Woltersdorf is a municipality in the Oder-Spree district in Brandenburg . It is often referred to as "near Berlin " (German: "bei Berlin") or "near Erkner " (German: "bei Erkner") as there are a number of other places bearing the same name in Germany.
20-822: Woltersdorf may refer to the following places in Germany: Woltersdorf, Brandenburg , in the Oder-Spree district, Brandenburg Woltersdorf, Lower Saxony , in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district, Lower Saxony Woltersdorf, Schleswig-Holstein , in the Lauenburg district, Schleswig-Holstein Woltersdorf, Saxony-Anhalt , in the Jerichower Land district, Saxony-Anhalt Woltersdorf (Fläming) ,
40-473: A bank. Today the church , the city hall and the "old school " (German "alte Schule" ) are located here, representing the Woltersdorf "downtown". The first residents were farmers and mariners . In 1319 Woltersdorf was first documented as Waltersdorf slawika . Waltersdorf means "the village from Walter". In 1375 Woltersdorf was first noted in the "Landbuch". Together with Rahnsdorf , it paid taxes for
60-481: A height of 105 meters, and on clear days you were able to see the Berliner Fernsehturm . Inside the tower today is an exhibition "When Woltersdorf still was Hollywood " (German "Als Woltersdorf noch Hollywood war" ). It recalls the 1920s, where Joe May shot famous movies ( Das indische Grabmal (1920), Herrin der Welt (1919) and Der Tiger von Eschnapur ). Today you are able to find remains of
80-501: A number of melodramas like Tragedy of Love (1922/23) co-starring Emil Jannings . Their teenage daughter Eva May (born 1902 in Vienna) tried to build her own career as an actress but committed suicide in 1924 after the end of her third marriage with the film directors Manfred Liebenau, Lothar Mendes and Manfred Noa . Towards the end of the 1920s, May moved away from adventure films and produced more realist works, notable among them
100-606: A part of Nuthe-Urstromtal , in the Teltow-Fläming district, Brandenburg [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Woltersdorf&oldid=546389316 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
120-660: A village northeast of Berlin in Brandenburg . There he went on to produce and direct a series of popular and exotic adventure films, among them the monumental three-hour-long Veritas vincit (1919), the eight-part series Die Herrin der Welt ( The Mistress of the World ) (1919–20) as well as the two-part adventure film Das indische Grabmal ( The Indian Tomb ) (1921) starring Conrad Veidt and written by Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou . These featured Mia May in leading roles and she regularly worked under her husband's direction in
140-554: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Woltersdorf, Brandenburg The municipality is located at the three lakes Flakensee , Kalksee and the Bauernsee , between Schöneiche , the Berlin forest and Erkner . Woltersdorf borders (in clockwise direction, starting in north) on Rüdersdorf , Erkner , Berlin and Schöneiche . Around 1240 14 farmer families settled on
160-446: The 'Stuart Webbs' films with his Reicher & Reicher company until 1918. In 1915 he founded his own film production company, May-Film GmbH and began to produce a successful series of crime films , whose detective hero went by the name of Joe Deebs . Some of these were directed by May himself, others by Harry Piel ; Max Landa and later Harry Liedtke played the title role. In 1917 May gave Fritz Lang one of his earliest breaks in
180-635: The 1935 German film Mazurka , The House of the Seven Gables and The Invisible Man Returns (1940). He also worked with the Dead End Kids during this period, helming two films, You're Not So Tough (1940) and Hit the Road (1941), despite constant friction with his juvenile delinquent cast members. Confession is especially interesting, in that May's film is an exact copy of Austrian director Willi Forst 's Mazurka , right down to
200-645: The Cellar) ; and Der Spuk im Haus des Professors (The Spook in the Professor's House) . May and Reicher fell out with the managers of Continental over the 'Stuart Webbs' films, and left Continental together. Having formed their own production company, Stuart Webbs-Film GmbH, they made the next in the 'Stuart Webbs' series, Das Panzergewölbe ( The Armoured Vault ) in June 1914, using Continental-Kunstfilm's new studios at 9 Franz Joseph-Strasse, Weissensee Studios , for
