
Birthday:
03-07-1902
Deathday:
10-03-1994 (92 years)
Birthplace:
Essen, Germany
Biography
Heinrich Wilhelm "Heinz" Rühmann (March 7, 1902 – October 3, 1994) was a popular German film actor.
Rühmann was born in Essen, Westphalia. His role in the 1930 movie Die Drei von der Tankstelle (Those Three from the Gas Station) led him to film stardom. He remained highly popular as a comedic actor (and sometime singer) throughout the 1930s and early 1940s. He remained in Germany and continued to work during the Nazi period, as did his friend and colleague, Hans Albers.
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Rühmann was born in Essen, Westphalia. His role in the 1930 movie Die Drei von der Tankstelle (Those Three from the Gas Station) led him to film stardom. He remained highly popular as a comedic actor (and sometime singer) throughout the 1930s and early 1940s. He remained in Germany and continued to work during the Nazi period, as did his friend and colleague, Hans Albers.
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It Happened in Broad Daylight
Act like Oberleutnant Matthäi
event1958 star_border 7.4
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The search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession.
The Punch Bowl
Act like Dr. Johannes Pfeiffer/Hans Pfeiffer
event1944 star_border 7.2
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Writer Johannes Pfeiffer who goes undercover as a student in a high school after his friends told him that he missed out on a great life experience since he was home schooled.
The Three from the Filling Station
Act like Hans
event1930 star_border 6.1
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Die Drei von der Tankstelle, meaning The Three from the Gas Station, was advertised as a German operetta when release and with it’s star studded cast would become the forerunner of Musical films. Even today the soundtrack of the comic harmonists is popular in Germany.
The Captain from Kopenick
Act like Wilhelm Voigt
event1956 star_border 7.2
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A young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is jailed for fifteen years. Upon his release, he wants to get a permit to get a job and start anew, but finds that without a job he can't get a permit, and without a permit he can't get a job. Ensnared in the absurd net of Prussian bureaucracy, he can't see any way out. That is, until he enters a thrift shop and spots a Prussian officer's uniform that fits him like a second skin...
Faraway, So Close!
Act like Konrad
event1993 star_border 6.9
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Damiel is now married to Marion, runs the pizzeria “Da Angelo” and the two have a child. The solitarily remaining angel Cassiel is more and more dissatisfied with his destiny as a mere observer of human life and finally decides to take the great leap. As Karl Engel he soon gets into a dubious milieu and finds himself as the assistant of the German American Baker, who makes his money with shady arms deals and sends films east in exchange for weapons. Cassiel’s adventure turns into a “thriller” when he decides to put a stop to Baker’s game.
Ship of Fools
Act like Lowenthal
event1965 star_border 6.5
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Passengers on a ship traveling from Mexico to Europe in the 1930s represent society at large in that era. The crew is German, including the ship's Dr. Schumann, who falls in love with one of the passengers, La Condesa. A young American woman, Jenny, is traveling with the man she loves, David. Jenny is fascinated and puzzled by just who some of the other passengers are.
Max der Taschendieb
Act like Max Schilling
event1962 star_border 7.4
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Max, a small time pick-pocket, has nothing to do with the ‘big’ crimes. But then he must find the murderer of Fred, his wife's brother.
Charley's Aunt
Act like Dr. Otto Dernburg
event1956 star_border 5.3
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Otto Dernburg is forced by circumstances to dress up as a middle-aged woman.
If the Father and the Son
Act like Teddy Lemke
event1955 star_border 6.2
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After Clown Teddy lost his son, he lost his gift for laughter. He opened a joke shop and lives above the shop. His landlady has had a foster son since birth, and Teddy decides to raise the child, who always believed that Teddy was his father. When the mother suddenly appears five years later and wants her son, Teddy decides to run away with the child and goes back onstage with his son. Will the family catch up with them, or will the mother never get her son back?
