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Urmel From The Ice Age
''Urmel from the Ice Age'' (''Urmel aus dem Eis'') is a children's book written by German children's author Max Kruse. Plot At the time of the dinosaurs, a mother Urmel lays an egg. A short time later, however, an Ice Age begins and the egg is covered in snow. It eventually freezes in the ice. A long time later, the natural history professor Habakuk Tibatong developed a method of teaching animals to speak. Because of the envy and attacks of his professor colleagues, he has to leave his home to settle with Tim Inkblot, a little orphan boy, and the talking domestic pig Wutz on the small island of Titiwu. There are other animals on the island that Tibatong taught to speak at the beginning of the story. Each of the animals is through a typical speech errors characterized: The Penguin Ping articulates the sibilant " sh" as "pf" the Waran Wawa lisp, the elephant seal soul-Fant constantly singing songs whose dismal effect through consistent diphthongization respectively affection of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Kruse
Max Bennet Kruse (; born 19 March 1988) is a German professional footballer who last played as a forward for Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg and the Germany national team. Early years Kruse was born in Reinbek, Kreis Stormarn, Schleswig-Holstein in the north-eastern periphery of Hamburg. He was raised in Reinbek or in Hamburg. Club career Early career upleft, Kruse with St. Pauli in 2011 Kruse began his career with hometown club TSV Reinbek before he joined Hamburg-based ''SV Vier- und Marschlande'' in summer 1998. After more than seven years there, he was scouted by Werder Bremen in January 2006. On 4 May 2009, he signed a two-year contract with FC St. Pauli. During the 2011–12 2. Bundesliga, Kruse scored 13 goals and provided six assists as FC St. Pauli finished on 62 points in fourth place, missing out on the promotion playoffs on goal difference. SC Freiburg Following his successful spell with St. Pauli, Kruse was transferred to Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in the summe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrich Hölle
ENRICH is a 125-item questionnaire for married couples that examines communication, conflict resolution, role relationship, financial management, expectations, sexual relationship, personality compatibility, marital satisfaction, and other personal beliefs related to marriage. It was developed by University of Minnesota family psychologist David Olson, Ph.D., and colleagues as a method of assessing the health of married couple relationships and is now used by over 100,000 facilitators in the United States and worldwide. In studies of couples who completed the questionnaire, Fowers and Olson found ENRICH could predict divorce with 85% accuracy. Results from discriminant analysis indicated that using either the individual scores or couples' scores, happily married couples could be discriminated from unhappily married couples with 85-95% accuracy. A 2001 paper found sexual intimacy within relationships was positively associated with marital satisfaction. PREPARE/ENRICH ENRICH ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantasy Literature
Fantasy literature is literature set in an imaginary universe, often but not always without any locations, events, or people from the real world. Magic, the supernatural and magical creatures are common in many of these imaginary worlds. Fantasy literature may be directed at both children and adults. Fantasy is a subgenre of speculative fiction and is distinguished from the genres of science fiction and horror by the absence of scientific or macabre themes, respectively, though these genres overlap. Historically, most works of fantasy were written, however, since the 1960s, a growing segment of the fantasy genre has taken the form of films, television programs, graphic novels, video games, music and art. Many fantasy novels originally written for children and adolescents also attract an adult audience. Examples include ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'', the ''Harry Potter'' series, ''The Chronicles of Narnia'', and ''The Hobbit''. History Beginnings Stories involving ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Kruse (author)
Max Kruse (19 November 1921 – 4 September 2015) was a German writer, mostly known for his children's books ''Der Löwe ist los'' (The Lion is on the loose) and ''Urmel aus dem Eis'' (Urmel from the Ice Age). Life Max Kruse was born in 1921, the youngest of seven children of the sculptor Max Kruse and his wife Käthe Kruse, a well-known dollmaker. He briefly studied Philosophy and Business economics at the University of Jena until it was shut down due to the Second World War. After the war he worked as a freelance ad writer and later as an author. Besides writing he was part of the advisory council of the Giordano Bruno Foundation. He lived in Penzberg with his third wife. Probably his most famous work is ''Urmel aus dem Eis''. It is widely recognized and referenced in Germany, especially the TV-adaption by the Augsburger Puppenkiste and the Hessischer Rundfunk. Based on this novel there is computer-animated feature film Impy's Island. Works Selected bibliography Max ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urmel
