Christoph Probst

In the memoir, A Bag of Marbles, Joseph Joffo recounts his and his brother, Marurice’s, journey of survival as Jewish children who spend World War II hiding from Nazi soldiers in France. The movie Sophie Scholl – The Final Days, directed by Marc Rothemund, tells the story of the founding members of the White Rose resistance group, established during World War II, Sophie Scholl and her brother, Hans Scholl. They were student activists against the war and Nazi propaganda and wrote and distributed rebellious leaflets, but they were arrested, put into custody, underwent interrogations and trials, and were eventually, executed. Through these two perspectives of lives during World War II and the German occupation, insights to two differing goals are demonstrated to the reader and the viewer. For Sophie Scholl, as a rebellious German, her goal was the survival of an idea, whereas Joseph’s goal as a Jew, was simply survival of life. Joseph Joffo and Sophie Scholl each used certain aspects of their cultural identifiers, such as their education, economic status, and other various facets of their lives, like gender, race, and age, to fight for the values that they held dear to them, whether for family or for standing up for a strong cause, in order to survive in life and to uphold the survival of an idea. Sophie had the advantage of being an educated, college attending, German during World War II. Even though she was a rebel, she was still part of the dominant culture. She used the…

They, like many other teenagers of that time, joined the Hitler Youth as teenagers, where the message was that Hitler was leading Germany back into relevance and making them a prestigious country. Their father warned them that Hitler was leading Germany into a path of destruction and that trouble was going come from the corruption of the government. There was no immediate revelation in Hans and Sophie, but their father's words eventually got around to them, so they felt the need to share their…

Black Swan: A Movie Analysis “I felt it. What? Perfect. I was perfect.” The movie starts with a ballerina dancing to a musical piece beautifully, and then enters a hideous black bird, which seems to torture the ballerina. The young and naïve ballerina is our protagonist, Nina Sayers, played by Natalie Portman. The ballet company she works in, opens for a new season. The director announces that the season will open with an ambitious adaption of “Swan Lake” with a new face. Nina dreams that…

Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 drama and action based film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. The film takes place during World War II in Paris when the Nazi’s came into power. The movie features two different plots made by the main characters that converge. Shosanna Dreyfus and Lieutenant Aldo Raine, who necessarily never meet, both share the goal of assassinating German Nazis. Inglourious Basterds starts off with Shosanna Dreyfus witnessing the execution of her family by Nazi colonel,…

Nicole Orgeron’s Movie Critique- “Amadeus” 10/21/2015 Watch the award winning movie from 1984, “Amadeus” based on Mozart’s life, directed by Milos Forman then answer the questions below to receive credit for this assignment. 1. Name one of the Academy Awards this film has won. One of the Academy Awards Amadeus won was Best Picture. 2. Which actor was nominated for an Oscar in this film? Tom Hulce, was the actor that was nominated for an Oscar for starring in Amadeus. 3. What does the old…

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born in 1756 is one of history’s greatest composers and became a protégé at a young age. When he died in 1791 he had already composed numerous classical pieces that are still considered masterpieces today. In 1979, Peter Shaffer performed his play Amadeus that he fashioned after Alexander Pushkin short play called Mozart and Salieri. The film version came out in the 1980’s. The film is an adaptation of Mozart life and all his struggles as a prodigy, and the man who people…

Peter Shaffer’s 1984 film Amadeus is the story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told from the perspective of his peer, so called friend, and rival Antonio Salieri. The movie begins with a man yelling Mozart 's names and saying that he killed him, we soon learn that the man is none other than Antonio Salieri and he is attempting to commit suicide. This act lands him in an insane asylum, where he is then interrogated by Father Vogler a priest who gets Salieri to tell him what he meant by he killed…

This probably contributed to why they revealed so much. They talked about their next opera that was to come out, which was Orfeo ed Euridice. As it turns out that Mr. Calzabigi wanted to blend the best of Italian and French opera in order to create a new style that was better (Eckelmeyer et al.). Along with Christoph's desire to break away from da capo arias, they embarked on some revolutionary changes. Christoph wanted to "serve the poetry by expressing feelings and the situations of the…

A Million Falling Blossoms Between five and six million Jews - out of a Jewish population of nine million living in Europe - were killed during the Holocaust. There were 505,000 jewish people out of a total population of 67 million Germans, or somewhat less than 0.75 percent in 1933. That is approximately 66,495,000 bystanders. The White Rose movement took a stand against Nazism and begs the question “what if”? “We will not be silent… we are your bad conscience. The white rose will not leave…

The White Rose was a group of students who fought against Nazi policies while attending the University of Munich in Germany. The group started in the summer of 1942, with a group of young men involving Willi Graf, Christoph Probst, Hans Scholl, as well as a number of students and Kurt Huber, a philosophy professor. As time went on, Sophie Scholl, Alex Schmorell, and Inge Scholl joined as well. Influences of the group included the German Youth Movement; a group Christoph Probst was apart of. Hans…