#robin heil

[byneddiedingo]

One Hour Photo (Mark Romanek, 2002)

Cast: Robin Williams, Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan, Dylan Smith, Gary Cole, Evie Daniels, Paul Kim Jr., Eriq La Salle, Clark Gregg. Screenplay: Mark Romanek. Cinematography: Jeff Cronenweth. Production design: Tom Foden. Film editing: Jeffrey Ford. Music: Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek. 

Robin Williams gives a fine performance in One Hour Photo, but it remains just that: a performance, a tamping down of his familiar manic presence into the persona of the repressed, furtive Sy Parrish. He works in the photo processing department of SavMart, a vast and impersonal big box store. He lives alone, and his chief human contact is with his customers, who bring him their rolls of film to be developed. Their snapshots give him a glimpse into the lives of people who have families and children and celebrate events like weddings and birthdays. He also gets a glimpse of the secret lives of people, who bring in shots revealing their sexual proclivities, but he chooses to concentrate on the happy families, especially the Yorkins: the beautiful Nina (Connie Nielsen), her handsome husband, Will (Michael Vartan), and their cute 9-year-old son, Jakob (Dylan Smith). His admiration for the Yorkins grows into an obsession, and from that writer-director Mark Romanek spins the plot. One Hour Photo is supposed to be a thriller, in which we watch uneasily as Sy's obsession curdles into something malevolent. But by showing us Sy talking to the police at the start of the film, he deprives us of that surprise. There's a slackness in the narrative that works against the suspense, and Sy's breakdown and eruption into violence feels less like an integral part of the character than a plot device. Romanek also gets distracted into making a satiric point about the soullessness of the megacorporate entities embodied by SavMart, turning the store manager (Gary Cole) into the villain who pushes Sy over the edge. For many people, however, watching Williams perform is enough to overcome the movie's flaws. 

[robinheil]

The Happy Children Cambridge, MA, 2018

[skye-century]

and thus begins the reign of grima

[nordic-language-love]

Thanks Essi @tealingual for tagging me! 💜

Alias/name: Victoria Birthday: December Zodiac sign: Sagittarius Height: 161cm Hobbies: Languages, pole dance, aerial hoop, yoga, writing, reading, baking Favorite color: Purple Favorite book: Mmm difficult to say, probably Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman Last song you listened to:  En Rik Brønn Som Lyger - Janove Last movie or show you’ve watched: Star Trek TNG Recent reads: Omg I’ve not finished a book in ages but I’m currently reading Gloria (Katherine Shaw), Kakerlakkene (Jo Nesbø), Eg snakkar om det heile tida (Camara Lundestad Joof), Time of Contempt (Andrzej Sapkowski) and Dragon Keeper (Robin Hobb) Inspiration: Other langblrs, my students, my own imagination Story behind URL: Nordic languages, my beloved <3 Fun fact about me: I literally cannot take/send things back once I’ve bought them because I don’t want the thing to feel unwanted (even though it then wastes its life never being used until I throw it out, which is actually a far worse fate)

I’m tagging all my followers! That’s right - you’re tagged!

[tachyonpub]

With the wildly inventive and entertaining UNHOLY LAND, Lavie Tidhar delivers an intriguing novel with multiple realities and hard-boiled detectives

Lavie Tidhar’s richly detailed UNHOLY LAND continues to astound.

For GEEK DAD, Robin Books delivers 5 Reasons to Read ‘Unholy Land’ by Lavie Tidhar.

1. Intriguing Premise.

As I said at the top of the review, Tidhar’s books always have at their heart a strong, often unusual premise. Whilst Unholy Land‘s premise isn’t quite in the same “You’re doing what?!” category as Osama and A Man Lies Dreaming, it does immediately capture the reader’s attention. Much like Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, Tidhar imagines the existence of an alternative Jewish homeland, Palestina.

Drawing on the real-world possibility of a Jewish settlement in Africa, mooted in the early part of the 20th Century, Tidhar imagines what the world might have been like if the such a state had been set up. What follows is an alternate history where key events for history are different, but how much will things really change?

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UNHOLY LAND is another Lavie Tidhar novel based on a strong premise that goes outside of those generally found in mainstream science fiction. With gentle wit and strong alternate history, Tidhar pokes at the folly of humanity and wonders whether even if historical calamities are avoided, we’ll just come up with new ones to replace them. Threaded with themes of identity and belonging, Tidhar once again delivers an intriguing novel with multiple realities and hard-boiled detectives.

Ian Mond at LOCUS praises the novel.

So many possibilities, so many alternative histories, yet it’s the 1903 pro­posal to create a Jewish State in Uganda, mooted by Joseph Chamberlain to Theodore Herzl, that forms the basis of Lavie Tidhar’s provocative and brash new novel, UNHOLY LAND.

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While I found the subject matter challenging, there’s no denying that UNHOLY LAND is a wildly inventive and entertaining novel that moves at a breathless gallop. If the rules that underpin the Pattern – Tidhar’s multiverse – didn’t entirely make sense to me, there’s a conviction to the storytelling that pulls you through the narrative. In the introductory piece to “Art and War”, Tidhar makes the observation that because of his niche interests, “I’m kind of resigned to a sort of obscurity by now.” It’s true that Tidhar will unlikely be a household name, but in our neck of the woods, he’s already staked a claim as the genre’s most interesting, most bold, and most accomplished writer.

THE GAME OF NERDS’s Aaron Heil enjoys the memorable book.

Lavie Tidhar’s new book UNHOLY LAND came out last October and it’s… weird, even for Tidhar, a veteran of the weird and frequent editor of the Apex World SF Series. This novel looks deep at the human soul and the actions that drive men to do questionable things to survive. UNHOLY LAND reveals both sides of an ethical dilemma by exposing the dark sides, the good intentions, and the branching effects.

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Though I read UNHOLY LAND back in October, it keeps surfacing in my mind and a book that won’t stay down has the greatest impact. It will be well worth a reread someday and all the more enjoyable for anyone who hasn’t read it yet.

For more info on UNHOLY LAND, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Sarah Anne Langton

[gemeinsamfuerdenhsv]

Walter will beim HSV weiter auf die eigene Jugend setzen In den vergangenen Jahren hat sich im Jugendbereich des HSV einiges getan. Neben Josha Vagnoman und Stephan Ambrosius schafften es bei den Rothosen mit Jonas David, Ogechika Heil und Robin Meißner weitere eigene Talente zu den Profis. Diesen Weg will auch Tim Walter weiter gehen. „Der Verein lebt davon, dass wir eine Jugendarbeit haben. Ich stehe auch dafür, junge Spieler zu entwickeln. Mit Sicherheit gibt es augenscheinlich Spieler im Kader, die in der Offensive mehr auffallen“, so der neue HSV-Coach, der anfügte: „Ich möchte die Spieler aber nicht nach ihren bisherigen Taten, sondern nach dem Potenzial beurteilen. Ich möchte die Jungs gerne erst einmal kennenlernen.“ #HSV #ofcgfdh21 #nurderHSV #gemeinsamfürdenhsv #Hamburgersv #hamburg #volkspark https://www.instagram.com/p/CPVBz0vB7mr/?utm_medium=tumblr

[bloojayoolie]

Soon..., Free, and Robin: Christopher Robin pounded on the podium as he continued his speech Pooh wasn't exactly sure what Sieg Heil meant but he was intrigued none the less Soon they would be used for free labor

