The Postcard
A postcard that was published by Judges Ltd. of Hastings.
The card was posted in Minehead using a 2d. stamp on Tuesday the 10th. June 1941. It was sent to:
Mrs. Parsons,
44, Clonmore Street,
Southfields,
London SW18.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Mon. 9.15 pm.
Dear Mum,
We arrived (very) late
Saturday.
We saw Nobby Fry this
morning, and have been
in the car all day.
The weather is quite nice
and the nights thank
goodness are perfectly
still and peaceful.
Love Fred & Lucie."
Minehead and the Air Raid
Minehead is a coastal town in Somerset. It lies on the south bank of the Bristol Channel, 21 miles (34 km) north-west of the county town of Taunton, 12 miles (19 km) from the boundary with the county of Devon, and in proximity to the Exmoor National Park.
The earliest known fossilised forest was discovered in the Hangman Sandstone Formation near to Minehead. The trees, identified as a species resembling modern palm trees, known as calamophyton, date back to the Devonian period, between 419 and 358 million years ago.
Fred and Lucie's reference to the nights being still and peaceful relates to Minehead being bombed two months earlier by KG 54, a Luftwaffe bomber wing on the night of the 7th./8th. April 1941.
Jürgen Prochnow
So what else happened on the day that Fred and Lucie posted the card?
Well, the 10th. June 1941 marked the birth in Berlin of Jürgen Prochnow.
Jürgen Prochnow is a German actor. His international breakthrough was his portrayal of the good-hearted and sympathetic U-boat Commander "Der Alte" ("Old Man") in the 1981 war film Das Boot.
He is also known for his roles in The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975), Dune (1984), Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), In the Mouth of Madness (1994), The English Patient (1996), Air Force One (1997), The Da Vinci Code (2006), and for playing Sergei Bazhaev on the eighth season of 24 (2010).
-- Jürgen Prochnow - the Early Years
Prochnow was born in what was then Nazi Germany. His father was an engineer. He was brought up in Düsseldorf.
Jürgen's parents encouraged him initially to study banking. However, their son had other ideas, and began working on the side as an extra and a gaffer at a theater in Düsseldorf.
He commenced acting studies at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen in 1963. Jürgen's graduation three years later was followed by his first theatrical engagement in Osnabrück.
-- Jürgen Prochnow's Career
Prochnow starred in the World War II drama Forbidden (1985), which earned a German Film Award nomination for Outstanding Feature Film. He also had a significant supporting role in The Seventh Sign (1988).
Prochnow portrayed Arnold Schwarzenegger in See Arnold Run, a 2005 film about the actor's political career in California.
Jürgen played Commander Paul Gerald in Wing Commander (1999), and was the main antagonist in the Broken Lizard film, Beerfest (2006).
Prochnow dubbed Sylvester Stallone's voice in the German version of Rocky (1976) and Rocky II (1979), as well as F.I.S.T and Paradise Alley (both 1978).
Jürgen later acted alongside Stallone in the 1995 movie Judge Dredd. After the retirement of Stallone's long-time voice actor Thomas Danneberg, Prochnow assumed this job in 2018 with Creed II. He usually also dubs his own roles in English-language productions.
Prochnow and his older brother, Dieter appeared in The Man Inside (1990), in which Jürgen played the leading role and Dieter a supporting role.
In 1996, Jürgen was a member of the jury at the 46th. Berlin International Film Festival.
-- Jürgen Prochnow's Personal Life
In the early 1980's, Prochnow was in a relationship with Austrian actress Antonia Reininghaus, who fatally poisoned their 7-year-old daughter, Johanna, in 1987.
In 1982, he married actor Jürgen Goslar's daughter, Isabel Goslar, with whom he has two children: a daughter, Mona, and a son, Roman. The couple divorced in 1997.
From 2004 until the divorce in 2014, he was married to Birgit Stein, a German actress and screenwriter. Stein died in August 2018 in a motorcycle accident in Kanab, Utah.
Since 2015, he has been married to actress Verena Wengler.
Prochnow used to divide his time between Los Angeles and Munich. He received U.S. citizenship in 2004. In 2017, he announced that he had sold his house in Brentwood, Los Angeles, and would be moving to Berlin.
