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Hessian Cultural Prize
The Hessian Cultural Prize () is an annual German culture prize awarded by the Government of Hesse. The prize was established in 1982. With a trophy of 60,000 German marks, now 45,000 Euro, it is currently the highest endowed culture prize in Germany. Recipients * 1982 – Eugen Kogon (political scientist); Thomas Michael Mayer (chairman, Georg Büchner Association) * 1983 – Karl Krolow (lyricist); Hans-Jürgen von Bose (composer); Ror Wolf (author) * 1984 – Bernard Schultze (painter); Albert Mangelsdorff (jazz trombonist) * 1985 – Michael Gielen (conductor and composer); and (German philologists) * 1986 – Karl Dedecius (translator); (Hölderlin scholar) * 1987 – Volker Schlöndorff (film director); E. R. Nele (sculptor); Ev Grüger (painter) * 1988 – Gabriele Wohmann (author) * 1989 – (film director); Judith Rosenbauer (actor) * 1990 – Horst Krüger (novelist); Egbert Strolka (Tänzer und Ballettmeister) * 1991 – Horst Antes (painter und sculptor); Helmut B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Of Hesse
The politics of Hesse takes place within a framework of a Federal republic, federal parliamentary representative democratic republic, where the Federal Government of Germany exercises sovereign rights with certain powers reserved to the states of Germany including Hesse. The state has a multi-party system where, as in most other states of former Western Germany and the federal level, the three main parties are the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (Germany), Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), and the centre-left Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). Governments of Hesse The governments and ministers-President (''Ministerpräsidenten'') of the People's State of Hesse during the time of the Weimar Republic were: # 1919–1928: Center-right government, an Social Democratic Party of Germany, SPD–German Democratic Party, DDP–Centre Party (Germany), Zentrum coalition led by Carl Ulrich (SPD) as minister-president # 1928–1933: C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egbert Strolka
Egbert is a name that derives from old Germanic words meaning "bright edge", such as that of a blade. Anglo-Saxon variant spellings include Ecgberht () and Ecgbert. German variant spellings include Eckbert and Ekbert. People with the first name Middle Ages * Ecgberht of Kent, king of Kent (ruled 664–673) * Ecgberht of Ripon (died 729), Anglo-Saxon saint, monk and Bishop of Lindisfarne * Ecgbert of York (died 766), Archbishop of York * Ecgberht II of Kent (died c. 784), king of Kent * (fl. 756–811), Saxon nobleman * Egbert of Lindisfarne (died 821), Bishop of Lindisfarne * Egbert of Wessex, king of Wessex (ruled 802–839) * Ecgberht I of Northumbria, king of Northumbria (deposed 872; died 873) * Ecgberht II of Northumbria, king of Northumbria (ruled c. 876–883) * (fl. 889–), Saxon nobleman * Egbert (archbishop of Trier) (c. 950–993) * Egbert of Liège (), educator and author * Egbert I, Margrave of Meissen (d. 1068) * (d. 1076/7), abbot * Egbert II, Margrave of Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Forsythe (choreographer)
William Forsythe (born December 30, 1949) is an American dancer and choreographer formerly resident in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and now based in Vermont. He is known for his work with the Ballet Frankfurt (1984–2004) and The Forsythe Company (2005–2015). Recognized for the integration of ballet and visual arts, which displayed both abstraction and forceful theatricality, his vision of choreography as an organizational practice has inspired him to produce numerous installations, films, and web-based knowledge creation, incorporating the spoken word and experimental music. Early life William Forsythe was born in New York in 1949, but only started dancing seriously in his later teenage years in college. He followed his grandfather musically as he was a violin prodigy. Forsythe played bassoon, violin, flute, and sang in choruses. He also choreographed for his high school's musicals. He began his training in Florida and later continued to dance with Joffrey Ballet. It was whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margret Stuffmann
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Slu Slusallek
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Adelheid Hoffmann
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Peter Urban (translator)
Peter Urban (16 July 1941 in Berlin – 9 December 2013) was a German writer and translator. Biography He studied History, German studies and Slavic studies at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg and the University of Belgrade. He became famous for his translations of Russian authors, including Isaak Babel, Anton Chekhov, Daniel Charms, Leonid Dobychin, Ivan Goncharov, Nikolai Gogol, Alexander Pushkin, and Ivan Turgenev. He also translated from Serbian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovene and Czech. He was granted several important translation prizes, such as the ''Übersetzerpreis der Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung'', the '' Preis der Stadt Münster für Europäische Poesie'', the '' Johann-Heinrich-Voß-Preis für Übersetzung'' and the ''Helmut-M.-Braem-Übersetzerpreis''. A street in Belgrade Belgrade is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annemarie Burckhardt
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Lucius Burckhardt
Lucius Burckhardt (March 12, 1925 in Davos – August 26, 2003 in Basel) was a Swiss sociologist and economist. He was an important thinker in Architectural theory and Design theory Design theory is a subfield of design research concerned with various theoretical approaches towards understanding and delineating design principles, design knowledge, and design practice. History Design theory has been approached and inte ... and the founder of strollology. Publications *''Lucius Burckhardt Writings. Rethinking Man-made Environments'' (Hrsg. Jesko Fezer / Martin Schmitz), Springer (Ambra), Wien/New York, 2012. External links www.lucius-burckhardt.orgbiography, textspersonal page of Lucius Burckhardts on the server of the university of Kassel, Germany* books by Lucius Burckhardt at Martin Schmitz publishers 1925 births 2003 deaths Swiss sociologists Swiss economists {{Switzerland-economist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heiner Goebbels
Heiner Goebbels (born 17 August 1952) is a German composer, Conductor (music), conductor and professor at University of Giessen, Justus-Liebig-University in Gießen and artistic director of the International Festival of the Arts Ruhrtriennale 2012–14. His composition ''Stifters Dinge'' (2007) received five votes in a 2017 ''Classic Voice'' poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000, and writers for ''The Guardian'' ranked his composition ''Hashirigaki'' (2000) the ninth greatest classical composition of the same period. Biography Goebbels was born in Neustadt an der Weinstraße. He studied sociology and music in Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main,Program for Pacific Musicworks / Seattle Chamber Players performance of Heiner Goebbels ''Songs of Wars I Have Seen'', On the Boards, Seattle, 4–6 March 2010. and has composed for ensemble and for large orchestra. He has created several prize-winning radio plays, staged concerts, and, since the early 1990s, music theatre works, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ensemble Modern
Ensemble Modern is an international ensemble dedicated to performing and promoting the music of contemporary composers. Formed in 1980, the group is based in Frankfurt, Germany, and made up variously of about twenty members from numerous countries. History Ensemble Modern was founded in 1980 by members of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie. From the beginning, the ensemble chose to organize itself democratically. There is no artistic director or chief conductor; instead, all projects, productions and financial matters are decided and supported by the musicians directly. Currently, the ensemble combines 19 soloists from different backgrounds: Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, India, Israel, Japan, Switzerland, and the United States. Since 1985, Ensemble Modern has been based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. They offer a subscription series at the Alte Oper Frankfurt, host regular opera productions in cooperation with the Oper Frankfurt. Since 1993, the Opera has held the "Happy N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Ophüls
Marcel Ophuls (; 1 November 1927 – 24 May 2025) was a German-French and American documentary filmmaker and actor, renowned for his notable works such as '' The Sorrow and the Pity'' (1969) and '' Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie'' (1988). Born to German-Jewish filmmaker Max Ophuls, the family fled Nazi Germany during its rise to power in the final stages of the Weimar Republic in 1933. Subsequently, they relocated to France, but fled in 1940 when the Nazis occupied the country. Finally, in 1941, the family emigrated to the United States, where Marcel became a citizen in 1950. His film career began in 1950. He made films in the United States, France, and the United Kingdom. During his early career, he mostly worked in dramatic fictional films. He began making documentaries in the late 1960s in France. Starting in the late 1970s, he also made documentaries in the United States for the CBS and ABC television networks. He won an Academy Award in 1989 for ''Hôte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
