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Birte Bang
Birte is a feminine given name which may refer to: * Birte Bruhns (born 1970), German retired middle-distance runner * Birte Christoffersen (born 1924), Danish retired diver * Birte Glang (born 1980), German actress, brand ambassador, fashion model and lawyer * Birte Høeg Brask (1918–1997), Danish resistance fighter and physician * Birte Melsen (born 1939), Danish orthodontist * Birte Ove-Petersen (), Danish swimmer * Birte Siech (born 1967), German rower * Birte Siim (born 1945), Danish political scientist specializing in gender studies * Birte Tove (1945–2016), Danish actress and nude model * Birte Weigang (born 1968), East German former swimmer * Birte Weiss (born 1941), Danish journalist and politician * Birte Weiß (born 1971), German footballer See also * Birt Birt is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Charlie Birt (born 1942), Canadian politician * Fred Birt (1886–1956), Welsh rugby union player * Jill Birt (), keyboardist in Australian band The T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birte Bruhns
Birte Bruhns (born 4 November 1970) is a retired German runner who specialized in the 800 metres. She started her career at the SC Empor Rostock, after the German reunification she moved to Cologne where she represented the sports club ASV Köln, and became German champion in 1993. Her personal best time was 1:59.17 minutes, achieved in July 1988 in East Berlin East Berlin was the ''de facto'' capital city of East Germany from 1949 to 1990. Formally, it was the Allied occupation zones in Germany, Soviet sector of Berlin, established in 1945. The American, British, and French sectors were known as .... Achievements References * 1970 births Living people German female middle-distance runners SC Empor Rostock athletes ASV Köln athletes 20th-century German women East German female middle-distance runners {{Germany-middledistance-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birte Christoffersen
Birte Christoffersen (later Hanson, then Ekberg; born 28 March 1924) is a Danish retired diver. She competed in the 3 m springboard and 10 m platform for Denmark at the 1948 Summer Olympics and for Sweden at the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad ( it, Giochi della XVII Olimpiade) and commonly known as Rome 1960 ( it, Roma 1960), were an international multi-sport event held .... She won a bronze medal in the platform in 1948 and finished in 8–12th place on other occasions. At the European championships Christoffersen won bronze medals in both the platform and springboard in 1950, competing for Denmark. In 1953 she moved to Sweden, and next year won silver medals in both events. She earned one more bronze medal in 1958, in the platform. References External links * 1924 births Living people Danish female divers Swedish female divers Olympic divers of Denma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birte Glang
Birte Glang (born 15 April 1980) is a German actress, brand ambassador, and fashion model. She started her career as a series regular on the award winning TV soap opera ''Unter uns''. In 2012, she starred in the German James Bond parody ''Agent Ranjid rettet die Welt.'' In 2014, she was booked for a film with the comedian Nick Offerman. Early life The daughter of two teachers is the youngest of three siblings. Glang received her high school diploma ('' Abitur'') from the Willy-Brandt-Gymnasium in Oer-Erkenschwick, Germany. She went on to study law at the Ruhr University Bochum. During her studies, Glang supported herself by working as a model, booking jobs in Milan, Barcelona, Istanbul, Paris, Los Angeles and Vienna. In 2003, she received a Fashion TV Model Award nomination for 'Best Upcoming Model'. After receiving her law degree in 2006, Glang decided to trade in her lawyer robes for a career as a professional actress. Inspired by roles she booked as a model in TV commerc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birte Høeg Brask
Birte Høeg Brask nicknamed Trille (1918–1997) was a Danish resistance fighter and physician. During the German occupation of Denmark in World War II, she became a member of the Danish resistance. As a communist, after Germany attacked the Soviet Union in 1941, together with her husband Kjartan Munck, she contributed to the first clandestine publications in Denmark. She went on to collaborate with the writer and resistance fighter Børge Houmann, working as a courier, organizing illegal meetings and contributing to the resistance papers ''Land og Folk'' and ''Ugens Nyt''. Continuing her studies after the war, she became a specialist at the children's psychiatric hospital in Aarhus. From 1970 until her retirement in 1988, she held the position of chief consultant. Høeg Brask is remembered in particular for her ground-breaking contributions to autism. Early life and education Birte Høeg Brask (nicknamed Trille) was born in the Copenhagen district of Frederiksberg on 23 November ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birte Melsen
Birte Melsen (born 9 June 1939) is an orthodontist from Denmark. She was the past President of European Orthodontic Society in 2004 and has made significant contributions in the field of orthodontics with her research, publishing about 350 papers in scientific journals on topics related to Anchorage (orthodontics) and adult orthodontics. Life and career Birthe Melsen was born in Aabenraa, Denmark in 1939. She received her dental degree in 1964 from Aarhus University in Aarhus, Denmark. Melsen specialized in orthodontics in the year of 1971 and received her orthodontic certificate in 1974 from Royal Dental College. She became Head of Department of Orthodontics at the same college in 1975 and is currently serving at that position. Melsen also works as part-time at a private practice in Lübeck, Germany. She has published a textbook called ''Adult Orthodontics'' in 2012. Awards * Order of the Dannebrog, 1st degree, 2000 * Robert Strange Award in Orthodontics, 1986 * Jarabak Scholars ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birte Ove-Petersen