The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes
Act like Dr. John H. Watson / Macky McPherson
event1937 star_border 7.2
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Two dubious characters disguise themselves as Holmes and Watson to gain attention and end up chasing counterfeiters and stolen stamps.
Er kanns nicht lassen
Act like Father Brown
event1962 star_border 6.6
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Father Brown is only too happy to interfere with the work of the police in solving tricky criminal cases, usually with resounding success. That's why the clergyman is transferred to a sleepy island called Abbott's Rock. At first, nothing happens there, but somehow Father Brown seems to be attracted to crime: Soon a gang of thieves is up to no good on the island. So Brown makes the headlines again, and is punitively transferred once more. This time he finds himself in a quiet Irish millionaire community.
Hitler's Hollywood
Act like Various Roles (archive footage)
event2017 star_border 6.4
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Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945, when the Third Reich collapsed. (A sequel to From Caligari to Hitler, 2015.)
Clothes Make the Man
Act like Schneidergeselle Wenzel
event1940 star_border 6.7
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The daydreaming tailor Wenzel is fired from his job, because the fancy frock he was supposed to cut for the mayor, he instead made for himself. He is allowed, however, to take the frock, which he appropriated for himself and he puts it on as he leaves the shop. A puppeteer picks him up in his coach and addresses Wenzel as "Count". So is he received in Goldach, where people think he is Count Stroganoff, the ambassador to the Czar of Russia.
On the Reeperbahn at Half Past Midnight
Act like Pittes Breuer
event1954 star_border 7.1
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After many years on the oceans, sailor Hannes Wedderkamp has finally returned to Hamburg. On St. Pauli, Hannes sings songs from the sea in the hippodrome of his best friend Pitter Breuer on the Reeperbahn with the "Quetschkommode" songs and cares for the audience.
Mailman Mueller
Act like Titus Müller
event1953 star_border 5.5
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Postman Titus Müller returns from his daily rounds with a letter that will change the course of his modest provincial existence.
The Liar
Act like Sebastian Schumann
event1961 star_border 5.1
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When the wife of Sebastian Schumann left her family, he told his little daughter that her mother has died, because he thought that this was the easiest way for her to accept that her mother is now gone. But this was only the beginning of a lot of lies he tells her continuously, mostly about himself and his job. This way he also tries to hide away from her the fact that he had to quit his job as a traveler and is now paid much less than before.
The Black Sheep
Act like Pater Brown
event1960 star_border 6.4
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Father Brown starts solving crimes, much to the annoyance of his housekeeper, the police and especially his bishop, who is not amused by a priest playing detective.
Eva, the Factory Girl
Act like Willibald Riegele
event1935 star_border 5
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A famous racing driver must give up his sport and take over the management of the porcelain factory on incentive of the vigorous grandmother as the last shoot of an old businessman's family. Unrecognized he is regulated as a worker what a love story with a 20-year-old worker arises from, who leads after incidents in the happy end. - After Franz Lehar's operetta produced comedy
The Leghorn Hat
Act like Theo Farina
event1939 star_border 8.7
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Der Florentiner Hut (The Leghorn Hat), a 1939 German film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner
Wer zuletzt küßt...
Act like Franz Angerer
event1936 star_border 6.9
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On the occasion of a charity ball in Vienna a kiss of a famous actress should be auctioned. Misunderstandings between the manager of the film star, a record producer and a student lead too all kinds of mistakes, during which a student is mistaken for a prince in disguise and almost breaks his hapiness. - Quickly and expertly produced mistake comedy with a lot of singing desposits and an at than popular comedian line-up, which offers amusing surface entertainment.
