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Hertha (given Name)
Hertha is a feminine given name which may refer to: * Hertha Ayrton (1854–1923), British engineer, mathematician, physicist and inventor * Hertha Feiler (1916–1970), Austrian actress * Hertha Feist (1896–1990), German expressionist dancer and choreographer * Hertha or Herta Glaz (1910–2006), Austrian-born American opera singer, voice teacher and director * Hertha Guthmar (born 1908), German film actress * Hertha Natzler (1911–1985), Austrian stage and film actress * Hertha Pauli (1906–1973), Austrian journalist, author and actress * Hermine Hertha Pohl (1889–1954), German writer * Hertha Sponer (1895–1968), German physicist and chemist * Hertha Sturm (1886 – before or during 1945), German communist activist born Edith Fischer * Hertha Thiele (1908–1984), German actress * Hertha Töpper (1924–2020), Austrian opera singer * Hertha Wambacher (1903–1950), Austrian physicist * Hertha von Walther Hertha von Walther (born Hertha Stern und Walter von Monbary, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hertha Ayrton
Phoebe Sarah Hertha Ayrton (28 April 1854 – 26 August 1923) was a British engineer, mathematician, physicist and inventor, and suffragette. Known in adult life as Hertha Ayrton, born Phoebe Sarah Marks, she was awarded the Hughes Medal by the Royal Society for her work on electric arcs and ripple marks in sand and water. Early life and education Hertha Ayrton was born Phoebe Sarah Marks in Portsea, Hampshire, England, on 28 April 1854. In her youth she went by the name Sarah. She was the third child of a Polish Jewish watchmaker named Levi Marks, an immigrant from Tsarist Poland; and Alice Theresa Moss, a seamstress, the daughter of Joseph Moss, a glass merchant of Portsea. Her father died in 1861, leaving Sarah's mother with seven children and an eighth expected. Sarah then took up some of the responsibility for caring for the younger children. At the age of nine, Sarah was invited by her aunts, who ran a school in northwest London, to live with her cousins and be educated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hertha Feiler
Hertha Feiler (3 August 1916, Vienna – 1 November 1970, Munich) was an Austrian actress. She was married to the comedian Heinz Rühmann with whom she starred in several films. She was of Jewish descent. Filmography * '' Darling of the Sailors'' (1937) * '' All Lies'' (1938) * ''Adresse unbekannt'' (1938) * '' Woman in the River'' (1939) * '' Men Are That Way'' (1939) * '' Escape in the Dark'' (1939) * ''Lauter Liebe'' (1940) * '' Clothes Make the Man'' (1940) * ''Happiness is the Main Thing'' (1941) * '' Rembrandt'' (1942) * ''A Salzburg Comedy'' (1943) * ''Der Engel mit dem Saitenspiel'' (1944) * '' Tell the Truth'' (1946) * '' Quax in Africa'' (1947) * ''Die kupferne Hochzeit'' (1948) * ''Heimliches Rendezvous'' (1949) * ''Ich mach dich glücklich'' (1949) * '' When the White Lilacs Bloom Again'' (1953) * ''Anna Louise and Anton'' (1953) * '' The Beautiful Miller'' (1954) * ''Dein Mund verspricht mir Lieb'' (1954) * '' When the Alpine Roses Bloom '' (1955) * '' Let the Sun Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hertha Feist
Hertha Feist (1896–1990) was a German expressionist dancer and choreographer. She established her own school in Berlin, combining gymnastics with nudism and dance. In the 1930s, her ambitions were seriously curtailed by the Nazis. Biography Born in Berlin, Feist first studied with Émile Jaques-Dalcroze in Hellerau, Dresden, in 1914 before moving back to Berlin in 1917 to study under Olga Desmond. Thereafter she joined Rudolf von Laban, following him to various locations in the north of Germany and participating in his majestic Tanzbühne productions. In 1923, she established her own school in Berlin and also taught at Carl Diem's sports academy, successfully combining gymnastics with nudism and dance. She continued to dance in Laban's productions, starring as Donna Elvira in his ''Don Juan'' (1926). Her school's freestyle movements were pictured at the Berlin Stadium. In 1927 she appeared in the only film made by the American Stella Simon. The avant-garde film entitled ''Hand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herta Glaz
