Lippe
—  District  —
Country	Germany
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
Adm. region	Detmold
Capital	Detmold
Area
• Total	1,246.4 km2 (481.2 sq mi)
Population (31 December 2010)[1]
• Total	351,158
• Density	280/km2 (730/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Vehicle registration	LIP
Website	http://www.lippe.de

Lippe (German pronunciation: [ˈlɪpə]) is a Kreis (district) in the east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring districts are Herford, Minden-Lübbecke, Höxter, Paderborn, Gütersloh, and district-free Bielefeld, which forms the region Ostwestfalen-Lippe.

The district of Lippe is named after the Lords of Lippe and their Principality of Lippe. It was a state within the Holy Roman Empire and today is a district of North Rhine-Westphalia.

History[link]

The Lippe district nearly covers the same area as the historic county of Lippe. The first mention of this country was in 1123; it grew in power slowly in the following centuries. In 1528 it became a county, in 1789 it was elevated to a principality.

County of Lippe, 18th Century

Unlike many other countries of the Holy Roman Empire in the area, Lippe kept its independence in the Napoleonic era, and thus wasn't incorporated into Prussia afterwards. It was one of the smaller member states of the German empire.

After the death of Prince Woldemar in 1895, the two lines of the House of Lippe fought over the regency for over a decade.

The last prince of Lippe was forced to abdicate in 1918 after the end of World War I when Germany became a republic; his country became a Freistaat in the German republic. In 1932 the Free State of Lippe was subdivided into two districts, Detmold and Lemgo. These continued to exist when in 1947 Lippe lost its status as a state of Germany and by order of the British military government was incorporated into the new federal state North Rhine-Westphalia; in 1949 this change was approved by the parliament. In 1969/70 the 168 cities and municipalities were merged to 16; and as the second part of the administrative reform in 1973 the two districts Lemgo and Detmold were merged to the district Lippe.

Geography[link]

The Lippe district covers the northern part of the Teutoburg Forest, which also contain the highest elevation of the district, the 496 meter high Köterberg near Lügde. The lowest elevation is at the Weser river with 45.5 m. The main river is the Werre, and at the northern border of the district the Weser.

Coat of arms[link]

The coat of arms shows the traditional symbol of the state of Lippe, the rose, as the district covers nearly the same area as the historic country. In the middle of the rose 16 stamens symbolize the 16 cities and municipalities of the district. The coat of arms was granted in 1973. Despite the relatively small size of Lippe, the Lippish rose is also one of only three symbols included in the coat of arms of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Towns and municipalities[link]

Culinary art[link]

The most famous dish served in Lippe is the Pickert. In the past it was known as a meal for poor people. The main ingredients are potatoes, flour and raisins.

References[link]

External links[link]

NRW portal

Media related to Kreis Lippe at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website (German)
• Ordinances and by-laws of the county of Lippe online
• Guidelines for the integration of the Land Lippe within the territory of the federal state North-Rhine-Westphalia of 17 January 1947
•  "Lippe". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913.  - Religious history of Lippe from the Reformation until the early twentieth century

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Coordinates: 52°00′N 8°55′E / 52°N 8.917°E / 52; 8.917

Ruth Moschner

Ruth Isabel Moschner (born April 11th, 1976) is a German TV presenter and comedian.^[1] She was a judge in the first season of Das Supertalent, the German version of Britain's Got Talent, but was replaced by Sylvie van der Vaart in the second season. She also appeared in Big Brother Germany and the comedy show Freitag Nacht News.^[2] In 2006, she won a German version of the Dancing on Ice.^[3] She has twice been nominated for the Deutschen Comedy-Preis.^[3]

References[link]

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Robert Palfrader, Vienna, 2011.

Robert Palfrader (b. November 11, 1968 in Vienna) is an Austrian actor, comedian and author.

Originally, he was the owner of a café in Vienna's Josefstadt district. His career in entertainment started when he was discovered by an agency in Germany, where he was working for TV station SAT 1.

In Austria, he initially worked for local radio station Wien 1, before being employed by national broadcaster ORF. There he has mainly done comedy shows, the most popular being echt fett, a hidden camera prank show (based on British format Trigger Happy TV), and Wir sind Kaiser (We are Emperor), a political satire where the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy is restituted. There, Palfrader plays the "Emperor Robert Heinrich" based on the Emperors of Austria.^[1]

On the theatre stage, he has been playing at Vienna's Rabenhof-Theater and at the city's Volkstheater, in plays by Ödön von Horvath and Ferenc Molnar.

