Der Bussard

The Oasis of Culture.
Der Bussard observes and preserves the world of culture, both the culture of the past and the culture of the present.
by @simonvonludwig.

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DER BUSSARD SI is live.

Questions for the archive of Der Bussard: film, music, opera, art and history, answered only from our articles, every answer with its source. Free, no sign-up, still in beta.
Try: How did Billy Wilder go from ghost writer to director?
SI stands for Super Intelligence. With a wink.

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@Jazzonista Correction: The album’s name was "Version of Me." The live versions were included on that disappeared album.

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@Jazzonista Melanie C’s album "Live from Ronnie Scott‘s" recently disappeared from all streaming services, with it the beautiful version of "Never Be the Same Again" on there. Such a pity.

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Today would have been LUCIANO PAVAROTTI's 91st birthday.
Berlin, 1988: 67 minutes of applause, 165 curtain calls.
He didn't just sing opera. He made the whole world listen.

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@ATRightMovies Fun twist: Redford later named his Utah ski resort Sundance, after this very role – the name the festival carries today. He said the chemistry with Newman hit him "like a bolt of lightning." Four Oscars, box-office hit of 1969. https://t.co/jDPvjmkVWU

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EDITH PIAF staged every chanson like theatre. Jean Cocteau even wrote a one-woman play for her.

At the end of one song she simply ordered: "Arrêtez la musique!" And the orchestra obeyed.

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GERT FRÖBE was a fiddler, then a painter, then a stage painter. In 1945 a cabaret star predicted that one day people would simply say "the Fröbe."

She was right.
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48 years ago today, JACQUES BREL died.

He never gave an encore. When the performance was over, it was over, however hard the audience stomped.
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Tomorrow at 3 pm CEST: DER BUSSARD SI.
Questions for the archive of Der Bussard. More than 550 articles in German and English, every answer with its source.
SI stands for Super Intelligence. At least about Der Bussard.

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SWISS BÜNDNERFLEISCH isn't smoked. It's air-dried above 1500 metres in the Grisons Alps. One wafer-thin slice is enough to enjoy its taste.

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63 years ago today, GUSTAF GRÜNDGENS died.
In 1932 he first played Mephisto in Goethe's Faust. It became the role of his life.

In his own words: "Actor is also the job title on my passport."

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Today would have been CAROLE LOMBARD's 118th birthday.
She talked Alfred Hitchcock into making his first comedy.
Nobody played screwball better.

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64 years ago today, Dr. No premiered in London. James Bond had arrived.
His world was built by KEN ADAM. With only £450 left, he made the tarantula scene out of a table, a chair and a spider.
Utopia on a budget.

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Today would have been BUSTER KEATON's 131st birthday.
Orson Welles called him the greatest clown in film history.
He didn't grow up on the stage. He was born on it.

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Five years ago today: our DALIDA trilogy closed. She sang in ten languages and reinvented herself for forty years. Not once. Many times.

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Before Elvis or the Beatles owned show business, RICKY NELSON made rock'n'roll feel inevitable. His singing even fascinated John Wayne.

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Today would have been WALTER MATTHAU's 106th birthday.
"I don't look like an actor. I could be anybody from a toilet attendant to a businessman."

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SPENCER TRACY never needed movie-star looks. A voice, a stillness, and nerve were enough. He didn't play the limits of acting. He reached them.

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ENRICO CARUSO didn’t just fill opera houses. They called him the Napoleon of the gramophone — and the records sold the machines.

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