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Ahrens
Ahrens or Ahrends is a German surname, derived from a patronymic of ''Ahrend'' or '' Arent'', which is a variant form of the given name Arnold. Ahrens may refer to: * Adolf Ahrens (1897–1957), German politician * Alfred Emanuel Ahrens, Canadian politician * Angelika Ahrens (born 1972), Austrian journalist and presenter * Brigitte Ahrens (born 1945), German singer * Chris Ahrens (other), several people by this name * Dave Ahrens (born 1958), American football linebacker * Eduard Ahrens (1803–1863), Estonian linguist and clergyman * Edward H. Ahrens (1919–1942), Navy Cross recipient * Franz Heinrich Ludolf Ahrens (1809–1881), German philologist * Gaby Ahrens (born 1981), Namibian sport shooter * Heinrich Ahrens (1808–1874), German philosopher and jurist * Janette Ahrens (1925–2016), American figure skater * Joseph Ahrens (1904–1997), German composer and organist * Karl Ahrens (1924–2015), German politician * Kevin Ahrens (born 1989), American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynn Ahrens
Lynn Ahrens (born October 1, 1948) is an American writer and lyricist for the musical theatre, television and film. She has collaborated with Stephen Flaherty for many years. She won the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award for the Broadway musical ''Ragtime''. Together with Flaherty, she has written many musicals, including '' Lucky Stiff'', '' My Favorite Year'', ''Ragtime'', '' Seussical'', '' A Man of No Importance'', '' Dessa Rose'', '' The Glorious Ones'', ''Rocky'', '' Little Dancer'' and, recently on Broadway, ''Anastasia'' and '' Once on This Island''. She was also nominated for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards for the animated Twentieth Century Fox film ''Anastasia''. She wrote the teleplay of her 1994 musical adaption of ''A Christmas Carol'', with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Ahrens. She was a mainstay writer and performer for ABC-TV's ''Schoolhouse Rock!'' Ahrens also wrote lyrics for the title song for ''After the Storm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariella Ahrens
Mariella Ahrens (born 2 April 1969) is a German actress. Early life Ahrens was born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), Russian SFSR, USSR, as the daughter of Reinhard Ahrens, a German computer specialist, and wife Svetlana "Svetla" Ahrens, a Bulgarian ophthalmologist. She grew up to the age of three in Bulgaria and then moved in 1974 to Berlin-Friedrichshain, East Berlin, in East Germany. Education After a previous cancellation by the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts, she completed her education as an actress at Fritz-Kirchhoff-Schule in Berlin. Career Ahrens first appeared on stage at the Kleine Theater in "Palais Podewils" in Berlin. In addition to roles in television series such as ''Leipzig Homicide'', '' Sabine!'' and ''Im Namen des Gesetzes'', she also played in the ZDF production ' (2000) as well as ' (2001) and Rosamunde Pilcher films. In 2004 she was a participant in " Ich bin ein Star - Holt mich hier raus!. In 2015 she played Walpurga von Schwarzt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduard Ahrens
Eduard Ahrens (3 April 1803, Tallinn (Reval) – 19 February 1863, Kuusalu, Estonia) was a Baltic German Estonian language linguist and clergyman. Ahrens studied at Tallinn Cathedral School from 1811 to 1819, and, from 1820 to 1823, at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Tartu. After graduating from university, he could not hold a pastor's office because he was too young (the pastors were to be at least 25 years old), so in 1824 he went to Pikavere manor, where he worked for about 8 years. In 1831, Ahrens revised the pro ministerio exam at the Estonian Consistory. In 1832, he went to study in Germany and also visited France. On returning to Estonia, he again returned to home-schooling at Vana-Vigala (with the Sievers family). Ahrens held sermons in the Vigala church in Estonian. Ahrens was called in 1837 to be the teacher of the Laurentius congregation in Kuusalu. He was ordained a pastor on 12 September 1837. In March 1860, he was a part of the East Harju congreg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Ahrens
