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Carola
Carola is a female given name, the Latinized form of the Germanic given names Caroline or Carol. People named Carola include: Acting * Carola Braunbock (1924–1978), Czech-born East German actress * Carola Höhn (1910–2005), German actress *Carola Lotti (1910–1990), Italian actress * Carola Neher (Karola Neher), German actress * Carola Reyna, Argentine actress and director * Carola Toelle (1893–1958), German actress Music * Carola Grindea (1914–2009), Romanian pianist and piano teacher * Carola Häggkvist, also known as just Carola, Swedish singer, winner of the 1991 Eurovision Song Contest * Carola Smit, Dutch singer * Carola Standertskjöld, Finnish jazz and pop singer Politics * Carola Reimann (born 1967), German politician * Carola Schouten, Dutch politician Others * Carola Dunn, British-American writer * Carola Pavlik, Dutch contemporary artist * Carola Rackete, German ship captain and sea rescuer * Carola Roloff, German Buddhist nun * Carola Unterb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carola Häggkvist
Carola Maria Häggkvist (; born 8 September 1966), commonly known simply as Carola, is a Swedish singer and songwriter. She has been among Sweden's most popular performers since the early 1980s and has released albums ranging from pop and disco to hymns and folk music.Eurovision.tvCarola will represent Sweden again Retrieved on 29 February 2008. Her debut album, '' Främling'' (1983), sold around one million copies and remains the biggest-selling album in Swedish music history.Carola InternationaHistory – Biography Retrieved on 29 February 2008. During her career, she has recorded many top-selling albums and singles and is referred to as Sweden's most prominent female singer. Some of her biggest hits are " Främling", "Tommy tycker om mig", " Fångad av en stormvind", "All the Reasons to Live", "I Believe in Love", "Genom allt", and " Evighet". Besides Swedish, she has also released records in Dutch, German, English, Norwegian and Japanese. Häggkvist has represented Sweden a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carola Standertskjöld
Carola Christina Standertskjöld-Liemola (23 March 1941 – 12 November 1997), professionally known as Carola, was a Finnish jazz and pop singer. Her style was partially inspired by American singers of the 1950s. Simultaneously, it was in the spirit of the modal jazz scene going down in Europe in the 1960s. Mostly, Carola's jazz repertoire consisted in idiosyncratic versions of American songs in English, while her most famous jazz track "The Flame" was an original composition by Esa Pethman and the lyrics by the singer herself. As the vocalist for Esa Pethman's quartet and Hazy Osterwald's sextet in the early 1960s, Carola made fame in Finland and Sweden, and toured Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Switzerland. Her most significant recording is a session with the Heikki Sarmanto Trio from 1966, which the Finnish Music Information Centre considers among the original blueprints of Finnish jazz. Carola's recordings have been credited for the accosting tone of her contralto voice and her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carola Rackete
Carola Rackete (; born 8 May 1988) is a German conservation ecologist, activist, politician and former ship captain. She was elected to the European Parliament as an independent candidate for the Left Party on June 9, 2024. Rackete participated in several research expeditions to Antarctica and the Southern Ocean and is co-founder of the Antarctic Rights initiative. She also supported the Extinction Rebellion movement and took part in forest protests in Sweden, as well as the occupations of the Hambach Forest and the Dannenrod Forest in Germany. Between 2016 and 2019, she occasionally volunteered for non-governmental sea rescue organisations in the Mediterranean. In June 2019, she was arrested for docking a migrant rescue vessel without authorization in the port of Lampedusa, Italy. The custodial judge considered Rackete’s actions as justified because she had a duty to save lives at sea and ruled that Rackete should not have been arrested. In 2021, the pending investigati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carola Neher
Carola Neher (born Karoline Neher; 2 November 1900 – 26 June 1942) was a German actress and singer. Biography Neher was born in Munich in 1900. She worked as a bank clerk at the Munich branch of the Deutsche Bank from 11 June 1917 to 15 October 1919. In the summer of 1920, she made her debut performance at the Baden-Baden theater without a specific stage education, later also working at the theaters of Darmstadt, Nuremberg and at the Munich Kammerspiele. In 1920 and 1921, she worked with Therese Giehse and Peter Lorre. In 1924, Neher started to work at the ''Lobe-Theater'' Breslau. On 7 May 1925 she married Alfred Henschke (the poet Klabund), who had followed her from Munich to Breslau, at that time already a well known and successful poet. The first performance of his Circle of Chalk ("Der Kreidekreis") turned into her first great success.' She enjoyed success as Marianne in Ödön von Horváth's '' Tales from the Vienna Woods'', and embodied and immortalized Polly in G. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carola Grindea
Carola Grindea ( Rabinovici) (29 January 1914 – 10 July 2009) was a Romanian-born British pianist and piano teacher who established the European Piano Teachers Association (EPTA) and the International Society for Study of Tension in Performance (ISSTP). She taught at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle and later the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and developed the Grindea Technique to encourage a balance though not relaxed body posture to eliminate muscular tension and better the performer's technique. Early life Carola Rabinovici was born in the Romanian city of Piatra Neamț in the province of Western Moldavia on 29 January 1914. She was of Jewish descent, and had one sister, Anna (1908–1984). Grindea was educated under the tutelage of Constanța Erbiceanu at the National University of Music Bucharest. She earned a diploma in piano and won first prize for her achievements. There, she attracted the attention of Miron Grindea, the literary journalist. The two became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carola Schouten
