Gustaf Gründgens ( December 22 is the 356th day of the year (357th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 9 days remaining. Events 1603 - Mehmed III Sultan of the Ottoman Empire dies and is succeeded by his son Ahmed I. 1807 - The Embargo Act, forbidding trade with all foreign countries... December 22, 1899 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). Events January January 1 - End of Spanish rule in Cuba. January 1 - Queens and Staten Island merge with New York City. January 3 - The first known use of the word automobile, in an editorial in the New York... 1899 - October 7 is the 280th day of the year (281st in leap years). There are 85 days remaining. Events 3761 BCE - The epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar. 1513 - Battle of La Motta — Spanish troops under Ramon de Cardona defeat the Venetians. 1571 - Battle of Lepanto occurs. 1582... October 7, Events January-February January 11 - The Whisky A Go-Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the USA, is opened. January 14 - George Wallace becomes governor of Alabama. January 22 - Elysée treaty between France and Germany January 28 - Black student Harvey Gantt enters Clemson College in... 1963) was one of The Federal Republic of Germany ( German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland) is one of the worlds leading industrialised countries, located in the heart of Europe. Due to its central location, Germany has more neighbours than any other European country: these are Denmark in the north, Poland and the Czech Republic in the... Germany's most famous actors of the (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... 20th century. His single most famous role was that of Mephistopheles in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (pronounced [gø tə]) (August 26, 1749–March 22, 1832) was a German writer, politician, humanist, scientist, and philosopher. As a writer, Goethe was one of the paramount figures of German literature and European Romanticism during and around the 18th... Goethe's Faust is the protagonist of a popular German tale that has been used as the basis for many different fictional works. It concerns the fate of a learned gentleman, Faust, who summons the Devil, who in the tale is usually called Mephistopheles, and offers to sell him his soul if... Faust, which is by many still considered having been the best interpretation of the role ever given.

Gründgens was also involved in one of the most famous literary cases of 20th century Germany, as the subject of a book by Klaus Mann (November 18, 1906–May 22, 1949) was a German writer. Born in Munich, Mann was the son of German writer Thomas Mann and his wife Katia Pringsheim. He suffered because of his homosexuality and his fathers lack of esteem for him, and left Germany in 1933... Klaus Mann, son of Thomas Mann (June 6, 1875–August 12, 1955) was a German novelist and essayist, lauded principally for a series of highly symbolic and often ironic epic novels and mid-length stories, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and intellectual and an underlying eroticism informed by... Thomas Mann, who wrote a novel entitled "Mephisto", which was a barely veiled bellicose account of the life of Gründgens. The book portrayed its main character as having shady connections with the The Nazi party used a right-facing swastika as their symbol and the red and black colors were said to represent Blut und Boden (blood and soil). Black, white, and red were in fact the colors of the old North German Confederation flag (invented by Otto von Bismarck, based on... Nazi regime. A lawsuit ensued as well as a controversy about In English and American law, and systems based on them, libel and slander are two forms of defamation (or defamation of character), which is the tort or delict of making a false statement of fact that injures someones reputation. Defamation is however the generally-used term internationally, and is... libel and the freedom of The Three Graces, here in a painting by Sandro Botticelli, were the goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity and fertility in Greek mythology. Fiction is the term used to describe works of the imagination. This is in contrast to non-fiction, which makes factual claims about reality. A large... fiction. Anyhow, their relation was a complicated one, since Gründgens was at one point married to Erika Julia Hedwig Mann (November 9, 1905 - August 27, 1969) was the daughter of novelist Thomas Mann. Known for her anti-Fascist cabaret, she was a theatre producer, playwright, journalist and actress. Erika Mann was married to the German actor Gustaf Gründgens. She played a leading role in the... Erika Mann, Klaus' sister, and the three had together worked in the For other usages see Theatre (disambiguation) Theater (American English) or Theatre (British English and widespread usage among theatre professionals in the US) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle —... theater, and both men have been Homosexuality is a sexual orientation characterized by esthetic attraction, romantic love, or sexual desire exclusively for another of the same sex. (For an analysis of the difficulties involved in the issue of identification, see homosexuality and transgender and also heterosexuality and bisexuality.) Gay can refer either to homosexuals in general... homosexuals, a topic avoided in the novel.