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Bruckner (surname)
Bruckner, Brueckner or Brückner (German: from Middle Low German brugge or Middle High German brugge brücke brügge "bridge" + the agent suffix -ner hence a topographic name for someone living by a bridge an occupational name for a bridge toll collector or in the southeast (Silesia for example) a bridge keeper or repairer) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Agnes Bruckner (born 1985), American actress * Aleksander Brückner (1856–1939), Polish philologist *Amy Bruckner (born 1991), American actress *Anton Bruckner (1824–1896), Austrian composer, music theorist and classical organist * David Bruckner (c. 1977), American film director * D. J. R. Bruckner (1933–2013), American journalist *Eduard Brückner (1862–1927), German scientist *Ferdinand Bruckner (1891–1958), Austrian-German writer and theater manager *Henry Bruckner (1871–1942), American politician *Karl Bruckner (1906–1986), Austrian writer *Karel Brückner (born 1939), Czech football coac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brueckner
Brueckner is a surname of German origin. Notable people with the surname include: * Benedikt Brueckner (born 1990), German professional ice hockey player *Georg F Brueckner (1930–1992), German martial arts pioneer and inventor *Guenter Brueckner Guenter E. Brueckner (1934–1998) was a solar physicist who spent much of his career at the US Naval Research Lab. His life's efforts included research into aspects of the sun relevant to radio signal quality, terrestrial weather, space weather a ... (1934–1998), American solar physicist * Keith Brueckner (1924–2014), American theoretical physicist German toponymic surnames {{surname, Brueckner German-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Bruckner
David Bruckner (born c. 1977) is an American film director. With Jacob Gentry and Dan Bush, he co-wrote and co-directed the 2007 horror film ''The Signal (2007 film), The Signal''. Bruckner also co-wrote and directed the "Amateur Night" segment of the 2012 horror anthology film ''V/H/S'', as well as directed the 2017 film ''The Ritual (2017 film), The Ritual'' and the 2020 film ''The Night House''. Early history Bruckner grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. His father is a police detective and his mother an emergency room nurse. He attended the University of Georgia along with A. J. Bowen and Jacob Gentry. The three would later collaborate with Dan Bush on ''The Signal (2007 film), The Signal'' (2007). Career With Jacob Gentry and Dan Bush, Bruckner co-wrote and co-directed ''The Signal''. The filmmakers used their connections in Atlanta to compose a crew. The concept came from a Surrealist game called exquisite corpse, in which multiple people collaborate in order to complete an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg
Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg (15 April 1906, in Stuttgart – 1 April 1985, in Hamburg) was a German conductor. He began his career in Munich as an assistant to Hans Knappertsbusch at the Bavarian State Opera. After several appointments in Essen, Dortmund, and Kiel, in 1934 he succeeded Herbert von Karajan as first Kapellmeister in Ulm. In 1937 he conducted a complete Beethoven cycle at the invitation of Furtwängler. In 1938 he became director of the Hamburg Lehrergesangsverein and received an appointment at the Hamburg State Opera. In Hamburg he conducted over 700 concerts for schoolchildren. He frequently worked with the Hamburger Symphoniker and the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra. In 1943 he started teaching conducting at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg where he was promoted to a full professorship in 1955. His grave is located in the Hamburg Waldfriedhof. He was known for his championing the works of Handel and he was considered an exceptional oratorio c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Brückner (murderer)
Wilhelm Brückner was a German spree killer who killed nine members of his family in Sonnefeld, Hassenberg and Sonneberg (district), Lindenberg, German Reich during the night of June 6 to June 7, 1925, before committing suicide. He used an axe and a kitchen knife. A posthumous evaluation described him as a "hysteric epileptic", suffering from mental retardation but also mental illness with auditory hallucinations. Biography When Brückner was about 10 years old his father was struck and Lightning injury, killed by lightning, while he himself was Lightning_injury#prognosis, left unconscious, an incident that was said to have caused a change of his character.Die Beerdigung der Opfer des Hassenberger Massenmörders [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Brückner
Wilhelm Brückner (Wilhelm Van Marchena Brücknerhttps://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/182324026/person/222434993877/facts 11 December 1884 – 18 August 1954) was Adolf Hitler's chief adjutant until October 1940. Thereafter, Brückner joined the '' Heer'' (army), becoming an ''Oberst'' (colonel) by war's end. Life Brückner was born and raised in Baden-Baden. He did his '' Abitur'' there. Afterwards he studied law and economics in Strasbourg (then Straßburg, Germany), Freiburg, Heidelberg and Munich. In the First World War, Brückner was an officer in a Bavarian infantry regiment and was discharged as a lieutenant. After the war, he joined the ''Freikorps Epp'' and participated in ''Schützenregiment 42'' as a member of the ''Reichswehr'' in suppressing the Bavarian Soviet Republic. Towards the end of 1919 Brückner was once again going to university, and worked for three years as a film recording technician. In late 1922 he joined the Nazi Party and the '' Sturma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronny Bruckner
Ronny Bruckner, also known as Yaron Bruckner (31 March 1957 – 4 August 2013), was a Belgian businessman. Career Bruckner started his career aged 20, as director of Zidav, a company specialising in establishing trading partnerships with Romania, Poland and the former Yugoslavia. In 1981, he founded the company that is now called Eastbridge, and became its CEO. Eastbridge is a private company with more than 40 working subsidiaries in Europe and the United States, employing more than 10,000 people. The company specialises in several areas, including property (the company notably acquired a 25% share in Immobel SA, a property developer listed on Euronext since September 2010), leisure, media, fashion and private educational firms. In March 2011, Bruckner was appointed a non-executive member of the board of directors of Ageas for a period of three years, until the conclusion of the shareholders' annual general meeting in 2014. Bruckner's name was put forward by Cresida Investmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pascal Bruckner