Herta Glaz (also spelled Hertha; September 16, 1910 in Vienna – January 28, 2006 in Hamden, Connecticut) was an Austrian-born American operatic mezzo-soprano, voice teacher, and opera director of Austrian birth. She became a United States citizen in 1943. From 1942 to 1956, she was a fixture at the Metropolitan Opera, where she sang in more than 300 performances. She was also highly active with the San Francisco Opera between 1944 and 1951. Some of the roles she portrayed on stage were Marcellina in ''Le Nozze di Figaro'', Annina, Siegrune in ''Die Walküre'', Flosshilde in ''Götterdämmerung'' and Magdalene in '' Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg''. In her later years, Glaz became a celebrated voice teacher and opera director. She taught voice at the Manhattan School of Music from 1956 to 1977, University of Southern California from 1977 to 1994, the Aspen Music Festival between 1987 and 1994, and privately from her homes in New Haven and Los Angeles. Her notable pupils inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hertha Guthmar
Hertha Guthmar (born 1908) was a German film actress of the 1930s.Eisner p.348 Selected filmography * '' Roses Bloom on the Moorland'' (1929) * '' Ariane'' (1931) * '' The Mad Bomberg'' (1932) * ''Ways to a Good Marriage ''Ways to a Good Marriage'' (German: ''Wege zur guten Ehe'') is a 1933 German drama film directed by Adolf Trotz and starring Olga Tschechowa, Alfred Abel and Hilde Hildebrand. It was shot at the EFA Studios in Halensee in Berlin. The film's set ...'' (1933) * '' A Woman with Power of Attorney'' (1934) * '' The Hour of Temptation'' (1936) References Bibliography * Lotte H. Eisner. ''The Haunted Screen: Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max Reinhardt''. University of California Press, 2008. External links * 1908 births Year of death unknown German film actresses German stage actresses {{Germany-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hertha Natzler
Hertha ('Hati') Natzler (1911–1985) was a stage and film actress in Austria active from 1928 until 1936. Origin in Austria Hertha Natzler (also Herta Natzler) was born on in Vienna as the daughter of actor, opera singer and playwright Leopold Natzler (1860–1929) and Emilie Franziska Theresia Rachel ('Emilia' or 'Lili') Meissner (1873–1957). Her father and mother were both actors, who were well known in Austria and Germany. Hertha was one of five sisters, two of whom died young. Her cousin was actor Reggie Nalder. On stage and in film in Vienna, 1928–1936 Like her two surviving sisters, Grete Natzler (1906–1999) and Alice Maria ('Lizzi') Natzler (1909–1993), Hertha started acting and singing on stage at a young age. She made her debut in Franz Lehár's operetta ''Der Tsarewitsch'' at the Johann Strauss Theatre in Vienna in May 1928. That year she also played a minor role in the revue ''Jetzt oder Nie'', and in the play ''Weekend im Paradies'', the 1928 rendition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hertha Pauli
Hertha Ernestine Pauli (September 4, 1906 – February 9, 1973) was an Austrian journalist, writer and actress. Biography Hertha Ernestine Pauli was born in Vienna, the daughter of feminist Bertha Schütz and chemist Wolfgang Pauli. Her brother was Wolfgang Pauli, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1945. From 1927-33, she played different small roles at the Max Reinhardt Theatre in Berlin and was allied with Ödön von Horváth. From 1933-38, she lived in Vienna, edited the "Österreichische Korrespondenz" and published biographical novels, for example about the feminist Bertha von Suttner. After the Anschluss, she emigrated to France. In Paris, she belonged to the circle of Joseph Roth, knew the American journalist Eric Sevareid, and wrote for ''Resistance''. In 1940, after the Nazis occupied France, she fled with writer Walter Mehring through Marseilles, the Pyrenees and Lisbon. With the aid of Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee, she made her way to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hertha Pohl
Hermine "Hertha" Pohl (24 July 1889 in Krappitz, Upper Silesia – 4 October 1954 in Freiburg im Breisgau) was a German writer. She wrote twelve published books between 1922 and 1950. Life Private Hertha Pohl was born on 24 July 1889 in Krappitz, Upper Silesia, the daughter of a house painter and his wife. Together with her brother, she was raised by her grandmother, as her father's low income made it necessary for her ailing mother to work by hand to support the poor household. Nevertheless, the parents made it possible for their son to attend a grammar school. He passed on his knowledge of German literature and other fields of knowledge to his sister, who also received many fairy tales and stories from her grandmother. The grandmother also constantly took care of the purchase of new books. After her school education Pohl took a job as a reader with a highly gifted but blind lady in Breslau. This attempt to earn money on her own failed because she was homesick. Back in K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hertha Sponer
