Eva or EVA may refer to:

• Eva (name), a given name for women
  • Eva (given name), a list of people with the name Eva

It may also refer to:

In business and economics[link]

• Earned Value Analysis, a measurement of project progress
• Economic value added, the value of an activity that is left over after subtracting from it the cost of executing that activity, including the opportunity cost of capital
• EVA Air, a Taiwan-based airline
• English Volleyball Association, the former name of the controlling body for volleyball in England
• Electronic Voice Alert, a Voice Synthesizer made by the Chrysler Corporation for automobiles in the mid eighties.

In science and technology[link]

• Ethylene-Vinyl Acetate, a polymer used to absorb physical shock, used in shoes and other athletic materials
• EVA (benchmark), an evaluation of automated protein structure prediction
• Electric vacuum aspiration, a form of suction-aspiration abortion using an electric pump that creates suction
• Extra-vehicular activity, work done by an astronaut away from the Earth and outside of his or her spacecraft
• 164 Eva, an asteroid
• Enterprise Virtual Array, storage products, including online storage, nearline storage, storage networking, archiving, and storage software.
• EVA Conferences, series of conferences in the application of information technology to the cultural field
• Extended Vector Animation, a web-based vector graphic file format, similar to the Macromedia Flash format
• Early vascular ageing syndrome

Places[link]

• Eva, Alabama, a U.S. town
• Eva, Tennessee, a U.S. community
  • Eva (archaeological site), an archaeological site near Eva, Tennessee

In entertainment[link]

• Eva (1948 film), a 1948 Swedish film
• Eva (1958 film), a 1958 Austrian film
• Eva (1962 film), a 1962 French-Italian film in English
• Eva (2010 film), a 2010 English-language Romanian film
• EVA (2011 film), a 2011 Spanish film
• Eva (magazine), a Norwegian magazine
• Eva (novel), a 1988 book by Peter Dickinson
• Neon Genesis Evangelion, an anime and manga series referred to as "Eva"
  • Evangelion (mecha), from Neon Genesis Evangelion, also commonly referred to as "Eva"
• EVA, a character in the video games Metal Gear Solid 3, Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops and Metal Gear Solid 4
• EVA, short for "Electronic Video Assistant", an AI featured in the Command & Conquer series of video games.
• EVA, a type of armor available in the Halo (Series) video games.

In music[link]

• "Eva" (song), a single by Nightwish
• Eva (album), an album by French metal band Malmonde
• Eva (opera), an opera by Josef Bohuslav Foerster
• "Eva" is the name of a song by the synthrock band Orgy from their 2000 album Vapor Transmission.
• E.V.A., an Italian female band.
• E.V.A., a 1970 song by electronic music pioneer Jean-Jacques Perrey.
• Evanescence

Other uses[link]

• Ethical Vegetarian Alternative, Belgian vegetarian association, famous for introducing a weekly "veggie"day in their home city, Ghent
• European Voynich Alphabet, romanization system for graphemes of the Voynich manuscript

See also[link]

• Eve (disambiguation)

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Harald Schmidt
Harald Schmidt
Born	(1957-08-18) August 18, 1957 (age 54) Neu-Ulm, West Germany
Occupation	talk show host, comedian and television producer
Website
Sat.1 Official Site

Harald Franz Schmidt (born August 18, 1957 in Neu-Ulm, Bavaria) is a German actor, writer, comedian and television entertainer best known as host of two popular German late-night shows.

Biography[link]

Early life[link]

As son of refugees who fled from South Moravia (now Czech Republic) in 1945, Schmidt spent his youth in Swabian Nürtingen, where he went to grammar school. Due to his strict Catholic upbringing he devoted time to the Roman Catholic church, serving as choirmaster and playing the organ.

At the age of 21, Schmidt went to Stuttgart to attend drama school for three years. After that, he gained on-stage experience at Städtische Bühne (Municipal Stage) in Augsburg. His first role was that of the 2nd Mamaluke in Lessing's Nathan the Wise. In 1984, Harald Schmidt became a text writer for the cabaret Kom(m)ödchen in Düsseldorf and in 1986, was honoured as "Best Newcomer cabaret artist" and toured through Germany with his own show.

Television[link]

Before long, TV noticed the talented young comedian and in 1988 Schmidt began to host his first TV show, MAZ ab. This was followed by shows like Psst! and Schmidteinander, but the biggest boost to his career occurred in 1992, when he started hosting the popular Saturday night show, Verstehen Sie Spaß? (a variation of Candid Camera). Schmidt was awarded Germany's most important TV award, "Adolf-Grimme-Preis", which would be followed by many others. Just one year later, he was honoured as the "Entertainer of the year" and awarded the famous Bambi award and the Golden Camera.