[dillydedalus]

september reading

i read some things i guess! open for the last (almost) of robin hobb, more mountaineering disasters, and …. dungeons & dragons?? (i completely forgot i had this in my drafts lol)

the nickel boys, colson whitehead idk man this is really well-written, well-paced, an important story based very much on real history, the characters serve their purpose very well, the violence and abuse is written in a way that is chilling without ever being gratuitous and with the exception of a twist that i thought was a little too predictable, there’s nothing i can really criticise. it just really lacked some spark for me, and maybe it’s just that after underground railroad (which is also didn’t particularly like, but damn that had spark) it feels a lil conventional. still good tho! 3/5

the adventure zone #1: here there be gerblins, various mcelroys & cary pietsch my brain Does Not Do podcasts but obvi i’ve been hearing A LOT about the mcelroy boys & i’m like. vaguely interested in d&d* so when this was made available on overdrive i was like okay why the hell not. it’s a fun, quick read, and while i don’t really know anything about d&d the trappings of the game were included in a fun way. nothing mindblowing, but a good time. 2.5/5

assassin’s fate (fitz & the fool #3), robin hobb y’all this is it… it’s been over a year & now i’m done with the realm of the elderlings (actually i still have the piebald prince novella & the short stories). i have some criticisms of this one (the timeline & the main climax seemed a lil muddled to me) but to be honest??? loved this, had all the feelings, was superhappy to see my cursed shores kids again, fitzy & bee were heartbreaking all the time, the paragon conflict was great, when fitz got to the quarry i literally immediately started uglycrying & pretty much didn’t stop until the end, so: 4.5/5 (series rating 4/5 i guess bc fool’s assassin was a drag & a half)

die nebelkrähe, alexander pechmann this is a speculative fictionalisation of a little episode in the spiritualist movement where medium hester dowden claimed she had communicated with/been briefly possessed by oscar wilde, which is pretty fun. unfortunately, pechmann chose to focus on his version of mr v., a pretty boring mathematician and skeptic, rather than the absolutely wild shit going on with dowden, which includes oscar wilde’s ghost dunking on james joyce (who responded by making fun of the whole thing in finnegans wake) and claiming he’s like totally straight. 2/5

oval, elvia wilk a neoliberal corporate hell/psychotropics/eco-punk gone wrong dystopia in berlin so you know i’m here (i.e. in berlin lol) for it. this is about a berlin in the not too distant future where finster corp (real subtle) is buying up everything, driving up rents through ecological redevelopment, artists mainly work as consultants for corporations, and our protags anja and louis live in a finster-sponsored zero-waste eco-commune on an artificial mountain in the middle of berlin. everyone’s jobs are nda-clad bullshit, everyone parties all the time without ever enjoying themselves, homelessness and income inequality are ignored with the barest twinge of guilt, and louis is developing a party drug that chemically makes you generous. oh and the nature on the mountain (the berg -.-) seems to be eating itself. the concepts are great, the writing is pretty good even tho it tries a bit too hard sometimes, wilk, while also suffering a lil from Expat Gaze, really knows berlin. the execution isn’t perfect, the pacing is a bit off, too much time is devoted to anja and louis’ boring relationship, and look, some of the dystopian elements are a bit obvious. neoliberalism bad. okay, we know. but there’s a lot of good here, and the ending is pretty great, if a bit underdeveloped. 3.5/5

travelers, helon habila a novel about the african diaspora in europe, told thru 6 inter-connected stories, all focusing on one story of migration. these are important stories well told, and i liked how they all linked up in the end. while berlin is the central hub these stories revolve around, not all are set in berlin and the setting really isn’t as central as i’d hoped (this is obvi very personal to me & my research interests so it’s not really criticism). i’d recommend this if you’re interested in the representation of african migrants and refugees. 3/5

the uninhabitable earth: life after warming, david wallace-wells shit’s fucked: the book. starts with ‘it is worse, much worse, than you think’ and doesn’t really get much more cheery from there. good if you want an idea of what the effects of global warming might be (a pretty pessimistic one, which is the point - when does pessimism become realism?), and how we (& how we might) respond to them. 3/5

the girl from the other side, nagabe (#1-5) spooky-yet-wholesome manga series about a snazzy demon who’s adopted a little human girl who has been abandoned/cast out by her human community, which is like 100% my jam. the central relationship is super cute & wholesome, the demon designs are amazing, the worldbuilding is really spooky & intriguing (if you touch a demon you’ll be cursed & also turn into a demon & tbh who doesn’t want to turn into a weird tall slightly monster with cool horns), and a lot of it is just the demon like. badly baking pie to cheer the girl up. 

girl woman other, bernardine evaristo somewhere between a novel and a collection of short stories written in a somewhat unconventional but highly readable style. the 12 stories each focus on one woman (and one nonbinary person), most of them black, examing black womanhood in britain throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. i enjoyed many of these stories, but the observational style and the way we quickly cover whole lives left me a bit detached. there’s also a lil corniness throughout, which comes out in full force in the epilogue, and while it’s cool to have trans rep, it honestly came across as a bit clueless. 3/5

dark summit: everest’s most controversial season, nick heil did someone say high-altitude mountaineering disasters? because i’m always here for some high-altitude mountaineering disasters. this is about the 2006 season which was p disastrous in terms of deaths even tho it didn’t even have a storm (cf the 1996 season aka please just read into thin air), just people walking past dudes who were dying bc rescues are extremely difficult & dangerous. anyway this ain’t into thin air, but it’s a good one & pretty wild bc all mountain climbers are fucking nuts. 3.5/5

sense & sensibility, jane austen really enjoyed this! the pacing is a lil weird & none of the men really is all that, but it’s all very charming & witty & i love sisterhood narratives (poor margaret!). as in (tho not as much as in) mansfield park, there’s a lot of attitudes that just don’t really track but in contrast to mp i found them interesting rather than frustrating, mostly - brandon/marianne is very uncomfortable especially when you realise that he’s projecting his tragic dead first love/sis-in-law onto marianne and that we don’t really see their courtship at all, but w/e. i especially enjoyed the ferrars family drama and the hilarious resolution to it, and i gotta say: lucy steele really did that & good for her. 4/5 

anyway, i’m about halfway thru alasdair gray’s lanark, which is a great big pomo brick, half portrait of the artist as a young glaswegian, half weird visions of hell in the city of unthank & i’m into it but it’s not a quick read. in october uni reading is also going to start, perhaps for the last semester ever :(

[jewish-privilege]

...In the Mayor’s Reception Room at City Hall on Aug. 9, Alan Gubernick, board chair of ADL Philadelphia, announced the creation of the Black-Jewish Alliance of the ADL, which brings together leaders from both communities to strengthen ties and rebuild the partnership that dates to the civil rights movement.

Charlottesville, Gubernick said, “delivered a wakeup call across the country.”

He pointed to the ADL’s mission since its creation in 1913 to “stop the defamation of the Jewish people, and to secure justice and fair treatment to all.”

“We must all recognize that we are living in a moment when those in our country, those who hate blacks, who hate Jews, who hate anyone different from them, feel emboldened,” he said. “They seek an America that is radically different from the one the ADL has been fighting for for so many years, and that is why our work is not yet done.

Mayor Jim Kenney commended the ADL and reflected on growing up in South Philly with a significant Jewish community, meeting Holocaust survivors who lived nearby and hearing their stories.

