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Wieck A. Darß
Wieck can refer to: Places * Wieck, Poland, in Gmina Czersk, Chojnice County, Pomeranian Voivodeship * Wieck auf dem Darß, Vorpommern, Germany * Wiekowice, Gmina Darłowo, Sławno County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland (formerly German ''Wieck'') People * Wieck family of musicians in Germany, including: ** Friedrich Wieck (1785–1873) ** Clara Wieck (1819–1896), pianist, composer, wife of Robert Schumann ** Marie Wieck (1832–1916), pianist * Agnes Burns Wieck (1892–1966), American labor organizer, journalist * Brad Wieck (born 1991), American baseball player * David Wieck, American philosopher, activist * Hans-Georg Wieck (b.1928) Former German diplomat and president of the German federal intelligence agency Bundesnachrichtendienst * Michael Wieck Michael Wieck (19 July 1928 – 27 February 2021) was a German violinist and author. Wieck's memoir, ''Zeugnis vom Untergang Königsbergs'' (Witness to the fall of Königsberg), was published in 1989. In it he relates ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wieck, Poland
Wieck is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Czersk, within Chojnice County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately north-east of Czersk, north-east of Chojnice, and south-west of the regional capital Gdańsk. For details of the history of the region, see History of Pomerania. References Villages in Chojnice County, Wieck {{Chojnice-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wieck Auf Dem Darß
Wieck auf dem Darß is a Municipalities of Germany, municipality in the Vorpommern-Rügen district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Geography Wieck is situated at the southern shore of the peninsula Darß at the coastal lagoon (Low German: Bodden), between Born, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Born and the Baltic seaside resort Prerow. History For centuries, Wieck belonged to the Duchy of Pomerania and became Swedish after the Thirty Years' War. After Napoleon, Wieck became in 1815 Pomeranian again. After World War II, it was part of the district of Ribnitz-Damgarten. Wieck now belongs to the federal state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Places of interest *Wieck Harbour *Typical small thatched cottages *Information centre of the national park with a huge exhibition *Galleries with works of local artists Landscape The Darß is part of the former islands Fischland, Darß and Zingst. The peninsula is part of the Western Pomerania Lagoon Area National Park. The surrounding of Wieck is fam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiekowice
Wiekowice (German ''Wieck''; not to be confused with the village currently called Wieck) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Darłowo, within Sławno County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately south of Darłowo, west of Sławno, and north-east of the regional capital Szczecin. For the history of the region, see History of Pomerania The history of Pomerania starts shortly before 1000 AD with ongoing conquests by newly arrived Polans rulers. Before that, the area was recorded nearly 2000 years ago as Germania, and in modern-day times Pomerania is split between Germany and Pol .... The village has a population of 460. References Wiekowice {{Sławno-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Wieck
Johann Gottlob Friedrich Wieck (18 August 1785 – 6 October 1873) was a noted German piano teacher, voice teacher, owner of a piano store, and author of essays and music reviews. He is remembered as the teacher of his daughter, Clara, a child prodigy who was undertaking international concert tours by age eleven and who later married her father's pupil Robert Schumann, in defiance of her father's extreme objections. As Clara Schumann, she became one of the most famous pianists of her time. Another of Wieck's daughters, Marie Wieck, also had a career in music, although not nearly so illustrious as Clara's. Other pupils included Hans von Bülow. Life Wieck was born in Pretzsch, not far from Leipzig, in 1785, the son of a not very successful merchant. Although the family was not musical, Wieck was deeply interested in music and attended the Thomas-Schule in Leipzig in 1798; however, because of illness, his stay lasted only six weeks and he was forced to return home. In 1800 h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clara Wieck
Clara Josephine Schumann (; née Wieck; 13 September 1819 – 20 May 1896) was a German pianist, composer, and piano teacher. Regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era, she exerted her influence over the course of a 61-year concert career, changing the format and repertoire of the piano recital by lessening the importance of purely virtuosic works. She also composed solo piano pieces, a piano concerto ( her Op. 7), chamber music, choral pieces, and songs. She grew up in Leipzig, where both her father Friedrich Wieck and her mother Mariane were pianists and piano teachers. In addition, her mother was a singer. Clara was a child prodigy, and was trained by her father. She began touring at age eleven, and was successful in Paris and Vienna, among other cities. She married the composer Robert Schumann, and the couple had eight children. Together, they encouraged Johannes Brahms and maintained a close relationship with him. She premiered many works by h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Wieck
Marie Wieck (January 17, 1832 – November 2, 1916) was a German pianist, singer, piano teacher, and composer. She was the daughter of renowned piano teacher Friedrich Wieck and the younger half-sister of Clara Schumann who was 12 years older. Early life and education Marie was born in Leipzig to Friedrich Wieck and his second wife Clementine Fechner. Her mother was a sister of painter Eduard Clemens Fechner and of experimental psychology pioneer Gustav Fechner. She was trained from an early age in piano and voice by her father Friedrich. Marie's first public appearance was in 1842, when she and her half-sister Clara performed at a concert in Dresden. She later performed with her father at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig. Musical career An eminent singer and pianist, Wieck sang in concerts with her half-sister Clara and also performed with Joseph Joachim's wife, the opera singer Amalie Schneeweiss. She was appointed court pianist for the chamber concerts of the Prince of Hohenzollern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agnes Burns Wieck
