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  G.W. Pabst | Biography (1885-1967)
And as for Pabst's undeniable coup with Louise Brooks, the originality of Pandora comes from Brooks's fearless sense of an intelligent woman unable to resist her own sensuality.
Pabst's contribution is that of entrepreneur, selecting Brooks to enact the erotic spiral of Wedekind's original.
The filming is proficient and expressive, but Pabst is content to create a heavy, fog-bound Victorian atmosphere, such as he used in Die Dreigroschenoper, to smother the dramatic starkness that Brecht had intended.
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 Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Pabst kehrt 1919 nach Wien zurück und wird, neben diversen anderen Engagements, künstlerischer Leiter der avantgardistischen Neuen Wiener Bühne.
Nachdem Ausreiseversuche über Rom scheitern und ein Bruch ihn ans Krankenbett fesselt, bleibt Pabst schließlich in Deutschland, was ihn bis zu seinem Tod den Ruf eines Opportunisten einbringt.
Mehrere angekündigte Projekte werden in dieser Zeit nicht realisiert und manches spricht dafür, daß Pabst sich durch eine Hinhaltetaktik der Forderung Goebbels nach einem Propagandafilm zu entziehen suchte.
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 Georg Wilhelm Pabst - Biografie [CineGraph Lexikon]
Ausnahme in Pabsts schwacher Nachkriegs-Produktion bleiben zwei Arbeiten, in denen er Ereignisse der Nazi-Zeit behandelt.
Nachdem Pabst Mitte der 50er Jahre an Diabetis und 1957 zudem an der Parkinsonschen Krankheit erkrankt, kann er nicht mehr arbeiten.
Pabst ist seit Anfang 1924 mit Gertrude (Trude) Hennings (geb.
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 Biographie: Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1885-1967
August: Georg Wilhelm Pabst wird als Sohn eines Eisenbahnbeamten in Raudnitz (heute: Roudnice nad Labem, Tschechien) geboren.
Pabst verfilmt die "Dreigroschenoper" von Bertolt Brecht und bemüht sich um die Darstellung der realen "proletarischen Welt", der er die Theatralik des Theaterstücks gegenüberstellt.
Nach Kriegsende gründet Pabst eine eigene Filmgesellschaft in Österreich.
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 Die Büchse der Pandora
Under Pabst's direction, the film is a masterpiece of atmosphere, camera movement and editing; it is also one of the most sexually charged films ever made, due largely to the incendiary performance of the American actress Louise Brooks....
Pabst is more the urbane analyst, bemused by the desires depicted in his films, occasionally even enchanted by them, but never hypocritical about his own complicity in the spectacle...
Pabst directs all this turmoil with remarkable dexterity; everything has been worked out in advance; at precisely calculated intervals a few figures cross in front of or behind a main group, giving an impression of effervescence and dynamism...
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 Lycos Celebrity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Pabst began his academic career in engineering but his interests gravitated to the theater and in 1904, he entered the Vienna Academy of Decorative Arts.
Among the cast of "The Joyless Street" was a young Greta Garbo; when Hollywood executive Louis B. Mayer saw the film, he recruited her to a contract with MGM.
Pabst's masterful direction of actors, especially women, inspired provocative, remarkable performances in many of his films.
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 Online and Local Price Comparison: Spot Cost   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 Custom written biography on Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Essays on Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Pabst attended school in Vienna, where the family had moved when he was a child.
Pabst directed two films in 1956 and then retired.Pabst was essentially an invalid for the last decade of his life.
Pabst died in Vienna on May 29, 1967, from a liver infection.
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 Pandora's Box (Büchse der Pandora, Die) (1929)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
    What Pabst saw in her was the sort of erotic innocence and lack of artifice that the part needed, and his casting of and handling of Brooks was inspired.
Pabst's triumph is in making her an unwitting participant in proceedings, and in creating a film with a strong erotic undercurrent that is not always apparent on a first viewing.
She ended up living near the film archive at George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, where she was rediscovered by a new generation of film students in the 1950s.
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 Commentary Magazine - On the Horizon: Austria's Anti-Bigotry Film   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
...Georg Wilhelm Pabst, who directed The Trial, is one of Germany's greatest filmmakers, and was a leading figure in the flowering of the German film that took place under the Weimar Republic...
...Pabst left Germany in 1933, and his films were banned in that country as "defeatist" and "bolshevist...
...If Pabst chose to make the Jews appear more "exotic" than they actually were, then, his supporters argue, he may have done so in order to emphasize the dramatic conflict between Gentile and Jew, and thus to drive home the lesson of his film more sharply...
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 Pandora's Box (Georg Wilhelm Pabst)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
--Shannon Gee Pandora's Box, the masterpiece of G.W. Pabst (The Threepenny Opera, The Joyless Street, Diary of a Lost Girl), and one of the most erotic films ever made, is the story of Lulu, an effervescent chorus girl who destroys anyone whose life she has touched, then is murdered by Jack the Ripper.
Pabst found his ideal Lulu in American actress Louise Brooks.
G. Pabst was one of the greatest directors of silent films.
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 Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Für ihn steht der Schauspieler Pabst 1921 zum ersten Mal vor der Kamera; er schreibt Drehbücher und assistiert Froelich bei der Regie.
Froelich produziert 1922 / 23 Pabsts Debutfilm 'Der Schatz'.
begründet Pabsts späteren Ruf, wichtigster Regisseur der "Neuen Sachlichkeit" zu sein.
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 Georg Wilhelm Pabst Posters / Allposters Art Prints Posters Movies >   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
We feature over two centuries of artists and major art movements which influenced the history of art throughout the world, from the Hudson River School of landscape painting through American Impressionism, Illustration and the decorative arts, American folk art, Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art.
Pablo Picasso and George Braque began to collage printed material, including sheet music, and textured surfaces to the paintings.
By combining the layering of actual objects with painted objects and text, the artist challenged the viewer to decipher diverse means of representation.
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 Westfront 1918
Pabst was enmeshed in the happenings of his times, which ultimately engulfed him.
G.W. Pabst (1885-1967) born in Bohemia, studied engineering in Vienna, then Academy of Decorative Arts 1904-6.
Artillery bombardment, bunkers, the role of "runners" (Hitler's job), problems with communication, periods of rest and recreation, going on leave back home, desertion, Military Police, use of tractors and tanks at the end of the war, hysterical soldiers receiving first aid, exhausted doctors, killing lice in the clothes, gas attack.
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 Louise Brooks Studies: G. W. Pabst - for further reading
The intent of this page is to place Pabst's life and work in a larger context.
However, emphasis is given to citations which include material on Louise Brooks and the two films Pabst made with the actress.
Pabst had a long and illustrious career; along with Fritz Lang and F. Murnau - many consider Pabst one of the finest German directors of the 1920's and 1930's.
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 G. W. Pabst - Dirk Jasper Filmstarlexikon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Pabst gelingt 1925 mit Die freudlose Gasse der Durchbruch als Filmregisseur.
Pabst gilt als Regisseur der Neuen Sachlichkeit und als Exponent eines sozial engagierten Kinos.
Pabst ist ebenso der Regisseur einer kalten Moderne wie der Inszenator des illustrativ Trivialen.
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Auf das Ehedrama Abwege folgt 1929 Die Büchse der Pandora, für den Pabst seine Idealbesetzung in der Amerikanerin Louise Brooks findet, mit der er im folgenden Jahr auch Tagebuch einer Verlorenen inszeniert.
Trotz seiner schlechten Erfahrungen beschließt Pabst in die USA zu emigrieren, wird aber während eines Abschiedsbesuchs bei seiner Mutter in Österreich vom Kriegsausbruch überrascht.
Seit Mitte der fünfziger Jahre leidet Pabst an Diabetes.
www.stummfilmmusiktage.de /german/Regie/Pabst.htm   (1126 words)

