Mabel is an English female given name derived from the Latin amabilis, "lovable, dear".^[1] Amabilis of Riom (d. 475) was a French male saint who logically would have assumed the name Amabilis upon entering the priesthood: his veneration may have resulted in Amabilis being used as a female as well as male name or the name's female usage may have been initiated by the female saint Amabilis of Rouen (d. 634), the daughter of an Anglo-Saxon king who would have adopted the name Amabilis upon becoming a nun.^[2] The vernacular French form Amable was brought by the Normans to the British Isles where both Amabel and the abbreviated Mabel were common during the Middle Ages to subsequently become obsolete apart from Mabel remaining in regular use in Ireland where it was perceived as a variant of the Celtic name Maeve.^[3] Mabel's modern usage was subsequent to the 1853 publication of the novel The Heir of Redclyffe by Charlotte M. Yonge which featured a character - who was Irish - named Mabel Kilcoran; Yonge's novel also features a character named Amabel^[4] but her novel only boosted the popularity of the name in the form Mabel which became immensely popular in both the British Isles and the United States. At the start of the 20th century Mabel's popularity began a slow decline which accelerated from the 1930s with the name in very light usage since the 1960s. Due to its origin as an abridgement of Amabel it has been surmised that Mabel was originally pronounced with a short A the name's pronunciation with a long A dating only from its mid-19th century revival. ^[5]

Notable people of that name include:

• Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau (born 1968), member of the Dutch royalty
• Mabel Albertson (1901–1992), American character actress
• Mabel Besant-Scott (1870–1952), British occultist
• Mabel Gardiner Hubbard (1857–1923), wife of Alexander Graham Bell
• Mabel King (1932–1999), American singer and actress
• Mabel Lee, Australian translator
• Mabel Dodge Luhan (1879–1962), American patron of the arts
• Mabel Mercer (1900–1994), American cabaret singer
• Mabel Mosquera (born 1969), Colombian weightlifter
• Mabel Normand (1892–1930), American comic actress
• Mabel Poulton (1901–1994), British actress
• Mabel Seeley (1903–1991), American mystery writer
• Mabel Stark (1889–1968), tiger trainer
• Mabel Strickland (1899–1988), Maltese journalist and politician
• Mabel Walker Willebrandt (1889–1963), U.S. Assistant Attorney General from 1921 to 1929 under the Warren G. Harding administration.

References[link]

Heinz Rudolf Kunze, 2005

Heinz Rudolf Erich Arthur Kunze (born 30 November 1956 in Espelkamp-Mittwald, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German writer and rock singer. His greatest hits were Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (not to be confused with the homonymous song from the operetta Das Land des Lächelns) and Mit Leib und Seele in 1985 and 1986.

Biography[link]

Kunze was born on 30 November 1956 in the refugee camp Espelkamp near Minden. His family had been expelled from Guben (Niederlausitz, now partially Poland). His father, an officer for the Waffen-SS and long-time prisoner of war, had returned only in the same year.

In the 1980s, he rose to prominence as a singer. HRK, as he is often called, has also written books, and has translated musicals into German.

In 2002, Kunze narrated Piktors Verwandlungen, a 40 minute piece of the German band Anyone's Daughter after a fairy tale by German author Hermann Hesse, during a festival in honoring the late Nobel laureate in his home town Calw.

In the national selection for Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007, the singer/songwriter entered with "Die Welt ist Pop" (The World Is Pop), finishing 3rd.

