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- Famous as the "Woman in Red", Ana Cumpanas aka Anna Sage reached the status of cultural icon in the United States in the years following John Dillinger(1903-1934)'s death, because she assisted the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in tracking down the 'Public Enemy No.1' at the Biograph Theatre in Chicago, USA where he was killed on July 22, 1934 after having seen Manhattan Melodrama (1934). Ana Cumpanas was a native of Comlosu Mare, a village of Banat (then part of Austria-Hungary, now in Timis County, Romania). She married in 1909 and the couple moved to the United States. They had a son, but their marriage did not last and by the end of the decade, Cumpanas was working as a prostitute, and later became a madam. She opened a brothel on Halsted Street in Chicago. By 1934, Cumpanas was facing deportation to Romania, after the authorities deemed her to be "of low moral character". On July 4, 1934, John Dillinger began frequenting Cumpanas and her circle of friends. Cumpanas was reportedly close to Polly Hamilton, who was Dillinger's lover. Once Cumpanas became aware of Dillinger's real identity, she considered turning him in as a way of obtaining permanent US residence and getting a large reward that had been offered for his capture. On July 22, after contacting the FBI through the Chicago Police, Cumpanas identified Dillinger to the FBI agent Melvin Purvis, resulting in Dillinger's shooting outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago. Despite the famous nickname "Woman in Red" and her alleged promise to wear red as a distinctive mark, Cumpanas is said to have actually worn orange that night. She received a US$ 5,000 reward, only half of what she had been allegedly promised, and still had to leave the United States in 1936. She lived then in Timisoara, Romania (close to where she was born) an ordinary life until her death from liver disease in 1947.
- Attila Borlan was born on 18 July 1968 in Banat, Romania. He is an actor, known for Free Fall (2013), Forsthaus Falkenau (1989) and Transfer (2010).
- Herta Müller was born on 17 August 1953 in Nitzkydorf, Banat, Romania. She is a writer, known for Vulpe - vânator (1993), Traveling on One Leg (2016) and An den Rand geschrieben - Rumäniendeutsche Schriftsteller im Fadenkreuz der Securitate (2010). She is married to Harry Merkle. She was previously married to Richard Wagner.
- Lou Thesz is one of wrestling's living legends. Thesz started wrestling in the 1930s, and from the 1930s to the 1960s, he was one of the most dominant figures in the business. Thesz won his first World Heavyweight Title in the 1930s, and went on to become a 6-time World Heavyweight Champion, many of those reigns as the NWA (National Wrestling Alliance) world champion. Thesz' last reign was in the 1960s when he lost the NWA world title to Gene Kiniski. Thesz' last match was in the early 1990s when he lost via submission to one of his protoges, Masahiro Chono. Thesz has also written an autobiography.
- Ion Cojar was a Romanian acting teacher, researcher and theatre director. He is the founder of a unique method that revolutionized the Romanian school of acting.
Ion Cojar changed the old way of understanding acting in Romania, when the actors were taught how to play theatre, to act, to fake, imitate or mimic life, emotions or characters, with a new one that demands actors, directors and teachers to create the circumstances in which the truth of life can occur, and the actor/actress to go onstage or during filming through authentic psychologically-realistic processes that cannot be anticipated or consciously controlled, at the end of which he/she would be actually changed as a person, so that the audiences may be able to follow the lifelike processes, to understand and believe what they see and hear, to empathize with the actors.
Ion Cojar also argued that we can know for sure that the actor is not faking or acting, but is going through an authentic process when we see instant, organic changes in the color and texture of his face, like when blood instantly floods its vessels in important moments, because these changes are impossible to fake.
As a professor and researcher at The National University of Theater and Film from Bucharest, guided by the principle "process, not success", Ion Cojar worked with his students in order for them to develop a specific psycho-emotional mechanism that, along with the use of a specific acting method, would allow them to transform conventions in life truth, unlike the old acting school when students were taught how to play theatre. Ion Cojar always said that "the art of the actor has nothing in common with theatre", a statement that became his trademark.
The professional actors who are trained via Cojar's pedagogical method tend to use in their creative processes an acting method derived from the previous one. One of his former students, Luminita Gheorghiu, won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005). Professor Mircea Gheorghiu, another former student of Ion Cojar, is considered to be the main continuator of his teaching method in the art of the actor.
As a theatre director, Ion Cojar also argued that the audiences, in order to empathize in a total way with what they're seeing and hearing, must not have any clue or the impression that they're witnessing a theatre show, but a genuine life event.
