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Elke Goez
Elke (''see panel for pronunciation'') is a feminine given name. Different sources give different accounts of its origin. One source describes it as a Low German and East Frisian diminutive of Adelheid, meaning "of noble birth". Another states that it originated as a Yiddish feminine variant of Elkan, which itself came from the Biblical name Elkanah. In English-speaking countries, the variant Elkie was popularised by the singer Elkie Brooks. Other German variants of the name include Elka and Alke. In the United States, the 1990 census found that Elke was the 2,588th most common given name for women, being held by about 0.002% of the female population at the time, while the other variants Elkie, Elka, and Alke were not among the names held by at least 0.001% of the female population (the most common 4,275 names). People Elke * Elke Aberle (born 1950), German actress * Elke Altmann (born 1957), German politician * Elke Clijsters (born 1985), Belgian table tennis player * Elk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Low German
Low German is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language variety, language spoken mainly in Northern Germany and the northeastern Netherlands. The dialect of Plautdietsch is also spoken in the Russian Mennonite diaspora worldwide. "Low" refers to the altitude of the areas where it is typically spoken. Low German is most closely related to Frisian languages, Frisian and English language, English, with which it forms the North Sea Germanic group of the West Germanic languages. Like Dutch language, Dutch, it has historically been spoken north of the Benrath line, Benrath and Uerdingen line, Uerdingen isoglosses, while forms of High German languages, High German (of which Standard German is a standardized example) have historically been spoken south of those lines. Like Frisian, English, Dutch and the North Germanic languages, Low German has not undergone the High German consonant shift, as opposed to Standard German, Standard High German, which is based on High German langu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elke Heidenreich
Elke Heidenreich (née Riegert; born 15 February 1943) is a German author, TV presenter, literary critic and journalist. She has written audio plays, a magazine column, scripts for television plays and books. Heidenreich is known as the ''Kabarettist'' who created a character, Else Stratmann. She is a literary critic in the television ''Literaturclub'' of the ''Schweizer Fernsehen''. She was awarded a Goldene Kamera in 1981, and the Bambi in 2003 for her series ''Lesen!'', aimed at making reading of literature more popular. In 2006, she received the Grimme Award for her life's work in television. Her children's book ''Nero Corleone'' was translated to many languages and received several international prizes. She wrote '' Alte Liebe'' in collaboration with Bernd Schroeder, with whom she was married from 1972 but separated in the 1990s. Passionate about opera, she worked for children's operas at the Cologne Opera for 12 years, and wrote librettos and books, introducing a broader p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elke Schall
Elke Schall,(born 19 July 1973 in Speyer) is a professional table tennis player from Germany. She has an offensive, looping style. She competed at five consecutive Olympics from 1992 to 2008. Her doubles partner at the first four Olympics was Nicole Struse, with whom she won the European Championships in 1996 and 1998. She was part of the German team that came third in 1997 and sixth in 2004 at the World Championships and three podium finishes at the European Championships in 2000, 2002, and 2007. She won the German Mixed Doubles championship six times and was Germany Player of the Year in 2003. At the 2009 World Championships, she and Christian Suss reached the quarter-finals but were then beaten by the eventual silver medalists. From 2001 to 2008 she was married to fellow Germany professional table tennis player Torben Wosik, whom she met in 1991. She has three brothers and sisters. Her brother Martin is a retired professional basketball player. Her home club is TV Busenba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elke Roex
Elke Roex (born 29 June 1974) is a Belgian, Flemish politician and member of the Flemish Parliament for the Socialist Party – Different () (SP.A) since 2004 and a member of the City Council of Anderlecht Anderlecht (; ) is one of the List of municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located in the south-western part of the region, it is bordered by the City of Brussels, Forest, B .... She lives in the architecturally unique district La Roue/Het Rad. External links Elke Roex- official website. 1974 births Living people Vooruit (political party) politicians 21st-century Belgian politicians 21st-century Belgian women politicians {{Flanders-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elke Rehder
Elke Rehder (born 1953) is a German artist living in Barsbüttel Germany. Life and work Elke Rehder studied at the Heatherley School of Fine Art in London (1979–80). During that time she was predominantly active as a sculptor, where she created objects from iron, steel, copper, granite, marble as well as small bronzes in lost-wax castings. During her stay in London the symbolism of chess becomes a centrepoint in her artwork, following a statement by Boris Spassky: "Chess is like life". Since then, Elke Rehder creates installation art and land art projects centered around chess. In 1991 Elke Rehder started the international cultural project "Kulturgesellschaft Europa", which is accompanied by statements of important personalities from the cultural, economical and political world. Since then she started to collect European antique prints and illustrated newspapers. 2014 the Elke Rehder collection contained more than 50,000 historical pictures. 1992 she was honored with the award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elke Radlingsmaier
Elke Radlingmaier (born 15 September 1943) is an Austrian fencer. She competed in the women's individual and team foil events at the 1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and officially branded as Munich 1972 (; ), were an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972. It was the .... References 1943 births Living people Austrian female foil fencers Olympic fencers for Austria Fencers at the 1972 Summer Olympics {{Austria-fencing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elke Philipp
