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Kein Schöner Land In Dieser Zeit
"" (No country more beautiful in this time) is a popular Volkslied in German. It goes back to a song by Anton Wilhelm von Zuccalmaglio, first published in 1840 in a folk song collection. It gained popularity in the 1910s in the Wandervogel movement, and was later used by the Nazism, Nazis and included in songbooks for the League of German Girls (). It has been set to choral music and modern songs. The beginning of the first line has been used as the title of books, a play and television series. History In 1840, Anton Wilhelm von Zuccalmaglio published in the second volume of a collection of Volkslieder which was begun by Andreas Kretzschmer, entitled ''Deutsche Volkslieder mit ihren Original-Weisen'' (German folk songs with their original tunes), 382 songs which he collected himself, according to his preface. Some of the songs, however, were written and composed by Zuccalmaglio in the sense of a romantic Volkslied concept ("im Sinne eines romantischen Volksliedkonzeptes"). Thes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volkslied
Volkslied (literally: folk song) is a genre of popular songs in German which are traditionally sung. While many of them were first passed orally, several collections were published from the late 18th century. Later, some popular songs were also included in this classification. History The earliest songs in German appeared in the 12th century. Art songs were created by minstrels and meistersinger while cantastoria (''Bänkelsänger'') sang songs in public that were orally transmitted. Song collections were written from the late 15th century, such as ''Lochamer-Liederbuch'' and ''Glogauer Liederbuch''. Georg Forster (composer), Georg Forster's ''Frische teutsche Liedlein'' was first printed in 1536. In the period of Sturm und Drang, poets and authors became interested in that which they saw as simple, close to nature, original, and unspoiled (nach dem ). Johann Gottfried Herder coined the term 'Volkslied' in the late 18th century, and published ''Von deutscher Art und Kunst'' (On ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Jochum
Otto Jochum (; 18 March 189824 October 1969) was a German composer, choral director and music educator. He was influential in Augsburg, where he was organist at St. Georg from 1922, director of a Singschule for vocal training from 1933, founding a seminary for vocal educators in 1935 and a municipal choir the same year. He was also director of the Augsburg Conservatory from 1938. After World War II, he was municipal music director in Augsburg. Jochum composed mostly choral works. His oratorio ''Der jüngste Tag'' was awarded the Deutscher Staatspreis for composition in 1932, receiving national recognition. He composed most of his works after retirement in 1951. Life Jochum was born in Babenhausen, the son of a Catholic teacher, organist, choirmaster and director of the orchestra and theatre society. He and his younger siblings Mathilde, Eugen and Georg Ludwig received early musical instructions. He learned to play violin, cello, piano, organ and percussion. Their father als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiener Holocaust Library
The Wiener Holocaust Library () is the world's oldest institution devoted to the study of the Holocaust, its causes and legacies. Founded in 1933 as an information bureau that informed Jewish communities and governments worldwide about the persecution of the Jews under the Nazis, it was transformed into a research institute and public access library after the end of World War II and is situated in Russell Square, London. In 2017, and following a campaign by Daniel Plesch (director of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS University of London) and other researchers, directed at the UN, the library published an online and searchable version of the catalogue of the archive of the UN War Crimes Commission. It is also home to the UK's digital copy of the International Tracing Service archive, the physical copy of which is held in the Arolsen Archives – International Center on Nazi Persecution in Bad Arolsen, Germany. History Alfred Wiener, a German Jew wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McGill University
McGill University (French: Université McGill) is an English-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter,Frost, Stanley Brice. ''McGill University, Vol. I. For the Advancement of Learning, 1801–1895.'' McGill-Queen's University Press, 1980. the university bears the name of James McGill, a Scottish merchant, whose bequest in 1813 established the University of McGill College. In 1885, the name of the university was officially changed to McGill University. Its main campus is on the slope of Mount Royal in downtown Montreal in the borough of Ville-Marie, with a second campus situated in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, west of the main campus on Montreal Island. The university is one of two members of the Association of American Universities located outside the United States, alongside the University of Toronto, and is the only Canadian member of the Global University Leaders Forum (GULF) within the World Economic Forum. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heribert Prantl
Heribert Prantl (born 30 July 1953 in Nittenau, West Germany) is a German author, journalist and jurist (former judge, prosecutor and lawyer). At the ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'' he was head of the department of domestic policy from 1995 to 2017, head of the department "opinion" from 2018 to 2019, member of the chief editors from 2011 to 2019 and is now columnist and author. Since 2002 he has been a lecturer at the faculty of law at Bielefeld University, where he was appointed honorary professor in 2010. Early life and family Prantl was born in Nittenau in Bavaria on 30 July 1953. A stipendiary of the Catholic " Cusanuswerk", he studied law, philosophy and history at the University of Regensburg and earned his juris doctor. Afterwards he studied journalism and worked as a judge as well as a public prosecutor. Work as a journalist In 1988, Prantl started working for the ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'' (SZ) in the department for domestic policy with focus on legal policy. In 1992 he was pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emanuel Eckardt
