Quo Fuit places 8 dated presences for Douglas Sirk across 8 places, from 1897 to 1974.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Douglas Sirk (born Hans Detlef Sierck; 26 April 1897 – 14 January 1987) was a German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Douglas Sirk was documented, and when
26 April 1897exact date
Hamburgattested“Sirk was born Hans Detlef Sierck on 26 April 1897, in Hamburg, of Danish parentage.”source: Wikipedia: Douglas Sirk
1919year
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Münchenattested“In 1919, he enrolled to study law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, but he left Munich following the violent collapse of a short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic.”source: Wikipedia: Douglas Sirk
1919year
Munichattested“In 1919, he enrolled to study law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, but he left Munich following the violent collapse of a short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic.”source: Wikipedia: Douglas Sirk
30 March 1925exact date
Berlinattested“if you got in too late, you had just a small percentage left of what you had earned ..." With his first wife, the actress Lydia Brincken, Sirk fathered one son, Klaus Detlef Sierck (1925–1944), born on 30 March 1925 in Berlin-Charlottenb…”source: Wikipedia: Douglas Sirk
30 March 1925exact date
Berlin-Charlottenburgattested“if you got in too late, you had just a small percentage left of what you had earned ..." With his first wife, the actress Lydia Brincken, Sirk fathered one son, Klaus Detlef Sierck (1925–1944), born on 30 March 1925 in Berlin-Charlottenb…”source: Wikipedia: Douglas Sirk
22 May 1944exact date
Novoaleksandrovkaattested“He died as a soldier of the Panzer-Grenadier-Division Großdeutschland on 22 May 1944 near Novoaleksandrovka, Kirovograd Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR (now Novooleksandrivka, Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine).”source: Wikipedia: Douglas Sirk
April 1967month
Franceattested“As Jean-Luc Godard wrote in his review of A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958), "...I am going to write a madly enthusiastic review of Douglas Sirk's latest film, simply because it set my cheeks afire." The major critical reappraisal…”source: Wikipedia: Douglas Sirk
1974year
New Yorkattested“In 1974 the University of Connecticut Film Society programmed a complete retrospective of the director's American films, and invited Sirk to attend, but on the way to the airport, for the flight to New York, Sirk suffered a haemorrhage t…”source: Wikipedia: Douglas Sirk
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In each of these, a source puts Douglas Sirk and the place in the same dated sentence without stating
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1937year
German Empirementioned“Sirk left Germany in 1937 because of his political leanings and his Jewish (second) wife, actress Hilde Jary.”source: Wikipedia: Douglas Sirk
1959year
United Statesmentioned“Despite the enormous success of Imitation of Life in 1959 (partially fueled by the scandal surrounding the murder of Lana Turner's boyfriend by her daughter), Sirk left the United States and retired from filmmaking.”source: Wikipedia: Douglas Sirk
1971year
Hamburgmentioned“A major influence in this period was art historian Erwin Panofsky - Sirk was a select member of Panofsky's seminar group for a semester and wrote a large essay for him on the relationship between Medieval German painting and the mystery…”source: Wikipedia: Douglas Sirk
1971year
Deutsches Schauspielhausmentioned“A major influence in this period was art historian Erwin Panofsky - Sirk was a select member of Panofsky's seminar group for a semester and wrote a large essay for him on the relationship between Medieval German painting and the mystery…”source: Wikipedia: Douglas Sirk
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explicitly dated record, attested a sentence that states the person was there,
mentioned a sentence that ties the person to the place without stating presence.
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