References[link]

Peter Maffay
Peter Maffay, 2009
Background information
Birth name	Peter Alexander Makkay
Born	(1949-08-30) August 30, 1949 (age 62)
Origin	Braşov, Transylvania, Romania
Genres	Rock, Musicals
Years active	1969–present
Labels	BMG Ariola
Website	www.maffay.de

Peter Alexander Makkay (born August 30, 1949) better known as Peter Maffay is a German musician.

Biography[link]

Born in Brasov, Romania, the son of a German (Transylvanian Saxon), he was 14 when his family relocated to his parents' (West) Germany in 1963. In the same year, he started his first band, The Dukes. After completing his education and working for Chemigraphics, an art manufacturer, Maffay worked in clubs, where he distributed his music.

Peter Maffay's career started with the publication of his first single, "Du" (You in German). It was the biggest German hit in 1970 and brought Maffay instant fame. With the album Steppenwolf in 1979, Maffay became a major music star in Germany. The album sold 1.6 million copies, making it the best selling LP at that time. In 1980, the album Revanche (Revenge) broke his previous record, selling 2.1 million copies.

Maffay holds the German record for the most number one ranked singles in the single and album sales charts, including 12 albums.^[1] In addition, most of his studio albums reached the top ten.^[1] He also holds a German record for most albums to have sold over one million copies, with 14. His latest album,Laut und Leise (Loud and Quiet), became the fourteenth.

Altogether, Maffay has sold over 35 million records. Since 1980, each of his 13 tours (roughly every 2 years) has ranked among the three most visited attractions each season in Germany, with nine of them ranked first in that category.

Maffay also created a string of fairy tales about a little green dragon named Tabaluga, which was spread out onto five albums. The piece was also turned into a musical. Maffay went on tour individually with Tabaluga & Lilli in Germany; he later released a live album, DVD and live TV broadcast. The tour included Peter Maffay, Alexis, Nino de Angelo, Rufus Beck, and Carl Carlton among others.

In 1998, Maffay created an album in collaboration with artists from all corners of the world, including Aboriginal singers and musicians from Israel, called "Begegnungen". Julia Neigel, another famous German artist, is one of the musicians he usually works with in lyrics and singing in duets. She wrote two of his top singles - "Freiheit Die Ich Meine" and "Siehst Du die Sonne", a cover of Michel Polnareff's "Le Poupeé qui fait non".

He also starred in two films directed by Peter Patzak: The Joker in 1986, and Captured in Yemen in 1999. In addition, Maffay played a supporting role in the feature "The Polar Bear".

On 12 March 2011, Maffay received the Steiger Award (Germany).

Personal life[link]

Peter Maffay is active in politics and sometimes inserts his own political stances into his music. He is a peace activist, and in 2005 he performed a concert for German ISAF troops in Afghanistan. Maffay also donates to projects for traumatised and abused children. On the Spanish island of Majorca, he established a ranch where traumatised children from all over the world can have a free two-week holiday to help them cope with their problems. For his social commitment, he received the Bundesverdienstkreuz in 1996, and, in 2001, he received an award called "Goldene Henne" ("The Golden Hen").

Peter Maffay has been married four times, has a son and lives with his family on a farm on Majorca. One of his hobbies is motorcycle riding. In 1972, Maffay was severely injured in an accident after crashing his Harley Davidson. Later in life, he crossed the Sahara Desert several times on an off-road motorcycle.

The band[link]

Since the beginning of Maffay's musical career, Carl Carlton has played guitar in many projects. Likewise, for many years, Bertram Engel (drums), Ken Taylor (bass) and Jean-Jacques Kravetz (piano) have worked with Maffay as well. Some time later, Jean-Jaques Kravetz brought his son Pascal Kravetz (guitar) with him into the fold. In 2004, Frank Dietz, Andreas Becker, some of Maffay's friends from the band left to pursue other projects. The newest addition to the band is the Hamburg guitarist, Peter Keller.

