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The German film director, screenwriter and media artist Harun Farocki was born on the 9th January 1944 in Nový Jicín [Neutitschein], at that time a part of Czechoslovakia annexed by the Third Reich. He was the son of an immigrated Indian doctor and a German woman. Farocki first studied Theatre, Sociology and Journalism at the 'Freie Universität (FU)' in West-Berlin. From 1966 to 1968 he studied at the new 'Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB)' as part of their first generation which included students as diverse as future Hollywood-director Wolfgang Petersen, future feminist filmmaker Helke Sander and future RAF-terrorist Holger Meins. Influenced by Jean-Luc Godard and Bertolt Brecht Harun Farocki gradually developed his own unique style of non-narrative-filmmaking concerned with understanding, reflecting and confronting modern society. Since 1966 Farocki produced, wrote and directed more than 100 short and feature-length films for television and cinema, mostly documentaries and essay films, that analyzed social realities with a precise use of moving images that always included the political and sociological context involved in the creation of imagery. Since 1996 Farocki had numerous group and solo exhibitions in museums and galleries worldwide, for example at the 'MOMA' in New York, the 'MUMOK' in Vienna, the 'Jeu de Paume' in Paris and the 'Museum Ludwig' in Cologne, followed by retrospectives of his films at many institutions like the 'Tate Modern' in London or the 'Centre for Contemporary Art' in Warsaw. Farocki's participation in the prestigious "documenta" in 1997 and 2007 is an indication of the huge impact that his films and video installations had in the art context, but no less was his influence in the film world: Six of his films were presented in the 'Forum' of the 'Berlin International Film Festival' and two more films won awards at the 'Locarno International Film Festival' in 2003 and 2007. In 2009 the influential French magazine "Cahiers du cinéma" named Farocki's and Andrei Ujica's celebrated masterpiece Videograms of a Revolution (1992) one of the 10 most subversive films ever made. Farocki's life included writing about film and teaching media, too: From 1974 to 1984 he was the editor of the journal "Filmkritik", published in Munich. In 1998 he published the book "Speaking about Godard" (together with Kaja Silverman). From 1993 to 1999 Farocki was a visiting professor at the 'University of California Berkeley'. From 2000 to 2004 Farocki taught in Berlin at his former school 'DFFB' and at the 'University of the Arts'. In 2004 Farocki first became a visiting professor and then in 2006 a full professor at the 'Academy of Fine Arts' in Vienna. As a teacher Harun Farocki had a significant cinematic and intellectual influence on the development of the acclaimed "Berlin School" film movement. He himself co-wrote five celebrated feature films of its most prominent member Christian Petzold, who used to be his student and assistant. Harun Farocki was married to Ursula Lefkes from 1966 until her death in 1996. They had two children (twin daughters) together. In 2001 Antje Ehmann became his second wife and like Lefkes a frequent collaborator on his films. On July 30, 2014 Harun Farocki died at the age of 70 in his home near Berlin.- Fred Liewehr was born on 17 June 1909 in Neutitschein, Austria-Hungary [now Novy Jicin, Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for The Story of Vickie (1954), Maria Theresia (1951) and Der Engel mit der Posaune (1948). He was married to Martha Rohs. He died on 19 July 1993 in Vienna, Austria.
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Hans-Jürgen Tögel was born on 8 August 1941 in Neutitschein, Sudetenland [now Nový Jicín, Czech Republic]. He is a director and actor, known for Jakob und Adele (1982), Siska (1998) and The Black Forest Hospital (1985).- Production Designer
Willi Bahner was born on 26 April 1906 in Neutitschein, Austria-Hungary. Willi was a production designer, known for Fast ein Poet (1968) and Frau Suitner (1962). Willi died on 7 July 1981 in Vienna, Austria.- Max Mannheimer was born on 6 February 1920 in Neutitschein, North Moravia, Czechoslovakia. He was married to Grace Franzen, Eva Bock and Elfriede Eiselt. He died on 23 September 2016 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
- Alfred Neubauer, born in Neutitschein in 1891, was the only son of a furniture-maker and as he grew up he developed a deep fondness for motors and racing cars, becoming with the years the manager of the Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix racing team from 1926 to 1955 with its famed Silver Arrow cars. While serving in the Austrian Army he started repairing military vehicles, and after WWI joined the Austro-Daimler, where Ferdinand Porsche named him chief tester. He drove in races until in 1926 he changed to racing team manager. This new job consisted in giving information to his pilots during the race using hand signs, flags and boards. Soon the Mercedes-Benz team got advantage over their rivals, specially after Mercedes launched the Silberpfeil (Silver Arrow) design. During the 30s the Silver Arrows were often driven by Rudolf Caracciola, Hermann Lang, Manfred von Brauchitsch and Richard Seaman (as a curiosity, the first three briefly appear together in The Stars Shine (1938) ). Each season Neubauer used to contract some foreign pilot, thus Fagioli, Chiron and Seaman enlarged the successful Mercedes-Benz mainly German team. In 1954 the design of the 300 model was adapted into a new racing car, the Mercedes-Benz 300SL, a model which would bring many victories in Grand Prix races, improving by far the pre-war model. Juan Manuel Fangio was under Neubauer's guidance World Champion in 1954 and 1955. Then in 1955 one of the team pilots, Pierre Levegh, had a terrible accident going over the fences onto the crowd and killing more than 80 people, Mercedes withdrew from racing and Neubauer retired from them too. He would remain in charge of Mercedes private drivers' section, training young drivers. He died in Stuttgart in August 1980.