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Klose
Klose is a surname of German, Silesian, and West Slavic origins, and may refer to * Adolf Klose (1844–1923), German railroad engineer and inventor * Alfred Klose (1895–1953), German mathematician * Anastasia Klose (born 1978), Australian artist * Annika Klose (born 1992), German politician * Bob Klose (born 1945), British musician and photographer * Friedrich Klose (1862–1942), German composer * Hans-Ulrich Klose (1937–2023), German politician (SPD) * Hyacinthe Klosé (1808–1880), French composer and inventor of the Böhm clarinet system * Jann Klose, German-born singer, songwriter, producer * Josef Klose (born 1947), Polish football player * Kevin Klose (born 1940), American public radio CEO * Kirsten Klose (born 1977), German hammer thrower * Margarete Klose (1899–1968), German opera singer (contralto) * Miroslav Klose (born 1978), German footballer * Samuel Gottlieb Klose, German Lutheran missionary - see German Australians#German missionaries * Timm Klose (born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miroslav Klose
Miroslav Josef Klose (, ; born Mirosław Marian Klose; 9 June 1978) is a German professional Manager (association football), football manager and former Football player, player who currently serves as head coach of 1. FC Nürnberg. A Forward (association football)#Striker, striker, Klose is the List of international goals scored by Miroslav Klose, all-time top scorer for Germany and holds the record for the FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, most goals scored in the FIFA World Cup with 16 goals scored over 4 editions of the tournament between 2002 and 2014. Klose is best known for his performances with the Germany national football team, German national team. Starting his career at FC 08 Homburg, Klose played in the Bundesliga for 1. FC Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern before becoming one of the most prolific scorers in the league with SV Werder Bremen, Werder Bremen, where he was awarded the Footballer of the Year (Germany), German Footballer of the Year in 2006 and also named to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timm Klose
Timm Klose (born 9 May 1988) is a Swiss former professional Association football, footballer who last played as Centre back for FC Basel, Basel U21 in the Swiss Promotion League. He used to play for the Switzerland national football team, Switzerland national team. Born in Frankfurt to a German father and Swiss mother, he was raised in Switzerland from the age of five. After playing in the youth teams of BSC Old Boys and FC Basel, he moved to FC Thun in 2009, and two years later joined the German club 1. FC Nürnberg. He played for VfL Wolfsburg from 2013 until he joined Norwich in 2016, where he has since made over 100 appearances. In January 2022, Klose signed for EFL Championship side Bristol City. After departing Bristol City, Klose retired from playing and began coaching Basel's under-21 side. Klose made his full international debut for Switzerland in 2011 and was cap (sport), capped 17 times. He also played for the Switzerland national under-23 football team, Switzerland O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jann Klose
Jann Klose is a German pop singer-songwriter, who has released seven albums and two EPs. Based in New York City, Klose was raised in Kenya, South Africa, Germany, and northeast Ohio. His original songs have charted on Top 40 radio in the United States and South Africa. He is the singing voice of Tim Buckley in the movie Greetings from Tim Buckley, starring Penn Badgley and Imogen Poots, released by Focus Features and Tribeca Film. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Jann talks about guitarist and collaborator Gary Lucas recommending him to director Dan Algrant to sing in the movie. He has performed as an actor and singer in touring companies of Broadway musicals, including ''Jesus Christ Superstar'', ''Jekyll and Hyde (musical), Jekyll & Hyde'', and The Who's ''Tommy (The Who album), Tommy'' as well as made for TV movies, voice overs and commercials. In 2005, the off-Broadway production ''Moonlight Interior'', a musical based on Klose's music and directed by Yoel Cassell, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Klose
Rado Robert Garcia Klose (born 1945) is an English musician, photographer and printmaker. Between 1964 and July 1965, he was the lead guitarist of the rock band the Tea Set, an early incarnation of Pink Floyd. Although he recorded a few songs with that band, he left before their transformation into Pink Floyd. However, on the band's official Facebook page, he has been repeatedly mentioned when discussing the band and their tenure as the Tea Set. Name confusion Klose's full birth name is most often cited as Rado Robert Klose or Rado Robert Garcia Klose, with some authors citing Radovan as his full given name. During the 1960s he was commonly known as Bob Klose, which was often misspelt Bob Close or occasionally even Brian Close. On the official Pink Floyd website, he is listed as Klose, Radovan 'Bob'. Biography Klose was born in 1945 in Cambridge. His father was a refugee from Nazi Germany and a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and his mother was an English Land Girl. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans-Ulrich Klose
Hans-Ulrich Klose (14 June 1937 – 6 September 2023) was a German politician from the Social Democratic Party and a member of the German Federal parliament (German: ''Bundestag''). Klose was the First Mayor (German: ''Erster Bürgermeister'') of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg from 1974 up to 1981, serving as President of the Bundesrat in 1979–80. Early life Klose was born in Breslau, Province of Lower Silesia (now Wrocław). After the end of World War II, Klose's family fled from Breslau and moved to Bielefeld. In 1957 he received his high-school diploma and started studying law at the universities of Freiburg and Hamburg. In 1961 he passed the ''First'', in 1965 the ''Second Legal State Examination'', and started working as a lawyer in Hamburg. Political career Career in state politics After joining the ''Social Democratic Party of Germany'' (SPD) in 1964, Klose became a member of the Hamburg Parliament (''Hamburgische Bürgerschaft'') in 1970, where he was vice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anastasia Klose
