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Brunhilde (given Name)
Brunhilde is a German feminine given name, derived from a combination of the Germanic word elements ''brun'', or ''armor'', and ''hild'', or ''battle''. The Valkyrie Brunhild is a heroine of Germanic heroic legend. Variants in regular use include the Albanian, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish ''Brunilda'' and ''Brunilde''; the Norwegian ''Brynhild''; and the Icelandic '' Brynhildur''. Brunhilde was in regular use for girls in Germany from the late 19th century through the 1960s, a time period when romantic German nationalism was in vogue and the names of idealized heroines such as Brunhild from Germanic heroic legend became more popular. Brünhild was also a character in Richard Wagner's four-part opera cycle ''Der Ring des Nibelungen'', which became popular world-wide in the late 1800s. Brunhilde * Brunhilde Baßler, German former pair skater * Brunhilde Hanke (1930–2024), German politician * Brunhilde Hendrix (1938–1995), West German track and field athlete and Olympi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brunhild
Brunhild, also known as Brunhilda or Brynhild ( , , or ), is a female character from Germanic heroic legend. She may have her origins in the Visigoths, Visigothic princess and queen Brunhilda of Austrasia. In the Norse tradition, Brunhild is a shieldmaiden or valkyrie, who appears as a main character in the and some Poetic Edda, Eddic poems treating the same events. In the continental Germanic tradition, where she is a central character in the , she is a powerful Amazon-like queen. In both traditions, she is instrumental in bringing about the death of the hero Sigurd, Sigurd or Siegfried after he deceives her into marrying the Burgundians, Burgundian king Gunther, Gunther or Gunnar. In both traditions, the immediate cause for her desire to have Siegfried murdered is a quarrel with the hero's wife, Gudrun, Gudrun or Kriemhild. In the Scandinavian tradition, but not in the continental tradition, Brunhild kills herself after Sigurd's death. Richard Wagner made Brunhild (as ) a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brunhilde Baßler
Brunhilde "Bruni" Baßler (Bassler), married surname: Skotnicky, is a former pair skater who represented West Germany. In 1970, she and her skating partner, Eberhard Rausch, won gold at the Kennedy Memorial Winter Games and West German Championships. The pair finished in the top ten at four ISU Championships — 1969 Worlds in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States; 1970 Europeans in Leningrad, Soviet Union; 1970 Worlds in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia; and 1971 Europeans in Zürich, Switzerland. Their partnership ended in 1971. Baßler also competed in roller skating. During her competitive career, she was a member of Mannheimer ERC e.V. After retiring from competition, she became a skating coach based in Oberstdorf Oberstdorf (Low Alemannic German, Low Alemannic: ''Oberschdorf'') is a Municipalities of Germany, municipality and skiing and hiking town in Germany, located in the Allgäu region of the Bavarian Alps. It is the southernmost settlement in German .... She married ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brunilde Ridgway
Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway (14 November 1929 – 19 October 2024) was an Italian-American archaeologist and specialist in ancient Greek sculpture. Life and career The daughter of Giuseppe Sismondo, a career army officer, and Maria (Lombardo) Sismondo, Ridgway was born in Chieti on 14 November 1929; as a young child she lived in Sicily and then in Ethiopia and Eritrea, where her father had been stationed during World War II. When her father was captured by the British in World War II and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp in Kenya, she secured a job as a telephone operator at police headquarters in Asmara (Eritrea) where she learned to speak English. After World War II, she studied classics at the University of Messina, where she obtained her degree in classics in 1953. An archaeology scholarship and Fulbright Travel Grant allowed her to continue her studies at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, where she came under the tutelage of Rhys Carpenter. At the end of her MA, she wrote h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brunilde Bianchi
Brunilde (or Brunhilde) Bianchi (born 22 December 1964 in Pavullo nel Frignano) is an Italian ice dancing coach, choreographer, and former competitor. With Valter Rizzo, she competed at two European Championships, placing 20th in 1984 (Budapest, Hungary) and 13th in 1985 (Gothenburg, Sweden). Bianchi began coaching in 1988 in Rome. Her students have included Federica Faiella / Massimo Scali, Alessia Aureli / Andrea Vaturi, Isabella Pajardi / Stefano Caruso, Sofia Sforza / Francesco Fioretti, and Sara Ghislandi / Giona Terzo Ortenzi. As of 2016, she is listed as a Level 3 coach by the Italian ice sports federation (FISG) and is based at S.S.D. S.r.l. Icelab in Bergamo. Bianchi and Valter Rizzo are the parents of Italian skater Matteo Rizzo Matteo Rizzo (born 5 September 1998) is an Italian figure skater. He is a three-time European Figure Skating Championships, European Championship medalist (silver in 2023 European Figure Skating Championships, 2023, bronze in 2019 Eur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brunilda Ruiz
Brunilda Ruiz ( – ) was a Puerto Rican ballet dancer, teacher, and choreographer. She toured internationally as a founding member of the Joffrey Ballet and Harkness Ballet companies. Biography Ruiz was born in Rincón, Puerto Rico, and raised in Spanish Harlem in New York City. She had four sisters and two brothers. Ruiz started dancing at age 12. She attended the High School for the Performing Arts later known as Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts, where Robert Joffrey taught her ballet. In 1956, Joffrey asked Ruiz to be one of the six original Joffrey Ballet members. Ruiz was the youngest of the group, which also included Gerald Arpino, Glen Tetley, Beatrice Tompkins, Dianne Consoer, and John W. Wilson (to whom Ruiz was married from 1956 to 1967 and had a daughter Mhari Theresa Wilson). With the Joffrey Ballet, Ruiz toured the country, with her daughter in tow, performing one-night-only shows and introducing ballet as an art form t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brunhilda Of Austrasia
