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Erich Karl Löwenberg (8 April 1894 – 15 July 1974), known as Erik Charell, was a German theatre and film director, dancer and actor. He is best known as the creator of musical revues and operettas, such as The White Horse Inn (Im weißen Rössl) and The Congress Dances (Der Kongress tanzt).
Feb 19, 2014 · The director, Erik Charell, is the Ziegfeld of the German musical comedy stage” and another noting that “It is a charming spectacle of Vienna in 1814, filled with tuneful melodies that one likes to remember and blessed with pleasing light comedy”.The international success of Der Kongreß tanzt led to an engagement in Hollywood, where ...
Erik Charell was born on 9 April 1895 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. He was a writer and director, known for Congress Dances (1931), Fireworks (1954) and Im Weissen Rössl (1952). He died on 15 July 1974 in Zurich, Switzerland.
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Erich Karl Löwenberg (8 April 1894 – 15 July 1974), known as Erik Charell, was a German theatre and film director, dancer and actor. He is best known as the creator of musical revues and operettas, such as The White Horse Inn ( Im weißen Rössl) and The Congress Dances ( Der Kongress tanzt ).
Jul 10, 2016 · Its owner, Jürgen Haase, was so enthralled by the story of Erik Charell – after having seen the exhibition Glitter and Be Gay at the Schwules Museum* in Berlin, six years ago – that he decided to put together his own exhibition and show it in the basement of his hotel.
Jan 1, 2021 · 10 January, 2021. When the Shakespeare adaptation Swingin‘ the Dream opened on Broadway in 1939 it followed Erik Charell’s earlier XXL-sized Broadway hit White Horse Inn, a new version of his former Berlin success Im weißen Rössl, which had opened in 1930 and then conquered the world.
Jan 7, 2021 · The locomotive pulling the train and its many, many wagons was Erik Charell, a gay, Jewish director-producer of revues who had resettled in the U.S. after fleeing Nazi Germany, and a fascinating...
