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Beate Schmeichel-Falkenberg
Beate Schmeichel-Falkenberg, real name Beate Hartung (20 June 1926 – 17 September 2017) was a German teacher and author. Life Born in Hamm, Schmeichel-Falkenberg studied German and English at the University of Göttingen and then worked as a journalist for the BBC in England. Later she returned to Münster and worked as a teacher. With her second husband Manfred Schmeichel, she founded a special education school in Mössingen, which is part of today's . Schmeichel-Falkenberg worked for some time at Westdeutscher Rundfunk as a presenter in the programme and at the University of Münster at the Institutum Judaicum. She was co-founder of the and the . In the "Society for Exile Research" she headed the working group "Women in Exile". Schmeickel-Falkenberg lived in Mössingen where she died at the age of 91 and was buried in the local cemetery. Publications * with Siglinde Bolbecher and the : ''Frauen im Exil'', Tagungsband, Klagenfurt : Drava, 2007 * with Ursula Wiedenman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamm
Hamm (, Latin: ''Hammona'') is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the northeastern part of the Ruhr area. As of 2016 its population was 179,397. The city is situated between the A1 motorway and A2 motorway. Hamm railway station is an important hub for rail transport and renowned for its distinctive station building. History Coat of arms The coat of arms has been in use in its present form for about 750 years. It shows the markish chessboard ("märkischen Schachbalken") in red and silver on a golden field. Originally it was the founders' coat of arms, i. e. the Counts of Mark. The chessboard and the colours are often displayed in the coats of arms of further towns founded by that family line. Similarly, the colours of the city are red and white. Overview The name ''Ham'' means "corner" in the old Low German dialect spoken at that time. In the old times the name ''thom Hamme'' would be used, which evolved slowly into its modern form ''Hamm''. The name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siglinde Bolbecher
Siglinde Bolbecher (18 June 1952 – 6 July 2012) was an Austrian historian, exile researcher and poet. Life Born in Vienna, Bolbecher studied theatre, English, history and philosophy at the University of Vienna. In the early 1980s, she was co-founder (and later vice-chairwoman) of the and of the , whose fate she also helped to steer until her death. From 2002, she was head of the women's working group in the Austrian Society for Exile Research. Bolbecher was a freelancer at the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance for several years and taught at the Federal Academy for Social Work in Vienna. She co-edited the journal for culture of exile and resistance ''Zwischenwelt'', the ''Book Series on Anti-Fascist Literature and Exile Literature – Studies and Texts'' and the ''Lexicon of Austrian Exile Literature'', which was worked on for 15 years. She was particularly interested in women authors, and produced works on and with Stella Kadmon, Elisabeth Freundlich, Stella Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1926 Births
Events January * January 3 – Theodoros Pangalos (general), Theodoros Pangalos declares himself dictator in Greece. * January 8 **Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Kingdom of Hejaz, Hejaz. ** Bảo Đại, Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuy ascends the throne, the last monarch of Vietnam. * January 12 – Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll premiere their radio program ''Sam 'n' Henry'', in which the two white performers portray two black characters from Harlem looking to strike it rich in the big city (it is a precursor to Gosden and Correll's more popular later program, ''Amos 'n' Andy''). * January 16 – A BBC comic radio play broadcast by Ronald Knox, about a workers' revolution, causes a panic in London. * January 21 – The Belgian Parliament accepts the Locarno Treaties. * January 26 – Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrates a mechanical television system at his London laboratory for members of the Royal Institution and a report ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Journalists
German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) **Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law **Germanic peoples (Roman times) * German language **any of the Germanic languages * 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 (other) * Germ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Women Writers
This is a list of women writers who were born in Germany or whose writings are closely associated with it. A * Maximiliane Ackers (1896–1982), lesbian actress, novelist, scriptwriter * Martha Albrand (1914–1981), novelist * Helene Adler (1849–1923), German Jewish poet and educator * Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), German Jewish political theorist * Bettina von Arnim (1785–1859), writer, novelist * Ludmilla Assing (1785–1859), short story writer, biographer * Anita Augspurg (1857–1943), feminist, lawyer, actress * Elisabeth Augustin (1903–2001), poet, short story writer, novelist, wrote in German and Dutch * Frau Ava (c.1060–1127), first woman writer in German B * Ingrid Bachér (born 1930), playwright, screenwriter * Bertha Badt-Strauss (1885–1970), journalist, biographer, translator * Amalie Baisch (1859–1904), writer of etiquette guide books * Zsuzsa Bánk (born 1965), novelist * Gertrud Bäumer (1873–1954), writer, feminist * Sybille Bedford (1873–19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schwäbisches Tagblatt
The ''Schwäbisches Tagblatt'' is a daily newspaper for Tübingen, in print since 1945, as well as the publishing house that prints it. With 40,820 paid subscriptions in 2012, it is the newspaper with the highest circulation in the district of Tübingen. The Tübingen editorial and local news from field offices in Rottenburg am Neckar (''Rottenburg Post''), Mössingen (''Steinlach-Bote'') and Reutlingen make up only the part of the daily newspaper that reports on the region of Neckar-Alb. For the outer national portion (''Mantel''), Ulm-based Südwest Presse is used, which makes up almost 50 percent of the newspaper. Of all the newspapers that use the same outer "jacket", Schwäbisches Tagblatt's circulation is second only to the Südwest Presse daily newspaper, which covers Ulm, Neu-Ulm, Alb-Donau-Kreis and Landkreis Neu-Ulm. There are about 30 Südwest Presse-associated newspapers, concentrated in Baden-Württemberg, with a small presence in Bavaria. The publishing house als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inge Hansen-Schaberg
