Word: fritz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...architectural students turned artists in Dresden in 1905 who called themselves Die Brücke (The Bridge) in the confident expectation that they would "attract all the revolutionary and surging elements." With the "audacious idea of renewing German art" the Bridge group-Ernst Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Fritz Bleyl and later Max Pechstein-set up their studio in an empty shoe store...
Best of the contemporaries is Fritz Winter, 51, who started as a coal miner, attended the Bauhaus where he was Kandinsky's assistant, served on the Russian front and spent years in a Russian P.W. camp. His expressive Dead Forest (opposite) re-creates the world in terms of imagined structure, much as Klee did with fantasy. It is harsh and foreboding. After Germany's tortured half-century it would be misreading human nature to expect it to be otherwise...
...young column writer whose search for meaning amid his readers' hopeless letters wears his life away, Fritz Weaver cannot hope to out-decibel bellow-mumble-grunt O'Brien; and his adapted lines haven't the edge to slice through to the audience; but this may not be all O'Brien's fault, for Weaver drowns in turbulent philosophical soliloquies which West raced over...
...captured tape and a speech of Ike's recorded on the same tape for rebroadcasting. But the erasure was muffed and, in the middle of Ike's talk. Hitler's voice broke in loudly. Orders quickly came to manufacture some new tape. Orr tracked down Dr. Fritz Pflaumer, who had developed the original magnetic tape for the I.G. Farben chemical combine, got the basic know-how necessary to produce the new tape. Pflaumer also gave him a formula for a much better tape...
Working as he did with a poor play, director Elliot Silverstein achieved some excellent results. The opening performance had some rough spots and could have taken some more rehearsing. Generally speaking, it was still a finely paced and directed presentation. In the title role, Fritz Weaver, appearing for the first time with Group 20, excellently portrayed the sensitive, idealistic, impassioned, and guilt-ridden young king, damned by indecision and out of joint with his century and his inherited occupation...