NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Johannes Heesters

Johannes Heesters (born December 5, 1903) is a Dutch actor, singer, and entertainer who can look back on an 85-year career, almost exclusively in the German-speaking world. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... December 5 is the 339th day (340th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Friday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... Amersfoort is a municipality and the second largest city of the province of Utrecht in central Netherlands. ... Ercole de Roberti: Concert, c. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... December 5 is the 339th day (340th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Friday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Ercole de Roberti: Concert, c. ... An entertainer is someone who is hired to entertain people. ... German (called Deutsch in German; in German the term germanisch is equivalent to English Germanic), is a member of the western group of Germanic languages and is one of the worlds major languages. ...

As of 2006, aged 103, Heesters holds the record of being the oldest performer worldwide who is still active, both on the stage and on television. 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 &#8212...

Born Johan Marius Nicolaas Heesters in Amersfoort, Netherlands, Heesters very early in his career specialized in Viennese operetta, making his Viennese stage debut in 1934 in Karl Millöcker's Der Bettelstudent (The Beggar Student). Amersfoort is a municipality and the second largest city of the province of Utrecht in central Netherlands. ... Operetta (literally, little opera) is a performance art-form similar to opera, though it generally deals with less serious topics. ... Karl MillÃ¶cker (29 April 1842 - 31 December 1899) was an Austrian composer of operettas and a conductor. ...

Over the decades, "Da geh' ich ins Maxim", Count Danilo Danilovitch's entrance song from Franz Lehár's Die Lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow) -- Danilo has spent most of the night drinking at Maxim's and flirting with women -- has become Heesters's signature tune. More operettas followed, many of which were also made into musical films. Franz LehÃ¡r (30 April 1870 - 24 October 1948) was a Hungarian composer, mainly known for his operettas. ... Die Lustige Witwe (or The Merry Widow) is a musical comedy or operetta by the Austro-Hungarian composer, Franz LehÃ¡r. ... For the ballet, see The Merry Widow (ballet). ... Maxims de Paris is a Parisian restaurant of the Belle Epoque. ...

Heesters worked extensively for UFA till almost the end of the Second World War (his last wartime movie being Die Fledermaus, produced in 1945) and easily made the transition from the Nazi-controlled cultural scene to post-war Germany and Austria, appearing again in a number of films already in the late 1940s. He stopped making movies around 1960 though to concentrate on stage and television appearances and on producing records. UFA logo Universum Film AG, better known as Ufa or UFA, was the principal film studio in Germany, home of the German film industry during the Weimar Republic and through World War II, and a major force in world cinema during its brief existence from 1917 to 1945. ... Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead... Scene from the 1984 version. ... // Paramount Studios releases theatrical short cartoon titled The Friendly Ghost, featuring ghost named Casper With Rossellinis Roma CittÃ aperta, Italian neorealist cinema begins. ... National Socialism redirects here. ... The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour (1967) as a 33 â…“ LP vinyl record A gramophone record (also phonograph record, or simply record) is an analogue sound recording medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove starting near the periphery and ending near the center of the disc. ...

Heesters has two daughters by his first wife Wiesje Ghijs, whom he married in 1930. After her death in 1985, he remarried in 1991; his second wife, Simone Rethel (born 1949), is a German actress, painter and photographer. His younger daughter Nicole Heesters is a well-known actress in German-speaking countries too. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...

In the 1990s he and his wife toured Germany and Austria with Curth Flatow's play Ein gesegnetes Alter (A Blessed Age), which was also televised in 1996. Germans dancing on the Berlin Wall in late 1989, the symbol of the cold war divide falls down as the world unites in the 1990s. ... Curth Flatow (born January 9, 1920, Berlin) is a German dramatist and screenwriter who started his career in post-war Germany specializing in light comedy. ...

In September and October of 2003 Heesters appeared in the Komödie im Marquardt in Stuttgart in a show commissioned on the occasion of his 100th birthday, Heesters - eine musikalische Hommage. In 2005 he was featured soloist in a major concert tour with the Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg under the direction of Scott Lawton. On December 5, 2006 he celebrated his 103rd birthday with a concert at the Wiener Konzerthaus. His longevity is not untypical for his familiy. One of his grandfathers died at age 108. Stuttgart [], located in southern Germany, is the capital of the state of Baden-WÃ¼rttemberg with a population of approximately 590,000 (as of September 2005) in the city and around 3 million in the metropolitan area. ... A centenarian is a person who has attained the age of 100 years or more. ... The German Film Orchestra Babelsberg (also known as Deutches Filmorchester Babelsberg in German) is a symphony orchestra based in Potsdam, Germany. ... Scott Lawton (born 1960 in New Castle, Pennsylvania) is an American conductor based in Germany. ... Wiener Konzerthaus GroÃŸer Saal The Konzerthaus in Vienna (in German language: Wiener Konzerthaus) was opened 1913. ...

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