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Heppner (surname)
Heppner is a surname. Notable surnames * Ben Heppner (born 1956), tenor * Ben Heppner (politician) (1943–2006), politician * Jens Heppner (born 1964), bicycle racer * Kris Heppner (born 1977), footballer * Mikey Heppner, guitarist * Nancy Heppner (born 1971), politician * Peter Heppner (born 1967), singer Fictional characters * Timothy Heppner, fictional character in Andrew Unger's novel ''Once Removed Most generally, in the lineal kinship system used in the English-speaking world, a cousin is a type of familial relationship in which two relatives are two or more familial generations away from their most recent common ancestor. Commonly, ...'' See also * Hepner {{surname, Heppner Russian Mennonite surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Heppner
Thomas Bernard Heppner (born January 14, 1956) is a Canadian tenor and broadcaster, now retired from singing, who specialized in opera and other classical works for voice. Early life and career Heppner, of Mennonite descent, was born in Murrayville, British Columbia, and lived in Dawson Creek, British Columbia. He began his musical studies at the University of British Columbia and first attracted national attention when he won the CBC Talent Festival in 1979. He is associated with the Wagnerian repertoire, but he performed a range of operas from the German, French and Italian canons. Heppner performed frequently with opera companies in the United States (including the New York Metropolitan Opera) and Europe, and concert appearances with symphony orchestras. He has appeared in the DVD recordings of the Met's productions of Beethoven's ''Fidelio'', Wagner's ''Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg'', and Wagner's ''Tristan und Isolde'', three of his signature roles. He first per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Heppner (politician)
Benjamin D. Heppner (March 18, 1943 – September 24, 2006) was a Canadian school teacher, businessman and politician. He represented Rosthern and Martensville in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan from 1995 to 2006. Heppner was born in Waldheim, Saskatchewan in 1942 and grew up there. He graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a B.A. and BEd and went on to teach school for 22 years. Heppner was also a partner in a farm equipment sales company and owned a lumber yard. He was elected to the town council for Rosthern, Saskatchewan and served as the town's mayor in 1988. Heppner was first elected to the Saskatchewan legislative assembly as a Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan candidate in 1995, and became one of the founding members of the Saskatchewan Party in 1997. He was reelected to the legislature in 1999 and 2003. He died of prostate cancer in Rosthern in 2006, aged 63 years old. His daughter Nancy Heppner Nancy Heppner (born 1971) is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jens Heppner
Jens Heppner (born 23 December 1964) is a German former road bicycle racer. He wore the pink jersey as leader of the general classification during the 2002 Giro d'Italia. Although he rode for Telekom during ten years, he has consistently denied ever having doped. His name was on the list of doping tests published by the French Senate on 24 July 2013 that were collected during the 1998 Tour de France and found positive for EPO when retested in 2004. He won the German National Road Race in 1994. After his career, he worked in his own company in Hergenrath (Germany). Major results ;1982 : World Junior Team Time Trial Championship ;1986 :7th Overall GP Tell ;1987 :1st Overall Hessen Rundfahrt :1st Overall Sachsen Tour ;1990 :7th Overall Circuit de la Sarthe ;1992 :10th Overall Tour de France ;1993 :3rd Amstel Gold Race :4th Zuri-Metzgete :9th Rund um den Henninger Turm ;1994 :1st Overall Tour du Limousin ::1st Stage 1 : 1st Road race, National Road Championships :3rd Run ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kris Heppner
Kristopher Heppner (born January 18, 1977) is a former American football placekicker in the National Football League for the Seattle Seahawks and Washington Redskins. He played college football at the University of Montana The University of Montana (UM) is a public research university in Missoula, Montana. UM is a flagship institution of the Montana University System and its second largest campus. UM reported 10,962 undergraduate and graduate students in the fal .... References 1977 births Living people Sportspeople from Great Falls, Montana American football placekickers Washington Redskins players Seattle Seahawks players Montana Grizzlies football players Great Falls High School alumni {{amfoot-kicker-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikey Heppner
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Nancy Heppner
