| Subject name | Engelberg |
|---|---|
| Image photo | Engelberg.jpg |
| Municipality name | Engelberg |
| Municipality type | municipality |
| Imagepath coa | Engelberg-coat of arms.gif|pixel_coa= |
| Languages | German |
| Canton | Obwalden |
| Iso-code-region | CH-OW |
| District | n.a. |
| Lat d | 46|lat_m=49|lat_NS=N|long_d=8|long_m=24|long_EW=E |
| Postal code | 6390 |
| Municipality code | 1402 |
| Area | 40.75 |
| Elevation | 1015|elevation_description= |
| Population | | populationof = | popofyear = |
| Website | www.gde-engelberg.ch |
| Mayor | |mayor_asof=|mayor_party= |
| Mayor title | |list_of_mayors = |
| Neighboring municipalities | Attinghausen (UR), Gadmen (BE), Innertkirchen (BE), Isenthal (UR), Wassen (UR), Wolfenschiessen (NW) |
It is the leading mountain resort (Urner Alps) in central Switzerland. In the Middle Ages, Engelberg was known for the educational accomplishments of its Benedictine monastery, the Engelberg Abbey, whose school was well-known and regarded throughout the country. From the 19th Century, Engelberg became internationally known as a resort and spa, but is today visited as much for skiing as for its clean air. With its combination of modern sports facilities and alpine location, Engelberg is a magnet for both summer and winter tourism. The closest large cities are Lucerne and Zurich.
From 1850, Engelberg became an international vacation resort (mineral water, milk serum and fresh air cures). Many hotels were built by the families Cattani, Hess and Odermatt, pioneers of tourism. From 1872 to 1874, a new, wider road was built, and the Stansstad-Engelberg electric railway was opened in 1898. the gender distribution of the population was 49.9% male and 50.1% female. there are 1,650 households in Engelberg. {|class="wikitable" |- ! year ! population |- |1709 |678 |- |1799 |1,468 |- |1850 |1,737 |- |1900 |1,973 |- |1950 |2,544 |- |2000 |3,544 |- |}
Engelberg has an unemployment rate of 1.22%. , there were 176 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 65 businesses involved in this sector. 227 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 36 businesses in this sector. 1,295 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 186 businesses in this sector.
Due to the risks of filming in the disputed region of Kashmir, many Bollywood films requiring a Kashmir/snowy mountain setting are filmed in Engelberg.
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| Name | Stephan Eicher |
|---|---|
| Background | solo_singer |
| Birth name | Stephan Eicher |
| Born | August 17, 1960 |
| Origin | Switzerland |
| Genre | Pop music |
| Occupation | Singer, songwriter |
| Years active | 1978–present |
| Url | Official website |
Stephan Eicher (Born 17 August 1960 in Münchenbuchsee, Canton of Bern) is a Swiss singer.
His songs are sung in a variety of languages, including French, German, English, Italian, Swiss-German, and Romanche and sometimes he even uses different languages in the same piece.
His success started in German-speaking countries in the 1980s when as part of the band Grauzone he had a hit single "Eisbär". With hit songs such as "Combien de Temps" and "Oh Ironie", his popularity spread Europe-wide with various albums, tours, and chart success in France and Switzerland.
He was musically trained at the academy of art in Zurich, where he and others also learned how to use the computer for composing music.
He released his first single "Eisbär" together with his brother Martin on the album Grauzone in 1980. He became interested in French songs by Jacques Dutronc, Georges Brassens, and Serge Gainsbourg, and these influences resulted in him creating the album Les Chansons Bleues. This album is also inspired by the American singers he listened to during his youth, such as Patti Smith, Johnny Cash, and Bob Dylan.
His two following albums began to establish his reputation. The album I Tell This Night and the single "Two People in a Room" were released in 1985. It peaked on the Swiss Charts at number ten and stayed twelve weeks. Two years later, the album Silence reached number three and was in the Swiss Top 10 for fourteen weeks. Both albums were created by Stephan Eicher almost single-handedly.