In 1995, Schmidt changed from the publicly funded TV station ARD to the privately owned channel Sat.1 and started the late night talk and variety show, Die Harald Schmidt Show. From 30 June 2003 the show was broadcast five days a week, including Monday evening. On the 8th December 2003, Schmidt suddenly announced the end of the show, following a change of management of Sat.1. The last show was aired on the 23rd December 2003.

Harald Schmidt and Manuel Andrack live in Karlsruhe

"Creative break" and show relaunch[link]

In 2004, Schmidt toured through Germany with a live comedy show, featuring his former late night show sidekick Manuel Andrack. On December 23 of the same year, the new show Harald Schmidt began featuring Andrack, back on ARD, where Schmidt had begun his television career 16 years earlier.

In October 2005, his daughter Amelie was born.

Harald Schmidt resides in Cologne with his partner Ellen Hantsch, a school teacher, and five children, the eldest being from a former relationship. Little is known about the children and their two mothers as Schmidt shields them from the public. In interviews he hardly talks about them.

Shows[link]

[edit] Harald Schmidt Show (Sat.1)

Schmidt is host of the German late night show comparable to Late Night with Conan O'Brien or Late Night with David Letterman, which has now begun a second run after a year-long "creative break". The original show, named Die Harald Schmidt Show and shown on German television network Sat.1, featured stand-up comedy as well as famous national and international guests.

In its later years, the show became a critics' favourite due to Schmidt's "intellectual" sense of humour. For example, he hosted one show completely in French. On another occasion, the screen was blacked for half of the show making it into a "radio broadcast". Another time, he disproved a critic who had written that it is impossible to spend several minutes on TV just cracking nuts.

[edit] Harald Schmidt (ARD)

Schmidt began a second run with a new show on publicly funded ARD, this time without "celebrity" interviews and with even more discussion of current events in a rather freely associative manner. As the German entertainer Thomas Gottschalk recently quipped, Schmidt will always attract the student and intellectual crowd, Gottschalk himself will take care of the rest.

On his first show after the break Schmidt appeared with long hair and a fluffy full beard (which looked kind of grey-white-blond-yellowish and reminiscent of Ernest Hemingway and made it to the newspaper headlines the next morning) making fun of his long absence from the public. Although he claimed right on: "I swear, I shaved this morning!". After summer break in 2005 the "celebrity guest" segment was reintroduced.

[edit] Schmidt & Pocher (ARD)

Late in 2007, Manuel Andrack was replaced by Comedian Oliver Pocher, who had a more active part than his predecessor, and some other elements changed as well. The broadcast's title was changed to "Schmidt & Pocher", trying to attract a younger audience. Oliver Pocher was less educated and "less intellectual", a fact that caused some criticism among Harald Schmidt's core audience and broadsheet newspaper comments in Germany.

[edit] Harald Schmidt (Das Erste)

As of 2011, Schmidt hosts a live show for Das Erste each week.

[edit] Return to Sat. 1 as Harald Schmidt Show again

On September 15, 2011 Schmidt returned to his former network Sat.1 picking up is former show name of Die Harald Schmidt Show again. Sat.1 cancelled the show after one season due to low viewer levels.^[1]

[edit] Harald Schmidt Show (Sky Deutschland)

Starting September 11, 2012 new episodes will be shown on Sky Hits HD and Sky Atlantic HD, two channels of the German Pay-TV network Sky Deutschland.^[2]

Concept/crew[link]

The self-proclaimed hypochondriac became popular for his cynical jokes, cruel remarks and wry intellectual wit. (Even though he is obsessed with health he was able to lampoon this weak spot in a self ironic TV commercial for a medicine curing colds.) Schmidt models himself after people like Johnny Carson and Conan O'Brien, but adds few factors and qualities to his show himself.

He engaged in long, seemingly boring conversations with his "supervising producer" Manuel Andrack (known as "chief dramatic adviser"), who sat at a desk next to Schmidt's, and, like Letterman, also included his staff in the show, for instance, his band leader Helmut Zerlett and his cue card girl Suzana Novinscak (both omitted in the new show). After a few new shows, Schmidt celebrated the return of French woman Nathalie Licard. Previously Schmidt's reporter in the old show, she sat on a stool, opposite Manuel Andrack, in front of the band. On occasion, she was involved in the goings-on (like dressing up as Eliza Doolittle in front of the audience, helping Schmidt to bring people from the audience who were chosen to form an impromptu choir etc.). It has been announced on the 28th of March 2012 that the "Harald Schmidt Show" will end on the 3rd of May 2012 on SAT1.

