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    Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt (13 February 1849 – 3 January 1922) was a German con man and impostor. His most famous exploit was in 1906, when Voigt masqueraded...
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  • Voigt (mainly written Vogt, also Voight) is a German surname, and may refer to: Alexander Voigt, German football player Alwin Voigt (1852–1922), German...
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  • Johann Karl Wilhelm Voigt (20 February 1752 in Allstedt – 2 January 1821 in Ilmenau) was a German mineralogist and mining engineer. He initially studied...
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    Wilhelminism (redirect from Wilhelmism)
    Germany, and depicted as far preferable. Wilhelm Voigt Der Untertan Königliche Hoheit National Kaiser Wilhelm Monument Index of Germany-related articles...
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  • The Captain of Köpenick (play) (category Cultural depictions of Wilhelm Voigt)
    that happened in 1906, of a down-on-his-luck ex-convict shoemaker (Wilhelm Voigt) who impersonates a Prussian Guards officer, holds the mayor of a small...
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    devastation of the margraviate during the Thirty Years' War. In 1906, Wilhelm Voigt, a shoemaker and drifter, masqueraded as a Prussian officer and commandeered...
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    Rogers" 1974 Occupations Christo Kabak Television film Performance Wilhelm Voigt Episode "The Captain of Köpenick" 1975 The Count of Monte Cristo Baron...
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    Philipp Wilhelm Voigt (16 September 1866 – 13 April 1927) was a German politician. Voigt was the mayor of Rixdorf, Barmen, Frankfurt, and Marburg. Voigt, the...
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    Facility I; the demolition was completed in July 2018. The German imposter Wilhelm Voigt better known as Captain von Köpenick, was imprisoned in Tegel for almost...
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  • The Captain from Köpenick (1956 film) (category Cultural depictions of Wilhelm Voigt)
    Köpenick by Carl Zuckmayer. The play was based on the true story of Wilhelm Voigt, a German impostor who masqueraded as a Prussian military officer in...
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    agriculturist Hentzen and mineralogist and mining engineer Johann Karl Wilhelm Voigt. In 1817 mineralogist and mining engineer Karl Gustav Fiedler published...
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    in the military. He did portray German officers on-screen. Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt (1849–1922), German impostor who masqueraded as a Prussian officer in...
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  • Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (1997 film) (category Cultural depictions of Wilhelm Voigt)
    play of the same name, which tells the true story of Wilhelm Voigt. Harald Juhnke: Wilhelm Voigt Udo Samel: Bürgermeister Obermüller Elisabeth Trissenaar:...
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    Köpenick (The Captain of Köpenick), the true story of a Prussian cobbler, Wilhelm Voigt, who dressed up as an army officer and took over the town hall in Köpenick...
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    Köpenick by Carl Zuckmayer. The play was based on the true story of Wilhelm Voigt. Emil and the Detectives (Emil und die Detektive), 1931 – adventure...
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    confession after he was exposed by his political opponents. Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt – German impostor who masqueraded as a Prussian military officer in...
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    and landlady to estates in the area. In 1875, she married Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt, the son of a farmer, and moved with him to Dirwonuppen in Kreis Tilsit...
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    from 1926, as in Strindberg's A Dream Play filling five roles or as Wilhelm Voigt in the 1931 premiere of Carl Zuckmayer's The Captain of Köpenick. He...
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    German politician and technician Louis Kolitz (1845-1912), German artist Wilhelm Voigt (1849–1922), the inspiration for The Captain of Köpenick Margarete Poehlmann...
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    Emperor Wilhelm I of Germany, was beheaded here. Political activists like Karl Radek, Erich Mühsam and Musa Cälil were detained in Moabit. Wilhelm Voigt, the...
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  • The Captain from Köpenick (1926 film) (category Cultural depictions of Wilhelm Voigt)
    Fritz Kampers, and Gerhard Ritterband. It is based on the case of Wilhelm Voigt. The film's sets were designed by the art director Fritz Kraenke. Hermann...
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  • Captain of Köpenick by Carl Zuckmayer, itself based on the life story of Wilhelm Voigt, a small-time criminal who posed as a Hauptmann (Captain) in Berlin...
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    cross-eyed at a German! In the autumn of 1906, the actions of the imposter Wilhelm Voigt gained notoriety in the media, showing the issues of German militarism...
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    Niederröblingen Nienstedt Pölsfeld Sotterhausen Winkel Wolferstedt Johann Karl Wilhelm Voigt (1752–1821), mineralogist Adolph Schmidt (1815–1903), jurist Otto Piltz...
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  • the German media—who drew comparisons with the "Captain of Köpenick", Wilhelm Voigt—the film takes a far more critical approach, including themes like narcissism...
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    Johannes Voigt. Voigt belonged to the founders of modern research into the Italian Renaissance along with Jacob Burckhardt. In 1860, Voigt was called...
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  • about Wilhelm Voigt Hauptmann (surname), includes a list of notable people with this surname der Hauptmann von Köpenick, nickname of Wilhelm Voigt (1849–1922)...
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  • The Captain from Köpenick (1931 film) (category Cultural depictions of Wilhelm Voigt)
    true story that took place in Germany in 1906. A poor cobbler named Wilhelm Voigt purchased the second-hand uniform of a Prussian infantry captain. Wearing...
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  • The Captain from Köpenick (1945 film) (category Cultural depictions of Wilhelm Voigt)
    Zuckmayer and Albright Joseph. The play was based on the true story of Wilhelm Voigt, a German ex-convict who masqueraded as a Prussian military officer...
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  • Theatre Royal Bath, later revived at Hampstead Theatre in 2013. 2013: Wilhelm Voigt in The Captain of Köpenick at the Olivier Theatre, Royal National Theatre...
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