Birte Ove-Petersen was a Danish swimmer who won three medals at the 1938 European Aquatics Championships. She was part of the Danish team that won the 4×100 m freestyle relay, setting a new world record ''A New World Record'' is the sixth studio album by Electric Light Orchestra (ELO). It was released in October 1976 on United Artists Records in the U.S., and on 19 November 1976 on Jet Records in the United Kingdom. ''A New World Record'' mar ... and breaking their own world record of the same year. References Danish female swimmers European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming {{Denmark-swimming-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birte Siech
Birte Siech (born 19 March 1967 in East Berlin East Berlin was the ''de facto'' capital city of East Germany from 1949 to 1990. Formally, it was the Allied occupation zones in Germany, Soviet sector of Berlin, established in 1945. The American, British, and French sectors were known as ...) is a German rower. References * * 1967 births Living people East German female rowers German female rowers Rowers from Berlin People from East Berlin Rowers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for East Germany Olympic bronze medalists for Germany Olympic rowers for Germany Olympic rowers for East Germany Olympic medalists in rowing World Rowing Championships medalists for East Germany Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics {{Germany-Olympic-medalist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birte Siim
Birte Siim (born 1945) is a Danish political scientist specializing in gender studies. From 2004 to 2018, she was professor at the Institute for Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg University where she managed FREIA, the Centre of Gender Research. Her numerous books and publications have addressed gender and politics from a European perspective. In addition to coordinating European Union projects, she has been active in the ECPR Standing Group on Gender and Politics. Biography Born on 27 November 1945 in Esbjerg, Birte Siim studied political science at Aarhus University, graduating in 1974. In 1975, she joined the university's Department of Community Development and Planning. In 1985, she was a visiting professor at Stanford University's Center for Research on Women and, in spring 2003, at Bristol University , mottoeng = earningpromotes one's innate power (from Horace, ''Ode 4.4'') , established = 1595 – Merchant Venturers School1876 – Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birte Tove
Birte Tove ( née Birte Tove Sørensen; 1945–2016), was a Danish actress and nude model. She is best known for her work in the 1970s Bedside-films (), an erotic film series produced by A/S Palladium. Her films were popular internationally, and in Hong Kong she was nicknamed, "the Danish Elizabeth Taylor". Alongside her modeling and acting career, Tove trained as a nurse, and she worked for several years in home care. Biography Birte Tove was born on 16 January 1945 in Helsingør, Denmark. She had been married Ole Brix Schächter from October 1970 until 1995, which ended in divorce. Tove was the mother of 2 children, including actors Anne Katrine Tove Brix and . In 1967, she first appeared as a model in Ekstra Bladet, a Danish tabloid newspaper. In 1969, Tove had her first acting role in the American–Danish film "Swedish Fly Girls" (1971; ), where she played a free-spirited flight attendant looking for love. Throughout the 1970s, she starred in many Bedside-films, often a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birte Weigang
Birte Weigang (born 31 January 1968 in Leipzig) is a former butterfly and backstroke swimmer from East Germany, who won three medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. The twenty-year-old triumphed with the DDR women's relay team in the 4×100 m medley together with her teammates Kristin Otto, Silke Hörner and Katrin Meissner, and finished second in both the 100 m and the 200 m butterfly. She won a gold medal in 1987 at the European Championships, in the women's 4×100 m medley. She is a daughter of the legendary Horst Weigang, once a footballer of the year for East Germany. She started her career in SC Turbine Erfurt. Weigang celebrated her biggest success in 1985, when at the age of 17 she became a European backstroke champion. Later she concentrated on butterfly style and won a silver medal at the World Championships in 1986, which were held in Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birte Weiss
Birte Weiss (born 1 May 1941) is a Danish journalist and social democrat politician, who served in various capacities in the government of Denmark. She works as a journalist for the newspaper ''Weekendavisen''. Early life and education Weiss was born on 1 May 1941. She was trained as a journalist with the social democrat press from 1960 to 1963. Later she attended the University of Copenhagen and studied there comparative literature. Career Weiss began her career as a journalist, working for ''Demokraten'' and then for ''Information''. Next she involved in politics and became a member of the Danish Parliament for the Social Democrats Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy. As a policy regime, it is described by academics as advocating economic and social interventions to promote so ... for two terms; from 1971 to 1973 and from 1975 to 2001. She was the chairperson of the council of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birte Weiß
Birte Weiß (born 5 June 1971) is a German footballer who played for the Germany women's national football team from 1991 to 1993, competing in two matches. On club level she played for Wismut Aue Fußball Club Erzgebirge Aue e.V., commonly known as simply FC Erzgebirge Aue or Erzgebirge Aue (), is a German football club based in Aue-Bad Schlema, Saxony. The former East German side was a founding member of the 3. Liga in 2008–09, ... and VfR Eintracht Wolfsburg. References External links Profileat soccerdonna.de 1971 births Living people German women's footballers Place of birth missing (living people) Germany women's international footballers Women's association football forwards East German women's footballers {{Germany-women-footy-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |