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Wolter Robert Van Hoëvell (1863) (cropped)
Wolter is a given name and surname of Low German and Low Franconian origin. It is equivalent to the English Walter, High German Walther, Dutch Wouter and French Gauthier. People with the name Wolter include: Given name * Wolter von Plettenberg (c. 1450–1535), leader of the Teutonic knights * Gerhard Wolter Molanus (1633–1722), Lutheran theologian and abbot * Wolter Robert van Hoëvell (1812–1879), Dutch minister, politician, reformer, and writer * Koenraad Wolter Swart (1916–1992), Dutch-American historian * Robert Wolter Monginsidi (1925–1949), Indonesian independence fighter * Wolter Robilotta (1945–2011), Brazilian footballer * Wolter Wierbos (born 1957), Dutch jazz trombonist * Wolter Kroes (born 1968), Dutch pop singer Surname * Adolph Wolter (1903–1980), German-born American sculptor * Bernard C. Wolter (1852–1936), American politician * Birthe Wolter (born 1981), German actress * Charlotte Wolter (1834–1897), German actress * Franz-Erich Wolter, German c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Low German
Low German is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language variety, language spoken mainly in Northern Germany and the northeastern Netherlands. The dialect of Plautdietsch is also spoken in the Russian Mennonite diaspora worldwide. "Low" refers to the altitude of the areas where it is typically spoken. Low German is most closely related to Frisian languages, Frisian and English language, English, with which it forms the North Sea Germanic group of the West Germanic languages. Like Dutch language, Dutch, it has historically been spoken north of the Benrath line, Benrath and Uerdingen line, Uerdingen isoglosses, while forms of High German languages, High German (of which Standard German is a standardized example) have historically been spoken south of those lines. Like Frisian, English, Dutch and the North Germanic languages, Low German has not undergone the High German consonant shift, as opposed to Standard German, Standard High German, which is based on High German langu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Wolter
Charlotte Wolter (March 1, 1834June 14, 1897), Austrian actress, was born at Cologne, and began her artistic career at Budapest in 1857. Early career The beginning of her career was far from easy. Her first stage experience came in Cologne at the age of ten as a ice skate dancer. Her first attempt on a larger stage (Budapest, Pest German Theater) in 1857, as Orphan at the Lowood (a stage version of Charlotte Brontë, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre), failed. For the first time, she became a box office hit in Timișoara, mainly thanks to her charming appearance. "Her ''"cassamagnet"'' status was based less on her art than on her victorious beauty, for Timișoara had a strong garrison, and when Wolter performed, the officers came to the theater." She came to Vienna, where Johann Nepomuk Nestroy hired her as an extra and for small roles at the Carl Theater. Wolter was cast in roles with a minimum of text, or no text at all, or in the roles of maids and female feeders. Nestroy had ve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherilyn Wolter
Sherilyn Marjorie Wolter (born November 30, 1951) is an American former actress. Early life Wolter was born in Clarksburg, West Virginia. She graduated from Encina High School in Sacramento, California, 1969. Career Wolter starred on the TV series ''B. J. and the Bear'' in 1981, ''The Devlin Connection'' in 1982 and then portrayed Celia Quartermaine on the daytime soap opera ''General Hospital'' from March 17, 1983, to February 26, 1986, and List of Santa Barbara cast and characters#Elena Nikolas, Elena Nikolas on ''Santa Barbara (TV series), Santa Barbara'' from April-October 1987. She also briefly replaced Hunter Tylo as Taylor Hayes (The Bold and the Beautiful), Taylor Hayes on ''The Bold and the Beautiful'' in October 1990 and appeared as George on ''Guiding Light'' from October-November 1993. Wolter played a blinded artist in the 1989 film ''Eyewitness to Murder'', Mitch's girlfriend in the first season of ''Baywatch'' (1990), and Justine Strickland in the 1992 daytime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Wolter
''America Unearthed'' was an American entertainment television series and the first original series to air on the A&E Networks channel H2. The show premiered on December 21, 2012, and was produced by Committee Films of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The program was hosted by Minnesota-based geologist Scott Wolter, who investigates mysteries and artifacts believed to reveal an alternative history of the North American continent before the United States. The show was cancelled following the sale of H2. The Travel Channel revived the series for ten episodes, again hosted by Wolter. The series broadcast in 2019 and was canceled after just one season. The show has been described as entertaining but also has received criticism for promoting pseudohistory. Predecessor In September 2009, History Channel aired the two-hour special "Holy Grail in America", produced by Committee Films, which follows Scott Wolter as he explores the idea that the Kensington Runestone is evidence that the Knights ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralf Wolter
Ralf Wolter (26 November 1926 – 14 October 2022) was a German stage and screen actor. Wolter appeared in nearly 220 films and television series in his over 60 years as a character actor. Life and career Wolter began his long career on the Berlin stage and in cabaret during the late 1940s. He made his first film appearance in ''Die Frauen des Herrn S.'' and quickly achieved prominence as an actor for comedic supporting roles. In 1961, he appeared as the baldheaded Soviet agent Borodenko in Billy Wilder's comedy ''One, Two, Three'' with James Cagney and Horst Buchholz. Another Hollywood film with Wolter in a supporting role was ''Cabaret'' (1972), where he played, alongside Liza Minnelli, the role of the neighbour Herr Ludwig, a publisher of pornographic books who later turns out to be a Nazi. In Germany, Wolter achieved his greatest fame as the eccentric but friendly trapper Sam Hawkens and as Hadschi Halef Omar in a number of highly successful Karl May film adaptations dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Wolter
