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Kulturpreis Der Hansestadt Rostock
The Kulturpreis der Hansestadt Rostock is a German cultural award endowed with 3,500 euros. From 1958 to 1995, up to five persons and associations were honoured annually, since 1996 it has been limited to one personality or association. Since 2003, the prize has been awarded every two years. The prize is awarded to an individual or a body/association from the fields of culture, science, business and politics for an individual achievement or for a complete work, for cultural commitment and for achievements that significantly enrich the intellectual and cultural life of the Hanseatic city of Rostock. The cultural committee prepares a vote from the submitted proposals. The Lord Mayor decides on the awarding of the prize. Prizes winners since 1989 * 1989: , sculptor; Werner Lindemann, Schriftsteller; Omar Saavedra Santis, author * 1990: , Member of the Citizens' Committee; Helmut Aude, Press Office Manager; Joachim Wiebering, Regional Superintendent, Moderator of the Round Table; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rostock
Rostock (; Polabian language, Polabian: ''Roztoc''), officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock (), is the largest city in the German States of Germany, state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and lies in the Mecklenburgian part of the state, close to the border with Pomerania. With around 210,000 inhabitants, it is the third-largest city on the German Baltic Sea, Baltic coast after Kiel and Lübeck, the eighth-largest city in the area of former East Germany, as well as the List of cities in Germany by population, 39th-largest city of Germany. Rostock was the largest coastal and most important port city in East Germany. Rostock stands on the estuary of the Warnow, River Warnow into the Bay of Mecklenburg of the Baltic Sea. The city stretches for about along the river. The river flows into the sea in the very north of the city, between the boroughs of Warnemünde and Hohe Düne. The city center lies further upstream, in the very south of the city. Most of Rostock's inhabita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Werner Lindemann
Werner Lindemann (7 October 1926 – 9 February 1993) was a German writer and poet. He was the father of Till Lindemann, the lead vocalist of German industrial metal band Rammstein. Life Werner Lindemann was born into a family of farm workers. He grew up in Alt-Jeßnitz Gutsdorf near Wolfen in Saxony-Anhalt. In 1941, aged 15, he was apprenticed to a farmer. Between 1943 and 1945, he served in the German Army. After the end of World War II, he studied natural sciences at Halle. In 1949, he began to teach agriculture-related subjects at a vocational school. Between 1955 and 1957, he studied at the Johannes R. Becher Institute of Literature at Leipzig. There, he worked as editor of the student magazine ''Forum'', became director of the city House of Culture, and from 1959, worked as a freelance writer. He co-founded the ''Künstlerkolonie Drispeth'' ("Drispeth Artist's Colony"), where he lived for over 20 years, along with Joachim Seyppel, Joochen Laabs, and Gerhard and Christ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omar Saavedra Santis
Omar Saavedra Santis (15 July 1944 – 23 December 2021) was a Chilean writer. He spent many years in exile in Europe after the CIA-backed coup that toppled the government of Salvador Allende in 1973. He won numerous literary prizes, among them the Anna Seghers Prize. His daughter is the actress Catalina Saavedra Catalina Saavedra Pérez (born 8 January 1968) is a Chilean film, stage and television actress. She is known to international audiences for playing the title character in the 2009 film '' The Maid'', for which she received several awards and no .... Saavedra died on 23 December 2021, at the age of 77. References 1944 births 2021 deaths Place of birth missing 20th-century Chilean dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Chilean male writers Chilean male dramatists and playwrights Writers from Valparaíso {{Chile-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Eller
Rudolf Eller (9 May 1914 – 24 September 2001) was a German musicologist and professor at the University of Rostock. Life Born in Dresden, Eller was the son of violist Arthur Emil Eller and his wife Margarete. From 1934 to 1936 he studied organ, composition and choral conducting at the orchestra school of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, then until 1941 musicology, art history, history and philosophy at the universities of Leipzig and Vienna. From 1941 until the end of the war Eller was drafted into military service. He began his professional career in 1945 with a position at the Musicological Institute of the University of Leipzig. In 1947 Rudolf Eller received his doctorate in Leipzig and in 1957 he also habilitated in Leipzig. From 1952 until his transfer to the University of Rostock in 1959, he was a frequent guest lecturer in Rostock and Leipzig and was already temporarily in charge of the Rostock Institute for Musicology, where he subsequently worked as a lecturer un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manfred Schukowski
Manfred Schukowski (16 January 1928 – 14 March 2025) was a German astronomer. He taught mathematics and physics at schools and schools of education. He authored books on astronomical clocks, including a textbook and an encyclopedia, and a book about the clock of St. Mary's Church in Rostock. He calculated a new calendar disc for it, running from 2018 to 2150. Life Schukowski grew up in Stralsund where he was born and attended school from 1934 to 1944. In 1945, he became a sailor on the . After the Second World War, he worked as a Neulehrer, from 1946 at the central school in Koblentz and from 1947 to 1949 at the school in Negast. In 1948, he passed the first teacher's examination, and from 1949 to 1950 he took the subject course in mathematics/physics at the Diesterweg Institute for Teacher Training in Putbus. He passed the second teacher's examination in 1950 and was a teacher of mathematics and physics at the Torgelow secondary school from 1950 to 1953. He then attended ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock
The Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock, based in Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, is the state's largest symphony orchestra and also the orchestra of the Volkstheater Rostock. Founded in 1897, the orchestra grew to 90 musicians by 1991. They were rewarded a prize for ambitious programs in 1993. History The Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock dates back to 1897, when the Leipzig Kapellmeister Heinrich Schulz was commissioned as music director of Rostock to found an orchestra of at least 34 well-trained musicians. On 22 September 1897, the founding concert of this orchestra, named Rostocker Stadt- und Theaterorchester (Rostock municipal and theatre orchestra), took place under his direction in Rostock's then Apollo Hall with ''Les Préludes'' by Franz Liszt and Beethoven's Symphony No. 8. In 1914, the orchestra was renamed Städtisches Orchester, now managed by the city of Rostock. Gerd Puls in particular shaped the development of the orchestra in the post-war period. Durin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stubnitz (ship)
The ''Stubnitz'' is a former refrigerated ship of the GDR deep-sea fishing fleet, which has been used as a socio-cultural event location since 1992. It has been moored in Hamburg since 2013. The ship and its history With the KTS Stubnitz (SAS 501) and the KTS Granitz (SAS 502), VEB Fischfang Saßnitz opened the flotilla fishery for herring in 1965, which was typical for this decade. The two sister ships were modified versions of the Tropik, which was mass-produced for export by the Volkswerft Stralsund shipyard. Both ships had 59 crew members, a freezing capacity of up to 60 tons per day and a refrigerated hold volume of 1863 m3. From 1984 to 1992, the ships were in service as ROS 701 and ROS 702 for VEB Fischfang Rostock. The motor vessel ''Stubnitz'' is a largely original vessel from the GDR's deep-sea fishing fleet, but key areas of the ship had to be structurally modified for later use. The electromechanical machinery and its DC technology, the bridge with radio and chart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Scharnweber
Karl Scharnweber (born 1950) in Rostock is a German church musician, Jazz musician, and composer. Life After his school years in Rostock, Scharnweber began studying church music at the Evangelische Hochschule für Kirchenmusik Halle in 1969. From 1973, he worked as a church musician in various churches in Mecklenburg. In addition to this task, which he held part-time at the inner-city parish of Rostock from 1997 to 2016, he devotes himself to composing and performing new arrangements on various theological texts. As early as the 1970s, Scharnweber worked with the Weber Trio to perform his own jazz compositions. In 1987, he founded a trio by the name of, ''ChoralConcert'' with (tenor saxophone, flute) and (guitars), in order to be able to realise his musical ideas. The texts for his works are mainly provided by the theology professor from Rostock, with further texts by . The works reach beyond church music and also deal with historical and contemporary critical themes. Scha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kunsthalle Rostock
The Rostock Art Gallery () was opened on 15 May 1969 as a museum of contemporary art in Rostock in the German federal state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. It is in the grounds of the park around the Schwanenteich lake in the quarter of Reutershagen. Exhibitions *Georg Baselitz, Gotthard Graubner, Gerhard Richter, Günther Uecker — ''Credo'' — paintings * Andreas Mühe — photography *Otto Niemeyer-Holstein — ''Evviva la pittura'' — Es lebe die paintings — paintings *Richard Serra — ''Paperworks'' — sketches and printed graphic art *Walter Schels and Beate Lakotta — ''Noch mal Leben'' — photography and texts * Norbert Bisky, Peggy Buth, Katharina Grosse, Gregor Hildebrandt, Antje Majewski, Thomas Rentmeister, Thomas Scheibitz and Amelie von Wulffen — ''Portfolio Berlin 01'' — paintings and objects *Paolo Roversi — ''Studio'' — photography * A. R. Penck — ''Werke aus der Sammlung Böckmann'' — paintings *Pop-Art aus dem Reich der Mitte — ''All the g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Awards
German(s) may refer to: * Germany, the country of the Germans and German things **Germania (Roman era) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizenship in Germany, see also German nationality law **Germanic peoples (Roman era) *German diaspora * German language * German cuisine, traditional foods of Germany People * German (given name) * German (surname) * Germán, a Spanish name Places * German (parish), Isle of Man * German, Albania, or Gërmej * German, Bulgaria * German, Iran * German, North Macedonia * German, New York, U.S. * Agios Germanos, Greece Other uses * German (mythology), a South Slavic mythological being * Germans (band), a Canadian rock band * "German" (song), a 2019 song by No Money Enterprise * ''The German'', a 2008 short film * "The Germans", an episode of ''Fawlty Towers'' * ''The German'', a nickname for Congolese rebel André Kisase Ngandu See also * Germanic (disambiguatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Awards Established In 1989
An award, sometimes called a distinction, is given to a recipient as a token of recognition of excellence in a certain field. When the token is a medal, ribbon or other item designed for wearing, it is known as a decoration. An award may be described by three aspects: 1) to whom it is given to 2) what 3) by whom, all varying according to purpose. The recipient is often awarded to an individual, a student, athlete or representative of a group of people, be it an organisation, a sports team or a whole country. The award item may be a decoration or an insignia suitable for wearing, such as a medal, badge, award pin or rosette. It can also be a token object such as a certificate, diploma, championship belt, trophy or plaque. The award may also be accompanied by a title of honor, and an object of direct cash value, such as prize money or a scholarship. Furthermore, an is an award given, typically in education, that does not confer the recipient(s) a higher standing but is co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