Hertha Sponer (1 September 1895 – 27 February 1968) was a German physicist and chemist who contributed to modern quantum mechanics and molecular physics and was the first woman on the physics faculty of Duke University. She was the older sister of philologist and resistance fighter Margot Sponer. Life and career Sponer was born in Neisse (Nysa), Prussian Silesia, and obtained her high school degree in Neisse. She spent a year at the University of Tübingen, after which she enrolled at the University of Göttingen where she received her PhD in 1920 under the supervision of Peter Debye. During her time at the University of Tübingen, she was an assistant of James Franck. In 1921 she, along with a few others, was among the first women to obtain a PhD in physics in Germany along with the right to teach science at a German university. In October 1925 she received a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship to stay at University of California, Berkeley, where she remained for a year. Durin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hertha Sturm
Hertha Sturm (born Edith Fischer, 24 July 1886: died while in state custody before or during 1945) was a German political activist ( SPD, KPD) who after 1933 became a resistance activist. She spent most of the twelve Nazi years in state detention, during which time she was badly tortured and made at least one suicide attempt. She did not outlive the Nazi regime. Hertha Sturm is the name by which she is identified in most sources referring to her political actions and to her experiences under the Nazis. It was the name she took on for her Communist Party work in January 1920 and retained thereafter. In addition to her birth name, Edith Fischer, she may also be identified after 1912, by her married name, as Edith Schumann. Life Provenance and early years Edith Fischer was born in Königsberg, at that time part of Germany, and the capital of East Prussia. Her father was a book dealer. She attended an all-girls' school in Königsberg till 1902 and then, between 1903 and 1906, the tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hertha Thiele
Hertha Thiele (8 May 1908 – 5 August 1984) was a German actress. She is noted for her starring roles in then controversial stage plays and films produced during Germany's Weimar Republic and the early years of the Third Reich. After the post-war partition of Germany, Thiele became a television star in East Germany. She is best remembered for her portrayal of Manuela in the lesbian-themed film '' Mädchen in Uniform'' (1931). Career in Weimar and Nazi Germany One of her early drama teachers told Thiele "Either you'll have a great stage career or nothing at all. You have a Botticelli face but one which suggests depravity". Thiele began her professional acting career in 1928 as a stage actress in Leipzig. In 1931, she was given the lead role in ''Gestern und heute'', the film adaptation of a play she had done there, but now called '' Mädchen in Uniform'', a tale set in a Prussian boarding school for girls. The film had an all-female cast, and Thiele played Manuela, a 14-year-old ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hertha Töpper
Hertha Töpper (; 19 April 1924 – 28 March 2020) was an Austrian contralto in opera and concert, and an academic voice teacher. A member of the Bavarian State Opera, she appeared in leading roles at major international opera houses and festivals. Career Born in Graz as the daughter of a music teacher, Töpper began her singing studies at the Graz Conservatory while still at high school. In 1945, she made her operatic debut at the Graz Opera as Ulrica in Verdi's ''Un ballo in maschera''. She remained an ensemble member until 1952. The first Bayreuth Festival after World War II invited her in 1951 for Wagner's ''Ring'' cycle. Also in 1951, she first performed at the Bavarian State Opera in the title role of ''Der Rosenkavalier'' by Richard Strauss. She was a member of the Bavarian State Opera from 1952 to 1981. In 1957 took part in the world premiere of Hindemith's opera ''Die Harmonie der Welt'', and in 1972 in the premiere of Isang Yun's ''Sim Tjong''. When the Cuvielles T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