Philippe Volter (23 March 1959 – 13 April 2005) was a Belgian actor and director. Born Philippe Wolter to theatre director Claude Volter and his wife, actress Jacqueline Bir, Volter began his career in Brussels in 1985. He made many stage and film appearances, the latter of which peaked with such arthouse films as '' The Music Teacher'' (1988), ''The Double Life of Véronique'' (1991) and ''Blue'' (1993). Other appearances include ''Macbeth'' (1987) and '' The Five Senses'' (1999). Upon his father's death in 2002, he returned to Belgium and became artistic director for the Comedy Claude Volter. Volter committed suicide Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Risk factors for suicide include mental disorders, physical disorders, and substance abuse. Some suicides are impulsive acts driven by stress (such as from financial or ac ... in 2005, aged 46. Filmography External links * 1959 births 2005 suicides Belgian male film actor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirko Wolter
Mirko Wolter (born 6 September 1976 in Güstrow, Germany) is a former motorcycle speedway rider from Germany. He earned four international caps for the German national speedway team. Career Wolter first rode in the United Kingdom, riding with the Sheffield Tigers in the Premier League in 1996 and 1997. He did however sufefr a bad crash to end his 1996 season. After a six-year absence he was signed by the Trelawny Tigers in 2003. He appeared as a wildcard in 2001 German Speedway Grand Prix. He was a three times German champion, winning the German Individual Speedway Championship in 1999, 2002 and 2004. Result Speedway Grand Prix World Championships * Individual Speedway World Championship (Speedway Grand Prix) ** 2001 - 35th place (2 pts in one event) * Team World Championship (Speedway World Team Cup and Speedway World Cup) ** ''2002 - 3rd placed in the Semi Final Two'' ** ''2002 - started in the Qualifying round only'' ** 2003 - 10th place (5 points in the Event ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Wolter
Michel Wolter (born 13 September 1962 in Luxembourg City) is a Luxembourgish politician. He was the youngest-ever member of the Chamber of Deputies when elected in 1984, and served as Minister for the Interior from 1995 to 2004. He is also a businessman and a former international table tennis player. Michel Wolter grew up in Esch-sur-Alzette, the second largest city of the country. He studied economics at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne from 1981 to 1985. Wolter was an international table tennis player from 1980 to 1984. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies at the 1984 election, on the Christian Social People's Party ticket. Aged 21 at that time, he is today still the youngest ever elected member. He was directly reelected in 1989, 1994, 1999, 2004, 2009 and 2013 . From 1985 to 1990, Wolter was chairman of the youth organisation of his party. In 1987, he became President of the Luxembourg Tennis Federation, in which capacity he served until 1994. F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurus Wolter
Maurus Wolter (4 June 1825, in Bonn – 8 July 1890, in Beuron) was the first abbot of the Benedictine Beuron Archabbey, which he founded with his brother Placidus in 1863. William M. Johnston ''Encyclopedia of Monasticism'' (2000, ), pp. 1440-1441 Biography Early life Rudolph Wolter was born in Bonn, the third of twelve children born to Lorenz and Elisabeth Schuchart Wolter. His father, a brewer, was Catholic; his mother Protestant. Rudolph was baptized in the Catholic Collegiate Church. Five of his siblings chose a religious profession; two, Karl and Ernst, became Benedictine monks. He attended the Royal Gymnasium in Bonn, and in 1844 began studies in philology, philosophy and theology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University. In 1849 Rudolf Wolter entered the seminary in Cologne. After being ordained on September 3, 1850, he took up his first position as vicar and rector of the new general higher city school in Jülich. There he founded the first German Catholic worke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimberly-Rose Wolter
Kimberly-Rose Wolter is an American actress, writer, producer and co-founder of VS Theatre company in Los Angeles, California. Film Wolter has written and starred in two feature films, 2003's ''Tre'' which won the Special Jury Prize at the 2007 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival and ''Knots'' due to be released in 2011. She had a role in Eric Byler's 2002 feature ''Charlotte Sometimes'' and starred in 2010's ''Strangers''. She played a nurse in the 2011 feature film '' Soul Surfer''. Theatre Wolter co-founded VS. Theatre Company (pronounced "versus") in 2003. The company's first production, the West Coast premiere of "The Credeaux Canvas" in which Wolter starred as 'Amelia', was widely praised earning the Los Angeles Times "Critics Choice" who said "The performances are rich, spontaneous, and often side-splittingly funny". It was followed by acclaimed productions of John Corwin's "Navy Pier" and John Patrick Shanley's "Beggars in the House of Plenty". Pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Wolter
Karl Wolter (2 August 1894 – 19 April 1959) was a German international footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea .... References 1894 births 1959 deaths Men's association football forwards German men's footballers Germany men's international footballers {{Germany-footy-forward-1890s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horst Wolter
Horst Wolter (born 8 June 1942 in Berlin, Germany) is a German former international footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Club career A Bundesliga winner with Eintracht Braunschweig in 1967, Wolter played almost 250 West German top-flight matches for Braunschweig and Hertha BSC. International career The goalkeeper won 13 caps for the West Germany national team between 1967 and 1970. Wolter played his final match for ''Die Mannschaft'' in the third-place play-off win at the 1970 FIFA World Cup, replacing regular first choice Sepp Maier, against Uruguay. Honours Club Eintracht Braunschweig * Bundesliga The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany and the highest level of the German football league system. The Bundesliga comprises 18 teams ...: 1966–67 References External links * * * 1942 births Living people Footballers from Berlin German men's fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