220-584: The World War I love-triangle Heimkehr (The Return Home) (1928) and the contemporary thriller Asphalt (1929). During the early years of sound film he worked as a producer for Erich Pommer at Ufa then for different production companies in Germany, Austria and France directing a series of multilingual versions in German and French among those is Ihre Majestät die Liebe / Son altesse l'amour (1930) one of
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#1732780462548240-592: The best musical comedies of the Weimar Cinema . In 1933 he and Mia, along with many others in the German film industry, emigrated to the United States where he was able to establish himself as director, mainly for Universal Pictures , although his work was mainly on what would be regarded as B movies . His most notable works of this period were the Kay Francis vehicle Confession , a remake of
260-588: The castle of Köpenick . In 1487 Berlin acquired Woltersdorf. Then in 1550 a lock was built between the Flakensee and the Kalksee , the same year the first church of Woltersdorf was built. Between 1618 till 1648 Woltesdorf was desolated ( Thirty Years' War ) and temporarily uninhabited. About 1886 a touristic observation tower is built on top of the Kranichsberge . It granted a great perspective from
280-605: The film industry as screenwriter on the film Die Hochzeit im Excentricclub ( Wedding in the Eccentric Club ) and Lang also worked on other May films at this time. After the end of World War I May-Film leased the double glasshouse studios at 5–7 Franz Joseph-Strasse (belonging to Deutsche Vitascope ) in 1919 for 600,000 marks, which became known as the May-Atelier. He also built a film studio in Woltersdorf
300-626: The filming. When the First World War broke out in August 1914, May had to return to his native Vienna to do his military service, and on his return to Berlin he and Reicher split up. May's last film at Continental was Der geheimnisvolle Nachtschatten (The Secret Shadows of Night) which he produced in December 1914, with Harry Piel directing. Reicher then leased the studio at 9 Franz Joseph-Strasse from Continental, and continued to make
320-611: The first, In der Tiefe des Schachtes (In the Depths of the Pit) was released in November 1912, followed by Vorglühen des Balkanbrandes (The Balkan Traitors) (starring Ernst Reicher ). In the spring of 1914 May directed the first three of the ' Stuart Webbs ' films, a popular series in which Reicher played a gentleman detective modelled on Sherlock Holmes : Die geheimnisvolle Villa (The Black Triangle) ; Der Mann im Keller (The Man in
340-635: The last fade and dissolve, with every shot timed to run exactly the same length, and using the same music as Forst's original film. May's last film was the wartime comedy featuring Robert Mitchum in a small role, Johnny Doesn't Live Here Any More , made in 1944 by the King Brothers and released through Monogram Pictures . After retiring as a director, May and his wife opened the Blue Danube Restaurant in Los Angeles which
360-531: The movie scenery on site. At the end of the 19th century the rail from Berlin to the east was finished. In the bordering commune of Woltersdorf, Erkner , a train station was built. Many Berlin people had their summer residence in Woltersdorf. Since 1913 a tramway has run between the lock and the S-Bahn station of Rahnsdorf . At the time of the German reunification , 4,790 people lived in Woltersdorf. Since then,
380-423: The population of Woltersdorf has risen from 6,800 (2001) to nearly 8,000 (2010). Today, Woltersdorf is the youngest commune in the Oder-Spree district. More than 12% of the population is younger than 15 years of age. The City Council has 18 members, one however has not accepted his seat which remains vacant. (Election 2008) Joe May Joe May (born Joseph Otto Mandl ; 7 November 1880 – 29 April 1954)
400-512: Was an Austrian film director and film producer and one of the pioneers of German cinema . After studying in Berlin and a variety of odd jobs, he began his career as a stage director of operettas in Hamburg . In 1902 he had married the actress Mia May (born Hermine Pfleger) and took his stage name from hers. As Joe May , he made ten films for Continental-Kunstfilm GmbH in Berlin ;
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