''Impy's Island'', or ''Urmel from the Ice Age'' (german: Urmel aus dem Eis), is a 2006 German computer-animated feature film based on the children's novel '' Urmel from the Ice Age'' by Max Kruse. Plot summary On a magical tropical island called Tikiwoo in the 1950s, a fun-loving group of misfit animals and people make a marvelous discovery: a baby dinosaur frozen since prehistoric times. Little Impy, as they call him, is loving his new family and ready to explore the strange new world. But when a king from a faraway country vows to capture the lovable baby dino for his private collection, all the inhabitants of Impy's island must join together to save their new friend. Cast The film stars the voice talents of: * Wigald Boning as Professor Habakuk Tibatong * Anke Engelke as Wutz * Florian Halm as Diener Sami * Christoph Maria Herbst as Doctor Zwengelmann * Kevin Iannotta as Tim Tintenklecks * Stefan Krause as Ping * Oliver Pocher as Schusch * Domenic Redl as Urmel * Frank S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ice Age
An ice age is a long period of reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. Earth's climate alternates between ice ages and greenhouse periods, during which there are no glaciers on the planet. Earth is currently in the Quaternary glaciation. Individual pulses of cold climate within an ice age are termed ''glacial periods'' (or, alternatively, ''glacials, glaciations, glacial stages, stadials, stades'', or colloquially, ''ice ages''), and intermittent warm periods within an ice age are called '' interglacials'' or ''interstadials''. In glaciology, ''ice age'' implies the presence of extensive ice sheets in both northern and southern hemispheres. By this definition, Earth is currently in an interglacial period—the Holocene. The amount of anthropogenic greenhouse gases emitted into Earth's oceans and atmosphere is predicted to prevent the next glacial period for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works in the romantic vein of Carl Maria von Weber and Giacomo Meyerbeer, Wagner revolutionised opera through his concept of the ''Gesamtkunstwerk'' ("total work of art"), by which he sought to synthesise the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, with music subsidiary to drama. He described this vision in a series of essays published between 1849 and 1852. Wagner realised these ideas most fully in the first half of the four-opera cycle ''Der Ring des Nibelungen'' (''The Ring of the Nibelung''). His compositions, particularly those of his later period, are notable for their complex textures, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lohengrin (opera)
''Lohengrin'', WWV 75, is a Romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner, first performed in 1850. The story of the eponymous character is taken from medieval German romance, notably the ''Parzival'' of Wolfram von Eschenbach, and its sequel ''Lohengrin'', itself inspired by the epic of ''Garin le Loherain''. It is part of the Knight of the Swan legend. The opera has inspired other works of art. King Ludwig II of Bavaria named his castle Neuschwanstein Castle after the Swan Knight. It was King Ludwig's patronage that later gave Wagner the means and opportunity to complete, build a theatre for, and stage his epic cycle ''Der Ring des Nibelungen''. He had discontinued composing it at the end of Act II of ''Siegfried'', the third of the ''Ring'' tetralogy, to create his radical chromatic masterpiece of the late 1850s, ''Tristan und Isolde'', and his lyrical comic opera of the mid-1860s, '' Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg''. The most popular and recognizabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augsburger Puppenkiste
The Augsburger Puppenkiste (German for: Augsburg Puppetchest) is a marionette theater in Augsburg, Germany. It is located at the former Heilig-Geist-Spital in the historic center of Augsburg. Since 1948, the "Augsburger Puppenkiste" had been producing theatrical adaptations of fairy tales and serious pieces. In 1953, it began producing television series and gained nationwide prominence with productions, such as '' Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer'' and ''Urmel aus dem Eis''. The ''Puppenkiste'' (puppet chest): A family business In 1943, Walter Oehmichen (1901–1977) founded his own small puppet theater together with his wife Rose Oehmichen (1901–1985) and their daughters Hannelore (1931–2003) and Ulla: the ''Puppenschrein'', a puppet theatre which consisted of a small wooden stage that could be set up in a door frame. In the night of February 26, 1944, this stage was destroyed in a fire following a bomb assault in Augsburg. The figures, however, remained undamage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Impy's Island
''Impy's Island'', or ''Urmel from the Ice Age'' (german: Urmel aus dem Eis), is a 2006 German computer-animated feature film based on the children's novel '' Urmel from the Ice Age'' by Max Kruse. Plot summary On a magical tropical island called Tikiwoo in the 1950s, a fun-loving group of misfit animals and people make a marvelous discovery: a baby dinosaur frozen since prehistoric times. Little Impy, as they call him, is loving his new family and ready to explore the strange new world. But when a king from a faraway country vows to capture the lovable baby dino for his private collection, all the inhabitants of Impy's island must join together to save their new friend. Cast The film stars the voice talents of: * Wigald Boning as Professor Habakuk Tibatong * Anke Engelke as Wutz * Florian Halm as Diener Sami * Christoph Maria Herbst as Doctor Zwengelmann * Kevin Iannotta as Tim Tintenklecks * Stefan Krause as Ping * Oliver Pocher as Schusch * Domenic Redl as Urmel * Frank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Children's Literature
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) * Germa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novels Set On Islands
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the historica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
