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Auguste Crelinger
Auguste Sophie Crelinger (widowed Stich, born Düring (7 October 1795 – 11 April 1865) was a German stage actress. Life Born in Berlin, Düring gained her first stage experience as a child with the theatre company ''Urania''. On the occasion of one of these performances she also made the acquaintance of Princess Charlotte von Karl August von Hardenberg, Hardenberg (former actress Langenthal). The latter applied to the theatre director August Wilhelm Iffland for Düring and after her successful debut on 4 May 1812 as Margarete (''Die Hagestolzen''), she was engaged and remained a member of the royal court theatre there until her last performance. In 1817, Düring married the actor Wilhelm Stich (actor), Wilhelm Stich (1794-1824) and had two daughters with him: Bertha Stich, Bertha (1818-1876) and Clara Stich, Clara (1820-1865), both of whom also went to the stage, and two sons, including Gustav (1822-1848), who died of liver disease at the age of 26 in Mumbai, Bombay, East ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silesia
Silesia (, also , ) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany. Its area is approximately , and the population is estimated at around 8,000,000. Silesia is split into two main subregions, Lower Silesia in the west and Upper Silesia in the east. Silesia has a diverse culture, including architecture, costumes, cuisine, traditions, and the Silesian language (minority in Upper Silesia). Silesia is along the Oder River, with the Sudeten Mountains extending across the southern border. The region contains many historical landmarks and UNESCO World Heritage Sites. It is also rich in mineral and natural resources, and includes several important industrial areas. The largest city and Lower Silesia's capital is Wrocław; the historic capital of Upper Silesia is Opole. The biggest metropolitan area is the Upper Silesian metropolitan area, the centre of which is Katowice. Parts of the Czech city of Ostrav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vossische Zeitung
The (''Voss's Newspaper'') was a nationally-known Berlin newspaper that represented the interests of the liberal middle class. It was also generally regarded as Germany's national newspaper of record. In the Berlin press it held a special role due to the fact that by way of its direct predecessors it was the oldest newspaper in the city. The name went back to Christian Friedrich Voss, who was its owner from 1751 to 1795, but became its official name only after 1911. It ceased publication in 1934 under pressure from the Nazi state. Beginnings in Berlin In the early 17th century Christoff Frischmann collected and passed on to interested parties the news he received as postmaster of the Electorate of Brandenburg. Over time he systematized his news gathering, and he was ultimately given a mandate to maintain contacts throughout the "Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation" and to collect news from all important locations. His first printed newspapers came out in 1617 and appeared we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Heinrich Catel
Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the biblical judges to the United Kingdom of Israel under Saul, and again in the monarchy's transition from Saul to David. He is venerated as a prophet in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In addition to his role in the Hebrew scriptures, Samuel is mentioned in Jewish rabbinical literature, in the Christian New Testament, and in the second chapter of the Quran (although Islamic texts do not mention him by name). He is also treated in the fifth through seventh books of ''Antiquities of the Jews'', written by the Jewish scholar Josephus in the first century. He is first called "the Seer" in 1 Samuel 9:9. Biblical account Family Samuel's mother was Hannah and his father was Elkanah. Elkanah lived at Ramathaim in the district of Zuph. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans-Jürgen Mende
Hans-Jürgen Mende (19 May 1945 in Berlin-Kreuzberg – 21 September 2018 in Rostock) was a German historian. He was a lecturer in the history of philosophy at the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin. After the reunification of Germany (1989/90) he became founder and managing director of the social and cultural-historical association , whose main aim was the research and spreading of the history of Berlin and Brandenburg Brandenburg (; nds, Brannenborg; dsb, Bramborska ) is a states of Germany, state in the northeast of Germany bordering the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony, as well as the country of Poland. With an ar .... Mende died in Berlin at the age of 73. Publications * (ed.): ''Lexikon ‚Alle Berliner Straßen und Plätze‘ – Von der Gründung bis zur Gegenwart.'' Neues Leben / Edition Luisenstadt, Berlin 1998, (4 volumes, 2300 pages). * with Kurt Wernicke (ed.): Reihe ''Berliner Bezirkslexikon'': ** Kathrin Chod, Herbert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hallesches Tor
The Hallesches Tor was located in today's Berlin district Kreuzberg south of Mehringplatz. Today, as a historic monument listed underground station on the site of the former gate bears the name ''Hallesches Tor''. It is a major transfer point for the underground lines / (here as Hochbahn) and as well as the bus lines 248 (Berlin Ostbahnhof - Breitenbachplatz via Südkreuz) and M41 (Hauptbahnhof via Potsdamer Platz - Baumschulenstraße). The station is connected by the ''Hallesche-Tor-Brücke'' with the ''Blücherplatz'' to the south. The Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek and the nearby Jewish Museum contribute to the heavy visitor traffic in the area around the ''Hallesches Tor''. History It is named after the historic and no longer existing ''Hallesche Tor'' of the Berlin Customs Wall, which replaced the ''Berlin city wall'' in the 18th century. The gate was located in the south of Berlin between the Wassertor and the Potsdamer Tor and formed the exit gate to the Prussian Halle an der ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cemeteries In Front Of The Hallesches Tor
