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Helga Glöckner-Neubert
Helga Glöckner-Neubert (5 September 1938 – 27 August 2017) was a German writer. Life Born in , Glöckner-Neubert completed her education at the librarian school of the Karl-Marx-University Leipzig. She then studied German and Slavic Studies. Afterwards she was a lecturer for Russian language at the University of Leipzig. She was engaged in a and was also otherwise involved in various cultural tasks in the Bezirk Frankfurt. The centre of her life was Frankfurt (Oder), which is reflected in various city-related publications. With her husband, the composer Gottfried Glöckner, she created an extensive body of songs. She was a member of the Deutscher Schriftstellerverband The German Writers' Union (German language, German, "Deutscher Schriftstellerverband") was an East German association of writers. It was founded in 1950 and renamed in 1973 as Schriftstellerverband der DDR (Writers' Association of the GDR). The .... Glöckner-Neubert died in aged 78. Work * ''Festumz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Limbach-Oberfrohna
Limbach-Oberfrohna () is a town in the district of Zwickau (district), Zwickau in Saxony, Germany. History From the City's Founding in 1950 to 1990 The twin city of Limbach-Oberfrohna was formed on 1 July 1950, through the merger of the two cities of Limbach and Oberfrohna (, in contrast to "Niederfrohna, Lower Frohna").''Gemeinden 1994 und ihre Veränderungen seit 1 January 1948 in den neuen Ländern'', Verlag Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7, Herausgeber: Statistisches Bundesamt The still young city was incorporated into the Chemnitz district during the territorial reform of 1952, then Karl-Marx-Stadt-Land, which was part of the corresponding district of the GDR. During GDR times, the Pioneer Holiday Camp Clara Zetkin was established, where children from West Germany could also spend their vacations. Since 1990 After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the corresponding district continued as the Chemnitz district in the reconstituted Free State of Saxony. On Octob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Briesen (Mark)
Briesen (Mark) () is a village and a municipality in the Oder-Spree district, Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated east of the capital Berlin, between the towns Fürstenwalde and Frankfurt an der Oder. Briesen was first mentioned in 1403. History From 1815 to 1947, Briesen was part of the Prussian Province of Brandenburg, from 1947 to 1952 of the State of Brandenburg, from 1952 to 1990 of the Bezirk Frankfurt of East Germany East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from Foundation of East Germany, its formation on 7 October 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on ... and since 1990 again of Brandenburg. Local government Since 2014 the municipality Briesen consists of the villages Alt Madlitz, Biegen, Briesen, Falkenberg and Wilmersdorf. It is part of ''Amt'' Odervorland. Its governing council, dealing with local affairs, consists of 12 seats. Demography Notable pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leipzig University
Leipzig University (), in Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, is one of the world's oldest universities and the second-oldest university (by consecutive years of existence) in Germany. The university was founded on 2 December 1409 by Frederick I, Elector of Saxony and his brother William II, Margrave of Meissen, and originally comprised the four scholastic faculties. Since its inception, the university has engaged in teaching and research for over 600 years without interruption. Famous alumni include Angela Merkel, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Leopold von Ranke, Friedrich Nietzsche, Robert Schumann, Richard Wagner, Tycho Brahe, Georgius Agricola. The university is associated with ten Nobel laureates, most recently with Svante Pääbo who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2022. History Founding and development until 1900 The university was modelled on the University of Prague, from which the German-speaking faculty members withdrew to Leipzig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gottfried Glöckner
Gottfried Glöckner (born 24 June 1937) is a German composer, choral conductor and music educator. Life Born in Chemnitz, Glöckner attended the Zwickau Conservatory. Afterwards he worked as a music teacher in Bad Liebenwerda and Frankfurt (Oder). From 1970 to 1974 he studied composition with Manfred Weiss at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden. He worked as a freelance composer and choral conductor in Frankfurt (Oder) Frankfurt (Oder), also known as Frankfurt an der Oder (, ; Central Marchian: ''Frankfort an de Oder,'' ) is the fourth-largest city in the German state of Brandenburg after Potsdam, Cottbus and Brandenburg an der Havel. With around 58,000 inh .... Glöckner's compositions were published by bellmannmusik, Edition Choris Mundi and . His Concerto for Orchestra was first performed in Havana in 1984. He was married to the writer Helga Glöckner-Neubert until her death in 2017. Awards * 1986: Hanns Eisler Prize Compositions * ''Alle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slavic Studies
Slavic (American English) or Slavonic (British English) studies, also known as Slavistics, is the academic field of area studies concerned with Slavic peoples, Slavic peoples, languages, literature, history, and culture. Originally, a Slavist or Slavicist was primarily a linguistics, linguist or philologist researching Slavistics. Increasingly, historians, social scientists, and other humanists who study Slavic cultures and societies have been included in this rubric. In the United States, Slavic studies is dominated by Russian studies. Ewa Thompson, a professor of Slavic studies at Rice University, described the situation of non-Russian Slavic studies as "invisible and mute". History Slavistics emerged in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, simultaneously with Romantic nationalism among various Slavic nations, and ideological attempts to establish a common sense of Slavic community, exemplified by the Pan-Slavist movement. Among the first scholars to use the term was Josef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bezirk Frankfurt
