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Kulturpreis Der Hansestadt Rostock
The Kulturpreis der Hansestadt Rostock is a German cultural award endowed with 3,500 euros. From 1958 to 1995, up to five persons and associations were honoured annually, since 1996 it has been limited to one personality or association. Since 2003, the prize has been awarded every two years. The prize is awarded to an individual or a body/association from the fields of culture, science, business and politics for an individual achievement or for a complete work, for cultural commitment and for achievements that significantly enrich the intellectual and cultural life of the Hanseatic city of Rostock. The cultural committee prepares a vote from the submitted proposals. The Lord Mayor decides on the awarding of the prize. Prizes winners since 1989 * 1989: , sculptor; Werner Lindemann, Schriftsteller; Omar Saavedra Santis, author * 1990: , Member of the Citizens' Committee; Helmut Aude, Press Office Manager; Joachim Wiebering, Regional Superintendent, Moderator of the Round Table; H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rostock
Rostock (), officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock (german: link=no, Hanse- und Universitätsstadt Rostock), is the largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and lies in the Mecklenburgian part of the state, close to the border with Pomerania. With around 208,000 inhabitants, it is the third-largest city on the German Baltic coast after Kiel and Lübeck, the eighth-largest city in the area of former East Germany, as well as the 39th-largest city of Germany. Rostock was the largest coastal and most important port city in East Germany. Rostock stands on the estuary of the River Warnow into the Bay of Mecklenburg of the Baltic Sea. The city stretches for about along the river. The river flows into the sea in the very north of the city, between the boroughs of Warnemünde and Hohe Düne. The city center lies further upstream, in the very south of the city. Most of Rostock's inhabitants live on the western side of the Warnow; the area east of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Werner Lindemann
Werner Lindemann (October 7, 1926 – February 9, 1993) was a German writer and poet. He was the father of Till Lindemann, the lead vocalist of German industrial metal band Rammstein. Life Werner Lindemann was born into a family of farm workers. He grew up in Alt-Jeßnitz Gutsdorf near Wolfen, Germany, Wolfen in Saxony-Anhalt. In 1941, aged 15, he was apprenticed to a farmer. Between 1943 and 1945, he served in the German Army. After the end of World War II, he studied natural sciences at Halle (Saale), Halle. In 1949, he began to teach agriculture-related subjects at a vocational school. Between 1955 and 1957, he studied at the Johannes R. Becher Institute of Literature at Leipzig. There, he worked as editor of the student magazine ''Forum'', became director of the city Palace of Culture, House of Culture, and from 1959, worked as a freelance writer. He co-founded the ''Künstlerkolonie Drispeth'' ("Drispeth Artist's Colony"), where he lived for over 20 years, along with Joachi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omar Saavedra Santis
Omar Saavedra Santis (15 July 1944 – 23 December 2021) was a Chilean writer. He spent many years in exile in Europe after the CIA-backed coup that toppled the government of Salvador Allende in 1973. He won numerous literary prizes, among them the Anna Seghers Prize Anna Seghers-Preis is a literary prize of Germany. The prize goes back to the German writer Anna Seghers (1900–1983), who stated in her testament that the revenues from her work should be used to encourage promising young writers. The award is .... His daughter is the actress Catalina Saavedra. Saavedra died on 23 December 2021, at the age of 77. References 1944 births 2021 deaths Place of birth missing 20th-century Chilean dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Chilean male writers Chilean male dramatists and playwrights People from Valparaíso {{Chile-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Eller
Rudolf Eller (9 May 1914 – 24 September 2001) was a German musicologist and professor at the University of Rostock. Life Born in Dresden, Eller was the son of violist Arthur Emil Eller and his wife Margarete. From 1934 to 1936 he studied organ, composition and choral conducting at the orchestra school of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, then until 1941 musicology, art history, history and philosophy at the universities of Leipzig and Vienna. From 1941 until the end of the war Eller was drafted into military service. He began his professional career in 1945 with a position at the Musicological Institute of the University of Leipzig. In 1947 Rudolf Eller received his doctorate in Leipzig and in 1957 he also habilitated in Leipzig. From 1952 until his transfer to the University of Rostock in 1959, he was a frequent guest lecturer in Rostock and Leipzig and was already temporarily in charge of the Rostock Institute for Musicology, where he subsequently worked as a lecturer un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manfred Schukowski