Anastasia Klose (born 1978) is an Australian contemporary artist. Her work has received much attention in the art world due to the personal nature of her subject matter, often putting herself in humiliating situations. She is a graduate of both the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) and the University of Melbourne. She is also the daughter of artist and academic, Elizabeth Presa. Works Klose's work largely comprises elements of video, performance and installation art. She is known for her lo-fi aesthetics with her use of iMovie editing software, generic fonts for text-based work and found objects such as cardboard or handwritten signage. The artist has also professed to drawing on the concepts of humiliation and embarrassment and has such her work has been likened to the antics of comedians such as Sacha Baron Cohen and the cast of Jackass. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margarete Klose
Margarete Klose (6 August 1899 or 1902 – 14 December 1968) was a German operatic dramatic mezzo-soprano. Life Klose was born (as Frida Klose) and died in Berlin. She lost her father early in life and had to earn her living as a secretary, until a colleague recommended her to the Klindworth-Scharwenka conservatory, where she got a thorough musical education. Klose made her début in 1926 at the Theater Ulm in a supporting role of Emmerich Kálmán's operetta ''Countess Maritza''. Her next role was Azucena in Giuseppe Verdi's ''Il trovatore''. For the next three years Klose sang in Ulm and Kassel, before joining the Mannheim National Theatre in 1929. In 1932, Klose went back to Berlin where she was engaged alternately at Berlin State Opera (1932 to 1949 and 1955 to 1961) and Deutsche Oper Berlin (1949 to 1958). In addition she was a celebrated guest e.g. at Vienna State Opera, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, La Scala in Milan, Semperoper, Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Klose
Kevin Klose (born September 1, 1940) is an American journalist, author, broadcast executive, and academic administrator, who served as president of National Public Radio for almost a decade, overseeing a major growth era for the service. Life and career Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Klose grew up in Red Hook, New York. His parents, Woody and Virginia Taylor Klose, were radio producers and writers during the 1930s and 1940s. Klose is a graduate of Harvard University, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree, ''cum laude'', in 1962. He has authored five books, including ''Russia and the Russians: Inside the Closed Society''. For 25 years Klose was a reporter and editor at ''The Washington Post''. From 1977 to 1981 he served as Moscow Bureau Chief. Klose served successively as director of U.S. international broadcasting, overseeing the U.S. Government's global radio and television news services (1997–98) and president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), broadcasting to Cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Klose
Wilhelm Rudolf Alfred Klose (September 19, 1895 in Görlitz – February 21, 1953 in Potsdam) was a German applied mathematician and astronomer. Education and career Klose studied at University of Breslau and University of Göttingen from 1916 and was an assistant at the observatory in Breslau from 1917. He received his doctorate in astronomy in 1921 in Breslau under Alexander Wilkens (research on the movement of the planet 189 Phthia). After that he was at the University of Greifswald and its observatory, where he habilitated in 1922 and became a ''privatdozent''. In 1923 he habilitated at the Humboldt University of Berlin. In 1924 he became an associate professor of mechanics and theoretical astronomy at University of Latvia in Riga. In 1929 he became an associate professor of astronomy at Humboldt University of Berlin and, after Hilda Geiringer left in 1933, succeeded her as assistant to Theodor Vahlen at the Institute for Applied Mathematics. As an assistant he deputized fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kut Klose
Kut Klose is an American contemporary R&B trio that formed in Atlanta, Georgia. The three female singers that made up the group were Athena Cage, Lavonn Battle and Tabitha Duncan. They were originally discovered by singer Keith Sweat, who also served as one of the producers on their debut album '' Surrender'' (1995). The trio is best known for their hit single " I Like" and feature on " Get Up on It" by Keith Sweat. Career In 1995, Kut Klose released its debut album, '' Surrender''. Despite releasing three singles, "Surrender," "Lovely Thang," and " I Like", the only one to make a significant impact was "I Like", which peaked at No. 6 on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and No. 34 on the ''Billboard'' ''Billboard'' Hot 100. The album peaked at No. 12 on the ''Billboard'' Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolf Klose
Adolf Klose (21 May 1844 – 2 September 1923) was the chief engineer of the Royal Württemberg State Railways in southern Germany from June 1885 to 1896. Klose was born in Bernstadt auf dem Eigen, in Saxony. Before his taking up his post in Stuttgart he had been the technical inspector of the United Swiss Railways (''Vereinigten Schweizerbahnen''). After a period of depending on Prussian prototypes between 1865 and 1885, a new engineering direction followed under Klose's time in office. It was stamped by numerous home-grown ideas and discoveries. In particular he promoted the introduction of compound working for steam locomotives in Württemberg. The patented Klose steering (''Klose-Lenkwerk'') carries his name. This was a multipartite and complex device for steam locomotives, which controlled the radial setting of leading and trailing wheelsets in order to improve curve running. Unfortunately, its costly maintenance and tendency to develop faults meant that his invention ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annika Klose
Annika Gisela Klose (born 24 June 1992) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party and a social scientist who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since 2021. Early life and education Klose was born 1992 in the German city of Dortmund, grew up in Clausthal-Zellerfeld and studied social sciences at Humboldt University Berlin. Political career Klose joined the SPD in 2011. She became the regional leader of the Jusos in Berlin in 2015 and has been a member of the executive committee of the regional party in Berlin since 2016. In December 2020, Klose was selected by the SPD Berlin-Mitte as a candidate for the Bundestag. In this context, she gave up her leadership of the Jusos Berlin and began her election campaign. Klose was elected to the Bundestag in the 2021 elections via electoral list. She is representing Berlin-Mitte. In parliament, Klose has been serving on the Committee on Labour and Social Affairs and the Committee on Petitions. At the beginning, she w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
