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Unger
Unger may refer to: * Unger (Bishop of Poland) (died 1012), bishop of Poznań starting in 1000 * Unger, West Virginia * Unger Island, a small, ice-free island of Antarctica People * Unger (Bishop of Poland) (died 1012), bishop of Poznań * Andrew Unger (born 1979), Canadian writer * Anna Unger, East German cross country skier * Annette Unger (born 1962), German violinist and musicologist * Anthony B. Unger (born 1940), American film producer (1973's ''Don't Look Now'') * Betty Unger (born 1943), Canadian politician * Billy Unger (born 1995), American actor * Brian Unger (born 1965), American comedian, writer, producer, and commentator * Carl Richard Unger (1817-1897), Norwegian historian and philologist * Caroline Unger (1803–1877), Austrian contralto * Chris Unger, American association football (soccer) player * Corey Unger, American musician * Craig Unger, American journalist and writer * Daffney Unger, stage name of American wrestler Shannon Spruill * David A. Unger (born 1971) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erich Unger
Erich Unger (1887-1950) was a Jewish philosopher of standing who published many articles and a number of books, many of them in his native tongue, German. His writings cover a wide range of topics: poetry, Nietzsche, political theory, general philosophy and Jewish philosophy. Biography Born in Berlin in 1887, Dr Erich Unger was interested, from an early age, in novel ideas and intellectual debate. He attended school in Berlin-Lichterfelde, a wealthy residential area that was heavily influenced by Prussian nobility and members of the Prussian armed forces. At school at "Friedrich-Gymnasium" he met Oskar Goldberg who ran a literary club at the age of seventeen. As a young man Unger became one of the founder members of the literary Expressionist movement in Germany. (cf. Richard Sheppard, Die Schriften des Neuen Klubs, 1908–14, Hildesheim, 1980, 83). Unger's contributions to journals of the day were frequently sought after. (cf. Manfred Voigts, Vom Expressionismus zum Mythos de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerard Unger
Gerard Unger (22 January 1942 – 23 November 2018) was a Dutch graphic and type designer. He studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam from 1963–67, and subsequently worked at Total Design, Prad and Joh. Enschedé. In 1975, he established himself as an independent developer. A long-time guest lecturer at the University of Reading, he mentored many modern typeface designers. He lived and worked in Bussum, Netherlands. Work Unger developed many typefaces over the years, of which several specially developed for newspapers (usually typefaces with a large x-height and large inner counters), such as Swift, Gulliver, Coranto and Vesta. He also developed designs for magazines, coins, books, logos and stamps. A large number of Unger's typefaces are available from Linotype and the Dutch Type Library; his more recent faces are also available through the foundry Type Together. He released new work on his own website from 1995. Unger designed typefaces for the signag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daffney Unger
Shannon Claire Spruill (July 17, 1975 – September 1, 2021) was an American professional wrestler, wrestling manager and actress better known by her ring name Daffney. Daffney began her professional wrestling career in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in 1999. In WCW, she was known for her association with David Flair and Crowbar, and she became the second woman (after Madusa) to hold the WCW Cruiserweight Championship before the promotion was purchased by the WWE in early 2001. She subsequently appeared on the independent circuit until she signed with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) in 2008. Injuries forced her to retire from in-ring wrestling in 2011 but she continued to appear in non-wrestling roles for various promotions until 2018. Early life As a "military brat", Shannon Claire Spruill was born on July 17, 1975, at the Wiesbaden Army Airfield, a United States Air Force base in Wiesbaden-Erbenheim, Hesse, West Germany, where her father was stationed. In 1976, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Unger
Jim Unger (21 January 1937 – 26 May 2012) was a British-born Canadian cartoonist, best known for his syndicated comic strip ''Herman'' which ran for 18 years in 600 newspapers in 25 countries. Early life Unger was born in London, England, to Lillian Maud and James Unger. Unger served in the British Army, was enrolled as a London bobby, and worked as an insurance clerk and a repo man before emigrating to Canada in 1968 at the suggestion of one of his sisters. In Mississauga, Ontario he began his career as a cartoonist at the ''Mississauga Times'' newspaper. In 1974, as ''Herman'' became popular, Unger moved from Mississauga to Ottawa, Ontario, bringing his parents and brother from Britain. Retirement and return Unger moved to the Bahamas in 1984 and retired as a cartoonist in 1992. Unger's friends encouraged him to give up retirement. He said he would not have suggested it himself, but he liked the idea. On 2 June 1997, ''Herman'' made a comeback under the United Media umbrella ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Unger
Andrew Unger (born November 8, 1979) is a Canadian writer from Steinbach, Manitoba, best known as the author and founder of the Mennonite satire website The Daily Bonnet (along with the collection ''The Best of the Bonnet'') and for the novel ''Once Removed''. Career Before starting the Daily Bonnet, Unger was a contributor to numerous non-fiction publications including '' Geez'', '' CBC.ca'', and ''Ballast'', sometimes publishing under the pen name Andrew J. Bergman. Early in his career, he also wrote and published fiction and poetry, as well as working as a ghostwriter for New York-based Kevin Anderson & Associates. In 2016 Unger founded the Daily Bonnet and, along with his wife Erin Koop Unger, the non-satirical website Mennotoba in 2017. Since 2016, Unger has written more than two thousand Daily Bonnet articles. The website has been visited millions of times each year and has been cited in debate in the Manitoba Legislature and used as an example of Mennonite humour in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Unger