His life was enriched as a result of knowing them and learning of their resilience, he said.

“I can’t imagine what a Holocaust survivor must’ve thought watching the tiki torches of Charlottesville and listening to what they were spouting,” he said, calling the rally a “despicable display of hatred and bigotry.”

Of Philadelphia, he said, “We have absolutely zero tolerance for all forms of hate and discrimination. When we see such acts, we must continue to speak out and condemn them.”

The alliance was born after Blane Stoddart, a local businessman who serves as co-chair of the alliance, attended his first ADL event a few years ago and had a conversation with ADL Regional Director Nancy Baron-Baer.

The alliance is a chance to stand together “against the twin evils of racism and anti-Semitism,” he said.

...He pointed to the innumerable incidents that have occurred since his first ADL encounter — including swastikas painted on public spaces and private homes, and reports of racist and anti-Semitic insults hurled at students, such as one report from Southern Lehigh High School of students calling black classmates “cotton pickers” and using “Heil Hitler” salutes.

Indeed, per a report, since the beginning of 2017, ADL’s Center for Extremism has tracked more than 900 white supremacist propaganda incidents. The 2017-18 school year saw a 77 percent increase of incidents on campus from the previous year.

“Nothing has changed. Racism is cyclical,” Stoddart said. “So we must be vigilant. We must work together to move the needle forward in real time so that we can progress as a country, and right now I feel that we are heading in the wrong direction. And the Black-Jewish Alliance stops the needle and helps us to move in the right direction.”

While the Philadelphia program is serving as the “guinea pig,” his goal is to have a Black-Jewish Alliance in every city where the ADL has an office.

“For this country to make progress on anti-Semitism and racism,” he said, “blacks and Jews must work together.”

During the announcement, Stoddart highlighted a key program of the alliance, “Sharing Stories; Sharing Ourselves,” created in partnership with houses of worship in which members of both communities come together in conversation.

The first program was held over the summer at Congregation Beth Or with Bethlehem Baptist Church.

...The alliance committee is a purposefully small group of just about 18 or 20 leaders evenly representing both communities, said Robin Burstein, senior associate regional director.

While the leadership is small, they are hoping to make a big impact through programs across the entire community.

“We really want to promote understanding,” she said. “We want when there are incidents that happen for blacks and Jews to stand together against it.”

As the initial conversations about forming the alliance began before the events that transpired in Charlottesville, the rally was only a further impetus.

“We … knew because of those events that there are people out there who hate both Jewish people and black people, that we needed to stand strong and be allies together, that that image is powerful,” she said. “So when incidents happen, we will be able to stand up and say, ‘We won’t stand for this any longer.’”

Read Marissa Stern’s full piece at the Jewish Exponent.

[piasgermany]

[News + Video] BILBAO mit neuer Single "Parasols”!

Wir freuen uns bekannt zu geben, dass die Hamburger Band BILBAO bei [PIAS] Recordings Germany unterschrieben haben und ihre neue Single “Parasols” mit dem ebenfalls neuen Sänger Léon veröffentlichen!

Im Song thematisieren sie die drohende Klimakatastrophe – allerdings nicht mit erhobenem Zeigefinger. Vielmehr halten sie der Gesellschaft selbstironisch den Spiegel vor. Auch wenn BILBAO letztes Jahr mit ihrer Debüt EP “Isola” für Aufmerksamkeit gesorgt haben, stellen wir die Band noch einmal vor:

Nach einem gemeinsamen Abend auf dem Reeperbahn Festival 2019 beschlossen Jannes, Jan, Robin und Max, die sich aus anderen Bandprojekten und Studium kannten, fortan gemeinsam Musik zu machen. Während des Lockdowns erfanden sie auf Instagram die “24h-Cover-Challenge“: Ihre Community durfte entscheiden, welchen Song die Band innerhalb von 24 Stunden covern und ihm den frechen BILBAO-Flair einhauchen sollten. Dabei entstanden erfrischende Versionen von Songs wie „All Night Long“ von Lionel Richie oder „Royals“ von Lorde. Wenig später erschien die in Eigenregie produzierte EP „Isola“. Anfang des Jahres verließ Max aus persönlichen Gründen die Band und wurde durch den neuen Sänger Léon ersetzt. „Parasols“ ist nun die neue Single von BILBAO. Die sommerliche Indie-Nummer kommt mit subtiler Sampling-Ästhetik daher und frisst sich mit ihrer eingängigen Hook sofort ins Ohr. „Musikalisch mixen wir gerne verschiedene Genres“, sagt Bassist Jannes. „Klar sind wir in erster Linie eine Indie-Pop Band, aber durch das viele Sampling in all unseren Songs zählt definitiv auch Hip-Hop zu den großen Einflüssen unserer Musik.“

Doch zurück zum Klimawandel. „Mama told me get out of the sun / but I wanna tan like everyone / please don’t let it ever go away / but I feel the heat is killing me“, heißt es im Refrain von „Parasols“. Und dann: „Someone blast me with a water gun!“. „Seit Jahren und Jahrzehnten ist das Thema präsent, jeden Tag sieht man brennende Wälder, Überschwemmungen und Hurricanes in den Medien. Und obwohl wir ständig von den Wissenschaftlern gewarnt werden und eigentlich genau wissen sollten, was auf uns zukommt, blenden die meisten die Gefahr einfach aus und gehen ihren geregelten Leben nach“, erklärt die Band. Im dazugehörigen Musikvideo haben BILBAO deshalb ein Paralleluniversum im Retro-Look geschaffen, bei dem wir Zeuge eines verrückten Werbedrehs für Bräunungscreme werden – inklusive Mettigel. „Das Video betont diesen ignoranten Hedonismus, eine künstliche, heile Ego-Welt, in der es nur um Konsum und die neuesten Trends geht und gesellschaftliche Probleme und Gefahren einfach weggeschoben werden“, so Jannes. „Frei nach dem Motto ‚nach uns die Sintflut!‘. Nur, dass diese wohl schon näher ist als wir wahrhaben wollen…“

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[goalhofer]

2020 Olympics Germany Roster

Boxing

Hamsat Shadalov (Berlin)

Ammar Abduljabbar (Hamburg)

Nadine Apetz (Haan)

Canoeing

Sideris Tasiadis (Augsburg)

Hannes Aigner (Augsburg)

Sebastian Brendel (Scwedt)

Conrad-Robin Scheibner (Berlin)

Tim Hecker (Berlin)

Jacob Schopf (Berlin)

Max Hoff (Troisdorf)

Max Lemke (Mannheim)

Tom Liebscher (Dresden)

Ronald Rauhe (Berlin)

Max Rendschmidt (Bonn)

Ricarda Funk (Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler)

Andrea Herzog (Meissen)

Lisa Jahn (Berlin)

Julie Hake (Olfen)

Caro Arft (Bochum)

Sophie Koch (Berlin)

Sabrina Hering-Pradler (Hannover)

Sarah Brüssler (Mannheim)

Tina Dietze (Leipzig)

Fencing

Peter Joppich (Koblenz)

Benjamin Kleibrink (Düsseldorf)

André Sanita (Solingen)

Luis Klein (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Max Hartung (Aachen)

Matyas Szabó (Dormagen)

Benedikt Wagner (Bonn)

Leonie Ebert (Würzburg)

Karate

Jonathan Horne (Kaiserslautern)