Discography[link]

• 1970: Für das Mädchen, das ich liebe (CD / LP) (For the Girl that I Love)
• 1971: Du bist wie ein Lied (CD / LP) (You are like a song)
• 1972: Omen (CD / 2LP)
• 1974: Samstagabend in unserer Straße (CD / LP) (Saturday Evening in our Street)
• 1975: Meine Freiheit (CD / LP) (My Freedom)
• 1976: Und es war Sommer (CD / LP) (And it was Summer)
• 1977: Tame & Maffay (CD / LP)
• 1977: Dein Gesicht (CD / LP) (Your face)
• 1978: Live (CD / LP)
• 1979: Steppenwolf (CD / LP)
• 1979: Tame & Maffay 2 (CD / LP)
• 1980: Revanche (CD /LP) (Revenge)
• 1982: Ich will Leben (CD / LP) (I want to live)
• 1982: Live '82 (CD / LP / VHS)
• 1983: Tabaluga oder die Reise zur Vernunft (CD / LP) (Tabaluga or the Journey to Reason)
• 1984: Carambolage (CD / LP)
• 1984: Deutschland '84 (DVD / VHS)
• 1985: Sonne in der Nacht (CD / LP / DVD / VHS) (Sun in the Night)
• 1986: Tabaluga und das leuchtende Schweigen (CD / LP) (Tabaluga and the Luminous Silence)
• 1987: Live '87 (DVD / VHS)
• 1988: Lange Schatten (2CD / 2LP) (Long Shadows)
• 1988: Lange Schatten Tour '88 (CD / LP / VHS) (Long Shadow Tour 1988)
• 1989: Kein Weg zu Weit (CD / LP / DVD / VHS) (No Way to Far)
• 1989: Die Story 2 (CD)
• 1990: Leipzig (CD / LP / VHS)
• 1991: 38317 (CD / LP)
• 1991: 38317 — Das Clubconcert (DVD / VHS)
• 1992: Freunde und Propheten (CD) (Friends and Prophets)
• 1993: Der Weg 1979–93 (CD / VHS) (The Way 1979 to 1993)
• 1993: Tabaluga und Lilli (CD) (Tabaluga and Lilli)
• 1994: Tabaluga und Lilli Live (2CD / VHS) (Tabaluga and Lilli Live)
• 1996: Sechsundneunzig (CD) (Ninety-Six)
• 1996: Sechsundneunzig — Das Clubconcert (DVD / VHS) (Ninety Six — Club Concert)
• 1997: 96 Live (2CD / DVD / VHS)
• 1998: Begegnungen (CD / DVD / VHS)
• 1999: Begegnungen Live (2CD)
• 2000: X (CD)
• 2001: Heute vor dreissig Jahren (CD) (Thirty Years ago)
• 2001: Heute vor dreissig Jahren — Live (DVD) (Thirty Years ago — Live)
• 2002: Tabaluga und das verschenkte Glück (CD) (Gift of Luck)
• 2004: Tabaluga und das verschenkte Glück — Live (DVD) (Gift of Luck)
• 2005: Laut und Leise (2CD / 2DualDisc) (Loud and Quiet)
• 2006: Begegnungen, eine Allianz fuer Kinder (CD / DVD) (Encounters, an Alliance for Children)PR:M.Y
• 2007: Frohe Weihnachten mit Tabaluga (CD) (Merry Christmas with Tabaluga)
• 2008: Ewig (CD / DVD) (Forever)
• 2010: Tattoos (40 Jahre Maffay-Alle Hits-Neu Produziert) (CD) (DE: #1, 1x Platinum) ^[2]
• 2011: Tabaluga und die Zeichen der Zeit (CD) (Tabaluga and the signs of the times)

References[link]

External links[link]

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Evelyn Glennie
Evelyn Glennie at Moers Festival 2004
Background information
Birth name	Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie
Born	(1965-07-19) 19 July 1965 (age 46), Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Occupations	Percussionist
Instruments	Percussion

Dame Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie,^[1] DBE (born 19 July 1965) is a Scottish virtuoso percussionist. She was the first full-time solo percussionist in 20th-century western society.^[2]

Early life[link]

Glennie was born and raised in Aberdeenshire. Her father was Herbert Arthur Glennie, an accordionist in a Scottish country dance band, and the strong, indigenous musical traditions of north-east Scotland were important in the development of the young musician, whose first instruments were the mouth organ and the clarinet. Other major influences were Glenn Gould, Jacqueline du Pré and Trilok Gurtu. She studied at Ellon Academy and the Royal Academy of Music, and was also a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland.

Career[link]

Glennie tours extensively in the northern hemisphere, spending up to four months each year in the United States, and performs with a wide variety of orchestras and contemporary musicians, giving over 100 concerts a year as well as master classes and "music in schools" performances;she frequently commissions percussion works from composers and performs them in her concert repertoire.