Elke Philipp (born 4 February 1964) is a German Paralympic equestrian. Philipp has had cerebellar ataxia since 1984 when she suffered from a swelling of the brain due to Viral meningitis. This resulted in her staying in hospital for 18 months, the paralysis of the left side of her brain and having to have a permanent tracheotomy. She won a silver medal at the Equestrian at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, 2016 Paralympics in the Equestrian at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Team, team event alongside Alina Rosenberg, Carolin Schnarre and Steffen Zeibig. She also a bronze medal at the 2014 FEI World Equestrian Games in individual freestyle event and two bronze medals at the 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games in the individual championship and team para-dressage events. She has also competed in para-skiing events and works as a senior laboratory assistant. References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Philipp, Elke 1964 births Living people German dressage riders German fem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elke Neidhardt
Elke Cordelia Neidhardt AM (5 July 194125 November 2013) was a West German born actress and opera and theatre director. She spent most of her career after 1967 in Australia and became an Australian citizen in 2007. She appeared in theatre, television and feature films in Germany, Austria, France and Australia, and directed operas in Zurich, Amsterdam, Aix-en-Provence, Salzburg, Vienna, Cologne and Australia. She is best known in Australia for directing operas with Opera Australia, and most particularly for directing the first full modern Australian production of Richard Wagner's ''Ring Cycle'', in Adelaide in 2004. Early life Elke Neidhardt was born in Stuttgart, on July 5, 1941, the youngest of three children to father, Karl (a physician, Latin scholar and intellectual) and mother, Vilma (also a doctor). At the age of three, Neidhardt survived an Allied bombardment in Ludwigsburg, which decimated her family's neighbouring home. Following in the footsteps of her parents and br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elke Maravilha
Elke Maravilha ( Grünupp; 22 February 1945 – 16 August 2016) was a German-Brazilian actress, model and television personality. She lived in Brazil from her early childhood until her death. Biography Maravilha was born to a Latvian father and German mother in Leutkirch, although throughout her career she stated she was born in Saint Petersburg, Leningrad, Russia. At the age of four, her family emigrated to Brazil in 1949 and first settled at a farm in Itabira in the state of Minas Gerais. In 1955, her family leased lands in Atibaia in São Paulo State, running a strawberry farm. The family then went to Bragança Paulista to farm. Returning to Minas Gerais, she was chosen as "Glamour Girl" in Belo Horizonte in 1962. It was during this period that she became a naturalized Brazilian. At the age of 20, Maravilha left home to live in Rio de Janeiro, working as a bilingual secretary, using her fluency in eight languages, many of them learned in her own home environment, as a teach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elke Krystufek
Elke Silvia Krystufek (born 1970) is an Austrian conceptual artist who lives and works in Berlin, Germany, and Vienna, Austria. She works in a variety of media including painting, sculpture, video and performance art. Life Krystufek studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the early 1990s. Her work is informed by a history of Austrian artists – from Egon Schiele to the Vienna Actionists and Valie Export – who have explicitly explored sexuality in art. Work For her collection of images in the form of postcard-size photographs, titled “I am your mirror”, she took inspiration from the documentary work of photographer Nan Goldin and the “Atlas” by the German Painter Gerhard Richter. With the exhibitio“Liquid Logic” then direction of Peter Noever gave Krystufek access to all storages of the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna and the MAK. She drew comparisons between a thematically arranged selection of objects from the museum collections that are rarely shown ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elke König
Elke König (born 28 January 1954) is a German MBA in Business and auditor. From January 2012, she was president of the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin); in December 2014, she became the first Chair of the newly established Single Resolution Board (SRB) of the Single Resolution Mechanism headquartered in Brussels. She served as Chair of the SRB until January 2023, when her second term expired. Early life and education König was born near Cologne (Rhineland).Frank Drost, Peter Köhler, Susanne Metzger:. '' Elke König - champion of clarity. '' Handelsblatt of 25 January 2012 Design. She studied Business Administration at the University of Cologne from 1972 to 1976, where she earned a doctoral degree (Dr rer. pol.) between 1976 and 1980. Career From 1980 to 1990, König worked for KPMG Deutsche Treuhandgesellschaft in Cologne auditing and advising insurance undertakings, from 1986 as a holder of a special statutory authority (“Prokuristin”) and from 1988 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elke Karsten
Elke Josselinne Karsten (born 15 May 1995) is an Argentine handball player for Molde Elite and the Argentina women's national handball team. She defended Argentina at the 2013 World Women's Handball Championship in Serbia. Achievements *Norwegian Cup: **''Finalist'': 2021 Individual awards * 2014 Pan American Women's Junior Handball Championship: All Star Team Right Back *2019 Pan American Games The 2019 Pan American Games (), officially the XVIII Pan American Games () and commonly known as Lima 2019, were a multi-sport event governed by the Panam Sports Organization held in Lima, Peru from July 26 to August 11, 2019, with preliminar ...: Top scorer * 2021 South and Central American Women's Handball Championship: All star team right back References External links * 1995 births Living people Argentine people of Swiss descent Argentine people of German descent Argentine female handball players Sportspeople from Quilmes Handball players at the 2016 Summer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
