Bruno ludke biography

Bruno Lüdke was a German serial killer who may have murdered more than 80 people.
Bruno Lüdke was a German alleged serial killer.
Branded by the Nazi regime as the most prolific serial killer of all time, Lüdke, a simple-minded man with a speech impediment, confessed to over 50 murders, a.

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Erwin Deutsch, the Eppinger Clinic and the legacy of the Second Vienna School of Medicine—Continuities of a career

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Erwin Deutsch (1917–1992) was an outstanding representative of Austrian internal medicine after World War II. Little is known about his early biography. Considered a “Jewish half-breed” under Nazi racial laws, he was subjected to harassment during his training. Nevertheless, he can be regarded as scientific heir of Hans Eppinger (1879–1946), who enjoyed a worldwide reputation as internist despite his controversial involvement in medical experiments in the Dachau concentration camp.

Already declining after World War I, the Viennese Medical Faculty largely lost its international scientific importance with the expulsion of over half its faculty members from 1938, the end of the Second Vienna School of Medicine. Erwin Deutsch significantly contributed to continuity by vehemently calling for the unity of internal medicine after 1945, as it had been practiced in Vienna since the nineteenth century. Discrimination as a “Jewish half-breed” played a paradoxical ro

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Mario Adorf, a tell-tale name indeed. Mario calls to mind the actor's Italian roots (his father was a Calabrian surgeon) whereas Adorf reveals his German origins (his mother was a radiologist from the German region Eifel). As for the full name Mario Adorf it echoes to perfection the international character of this living legend's long career. Born in 1930, Mario Adorf was still studying drama at the famous Otto Falkenberg School in Munich when he landed his first role in the first installment of the "O8/15" series in 1954. It was a small part but it didn't go unnoticed and got him new roles in German films, the most remarkable of which being that of Bruno Lüdke, the mentally retarded serial killer in Robert Siodmak's 1957 masterpiece "Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam". It earned him his first prize (the German Film Award of the outstanding young actor of 1958). After this Mario Adorf's career turned international. His Mediterranean looks, his rugged face, his dark oily frizzy hair and his volubility made him an ideal villain in European-made we

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The Face of Evil

by David Tosco
First Run/Icarus Films, Brooklyn, NY, 2006
VHS/DVD, 52 mins., b/w, col.
Sales, $390 (DVD); rental, $100 (VHS)
Distributor’s website: http:// www.frif.com.

Reviewed by Fred Andersson
Sweden

konstfred@yahoo.com

Hopefully, Cécar Lambroso’s old theory of the “born” criminal with an innate disposition for evil is thrown once and for all on the trash-heap of history. But one should remember that it was not long ago that criminology and “racial biology” shared a common interest in the classification of human physiognomies. In this documentary, David Tosco takes as his point of departure the case of the German Bruno Lüdke. This young and supposedly slightly retarded man, poor and unable to defend himself, was accused of more than 50 murders and executed without a proper trial. This was in wartime Nazi Germany, but even after the war, the myth of the “monster” Lüdke continued to grow. The allegedly “true story” of his life and crimes was turned into a movie that became a great success. The movie was called Nachts, wenn der Teufel k