Stinnes

• “After spending an hour with the actress impersonating Stinnes, when the audience sees and hears the real Stinnes speak before the camera, it comes as quite a shock.”

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• “Following the death of her father a German steel baron, Stinnes wanted to join her brothers in running the family business.”

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• “Stinnes left Frankfurt with two mechanics and a Swedish cameraman named Carl-Axel Söderström who had recently worked with Greta Garbo.”

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• “On May 25, 1927, German race car driver Clärenore Stinnes set out to drive around the world in an Adler Standard which, at that time, was a fairly typical car for Europeans.”

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• “The following video clip from 1931's Fraulein Stinnes fahrt um die Welt gives audiences some idea of the hurdles that Stinnes and her cameraman were forced to overcome:”

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• “Erica von Moeller's film stars Sandra Hüller as Stinnes and Bjarne Henriksen as the faithful cameraman who eventually became her husband.”

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• “While other young women were merrily dancing the Charleston, Stinnes was negotiating with Chinese diplomats, posing with American Indians, sharing medicine with nomads, and facing down murderous Mongolians.”

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• “Stinnes left Frankfurt with two mechanics and a Swedish cameraman named Carl-Axel Söderström who had recently worked with Greta Garbo.”

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• “Upon returning home to Germany in 1929, Stinnes produced a 1931 documentary about her travels entitled Im Auto durch zwei Welten which included the new technology of sound for moving pictures.”

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• “When asked how she got from China to South America, Stinnes calmly told reporters "We went to Japan and then turned left.”

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