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...craftsmanship as to its wrenching theme, Schindler's List has already touched U.S. audiences. New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman has arranged screenings as an intended antidote to hate crimes. But no audiences could feel a higher emotional stake in the subject than those last week at premieres in Frankfurt and other German cities, in Tel Aviv and Krakow. Viewers wept. Afterward many could not eat or sleep or talk. Some had been afraid to see it. Others said it should be seen by everyone. Spielberg, less a promoter for his film than a proselytizer for a spiritual unification...
With President Richard von Weizsacker in attendance, the film premiered in Frankfurt, the city where Schindler died in poverty in 1974. Then it moved to local theaters across the country. In Cologne's Cinedom, half a dozen young women collapsed sobbing in the arms of friends or parents. "I have never seen an audience behave like this," said Wolfgang Rohrig, a 26-year-old student. "It was as if they were in church. It was as if something sacred had happened...
...children quickly volunteered to see the 3-hour 15-minute movie. Yes, on a school day; but playing hooky will educate kids in ! the lesson of man's inhumanity to man -- and of one man's humanity. To Michel Friedman, a child of Schindlerjuden and a leader in Frankfurt's Jewish community, Schindler's importance was not that he was a hero but that he was a human being: "a Mensch," says Friedman, using a good German and Yiddish word. "He is proof that if you wanted to help, even in 1944, even in Auschwitz, you could." And the response...
...Cleveland would not have achieved its current prestige without Dohnanyi, who arrived in 1984 after having worked his way up the traditional German opera-house ladder. Beginning with the Frankfurt Opera, where he was Georg Solti's assistant, Dohnanyi spent time in Lubeck, Cologne and finally his adopted hometown of Hamburg before heading to the shores of Lake Erie. He has ended any doubts about his abilities as a symphonic conductor with performances that combine Szell's rigor, Boulez's unerring ear and a controlled interpretative fire...
Former Waffen SS Sergeant Franz Schonhuber's Republikaner Party wins 9.5% of the vote in local elections in Frankfurt...