Manfred Schukowski (born 16 January 1928) is a German academic teacher and author of works on astronomical clocks. Life Schukowski grew up in Stralsund where he was born and attended school there from 1934 to 1944. In 1945, he became a sailor on the . After the Second World War, he worked as a Neulehrer, from 1946 at the central school in Koblentz and from 1947 to 1949 at the school in Negast. In 1948, he passed the first teacher's examination, and from 1949 to 1950 he took the subject course in mathematics/physics at the Diesterweg Institute for Teacher Training in Putbus. He passed the Second Teacher's Examination in 1950 and was a teacher of mathematics and physics at the Torgelow secondary school from 1950 to 1953. From 1953 to 1954, he attended the special physics course at the Pädagogische Hochschule "Karl Liebknecht" in Potsdam. From 1954 to 1959 and from 1962 to 1965, Schukowski was a research assistant/lecturer at the physics methodology department of the Pädagog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock
The Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock, based in Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, is the state's largest symphony orchestra and also the orchestra of the Volkstheater Rostock. Founded in 1897, the orchestra grew to 90 musicians by 1991. They were rewarded a prize for ambitious programs in 1993. History The Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock dates back to 1897, when the Leipzig Kapellmeister Heinrich Schulz was commissioned as music director of Rostock to found an orchestra of at least 34 well-trained musicians. On 22 September 1897, the founding concert of this orchestra, named Rostocker Stadt- und Theaterorchester (Rostock municipal and theatre orchestra), took place under his direction in Rostock's then Apollo Hall with ''Les Préludes'' by Franz Liszt and Beethoven's Symphony No. 8. In 1914, the orchestra was renamed Städtisches Orchester, now managed by the city of Rostock. Gerd Puls in particular shaped the development of the orchestra in the post-war period. Durin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stubnitz (ship)
The Motorschiff Stubnitz e.V., a registered non-profit association, is the operator of an former freeze & transport vessel of the German Democratic Republic high seas fishing fleet based in Rostock. Since 1993 it has been transformed into a mobile platform for music, cultural production, documentation and communication. Inside this listed historical monument, the former cargo holds are used as venues for live music, exhibitions, performances and media art. Artists and co-workers are lodged and fed on board. The culture center has so far researched and presented innovative culture by touring the following European ports; * 1994: St. Petersburg and Malmö * 1998: Stockholm ( European Capital of Culture) * 2000: Lübeck and Hamburg * 2001: Rotterdam (European Capital of Culture) * 2002: Bruges (European Capital of Culture) and Amsterdam * 2003: Szczecin and Hamburg * 2004: Riga * 2005: Copenhagen, Rotterdam, Newcastle, Amsterdam and Dunkirk * 2006: Copenhagen moored between the B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Scharnweber
Karl Scharnweber (born 1950) in Rostock is a German church musician, Jazz musician and composer. Life After his school years in Rostock, Scharnweber began studying church music at the Evangelische Hochschule für Kirchenmusik Halle in 1969. From 1973, he worked as a church musician in various churches in Mecklenburg. In addition to this task, which he held part-time at the inner city parish of Rostock from 1997 to 2016, he devotes himself to composing and performing new arrangements on various theological texts. As early as the 1970s, Scharnweber worked with the Weber Trio to perform his own jazz compositions. In 1987, he founded the trio ''ChoralConcert'' with (tenor saxophone, flute) and (guitars), in order to be able to realise his musical ideas. The texts for his works are mainly provided by the theology professor from Rostock, with further texts by . The works reach beyond church music and also deal with historical and contemporary critical themes. Scharnweber is co-f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kunsthalle Rostock
The Rostock Art Gallery (german: Kunsthalle Rostock) was opened on 15 May 1969 as a museum of contemporary art in Rostock in the German federal state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. It is in the grounds of the park around the Schwanenteich lake in the quarter of Reutershagen. Exhibitions *Georg Baselitz, Gotthard Graubner, Gerhard Richter, Günther Uecker — ''Credo'' — paintings * Andreas Mühe — photography *Otto Niemeyer-Holstein — ''Evviva la pittura'' — Es lebe die paintings — paintings *Richard Serra — ''Paperworks'' — sketches and printed graphic art *Walter Schels and Beate Lakotta — ''Noch mal Leben'' — photography and texts *Norbert Bisky, Peggy Buth, Katharina Grosse, Gregor Hildebrandt, Antje Majewski, Thomas Rentmeister, Thomas Scheibitz and Amelie von Wulffen — ''Portfolio Berlin 01'' — paintings and objects *Paolo Roversi — ''Studio'' — photography *A. R. Penck — ''Werke aus der Sammlung Böckmann'' — paintings *Pop-Art aus dem Reich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Awards
German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) **Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law **Germanic peoples (Roman times) * German language **any of the Germanic languages * German cuisine, traditional foods of Germany People * German (given name) * German (surname) * Germán, a Spanish name Places * German (parish), Isle of Man * German, Albania, or Gërmej * German, Bulgaria * German, Iran * German, North Macedonia * German, New York, U.S. * Agios Germanos, Greece Other uses * German (mythology), a South Slavic mythological being * Germans (band), a Canadian rock band * German (song), "German" (song), a 2019 song by No Money Enterprise * ''The German'', a 2008 short film * "The Germans", an episode of ''Fawlty Towers'' * ''The German'', a nickname for Congolese rebel André Kisase Ngandu See also * Germanic (disambi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