In theory, Ion Cojar gathered all his research and discoveries in his book entitled "O poetica a artei actorului" ("Poetics of the actor's art"). - Marija Geml was born on 28 April 1938 in Molin, Banat, Vojvodina, Yugoslavia. She is an actress, known for Night Boats (2012), Hocu zivjeti (1982) and Marsal (1999).
- Stevanka Cesljarov was born on 2 January 1944 in Banat, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He is an actor, known for Pavle Pavlovic (1975), Ljubav na seoski nacin (1970) and Pozoriste u kuci (1972).
- Herwig Birg was born on 4 January 1939 in Novi Kozarci, Banat, Serbia.
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Nikolaus Lenau's real name was Nikolaus Niembsch, Edler von Strehlenau (from 1822). Lenau grew up in the confines of an impoverished officer's family. He spent his childhood and youth in Pest, Trokaj, Vienna and Stockerau near Vienna. From 1812 to 1815 he went to the Piarist High School in Pest. In 1816 the family moved to Tokaj, where he received private lessons as well as violin and guitar lessons. In 1817 he passed his examination at the Piarist high school in Sátoraljaújhely and in 1818 at the high school in Pest. He then moved to Stockerau near Vienna to live with his wealthy paternal grandparents. In 1820 his grandfather, Colonel Josef Niembsch, received the title of nobility, which was inherited by Nikolaus Lenau after his death in 1822. From this he derived his stage name.
After his school education, with the financial support of his grandparents, he studied law, philosophy, agriculture and medicine in Pressburg, Vienna, Hungarian-Altenburg and Heidelberg from 1822 to 1832, but without completing his studies. In 1828 he was able to read one of his works for the first time, the poem "The Dreams of Youth" in J.G. Publish Seidl's paperback "Aurora". From 1830 he used his pseudonym Lenau. In Württemberg he had his first contact with the members of the "Swabian Poets' Circle" in 1831; there he met Gustav Schwab, Ludwig Uhland, Justinus Kerner, Count Alexander v. Württemberg and Carl Mayer. He owes his first publications to the Cotta publishing house to the professor, editor and poet Gustav Schwab. In Stuttgart he frequented various salons where he recited his own poems.
From 1832 to 1833 he traveled to America to try for a new start, but it failed. There he encountered a situation similar to that at home, which did not give him any new motifs for his poetic work. His experiences were processed in Ferdinand Kürnberger's novel "Der Amerika-Müde" (1855). With this trip, Lenau tried to escape from the political and intellectual narrowness of contemporary Germany. Departures have accompanied him since his childhood and also in later years. This homelessness was transferred to his poetic work, in which he moved between melancholy and commitment. In 1833 Lenau fell in love with the married Viennese woman Sophie von Löwenthal, in whose house he lived intermittently from 1837 to 1841. He began a restless life traveling between Württemberg and Vienna.
Lenau entered into several engagements, which he saw as a way out of his unhappy love - but none of them led to a happy ending. In 1836 he met the Danish theologian Hans Lassen Martensen. He and his reading of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel influenced his thinking and work. Between 1833 and 1842, Nikolaus wrote his three major hybrids "Faust" (1836), "Savonarola" (1837) and "The Albigensians" (1842). These dramatic works with an epic tone are characterized by distinctly lyrical elements that can also be found in other dramatic pieces and in his verse epics. Lenau's poetic productivity focused primarily on nature poetry. His images of nature are associated with death, isolation, transience and loss. Lenau strikes a tone of sadness and melancholy.
This contrasts with his political, often aggressive and accusatory poems, which propagate European freedom, emancipation, liberalism and democracy. These two sides make up the ambivalence in Nikolaus Lenau's poetic work. His lyrical works are characterized not only by rich images and metaphors, but also by an onomatopoeic language that appeals to all the senses. In 1844, the physical and mental collapse followed, from which Nikolaus Lenau never recovered. The sensitive poet went mad, suffered a stroke and attempted suicide several times. He was sent to closed sanatoriums in Stuttgart and Vienna, where he spent a total of six years. His work on "Don-Juan" was never completed.
Nikolaus Lenau died on August 22, 1850 in Oberdöbling/Vienna.- Writer
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Petar Konjovic was born on 5 May 1883 in Curug, Banat, Serbia. He was a writer and composer, known for Vreme ljubavi (1966), Kostana (2019) and Kostana (1983). He died on 1 October 1970 in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia.