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Willi
Willi is a given name, nickname (often a short form or hypocorism of Wilhelm) and surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Willi Apel (1893–1988), German-American musicologist * Willi Boskovsky (1909–1991), Austrian violinist and conductor * Willi Forst (1903–1980), born Wilhelm Anton Frohs, Austrian actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer and singer * Willi Hennig (1913–1976), German biologist * Willi Liebherr (born 1947), German-Swiss businessman and billionaire * Willi Smith (1948–1987), African-American fashion designer * Willi Tiefel, German footballer * Willi Ziegler (1929–2002), German paleontologist Nickname * Willi Graf (1918–1943), member of the White Rose anti-Nazi resistance group under consideration for sainthood * Willi Münzenberg (1889–1940), German communist political activist and publisher * Willi Orbán (born 1992), German-Hungarian footballer * Willi Ostermann (1876–1936), German lyricist, composer and sing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willi Smith
Willi Donnell Smith (February 29, 1948 – April 17, 1987) was an American fashion designer. At the time of his death, Smith was regarded as one of the most successful African-American designers in the fashion industry. His company, WilliWear Limited, launched in 1976 and by 1986 grossed over $25 million in sales. After Smith's death, his business partner, Laurie Mallet, continued the line with various designers creating collections. Without Smith, the company floundered and due to financial problems and poor sales, WilliWear Limited ceased production in 1990. WilliWear was the first clothing company to create womenswear and menswear under the same label. The accessibility and affordability of Smith's clothing helped to democratize fashion. Early years Smith was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Willie Lee Smith, an iron worker, and June Eileen Smith, a homemaker, both of whom were extremely clothes-conscious. Smith's grandmother was the housekeeper for a family that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willi Orbán
Willi Thomas Orbán (born 3 November 1992) is a professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Defender (association football)#Centre-back, centre-back for and Captain (association football), captains Bundesliga club RB Leipzig. Born in Germany, he plays for the Hungary national football team, Hungary national team. Personal life Orbán was born and grew up in Kaiserslautern, Germany to a Hungarian people, Hungarian father and a mother of Poles in Germany, Polish descent. His parents split up when he was two, leaving his mother to raise him and his sister, Sandra. Speaking of his childhood in 2017, Orbán said: "when I was a kid at home, I shot everything with my football. A few flower vases and bottles, nothing wild, but it was enough that Mama said: The boy has too much energy, we prefer to put it in a football club. Since she has done everything right." He revealed that his father was a karate master in his youth. Because of his Hungarian father, Orbán has a Hun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willi Graf
Wilhelm "Willi" Graf (2 January 1918 – 12 October 1943) was a German member of the White Rose resistance group in Nazi Germany. The Catholic Church in Germany included Graf in their list of martyrs of the 20th century. In 2017, his cause for beatification was opened. He was given the title Servant of God, the first step toward possible sainthood. Early life Willi Graf was born in Kuchenheim near Euskirchen. In 1922, his family moved to Saarbrücken, where his father ran a wine wholesaler and managed the Johannishof, the second largest banquet hall in the city.Saarbrücker Zeitung (1. January 2018)So lebte Willi Graf im Saarland/ref> Graf attended school at the ''Ludwigs gymnasium''. It was not long before he joined, at the age of eleven, the ''Bund Neudeutschland'', a Catholic youth movement for young men in schools of higher learning, which was banned after Hitler and the Nazis came to power in 1933. In 1934, Graf joined the ''Grauer Orden'' ("Grey Order"), another Catho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William (given Name)
William is a masculine given name of Germanic origin. It became popular in England after the Norman conquest in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will or Wil, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, Billie, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie). Female forms include Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the German given name ''Wilhelm''. Both ultimately descend from Proto-Germanic ''*Wiljahelmaz'', with a direct cognate also in the Old Norse name ''Vilhjalmr'' and a West Germanic borrowing into Medieval Latin ''Willelmus''. The Proto-Germanic name is a compound of *''wiljô'' "will, wish, desire" and *''helmaz'' "helm, helmet".Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willi Hennig
Emil Hans Willi Hennig (20 April 1913 – 5 November 1976) was a German biologist and zoologist who is considered the founder of phylogenetic systematics, otherwise known as cladistics. In 1945 as a prisoner of war, Hennig began work on his theory of cladistics, which he published in German in 1950, with a substantially revised English translation published in 1966. With his works on evolution and systematics he revolutionised the view of the natural order of beings. As a taxonomist, he specialised in dipterans (true flies). Hennig coined the key terms synapomorphy, symplesiomorphy, and paraphyly. He also asserted, in his "auxiliary principle", that "the presence of apomorphous characters in different species 'is always reason for suspecting kinship .e., that species belong to a monophyletic group and that their origin by convergence should not be presumed a priori' (Hennig, 1953). This was based on the conviction that 'phylogenetic systematics would lose all ground on which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willi Münzenberg
Wilhelm Münzenberg (14 August 1889 – June 1940) was a German Communist activist and publisher who served as the first head of the Young Communist International from 1919 to 1921 and as a member of the Reichstag from 1924 to 1933. He also founded the famine relief and propaganda organization Workers International Relief in 1921. He was a leading propagandist for the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) during the Weimar Era, but later grew disenchanted with the USSR due to Joseph Stalin's Great Purge of the 1930s. Condemned by Stalin to be purged and arrested for treason,Koch, Stephen, ''Double Lives: Stalin, Willi Münzenberg and the Seduction of the Intellectuals'', New York: Enigma Books (2004), Revised Edition, pp. 14, 20, 77, 90–91, 333, 362 Münzenberg left the KPD and in Paris became a leader of the German émigré anti-fascism and anti-Stalinist community until forced to flee the Nazi advance into France in 1940. Arrested and imprisoned by the Daladier government in Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Willi
