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Lustig
Lustig is a surname, and may refer to: * Aaron Lustig (born 1956), American film and television actor * Alessandro Lustig (1857–1937), Austro-Italian pathologist * Alvin Lustig (1915–1955), American designer * Arnošt Lustig (1926–2011), Czech Jewish author * Billy Lustig (died 1913), American gang leader * Bob Lustig, General Manager of the Buffalo Bills * Branko Lustig (1932–2019), Croatian film producer * main character in the fairy tale '' Brother Lustig'' * Eugenia Sacerdote de Lustig (1910–2011), Argentine physician * Friedrich Lustig (1912–1989), Estonian Buddhist monk * Fritz Lustig (1919–2017), German-Jewish emigrant to England during the Nazi era * Jo Lustig (1925–1999), American music entrepreneur * John Lustig (born 1953), American comics writer * Mikael Lustig (born 1986), Swedish footballer * Nora Lustig, Argentinian professor of Latin American economics * Peter Lustig (1937–2016), German television presenter and children's author * Robin L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brother Lustig
"Brother Lustig" (''Bruder Lustig'') Grimms' Fairy Tales, KHM 81 is a lengthy German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and published in the first edition of ''Grimms' Fairy Tales, Kinder- und Hausmärchen'' (''Grimm's Fairy Tales'') in 1812. It contains elements of Aarne–Thompson classification systems, Aarne–Thompson type 785: Who Ate the Lamb's Heart?; type 753A: The Unsuccessful Resuscitation; type 330B: The Devil in the Sack; and type 330: Entering Heaven by a Trick.''Brother Lustig'' – The Grimm Brothers Project – University of Pittsburgh Story Brother Lustig meets St Peter [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Lustig
Victor Lustig (; January 4, 1890 – March 11, 1947) was a con artist from Austria-Hungary, who undertook a criminal career that involved conducting scams across Europe and the United States during the early 20th century. Lustig is widely regarded as one of the most notorious con artists of his time, and is infamous for being "the man who sold the Eiffel Tower twice" and for conducting the "Rumanian Box" scam. Early life Lustig was born in Hostinné, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary. He learned easily throughout his youth, becoming a quick-study, which also proved to be a source of trouble. At the age of 19, while taking a break from his studies in Paris, Lustig took to gambling. During this time he also sustained a defining scar on the left side of his face from the jealous boyfriend of a woman he consorted with. Upon leaving school, Lustig applied both his quick wit and sizing up of a situation and his fluency in several languages to embark on a life of crime, eventually focusing o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikael Lustig
Carl Mikael Lustig (; born 13 December 1986) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a right-back or centre-back. Beginning his career with Umeå FC in 2004, he went on to represent GIF Sundsvall, Rosenborg BK, Celtic, and Gent before retiring with AIK in 2022. A full international for Sweden between 2008 and 2021, he won 94 caps for his country and represented Sweden at three UEFA European Championships as well as at the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Club career Early career Lustig began his career with Sandåkerns SK. He then moved to Umeå FC, where he played for two years. GIF Sundsvall Lustig moved to Allsvenskan club GIF Sundsvall for the 2005 season, scoring twice in eight games. GIF Sundsvall were relegated the following season to the Superettan. They were in that division for the next two years, with Lustig playing in 57 of their 60 games. For the 2008 season the team was back in the Allsvenskan and Lustig continued to be a regular in the team, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alvin Lustig
Alvin Lustig (February 8, 1915 - December 5, 1955) was an American book designer, graphic designer and typeface designer. Lustig has been honored by the American Institute of Graphic Arts and the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame for his significant contributions to American design. Biography He was born on February 8, 1915, to Harry Lustig and Jeanette Schamus in Denver, Colorado. Lustig studied design at Los Angeles City College, Art Center College of Design, but did not obtain a degree. In 1935, he spent three months studying independently with architect Frank Lloyd Wright at his Taliesin studio. The next year, he worked with French painter Jean Charlot. He began his career designing book jackets in 1937 in Los Angeles, California. In 1944 he became Director of Visual Research for Look Magazine. He also designed for Fortune, and Girl Scouts of the United States. He appeared in filmmaker Maya Deren's '' At Land'' (1944), a 15-minute silent experimental film. Lustig's char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Branko Lustig
Branko Lustig (10 June 1932 – 14 November 2019) was a Croatian film producer best known for winning Academy Awards for Best Picture for '' Schindler's List'' and ''Gladiator''. He is the only person born in the territory of present-day Croatia to have won two Academy Awards. Early life Lustig was born in Osijek, Kingdom of Yugoslavia to a Croatian Jewish family. His father, Mirko, was head-waiter at an Osijek Café Central, and his mother, Vilma (Gütter), was a housewife. Lustig's grandparents, unlike his parents, were religious and he regularly attended the local synagogue with them. During World War II, as a child he was imprisoned for two years in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. Most members of his family perished in the death camps throughout Europe, including his grandmother who was killed in the gas chamber, while his father was killed in Čakovec on 15 March 1945. Lustig's mother survived the Holocaust and was reunited with him after the war. On the day of the liberatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nora Lustig
Nora Lustig (born January 13, 1951) is the Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics and the Director of the CEQ Institute at Tulane University, and a non-resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development and the Inter-American Dialogue. Nora Lustig was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina and has spent most of her adult life in the United States and Mexico. She received her doctorate in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. Career and awards Lustig was the lead author of the ''World Development Report 2000/1 “Attacking Poverty”'' (World Bank). Analyzing the dynamics of the Mexican economy has been the other main focus of her research. Her study ''Mexico, the Remaking of an Economy'' (Brookings Institution, 1992 and 1998) was selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book. As co-founder and president of LACEA (Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association), she played a pivotal role in the creation and consolidation of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Lustig