Noah Bitsch (Siegburg)

Ilja Smorguner (Idstein)

Jasmin Jüttner (Aschaffenburg)

Pentathlon

Patrick Dogue (Ludwigshafen)

Fabian Liebig (Potsdam)

Annika Schleu (Berlin)

Rebecca Langrehr (Berlin)

Sailing

Philipp Buhl (Immenstadt)

Erik Heil (Berlin)

Thomas Plössel (Oldenburg)

Paul Kohlhoff (Kiel)

Svenja Weger (Heidelberg)

Luise Wanser (Hamburg)

Anastasiya Winkel (Hamburg)

Susann Beucke (Kiel)

Tina Lutz (Landschulheim)

Alica Stuhlemmer (Kiel)

Climbing

Alexander Megos (Erlangen)

Jan Hojer (Cologne)

Swimming

Lukas Märtens (Berlin)

Lucas Matzerath (Berlin)

Eric Friese (Potsdam)

Ole Braunschweig (Kassel)

Christian Diener (Potsdam)

Jacob Hiedtmann (Pinneberg)

Philip Heintz (Mannheim)

Marco Koch (Darmstadt)

Marius Kusch (Datteln)

Rob Muffels (Elmshorn)

Fabian Schwingenschlögl (Erlangen)

David Thomasberger (Leipzig)

Florian Wellbrock (Bremen)

Damian Wierling (Essen)

Henning Mühlleitner (Emmendingen)

Poul Zellmann (Potsdam)

Marek Ulrich (Dessau)

Christoph Fildebrandt (Wuppertal)

Lisa Höpink (Berlin)

Hannah Küchler (Berlin)

Leonie Beck (Augsburg)

Annika Bruhn (Karlsruhe)

Isabel Gose (Berlin)

Franziska Hentke (Bitterfeld-Wolfen)

Sarah Köhler (Hanau)

Laura Riedemann (Berlin)

Celine Rieder (Wittlich)

Finnia Wunram (Eckernförde)

Marie Pietruschka (Leipzig)

Leonie Kullmann (Dresden)

Anna Elendt (Berlin)

Taekwondo

Alexander Bachmann (Stuttgart)

Wrestling

Gennadij Cudinovic (Köllerbach)

Etienne Kinsinger (Püttlingen)

Frank Stäbler (Böblingen)

Denis Kudla (Schifferstadt)

Eduard Popp (Heilbronn)

Anna Schell (Aschaffenburg)

Aline Rotten-Focken (Krefeld)

Archery

Florian Kahllund (Kiel)

Michelle Kroppen (Kevelaer)

Charline Schwarz (Nuremburg)

Lisa Unruh (Berlin)

Athletics

Steven Müller (Kassel)

Marvin Schlegel (Frankenberg)

Amos Bartelsmeyer (Aschaffenburg)

Robert Farken (Leipzig)

Mohamed Mohumed (Mönchengladbach)

Gregor Traber (Tettnang)

Joshua Abuaku (Oberhausen)

Luke Campbell (Brunswick, Maryland)

Constantin Preis (Pforzheim)

Karl Bebendorf (Dresden)

Nils Brembach (Berlin)

Leo Köpp (Berlin)

Christopher Linke (Potsdam)

Carl Dohmann (Hannover)

Jonathan Hilbert (Mühlhausen)

Nathaniel Seiler (Baden)

Amanal Petros (Bielefeld)

Hendrik Pfeiffer (Düsseldorf)

Richard Ringer (Überlingen)

Deniz Almas (Calw)

Lucas Ansah-Peprah (Stuttgart)

Joshua Hartmann (Berlin)

Julian Reus (Hanau)

Jean Bredau (Potsdam)

Manuel Sanders (Dülmen)

David Wrobel (Stuttgart)

Daniel Jasinski (Bochum)

Clemens Prüfer (Potsdam)

Tristan Schwandke (Kempten)

Mateusz Przybylko (Bielefeld)

Bernhard Seifert (Hildburghausen)

Johannes Vetter (Dresden)

Julian Weber (Mainz)

Fabian Heinle (Musburg)

Bo Lita-Baehre (Düsseldorf)

Torben Blech (Siegen)

Oleg Zernikel (Landau In Der Pfalz)

Max Hess (Chemnitz)

Niklas Kaul (Mainz)

Kai Kazmirek (Torgau)

Alexandra Burghardt (Mühldorf Am Inn)

Lisa Mayer (Giessen)

Tatjana Pinto (Münster)

Lisa-Marie Kwayie (Berlin)

Jessica-Bianca Wessolly (Mannheim)

Corinna Schwab (Schwandorf)

Christina Hering (Munich)

Katharina Trost (Freilassing)

Caterina Granz (Berlin)

Hanna Klein (Landau In Der Pfalz)

Konstanze Klosterhalfen (Königswinter)

Ricarda Lobe (Landau In Der Pfalz)

Carolina Krafzik (Niefern-Öschelbronn)

Elena Burkard (Baiersbronn)

Gesa Krause (Ehringshausen)

Lea Meyer (Loningen)

Saskia Feige (Potsdam)

Melat Kejeta (Baunatal)

Deborah Schöneborn (Troisdorf)

Katharina Steinruck (Leipzig)

Rebekka Haase (Zschopau)

Gina Lückenkemper (Hamm)

Laura Müller (Dudweiler)

Ruth Spellmeyer-Preuss (Göttingen)

Nadine Gonska (Duisburg)

Marike Steinacker (Wermelskirchen)

Claudine Vita (Frankfurt)

Kristin Pudenz (Herford)

Samantha Borutta (Mannheim)

Marie Jungfleisch (Freiberg Im Breisgau)

Imke Onnen (Langenhagen)

Christin Hussong (Zweibrücken)

Maryse Luzolo (Frankfurt)

Malaika Mihambo (Heidelberg)

Sara Gambetta (Lauterbach)

Katharina Maisch (Gelenau)

Christina Schwanitz (Dresden)

Neele Eckhardt (Ostercappeln)

Kristin Gierisch (Zwickau)

Vanessa Grimm (Frankfurt Am Main)

Carolin Schäfer (Bad Wildungen)

Badminton

Kai Schäfer (Mülheim An Der Ruhr)

Mark Lamsfuss (Saarbrücken)

Marvin Seidel (St. Ingbert)

Yvonne Li (Mülheim An Der Ruhr)

Isabel Herttrich (Mülheim An Der Ruhr)

Basketball

Isaac Bonga (Koblenz)

Joshiko Saibou (Cologne)

Maodo Lô (Berlin)

Niels Giffey (Berlin)

Jan Wimberg (Oldenburg)

Johannes Voigtmann (Eisenach)

Robin Benzing (Seeheim-Jugenheim)

Victor Wagner (Berlin)

Lukas Wank (Altenberg)

Danilo Barthel (Heidelberg)

Johannes Thiemann (Trier)

Andreas Obst (Halle)

Cycling

Nikias Arndt (Buchholz In Der Nordheide)

Maximilian Schachmann (Berlin)

Emanuel Buchmann (Bregenz, Austria)

Simon Geschke (Berlin)

Stefan Bötticher (Leinefelde-Warbis)

Maximilian Levy (Berlin)

Roger Kluge (Eisenhüttenstadt)

Theo Reinhardt (Berlin)

Maximilian Brandl (Landshut)