Criticism[link]

Especially during the first years of Die Harald Schmidt Show, Schmidt was sometimes criticised for making fun of minorities like foreigners or gays. He also did some Adolf Hitler imitations in his show (in one of these he as Hitler warned young people not to vote for racist and nationalistic parties). However, especially Schmidts more unorthodox and politically incorrect jokes have garnered the show a reputation as cult television and his supporters accused critics of being incapable of understanding satire.

Awards[link]

Awards include three German Television Awards, the viewers choice award Bambi, the Grimme Award, the Golden Camera and the Golden Lion as best showmaster.

Related meme[link]

A picture of Schmidt, with a beard and long hair, holding up his index finger, is the basis of an Internet meme known as "fgsfds."

References[link]

External links[link]

• Die Harald Schmidt Show (old site)
• Harald Schmidt at the Internet Movie Database
• Schmidt's new Show (SAT.1)

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Otto Waalkes
Born	Otto Gerhard Waalkes (1948-07-22) 22 July 1948 (age 63) Emden
Occupation	comedian, actor
Website
www.otto-waalkes.com

Otto Waalkes live (2005)

Otto Gerhard Waalkes (born 22 July 1948 in Emden, Germany) is a Frisian comedian and actor. He became famous in the 1970s and 1980s in Germany with his shows, books and movies. His perhaps most famous trademark are the 'Ottifanten' ('Ottiphants'), elephant-like comic characters of his own design. They featured on the cover of his first album release.^[1]

He shares a close friendship with tennis player Steffi Graf, who also makes an appearance in the movie Otto - Der Außerfriesische. He has one child ("Benjamin Karl Otto Grigori Waalkes") with his first wife Manuela Ebelt, and was later married to actress Eva Hassmann until November 2011,^[2] who co-starred with him in Otto - Der Katastrophenfilm.

Discography[link]

Filmography[link]

• Otto – Der Film ('Otto – The Film') (1985)
• Otto – Der neue Film ('Otto - The New Film') (1987)
• Otto – Der Außerfriesische ('Otto - The Outer-Frisian') (1989)
• Otto – Der Liebesfilm ('Otto – The Romance film) (1992)
• St. Pauli Nacht ('St. Pauli Night') by Sönke Wortmann (1999)
• Otto – Der Katastrophenfilm ('Otto - The Disaster film') (2000)
• 7 Zwerge – Männer allein im Wald ('7 Dwarves – Men Alone in the Wood') (2004)
• 7 Zwerge – Der Wald ist nicht genug ('7 Dwarfs – The Wood Is Not Enough') (2006)
• Otto's Eleven (2010)

See also[link]

• German television comedy

References[link]

External links[link]

• (German) Official website
• Otto Waalkes at the Internet Movie Database
• (German) Website dedicated to Otto's Ottiphants

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Jonathan Meese
Born	January 23, 1970 (1970-01-23) Tokyo, Japan / Dessau, Germany
Nationality	German
Field	Painting, Sculpture, Performance art, Installation art
Training	Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg
Movement	Contemporary art
Awards	Berliner Bär (BZ-Kulturpreis), 2007

Jonathan Meese (born January 23, 1970, Tokyo/Dessau) is a German painter, sculptor, performance artist and installation artist based in Berlin and Hamburg. His (often multi-media) works include collages, drawings and writing. He also designs theater sets and wrote and starred in a play, "De Frau: Dr. Poundaddylein - Dr. Ezodysseusszeusuzur" in 2007 at the Volksbühne Theater.

Work[link]

Meese attended the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, but left the school before completing his studies and was picked up by Berlin gallery Contemporary Fine Arts. An early installation Ahoi der Angst was presented at the first Berlin Biennale in 1998. Susanne Titz, writing about the Biennale said, "It was thus clear that Meese had indeed put his finger on the pulse of his generation and presented it."^[1] According to Karel Schampers, "Jonathan Meese can tell a story in such a gripping way that you would never have the idea to doubt its truth. Especially his installations benefit from this quality,"^[2]

He has been included in exhibitions “Spezialbilder” at Contemporary Fine Arts in Berlin, “Grotesk!” at Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt and “Schnitt bringt Schnitte” at Ausstellungsraum Schnitt in Köln. Recent exhibitions include Thanks, Wally Whyton (Revendaddy Phantomilky on Coconut Islandaddy) at Stuart Shave/Modern Art, in London, and a performance at [[Tate Modern], entitled Noel Coward Is Back — Dr. Humpty Dumpty vs. Fra No-Finger.^[3][4] He has exhibited at Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, and Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca.