Robin Francis Lustig (born 30 August 1948, London) is a British journalist and radio broadcaster, who has presented programmes for the BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4. Family Lustig was born in Stoke Newington, London, to Jewish refugees. Fritz Lustig, Fritz, his father, who had fled from Germany in 1939, was in the British intelligence corps for whom he was a clandestine listener to German Prisoner of war, prisoners of war. His mother, Susan née Cohn, met his father at Wilton Park Estate, Wilton Park where they were both stationed. "She did clerical work", the elder Lustig told ''The Jewish Chronicle'' in 2012, adding "women did not listen in – only men did". Lustig has recounted that his maternal grandmother was refused asylum in the UK, and was deported to Lithuania by the Nazis in 1941, where she was The Holocaust in Lithuania, murdered by pro-Nazi partisans. Career After graduating in politics from the University of Sussex, Lustig became a foreign correspondent in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Lustig
Friedrich Voldemar Lustig (monastic name Ashin Ananda; 26 April 1912, Narva - 4 April 1989, Yangon) was an Estonian Buddhist monk, poet, poetry translator and publicist. In 1952, the newspaper Stockholms-Tidningen Estonia wrote about him quite aptly that "as a serious Buddhist and an even more serious disciple of Tennisons, he (i.e. Lustig) follows him everywhere and has been a faithful support and advocate in all the difficulties of recent years". Together they migrated to Southeast Asia in 1931, living first in Thailand and then, from 1949, in Burma, which remained their last home. Lustig served Tennisons faithfully until the latter's death in 1962. During Tennisons' lifetime, he called himself "the student and secretary of the Buddhist Archbishop of Latvia" and, less frequently, "the Episcopal Vicar for Estonia". After the death of Karl Tõnisson ( Brother Vahindra), he inherited the semi-official episcopal title of his teacher. Biography Early life Friedrich Voldemar Lu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Lustig
William Lustig was an American gang leader and labor racketeer. He was one of several independent gang leaders operating in Manhattan's Lower East Side and, along with Abe "Little Rhodey" Roch and Philip "Pinchy" Paul, led a small coalition of gangs to break the monopoly held by Joseph "Joe the Greaser" Rosenzweig and Benjamin "Dopey Benny" Fein during the first "Labor Slugger War". Lustig was also employed as a clerk and whose brother was a detective attached to the office of District Attorney Charles S. Whitman."Shoot The Brother Of Whitman Sleuth; Gangsters Trail Lustig to 'Humpty' Jackson's Saloon and Wound Him Mortally". ''New York Times.'' August 5, 1913 Biography On the night of August 4, 1913, Lustig was followed by four unidentified men in a car while walking down Third Avenue. Lustig did not notice his pursuers and, upon reaching 14th Street, he walked into a coffee house owned by Humpty Jackson. Two of the gunmen followed Lustig into the establishment where, seei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo Lustig
Joseph George Lustig (October 21, 1925 – May 29, 1999) was an American music entrepreneur. Early career Lustig was born on October 21, 1925, in Coney Island, New York, the youngest child of five to Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrants from the Polish-Russian border. At the age of 12 he saw Billie Holiday singing in a club and fell in love with music. During World War II, Lustig served as a medical orderly in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater. He became an apprentice music journalist and press agent, meeting with entertainers such as Gloria Swanson and Mel Brooks. His early clients included Nat King Cole, the Birdland (New York jazz club), Birdland jazz club, and The Weavers. In 1957, Lustig hired Joyce Johnson (author), Joyce Glassman as an assistant; Glassman introduced him to her friends in a Greenwich Village bar, Cedar Tavern, the poets Gregory Corso and Allen Ginsberg and her then-boyfriend, an unknown writer named Jack Kerouac. After hours of conversation about the world of pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnošt Lustig
Arnošt Lustig (; 21 December 1926 – 26 February 2011) was a renowned Czech Jewish author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays whose works have often involved the Holocaust. Life and work Lustig was born in Prague. As a Jewish boy in Czechoslovakia during World War II, he was sent in 1942 to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, from where he was later transported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, followed by time in the Buchenwald concentration camp. In 1945, he escaped from a train carrying him to the Dachau concentration camp when the engine was destroyed by an American fighter-bomber. He returned to Prague in time to take part in the May 1945 uprising against the German occupation. After the war, he studied journalism at Charles University in Prague and then worked for a number of years at Radio Prague. He worked as a journalist in Israel at the time of its War of Independence where he met his future wife, who at the time was a volunteer with the Hagana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Lustig
Peter Fritz Willi Lustig (; 27 October 1937 – 23 February 2016) was a German television presenter, voice actor and author of children's books who has become especially well known as leading actor in the weekly children's television show ''Löwenzahn'', which he hosted from 1979 up until 2006. During its first year the show was called ''Pusteblume''. He also hosted the show '' Mittendrin'' (1987–95), narrated the film ' (2007) and provided the German voice for the computer game character '' Gary Gadget.'' Biography Lustig was not a trained actor or host. He originally qualified as a broadcast engineer and an electronics engineer. Working for American Forces Network as a radio engineer in 1963, he was responsible for the recording of US President John F. Kennedy's speech ''Ich bin ein Berliner'' held in Berlin. Starting in 1970, he began appearing in front of the camera. His first appearance was a short sketch in the popular German children's show '' Die Sendung mit der Mau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