Hans Unger (August 26, 1872 – August 13, 1936) was a German painter who was, during his lifetime, a highly respected Art Nouveau artist. His popularity did not survive the change in the cultural climate in Germany after World War I, however, and after his death he was soon forgotten. However, in the 1980s interest in his work revived, and a grand retrospective exhibition in 1997 in the City Museum in Freital, Germany, duly restored his reputation as one of the masters of the Dresden art scene around 1910. Trademark and artistic influences Unger was a portraitist and a landscape painter but his reputation stems from his paintings, most of them nearly life-size, of "beautiful women dreaming of Arcadia". In fact, it was always the same woman being portrayed: his wife in real life, his muse. Later, his daughter Maja came to share her mother's privileged position. The background to his "Arcadian woman" was quite often a pastoral landscape with high cypresses, a garden or a se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felix Unger
Felix Unger (born 2 March 1946 in Klagenfurt, Austria) is a heart specialist who served as the president of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts for three decades. He is the president of Alma Mater Europaea. In 1986 he performed the first artificial heart transplantation in Europe. in '''', December 16, 1986. Life Unger studied medicine at |
Heinz Unger
Heinz Unger (14 December 1895 – 25 February 1965Heinz Unger ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'', accessed 11 Nov 2014.) was a German conductor, known particularly for conducting the works of Gustav Mahler. In later life, he lived in Britain and Canada. Early career Unger was born in Berlin, the son of a lawyer, and at first he studied law. In 1915, in Munich where he was studying, he heard Mahler's '''', conducted by , which was i ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annette Unger
Annette Unger, ''née'' Börner, (born 28 May 1962) is a German violinist and a scholar academic. Life and career Unger was born in Dresden, the daughter of flutist and university teacher Ruth Börner (1936-2017) and the composer, cantor and '' Kapellmeister'' Hans Börner born and began playing the violin at the age of six. After attending the Dresden Special School of Music, she studied violin and Chamber Music with Karl Unger (a member of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden) at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden. After graduating, she received a teaching position there and in 1992 became Professor of Violin. Unger has performed as a soloist and chamber music partner in Europe, Japan and Korea and has worked with, among others, the Staatskapelle St. Petersburg, the Dresdner Kapellsolisten, the Landesbühnen Sachsen, the Elbland Philharmonie Sachsen, the orchestra of the Theater Lüneburg with conductors such as Ekkehard Klemm, Helmut Branny, Klau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Kara Unger
Deborah Kara Unger (born 12 May 1966) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her roles in the films '' Highlander III: The Sorcerer'' (1994), ''Crash'' (1996), '' The Game'' (1997), '' Payback'' (1999), '' The Hurricane'' (1999), ''White Noise'' (2005), ''Silent Hill'' (2006), ''88 Minutes'' (2008) and '' The Way'' (2010). Early life Deborah Kara Unger was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada to a nuclear disposal specialist mother and a gynaecologist father. She was the first Canadian to be accepted into Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art. Career Upon graduation Unger found steady work in Australian films and television series, including ''Bangkok Hilton'' with Nicole Kidman. Following her return to North America in the early 1990s she appeared in David Lynch's 1993 HBO mini-series ''Hotel Room'', and a year later appeared in '' Highlander III: The Sorcerer'' opposite Christopher Lambert. Unger's breakthrough role came in David Cronenberg's 1996 erotic dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerhard Unger
Gerhard Unger (26 November 1916 – 4 July 2011) was a German lyric tenor. Born in Bad Salzungen, he studied in Berlin and began singing concerts and oratorios in 1945, once the war was over. Unger made his debut as an opera singer in 1947 in Weimar. From 1949 to 1961, he sang with the Berlin State Opera. When the Berlin Wall was erected, he left for Stuttgart. After 1951 Unger sang regularly at the Bayreuth Festival. One of his signature roles was David from '' Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg'', which is documented on several recordings, including with Herbert von Karajan (1951), Rudolf Kempe (1951 and 1956), Hans Knappertsbusch (1952), Hans Rosbaud (1955), and Rafael Kubelík (1968), as well as a DVD of a 1970 performance conducted by Leopold Ludwig. Equally known was his Pedrillo in Mozart's ''Die Entführung aus dem Serail'', notably in the 1965 Salzburg Festival production staged by Giorgio Strehler and designed by Luciano Damiani, which was conducted by Zubin Mehta, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frieda Unger
Frieda Unger (born Frieda Eckert; 9 July 1888 – 12 April 1975) was a German activist and politician (SPD, USPD, KPD) who served as a member of the Parliament (''"Landtag"'') of Baden. Her candidacy for the national parliament (''"Reichstag"'') was not successful, however. Life Frieda Eckert was born in Schopfheim in the south-west of Germany. Her father is described variously as a smallholder and as a master mason with a substantial business that later went bankrupt when the demand for masonry skills collapsed overnight as a result of the rapid development of the cement and concrete based building methods. Karl Eckert died when Frieda was three after which she grew up in Schopfheim with her grandparents. On leaving school she relocated across the river to Basel where by the time she was 16 she was working in as a domestic servant with one of the city's "patrician family". She also took work as a sales assistant. It was while living in Basel that she met and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
