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Halina Cieszkowska
Halina is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Halina Łukomska (born 1929), Polish soprano *Halina Aszkiełowicz (born 1947), Polish former volleyball player and 1968 Olympic medallist *Halina Balon (born 1948), Polish fencer *Halina Biegun (born 1955), Polish luger who competed during the late 1970s *Halina Birenbaum (born 1929), Holocaust survivor, writer, poet and translator *Halina Buyno-Łoza (1907–1991), Polish theatre actress and dancer *Halina Czerny-Stefańska (1922–2001), Polish pianist *Halina Górecka (born 1938), former Polish and German sprinter and Olympic gold and bronze medal winner *Halina Górska (1898–1942), Polish writer and a communist activist *Halina Harelava (born 1951), Belarusian contemporary composer *Halina Kanasz (born 1953), Polish luger who competed during the 1970s *Halina Karnatsevich (born 1969), Belarusian long-distance runner *Halina Konopacka (born 1900), famous athlete, first Polish Olympic Champion (1928, Amsterdam) *H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halina Łukomska
Halina Łukomska (April 29, 1929 in Suchedniów, Poland – August 30, 2016 in Kąty near Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish soprano. She was married to composer Augustyn Bloch. Selected premieres *Dimitri Terzakis: **Sappho-Fragmente (1977), premiered on April 17, 1980 **Erotikon (1979), premiered April 19, 1980 by Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, Halina Lukomska (sopr.), Spiros Argiris (conductor) Selected recordings * '' Pli selon pli'' (1969, Boulez, composer and conductor). * Anton Webern: opp. 1–31 (soprano in most of the vocal works, along with Heather Harper.) (recordings made 1969-70, now reissued on Sony Classical.) * Alban Berg: Three Pieces for Orchestra; Chamber Concerto; Altenburg Lieder op. 4. (Released in 1968.) * George Frideric Handel: ''Silete venti'' (on Harmonia Mundi, 1962) * Karol Szymanowski: a collection of songs. (issued on CD in 1990) * Johann Christian Bach: Confitebor tibi Domine, cantata for solo, choir, and orchestra (1759) (Harmonia Mundi LP, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halina Lacheta
Halina Lacheta is a Polish luger who competed in the late 1950s. She won the bronze medal in the men's doubles event at the 1958 FIL World Luge Championships in Krynica, Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou .... ReferencesHickok sports information on World champions in luge and skeleton. Poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halina Czerny-Stefańska In Memoriam International Piano Competition
The Halina Czerny-Stefańska in memoriam is an international piano competition taking place in Poznań Poznań () is a city on the River Warta in west-central Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business centre, and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint Joh ... under the patronage of the Polish Ministry of Culture. Its first edition took place in September 2008. Prize Winners References Alink-Argerich Foundation - Competition results 2008 External links Official webpage Piano competitions Music competitions in Poland {{Poland-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halina Tam
Halina Tam Siu-Wan, also known as May (born 6 September 1972) is a model, singer and actress. She is best known for her role in ''Legend of the Demigods'' and ''The Gentle Crackdown'' with co-star Wayne Lai. Career Tam was the winner of the Miss Hong Kong Pageant 1994. She went on to represent Hong Kong at the Miss Chinese International 1995 pageant where she placed in the top 5, resulting in a berth at Miss Universe 1995 where she placed 45th. She had a singing career with BMG (Hong Kong) in 1997 and worked as an actress with TVB in Hong Kong. She also hosted ''Leisure and Pleasure'' from 2008 to 2010 and co-hosted ''Destiny and Beyond'' for the network. She left TVB after 18 years of working for the network, having last appeared on screen in 2012. Personal life Halina married her boyfriend Eric Choi on 11 September 2007. She opened her first craft supplies store in 2013 and continued with a small snack shop in Causeway Bay in March 2014. Filmography Films *''Young and Danger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halina Szymańska
Halina Szymańska (1906–1989) was a Polish spy, working for the British government, known as the Allies' conduit to Nazi German Admiral Wilhelm Canaris. She was the wife of Colonel Antoni Szymański, the last prewar Polish military attaché in Berlin, and of later General Kazimierz Wiśniowski. Life After being recruited by the Allied secret intelligence services (via Polish officers in Bern, Switzerland, who made contact with the British), Szymańska provided a conduit of information between the Allies and Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the German Abwehr. In autumn 1939 he helped her and her children move from occupied Poland to Switzerland in compensation for a contact with the British Secret Intelligence Service. Szymańska, as a British agent, met several times with Canaris in Switzerland and Italy. Then she met with his courier, Hans Bernd Gisevius. Szymańska played an important role, as an intermediary, in secret contacts between the Allies and German anti- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halina Szwarc
Halina Szwarc '' de domo'' Kłąb (1923–2002) - was a member of the Polish resistance during the Second World War, working undercover first under the pseudonym Ryszard, then Jacek II. Postwar, she became a professor of medicine in gerontology, and in 1970/1971, the prorector of the Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw. After the outbreak of war, at the age of 16, she joined the Związek Walki Zbronej (ZWZ), the resistance organization that eventually became the Polish Home Army. Under order, she signed the ''Volksliste'', basing her claim to ''Volksdeutsche'' status on a German grandmother. She was allowed to finish her schooling in a German language school and in 1940, travelled west into the heart of the Third Reich, ostensibly to further her education. She would, in fact, be spying for the ZWZ. She conducted operations in Vienna, Berlin, Munich, and other major German cities. Szwarc's greatest contribution to the war effect was her surveying of militar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halina Rozpondek