With 1989's "My Place", Stephan Eicher went in a different direction. The French lyrics were written by his friend, author Philippe Djian. His largest commercial success came in 1991 with the album Engelberg, which spent five weeks at number one in Switzerland and 46 weeks on the charts in total. The song "Dejeuner En Paix" was also number two in France. It is the beginning of a collaboration with Manu Katché and Pino Palladino which will last until the release of 1000 vies in 1999. With all his following albums, Stephan Eicher regularly reached the top five on the Swiss album charts.
Following a world tour, which included concerts in Africa, he produced his first live album in 1994 (Non ci badar, guarda e passa).
Since 1989, his song lyrics have been written by Djian.
In 2001, Eicher released his first greatest hits compilation album entitled Hotel*s. For many years, the hotel Hess on the Swiss Engelberg was his second home. Martin Hess, son of the Hotelierehepaars, became his close friend and producer. At the hotel, the albums Engelberg and Louanges developed. Eicher selected the title Hotel*s as homage to this grand hotel, which was torn down in the same year. For the title selection for the album, he let the fans co-ordinate with the official homepage.
His song "Combien de Temps" has been remixed by Flood.
Experimental electronic music group Cabaret Voltaire recorded a cover version of Eicher's "No Escape."
The metalband Stahlhammer released a cover version of "Eisbär" on their album Eisenherz.
On the newer edition of the album Wahrheit oder Pflicht by Oomph! a cover version of "Eisbär" is included as a bonus track.
Category:1960 births Category:Living people Category:People from the Canton of Bern Category:Swiss male singers Category:English-language singers Category:French-language singers Category:German-language singers Category:Italian-language singers
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Simon Ammann (born 25 June 1981) is a Swiss ski jumper, and double Olympic Champion at both 2002 and 2010 Winter Olympics.
Ammann was born in Grabs, Switzerland, to Margit and Heinrich Ammann and raised in Unterwasser, Switzerland. He has two brothers and three sisters. He married Yana Yanovskaya on 25 June 2010. He made his debut as a 16-year-old unknown during the 1997–1998 Ski jumping World Cup season. Ammann qualified for the 1998 Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan, where he finished 35th.
Prior to the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, he crashed and suffered injuries. Despite this, he won the gold medal in both the Individual Normal Hill and Individual Long Hill events, only the second person to accomplish this feat. (The first was Matti Nykänen in 1988). Following the games, Ammann became a star in Switzerland and also made appearances on American talk shows, such as The Late Show with David Letterman (on 20 February 2002).Ammann also won the ski jumping event at the Holmenkollen Ski Festival in 2002 and 2007. This would earn him the Holmenkollen medal in 2007 (Shared with Frode Estil, Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset, King Harald V, and Queen Sonja of Norway).
He made his third Olympic appearance in 2006 in Torino, Italy.
On 24 February 2007, he won his first medal at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with a victory in the Individual Large Hill in Sapporo, Japan. Ammann would follow this with a silver medal in the Individual Normal Hill the following week. Ammann would complete his set of medals with a bronze medal in the Individual Normal Hill event at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec, Czech Republic.
On 13 February 2010, competing in his fourth Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Ammann won the gold medal in the Individual Normal Hill event. He became the first man in Olympic history to win gold medals in the Individual Normal Hill event in two Olympics.
On 20 February 2010, he also won the gold medal in the Individual Large Hill event at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, thus becoming the first man to win gold medals in both individual ski jumping events in two Olympic games, as well as the most decorated Swiss Olympic athlete of all time. His first jump was 144 meters. His second jump was 138 meters.
In March 2010 Ammann became the overall winner of 2009–10 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup, winning all four events at the Nordic Tournament and nine World Cup events in one season overall. He finished the season by becoming the ski flying World Champion in Planica on the largest hill in the world. His 236.5 m fourth round jump was the longest jump of the event and then the second longest jump in history.
Ammann is a student of information technology and electrical engineering at ETH Zurich since 2006. Ammann currently lives in Schindellegi, Switzerland.
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Schlierenzauer took fourth place in World Cup 2006-2007. He was second, but Adam Małysz from Poland ended up taking the first place position from Anders Jacobsen, so Schlierenzauer finished third. His coach thought that Planica was too demanding for a 17-year-old Schlierenzauer, so he didn't compete there and ended finishing fourth, behind Adam Małysz, Anders Jacobsen and Simon Ammann.