  
 Georg Wilhelm Pabst: Geheimnisse einer Seele  (1926)
Pabst lässt Lichtreflexe die Klinge eines langen Messer entlangstreichen.
Pabsts Umsetzung dieses einfachen Falles ist beeindruckend: gerade in der Verbindung von im Stil der Neuen Sachlichkeit gehaltenen Alltagsszenen und somnambul-expressionistischen Traumsequenzen gelingt es ihm, die groben Klischees dieser Fallgeschichte zum Ganzen eines Spielfilms zu verknüpfen.
Die Inszenierung ist elegant und intelligent, das Können Pabsts liegt in der Montage, die auf Symbolik gerade verzichtet und die Symbole so zur Geschichte verflüssigt und plausibilisiert.
www.jump-cut.de /backlist-geheimnisseeinerseele.html   (417 words)

  
 G. W. (Georg Wilhelm) Pabst (1885-1967) : Library of Congress Citations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Control No.: 77012898 //r86 Heading: Pabst, G. (Georg Wilhelm), 1885-1967.
References: nna Pabst, Georg Wilhelm, 1885-1967 Pabst, Georg W. (Georg Wilhelm), 1885-1967 Notes: Groppali, E. Georg W. Pabst, 1983: t.p.
Subjects: Pabst, G. (Georg Wilhelm), 1885-1967 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses.
www.mala.bc.ca /~mcneil/cit/citlcpabst.htm   (774 words)