A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a burial ground and originally applied to the Roman catacombs. The term ''graveyard'' is often used interchangeably with cemetery, but a graveyard primarily refers to a burial ground within a churchyard. The intact or cremated remains of people may be interred in a grave, commonly referred to as burial, or in a tomb, an "above-ground grave" (resembling a sarcophagus), a mausoleum, columbarium, niche, or other edifice. In Western cultures, funeral ceremonies are often observed in cemeteries. These ceremonies or rites of passage differ according to cultural practices and religious beliefs. Modern cemeteries often include crematoria, and some grounds previously used for both, continue as crematoria as a principal use long after the intermen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Google Books
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.The basic Google book link is found at: https://books.google.com/ . The "advanced" interface allowing more specific searches is found at: https://books.google.com/advanced_book_search Books are provided either by publishers and authors through the Google Books Partner Program, or by Google's library partners through the Library Project. Additionally, Google has partnered with a number of magazine publishers to digitize their archives. The Publisher Program was first known as Google Print when it was introduced at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2004. The Google Books Library Project, which scans works in the collections of library partners and adds them to the digital invent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirk Böttcher
Dirk Böttcher (13 October 1921 – 23 January 2011) was a German printer master, author and president of the association of Friends of the Historisches Museum Hannover. Life Böttcher was born in Hanover. He passed his Abitur at the and was drafted to the Wehrmacht, serving until 1945. In 1948 he became a master printing teacher and received the Betriebleiter diploma of the Meisterschule für Deutschlands Buchdrucker in Munich. Until 1964, Böttcher was head of a printing shop in São Paulo. He then was associate of the Carl Küster printing company in Hanover. He was a long-term president of the association of Friends of the Historisches Museum Hannover. Böttcher died at age 89 in Hanover..Obituary 29 January 2011 Publications Böttcher is co-author of the following works: * Klaus Mlyne ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Thielen
Hugo Thielen (born 1946) is a German freelance author and editor, who is focused on the history of Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony, in a lexicon of the city, another one especially of its art and culture, and a third of biographies. He co-authored a book about Jewish personalities in Hanover's history. Life Thielen studied German language and literature, philosophy and education at the University of Bonn from 1966, completing with the Staatsexamen in 1971. He has lived in Hanover from 1973, working as editor and author for various publishing houses. He worked for , a publisher mainly of school readers, until 1981, for the Th. Schäfer Verlag until 1995, also for the Postskriptum Verlag, for Hirschgraben, a publisher of school readers in Frankfurt am Main, for in Lüneburg and Springe, and for . From 1983 to 1995 he was a freelance music critic for the ''Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung'' (HAZ). He is head of a Verlagsbüro, an office for freelance writers. Publications T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auguste Von Bärndorf
Auguste von Bärndorf (complete name: von Bärndorff von Bauerhorst) (11 March 1823 – 8 March 1911) was a German stage actress.Hugo Thielen: ''Bärndorf(f) von Bauerhorst, Auguste von.'' In ''Hannoversches Biographisches ...'' (see literature) Life Born in Berlin, Bärndorff grew up on her parents' estate near Berlin. At the age of 16, after examining her talent and following a letter of recommendation from the actress Charlotte von Hagn, she received acting lessons from Auguste Crelinger. In 1846, she made her debut as Philippine in ''100 Years Ago'' at the Königliches Schauspielhaus Berlin and was subsequently engaged in Oldenburg. From 1848 to 1857, Bärndorf played as an Imperial Court Actress in Saint Petersburg, then went to Hanover in 1857 and remained there as a leading member of the ''Court Theatre'' celebrated actress. From 1868, she appeared only sporadically, taking her stage farewell in 1870. Bärndorf enjoyed success especially in classical lover roles, but a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koordinierungsstelle Für Kulturgutverluste
The Koordinierungsstelle für Kulturgutverluste (English: "Coordination Center for Lost Cultural Assets"), also known as the ''Koordinierungsstelle Magdeburg'' (English: "Magdeburg Coordination Center"), is an institution of the German federal and state governments at the Saxony-Anhalt Ministry of Culture and is the central German institution for the documentation of lost and found cultural assets looted by the Nazis. Established in 2001, the Koordinierungsstelle's ''Lost Art Database'' documents and publishes lost and found reports by institutions and private individuals. It operates on a cooperative basis with the international Art Loss Register. History The Koordinierungsstelle was first established in 1994 in Bremen as an institution for the German states to document the institutional losses of cultural goods during the Second World War. The center thereby took over an operation that was carried out by German Ministry of the Interior since the 1950s. Originally they dealt wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