Manuel Fumic (Kirchheim Unter Teck)

Lisa Brennauer (Kempten)

Lisa Klein (Saarbrücken)

Hannah Ludwig (Heidelberg)

Liane Lippert (Friedrichshafen)

Trixi Worrack (Cottbus)

Lea Friedrich (Dassow)

Emma Hinze (Hildesheim)

Franziska Brausse (Metzingen)

Elisabeth Brandau (Schonaich)

Ronja Eibl (Balingen)

Lara Lessmann (Flensburg)

Diving

Patrick Hausding (Lichtenburg)

Martin Wolfram (Dresden)

Timo Barthel (Würselen)

Jaden Eikermann-Gregorchuk (Monheim)

Lars Rüdiger (Berlin)

Tina Punzel (Dresden)

Christina Wassen (Eschweiler)

Elena Wassen (Eschweiler)

Lena Hentschel (Dresden)

Equestrian

Michael Jung (Bad Soden Am Taunus)

Daniel Deusser (Wiesbaden)

Christian Kukuk (Warendorf)

André Thieme (Plau Am See)

Maurice Tebbel (Emsbüren)

Jessica Von Bredow-Werndl (Aubenhausen)

Dorothee Schneider (Mainz)

Isabell Werth (Issum)

Sandra Auffarth (Delmenhorst)

Julia Krajewski (Langenhagen)

Field Hockey

Alexander Stadler (Heidelberg)

Mats Grambusch (Mönchengladbach)

Lukas Windfeder (Mülheim An Der Ruhr)

Linus Müller (Düsseldorf)

Martin Häner (Berlin)

Paul-Philipp Kaufmann (Mannheim)

Niklas Wellen (Krefeld)

Johannes Grosse (Berlin)

Constantin Staib (Münster)

Timm Herzbruch (Essen)

Tobias Hauke (Hamburg)

Jan Rühr (Düsseldorf)

Justus Weigand (Nuremburg)

Martin Zwicker (Köthen)

Florian Fuchs (Hamburg)

Benedikt Fürk (Mülheim An Der Ruhr)

Niklas Bosserhoff (Mülheim An Der Ruhr)

Timur Oruz (Krefeld)

Kira Horn (Hamburg)

Amelie Wortmann (Hamburg)

Nike Lorenz (Berlin)

Selin Oruz (Krefeld)

Anne Schröder (Düsseldorf)

Lena Micheel (Hamburg)

Charlotte Stapenhorst (Berlin)

Sonja Zimmermann (Frankenthal)

Pauline Heinz (Berlin)

Lisa Altenburg (Mönchengladbach)

Maike Schaunig (Dinslaken)

Julia Ciupka (Mönchengladbach)

Franzisca Hauke (Hamburg)

Cécile Pieper (Heidelberg)

Pia Maertens (Duisburg)

Viktoria Huse (Berlin)

Jette Fleschütz (Hamburg)

Hanna Granitzki (Hamburg)

Soccer

Florian Müller (Saarlouis)

Benjamin Henrichs (Bocholt)

David Raum (Nuremburg)

Ohis Uduokhai (Annaberg-Buchholz)

Amos Pieper (Lüdinghausen)

Ragnar Ache (Frankfurt Am Main)

Marco Richter (Friedberg)

Maximilian Arnold (Riesa)

Cedric Teuchert (Coburg)

Max Kruse (Reinbek)

Nadiem Amiri (Ludwigshafen)

Svend Brodersen (Hamburg)

Arne Maier (Ludwigsfelde)

Ismail Jakobs (Cologne)

Jordan Tournarigha (Chemnitz)

Keven Schlotterbeck (Weinstedt)

Anton Stach (Buchholz In Der Nordheide)

Eduard Löwen (Idar-Oberstein)

Luca Plogmann (Bremen)

Golf

Maximilian Kieffer (Düsseldorf)

Christopher Long (Heidelberg)

Caro Masson (Gladbeck)

Sophia Popov (Weingarten)

Gymnastics

Lukas Dauser (Ebersberg)

Nils Dunkel (Berlin)

Philipp Herder (Berlin)

Andreas Toba (Hanover)

Kim Bui (Ehningen)

Pauline Schäfer (Chemnitz)

Elisabeth Seitz (Altlussheim)

Sarah Voss (Dormagen)

Handball

Johannes Bitter (Oldenburg)

Uwe Gensheimer (Mannheim)

Johannes Golla (Wiesbaden)

Finn Lemke (Bremen)

Hendrik Pekeler (Itzehoe)

Juri Knorr (Flensburg)

Steffen Weinhold (Fürth)

Philipp Weber (Schönebeck)

Kai Häfner (Schwäbisch Gmünd)

Marcel Schiller (Bad Urach)

Andreas Wolff (Euskirchen)

Julius Kühn (Duisburg)

Jannik Kohlbacher (Bensheim)

Timo Kastening (Stadthagen)

Paul Drux (Gummersbach)

Judo

Moritz Plafky (Siegburg)

Sebastian Seidl (Nürtingen)

Igor Wandtke (Lübeck)

Dominic Ressel (Kiel)

Eduard Trippel (Rüsselsheim Am Main)

Karl-Richard Frey (Troisdorf)

Johannes Frey (St. Augustin)

Katharina Menz (Backnang)

Theresa Stoll (Munich)

Martyna Trajdos (Bełchatów, Poland)

Giovanna Scoccimarro (Hanover)

Anna-Maria Wagner (Ravensburg)

Jasmin Grabowski (Speyer)

Rowing

Oliver Zeidler (Dachau)

Stephan Krüger (Rostock)

Marc Weber (Lich)

Jason Osborne (Mainz)

Jonathan Rommelmann (Mülheim An Der Ruhr)

Max Appel (Ratzeburg)

Hans Gruhne (Berlin)

Tim Naske (Hamburg)

Karl Schulze (Dresden)

Laurits Follert (Duisburg)

Malte Jakschik (Bonn)

Torben Johanssen (Hamburg)

Hannes Ocik (Rostock)

Olaf Roggensack (Berlin)

Martin Sauer (Wriezen)

Richard Schmidt (Trier)

Jakob Schneider (Ihringen)

Johannes Weissenfeld (Herdecke)

Leonie Menzel (Mettmann)

Annekatrin Thiele (Sangerhausen)

Frieda Hämmerling (Kiel)

Franziska Kampmann (Berlin)

Carlotta Nwajide (Hanover)

Daniela Schultze (Cottbus)

Shooting

Oliver Geis (Limburg)

Andreas Löw (Neuendettelsau)

Christian Reitz (Löbau)

Jolyn Beer (Hanover)

Monika Karsch (Regensburg)

Nadine Messerschmidt (Suhl)

Doreen Vennekamp (Gelnhausen)

Carina Wimmer (Mühldorf)

Skateboarding

Tyler Edtmayer (Lenggries)

Lilly Stoephasius (Berlin)

Surfing

Leon Glatzer (Pavones, Costa Rica)

Table Tennis

Timo Boll (Erbach)

Dmytro Ovtcharov (Düsseldorf)

Patrick Franziska (Bensheim)

Han Ying (Tostedt)

Petrissa Solja (Kandel)

Xiaona Yong (Berlin)

Tennis

Dominik Koepfer (Tampa, Florida)

Philipp Kohlschreiber (Kitzbühel, Austria)

Jan-Lennard Struff (Warstein)

