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Liesl Tirsch
Liesl is a feminine given name of German origin. It is a diminutive of Lieselotte and Elisabeth. Notable people with the name include: * Liesl Herbst 1903–1990), Austrian tennis player * Liesl Jobson, South African poet *Liesl Karlstadt (1892–1960), German actress and cabaret performer * Liesl Perkaus (1905–1987), Austrian track and field athlete * Liesl Ischia, Australian diver * Liesl Seewald, Austrian luger *Liesl Tommy, South African-American director Fictional characters *Liesl von Trapp, a character in ''The Sound of Music ''The Sound of Music'' is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. It is based on the 1949 memoir of Maria von Trapp, '' The Story of the Trapp Family Singers''. Se ...'' and fictionalized version of Agathe von Trapp {{given name German feminine given names Feminine given names Swiss feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liesl Karlstadt
Liesl Karlstadt (; born Elisabeth Wellano, 12 December 1892 – 27 June 1960) was a German actress and cabaret performer. Alongside Karl Valentin, she set the tone for a generation of popular culture in Munich. She appeared in more than 70 films between 1913 and 1960. Selected filmography * '' The Eccentric'' (1929) * ''The Bartered Bride'' (1932) * '' Must We Get Divorced?'' (1933) * '' A Woman Like You'' (1933) * '' Fruit in the Neighbour's Garden'' (1935) * '' Street Music'' (1936) * '' Thunder, Lightning and Sunshine'' (1936) * '' Venus on Trial'' (1941) * '' After the Rain Comes Sunshine'' (1949) * ''Two Times Lotte'' (1950) * '' The Lady in Black'' (1951) * ''Desires'' (1952) * '' That Can Happen to Anyone'' (1952) * '' The Exchange'' (1952) * '' As Long as You're Near Me'' (1953) * '' Fanfares of Love'' (1953) * ''Fireworks'' (1954) * '' The Missing Miniature'' (1954) * '' Marriages Forbidden'' (1957) * ''A Piece of Heaven'' (1957) * '' Salzburg Stories'' (1957) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lieselotte
Lieselotte is a German feminine given name. Diminutive forms of Lieselotte include Liesl, Lotte, and Lilo. People with the name Lieselotte * Lieselotte "Lotte" Berk (1913–2003), German dancer and teacher * Lieselotte Breker (born 1960), German sport shooter * Lieselotte Feikes (1923–2008), German chemist * Liselotte Pulver (also known as Lilo Pulver; born 1929), Swiss actress * Lieselotte "Lilo" Ramdohr (1913–2013), German World War II era member of the White Rose student resistance group * Lieselotte Templeton (1918–2009), German-American crystallographer * Lieselotte Thoms-Heinrich (1920–1992), German journalist and feminist * Lieselotte Van Lindt (born 1989), Belgian field hockey player Fictional characters * Lieselotte Achenbach, from the video game series ''Arcana Heart'' * Lieselotte Sherlock, from the anime/manga ''Trinity Seven is a fantasy romantic comedy manga series written by Kenji Saitō and illustrated by Akinari Nao. It has been serialized i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth (given Name)
Elizabeth is a feminine given name, a variation of the Hebrew language, Hebrew name (), meaning "My God is an oath" or "My God is abundance", as rendered in the Septuagint. Occurrence in the Bible "Elizabeth" appears in the Hebrew Bible as the name of Aaron's wife ("Elisheba, Elisheva" in the Hebrew Bible), and in the New Testament as the name of the Elizabeth (biblical figure), wife of the priest Zechariah (New Testament figure), Zechariah and mother of John the Baptist. It has also been the name of several saints and queens. Statistics The name has many variants in use across the world and has been in consistent use worldwide. 'Elizabeth' was the tenth most popular name given to baby girls in the United States in 2007 and has been among the 25 most popular names given to girls in the United States for the past 100 years. It is the only name that remained in the top ten US girls' names list from 1925 to 1972. In the early 21st century, 'Elizabeth' has been among the top 50 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liesl Herbst
Liesl Herbst (8 November 1903 – 25 February 1990) was an Austrian championship tennis player. Biography Liesl Herbst (née Westreich) was born on 8 November 1903 in the town of Jaegerndorf (now called Krnov) in Silesia where her family owned the Gessler distillery. She lived in Villa Westreich with her parents and two older sisters. Her father Leo Westreich ran the company together with his brother-in-law Siegfried Gessler. During World War 2, her mother and one sister were killed at Theresienstadt/Terazin concentration camp. Her other sister, Gertruda Löwenbein, was murdered in the mass shooting as a result of the Slovak National Uprising at Banská Bystrica, Slovakia in 1944, along with her husband Rudolph and 16-year-old daughter Anna. Liesl married David Herbst in 1926. He was President of the sporting club Hakoah Vienna from 1928 to 1938. Career Herbst became Tennis Champion of Austria in 1930 and the main part of her career spanned the years between 1929 and 1937, whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liesl Jobson
Liesl Jobson is a South African poet and musician. She received first prize in the Inglis House Poetry Contest 2003 and her poetry was performed at the "Art of Survival" exhibition of the University of Alaska Fairbanks The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF or Alaska) is a public land-grant research university in College, Alaska, a suburb of Fairbanks. It is the flagship campus of the University of Alaska system. UAF was established in 1917 and opened for cla ...' Women's Art Group. She was the Focus Poet for Timbila 2005 and her poetry appears in numerous journals online and in print. She won the 2005 People Opposing Women Abuse Poetry Competition and has been awarded the 2006 Ernst van Heerden Creative Writing Award for her flash fiction. Jobson is the poetry editor at the online magazine ''Mad Hatters' Review''. Bibliography Prose poems and flash fiction * ''100 papers (2008) *''View from an Escalator (2008)'' External links Interviewin ''SmokeLong Quarterly'', June 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liesl Perkaus
