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Britta
Britta (also spelled Brita) is a female given name that is a variant of the Swedish name Birgitta, which is a form of the Irish Gaelic name ''Brighid'' ( Bridget in English). The name Britta became popular in Scandinavia and Germany because of St. Bridget of Sweden. People named Britta * Britta Andersen (born 1979), Danish badminton player * Britta Böhler, German-born Dutch politician * Britta Curl (born 2000), American ice hockey player * Britta Ernst (born 1961), German politician * Brita Granström, Swedish painter and illustrator * Britta Gröndahl, Swedish writer, translator, and anarchist * Brita Hagberg, Swedish soldier * Britta Heidemann, German épée fencer * Britta Holmberg, Swedish actress * Brita Horn, Swedish letter writer and courtier * Brita Laurelia (1712–1784) was a Swedish publicist, book printer, and poet * Britta Lejon, Swedish politician * Brita Catharina Lidbeck, Swedish singer * Britta Martin, German-born New Zealand triathlete * Britta Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Britta Martin
Britta Martin (born 2 September 1978 in Hannover, Germany) is a German born, New Zealand based professional triathlete and multiple winner of Ironman distance races all over the world (2012, 2014). Career Britta Martin studied sports science at the Technical University Munich. In the beginning she has been a cyclist. In her first triathlon season 2003 she won her first two competitions in the Munich region together with Faris Al-Sultan, winner of the Ironman World Championships two years later, as the fastest man on the podium. At the German half-iron Championships 2003 in Kulmbach, Bavaria, she finished seventh in the individual standings 36 min behind the winning Nina Kraft, who reached third at the Ironman World Championships two months later. Together with her team of her Munich triathlon club ''MRRC'' she became honored as runner-up. After two years of injury without competitions Britta Martin competed together with her team from ''MRRC Munich'' in the 2006 season of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Britta Phillips
Britta Phillips (born June 11, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, and actress. Phillips' music career spans more than 30 years. She came to prominence in the mid-1980s as the singing voice of the title character of the animated television series '' Jem''. With her husband, Dean Wareham, she has also been a member of the bands Luna and is one half of the duo Dean & Britta; she has also had a solo career, which has included one studio album, ''Luck or Magic'' (2016). Phillips has also been a film, television, and voice actress, including a co-starring role in the 1988 music comedy-drama film '' Satisfaction'' and multiple voice acting roles on the Adult Swim animated television series '' Moral Orel'' and '' Mary Shelley's Frankenhole''. Early life Britta Phillips was born in Boyne City, Michigan, but grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Her father, Peter, was a musician, songwriter, jingle composer, and a former music teacher of Paul Simon; he a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Britta Johansson Norgren
Britta Johanna Helena Johansson Norgren (; born 30 March 1983) is a Swedish former cross-country skier who has competed between 2002 and 2022, first in World Cup events, then in marathon events. She won a bronze medal in the 4 × 5 km at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec. Her best individual finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships is 26th in the individual sprint at Sapporo in 2007. Career Britta Norgren was born and raised in Bälinge, Uppsala Municipality and moved to Sollefteå to attend the skiing . Johansson Norgren's best individual finish at the Winter Olympics was 11th in the 10 km event at Turin in 2006. She has a total of eight individual victories at various levels up to 30 km since 2002. Johansson Norgren's best individual World Cup finish was eighth in the sprint event in Germany in 2006. After the 2013–14 season, Johansson Norgren switched to marathon cross-county skiing. On 31 January 2016 she won the women's edi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Britta Soll
Britta Soll (until 2013, Britta Vahur; born 14 July 1984) is an Estonian stage, film, and television actress and former fashion model. Early life and education Britta Vahur was born in Tallinn, where she attended schools. Her mother works in a bank and her father is a trolley driver. She has an older half-brother, Marius. She graduated from secondary school at the Jakob Westholm Gymnasium in 2002. Afterward, she enrolled in the EMA Higher Drama School (now, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre) in Tallinn, graduating in 2006. Among her graduating classmates were Inga Salurand, Risto Kübar, Mari-Liis Lill, Laura Peterson, Ursula Ratasepp, Lauri Lagle, and Sergo Vares. Career Stage In 2006, Vahur began an engagement at the Estonian Drama Theatre in Tallinn, where she still currently performs. During her career at the Linnateater, she has appeared in roles in productions of such varied authors and playwrights as: Shakespeare, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Selma Lagerlöf, Brian Fri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Britta Persson
Britta Persson (born 1981) is a Swedish indie pop singer-songwriter. Biography Persson was born 1981 in Vattholma, Uppsala Municipality. She went to school at Uppsala musikklasser in Uppsala, having Veronica Maggio Veronica Sandra Karin Maggio (born 15 March 1981) is a Swedish singer and songwriter. Born to an Italian father and a Swedish mother, Maggio was raised in Uppsala. After studying music and being the lead member of a band, Maggio released her de ... in her parallel class and played grunge in the late 1990s. Her musical career began when she sent a demo to Kristofer Åström, and he invited her on his 2005 tour for the album ''Loupita.'' She was then able to sell 2,000 home-burned demo CDs online.' She had her breakthrough in 2006 with the album ''Top Quality Bones and a Little Terrorist''. Additionally, Persson was the composer in the TV series ''Dejta''. The single "Winter Tour" got high rotation on radio in Scandinavia and a couple of years later also receiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Britta Curl