Alexander Zverev; Jr. (Monte Carlo, Monaco)

Kevin Krawietz (Munich)

Tim Pütz (Usingen)

Mona Barthel (Neumünster)

Anna-Lena Friedsam (Neuwied)

Laura Siegemund (Stuttgart)

Triathlon

Justus Nieschlag (Hildesheim)

Jonas Schomburg (Hanover)

Anabel Knoll (Ingolstadt)

Laura Lindemann (Berlin)

Volleyball

Julius Thole (Hamburg)

Clemens Wickler (Starnberg)

Karla Borger (Heppenheim)

Julia Sude (Friedrichshafen)

Laura Ludwig (Berlin)

Maggie Kożuch (Hamburg)

Weightlifting

Simon Brandhuber (Deggendorf)

Nico Müller (Obrigheim)

Sabine Kusterer (Leimen)

Lisa Schweizer (Schwedt)

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[robinheil]

The Happy Children Minneapolis, 2017

[thehauntologicalsociety]

John Griffith Bowen

John Griffith Bowen was born in India, sent "home" to England at the age of four and a half, and was reared by aunts. He served in the Indian Army from 1943-47, then went to Oxford to read Modern History. After graduating he spent a year in the USA as a Fulbright Scholar, much of it hitch-hiking. He worked for a while in glossy journalism, then in advertising, before turning freelance when the BBC commissioned a six-part adventure-serial for Children`s Television. Between 1956 and 1965 he published six novels to excellent reviews and modest sales, then forsook the novel for nineteen years to concentrate on writing television drama (Heil Caesar: Robin Redbreast) and plays for the stage (After the Rain: Little Boxes: The Disorderly Women). He returned to writing novels in 1984 with The McGuffin: there were four more thereafter. Reviewers have likened his prose to that of Proust and P. G. Wodehouse, of E. M. Forster and the young John Buchan: it may be fair to say that he resists compartmentalisation. He has worked as a television producer for both the BBC and ITV, directed plays at Hampstead and Pitlochry and taught at the London Academy of Dramatic Art. He lives in a house on a hill among fields between Banbury and Stratford-on-Avon.

I began the Introduction to The Essay Prize, my own first volume of television plays (it did not sell well: there was never a second) with the question, "Why Write For Television?" and the answer I gave was that a television play is the only way by which a writer can "share a kind of insight, a way of looking at life, an enjoyment of the complexity of human motives, the ambivalence of human behaviour ... with those many people who do not have the habit of reading books", far less of going to the theatre.

Well, that is still true, but I was ten years younger then, and more easily swayed by my own rhetoric. The answer ignores the way television plays are sent out to this non-book-reading, non-theatre-going audience, as part of a continuous stew made up of items so diverse that they would be indigestible if anyone ever bothered to digest them. But the audience in general does not digest them. No effort is required of it, hardly even the effort of choice; no response is expected. The stew—your play, bobbing about in it—is received, excreted and forgotten. Nourishment is not a consideration.

Indeed, the stew-givers, both of the BBC and the commercial companies, often try to exclude even the possibility of nourishment. This play, Robin Redbreast, was first commissioned as a "suspense" play by the Series Department of the BBC and rejected. The producer is a kind and intelligent man: he was distressed to have to reject a play he admired, but the "close inter-relation between the fertility rite and the church festivals" would be too much, he wrote, for "the Powers-That-Be". Something taught in school sixth forms all over the country would be "too much" for the BBC Series Department. Luckily Graeme McDonald, who produces Play for Today for the BBC Drama Department, heard of the play, read it and instantly took it on.

Worst is the lack of a continuing life. All my novels except the last are out of print, but they are still borrowed (freely in every sense) from libraries. Dedicated amateurs win prizes at Drama Festivals with plays I wrote years ago. Films are shown throughout the world long after they have been made, and end on that very television which shows a play once, perhaps (but only on the BBC) repeats it, then wipes the tape, and the play, already forgotten by its audience, even ceases to exist as an artefact. Dead. All other forms of art continue to exist after the act of creation and first showing, except the television play. Unless, as Pinter, Peter Nichols, John Mortimer, John Hale, Alun Owen have done and I myself with this play—the writer re-works it for the theatre, and gives it a life after all.

And yet ... and yet. I say that, if I could afford to write only for the theatre I should do so, and certainly no television play could ever give author, actors and audience the real joy which is created when play, performance and audience come together in a theatre and all goes well. But there are ways of writing for television, ways of using images which, however I may free myself from realistic theatrical production, I can't match in the theatre. I admire naturalistic acting, and television can show it more closely than someone in whatever-shaped auditorium can see from six rows back. I say nowadays that I write television plays in order to buy time to write in other ways, but nobody writes only for money, and nobody would fret so about getting it right if money were the only consideration. There is still the possibility of excellence, and even if a television play ends up as a truffle in the stew, to be swallowed unrecognised by most, complained of by some ("What's this bit of coal doing in my stew?"), someone out there may yet know a truffle when he sees it, and savour it, and be glad.

Introduction to Robin Redbreast from The Television Dramatist, Published by Paul Elek Limited in 1973. © John Bowen 1970.

> The Truth Will Not Help Us: Embroidery on an Historical Theme (1956) > After the Rain (1958) > The Centre of the Green (1959) > Storyboard (1960) > The Birdcage (1962) > A World Elsewhere (1965) > Squeak (1983) > The McGuffin (1984) > The Girls: A Story of Village Life (1987) > Fighting Back (1989) > The Precious Gift (1992) > No Retreat (1994) >

> ITV Play of the Week: The Candidate (1961) > ITV Play of the Week: The Truth About Alan (1963) > ITV Play of the Week: A Case of Character (1964) > ITV Play of the Week: The Corsican Brothers (1965) > ITV Play of the Week: Mr. Fowlds (1965) > ITV Play of the Week: Finders Keepers (1965) > ITV Play of the Week: Ivanov (adaptation) (1966) > ITV Play of the Week: The First Thing You Think Of (1966) > After the Rain, Hampstead Theatre (1966) > ITV Play of the Week: ITV Summer Playhouse #9: The Voysey Inheritance (1967) > Thirty-Minute Theatre: Silver Wedding (1967) > ITV Playhouse: I Love You Miss Patterson (1967) > Play For Today: Robin Redbreast (1970) > Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Waiting Room (1971) > The Guardians, 7 episodes (1971), Villains: Belinda, London Weekend Television (1972) > Dead of Night: A Woman Sobbing (1972) > ITV Sunday Night Theatre: Young Guy Seeks Part-Time Work (1973) > ITV Sunday Night Theatre: The Coffee Lace (1973) > Heil Caesar, BBC (1973) > Play For Today: The Emergency Channel (1973) > A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Treasure of Abbot Thomas (adaptation) (1974) > Play For Today: A Photograph (1977) > A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Ice House (1978) > Wilde Alliance: A Game for Two Players (1978) > ITV Playhouse: The Specialist (1980) > ITV Sunday Night Thriller: Dark Secret (Pts 1 & 2) (1981) > Screen Two: The McGuffin (1986) > Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, with David Cook, BBC (1996 - 1997) >

Image © The British Film Institute, used with kind permission.