Work[link]

Albums and CDs[link]

"D" refers to highest German chart rank

• 1981 – Reine Nervensache
• 1982 – Eine Form von Gewalt
• 1983 – Der schwere Mut
• 1984 – Ausnahmezustand
• 1985 – Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (D 8)
• 1986 – Wunderkinder (D 18)
• 1987 – Deutsche singen bei der Arbeit
• 1988 – Einer für alle
• 1989 – Gute Unterhaltung (D 31)
• 1991 – Brille (D 4)
• 1992 – Draufgänger (D 23)
• 1993 – Ich brauch dich jetzt — 13 Balladen
• 1994 – Kunze: Macht Musik (D 10)
• 1996 – Richter-Skala (D 48)
• 1997 – Alter Ego (D 33)
• 1999 – Korrekt (D 12)
• 1999 – Nonstop — Das bisher Beste von HRK
• 2001 – Halt (D 10)
• 2002 – Wasser bis zum Hals steht mir (D 65)
• 2003 – Rückenwind (D 26)
• 2005 – Das Original (D 28)
• 2007 – Klare Verhältnisse (D 21)

DVD[link]

• 2003 – Dabei sein ist alles

Literature[link]

• 1991 – Sternzeichen Sündenbock
• 1994 – Der Golem aus Lemgo
• 2002 – Wasser bis zum Hals steht mir
• 2006 – Kommando Zuversicht

Singles (selected)[link]

• 1981 – "Für nichts und wieder nichts"
• 1985 – "Dein ist mein ganzes Herz" (D 8)
• 1987 – "Mit Leib und Seele"
• 1987 – "Finden Sie Mabel"
• 1992 – "Finderlohn" (D 55)
• 1994 – "Leg nicht auf" (D 56)
• 1999 – "Aller Herren Länder" (D 75)
• 2001 – "Pegasus"
• 2001 – "Halt"
• 2003 – "Mach auf"
• 2001 – "Mehr als dies"

Musicals[link]

• 1987 – Les Misérables (translation into German)
• 1994 – Miss Saigon (deutsche Version: Übersetzung HRK)
• 1996 – Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (deutsche Version: Übersetzung HRK)
• 1999 – RENT (deutsche Version: Übersetzung HRK)
• 2003 – Ein Sommernachtstraum (nach Shakespeare, HRK gemeinsam mit Heiner Lürig)
• 2004 – POE — Pech und Schwefel (HRK gemeinsam mit Frank Nimsgern)
• 2007 – Kleider machen Liebe – oder: Was ihr wollt (nach Shakespeare, HRK gem. mit Heiner Lürig)

Books[link]

• 1984 – Deutsche Wertarbeit — Lieder und Texte 1980–1982
• 1986 – Papierkrieg — Lieder und Texte 1983–1985
• 1992 – Mücken und Elefanten — Lieder und Texte 1986–1991
• 1995 – Nicht daß ich wüßte — Lieder und Texte 1992–1995
• 1997 – Heimatfront — Lieder und Texte 1995–1997
• 1999 – heinz rudolf kunze: agent provocateur
• 2001 – Klärwerk — Lieder und Texte 1998–2000
• 2003 – Vorschuß statt Lorbeeren — Lieder und Texte 2000–2002
• 2004 – Ein Sommernachtstraum — Das Musical nach William Shakespeare
• 2004 – A Cure of Gravity — Ein Mittel gegen die Schwerkraft, Joe Jackson & Heinz Rudolf Kunze live
• 2005 – Artgerechte Haltung — Lieder und Texte 2003–2005
• 2007 – Ein Mann sagt mehr als tausend Worte — Lieder und Texte 2006–2007

by others

• 2005 – Silbermond samt Stirnenfuß — HRK Texte und Musik von 1980 bis 2005 von Holger Zürch
• 2007 – Heinz Rudolf Kunze — Meine eigenen Wege. Die Biographie von Karl-Heinz Barthelmes

External links[link]

• Heinz Rudolf Kunze in the German National Library catalogue (German)
• Offizielle Webseite
• Stirnenfuss — Die Heinz Rudolf Kunze Community im Internet
• Biographie bei Laut.de
• Die Hamburger Morgenpost zu Kunzes Tour 2007
• Wunderkinder.de — Der Heinz Rudolf Kunze Fanclub im Internet
• Große Akkorde und Tabulatur — Sammlung
• ZDF-Meldung: HRK als Dozent der Fachhochschule Osnabrück