  
 Paracelsus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1536 his Die grosse Wundartzney (The Great Surgery Book) was published which enabled him to make a short comeback in popularity.
Paracelsus is the title of a 1943 film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst.
In Fullmetal Alchemist, the premise is that Paracelsus was successful in his alchemy research.
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 Georg Wilhelm Pabst Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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Pabst was born in Raudnitz, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (today's Roudnice, Czech Republic), the son of a railroad employee.
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 MRC FilmFinder-Full Record: Westfront 1918
Four soldiers undergo the brutal horrors of trench warfare during World War I. Based on the Novel Vier Von der Infanterie by Ernst Johannsen, this film is considered the equal in power, if not emotion, to the emotional classic All Quiet On The Western Front.
Pabst casts a colder eye and sensibility on the stupidity of war.
This film and his next one Kameradschaft won Pabst international recognition as a major force in the naturalistic German cinema of the 1930s.
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 Diary of a Lost Girl (Das Tagebuch einer Verlorenen) Film Review - Time Out Film
An elegant narrative of moral musical chairs, Pabst's last silent film not only plays on who holds what kind of legitimate place in society, but is also a starkly direct view of inter-war Germany.
Feasting the camera on Brooks' radiant beauty, Pabst follows the adventures of innocence led astray in the shape of Thymian, a pharmacist's daughter.
Her progress from apple of her father's eye, through sexual lapse and approved school, to darling of an expensive brothel and finally to dowager countess, gives Pabst the opportunity to measure the Germany of the Weimar republic against Brooks' embodiment of a vitality so exuberant that it equals innocence.
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 Georg Wilhelm Pabst Biography / Biography of Georg Wilhelm Pabst Biography Biography
A master of silent realist cinema, Pabst explored various genres, and his post-World War I films show a marked concern with the evils of Nazism and anti-Semitism.
Georg Wilhelm Pabst was born on August 27, 1885, in what was then Raudnice in Bohemia, a province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which dissolved following the defeat of Austria-Hungary in the First World War.
Each Biography is written by a biographical expert or professional educator and is a complete resource on the individual.
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 Film-Archive - Personal Info: Georg Wilhelm Pabst   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Georg Wilhelm Pabst was born in 1885 in Raudnitz (former Czechoslovakia) and died in 1967 in Vienna.
Pabst's debut film was The Treasure (Der Schatz, 1923).
His critical analysis of bourgeois society and moral of the time is evidenced in The Street of Sorrow (Die freudlose Gasse, 1925) as well as in his films Pandora's Box (Die Buechse der Pandora, 1928) and Diary of a Lost Girl (Tagebuch einer Verlorenen, 1929).
www.german-cinema.de /archive/film_person_view.php?film_person_id=1501   (175 words)

  
 Georg Wilhelm Pabst   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Georg Wilhelm Pabst is considered by many to be the greatest director...
The Mistress of Atlantis (1932) (as G.W. Pabst)
Find where Georg Wilhelm Pabst is credited alongside another name
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 FILMARCHIV AUSTRIA - Programm 1998_04   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Die Idee zu diesem Film wurde von Pabst für seinen Freund René Clair entwickelt, als dieser die Regie nicht übernehmen konnte, sprang Augusto Genina ein, dessen Detailarbeit in zeitgenössischen Kritiken lobend erwähnt wurde.
Für seine erste Regiearbeit wählte sich Pabst ein mystisches mittelalterliches Thema, für das ihm die Filmarchitekten Robert Herlth und Walter Röhrig das passende Ambiente schufen.
In diesem Meilenstein des Bergfilmgenres übernahm Pabst auf Vorschlag von Leni Riefenstahl die Regie bei allen Szenen, in denen die Beziehungsgeschichte der Personen im Vordergrund stand, während Fanck sich auf die Dramatik der Naturkulissen konzentrierte.
www.filmarchiv.at /events/1998_04.htm   (1189 words)

  
 Shadow of the Vampire, The Story Behind the Movies, Chapter 5   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
CHAPTER 5 - F.W. Murnau (born Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe in Bielefeld, Germany in 1888) was one of the most acclaimed directors of the silent-movie era.
One of five children, (2 brothers and 2 sisters), he showed an early interest in the theatre.
Two other Germans, Fritz Lang and Georg Wilhelm Pabst, were already in America.
www.lawbuzz.com /movies/shadow_vampire/shadow_vampire_ch5.htm   (345 words)

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