Agnes Burns Wieck (January 4, 1892 – October 22, 1966) was an American labor activist and journalist, described as "a Coal Field 'Hell Raiser'". Early life Agnes Burns was born in Sandoval, Illinois Sandoval is a village in Marion County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,274 at the 2010 census. Geography Sandoval is located at . According to the 2010 census, Sandoval has a total area of , all land. Sandoval is located at th .... Her parents were both born in Kentucky; her father, Patrick Burns, was a coal miner active in union organizing. She remembered accompanying her mother to ask farmers for food during an 1897 bituminous coal strike. She trained as a teacher and attended a course on labor organizing at the University of Chicago, on a scholarship from the National Women's Trade Union League. Career Wieck was a teacher for five years as a young woman. She participated in strikes by women workers in Boston and Philadelphia. From 1924 to 1930 Wieck wro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brad Wieck
Bradley Michael Wieck (; born October 14, 1991) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Chicago Cubs organization. He previously played for the San Diego Padres and Cubs. Career New York Mets Wieck attended San Jacinto Christian Academy in Amarillo, Texas. After high school he attended Frank Phillips College and was drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 29th round of the 2012 Major League Baseball draft. He did not sign with the Phillies and transferred to Cisco College. After one year at Cisco, he transferred to Oklahoma City University and was drafted by the New York Mets in the seventh round of the 2014 Major League Baseball draft. Wieck signed and spent 2014 with the Brooklyn Cyclones, posting a 1–1 record and 1.40 ERA in 16 relief appearances. He started 2015 with the Savannah Sand Gnats. San Diego Padres In June, he was acquired by the San Diego Padres as the player to be named later in an earlier trade for Alex Torres. The Padres assigned him to the Cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Wieck
David Thoreau Wieck (1921–1997) was an American activist and philosophy professor. Career David Thoreau Wieck was born on December 13, 1921. His father, Edward A. Wieck, worked for the Russell Sage Foundation and wrote about miners' associations. David later wrote a biography of his mother, Agnes Burns Wieck. Wieck began publishing anarchist and antiwar articles in 1938 and was a conscientious objector during World War II. He published ''A Field of Broken Stones'' with another conscientious objector, Lowell Naeve, about their time in prison. After the war, Wieck edited ''Why? Group, Resistance'' with Paul Goodman. Weick also edited the anarcho-pacifist journal ''Liberation''. He was a lifelong friend of fellow pacifist activist David Dellinger. Both were imprisoned in the Federal Correctional Institution, Danbury, as conscientious objectors and protested its Jim Crow laws, racial segregrationist policies. He became a philosophy professor at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans-Georg Wieck
Hans-Georg Wieck (28 March 1928 – 15 May 2024) was a German diplomat and was president of the German federal intelligence service Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND). Life and career Wieck studied history and philosophy in Hamburg from 1947 to 1952 and received his PhD in 1953 with a dissertation named "The Origin of the Christian Democratic Union and the re-establishment of the Centre Party from 1945 to 1947." From 1954 to 1993 he was an official at the Foreign Office for which he served as ambassador to Iran, the USSR and India. He was also permanent representative of the Federal Republic of Germany at the North Atlantic Council (NATO). He served at the Ministry of Defence inter alia as head of the Policy Planning Staff and became president of the BND from 1985 to 1990. After his retirement from government service he was head of the OSCE Advisory and Monitoring Group in Minsk, Belarus from 1998 to 2001. From 1996 to September 2008 he was Chairman of the German - Indian Society. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bundesnachrichtendienst
The Federal Intelligence Service (German: ; , BND) is the foreign intelligence agency of Germany, directly subordinate to the Chancellor's Office. The BND headquarters is located in central Berlin and is the world's largest intelligence headquarters. The BND has 300 locations in Germany and foreign countries. In 2016, it employed around 6,500 people; 10% of them are military personnel who are formally employed by the Office for Military Sciences. The BND is the largest agency of the German Intelligence Community. The BND was founded during the Cold War in 1956 as the official foreign intelligence agency of West Germany, which had recently joined NATO, and in close cooperation with the CIA. It was the successor to the earlier Gehlen Organization, often known simply as "The Organization" or "The Org", a West German intelligence organization affiliated with the CIA whose existence had not been officially acknowledged. The most central figure in the BND's history was former W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Wieck
Michael Wieck (19 July 1928 – 27 February 2021) was a German violinist and author. Wieck's memoir, ''Zeugnis vom Untergang Königsbergs'' (Witness to the fall of Königsberg), was published in 1989. In it he relates his and his partly Jewish family's sufferings under the Nazis and, after the German defeat, under the Soviets. This moving story was translated into English in 2003 under the title ''A Childhood Under Hitler and Stalin: Memoirs of a "Certified Jew"'', and in 2004 into Russian as ''Закат Кёнигсберга'' (Sunset of Königsberg). A revised Russian edition was published in 2015. Biography Wieck was born in Königsberg, the capital of East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia). He was the son of two Königsberg musicians who were widely known before the Nazi era, Kurt Wieck and Hedwig Wieck-Hulisch. They were founders of the popular Königsberger Streichquartett (Königsberg String Quartet). Wieck was a grand-nephew of Clara Schumann (née Wieck). After consul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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