The Man Who is Talked About
Act like Toni Mathis
event1937 star_border 6.2
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The Man Who is Talked About is the overly agreeable Toni Mathis (Heinz Ruhmann), a gent constitutionally incapable of saying the word "no" (or "nein," this being a German picture). Though he'd rather breeze through life without responsibilities or obligations, Toni agrees to study zoology in college because his uncle (Hans Moser) wants him to. Alas, despite the Herculean efforts by Toni's servant Hassler (Theo Lingen) to prepare his master for his final exams, Toni forgets to show up for the finals and is expelled post-haste. In desperation, his uncle arranges for Toni to get married, and once again our hero just can't say no. Trouble is, he falls in love with trapeze artist Bianca (Gusti Huber), whose father won't let her marry anyone except another entertainer. Undaunted, Toni studies a book on show business and tries out for the vaudeville stage, and the picture isn't even halfway over yet!
We Need No Money
Act like Heinz Schmidt
event1931 star_border 5
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In this German comedy, an enterprising American uncle comes from Chicago goes to the tiny town of Groditzkirchen to make a fortune on credit even though he only has $10 to his name. To do so, he enlists the aide of a bank clerk and begins posing as a millionaire.
Frasquita
Act like Hippolit
event1934 star_border 4
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Czechoslovakian opera star Jarmila Novotna plays the title role in the Austrian tunefest Frasquita. Based on a Franz Lehar operetta, the story is the usual frothy nonsense. Dolly (Charlotte Daudert) is engaged to marry Hyppolit (Heinz Ruhmann), but she's really in love with Harold (Hans Heinz-Bollman). Hyppolit is likewise enamored of another, namely Frasquita (Jarmila Novotna). Alas, Dolly and Hyppolit must go through with the wedding, despite the dictates of their hearts. That there's a happy ending all the same comes as a surprise only to the characters on the screen.
13 Chairs
Act like Friseur Felix Rabe
event1938 star_border 6.3
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A classical art junk dealer and an almost bankrupt hairdresser who unexpectedly makes an inheritance go hunting behind thirteen chairs from which of a 100,000 DM contains which the rich aunt has hidden there.
Heaven on Earth
Act like Peter Hilpert
event1935 star_border 6.2
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A poor composer who should buy a property for his ambitious father-in-law finances with the money, nevertheless, an opera. Together with his friend who must play a husband to his strict rich aunt, he makes to himself a fun from the mistakes which cause her feints.
Operation San Pietro
Act like Erik Braun
event1967 star_border 5.9
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Small time crook Napoleone falls into an unlikely gang made up of a gangster, called The Baron, and his two cohorts, Agonia and The Captain, where Napoleone takes them to Rome where they shack up with a shady used car dealer caled Il Cajella to help finance their new life of crime by planing to rob a statue from the Vatican. But a big-time American gangster, named Joe Ventura, hears about the heist and wants the priceless statue for himself by having his mistress, Samantha, come onto and betray the woman-hungry Cajella to give the statue away to her.
Your Money or Your Life
Act like Henry Schmidt
event1966 star_border 5.9
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Pétepan learns that his money has been lost by Robinhoude brothers.He asks his assistants to withdraw his amount from the bank.
Der Kapitän
Act like Kapitän Wilhelm Ebbs
event1971 star_border 2.5
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Captain Ebbs is an older, experienced seaman who has, however, only sailed on freighters. While his current old barge, the Martin Luther, has to go into the shipyard for an overhaul, the shipping company gives him command of the elegant cruise ship Julia to temporarily replace a colleague who has fallen ill. The rough Ebbs finds his way into his new job only with difficulty and initially puts his foot in his social mouth.
Das Liebeskarussell
Act like Professor Hellberg
event1965 star_border 1
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An episodic film, telling four erotic tales: Angela isn't sexually satisfied by her husband, so she simulates sleep-walking to visit her neighbor across the street every night; when his bathtub runs over, shy Peter gets to meet his sensuous neighbor Lolita; at a high-school reunion his former students pull a prank on Prof. Hellberg and make him believe he cheated on his wife while being drunk; Sybill has a good time during a break at the opera with the famous conductor Cramer.