Herbert Willi (born 7 January 1956) is an Austrian composer of classical music, whose orchestral works, concertos and chamber music have been performed internationally and also recorded. Willi composed an opera, ''Schlafes Bruder'', for the Opernhaus Zürich. Life Willi was born in Bludenz, Vorarlberg. He studied music pedagogy and theology at the University of Innsbruck, and simultaneously bassoon and piano at the Innsbruck conservatory. From 1983, he studied composition with Helmut Eder at the Salzburg Mozarteum, then with Boguslaw Schaeffer. He lives in Sankt Anton im Montafon. Work Willi's work comprises an opera, orchestral works, and chamber music, including compositions for one player. Willi received a commission from the Salzburg Festival and the Cleveland Orchestra in 1991 for ''Konzert für Orchester''. The premiere was conducted by Christoph von Dohnányi. In 1994/95, the Opernhaus Zürich commissioned the opera ''Schlafes Bruder'' on the occasion of Austri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monika Willi
Monika Willi (; born 29 May 1968), also known as Mona Willi, is an Austrian film editor. She is best known for her collaborations with filmmakers Michael Haneke, Michael Glawogger and Barbara Albert. In 2023, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for her work on Todd Field's film '' Tár''. Early life Monika Willi was born on 29 May 1968 in Innsbruck. She is the sister of Green Party politician , who has served as the mayor of Innsbruck since May 2018. Career Willi posthumously realized and edited the material of Michael Glawogger, who died of malaria during the production of an untitled film project in Liberia in 2014. Under the title ''Untitled'', it premiered in the Panorama section at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2017. Willi created the film using the footage from Glawogger's four and a half months of shooting through the Balkans, Italy and Africa. It also incorporates excerpts from Glawogger's diary. At the 2018 Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Willi
Andreas Jonathan Willi (born 17 December 1972 in Altstätten) is a Swiss linguist, philologist, and classicist. He is currently the Diebold Professor of Comparative Philology at the University of Oxford and a professorial fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. He is one of the editors of . In 2020, he was elected a British Academy, Fellow of the British Academy. In 2019, Willi was awarded the Humboldt Prize. Academic career Willi studied Classics and Slavonic Languages and Literature at the University of Basel (Licentiate_(degree)#Switzerland, lic.phil. in 1997), and Comparative linguistics, comparative philology at the Universities of University of Lausanne, Lausanne, University of Michigan, Michigan, and University of Fribourg, Fribourg (lic.phil in 1998). He completed a doctoral degree at the University of Oxford in 2001 with a thesis on ''The languages of Aristophanes: aspects of linguistic variation in Classical Attic Greek'' under the supervision of Anna Morpurgo Davies. Durin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willi Liebherr
Willi Liebherr (born in 1947) is a German-Swiss entrepreneur, current member and former chairman of the board of Liebherr Group. Life and education Willi Liebherr grew up in Upper Swabia's, Kirchdorf an der Iller and in Biberach. He graduated as an engineer from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and lives in Nussbaumen, Switzerland. Career In 1971, he joined the family business, Liebherr Group. After the death of Hans Liebherr in 1993, Willi Liebherr led the construction machinery manufacturer together with his sister Isolde, and was chairman of the board of Liebherr-International AG in Bulle from 1999 until March 2023. His son, Jan Liebherr, became the new president of the administrative board, Willi Liebherr remained a member of the board. Honors * Honorary doctorate from the University of Freiburg, 2006 * Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, 2010 *Honorary citizenship of Kirchdorf, 2022 Wealth On the 2018 Forbes list, Isolde and Willi Liebherr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willi Ostermann
Wilhelm "Willi" Ostermann (1 October 1876 – 6 August 1936) was a lyricist, composer and singer of carnival songs and songs about Cologne Cologne ( ; ; ) is the largest city of the States of Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city pr ..., primarily in the German dialect of Kölsch. The tune ''Homesick for Cologne'' is counted amongst his most famous pieces. In the year 1949, a monument was erected to commemorate the life and works of Willi Ostermann in the Seven Mountains' Nightingale Valley of Königswinter. References * Thomas Liessem, ''Willi Ostermann. Leben und Wirken des rheinischen Volkslieddichters''. Josef Höfer Köln, 1936. 2., veränderte Auflage 1951. Neuausgabe (um Noten erweitert) als: ''Willi Ostermann – Ein Leben für den Frohgesang am Rhein''. Willi Ostermann Verlag Köln, 1958. . * Wilhelm Staffel, ''Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willi Forst
Willi Forst, born Wilhelm Anton Frohs (7 April 1903 – 11 August 1980) was an Austrian actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer and singer. As a debonair actor he was a darling of the German language, German-speaking film audiences, as a director, one of the most significant makers of the Viennese period musical melodramas and comedies of the 1930s known as ''Wiener Filme''. From the mid-1930s he also recorded many records, largely of sentimental Viennese songs, for the Odeon Records label owned by Carl Lindström AG. Biography His first major role was opposite Marlene Dietrich in the silent film ''Café Elektric'' in 1927. However, he was best known for his characters in light musicals, which rapidly made him a star. He developed the genre of the Viennese Film with writer Walter Reisch in the 1930s, beginning with the Franz Schubert melodrama ''Leise flehen meine Lieder'' (1933) which became an iconic role for the actor Hans Jaray and ''Maskerade (film), Maskerade'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