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Rezension zu “Summ, wenn du das Lied nicht kennst” von Bianca Marais

5 / 5 Sternen ★

Einfühlsamer Schreibstil mit berührender Handlung

Das Cover wirkt auf den ersten Blick unauffällig, aber wenn man genauer hinsieht, erkennt man seine wahre Schönheit. Die Gestaltung ist einfach wundervoll. Die Vögel und Blumen harmonieren mit ihrem grünen Farbton sehr gut mit dem bräunlichen Hintergrund. Das Buchcover gefällt mir optisch sehr gut. Es enthält einen festen Einband, ein Lesebändchen und einen farblich abgestimmten Buchrücken. Die Aufmachung des Buches ist hochwertig und mit liebevollen Details verziert.

Die Handlung ist herzergreifend und berührend zugleich, die Autorin Bianca Marais nimmt uns mit in das Apartheidsregime der 70iger Jahre in Südafrika. Innerhalb der Handlung lernt man die zwei Seiten von Südafrika kennen. Eine weiße Familie, der es gut geht und die in einer glücklichen Welt aufwachsen. Und die schwarze Familie, die unterdrückt wird und hart für ihr Geld arbeiten muss, weil sie in ärmlichen Verhältnissen leben. Mit der Sprache schafft die Autorin eine berührende und einfühlsame Atmosphäre, in der man die heile und die traurige Welt der beiden Familien miterlebt.

Die Geschichte wird aus zwei Perspektiven erzählt und zwar von Robin und Beauty. Robin ist ein neunjähriges Mädchen, das aus einer weißen Familie stammt. Aber diese wurden während des Aufstandes in Soweto ermordet. Dieser Schüleraufstand begann als friedliche Protestaktion und forderte zahlreiche Todesopfer. Beauty ist eine Witwe, die mit ihren zwei Kindern in der Transkei lebt. Sie ist eine Schwarze. Aufgrund der Umstände in Soweto will sie ihr drittes Kind namens Nomsa nach Hause holen, um sie vor weiteren Gefahren zu schützen. Nachdem Tod ihrer Eltern wird Robin von ihrer Tante Edith aufgenommen. Edith ist eine freiheitsliebende Frau und fühlt sich der Verantwortung nicht gewachsen, sodass sie das Kind Beauty anvertraut.

Der Einstieg in die Handlung ist mir durch den leicht verständlichen und flüssigen Schreibstil sehr einfach gefallen. Die Geschichte hat mich seit der ersten Seite in ihren Bann gezogen. Es ist ein interessanter Schreibstil, in dem sie Sprache und Stilmittel gezielt einsetzt. Ich finde diesen sehr angenehm, spannend, einfühlsam und passend zur Handlung. Damit gelingt es der Autorin, sich in die unterschiedlichen Stimmungen, Verhältnisse und Emotionen innerhalb der zwei vorgestellten Familie hineinzuversetzen.

Zwei Personen, die durch das Schicksal vereint werden. Eine berührende Geschichte von Schwarz und Weiß - mit tollen Charakteren und einen tollen Verlauf von den Entwicklungen der Figuren – die zum Nachdenken anregt und unter die Haut geht.

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THE REAL STORY OCT. 16, 2020

Who’s Who in The Trial of the Chicago 7: A Character Guide

By Nick Allen

Aaron Sorkin’s hippies, yippies, prosecutors, protesters, undercover cops, and more, explained. Photo-Illustration: Niko Tavernise/Netflix

The whole world was watching when a group of Vietnam War protesters was put on trial by the U.S. government, accused of crossing state lines to incite a riot during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. It didn’t matter that the police were documented committing violent acts during what began as peaceful protests; this group was to be made an example. The trial that ensued became a famous circus of the American court system, in which hippies, yippies, and more squared off against the immense biases of a judge who wanted them to lose, all the while racking up numerous contempt charges for a wide range of disruptive behaviors. Whether it was the spectacle created by media-savvy jokester Abbie Hoffman or the firm outrage expressed by pacifist David Dellinger, each reactionary played a particular part in this all-American farce, which has recently been made into a courtroom epic by writer-director Aaron Sorkin.

In an introduction to The Trial of the Chicago 7: The Official Transcript, Sorkin says that his screenplay is “very different” from the words of the trial, which is an accurate summation of his approach to a story that took place from September 1969 to February 1970. For all of the poetry inherent in the revolutionaries’ battle with a system that seeks to silence them, Sorkin manages to add his own flourishes, including a rousing ending that’s far more symbolic than accurate. To help keep track of all these different players, here’s a guide to the major figures in Sorkin’s film:

Abbie Hoffman

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Of the many rabble-rousers in the trial, none was more famous than Abbie Hoffman (played by Sacha Baron Cohen), who brought theatricality and personality to the proceedings given his knowledge of media and psychology. Hailing from Boston, Hoffman worked as a psychologist before becoming involved with the revolution of the ’60s, when he and other members of the Youth International Party (known as the Yippies) protested the Vietnam War and capitalism, sometimes using more outrageous, attention-grabbing stunts like trying to levitate the Pentagon or raining money down onto the New York Stock Exchange floor. Hoffman spoke at colleges and made public appearances throughout the trial (as shown in Sorkin’s film). After the trial (which he famously referred to as taking place inside a “neon oven”), Hoffman continued his activism and wrote the famous political text Steal This Book. Later, to avoid a cocaine charge in the early ’70s, he underwent cosmetic surgery and changed his name to Barry Freed. (He would eventually surrender and serve the charge in 1980 before getting an early release.)

Jerry Rubin

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Before the trial, Rubin (played by Jeremy Strong) had a long history of activism that included joining the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley, California, where he ran for mayor. He was the founder of one of the era’s earliest protest groups, the Vietnam Day Committee. Rubin achieved notoriety by being subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee, before which he appeared dressed as an American Revolutionary soldier; in another HUAC hearing, Rubin showed up dressed as Santa Claus. With Yippie co-founder Hoffman, they planned a “Festival of Life” to juxtapose the Democratic National Convention, which included outdoor concerts, guerrilla theater, and a “nude-in” on a Chicago beach. During the trial, Rubin famously stomped around Judge Julius Hoffman’s court, giving a Nazi salute and shouting “Heil Hitler!” Rubin left activism in the ’70s and worked on Wall Street; he and Hoffman did a campus tour in the 1980s that was dubbed the “Yippie Versus Yuppie” debates.

Tom Hayden

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As co-founder of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Hayden (played by Eddie Redmayne) wrote the Port Huron Statement in 1962, a manifesto to guide the protests and their values. During the southern civil-rights campaign, he was arrested in Mississippi. From the onset of the protest planning, Hayden and Rennie Davis wanted to make the demonstrations peaceful, laying out their goals in a document that Judge Hoffman barred from being submitted in court. During the trial, Hayden was a self-proclaimed “strategist” and later shared that he “spent every night ’til three, four in the morning going over testimony, transcripts, preparing witnesses.” After the Chicago trial, he married and later divorced activist and actress Jane Fonda. Before entering politics in the 1970s and later serving in the California Senate, Hayden co-founded the Campaign for Economic Democracy, which lobbied for environmental protection and solar power.

Rennie Davis

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One of two defendants to testify during the trial (the other being Hoffman), Rennie Davis (played by Alex Sharp) was considered the “negotiator” by frequent SDS partner Hayden, liaising between the city and the protesters, trying (and failing) to get the permits to protest. Davis came from wealth in Virginia, his father having worked as chairman of President Truman’s Council of Economic Advisers. At the end of the trial, Davis told Judge Hoffman he was “all that is old, ugly, and bigoted in this country, and I tell you that the spirit you see at this defense table will devour you.” After the trial, Davis traveled to North Vietnam to escort prisoners of war, whose release had been negotiated by none other than Dellinger. Davis later became a venture capitalist and follower of Guru Maharaj Ji and founded the Foundation for a New Humanity.