Cornelia Johanna "Carola" Schouten (; born 6 October 1977) is a Dutch politician of the Christian Union (CU). She was Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality and Third Deputy Prime Minister in the third Rutte cabinet from 2017 to 2022. She continued to serve as Third Deputy Prime Minister in the fourth Rutte cabinet alongside her position as Minister for Poverty Policy, Participation and Pensions until July 2024. On 10 October 2024, Schouten became the mayor of Rotterdam succeeding Ahmed Aboutaleb. Early life and education A native of 's-Hertogenbosch, Schouten grew up in Waardhuizen, managing her deceased father's dairy farm with her mother and her two sisters for four years, after which time the family ended the farming activities and moved to neighbouring village of Giessen (Waardhuizen and Giessen are nowadays located in the new municipality of Altena). She attended Altena College in Sleeuwijk and studied business administration at Erasmus University Rotter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carola Roloff
Carola Roloff (born 1959 in Holzminden, Germany) is a Tibetologist, scholar of Buddhism, and Buddhist nun. Since 2025, she is a Senior Research Fellow in Pluralistic Dialogical Religious Education at the University of Hamburg. Under her monastic name Bhiksuni Jampa Tsedroen, she continues to campaign for gender equity and equal rights for Buddhist nuns. Early and religious life Born in Holzminden, Germany to a Protestant family, Roloff was active in her local Christian youth group. Doubting the source of suffering, Roloff recalls that she "couldn't get any satisfactory answers from Christian ministers." As a result, she turned to Buddhist philosophy and began her Buddhist studies and life in 1980, aged 21. She travelled to Dharamshala, India in order to study Vajrayana Buddhism and the Tibetan language, before becoming a novice at the age of 22—one of the first Tibetan Buddhist nuns in Germany. Her ordination as a novice was performed by Geshe Thubten Ngawang on 22 September ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carola Pavlik
Carola Pavlik (born 1978) is a Dutch people, Dutch contemporary artist. Biography As an artist and creator of Czech descent Carola became interested in the art of human behaviour and beauty as a child. Pavlik was born in The Hague. She started her career as an artist by creating female figures from Aluminium, aluminum, paper, and acrylic. These collections, where the focus has been on the female body, were exhibited in the So ART GALLERY in Amsterdam and at a private collector exhibition in Antwerp. With her mirror art, Carola Pavlik tells the story of how art can be used to inspire change. One of her main subjects is creating self-awareness, her artwork seems to be transformed by light. One of her pieces is the sculpture “Shine”, a feminine body covered with 57,000 Swarovski crystals. “Shine” holds a special crystal key to her precious body. She represents all women in complete acceptance and thankful for the beautiful body they were given. Each crystal, every woman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carola Smit
Carola Sier-Smit (born 1 September 1963) is a Dutch singer and was a member of Dutch pop band BZN from 1984 until 2007 when the band disbanded. Biography Musical career Smit was born Volendam, and began her musical career in 1980 (at age 17), when she joined the band ''Double Trouble''. When she was with that band, she released her first single ''Never Loved This Way Before''. In 1982, she released her second single ''Tell Me''. In 1983 the band was renamed ''Friends''. At the same time, she was asked to join BZN to replace previous member Anny Schilder. This change was, however, kept secret. They recorded the song ''If I say the words'' and the album ''Reflections'' in secret, but the news of Schilder leaving BZN was leaked, and Schilder appeared on TV explaining her reasons for leaving the band. On 22 March 1984 BZN appeared for the first time on TV with Carola Smit in a TV special where Schilder presented Smit to the audience as her successor. The first performance of Smit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carola Reyna
Carola Reyna (born 15 April 1962) is an Argentine actress and director from Buenos Aires. She has won the ACE Award and the Martin Fierro Awards five times. Biography Daughter of TV Producer Eduardo Reyna, she grew up in Argentina, Spain and Venezuela. She studied theatre with Carlos Moreno, Augusto Fernandes, Juan Carlos Gené and Carlos Gandolfo during 1983 to 1986. Made her debut in the 1980s with Noël Coward's ''Hay Fever'' directed by China Zorrilla and Anton Chekhov's ''The Seagull'' at the Teatro San Martín. She is married to actor Boy Olmi since 1994. Filmography Television * '' Tal como somos'' (1984) * '' Extraños y Amantes'' (1985) as Ana María * '' Pasión'' (1990) * '' El Oro y el Barro'' (1992) * '' Algunas Mujeres'' (1992) * '' Apasionada'' (1993) as Claudia * '' Nueve Lunas'' (1995) * '' Señoras y Señores'' (1997) as Lucía * '' Ricos y Famosos'' (1997) * '' Gasoleros'' (1998) * '' Casa Natal'' (1998) * '' Tiempofinal'' (2000) as Clara * '' El Sol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carola Dunn
Carola Dunn (born 14 November 1946) is a British writer of regency romances and detective fiction. Life Dunn attended Friends' School, Saffron Walden, and graduated from the University of Manchester. authorities file. After university, she relocated to the United States and married an American. She has lived in since 1992. She started writing at 33. Books Of Dunn’s 59 books (as of 2018), 32 are regency novels and 27 mysteries (of which in turn, 23 are part of the Daisy ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carola Reimann
Carola Reimann (born 25 August 1967) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as State Minister for Social Affairs, Health, and Equality in the cabinet of Minister-President Stephan Weil of Lower Saxony from 2017 to 2021. She previously represented Braunschweig in the Bundestag from 2002 until 2017. Early life and education Reimann has a doctorate in biotechnology from Technical University of Braunschweig. Political career Career in national politics In parliament, Reimann was a member of the Committee on Health (2000–2013) and the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (2000–2002). She served as her parliamentary group's spokesperson on health policy from 2005 until 2009. From 2008 until 2017, Reimann was part of the leadership team of the SPD in Lower Saxony, under successive chairs Garrelt Duin (2007–2010), Olaf Lies (2010–2012) and Stephan Weil (2012–2017). Ahead of the 2009 elections, German foreign m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
