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Schrecker or Schreker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Schrecker * Al Schrecker (1917–2000), American basketball player *Ellen Schrecker Ellen Wolf Schrecker (born August 4, 1938) is an American professor emerita of American history at Yeshiva University. She has received the Frederick Ewen Academic Freedom Fellowship at the Tamiment Library at NYU. She is known primarily for her ... (born 1938), American historian * Frederick Schrecker (1892-1976), Austrian actor Schreker * Franz Schreker (originally Schrecker; 1878–1934), Austrian composer, conductor, teacher and administrator See also * Schreck (other) {{surname ...
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Franz Schreker
Franz Schreker (originally ''Schrecker''; 23 March 1878 – 21 March 1934) was an Austrian composer, conductor, teacher and administrator. Primarily a composer of operas, Schreker developed a style characterized by aesthetic plurality (a mixture of Romanticism, Naturalism, Symbolism, Impressionism, Expressionism and Neue Sachlichkeit), timbral experimentation, strategies of extended tonality and conception of total music theatre into the narrative of 20th-century music. Formative years He was born as Franz Schrecker in Monaco, the eldest son of the Bohemian Jewish court photographer Ignaz Schrecker, and his wife, Eleonore von Clossmann, who was a member of the Catholic aristocracy of Styria. He grew up during travels across half of Europe and, after the early death of his father, the family moved from Linz to Vienna (1888) where in 1892, with the help of a scholarship, Schreker entered the Vienna Conservatory. Starting with violin studies, with Sigismund Bachrich and Arnold R ...
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Al Schrecker
Albert L. Schrecker (July 23, 1917 – January 4, 2000) was an American professional basketball player. Schrecker, a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, played in the National Basketball League in one game for the Pittsburgh Raiders The Pittsburgh Pirates were an American professional basketball team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeast ... during the 1944–45 season. He scored seven points in his lone appearance. References 1917 births 2000 deaths Amateur Athletic Union men's basketball players American men's basketball players Basketball players from Pittsburgh Forwards (basketball) Pittsburgh Raiders players {{1910s-US-basketball-bio-stub ...
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Ellen Schrecker
Ellen Wolf Schrecker (born August 4, 1938) is an American professor emerita of American history at Yeshiva University. She has received the Frederick Ewen Academic Freedom Fellowship at the Tamiment Library at NYU. She is known primarily for her work in the history of McCarthyism. Historian Ronald Radosh has described her as "the dean of the anti-anti-Communist historians." Background Schrecker graduated '' magna cum laude'' from Radcliffe College in 1960 and earned her M.A. in 1962 and her doctorate in 1974, both from Harvard University. Career She has taught at Harvard, Princeton, New York University, the New School for Social Research, and Columbia. From 1998 to 2002, Schrecker was the editor of ''Academe'', the journal of the American Association of University Professors. Personal life Schrecker married Marvin Gettleman (1933 – 2017), a professor emeritus of history. Political views Schrecker has said that she is "a card-carrying member of the American Civil Li ...
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Frederick Schrecker
Frederick Schrecker (10 January 1892 – 13 July 1976) was an Austrian actor, who appeared on stage, screen and film in his home country and the United Kingdom. Beginning his career on stage, Schrecker went on to feature in German films "Der Feldherrnhügel" (1926) and "Die Koffer des Herrn O.F." (1931) under the names Fritz Schrecker and Franz Schrecker. As a result of the Nazi regime in Germany, Schrecker, being Jewish, was forced to flee to England. There, in 1939, he was a co-founder of the Viennese Theatre Club of Paddington, a "celebrated émigré cabaret and theatre", also known as Das Laterndl. The theatrical group of talented Austrian exiles, which included the likes of Lona Cross, Martin Miller and Marianne Walla''The Times'', 28 June 1939, p. 12. became known for their sketches and plays which represented a "satirical commentary on Vienna under Nazi rule". During the Second World War, Schrecker participated in BBC anti-Nazi information programmes. After the war end ...
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