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Saskia
Saskia is a Dutch feminine given name of uncertain origin. It has been in use since the Middle Ages and is also in occasional use in the Anglosphere. One source word might be the Germanic ''sachs'', meaning Saxon. Saskia van Uylenburgh, wife of the painter Rembrandt, is the best-known bearer of the name. Notable people with the name include: * Saskia Alusalu (born 1994), Estonian speed skater * Saskia Bartusiak (born 1982), German football player * Saskia Burešová (born 1946), Czech actress, presenter and TV announcer * Saskia Burmeister (born 1985), Australian actress * Saskia Clark (born 1979), British sailor * Saskia Howard Clarke, contestant on the ''Big Brother'' British television series in 2005 * Saskia Cohen-Tanugi (1959–2020), French actress and theatre director * Saskia de Brauw (born 1981), Dutch artist and model * Saskia de Coster (born 1976), Belgian writer * Saskia de Jonge (born 1986), Dutch swimmer * Saskia D’Onofrio (1924-1999), Finnish opera singer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saskia Alusalu
Saskia Alusalu (born 14 April 1994) is an Estonian speed skater. Alusalu represented Estonia at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. In the 2017/18 World Cup in Calgary, Alusalu achieved by far her best World Cup result to date when she placed fourth in the mass start. She attacked early and broke away from the field until three other athletes around the eventual winner Claudia Pechstein caught up with her and finally overtook her. Alusalu was Estonias's flag bearer at the 2018 Winter Olympics. She holds several national records. In August 2021, despite already training for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, she announced that she was ending her career as a speed skater because she wanted to focus more on her personal life and felt she could no longer handle the physical stresses. In addition to her current physiotherapy studies at the University of Tartu The University of Tartu (UT; ; ) is a public research university located in the city of Tartu, Estonia. It is the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saskia Cohen-Tanugi
Saskia Cohen-Tanugi (24 November 1958 – 20 July 2020) was a Tunisian-born French theatre director, actress, educator, and arts administrator. Early life and education Cohen-Tanugi was born to a Jewish family in Tunis, and attended Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Sorbonne. She studied under Antoine Vitez at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art in Paris. Career Cohen-Tanugi was a theatrical director. Her 1983 production of ''The Merchant of Venice'' in Paris was described as "débordante, consolante, convaincante" ("overflowing, consoling, convincing") by one critic, who also admired the show's punk-inspired costumes. She appeared onstage in Frédéric Klepper's 1985 production of Marivaux's '' The Triumph of Love,'' as Princess Phocion. She translated and adapted ''Keter Malchut,'' a recitation by 11th-century poet Solomon ibn Gabirol, from Hebrew into French, as ''L'Orage et la Prière''; Jean-Michel Dupuis performed her adaptation in Paris in 1997. She ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saskia Van Uylenburgh
Saskia van Uylenburgh (; 2 August 1612 – 14 June 1642) was the wife of painter Rembrandt, Rembrandt van Rijn. In the course of her life, she was his model for some of his paintings, drawings, and etchings. She was the daughter of Rombertus Uylenburg, the mayor as well as the justice of the Court of Friesland. Life Saskia was born in Leeuwarden, Friesland, the youngest of the eight children of Sjoukje Ozinga and Rombertus van Uylenburgh, a top lawyer, a town burgomaster, and one of the founders of the University of Franeker. Saskia (called Saske in Friesland) was orphaned by age 12, as her mother died in 1619 and her father five years later. Supposedly she met Rembrandt at the home of her first cousin, Hendrick van Uylenburgh, a painter and art dealer who had emigrated from Friesland to Kraków in Poland with his parents but decided in 1625 to move to the Dutch Republic, where there was growing tolerance after the death of Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange, Maurice of Or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saskia Elemans
Saskia Elemans (born 11 March 1977 in Nijmegen) is a Dutch professional cyclo-cross racing cyclist Cycle sport is competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX, and cycle speedway. Non-racing cycling spo .... Career highlights ;2002 *1st in Boxtel, Cyclo-cross (F) (NED) ;2003 *2nd in National Championship, Mountainbike, Elite, The Netherlands (F) (NED) ;2004 *2nd in Eindhoven, Cyclo-cross (F) (NED) ;2007 *2nd in Moergestel, Cyclo-cross (F) (NED) *2nd in Veghel-Eerde, Cyclo-cross (F) (NED) *2nd in Overijse, Cyclo-cross (F), Overijse (BEL) *3rd in Loenhout, Cyclo-cross (F) (BEL) ;2008 ( Team Flexpoint) *3rd in National Championship, Cyclo-cross, Elite, The Netherlands (F), Sint Michielsgestel (NED) *1st in Surhuisterveen Centrumcross (F) (NED) External links * 1977 births Living people Dutch female cyclists Dutch cyclo-cross cyclis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saskia Kosterink
Saskia Kosterink (born August 13, 1984 in Zwolle) is a Dutch softball coach and former player who played for the Dutch national team in international competitions in 151 games.Athlete biography: Saskia Kosterink beijing2008.cn, ret: Aug 16, 2008 She became the head coach of the Dutch softball team in 2024, beginning with the 2024 European Championships in . Kosterink played for Run '71 Oldenzaa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saskia Horley
Saskia Meg Horley (born 23 February 2000) is an Australian cricketer who plays for Scotland women's national cricket team, Scotland, New South Wales Breakers, New South Wales and Sydney Thunder (WBBL), Sydney Thunder. She played in four matches for Sydney Thunder in the 2019–20 Women's Big Bash League season. In 2022, she played for Middlesex Women cricket team, Middlesex in the 2022 Women's Twenty20 Cup, Women's Twenty20 Cup. In August 2022, Horley was named in Scotland women's cricket team, Scotland's squad for their series Ireland women's cricket team in Scotland in 2022, against Ireland in September 2022. She qualifies for Scotland through her mother, who was born in Edinburgh, and she holds a British passport. In March 2023, it was announced that she had signed for Sunrisers (women's cricket), Sunrisers for the first five rounds of the 2023 Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy. In September 2024 she was named in the Scotland squad for the 2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup. Horley was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saskia Holmkvist
