertrude Berg, one of the first women to work as a writer/producer for a radio and TV sitcom.

[oldshowbiz]

1952.

Phillip Loeb’s Blacklist Settlement.

[travsd]

Glamorous Gertrude Olmstead

I know not whether Gertrude Olmstead (1897-1975) was related to the famous designer of city parks, but I do know that, astoundingly, she is far from the only bygone star named Gertrude, what with Gertrude Hoffman, Gertrude Vanderbilt, Gertrude Astor, Gertrude Lawrence, Gertrude Niesen, Gertrude Ederle, Gertrude Selby, and even ethnic outliers like Gertrude Berg and Gertrude Howard all in the mix.…

[kwebtv]

Character Actor

Paul Smith ( February 5, 1929 – March 3, 2006 ) Comic character actor with a perpetually perplexed or, alternatively, bemused expression, who, during the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s, appeared in scores of television episodes, primarily sitcoms, including regular roles in five series, and was also seen in numerous theatrical features, television films and commercials, frequently in brief, sometimes unbilled, comedic bits. Best known for The Doris Day Show (1969-1971).

Smith was in 24 television episodes during the 1950′s encompassing eighteen series, from 1955's The Halls of Ivy, Navy Log and The 20th Century Fox Hour to 1959's Dinah Shore Show, in addition to a regular role on the 1959 sitcom Fibber McGee and Molly.

Seen in episodes of thirty series, starting, in 1960, with Johnny Midnight, Markham, Checkmate and Thriller, and ending in 1969 with Ironside and Adam-12, he was also a cast member in four sitcoms, among those series, and a semi-regular on a fifth, ABC's Bewitched, where, between 1966 and 1972, he appeared in nine episodes, usually playing a befuddled or exasperated cop who is flummoxed by the magical witchcraft of Samantha (Elizabeth Montgomery). The size of his roles was mostly small and he did not even receive billing in the credits of some of his TV installments.

Smith's earliest 1960s sitcom was CBS' Mrs. G. Goes to College, which marked Gertrude Berg's return to series TV in October 1961, after having portrayed a character, coincidentally also named "Molly", Molly Goldberg, on her long-running ethnic family sitcom, The Goldbergs, which predated the McGees' Molly by six years, having begun on radio in 1929, moved to CBS television in 1949 and ended in 1956. The plot centers around Sarah Green, a widow in her early sixties, who decides to acquire higher education, matriculates in her hometown college and interacts with, among others, her Cambridge University exchange professor (Cedric Hardwicke) and next-door neighbor George Howell, a character analogous to Smith's Roy Norris from Fibber McGee and Molly, replete with a no-nonsense wife (Aneta Corsaut).

Three years following Mrs. G. and, after having spent a couple of 1963 episodes playing Commander Carter in the World War II-set military sitcom McHale's Navy, Paul Smith was back in uniform as a clueless captain at Andrews Airforce Base, during peacetime, in No Time for Sergeants, his third regular role on a sitcom.   Over a year of guest shots passed before Paul Smith was cast as a regular in another sitcom, his second on CBS and, again, on Monday night. The superhero spoof, Mr. Terrific.

Two more years of guest appearances followed, with Paul Smith eventually cast in The Doris Day Show, his final, and longest-running, sitcom, seen, as in the case of his two previous shows, Monday nights on CBS.   After departing Doris Day in 1971, in his last eleven years in front of the cameras, Smith had small roles in a couple of made-for-TV movies and five appearances on segments of the ABC comedy anthology series Love, American Style.   (Wikipedia)

[andreaskorn]

Karl Korn: Beiträge in der MEDAMANA 1980-1996

Quelle: https://www.aulemettmanner.de/pdf/Medamana%20Inh.%20Verz%201954%20-%202020.pdf

Andreas Korn: Mein Vater Karl Paul Korn - Heimatforscher in Mettmann Für die Medamana - Heimatblatt der Vereinigung "Aule Mettmanner" hat mein Vater und leidenschaftlicher Heimatforscher eine große Anzahl an Beiträgen verfasst. Freundlicherweise hat die Redaktion der Medamana die Inhaltsverzeichnisse 1954-2020 online gestellt.