Inge Hansen-Schaberg (born 11 March 1954) is a German educational researcher. Life Born in Flensburg, Hansen-Schaberg studied German and biology at the from 1974 and passed the state examinations in 1980 and 1983. She then worked at a West Berlin primary and secondary school until 1989. Hansen-Schaberg was awarded a doctorate in 1991 with her dissertation ''Minna Specht – eine Sozialistin in der Landerziehungsheimbewegung (1918–1951). Untersuchung zur pädagogischen Biographie einer Reformpädagogin''. at the TU Berlin and his habilitation in 1998 at the University of Potsdam. She became a private lecturer at the Institute of Educational Science at the TU Berlin in 1998. In 2003, she was appointed as an extraordinary professor. Her work focuses on 20th century education, girls' education and coeducation, pedagogical biographies and childhood, youth and school in exile. She conducts research on the Austrian pedagogue Ernst Papanek. Hansen-Schaberg has been head of the worki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simone Barck
Simone Barck (July 1944 – 16 July 2007) was a German contemporary historian and literary scholar. A principal focus of her research was on Literature and the Publishing Sector in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany 1949-1990). Life Barck was born in Stolp (Pomerania) towards the end of July 1944 during the final year of the Second World War. Following the ethnic cleansing that defined the mid-1940s in the region she ended up in what became from 1949 the German Democratic Republic. She attended school in Rostock before moving on to study Germanistics and Slavic studies at Rostock and Greifswald. After this she moved to Berlin and became a Cultural Official (''Kulturreferentin'') at the Humboldt University. In 1970 she joined the newly created Central Institute for Literary History (''Zentralinstitut für Literaturgeschichte'' / ZIL) in order to work in its Germanistics department. Her qualifications in Germanistics were fairly mainstream in the East Germ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Institutum Judaicum
The Institutum Judaicum was a special academic course for Protestant theologians who desired to prepare themselves for missionary work among the Jews. The first of its kind was founded at the University of Halle, by Professor Callenberg in 1724. The great interest which Franz Delitzsch took in the conversion of the Jews to Christianity prompted him to establish a similar course at the University of Leipzig in 1886, and another was founded by Prof. Hermann L. Strack in Berlin the same year. The institutes of Leipzig and Berlin have courses in New Testament theology with reference to the Messianic passages in the Old Testament, and they also give instruction in rabbinic literature; they further publish works helpful to their cause, as biographies of famous converts, controversial pamphlets, autobiographies of converted Jews, and occasionally scientific tracts. The Berlin institute has published Strack's "Introduction to the Talmud," his editions of some tractates of the Mishnah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Göttingen
The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen, (german: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, known informally as Georgia Augusta) is a public research university in the city of Göttingen, Germany. Founded in 1734 by George II, King of Great Britain and Elector of Hanover, and starting classes in 1737, the Georgia Augusta was conceived to promote the ideals of the Enlightenment. It is the oldest university in the state of Lower Saxony and the largest in student enrollment, which stands at around 31,600. Home to many noted figures, it represents one of Germany's historic and traditional institutions. According to an official exhibition held by the University of Göttingen in 2002, 44 Nobel Prize winners had been affiliated with the University of Göttingen as alumni, faculty members or researchers by that year alone. The University of Göttingen was previously supported by the German Universities Excellence Initiative, holds memberships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Münster
The University of Münster (german: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, WWU) is a public university, public research university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. With more than 43,000 students and over 120 fields of study in 15 departments, it is Germany's fifth largest university and one of the foremost centers of German intellectual life. The university offers a wide range of subjects across the sciences, social sciences and the humanities. Several courses are also taught in English, including PhD, PhD programmes as well as postgraduate courses in geoinformatics, geospational technologies or information systems. Professors and former students have won ten Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, Leibniz Prizes, the most prestigious as well as the best-funded prize in Europe, one Fields Medal and two Nobel Prize, Nobel Prizes. The WWU has also been successful in the German government's German Universities Excellence Initiative, Excellence Init ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westdeutscher Rundfunk
Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln (''West German Broadcasting Cologne''; WDR, ) is a German public-broadcasting institution based in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia with its main office in Cologne. WDR is a constituent member of the consortium of German public-broadcasting institutions, ARD. As well as contributing to the output of the national television channel '' Das Erste'', WDR produces the regional television service WDR Fernsehen (formerly known as WDF and West3) and six regional radio networks. History Origins The Westdeutsche Funkstunde AG (WEFAG) was established on 15 September 1924. There was a substantial purge of left wing staff following the Nazi seizure of power in 1933. This included Ernst Hardt, Hans Stein and Walter Stern. WDR was created in 1955, when Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR) was split into Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) – covering Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, and Hamburg – and Westdeutscher Rundfunk, responsible for Nort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