She also plays the Great Highland Bagpipes and has her own registered tartan known as "The Rhythms of Evelyn Glennie". Glennie is in the process of producing her own range of jewellery and works as a motivational speaker.

Deafness[link]

Glennie has been profoundly deaf since age 11. This does not inhibit her ability to perform at the international level. She regularly plays barefoot during both live performances and studio recordings in order to "feel" the music better.^[3]

Glennie contends that deafness is largely misunderstood by the public. She claims to have taught herself to hear with parts of her body other than her ears. In response to criticism from the media, Glennie published "Hearing Essay" in which she discusses her condition.

Collaborations[link]

Glennie was featured on Icelandic singer Björk's album Telegram, performing the duet "My Spine". She has collaborated with many other musicians including former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett, Bela Fleck, Bobby McFerrin, Fred Frith and The King's Singers.

On 21 November 2007, the UK government announced an infusion of £332 million for music education. This resulted from a successful lobbying spearheaded by Glennie, Sir James Galway, Julian Lloyd Webber, and Michael Kamen, who also (in 2002/2003) together formed the Music in Education Consortium.^[4]

Personal life[link]

In 1994, Glennie married composer, sound engineer and tuba player Greg Malcangi, with whom she collaborated on several musical projects. They divorced in 2003 following her widely-publicised affair with orchestral conductor Leonard Slatkin.^[5]

Recognition[link]

Glennie has won many awards, including:

• Best Chamber Music Performance in the Grammy Awards of 1989
• Scot of the Year 1982
• Queen's Commendation prize for all round excellence 1985
• Scotswoman of the Decade 1990
• Best Studio and Live Percussionist from Rhythm Magazine 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003 & 2004
• Walpole Medal of Excellence 2002
• Musical America Instrumentalist of the Year 2003
• Sabian Lifetime Achievement Award 2006
• Percussive Arts Society: Hall of Fame – November 2008^[6][1]

She has been awarded 15 honorary doctorates from universities in the United Kingdom, was awarded the OBE in 1993, and was promoted to DBE in the New Year's Honours of 2007.^[7] She owns over 1800 percussion instruments from all over the world and is continually adding to her collection. She was also a VIP of the music industry. Dame Evelyn Glennie is also an Ambassador of the Royal National Children's Foundation (formerly the Joint Educational Trust) which helps support vulnerable, disadvantaged young people at state and independent boarding schools throughout the UK.

Albums[link]

• Rhythm Song (1990)
• Veni, veni Emmanuel (1993) (Catalyst 09026-61916-2. All pieces composed by James MacMillan. Scottish Chamber Orchestra.)
  • Veni, Veni, Emmanuel
    • Introit – Advent
    • Heartbeats
    • Dance – Hocket
    • Transition: Sequence I
    • Gaude, Gaude
    • Transition: Sequence II
    • Coda – Easter
  • After the Tryst
  • "...as others see us..."
    • Henry VIII (1491–1547)
    • John Wilmot (1647–1680)
    • John Churchill (1650–1722)
    • George Gordon (1788–1824) and William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
    • Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888–1965)
    • Dorothy Mary Hodgkin (b. 1910)
  • Three Dawn Rituals
    • Larghetto
    • Allegro moderato
    • Andante
  • Untold
• Wind In The Bamboo Grove (1995)
• Shadow Behind the Iron Sun (1999)
• The Sugar Factory (featuring Fred Frith; 2007)

Films[link]

• Touch the Sound (2004). Directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer, featuring a collaboration with Fred Frith. The farm where she grew up burned down during the production of the film, but her brother, Roger (who is featured in the film), and the animals, were unhurt.^{[citation needed]}

Autobiography[link]

• Good Vibrations: My Autobiography^[8]

Television appearances[link]

• ZingZillas (2010). Appeared in episode 19 ("Hide and Seek") playing tubular bells on the BBC channel CBeebies.^[9] and in episode 50 ("Where's the Bug?") playing the waterphone.^[10]
• Sesame Street (2009). Appeared playing percussion with Oscar The Grouch's Grouchkateer Trash Band.^[11]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Evelyn Glennie's website
• TED Talks: Evelyn Glennie shows how to listen to music with your whole body at TED in 2003
• Evelyn Glennie interview by Bruce Duffie