The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami presented the first major solo museum exhibition in the United States for Jonathan Meese, which included Meese's paintings that mix personal hieroglyphics and collage, installations, ecstatic performances, and a powerful body of sculptures in a variety of media. The exhibition was on view from December 1, 2010 – February 13, 2011, during Art Basel Miami Beach 2010. Jonathan Meese: Sculpture was organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami and curated by Director and Chief Curator Bonnie Clearwater. In 2007, he collaborated with the composer Karlheinz Essl on the installation FRÄULEIN ATLANTIS shown at the Essl Museum in Vienna/Klosterneuburg.

He is represented by Contemporary Fine Arts in Berlin, Stuart Shave/Modern Art in London and Galerie Daniel Templon in Paris.

He has worked collaboratively with the painters Jörg Immendorff, Albert Oehlen, Tim Berresheim, Daniel Richter, Tal R and the composer Karlheinz Essl.

For the Salzburg Festival 2010, Meese created an acclaimed stage design for the world premiere of Wolfgang Rihm's opera Dionysus.^[5]

Collections[link]

Collections of art that own examples of Meese's work include

References[link]

External links[link]

• Jonathan Meese - Homepage jonathanmeese.com
• Jonathan Meese at his exhibition Casinoz Babymetabolismn at Modern Art, London
• Jonathan Meese at Bortolami Gallery, New York
• Jonathan Meese at Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
• Jonathan Meese at Regina Gallery, London & Moscow
• Jonathan Meese at Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
• Jonathan Meese at Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
• Jonathan Meese: Fräulein Atlantis multimedia room installation for the Essl Museum
• Sies + Höke Galerie, Düsseldorf: Jonathan Meese, works
• Jonathan Meese at the Saatchi Gallery

Eva Habermann
Eva Habermann (2009)
Born	Eva Felicitas Habermann (1976-01-16) January 16, 1976 (age 36) Hamburg, Germany
Height	5' 7" (1.70 m)

Eva Felicitas Habermann (born January 16, 1976) is a German actress who has appeared in numerous films and TV series. She is best known for playing the role of Zev Bellringer in the television series Lexx. She was succeeded in her role by Xenia Seeberg.

While studying for (the German equivalent of) her Senior High School diploma („Advanced Placement“ courses only), Eva received singing and dancing lessons. Soon after graduation, she obtained her first television role in Lexx. She also moderated the children Pumuckl TV broadcast on German TV (1995/1996).

While Lexx was on hiatus between seasons 1 and 2, Eva appeared in the ZDF series Rosa Roth and the ARD series The Beach Club as well as appearing in the Rosamunde Pilcher film Two Sisters. Due to scheduling conflicts, she was ultimately unable to commit to the second season of the show, as, with a two-year gap between the first and second seasons, she accepted other projects and thus, when season two was ultimately greenlit, she was unavailable. She was, however, able to free up enough time in her schedule to appear in the first two episodes, allowing the writers to deal with her character properly.

In 1999, she took drama lessons and played in such German TV series as The Crime Scene, The Investigators, The Commissioner and Wild Angels.

In 2005, she was in the new episodes of the twenty year old series The Black Forest Clinic and in 2006 she was seen in the TV movie In heaven you write love differently alongside Erol Sander.

In 2008, she played again with Sander the role of Olivia O'Rourke in the film Who Loves Promises by Rebecca Ryman.

Her comedy roles included Angel Express (1997), Fire, ice and cans of beer (2001), and In the old monkey fear (2002).

In The Clown: Payday (2005) she played the role of Leah Diehl.

In 2003 she was ranked #17 in FHM-Germany's 100 Sexiest Women.

Main films[link]

• Ossi’s Eleven ... (2008)
• Whoever Promises Love ... Dieter Kehler (2008)
• Der Clown ... Leah Diehl (2005)
• Casting About ... Herself (2004)
• Der Alte Affe Angst ... Laura (2003)
• Feuer, Eis & Dosenbier ... Heidi (2002)
• Witness to a Kill ... Monica (2001) IMDB link
• Angel Express ... Svenja (1999)
• Dr. Random and the clown with a frown ...With Johnsky Normand (1999)
• Rosamunde Pilcher - Zwei Schwestern ... Laurie (1997)
• Star Command ... Ens. Johanna Pressler (1996)

Main TV series[link]

• Wilde Engel ... Lena Heitmann (2003)
• Code Name: Eternity ... Dr. Rosalind Steiner (2000)
• Die Strandclique ... Viola Kimmling (1999)
• Lexx ... Zev Bellringer (1997-1998)
• First Love - Die große Liebe ... Ricky (1997)
• Gegen den Wind ... Paula (1995)
• Immenhof (TV series) ... Melanie (1994)

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Eva Habermann

• Eva Habermann at the Internet Movie Database
• Official website
• Lexx fan site forum