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Stavanger Cathedral School
Stavanger Cathedral School ('' Norwegian: Stavanger katedralskole'') is an upper secondary school in the city of Stavanger, Rogaland county, Norway. It is spread over two areas; the traditional Kongsgård and the school's new building in Bjergsted. The school has 555 students and 94 staff members as of 2017. Courses The school specializes in music, dance and drama as well as natural and social sciences, and foreign languages, offering courses in German, Spanish, English, French, and Arabic. Student body The school attracts many talented students and has consistently fostered prestigious academic performances at a national level, aided by a high teacher-to-student ratio. The students at Stavanger Cathedral school are known for being highly politically active, expressing especially left wing opinions that have been traditionally over-represented, even though the school praises itself as diverse community. The school has a student-run international aide project called ''Project ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stavanger
Stavanger (, , American English, US usually , ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Norway. It is the fourth largest city and third largest metropolitan area in Norway (through conurbation with neighboring Sandnes) and the administrative center of Rogaland county. The municipality is the fourth most populous in Norway. Located on the Stavanger Peninsula in southwest Norway, Stavanger counts its official founding year as 1125, the year the Stavanger Cathedral was completed. Stavanger's core is to a large degree 18th- and 19th-century wooden houses that are protected and considered part of the city's cultural heritage. This has caused the town center and inner city to retain a small-town character with an unusually high ratio of detached houses, and has contributed significantly to spreading the city's population growth to outlying parts of Greater Stavanger. The city's population rapidly grew in the late 20th century due to its oil industry. Stavanger is known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fartein Valen
Olav Fartein Valen (25 August 1887 – 14 December 1952) was a Norwegian composer, notable for his work in atonal polyphonic music. He developed a polyphony similar to Bach's counterpoint, but based on motivic working and dissonance rather than harmonic progression. Biography Early life Valen was born in Stavanger, Norway in 1887 into a deeply Christian religious family and maintained his religious beliefs all his life. His parents were missionaries, and he spent five years of his childhood in Madagascar. In addition to his aptitude for music, he was also a polyglot, mastering at least nine languages. He earned his examen artium with the highest grades in all subjects except mathematics. He loved cats, nature and literature, cultivated roses (even developed an award-winning hybrid), and after losing them in a devastating freeze took up growing cacti. Musical career In 1906, Valen moved to Kristiania (today's Oslo) to study Norwegian literature and language but also took clas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Education In Rogaland
Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty. Various researchers emphasize the role of critical thinking in order to distinguish education from indoctrination. Some theorists require that education results in an improvement of the student while others prefer a value-neutral definition of the term. In a slightly different sense, education may also refer, not to the process, but to the product of this process: the mental states and dispositions possessed by educated people. Education originated as the transmission of cultural heritage from one generation to the next. Today, educational goals increasingly encompass new ideas such as the liberation of learners, skills needed for modern society, empathy, and complex vocational skills. Types of education are commonly divided into formal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poison (Kielland Novel)
''Poison'' (original Norwegian title: ''Gift'') is an 1883 novel by the Norwegian writer Alexander Kielland. The novel is the first in a trilogy including ''Fortuna'' (1884) and '' St. Hans Fest'' (1887). An English language edition of ''Gift'' did not exist until November 2020, 137 years after its original publication, when it was finally translated as a labor of love by aspiring Norwegian writer M. A. Larsen, who self-published the classic novel as an e-book for Kindle under the title Poison'. This famous novel is an attack on the Norwegian education system, particularly on the obsession with Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the .... A schoolboy, Marius, is tormented throughout the first half of the novel by his scholastic inability, and during his final illness ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man Who Loved Yngve
''The Man Who Loved Yngve'' ( no, Mannen som elsket Yngve) is a Norwegian film released on 15 February 2008. It is based on a book of the same name by Stavanger author Tore Renberg. It received critical acclaim as one of the best Norwegian movies of the year. A sequel - ''I Travel Alone'' - was released in 2011 and a prequel - ''The Orheim Company'' - followed in 2012. Plot In 1989, in the shadow of the collapse of Communism in Europe, a group of young rural Norwegians form a band. Preparations for their first gig are derailed when the lead singer, Jarle, is smitten by a new arrival, Yngve. Confused and not completely in touch with his own emotions, Jarle neglects his band, his mother and his girlfriend to spend more time with his new crush. At a party after the concert, he lashes out at Yngve but also admits he loves him. Yngve becomes depressed and flees to a bridge with the intention of committing suicide, but decides not to. He ends up in a mental hospital, and stays there ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustav Natvig-Pedersen
