Konrad Wolf addressing NVA soldiers in 1981, under the motto Kunst ist Waffe ("art is weapon", a quote from his father Friedrich Wolf).

Grave in Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde.

Konrad Wolf (20 October 1925, Hechingen – 7 March 1982, Berlin) was an East German film director, son of Friedrich Wolf, brother of Markus Wolf.

He and his family left Germany for Moscow when the Nazis took power in 1933, where Wolf came into intense contact with Soviet film. At age 10, he played a minor role in the film Kämpfer, filmed among the German Communist emigrants in Moscow. He and his brother attended the Karl Liebknecht School in Moscow.^[1] At age 17 he joined the Red Army and in 1945, he was among the first troops to reach Berlin. He remained in the Soviet Army until 1948. He later described these events in the 1968 film, Ich war neunzehn (I Was Nineteen).

Shortly after the war, Wolf returned to Moscow, where he studied at VGIK. He worked afterwards as a film director at DEFA. He was the President of the Academy of Arts of the GDR from 1965 until his death in 1982.

In 1978, he was a member of the jury at the 28th Berlin International Film Festival.^[2] In 1980, his film Solo Sunny was entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival.^[3]

Films[link]

• 1954 Einmal ist Keinmal
• 1956 Genesung
• 1957 Lissy
• 1958/1972 Sun Seekers
• 1959 Sterne
• 1960 Leute mit Flügeln
• 1961 Professor Mamlock
• 1964 Der geteilte Himmel
• 1966 Der Kleine Prinz
• 1968 Ich war neunzehn
• 1971 Goya - Der lange Weg der Erkenntnis
• 1974 Der nackte Mann auf dem Sportplatz
• 1976 Mama, ich lebe
• 1979 Solo Sunny
• 1981/82 Busch singt (6 part documentary about Ernst Busch, completed by others)

See also[link]

• Konrad Wolf Prize

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Konrad Wolf

• Konrad Wolf at the Internet Movie Database

Hachidai Nakamura (中村 八大, Nakamura Hachidai^?, January 20, 1931 – June 10, 1992) was a Japanese songwriter and jazz pianist.

Biography[link]

Hachidai Nakamura was born in Qingdao, China to Japanese parents.^[1] He moved to Fukuoka at a young age, where he attended high school, and eventually graduated from Waseda University in Tokyo with a degree in literature. Nakamura extensively played piano during his high school days, where he was invited to perform with local dance band "Yasuhiko Taniguchi and Premier Swing", and "The Red Hat Boys", a student jazz combo.

After Nakamura entered Waseda University, he formed a jazz band named "Big Four" along with Hidehiko Matsumoto, Joji "George" Kawaguchi, Mitsuru Ono in 1953, but the band was soon disbanded. As a composer, Nakamura later wrote many songs for various Japanese singers such as Kyu Sakamoto, enka singer Saburō Kitajima and Johnny & Associates' first group Johnnys. He worked closely with lyricist Rokusuke Ei and many of his songs were popularized by singer Kyu Sakamoto. He wrote the music of the popular Japanese song "Ue o muite arukō," released in 1961 in Japan. The song was released in the United States under the name "Sukiyaki" in 1963, peaking at the number-one position on the Billboard Hot 100. He and Ei also worked on the productions of Johnnys' 1964 debut single "Wakai Namida" and Saburō Kitajima's 1965 single "Kaerokana."

Compositions[link]

Kyu Sakamoto[link]

• Ue o muite arukō (上を向いて歩こう)
• Ashita ga aru sa (明日があるさ)
• Hitoribochi no futari (一人ぼっちの二人)
• Sayonara sayonara (さよならさよなら)
• Sekai no kuni kara konnichiwa (世界の国からこんにちは)
• Soshite omoide (そして想い出)
• Kuchibue dake ga (口笛だけが)
• Ikite ite yokatta (生きていてよかった)

Johnnys[link]

• Wakai Namida (若い涙)

Saburō Kitajima[link]

• Kaerokana (帰ろかな)

References[link]

1. ^ 河出書房新社 編集部 (1979). 昭和6年生まれ. 河出書房新社. 

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