Halina Leokadia Rozpondek (born 25 May 1950 in Częstochowa) is a Polish politician, local government official and librarian. Biography She graduated from the University of Wrocław as a librarian. In 1990 she became a councilor of the Częstochowa from Citizens' Committee. In 1995 she voted for the dismissal of President Tadeusz Wrona, who came from the City League, of which she was also a member. In the years 1995–1998 she was the president of Częstochowa, and after the subsequent elections lost by her party, she became an opposition councilor. In 2002 she was elected a councilor of the Silesian Regional Assembly, but she did not stay there. She took the office of deputy mayor of the city, which she held until 2005. From the list of Civic Platform from Częstochowa, she ran unsuccessfully in the parliamentary election in 2001, but in 2005, 2007, 2011 and 2015 she obtained a parliamentary mandate from Częstochowa. In 2006, in the election for the office of the president of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halina Reijn
Halina Reijn (; born 10 November 1975) is a Dutch actress, writer and film director. Early life and education Halina Reijn was born on 10 November 1975 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, to Fleur ten Kate and Frank Volkert Reijn (1931-1986). Reijn's parents were both artists. She is the middle child of three daughters, with an older sister named Leonora and a younger named Esther. Her father was Gay men, gay despite being in a Heterosexuality, heterosexual marriage with her mother. Reijn grew up in an anthroposophy household, and her parents were followers of the Subud spiritual movement. In her early years, she grew up in a "Pippi Longstocking" house with her family in the tiny village of Wildervank, Groningen (province), Groningen, which attracted many artists. They lived without television and never visited the cinema, instead they played music, drew and painted; her father built a theater room with a podium and Flat (theatre), flats for her. When she was around six or seven years old ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halina Poświatowska
Halina Poświatowska (; née Halina Myga, entered into church records as Helena Myga; born 9 May 1935 – 11 October 1967) was a Polish poet and writer, one of the most important figures in modern/contemporary Polish literature. Poświatowska is famous for her lyrical poetry, and for her intellectual, passionate yet unsentimental poetry on the themes of death, love, existence, famous historical personages, especially women, as well as her mordant treatment of life, living, being, bees, cats and the sensual qualities of loving, grieving and desiring. Biography Her first heart operation was performed in Philadelphia, in 1958, her sea passage on the Polish ocean liner ''MS Batory'', the costs of her stay, and the procedure itself, funded by monies gathered in collection by Polish-Americans, and was successful enough to enable her to live for nine more years. Instead of returning to Poland afterward, she enrolled at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halina Olendzka
Halina Bronisława Olendzka (born 31 August 1945 in Święta Katarzyna) is a Polish politician. She was elected to the Sejm The Sejm (English: , Polish: ), officially known as the Sejm of the Republic of Poland ( Polish: ''Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej''), is the lower house of the bicameral parliament of Poland. The Sejm has been the highest governing body of ... on 25 September 2005, getting 5386 votes in 33 Kielce district as a candidate from the Law and Justice list. See also * Members of Polish Sejm 2005-2007 External linksHalina Olendzka - parliamentary page- includes declarations of interest, voting record, and transcripts of speeches. 1945 births Living people People from Kielce County Members of the Polish Sejm 2005–2007 Women members of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland Law and Justice politicians 21st-century Polish women politicians Members of the Polish Sejm 2011–2015 {{LawandJustice-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halina Murias
Halina Maria Murias (born 2 April 1955 in Łańcut) is a Polish politician. She was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 6062 votes in 23 Rzeszów Rzeszów ( , ; la, Resovia; yi, ריישא ''Raisha'')) is the largest city in southeastern Poland. It is located on both sides of the Wisłok River in the heartland of the Sandomierz Basin. Rzeszów has been the capital of the Subcarpathian ... district as a candidate from the League of Polish Families list. She was also a member of Sejm 2001-2005. See also * Members of Polish Sejm 2005-2007 External linksHalina Murias - parliamentary page- includes declarations of interest, voting record, and transcripts of speeches. 1955 births Living people People from Łańcut Christian National Union politicians League of Polish Families politicians Members of the Polish Sejm 2005–2007 Members of the Polish Sejm 2001–2005 Women members of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland 21st-century Polish women politician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halina Molka
Halina Molka (born 4 April 1953 in Kalinki) is a Polish politician. She was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 3706 votes in 10 Piotrków Trybunalski district as a candidate from the Samoobrona Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland ( pl, Samoobrona Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej, SRP) is a nationalist, populist, and agrarian political party and trade union in Poland. Its platform combines left-wing populist economic policies with religious c ... list. See also * Members of Polish Sejm 2005-2007 External linksHalina Molka - parliamentary page- includes declarations of interest, voting record, and transcripts of speeches. 1953 births Living people People from Radomsko County Members of the Polish Sejm 2005–2007 Women members of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland politicians Polish United Workers' Party members 21st-century Polish women politicians 20th-century Polish women {{Poland-polit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