Brunhilda ( 543 – 613) was queen consort of Austrasia, part of Francia, by marriage to the Merovingian king Sigebert I of Austrasia, and regent for her son, grandson and great-grandson. In her long and complicated career she ruled the eastern Frankish kingdoms of Austrasia and Burgundy for three periods as regent for her son Childebert II from 575 until 583; her grandsons Theudebert II and Theuderic II from 595 until 599; and her great-grandson Sigebert II in 613. The period was marked by tension between the royal house and the powerful nobles vying for power. Brunhilda was apparently an efficient ruler, but this and her forceful personality brought her into conflict with her nobles, the church, and the other Merovingians. Her history is marked by a bitter feud with the former slave Fredegund, mistress and later wife of Chilperic I of Neustria. Fredegund is said to have murdered or ordered the murder of Brunhilda's sister, Queen Galswintha (c. 568), to make herself queen. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brunhilde Sonntag
Brunhilde Sonntag (27 September 1936 – 18 December 2002) was a German composer, musicologist and music teacher. Biography Brunhilde Sonntag was born in Kassel, Germany. She studied organ at the School of Church Music in Schlüchtern and education at the Pedagogical Institute Jugenheim. From 1959 to 1963 she worked as a teacher at the Friedrich Ebert School in Frankfurt and took private composition lessons from Kurt Hessenberg. From 1963 to 1969 she studied composition at the Hochschule for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with and Gottfried von Einem, and took a teaching position in the Department of Music of the Justus Liebig University, Giessen. From 1973 to 1977 Sonntag studied musicology at the Philipps-University in Marburg, and graduated with a PhD. She took a position as assistant professor at the College of Education Westfalen-Lippe, Münster Department. From 1981 to 1992 she worked as a professor at the University-GH-Duisburg, and in 1992 took a position as profes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brunhilde Pomsel
Brunhilde Pomsel (11 January 1911 – 27 January 2017) was a personal secretary to Joseph Goebbels, the Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany. She started work at the ministry's offices in the Ordenspalais opposite the Reich Chancellery in Berlin in 1942. In 2014, aged 103, she gave a series of interviews for a film documentary entitled '' A German Life''. She told the interviewer, "It is absolutely not about clearing my conscience" and that "No one believes me now, but I knew nothing". The film was released in 2016 when she was 105 years old. Career Pomsel was born in Berlin on 11 January 1911 and had three siblings. Her first two employers were Jews: first, a Jewish-owned clothing store where she worked as an assistant, then Dr. Hugo Goldberg, a lawyer and insurance agent. "I obviously didn't tell him that on January 30, 1933, I cheered Hitler at the Brandenburg Gate... You can’t do something like that to a poor Jew." She claimed to have been "a stupid and political ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brunhilde Nauer
Brunhilde Ursula Margit Nauer (born 1959) is a German politician from the Alternative for Germany (AFD). She was elected to the Landtag of Thuringia in the 2024 Thuringian state election in Weimarer Land I – Saalfeld-Rudolstadt III. She is a horticultural engineer and administrative manager from Rudolstadt Rudolstadt is a town in the German federal state Thuringia, within the Thuringian Forest, to the southwest, and to Jena and Weimar to the north. The former capital of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, the town is built along the River Saale inside a wide .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Nauer, Brunhilde 1959 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Alternative for Germany politicians 21st-century German women politicians Members of the Landtag of Thuringia German horticulturists German women engineers People from Rudolstadt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brunhilde Irber
Brunhilde Irber née Klessinger (born 27 July 1948 in Pleinting, Vilshofen an der Donau) is a German politician ( SPD). Life and career After Mittlere Reife in 1964, Brunhilde Irber initially began an apprenticeship as a child carer and housekeeper, but then moved to the District Office in 1965. Vilshofen, where she trained as an administrative assistant. She worked in this profession at the Vilshofen district office until 1968, at the Osterhofen district hospital from 1968 to 1970 and at the town of Osterhofen from 1970 to 1992. From 1982 to 1991, she was head of the culture and tourism office. In 1992, she began training as a foreign language correspondent, which she completed in 1994. Brunhilde Irber is married and has one son. Party She has been a member of the SPD since 1971 and was chairwoman of the SPD district association Deggendorf from 1990 to 1993. From 1993 until 2009 she was chairwoman of the SPD sub-district Deggendorf/Freyung-Grafenau and since 2000 also of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brunhilde Hendrix
Brunhilde Hendrix (2 August 1938 in Langenzenn – 28 November 1995 in Sachsen bei Ansbach) was a West German athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2014-02-02. Hendrix competed for the in the held in , |
Brunhilde Hanke
Brunhilde Hanke (née Anweiler; 23 March 1930 – 13 October 2024) was a German politician who was mayor of Potsdam and a member of the State Council of East Germany. Early life Hanke was born in Erfurt into a working-class family. She completed an apprenticeship as a seamstress in 1947, during which she joined the Free German Trade Union Federation. She soon also became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and its youth organisation, the Free German Youth (FDJ). In 1951–52, she studied at the Komsomol academy in Moscow. She completed a diploma in social sciences at the in 1962. Political career Between 1952 and 1963, Hanke was part of the FDJ's central council. Hanke became mayor of Potsdam in 1961. Her tenure as mayor was marked by the construction of 37,000 apartment units, largely in the ''Plattenbau'' style. During her mayoralty she also came into conflict with SED leadership regarding the preservation and restoration of historic buildings. Hank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