Pascal Bruckner (; born 15 December 1948, in Paris) is a French writer, one of the " New Philosophers" who came to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s. Much of his work has been devoted to critiques of French society and culture. Biography Bruckner attended Jesuit schools in his youth. After studies at the universities of Paris I and Paris VII Diderot, and then at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Bruckner became ''maître de conférences'' at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris and a contributor to the ''Nouvel Observateur''. Bruckner began writing in the vein of the '' nouveaux philosophes'' or New Philosophers. He published ''Parias'' (''Parias''), '' Lunes de fiel'' (''Evil Angels'') (adapted as a film by Roman Polanski) and '' Les voleurs de beauté'' (The Beauty Stealers) (Prix Renaudot in 1997). Among his essays are '' La tentation de l'innocence'' ("The Temptation of Innocence," Prix Médicis in 1995) and, famously, '' Le Sanglot de l'Homme blanc'' (''The Tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karel Brückner
Karel Brückner (; born 13 November 1939, Olomouc) is a Czech retired football coach. Playing career Brückner played as a forward in the lower leagues for MŽ Olomouc, at levels between the Regional Championship and the Second League. He made two appearances for Baník Ostrava in the Czechoslovak First League during the 1970–71 season. Coaching career Brückner began his coaching career in 1973 with his home club SK Sigma Olomouc, before moving to FC Zbrojovka Brno, who he led in the Czechoslovak First League in the 1981–82 and 1982–83 seasons. He later went on to coach Inter Bratislava with which he won the Slovakia Cup in 1985. He was appointed coach of the Czech Republic national under-21 football team in 1997 and the side finished second at the 2000 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. At UEFA Euro 2000 he was assistant manager of the Czech Republic national side. Brückner became the national team manager in 2001, following the Czech Republic's unsuccessful qual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Bruckner
Karl Bruckner (January 9, 1906 – October 25, 1982) was an Austrian children's writer. Committed to peace, international understanding, and social justice, he became one of Austria's leading writers for young people. Life The son of a printer, Bruckner grew up in the Viennese suburb of Ottakring and became a motor mechanic. He began to write in 1946. He travelled widely. Awards *the City of Vienna Children's Book Prize – 1954 for ''Giovanna und der Sumpf'' *Austrian Children's Book Prize – 1956 for ''Die Strolche von Neapel'' *the City of Vienna Youth Book Prize – 1957 for ''Der goldene Pharao'' *Austrian Children's Book Prize – 1961 for ''Sadako will leben'' ('The Day of the Bomb') Books *''Giovanna und der Sumpf'' (1954) *''Die Strolche von Neapel'' (1955) *'' The Golden Pharaoh'' (English translation, 1959) *'' Viva Mexico'' (1962) *''The Day of the Bomb ''The Day of the Bomb'' (in German ''Sadako Will Leben'', meaning ''Sadako Wants to Live'') is a non-fic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Bruckner
Henry Bruckner (June 17, 1871 – April 14, 1942) was an American politician from New York who served three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1913 to 1917. Life Born in New York City, he attended the common and high schools in New York and became engaged in the manufacture of mineral waters in 1892. He was a member of the New York State Assembly (New York Co., 35th D.) in 1901. He was commissioner of public works for the borough of the Bronx from 1902 to 1905. Bruckner was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses and held office from March 4, 1913, until December 31, 1917, when he resigned; while in the House he was chairman of the Committee on Railways and Canals (Sixty-fifth Congress). He resumed his former business pursuits in New York City and was also interested in banking; from 1918 to 1934 he was Bronx Borough president. He died in the Bronx in 1942. He is interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. One of the B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinand Bruckner
Ferdinand Bruckner (born Theodor Tagger; 26 August 1891, in Sofia, Bulgaria – 5 December 1958, in Berlin) was an Austrian-German writer and theater manager. Although his works are relatively rarely revived, ''Krankheit der Jugend'' was put on at the Cottesloe stage of London's Royal National Theatre in 2009, under the title ''Pains of Youth''. It was directed by Katie Mitchell and was met with very mixed reviews. Bruckner's play ''Die Rassen'' under the title ''Race'' was revived in 2001, in New York, by the Classical Stage Company. The critic John Simon called it "both scarily suspenseful and heartbreakingly elegant..." Simon concluded that the play: " comes as close as anything I know to explaining how a cultured nation hurtled into stupefying barbarity."New York Magazine, March 5, 2001 Life Bruckner's father was an Austrian businessman and his mother a French translator. After the separation of his parents, he spent time in Vienna and Paris, and in Berlin where he began ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduard Brückner
Eduard Brückner (29 July 1862 – 20 May 1927) was a geographer, glaciologist and climatologist. Biography He was born in Jena, the son of the Baltic-German historian Alexander Brückner and Lucie Schiele. After an education at the Karlsruhe gymnasium, beginning in 1881 he studied meteorology and physics at the University of Dorpat, graduating in 1885. He joined the Deutsche Seewarte (German Hydrographic Office) in Hamburg, then, following studies at Dresden and Munich, he became a professor at the University of Bern in 1888. The same year he married Ernestine Steine. In 1899, he was rector at the university. He moved back to Germany in 1904, becoming a professor at the University of Halle. Two years later in 1906, he was a professor at the University of Vienna. He died in Vienna. Professor Brückner was an expert on alpine glaciers and their effect upon the landscape. Between 1901–1909 he collaborated with German geographer and geologist Albrecht Penck to produce a three volum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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