Emanuel Eckardt (born 17 August 1942) is a German journalist, and caricaturist. Life Eckardt was born in Hamburg in 1942, grew up there and studied graphics at the Kunstschule Alsterdamm and painting, illustration and book graphics at the Werkkunstschule Hamburg. From 1965 to 1971, he worked as a freelance caricaturist for the ''Hamburger Abendblatt''. From 1971, he worked as a reporter for ''Stern'', which he left in 1984 to become deputy editor-in-chief at ''Merian'', a position he held until 1988. After an intermezzo at ''GEO'' and the music magazine Amadeo (both as the editor-in-chief) and freelance work as reporter and author, he returned to ''Merian'' as editor-in-chief from 2001 to 2002. Eckardt has worked and lived as a freelance author in Hamburg since 1991. His reports have been published in '' Brigitte'', ''Cicero'', ', ''Mare'', ''Merian'', '' SZ-Magazin'', '' Spiegel-Special'', ''Tempo'' and ''Die Zeit''. For his work ''Spiel ohne Grenzen'' in magazine ''Stern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernd Schroeder
Bernd Schroeder (6 June 1944 – 18 June 2023) was a German writer who authored books, television plays, film scripts, and audio plays. He also directed audio plays. He co-authored the bestseller novel '' Alte Liebe'' with Elke Heidenreich, and received several awards including the Grimme-Preis. Life and career Schroeder was born in Aussig, Reichsgau Sudetenland, when his parents fled during World War II. He grew up in Fürholzen near Neufahrn, Upper Bavaria. He attended the and finished with the Abitur.Camerloher-Gymnasium Freising He studied theatre science, German studies and ethnology at the University of Munich from 1966. Schroeder first worked, already during his studies, as assistant director for the broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR). He wrote film scripts from 1968, including for Wolfgang Petersen. He directed audio plays, both his own and of others. In 1986, he was awarded the Grimme-Preis for ', together with Hans-Werner Schmidt. In 1992, he received the Ger ... [...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] |
Klaus Emmerich (director)
Klaus Emmerich (born 10 August 1943) is a German film director and screenwriter. His 1979 film ''The First Polka'' was entered into the 29th Berlin International Film Festival. His 1981 film ''Trokadero'' was entered into the 12th Moscow International Film Festival. Selected filmography * ''Florian'' (1973, TV film) * ''Heiratskandidaten'' (1975, TV film) — (based on a play by Gabriele Wohmann) * ''Erziehung durch Dienstmädchen'' (1975, TV film) — (based on a novel by Robert Wolfgang Schnell) * ''Kreutzer'' (1977) * ' (1978, TV film) — (biographical film about Heinrich Heine) * ''The First Polka'' (1979) — (based on a novel by Horst Bienek) * ''Trokadero'' (1981) — (screenplay by Jörg Graser) * ''Rote Erde (TV series), Rote Erde'' (1983, TV miniseries) — (screenplay by Peter Stripp) * ''Tatort: '' (1986, TV series episode) * ''Reporter (TV series), Reporter'' (1989, TV series) * ' (1989, TV miniseries) * Rote Erde (TV series), ''Rote Erde'', second season (1990, TV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kein Schöner Land (television Series)
Kein or KEIN may refer to: *Kein language, a language of Papua New Guinea * ''Kein'' (EP), a 2007 EP by Japanese metal band Unsraw *KEIN, an American radio station People with the name *Sybil Kein (1939–2022), American poet *Kein Cross, American fashion designer *Kein Einaste Kein Einaste (born February 22, 1985, in Pärnu) is an Estonian cross-country skier who has competed since 2004. His best World Cup finish was 7th in a sprint event in Otepää in January 2010. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver Vanc ... (born 1985), Estonian skier See also * Kain (other) {{Disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Günter Wewel
Günter Wewel (; 29 November 19349 May 2023) was a German operatic bass and television presenter. Based at the Opernhaus Dortmund for decades, he performed 80 roles in Germany and Europe. He is known for presenting the television series , with more than 150 episodes from 1989 to 2007, which portrays regions in Europe, their landscape, people and folklore, the first such show filmed at the locations. Early life Wewel was born in Arnsberg. After school, he first trained as a civil servant with the Deutsche Bundesbahn. He then studied voice, especially opera, at the Dortmund Conservatory. He studied further with Rudolf Watzke in Dortmund and Johannes Kobeck in Vienna. Career Wewel was a member of the Oper Dortmund from 1963, with Generalmusikdirektor Wilhelm Schüchter, and remained at the house throughout his career of more than 30 years. From 1965, he appeared as a guest in Germany at the Bavarian State Opera, the Hamburg State Opera, the Staatstheater Stuttgart, the Deutsch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ougenweide
Ougenweide was a German folk band. They are notable for being pioneers of the medieval folk rock subgenre. (In German) The name comes from Middle High German ''ougenweide'' (Augenweide - ''feast for the eyes''). Band history The beginning The predecessor band was formed in 1969; it was composed of Frank Wulff, Michael Steinbeck, Jürgen Isenbart, and Brigitte Blunck. Ougenweide was founded in spring 1970 in Hamburg as a folk rock band. The band is named after a song by Neidhart von Reuental, the first joint composition by Ougenweide. From the beginning the band wanted to set to music old poems and songs, but they never completely restricted themselves to the Medieval. The band was influenced by the Rock music scene of Hamburg of the 1960s. Successful years The second album of Ougenweide ''All die weil ich mag'' from 1974 used texts from the Merseburg Incantations. This sound recording of the ''Merseburger Zaubersprüche'' was covered later by many bands, including Die I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