Gustav Natvig-Pedersen (18 August 1893 – 27 May 1965) was a Norwegian philologist, educator and politician for the Labour Party. A school teacher and headmaster during his professional career, he served in Stavanger city council from 1922 to 1964 and three terms in the Norwegian Parliament; during one of these terms he was President of the Storting. He made his mark in language politics. Early life and education He was born in Stavanger as a son of sailmaker Johan Pedersen (1857–1941) and his wife Johanne Christine Natvig (1863–1940). He briefly attended the Norwegian Military Academy, but graduated with the cand.philol. degree in 1919. In the same year he was hired as a school teacher in Stavanger. He was also a standing military officer, and held the rank Premier Lieutenant from 1920. Political career He was elected to Stavanger city council for the first time in 1922, and was re-elected successively throughout the rest of the interwar period. He chaired his local party ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arvid Knutsen
Arvid Knutsen (3 March 1944 – 4 January 2009) was a Norway, Norwegian footballer and later coach. He joined Viking FK from Stavanger IF Fotball, Stavanger IF in 1961, and made his senior team debut in 1963. With Viking he won the Norwegian Premier League, Norwegian First Division in Norwegian First Division 1972, 1972, Norwegian First Division 1973, 1973, Norwegian First Division 1974, 1974 and Norwegian First Division 1975, 1975, and also took bronze medals in Norwegian First Division 1968, 1968 and Norwegian First Division 1971, 1971. He played for Viking 396 times, scoring 117 goals. From 1976 he coached the team. Outside of his sporting career, Knutsen worked as a high school teacher at Stavanger Cathedral School. He took his education at the University of Bergen in 1969 and at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences in 1981. He married in 1974, and had two daughters. In March 2008 he was diagnosed with brain tumor. Operated at Haukeland, he learned that he suffered from te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hartvig Sverdrup Eckhoff
Hartvig Sverdrup Eckhoff (30 December 1855 – 17 February 1928) was a Norwegian architect. He took his education at the Technical University of Munich, and opened an architect's office in Stavanger in 1881. He was assigned to design several important city buildings; the first was Rogaland Teater, erected in 1883. He later designed the Stavanger Gymnastics Association (1891), Stavanger Museum (1893) and Stavanger Hospital (1897). All these buildings are characterized by historicism, Neo-Renaissance architectural revival style, the latter with a different expression, performed mostly in raw red brick. Eckhoff designed several villas in western Norway, and distinguished himself as a church architect. His designs included Haukedalen church in Førde (1885), Bore in Klepp (1891), Skånevik ( 1900), and Ask (1908). Besides his architect work, he was a teacher at Stavanger Cathedral School Stavanger Cathedral School ('' Norwegian: Stavanger katedralskole'') is an upper secondary sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eili Harboe
Eili Harboe (born 16 August 1994) is a Norwegian actress. She was born in Stavanger. She starred in Joachim Trier's 2017 film '' Thelma'' (as the principal character Thelma). ''Thelma'' and Harboe's performance received good reviews in the Norwegian press. On November 25, 2017, she was awarded the Silver Astor for Best Actress at the 32nd Mar del Plata International Film Festival. Filmography *''The Orheim Company '' (2012) (as Irene) *''Kiss Me You Fucking Moron'' (2013) (as Tale) *'' The Wave'' (2015) (as Vibeke) *''Doktor Proktors tidsbadekar'' (2015) (as Jeanne d'Arc) *''Askeladden - I Dovregubbens Hall'' (2017) (as Princess Kristin) *'' Thelma'' (2017) (as Thelma) *'' Beforeigners'' (TV Series) (Ada/Trine Syversen) *''Askeladden - I Soria Moria slott'' (2019) (as Princess Kristin) Awards *2017 - Silver Astor for Best Actress - Mar del Plata International Film Festival The Mar del Plata International Film Festival ( es, Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torstein Tvedt Solberg
Torstein Tvedt Solberg (born 2 March 1985) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. Education Solberg attended Stavanger Cathedral School. He obtained a bachelor's degree at University of Rogaland a master's degree in Culture, Environment and Sustainability at the University of Oslo in 2013.Politisk rådgiver Torstein Tvedt Solberg (AP) , retrieved 10 July 2013 Political career He was a member of |
Tore Renberg
Tore Renberg is a Norwegian writer. He is the author of many books within many genres, including novels, short-stories and children's books, as well as writing for film and stage. His work has been translated into many languages. He has two children named Petra and Allan. Early years Tore Renberg was born in 1972 in Madla, a suburb to Stavanger, the oil capital of Norway. His mother, Mirjam Elisabeth Renberg, worked for the state roads of Norway, his father, Jan Renberg, was both a teacher and an accountant. Tore Renberg attended Madlavoll elementary school and Gosen high school, From an early age, Tore Renberg developed a profound enthusiasm for literature. Amongst his first infatuations were the Norwegian fairy tales, Roald Dahl´s epics, the fantasy work of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Renberg's obsession with music was clear from the beginning. As a child his grandmother, Esther Elisabeth Ludvigsen, taught him the piano, he took violin lessons, and picked up the guitar at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laila Goody
Laila Elin Goody (born 22 March 1971) is a Norwegian actress. She was born to an English father who worked in the oil industry and a Norwegian mother. She was born in Stavanger and grew up in Rosendal, Hordaland between the ages of two to ten, before returning to Stavanger. Here she attended Stavanger Katedralskole. After graduating from the Norwegian National Academy of Theatre in 1994, she began working at the National Theatre. After nine years at this theatre she decided to take a break, and in 2003 she moved on to do guest performances at Trøndelag Teater and Centralteatret. Among her theatre roles are the title role in Friedrich Schiller's '' Mary Stuart'', "Hilde" in Henrik Ibsen's ''The Lady from the Sea'', and "Catherine" in David Auburn's '' Proof''. 2003 was also the year when her film and television career started taking off, and in the following years she had leading roles in the movies ''Jonny Vang'' (2003) and ''Den som frykter ulven'' (2004). Her effort at Cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
