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Dagobert Neuffer
Dagobert Neuffer (originally ''Neumann''; 17 May 1851 – 12 November 1939) was a German stage actor and theatre director of Hungarian origin. He held the title of "Grand Ducal Court Actor". Life Neuffer was born in Púchov, a village near Zrenjanin, Großbetschkerek in the Banat as the eldest son of the Jewish Hazzan and teacher Armin Neumann and his wife Rosalie, ''née'' Mittler. At the age of 17, he left his parents' house for Vienna. He attended the Kirschner's Theatre Academy there and was trained by Alexander Strakosch. In 1871, he made his debut in Regensburg, Bavaria. Further stations led him via Bratislava and Graz to the Thalia Theater (Hamburg), Thalia Theatre in Hamburg and the Schauspielhaus Berlin as well as to Stuttgart. At the Cuvilliés Theatre in Munich, he once had a performance before Ludwig II of Bavaria, Ludwig II., King of Bavaria. In 1882, he came to Bohemian Prague, where he shone in the leading role of "Schiller" in the ''Karlsschüler'' by Heinrich Lau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatre Director
A theatre director or stage director is a professional in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a theatre production such as a play, opera, dance, drama, musical theatre performance, etc. by unifying various endeavors and aspects of production. The director's function is to ensure the quality and completeness of theatre production and to lead the members of the creative team into realizing their artistic vision for it. The director thereby collaborates with a team of creative individuals and other staff to coordinate research and work on all the aspects of the production which includes the Technical and the Performance aspects. The technical aspects include: stagecraft, costume design, theatrical properties (props), lighting design, set design, and sound design for the production. The performance aspects include: acting, dance, orchestra, chants, and stage combat. If the production is a new piece of writing or a (new) translation of a play, the director ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Sand
Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil (; 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), best known by her pen name George Sand (), was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist. One of the most popular writers in Europe in her lifetime, being more renowned than both Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac in England in the 1830s and 1840s, Sand is recognised as one of the most notable writers of the European Romantic era, with more than 70 novels to her credit and 50 volumes of various works including novels, tales, plays and political texts. Like her great-grandmother, Louise Dupin, whom she admired, George Sand stood up for women, advocated passion, castigated marriage and fought against the prejudices of a conservative society. Personal life Childhood Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin, the future George Sand, was born on 1 July 1804 in Paris on Meslay Street to Maurice Dupin de Francueil and Sophie-Victoire Delaborde. She was the paternal great-granddaughter of the Marshal of Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Steiner
Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner (27 or 25 February 1861 – 30 March 1925) was an Austrian occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a literary critic and published works including '' The Philosophy of Freedom''. At the beginning of the twentieth century he founded an esoteric spiritual movement, anthroposophy, with roots in German idealist philosophy and theosophy. Many of his ideas are pseudoscientific. He was also prone to pseudohistory. In the first, more philosophically oriented phase of this movement, Steiner attempted to find a synthesis between science and spirituality. His philosophical work of these years, which he termed " spiritual science", sought to apply what he saw as the clarity of thinking characteristic of Western philosophy to spiritual questions, differentiating this approach from what he considered to be vaguer approaches to mysticism. In a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Strub
Karl Johannes Max Strub (28 September 1900 – 23 March 1966) was a German violin virtuoso and eminent violin pedagogue. He gained a Europe-wide reputation during his 36 years of activity as primarius of the Strub Quartet. Stations as concertmaster led him from the 1920s to the operas of Stuttgart, Dresden and Berlin. Appointed Germany's youngest music professor at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar in 1926, he followed calls to the Berlin University of the Arts and, after the Second World War to the Hochschule für Musik Detmold. Strub was a connoisseur of the classical-romantic repertoire, but also devoted himself to modern music, among others he gave the world premiere of Hindemith's Violin Sonata No. 2 in D major. He promoted the music of Hans Pfitzner. Strub played on a Stradivari violin until 1945; numerous recordings from the 1930s/40s document his work. Life Origin and musical encouragement Strub was born in 1900 as the eldest of three children of the phot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kammersänger
Kammersänger (male) or Kammersängerin (female), abbreviated Ks. or KS, is a German honorific title for distinguished singers of opera and classical music. It literally means "chamber singer". Historically, the title was bestowed by princes or kings, when it was styled ''Hofkammersänger(in)'', where ''hof'' refers to the royal court. The title is given in Germany and in Austria usually on the recommendation of relevant national and local institutions. In East Germany, some concert halls bestowed this designation. Titles and recipients Austria Österreichischer Kammersänger (male) / Österreichische Kammersängerin (female) The honorary title is awarded by the Federal President of Austria on the proposal of the responsible Federal Minister since 1971. * Germany Kammersänger (male) / Kammersängerin (female) * Elise Kutscherra de Nyss (Coburg, 1894) * Gerhard Unger (1952) * Theo Adam (1955) * Hans-Dieter Bader (Hanover, 1981) * Alfred Vökt (Frankfurt, 1989) * (Frankfurt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agnes Stavenhagen