Britta Curl-Salemme (; born March 20, 2000) is an American professional ice hockey player for the Minnesota Frost of the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL) and a member of the United States women's national ice hockey team. She played college ice hockey at Wisconsin where she won three national championships. Playing career College Curl began her collegiate career for the Wisconsin Badgers during the 2018–19 season. She recorded her first career goal on October 5, 2018, in a game against Mercyhurst. She was named the WCHA Rookie of the Week for the week ending October 30, 2018, after she recorded a goal and an assist to tie for the WCHA rookie scoring lead during the weekend. On February 9, 2019, she tied her career-high with three points in a game against Minnesota State. She was subsequently named WCHA Player of the Week for the week ending February 12, 2019. During a weekend series against St. Cloud State, she recorded two multi-goal games. Her four goals tied for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Britta Gröndahl
Britta Gröndahl (; 1914–2002) was a Swedish writer, journalist, translator, and anarcho-syndicalist activist. Biography Britta Maartman was born on 8 March 1914, in Eskilstuna. She was the daughter of Hans Maartman, a right-wing councillor for the Eskilstuna Municipality, and Dagmar Tideman. Despite their social status, the family found it difficult to sustain a middle class lifestyle, which made Britta familiar with class stratification from an early age. She graduated from secondary school in 1931, and soon after she met and married the musician Gustav Gröndahl. They moved to Stockholm, where Britta began learning languages at the university; despite being inclined towards political science, the subject was considered inappropriate for women at that time. During the 1940s, she gave birth to three daughters (Birgitta, Ulla and Anna) and lived the life of a housewife, while also working a job and continuing her linguistics studies. She also published a series of Swedish t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Britta Heidemann
Britta Heidemann (born 22 December 1982) is a German épée fencer. In 2016, Heidemann became a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Career Épée Fencing At the age of 14, already being a successful athlete and swimmer, Britta Heidemann had her first contact with fencing in a variation of modern pentathlon called Friesenkampf. After first switching to modern pentathlon, at the end of 2000, she began to specialize in fencing. In 2001, she became épée junior world vice-champion and junior European champion. In 2002, she reached third place in the World Fencing Championships, in 2003 second with the team. In 2004, she won third place with the team in the Fencing World Cup. During the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, she won the silver medal in the team with Claudia Bokel and Imke Duplitzer. In 2007, she became world champion in singles in Saint Petersburg and at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, she won the gold medal in the individual competitions. A yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Britta Seeger
Britta Seeger (born 25 September 1969) is a German business executive. She is currently the second female member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG alongside Renata Jungo Brüngger and, after her predecessor Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt, the third woman in the history of Daimler AG to be appointed to the Board of Management. Early life and education Seeger was born in Bonn, West Germany. After attending the Friedrich-Schiller-Gymnasium in Fellbach, Seeger graduated with a BA in business administration from the University of Cooperative Education in Stuttgart. Career Seeger began working at Mercedes in 1989, working in retail and marketing before being named head of the eBusiness Unit in 2000. After several positions at the corporate headquarters, Seeger switched to the commercial vehicle division in 2013, where she was initially responsible for the South Korean and then for the Turkish market. In South Korea, she was the first woman to hold a management position at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Britta Steffen
Britta Steffen (; born 16 November 1983) is a German former competitive swimming (sport), swimmer who specialized in freestyle swimming, freestyle sprint events, winning 2 gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics, 2008 Beijing Olympics. Biography In 1999, Steffen won six titles at the European Junior Swimming Championships, European Junior Championships, and won a medal as a member of Germany's relay team in the Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay, 4 × 200 metre freestyle at the 2000 Summer Olympics. In 2004, she asked to swim the 4×100 m relay. But after the Olympics, she took one year off swimming and concentrated on her studies, which were not finished. At the 2006 European Aquatics Championships, 2006 European Championships in Budapest, Steffen clocked 53.30 in the women's 100 m freestyle event, breaking the List of world records in swimming, world record and upstaging the previous record of 53.42 set by Libby Lenton of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Britta Ernst
Britta Ernst (born 23 February 1961) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who served as the State Minister for Education and Youth of Brandenburg from 2017 to 2023. She was a member of the Hamburg Parliament from 1997 to 2011, served as School Minister of Schleswig-Holstein from 2014 to 2017, and as president of the Kultusministerkonferenz in 2021. She is the wife of the former chancellor of Germany, Olaf Scholz. Early life Ernst was born in Hamburg. After her Abitur in 1980, she completed an apprenticeship in real estate. Afterwards, Ernst studied general economics, graduating in 1990, and social economics, graduating in 1992. Ernst is a member of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and of the ver.di union. In 1998, Ernst married fellow politician Olaf Scholz, who was elected Chancellor of Germany in 2021. The couple lives in Potsdam. Political career Ernst has been an active member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) since 1978. Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Britta Böhler
Britta Böhler (born 17 July 1960) is a Dutch lawyer in international law and human rights, and a former member of the Dutch Senate for the GreenLeft Party. She was born in West Germany and became a Dutch citizen to run for political office.profile Böhler on novatv.nl Early life, education and academia Böhler was born in , . Her father was the financial director of a publishing house and her mother, a civil servant. Both her parents were members of the |