Vater sein dagegen sehr
Act like Lutz Ventura
event1957 star_border 6.9
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Margot is looking forward to moving into the old defense tower with her fiancé Lutz, a writer. Then the writer receives the news of his sister's death. Lutz is supposed to take in their children Traudl and Rudi and the dog Leo. Margot did not expect so much attachment...
Bombs Over Monte Carlo
Act like Erster Offizier Peter
event1931 star_border 7.3
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The captain of a battleship of a small Balkan country is fed up with following strange orders from the country's queen.
Once a Greek
Act like Archilochos
event1966 star_border 7
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An extravagant comedy with Heinz Rühmann.
The Judge and the Sinner
Act like Dr. Ferdinand Bluhme
event1960 star_border 5.2
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A drama directed by Paul Verhoeven.
Laughing Heirs
Act like Peter Frank
event1933 star_border 5.7
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After the death of his uncle, the owner of the Rhine based Bockelmann Sparkling Wine, Peter turns up for the reading of the will. Justus Bockelmann, a producer of mineral water, is confident he will inherit the business, but ‘for reasons of moral rectitude’ he has no intention of running an ‘alcoholic business’. The opening of the will comes as a surprise to all the potential heirs.
Heinz in the Moon
Act like Aristides Nessel
event1934 star_border 5
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A young man of property is engaged to two women at once.
Intermediate Landing in Paris
Act like Albert Petit
event1955 star_border 4
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Michèle, an employee at the airport, is in love with American pilot Eddie Miller who regularly flies the route from New York to Paris, but problems arise when he is transferred to the Tokyo route. Meanwhile Michèle's uncle Albert who works in the freight department sets out to tackle a drug trafficking outfit.
Hocuspocus
Act like Peer Bille
event1966 star_border 5.1
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Kurt Hoffmann's remake of his own 1953 movie based on the play by Curt Goetz.
Grand Hotel
Act like Carl Kringelein
event1959 star_border 4.5
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Based on a book by Vicki Baum, all of the action takes place in one day in a luxury hotel in Berlin. Grusinkaya is a ballerina staying at the hotel, other guests include Baron von Gaigern a sophisticated thief, Otto Klingelein a dying man, Preysing a businessman, and a stenographer. Events intertwine the lives of these strangers, bringing them together for some dramatic moments.
The Pride of Company Three
Act like Gustav Diestelbeck
event1932 star_border 7
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The adventures of smart soldier Gustav Diestelbeck include managing his superior officer, competing for the canteneer's daughter, evading punishment for discipline faults and hosting Prinz Willibald during his visit to the regiment.
So ein Flegel
Act like Dr. Hans Pfeiffer/ Erich Pfeiffer
event1934 star_border 6.6
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First adaptation of Heinrich Spoerl's novel.
Der Mann, der nicht nein sagen konnte
Act like Thomas Träumer
event1958
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A man takes in three a dog and three runaway girls.
The Man in Search of His Murderer
Act like Hans Herfort
event1931 star_border 6.5
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A man in bad sorts hires a burglar to later kill him, then changes his mind when his fortunes turn and must find the contracted murderer before it is too late.
A Waltz for You
Act like Benjamin Cortes
event1934 star_border 5
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Ruritanian power struggle with opera singing.
Der Mustergatte
Act like Billy Bartlett
event1937 star_border 6.3
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Heinz Rühmann plays the "model husband" who, when his bored wife threatens to leave him, embarks on an adventurous night.
Three Bluejackets and a Blonde
Act like Kadett Heini Jäger
event1933 star_border 5.8
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While out dancing, two sailors fall for the same girl.
Enter Inspector Maigret
Act like Kommissar Maigret
event1966 star_border 7.5
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After the theft of a priceless Van Gogh from a Parisian museum, Maigret follows his chief suspect to Lausanne where the suspect is found murdered.
Request Concert
Act like Himself
event1940 star_border 6.3
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The young, attractive Inge Wagner becomes acquainted with Herbert Koch during the Berlin Olympics, his flight officer insignia having first caught her eye. Sparks fly immediately between the two and they soon decide to marry. But Herbert is called off on a secret mission in Spain.