Elisabeth "Liesl" Perkaus (later ''Richter'', May 24, 1905 – January 27, 1987) was an Austrian track and field athlete who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics. In 1928 she finished sixth in the discus throw event. In 1931 Perkaus earned a bronze medal''1934 Women's World Games'' Intersportstats.com (accessdate 04 July 2021) at the in the Swedish relay Swedish relay is an athletics track event in which teams comprise four runners. The first runner runs 100 meters, the second one 200 m, the third one 300 m and the ...
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Liesl Ischia
Liesl Ischia is a diver who represented Australia at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England. Liesl attended Carey Baptist Grammar School in Hawthorn, Melbourne, holding the current Associated Public Schools of Victoria Diving records for girls as well as various junior APS athletic records. She won bronze at the World Junior Championships in Calgary, Canada, 2000. Having retired from diving in 2006, she studied medicine at the University of Sydney The University of Sydney (USYD), also known as Sydney University, or informally Sydney Uni, is a public research university located in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and is one of the country's si ... and is currently a doctor at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. She is the sister of Australian Representative 800m runner Joseph Ischia. References Sources *http://www.abc.net.au/commonwealthgames/2002/nations/team_australia.htm *https://web.archive.org/web/2009081608 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liesl Seewald
Liesel Seewald was an Austrian luger who competed during the early 1950s. She won the silver medal in the women's singles event at the 1953 European championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re .... References External linksList of European luge champions Austrian female lugers Possibly living people Year of birth missing 20th-century Austrian women {{Austria-luge-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liesl Tommy
Liesl Tommy () is a South African-American director. Primarily known for her stage work, Tommy became the first woman of color to be nominated for the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play, for directing the Broadway production of Danai Gurira's ''Eclipsed'' (2017). She made her feature film directorial debut with the biopic ''Respect'', based on the life of singer Aretha Franklin, starring Jennifer Hudson and released in August 2021. Early life Tommy was born in Cape Town, South Africa, during apartheid and experienced racial segregation because she was a non-white citizen. The family lived in the Factreton township. Her father was a high-school teacher and politically active against the apartheid regime. In 1985, when the South African government declared a state of emergency, Tommy's family emigrated to the USA where her father had studied Urban Planning at MIT on a Fulbright scholarship in the 1970s. They moved to Boston when Tommy was 15 years old. She attended Newton North ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sound Of Music
''The Sound of Music'' is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. It is based on the 1949 memoir of Maria von Trapp, '' The Story of the Trapp Family Singers''. Set in Austria on the eve of the ''Anschluss'' in 1938, the musical tells the story of Maria, who takes a job as governess to a large family while she decides whether to become a nun. She falls in love with the children, and eventually their widowed father, Captain von Trapp. He is ordered to accept a commission in the German navy, but he opposes the Nazis. He and Maria decide on a plan to flee Austria with the children. Many songs from the musical have become standards, including "Edelweiss", " My Favorite Things", "Climb Ev'ry Mountain", "Do-Re-Mi", and the title song "The Sound of Music". The original Broadway production, starring Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel, opened in 1959 and won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, out of nine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Feminine Given Names
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), 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 (other) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feminine Given Names
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname. The term ''given name'' refers to a name usually bestowed at or close to the time of birth, usually by the parents of the newborn. A '' Christian name'' is the first name which is given at baptism, in Christian custom. In informal situations, given names are often used in a familiar and friendly manner. In more formal situations, a person's surname is more commonly used. The idioms 'on a first-name basis' and 'being on first-name terms' refer to the familiarity inherent in addressing someone by their given name. By contrast, a surname (also known as a family name, last name, or ''gentile'' name) is normally inherited and shared with other members of one's immediate family. Regnal names and relig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