Nancy Heppner (born 1971) is a former Saskatchewan Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, who represented the constituency of Martensville-Warman and its predecessor Martensville from 2007 to 2020. Early life She was born in Swift Current, and graduated from high school in 1989. She went on to postsecondary education at the University of British Columbia. Political career Heppner got involved in politics in 1995, doorknocking for her father Ben Heppner. In 2000 she became the executive assistant for Member of Parliament Carol Skelton. She then moved on as Question Period coordinator for Stephen Harper until 2005. Nancy worked for the Honourable Bev Oda (Minister of Canadian Heritage; MP for Durham) as her Director of Communications in early 2006. Her father died from cancer in 2006 and was the previous MLA for Martensville. Heppner won a by-election for the electoral district of Martensville with 77% of the vote on March 5, 2007 for the Saskatchewan Party ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Heppner
Peter Heppner (born 7 September 1967 in Hamburg) is the former lead singer of the German electronica/synth pop band Wolfsheim, and has collaborated with many other electronic music acts, such as Paul van Dyk, Schiller, and Goethes Erben. Career Being singer and songwriter for Wolfsheim since 1987, his first commercial success was in 1991 releasing the single "The Sparrows and the Nightingales". In 1998, he had a big charts success with NDW star Joachim Witt and their duet "Die Flut". In the years following, his notability as a singer increased. Collaborating with Schiller, he achieved international chart hits with "Dream of You" (2001) and "Leben... I Feel You" in 2004. In the same year, he released the song " Wir Sind Wir" with Paul van Dyk. Although the song was controversial the artists recorded another version together with the Filmorchester Babelsberg which was performed at the official ceremony for the Day of German Unity on 3 October 2005 in Potsdam. A more recent pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Unger
Andrew Unger (born November 8, 1979) is a Canadian writer from Steinbach, Manitoba, best known as the author and founder of the Mennonite satire website The Daily Bonnet (along with the collection ''The Best of the Bonnet'') and for the novel ''Once Removed''. Career Before starting the Daily Bonnet, Unger was a contributor to numerous non-fiction publications including '' Geez'', '' CBC.ca'', and ''Ballast'', sometimes publishing under the pen name Andrew J. Bergman. Early in his career, he also wrote and published fiction and poetry, as well as working as a ghostwriter for New York-based Kevin Anderson & Associates. In 2016 Unger founded the Daily Bonnet and, along with his wife Erin Koop Unger, the non-satirical website Mennotoba in 2017. Since 2016, Unger has written more than two thousand Daily Bonnet articles. The website has been visited millions of times each year and has been cited in debate in the Manitoba Legislature and used as an example of Mennonite humour in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Once Removed (novel)
''Once Removed'' is a novel by Canadian author Andrew Unger published in 2020. Published by Turnstone Press, the book is a satire set in the fictional town of Edenfeld, Manitoba and tells the story of Timothy Heppner, a ghostwriter trying to preserve the history of his small Mennonite town. Plot summary At the beginning of the novel, Timothy Heppner is working for the town's Parks and Recreation Department, removing trees and destroying historic buildings to make room for strip malls. He also sidelines as a ghostwriter writing family history and genealogy books for locals, but finds he is losing clients. Eventually, he is tasked with writing a thorough and true history of the town and, along with his wife Katie and the town's Preservation Society, he attempts to preserve the house of a famous local writer Elsie Dyck, who's been cast out of town for writing negatively about it. In the process, he comes into conflict with the town's mayor who is set on gentrification and boosterism. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hepner
Hepner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Adolf Hepner (1846–1923), German-American writer * Darcy Hepner (born 1954), Canadian-American saxophonist * Fred Hepner (born 1940), Australian footballer * Jean Hepner (born 1958), American tennis player * Lee Hepner (1920–1986), Canadian orchestral conductor * Linda Hepner (born 1949), Canadian politician * Rachel Dübendorfer (née Hepner, 1900–1973), anti-Nazi resistance fighter * Urmas Hepner (born 1964), Estonian footballer See also * Hepner Hall Hepner Hall, designed by the senior architectural designer of th Howard Spencer Hazen, and completed in 1931, is the iconic academic building in the center of San Diego State University (SDSU)'s campus, just north of Malcolm A. Love Library at the ... * Hepner-Bailey Field at Adamson Stadium * Heppner (other) {{Surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