Agnes Stavenhagen (3 September 1860 – 30 September 1945), pseudonym Agnes Denis, was a German operatic soprano. Through her work at the Deutsches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar, Weimarer Hoftheater and in concerts throughout Europe, she was a highly esteemed Kammersängerin and achieved great popularity during her lifetime. She was soprano soloist in the first performance in Munich of Mahler's Symphony No. 2 (Mahler), Second Symphony in 1900, conducted by the composer. Life Childhood and family She was born Agnes Caroline Elise Franzisca DenninghoffAgnes Stavenhagen busoni-nachlass.org in Winsen (Luhe), Winsen, the daughter of Anton Bernhard Denninghoff and Elise Denninghoff, a childhood friend of Johannes Brahms.Günther Hagen: ''Geschichte der Stadt Winsen an der Luhe''. 2007, . H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hildegard Neuffer-Stavenhagen
Hildegard Neuffer-Stavenhagen (''née'' Stavenagen 3 July 1866 in Greiz – 17 October 1939 in Weimar aged 73) was a German writer with a focus on children's literature and education. Stavenhagen was born as the daughter of a merchant. She received piano lessons early on, her brother was the composer and pianist Bernhard Stavenhagen (1862–1914). Hildegard Neuffer-Stavenhagen was married with the Hungarian-born actor and theatre director Dagobert Neuffer (1851-1939) and mother of four children. Her son-in-law was the violinist Max Strub. Work * ''Märchenfäden''. With illustrations by Oskar Herrfurth Oskar Herrfurth (5 February 1862 – 1934) was a German painter and illustrator. Life Herrfurth was born in Merseburg, Province of Saxony, Kingdom of Prussia. He received his education at the art school in Weimar, where he lived for many year .... 5th mixed edition, M. R. Hoffmann, Berlin 1919 (6th edition 1921). * ''Kinderseelen. Aus dem Tagebuche einer Mutter''. M. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen
The German word Reichsland (imperial country, or reich country) can refer to several entities in German constitutional history: * the territory of the Holy Roman Empire * Alsace-Lorraine as part of the ''Reichsgebiet'' (Germany) between 1871 and 1918 * a concept for Prussia in reform plans for the Weimar Republic The German Reich, commonly referred to as the Weimar Republic,, was a historical period of Germany from 9 November 1918 to 23 March 1933, during which it was a constitutional federal republic for the first time in history; hence it is also r ..., transforming the member state Prussia into a territory directly controlled by the federal level (Reich) * ''Reichsland Saarland'', the Saar territory governed by a German commissioner from 1935 to 1945 {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Brock (actor) (born 1944), Irish musician
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Paul Brock may refer to: * Paul Brock (journalist) (1932–2021), American journalist and film producer * Paul Brock (musician) Paul Brock is an Irish button accordionist born in Athlone now residing in Ennis. In May 1989, Brock co-founded the group Moving Cloud with fiddle player, Manus McGuire. In 2001 he co-founded the new group The Brock McGuire Band also with Manu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Bronsart Von Schellendorf
Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf (11 February 18303 November 1913) was a classical musician and composer who studied under Franz Liszt. Biography Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf (also called Hans von Bronsart) was born into a Prussian military family, and educated at Berlin University. He studied piano with Adolph Jullack. He went to Weimar in 1853 where he met Franz Liszt and became familiar with all the musicians in Liszt's circle at the time, including Hector Berlioz and Johannes Brahms. It is a measure of his close relationship with Liszt that it was he who played the solo part in the first Weimar performance of Liszt's 2nd Piano Concerto, with the composer conducting. When the concerto was published, Liszt dedicated it to Bronsart. After having trained for several years with Liszt, he worked as a conductor in Leipzig and Berlin, and then took the post of general manager of the Royal Theatre in Hanover from 1867 to 1887. He held a similar post in Weimar from 1887 until his r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Von Loën
August is the eighth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars, and the fifth of seven months to have a length of 31 days. Its zodiac sign is Leo and was originally named '' Sextilis'' in Latin because it was the 6th month in the original ten-month Roman calendar under Romulus in 753 BC, with March being the first month of the year. About 700 BC, it became the eighth month when January and February were added to the year before March by King Numa Pompilius, who also gave it 29 days. Julius Caesar added two days when he created the Julian calendar in 46 BC (708 AUC), giving it its modern length of 31 days. In 8 BC, it was renamed in honor of Emperor Augustus. According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt. Commonly repeated lore has it that August has 31 days because Augustus wanted his month to match the length of Julius Caesar's July, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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