Daraus konnte ich die Essays meines Vaters identifizieren und hier zusammentragen. In dem Autorenverzeichnis sind mir auch einige Personen aufgefallen, mit denen mein Vater in Verbindung gestanden hat.

Dies sind beispielsweise diese Persönlichkeiten, an die ich hier gerne erinnere: Dr. Karl Klockenhoff, Prof. Georg Kuhlmey, P. Winkels, Kanonikus Dr. Kessel, Gertrud Middell, Horst-G. Hütten, Bürgerm. W. Voß, Bernd Gansauer, Gustav Voß, Fritz Löckenhoff, Paul Kriegel, Michael Schaffers, Helmut Kreil u.a.

Zugleich ist anzumerken, dass Karl Korn mit einigen persönlichen Forschungsschwerpunkten (wie St. Lambertus, Chronik der Familie Korn, St. Caecila Hubbelrath) zum Teil umfangreiche Abschrift- und Manuskriptsammlungen in kleinen eingebundenen Editionen zusammengetragen hat. Meine Bibliografie gibt hier Interessierten Auskunft.

(Foto beim Klavierspiel auf einem Klavier aus Emmerich von Tetsch & May, dem Geburtsort seiner Frau Klara Korn, geb. Schmidt)

Aufstellung der Beiträge von Karl Korn in der Mettmanner MEDAMANA

Medamana Nr. 3 27. Jahrgang Oktober 1980 Karl Korn: Ruhrgebietsbesatzung in Mettmann, S. 74 Karl Korn: Besetzung der Bürgermeisterei Hubbelrath, S. 82

Medamana Nr. 4 27. Jahrgang Dezember 1980 Karl Korn: "Em Hassel wued en Kerk jebout", S. 98 Karl Korn: Winter am Eidamhauser Berg, S. 110

Medamana Nr. 4 28. Jahrgang Dezember 1981 Karl Korn: Aus der Schulchronik der Schule Obschwarzbach, S. 74

Medamana Nr. 1 29. Jahrgang April 1982 Karl Korn: 75 Jahre Max Hoffstaedter, S. 6 Karl Korn: Aus der Chronik der kath. Schule Obschwarzbach (Teil 2), S. 15

Medamana Nr. 3 29. Jahrgang Oktober 1982 Karl Korn: 75 Jahre Weltspiegel Kino, S. 8

Medamana Nr. 1 30. Jahrgang April 1983 Karl Korn: Vor 100 Jahren Neubau der Lambertus Kirche, S. 2

Medamana Nr. 3 36. Jahrgang September 1989 Karl Korn: Mettmann im Kriege 1939-1940, S. 45

Medamana Nr. 4 36. Jahrgang Dezember 1989 Karl Korn: Mettmanner im Krieg 1939-1941 (Teil 2) , S. 67

Medamana Nr. 1 38. Jahrgang April 1991 Karl Korn: Sedan-Feier vor 120 Jahren , S. 16

Medamana Nr. 4 38. Jahrgang Dezember 1991 Karl Korn: Kreuzkasel aus der Pfarrkirche Mettmann, S. 83

Medamana Nr. 4 39. Jahrgang Dezember 1992 Karl Korn: Pfarrer Edmund Nießen gestorben, S. 74

Medamana Nr. 4 40. Jahrgang Dezember 1993 Karl Korn: Die Glocken von St. Lambertus , S. 63

Medamana Nr. 4 41. Jahrgang Dezember 1994 Karl Korn: Die Meßdiener von St. Lambertus, S. 79

Medamana Nr. 2 42. Jahrgang Juni 1995 Karl Korn: Aus der Geschichte der Evangelischen Schulen 1630-1939, S. 36

Medamana Nr. 4 43. Jahrgang Dezember 1996 Karl Korn: SPARTAKUS-Aufstand in Mettmann und Hubbelrath, S. 77

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Dr. Andreas Korn, 10.10.2023 Foto aus dem Familienarchiv: Karl Korn beim Klavierspiel in Metzkausen in der Hasselerstraße 53 um 1972.

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