Dave Ahrens (born December 5, 1958) is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker for 10 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). The Cedar Falls, Iowa native played college football for the Wisconsin Badgers. Early life Ahrens played high school at Oregon High School in Oregon, Wisconsin, where he played fullback and linebacker and was named All-State by the Associated Press his senior year. Ahrens started out at the University of Wisconsin–Madison playing fullback but switched to linebacker and was captain and Team MVP of the 1980 Badgers team. Professional career St. Louis Cardinals Ahrens was selected by the St. Louis Cardinals in the sixth round (143rd overall) of the 1981 NFL draft. He recorded his only interception his rookie year, which was returned for a touchdown. Ahrens played in all the games and started ten his rookie season, but his playing time diminished and after four years he was traded to the Indianapolis Colts for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sieglinde Ahrens
Sieglinde Maria Ahrens (born 19 February 1936, in Berlin) is a German organist and composer. She is the daughter of (Johannes Clemens) Joseph Ahrens (1904–1997), a German composer and organist. Ahrens studied music and composition under her father. After she completed her studies, she was an organist of Salvator-Kirche and professor of organ at Essen. She is author of a book on Messiaen Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (, ; ; 10 December 1908 – 27 April 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithology, ornithologist. One of the major composers of the 20th-century classical music, 20th century, he was also an ou ... organ music ''Das Orgelwerk Messiaens'', Gilles u. Francke (1968), ASIN: B0007JD6XM. Works Selected works include: *''DREI GESÄNGE NACH LATEINISCHEN PSALMTEXTEN'' (1963) Bass solo, Organ *''FANTASIE'' (1958) Organ *''SONATE'' (1957) Violin, Organ *''SUITE'' (1959) Organ Aherns' work has been issued on CD including: *''Das Heilige Jahr - Orgel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Ahrens Jr
Kurt Karl-Heinrich Ahrens, also known as Kurt Ahrens Jr., (born 19 April 1940 in Braunschweig, Germany) is a former sports car racing and touring car racing driver who occasionally appeared in German Grand Prix races, mostly in Formula 2 cars. His father, Kurt Ahrens Sr., was a German speedway champion who competed against his son for five years. Kurt Ahrens Jr. started in 1958 with a Cooper-Norton Formula 3 and won the German Formula Junior title in 1961 and 1963, when his father retired. He then raced Formula 2 and was present when Jim Clark was killed at the Hockenheimring in 1968. Due to the long Nürburgring track, it was possible to take part in the German Grand Prix in Formula 2 cars. He participated mostly with Brabhams for the Caltex Racing team, and was invited to drive the Brabham-Repco F1 in the wet 1968 German Grand Prix. In 1968, Ahrens Jr. joined the Porsche factory sports car team and shared victory with Jo Siffert in the 1969 Austrian 1000 km event. He co- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marlene Ahrens
Marlene Ahrens Ostertag-Ebensperger (July 27, 1933 – June 17, 2020) was a Chilean athlete. She won the silver medal in Javelin throw at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne with a distance of 50.38 metres. She was the mother of journalist Karin Ebensperger. Biography Ahrens was born in Concepción, Chile, the daughter of German immigrants. In Melbourne, she was the Chilean flag bearer, and the only woman on the Olympic team. She participated in the Javelin throw, winning the silver medal with a distance of 50.38 metres. In doing so, she became the first Chilean woman to win an Olympic medal. She won gold in both 1959 Pan American Games, held in Chicago, and 1963 Pan American Games held in São Paulo. Also, she again was the flag bearer in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, although she did not win a medal. Ahrens was forced to retire after having a dispute with the Chilean newspaper Clarín, and she was banned from competing in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janette Ahrens