The Bezirk Frankfurt, also Bezirk Frankfurt (Oder), was a district (''Bezirk'') of East Germany. The administrative seat and the main town was Frankfurt (Oder). History The district was established, with the other 13, on 25 July 1952, substituting the old German states. After 3 October 1990 it was disestablished due to the German reunification, becoming again part of the state of Brandenburg. Geography Position The Bezirk Frankfurt bordered with East Berlin and the ''Bezirke'' of Neubrandenburg, Potsdam and Cottbus. It bordered also with Poland. Subdivision The ''Bezirk'' was divided into 12 ''Kreise'': 3 urban districts (''Stadtkreise'') and 9 rural districts (''Landkreise''): *Urban districts : Eisenhüttenstadt, Frankfurt (Oder), Schwedt. *Rural districts : Angermünde; Bad Freienwalde; Beeskow; Bernau; Eberswalde; Eisenhüttenstadt-Land; Fürstenwalde; Seelow; Strausberg. References {{Authority control Frankfurt Frankfurt am Main () is the most populous city ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wochenpost
The ''Wochenpost'' () was an East German weekly. It was founded in 1953, and circulation peaked at over one million copies per issue from 1971 to the German reunification. The academic Deirdre Byrnes writes that the paper was "one of the most influential" publications in East Germany. Its highest circulation was around 1.2 million copies, making the paper the most popular weekly in East Germany. ''Wochenpost'' considered a paper for intellectuals. The paper continued to be published after German reunification until it ceased publication in late December 1996. History The paper published its first issue on 22 or 23 December 1953, around Christmas. The cover of the first issue was a depiction of a child blowing a candle out with the words "to all who are of goodwill." It was co-founded by Margot Pfannstiel, who also worked as chief reporter, Heinz Knobloch, who took responsibility for "puzzles, mental recreation and humour" (''"Rätsel, Denksport und Humor"''), and Hilde Eisle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frankfurt (Oder)
Frankfurt (Oder), also known as Frankfurt an der Oder (, ; Central Marchian: ''Frankfort an de Oder,'' ) is the fourth-largest city in the German state of Brandenburg after Potsdam, Cottbus and Brandenburg an der Havel. With around 58,000 inhabitants, it is the largest German city on the Oder River, and one of the easternmost cities in Germany. Frankfurt sits on the western bank of the Oder, opposite the Polish town of Słubice, which was a part of Frankfurt until 1945, and called ''Dammvorstadt'' until then. The city is about east of Berlin, in the south of the historical region Lubusz Land. Within Frankfurt's city limits lies the recreational area Lake Helenesee. The name of the city makes reference to the Franks, and means '' Ford of the Franks'', and there appears a Gallic rooster in the coats of arms of Frankfurt and Słubice. The official name ''Frankfurt (Oder)'' and the older ''Frankfurt an der Oder'' are used to distinguish it from the larger city of Frankfurt a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Märkische Oderzeitung
The ''Märkische Oderzeitung'' (abbreviated: ''MOZ'') is a German regional newspaper published in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. The circulation area of the MOZ is largely identical to the former Bezirk Frankfurt, a region with around 600,000 inhabitants. It stretches along the Polish border from the northern border of Brandenburg to Eisenhüttenstadt in the south of the state. In the west, the ''Märkische Oderzeitung'' reaches the city limits of Berlin. The twelve local editions have about 240,000 readers. The sold circulation amounts to 67.412 copies, a minus of 50 percent since 1998. The share of subscribers is traditionally high. History The ''Märkische Oderzeitung'' has been published since 17 March 1990, the day before the first free elections in the GDR took place, as an independent daily newspaper by ''Märkisches Medienhaus GmbH & Co. KG''. The ''MOZ'' emerged from the newspaper ''Neuer Tag''. This was created in 1952 in the wake of the abolition of the GDR countries ''(L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deutscher Schriftstellerverband
The German Writers' Union (German language, German, "Deutscher Schriftstellerverband") was an East German association of writers. It was founded in 1950 and renamed in 1973 as Schriftstellerverband der DDR (Writers' Association of the GDR). The association considered itself an heir to the earlier traditions of the SDS (, "Protection League of German Writers") which had flourished in the Weimar Germany, 1920s but then, after Machtergreifung, 1933, been forced into line under the Hitler dictatorship and, in July 1933, found itself Gleichschaltung, subsumed into the "National Association of German Writers" (''Reichsverband deutscher Schriftsteller''), a Nazi mandated successor organisation between 1933 and 1945. The DSV archives are now in the Academy of Arts Berlin. Presidents *Bodo Uhse (1950–1952) *Anna Seghers (1952–1978) *Hermann Kant (1978–1990) *Rainer Kirsch (1990) See also *"Die Lösung", which mentions the Schriftstellerverband {{Authority control Organ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1938 Births
Events January * January 1 – state-owned enterprise, State-owned railway networks are created by merger, in France (SNCF) and the Netherlands (Nederlandse Spoorwegen – NS). * January 20 – King Farouk of Egypt marries Safinaz Zulficar, who becomes Farida of Egypt, Queen Farida, in Cairo. * January 27 – The Honeymoon Bridge (Niagara Falls), Honeymoon Bridge at Niagara Falls, New York, collapses as a result of an ice jam. February * February 4 ** Adolf Hitler abolishes the War Ministry and creates the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (High Command of the Armed Forces), giving him direct control of the German military. In addition, he dismisses political and military leaders considered unsympathetic to his philosophy or policies. General Werner von Fritsch is forced to resign as Commander of Chief of the German Army following accusations of homosexuality, and replaced by General Walther von Brauchitsch. Foreign Minister Baron Konstantin von Neurath is dismi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Deaths
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