The House in Montevideo
Act like Prof. Dr. Traugott Hermann Nägler
event1963 star_border 6.6
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A respectable professor inherits a house and money in Montevideo from his wild sister, on the condition that he himself behaves in a disreputable way.
Allotria
Act like David
event1936 star_border 7.5
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Best friends David and Philip have to end their love affair with their mistress Aimée which they - not knowing of each other - share, because they are going to marry their sweethearts Gaby and Viola. Of course Aimée will not accept her defeat. She interferes the engagement of Gaby and David, which lead to some turbulence and change of horses before they all end up in their honeymoon.
Die Umwege des schönen Karl
Act like Karl Kramer - Kellner
event1938 star_border 7
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Karl Kramer is a waiter in a beach hotel on the Baltic Sea. But he has completely different plans in mind for the future. Before he marries Grete Wernicke, the daughter of the hotel manager, he wants to have enough money himself.
Ein Mann geht durch die Wand
Act like Herr Buchsbaum
event1959 star_border 6.7
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Mr. Buchsbaum, third class taxes employee, lives a peaceful life until the new chief immediately criticizes his work. His only confort is his stamps collection. Sadly, even this consolation and his peace are threatened by a new, charming, neighbour who teaches piano.
Increasingly infuriated, he discovers accidentally one evening that he has the ability to go through walls. With this power, he decides to settle the scores, firstly with his boss who downgraded him.
Five Millions Seek an Heir
Act like Peter Pett / Patrick Pett
event1938 star_border 3.5
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According to his last will, the rich American uncle of vacuum cleaner salesman Peter Pett only leaves his 5 million dollars to Peter if he is married happily. Otherwise the five million will fall to Peter's Scottish cousin Patrick.
The Only Girl
Act like Didier
event1933 star_border 6
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A dashing marquis bends from his horse when he discovers a lost garter in the woods and falls. During his delirium he is serenaded by a little hairdresser. She is the person who lost the garter to begin with and has only come to get it back having borrowed it from her employer--the empress of France. The marquis mistakenly thinks he was nursed by the empress, herself, and decides to woo her.
My Wife, the Adventuress
Act like Peter Bergmann
event1931
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A mousy bank clerk is married to an ambitious woman.
Burglars
Act like Sérigny
event1930 star_border 6.2
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The young wife of a rich old husband is prevented of a fling by a gentleman-burglar, who falls in love to her.
Things Are Getting Better Already
Act like Fred Holmes
event1932
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The fast-driving daughter of a car manufacturer keeps Berlin's most pricey lawyer busy as she keeps getting into scrapes.
Der Gasmann
Act like Hermann Knittel
event1941 star_border 5.6
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A man comes into money unexpectatly. That's when the trouble starts.
Kleiner Mann ganz groß
Act like Self
event1994
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Documentary feature about German actor Heinz Rühmann made shortly before his death in 1994.
The Upright Sinner
Act like Wittek
event1931
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Leopold Pichler is a very orderly and trustworthy chief cashier who is asked by his boss to get a large sum of money from the bank which the boss urgently needs on a trip to Vienna. Due to some circumstances, getting the money takes a little longer than expected and the director leaves for Vienna without it. But Pichler sees himself as a reliable man, and so he and his assistant Wittek follow the director to Vienna with the money kept in a bag. In Vienna, the two provincials however are mistaken for guests of the director and spend an evening at a posh night club. But when it transpires that the director actually won't come to the night club that evening, Pichler and Wittek have to pay the bill with the money from the bank. And their subsequent attempts at reimbursing the money lead to situations of ever-increasing hilariousness...
Wetten, dass..?
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event1981 star_border 5.3
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A long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British show You Bet! and the American show Wanna Bet?.
Bambi Awards
Act like Self (12 ep.)
event1948 star_border 9
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The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.
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