Janette Louise Buckbee ( Ahrens, December 10, 1925 – April 24, 2016), also known as Deedee Ahrens, was an American Figure skating, figure skater. Life and career Ahrens was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota on December 10, 1925. She attended the University of Minnesota during the 1940s. Ahrens competed as both a single and pair skating, pair skater, first with partner Robert Uppgren and later with Arthur Preusch. She also competed in fours with Uppgren, Mary Louise Premer, and Lyman Wakefield Jr. and won the 1941 North American Figure Skating Championships, North American title. They were called the "St. Louis Four" and were the first team in history that defeated Canada. After becoming a professional skater, she taught skating. Ahrens married Norman Simmons DeCoster in 1947; they divorced and she married Allen Buckbee in December 1985. During the 1970s, Ahrens lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota, but later resided in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, White Bear Lake. She died in Mahtomedi, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Ahrens
Robert Ahrens (born 1970) is a film and theatrical producer based in New York City. Early life and education Ahrens grew up in Long Island, New York. He graduated from Cornell University, where he was a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. He began his career at the Chase Manhattan Bank. Career Ahrens is best known as a producer of the Broadway musical '' Xanadu'', which was nominated for Best Musical at the 2008 Tony Awards. Ahrens began acquiring the stage rights to the ''Xanadu'' musical in 2002 after seeing an unauthorized 2001 stage production of the film. Working as an assistant to an executive at Paramount Pictures at the time, he pursued the rights to ''Xanadu'' and its soundtrack by the Electric Light Orchestra and swiftly began courting writer Douglas Carter Beane to write the book. He produced three films, ''Bumping Heads'', '' Book of Love'', and '' WTC View''. He also produced '' Evita'' on Broadway and executive produced '' Finding Neverland'' for Harv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Heinrich Ludolf Ahrens
Franz Heinrich Ludolf Ahrens (6 June 1809, Helmstedt – 25 September 1881, Hanover) was a German philologist. He was born in Helmstedt. After studying at the University of Göttingen (1826-1829) under Karl Otfried Müller and Georg Ludolf Dissen, he worked as schoolteacher at the Pädagogium in Ilfeld (from 1831). In 1845 he was appointed director of the gymnasium in Lingen, and in 1849 succeeded GF Grotefend as director of the Lyceum at Hanover, a post which he filled with great success for thirty years.ADB:Ahrens, Heinrich (Philologe) @ His most important work was "''De Graecae Linguae Dialectis''" (1839-1843), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Ahrens
Joseph Johannes Clemens Ahrens (April 17, 1904 in Sommersell – December 21, 1997 in Berlin) was a German composer and organist. Ahrens received early training in organ and choral music with Wilhelm Schnippering in Büren and Fritz Volbach in Munich. He read choral studies at Gerleve Abbey and Beuron Abbey. From 1925-1928 he studied at the State Academy for Church and School Music (now called the Royal Music Institute of Berlin) under Alfred Sittard, Max Seiffert, and Wilhelm Middelschulte. In 1928 he began teaching organ playing and improvisation at the same academy. Between 1931 and 1940 Ahrens was the organist for the Berliner Philharmoniker, simultaneously serving as the organist for the Cathedral of St. Hedwig after 1934. From 1945 to 1957 he was organist at the Salvator-Kirche in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. He accepted a professorship in church music at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik in 1945 and remained there until 1969, serving as deputy director and professor of keyboard i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthias Ahrens
Matthias Ahrens (born 26 May 1961) is a former Germans, German biathlon, biathlete, cross-country skiing (sport), cross-country skier and current coach. Career Matthias Ahrens competed as a cross-country skier and biathlete between 1978 and 1984. After his active career as an athlete he became a cross-Country ski and biathlon coach. He is a chartered professional coach certified at NCCP level 5. He is also an internationally certified IFMGA mountain guide and International Ski Instructors Association, ISIA level 4 certified ski instructor. In 2004, he became a member of Biathlon Canada's coaching staff at the Canmore Nordic Centre Provincial Park, National Training Centre in Canmore, Alberta. Achievements In 2005 and 2022, Ahrens was named as Biathlon Canada Coach of the Year. In 2012 he was appointed as head coach of the Canadian national biathlon team. In this role he coached two athletes to Biathlon World Cup, World Cup race wins: Jean-Philippe Leguellec in 2012 and Nath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