Saskia Holmkvist (born 1971) is a conceptual artist from Sweden, working mainly with video Video is an Electronics, electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving picture, moving image, visual Media (communication), media. Video was first developed for mechanical television systems, whi .... She is best known for the short films "System" (2001) and "Interview With Saskia Holmkvist" (2005). Notable works * ''Interview With Saskia Holmkvist'' (2005) * ''System'' (2001) External linksSaskia Holmkvist, Arnolfini Gallery, frieze.com, May 2008 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saskia Holleman
Saskia Holleman (20 May 1945 – 10 June 2013) was a Dutch actress, lawyer and model. She became widely known in the Netherlands when a picture in which she was naked in a meadow was used by the left-wing, pacifist political party Pacifist Socialist Party for its electoral campaign during the 1971 Dutch general election. Holleman trained as a lawyer in the 1970s and she specialised in petty crime for law firms and later as an independent. Early life On 20 May 1945, Holleman was born in Leeuwarden. She was the oldest daughter of the classicist at the and theatre founder Aloysius Wilhelmus Jozef Holleman and Frederika Catharina Johanna Jozefina Maria Jansen. Holleman had two other siblings and was raised as a Catholic. She moved around the Netherlands during her childhood and attended , a school that she disliked. Hollemann was later educated at and did stage performances while being a fan of ballet. She became fluent in Frisian while having her education in Dutch. Holleman had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saskia Hölbling
Saskia Hölbling (born 6 March 1971) is an Austrians, Austrian choreography, choreographer and dancer (contemporary dance) Life and work Hölbling was born in Vienna. She created her first works during her degree course at the Konservatorium Wien, Konservatorium der Stadt Wien in from 1991 to 1995. She then continued her training until 1997 at Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's ''PARTS'' in Brussels. In 1996 she received a DanceWeb scholarship and in 2001 a scholarship to the Atelier du Monde/Montpellier Danse 2001. In 1995 Hölbling founded her company ''DANS.KIAS''. Since then she has been one of the few Austrian female choreographers with their own company. She has written some 20 works for her Vienna-based troupe. Saskia Hölbling has also created choreographies for existing contemporary music. In 2002 in collaboration with the Wiener Taschenoper she produced the two music-theatre productions ''Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda'' by Claudio Montev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saskia Hippe
Saskia Hippe (born 16 January 1991) is a German volleyball player. She was a member of the Germany women's national volleyball team. At club level after six years competing in the Hellenic Volley League with Olympiacos Piraeus. in the 2023–24 season she plays in the US Pro League for the Vegas Thrill. For the first round of 2024–25 season she agreed to play for Milon Nea Smyrni in Hellenic Volley League. Career Saskia Hippe took her first steps in volleyball at a very young age. In 2000, at just nine years old, she joined the junior teams of the Berlin club Köppenicker SC, with which she signed her first professional contract in 2007. The following year (2008), she took the first big step in her career, joining the big German volleyball club Dresdner SC, with which she won the CEV Challenge Cup and the German Cup in 2010. In the Summer of 2011 she decided to go abroad, trying her luck in the Italian Chieri of Turin, but she did not settle there, so the following year s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saskia Hampele
Saskia Hampele is an Australian actress. She began her acting career in 1997 with an appearance in children's television series '' The Gift''. Hampele worked as a counselor at The Reach Foundation and the Royal Children's Hospital, while pursuing her acting career. She appeared in the 2008 mockumentary '' Mark Loves Sharon'' and the two feature films ''Arctic Blast'' and ''Blame'' in 2010. The following year, Hampele made a guest appearance in '' City Homicide'' and began starring in an online series called ''Shutterbugs''. Hampele played Georgia Brooks in ''Neighbours'' from 2012 until 2016. She stars in 2019 serial drama '' The Heights''. Early and personal life Hampele was born in Perth. While her main focus is acting, she also writes her own songs and plays the guitar and piano. Hampele's mother is a musician and she revealed that she had access to "every instrument under the sun" when she was younger. She stated that she would like to make a solo record in the future. Hamp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saskia Hamilton
Maria Saskia Hamilton (May 5, 1967 – June 7, 2023) was an American poet, editor, and professor and university administrator at Barnard College. She published five collections of poetry, the final of which, ''All Souls'', was posthumously published in September 2023. Her academic focus was largely on the American poet Robert Lowell; she edited several collections of the writings and personal correspondence of Lowell, Elizabeth Hardwick, and Elizabeth Bishop. Additionally, she served as the director of literary programs at the Lannan Foundation, as the Vice Provost for Academic Programs and Curriculum at Barnard College, and as an editor at ''The Paris Review'' and '' Literary Imagination''. Her work was recognized with awards such as the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism and the Morton N. Cohen Award. She held fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Early life Mari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
