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Thiess (surname)
Thiess is a north German name originating from the given name Matthias. It may refer to * Dorothea Thiess (1897–1973), German stage, film and television actress * Frank Thiess (1890–1977), German writer *Leslie Thiess (1909–1992), Australian construction and mining entrepreneur * Ursula Thiess Ursula Thiess (May 15, 1924 – June 19, 2010) was a German film actress who had a brief Hollywood career in the 1950s. Thiess began her career on the stage in her native Germany and by dubbing female voices in American films as Ursula Schmidt. ... (1924–2010), German film actress References {{surname German-language surnames Surnames from given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothea Thiess
Dorothea Thiess (1897–1973) was a German stage, film and television actress.Welch p.274 Selected filmography * ''Sacred Waters'' (1932) * ''Scandal on Park Street'' (1932) * ''Anna and Elizabeth'' (1933) * ''The Roberts Case'' (1933) * ''The Red Rider'' (1935) * '' The Girl from the Marsh Croft'' (1935) * ''Uncle Bräsig'' (1936) * '' Moscow-Shanghai'' (1936) *'' The Chief Witness'' (1937) * ''The Beaver Coat'' (1937) * ''Her First Experience ''Her First Experience'' (german: Ihr erstes Erlebnis) is a 1939 German romance film directed by Josef von Báky and starring Ilse Werner, Johannes Riemann and Charlott Daudert. The film's sets were designed by the art director Willy Schiller. L ...'' (1939) * '' Summer Nights'' (1944) References Bibliography * Welch, David. ''Propaganda and the German Cinema, 1933-1945''. I.B.Tauris, 2001. External links * 1897 births 1973 deaths German film actresses German stage actresses {{Germany-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Thiess
Frank Thiess (13 March 1890 – 22 December 1977) was a German writer. Biography Born in Eluisenstein (now Ogre Municipality), Kreis Riga, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire (now Latvia), Thiess grew up in Berlin. He worked as a journalist for four years until he was enlisted into the Germany army in World War I. Discharged after a few months because of a heart condition, he returned to Berlin and journalism. Within a few years, however. he decided to devote himself full-time to writing. His early novels were focussed on contemporary subjects — Time magazine once called him "the hot trumpet in Germany's jazz age." He married Florence Losey, an American singer. From the 1930s on, he concentrated on historical novels. His 1936 novel, ''Tsushima'', translated into English as ''The Voyage of Forgotten Men'', recounted the epic journey of the Russian Second Pacific Squadron, under the command of Admiral Rozhestvensky, from the Baltic Sea to the Sea of Japan, and its defeat b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Thiess
Sir Leslie Charles Thiess CBE (8 April 1909 – 25 November 1992) was a construction and mining industry entrepreneur, based in Queensland, Australia. He was one of the founders of Thiess Bros, which later became Thiess Pty Ltd. With a humble background, and one of eleven children, Thiess founded a contracting firm in 1933, in partnership with Henry Horn. Under his leadership, the company became a major contractor in Queensland and, when Horn retired in 1939, the firm became Theiss Bros. It prospered from a succession of military engineering contracts during World War II, and Theiss and his four brothers formed Theiss Holdings in 1950. The firm was floated on the Sydney and Brisbane stock exchanges in 1958. In 1968, Thiess was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) and, in 1971, he was knighted. After a hostile takeover by CSR in 1979, Thiess lost control of his company but, with assistance from two major backers, he bought back the construction divisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ursula Thiess
Ursula Thiess (May 15, 1924 – June 19, 2010) was a German film actress who had a brief Hollywood career in the 1950s. Thiess began her career on the stage in her native Germany and by dubbing female voices in American films as Ursula Schmidt. After she married Georg Otto Thiess, she became Ursula Thiess and was featured in many German magazines, including several cover photos, as well as the cover of ''Life'' magazine, 1954, as an up-and-coming model, and she was dubbed the "most beautiful woman in the world." She left postwar Germany at the urging of Howard Hughes and signed with RKO. She co-starred with Robert Stack in ''The Iron Glove'' (1952), Rock Hudson in ''Bengal Brigade'' (1954), Glenn Ford in '' The Americano'' (1955), and Robert Mitchum in '' Bandido'' (1956). Family Ursula was born in 1924 to Wilhelmine Lange and Hans Schmidt. At age 17, for refusing to join the League of German Girls The League of German Girls or the Band of German Maidens (german: Bund Deutsc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German-language Surnames
German ( ) is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol. It is also a co-official language of Luxembourg and Belgium, as well as a national language in Namibia. Outside Germany, it is also spoken by German communities in France (Bas-Rhin), Czech Republic (North Bohemia), Poland (Upper Silesia), Slovakia (Bratislava Region), and Hungary (Sopron). German is most similar to other languages within the West Germanic language branch, including Afrikaans, Dutch, English, the Frisian languages, Low German, Luxembourgish, Scots, and Yiddish. It also contains close similarities in vocabulary to some languages in the North Germanic group, such as Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish. German is the second most widely spoken Germanic language after English, which is also a West Germanic language. German is one of the major ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