David Dellinger

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The oldest member of the Chicago Seven (played by John Carroll Lynch) was the 54-year-old chairman of the Mobe (the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam), a well-known pacifist who was ironically considered by the prosecutors to be the “chief architect of the conspiracy.” Educated at Oxford and Yale, Dellinger had been previously jailed for three years for not registering for military service in World War II and protested the Bay of Pigs and Korean War. On the night Hubert Humphrey won the Democratic presidential nomination, Dellinger was a leader of a peaceful protest that did not have permits and became violent at the hands of police. Dellinger was also known for going to Paris to negotiate the release of American war prisoners and went to North Vietnam to guide them back to the United States.

Lee Weiner

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Lee Weiner (played by Noah Robbins) only had loose connections to the other people in the group, though he and John Froines were accused of using and teaching people to make Molotov cocktails and other incendiary devices. Like Froines, Weiner served as a marshal at the Chicago demonstrations with the Mobe. According to Hayden, the Northwestern University grad student spent much of his time in court quietly reading I Ching. After the trial, Weiner worked for the Anti-Defamation League and raised funding for AIDS research.

John Froines

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John Froines (played by Danny Flaherty) demonstrated the same general sense of detachment from the protests as Weiner, though he himself became an activist in 1964; he founded the Radical Science Information Service and later became a member of the SDS. A chemist with a Ph.D. specializing in toxicology from Yale, after the trial he served under the Carter administration as OSHA’s director of toxic substances and taught at UCLA from 1981 to 2011.

Bobby Seale

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Perhaps the most arbitrary person charged among the Chicago defendants (known as the Chicago Eight until Seale had his trial severed) was Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale (played by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), who had only met Rubin before the indictment and was only in Chicago during the time of the protests to give two speeches in place of Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver, who couldn’t make it. Seale later denounced violence and ran for mayor of Oakland in 1973, losing in the runoff. He also taught political science at Temple University in Philadelphia.

Richard Schultz

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As the younger assistant to chief prosecutor Thomas Foran, Richard Schultz (played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt) was known to be the more aggressive of the duo. Sorkin writes the character as having a clear reluctance in taking on the case, but real accounts indicate a kind of enthusiasm in his attacks of the defense. J. Anthony Lukas, who wrote extensively about the trial, said that “Schultz could have made the first robin of spring sound like a plot by the Audubon Society.”

Thomas Foran

The chief prosecutor (played by J.C. MacKenzie) was originally brought on by the Johnson administration as the U.S. Attorney for northern Illinois, intending to leave after Nixon’s election. Days after his work on the trial, Foran infamously used anti-gay slurs in public to describe the defendants (except Seale). When the convictions were reversed against the five charged defendants, Foran was criticized for making a “considerable number” of derogatory statements during the trial.

William Kunstler

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The lead attorney for the defendants, William Kunstler (Mark Rylance) helped guide the charge, emphasizing that the trial spectacle was more about politics and less about criminal behavior. He came to the proceedings with previous experience representing civil-rights leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Stokely Carmichael, H. Rap Brown, and Malcolm X. Kunstler later headed the ACLU and was a co-founder for the Center for Constitutional Rights.

Leonard Weinglass

Considered the workhorse of the defense, Leonard Weinglass (played by Ben Shenkman) was the less theatrical assistant to Kunstler. After the trial, he represented the likes of Pentagon Papers defendants Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo and later represented Angela Davis and Jane Fonda.

Judge Julius Hoffman

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By the end of the trial, Judge Julius Hoffman (played by Frank Langella) gave over 150 convictions of contempt during the course of proceedings, a part of his polarizing legacy as a figure of law. When his convictions were reversed, Judge Thomas Fairchild wrote that “the district judge’s deprecatory and often antagonistic attitude toward the defense is evident in the record from the very beginning.” In 1982, Hoffman reflected on the trial by saying, “I did nothing in that trial I am not proud of. I presided with dignity. When I felt I had to be firm, I was firm.”

The Informants

Sorkin takes some artistic liberty when it comes to the undercover cops in the story, whom he condenses into three fictional characters named Sergeant Scott Scibelli, Daphne O’Connor, and Frank DeLuca. Together, they’re a hodgepodge representation of real officers like Robert Pierson, who offered to be a bodyguard for Rubin and Hoffman, and Mary Ellen Dahl, who says she witnessed Hoffman say “We’re gonna storm the Hilton.”

Fred Hampton

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Contrary to Sorkin’s version of Fred Hampton’s involvement in the Trial of the Chicago 7 narrative, the Black Panther leader (played by Kelvin Harrison Jr.) was not sitting behind Seale during the proceedings, nor was he whispering secret things to him; he wasn’t even in the courtroom. Hampton was in the city of Chicago, however, having joined the Black Panthers in November 1968. Until his murder by the FBI and Chicago police in December 1969, Hampton did historic work for the Black Panther Party that included building a multicultural movement called the Rainbow Coalition, which sought to end gang violence.

Ramsey Clark

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The former attorney general (played by Michael Keaton) has a brief but significant appearance in Sorkin’s saga. In real life, he would have been an excellent witness for the defendants had Judge Hoffman allowed Clark to be heard in court; he was the man who originally refused to prosecute the case, before being replaced by Attorney General John Mitchell, having been more interested in prosecuting the police brutality than the acts of the protesters. Throughout his career, Clark supervised the Civil Rights Act of 1968 and the court order that protected the Selma marches. He was also a strong opponent to America’s occupation of the Middle East and advocated for the impeachment of George W. Bush. Clark received the Gandhi Peace Award in 1992.

John Mitchell

As the new attorney general under the Nixon administration, John Mitchell (played by John Doman) did not share Clark’s reluctance in prosecuting the demonstrators in 1969 and is shown in the film taking Clark’s slow-acting resignation from the position extremely personally. Mitchell later became known for being a central figure in Nixon’s Watergate scandal and was found guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury.

David Stahl

A type of liaison to the protest organizers, David Stahl (played by Steve Routman) was the one who spoke to organizers and tried to secure permits for the demonstrations parallel to the convention. “We had meetings at 4 a.m. in strange and wonderful places,” Stahl recalled to the Baltimore Sun about negotiating with Hoffman and others in the summer of ’68. Though Stahl would testify against the group, he agreed with them on the issue of Vietnam. “Where we disagreed was [that] I believe in government and they were fundamentally anarchist,” he said.

Bernardine Dohrn

The American revolutionary only has somewhat of a cameo appearance in Sorkin’s film, shown as a woman answering the phones at the SDS headquarters, where the defendants commiserate. Dohrn (played by Alice Kremelberg) was elected to be one of three leaders at the SDS until she became a pivotal member of the radical-left extremist group the Weather Underground. Though she was never arrested or prosecuted, for years her alleged advocacy for terrorism against police put her on the FBI’s top-ten list of “Most Wanted” fugitives. Dohrn is just one of many American revolutionaries who factor into this saga, many of them worthy of their own film.

A previous version of this piece misidentified Bobby Seale. It has been corrected.

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