He skipped the competitions in Predazzo, where Tom Hilde from Norway took his first World Cup victory, and in Harrachov. On January 25, 2007, Schlierenzauer took his second World Cup victory in Zakopane, Poland. He also skipped the competition in Sapporo, ruining his chance to take the first place position from his Austrian team mate Thomas Morgenstern.
After two second place finishes in Liberec and an eighth place finish in Willingen, he took part in the FIS Ski Flying World Championships in Oberstdorf, Germany in 2008. After four series of competing, he won the gold medal, on February 23, 2008. The day after, on February 24, the Austrian team of (Schlierenzauer-Morgenstern-Koch-Kofler) won the gold in the team competition.
He also took part in the 2008 Nordic Tournament. He took the second and fourth place at the two competitions in Kuopio and in Lahti which was moved to Kuopio because of bad weather). Winning at the competitions in Lillehammer and Oslo, he won the 2008 Nordic Tournament.
After consecutively winning the last four individual competitions of the season, Schlierenzauer ranks second in overall the World Cup 2007-2008 standings at 233 points behind his team mate and friend Thomas Morgenstern. In March 2008, he improved the individual record of Austria on flying hills to 233.5 meters, which was also the longest jump of Planica 2008 ski jumping events.
On February 21 he won a silver in the individual normal hill event at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec behind fellow Austrian and Four Hills winner Wolfgang Loitzl. One week later, Schlierenzauer won gold in the team large hill event.
He returned to winning ways in individual competition on March 8 at Lahti, Finland taking his number of wins to 11 for the season, one behind Janne Ahonen's record of 12 wins in one season.
On March 20 he won the ski flying event at Planica, taking his number of wins to 13 for the season record, record of 20 podiums in a season and clinching the 2008-09 world cup title with two flying events left to run. He also achieved a record of 2083 points in World Cup in one season and first who came over 2000.
;World Cup Grand Prix :2006 - Hinterzarten, 1st, team normal hill (with Loitzl / Fettner / Kofler) :2006 - Hinterzarten, 3rd, normal hill :2006 - Einsiedeln, 2nd, large hill :2006 - Courchevel, 1st, large hill :2006 - Zakopane, 2nd, large hill :2007 - Hinterzarten, 1st, team normal hill (with Loitzl / Morgenstern / Kofler) :2007 - Hinterzarten, 3rd, normal hill :2007 - Pragelato, 1st, large hill :2007 - Klingenthal, 1st, large hill ;Continental Cup :2006 - Villach, 1st, normal hill ;FIS Cup :2006 - Seefeld, 2nd, normal hill :2006 - Zao, 2nd, normal hill :2006 - Sapporo, 1st, normal hill :2006 - Sapporo, 2nd, large hill ;FIS Races :2005 - Predazzo, 1st, normal hill :2005 - Predazzo, 2nd, normal hill
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He first participated in the World Cup on January 4, 1996. Due to poor results of Slovenian jumpers, he was called as replacement for event in Innsbruck, where he finished 8th. That was considered as superb result, so he soon became a leading jumper for Slovenia. For the rest of the season, he was jumping in great form, winning the events in Zakopane and Falun and finishing 9th overall. He also finished second behind Michael Uhrmann at the 1996 Junior World Championships.
The 1996/1997 season was a big success for Peterka. He won 7 individual events, as well as the prestigious Four Hills Tournament. In World Cup overall standings only Dieter Thoma of Germany was able to keep up with him, but Peterka ended the season on top. He also won the ski flying standings. On February 9, 1997 he became the first Slovenian to fly over 200 meters (with 203 meters long jump in Kulm, Austria).
The 1997/1998 season was also successful. Peterka won 4 individual events and for the second time in a row the World Cup overall, defeating Kazuyoshi Funaki of (Japan) in the final event of the season. He also won the ski jumping standings (standings where ski flying results are excluded). At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano he claimed 5th place in the individual large hill event and 6th place in the individual normal hill event, results that some thought were disappointing.
A personality crisis is typical for many young ski jumpers and Peterka was no exception. After three successful seasons his results were suddenly no longer near the standards expected from him. During the few years time details from his personal life were discussed in public, mostly his clashes with officials and his relationship with Renata Bohinc, the 1996 beauty Queen of Slovenia.
A turning point in Peterka's life and career came in 2001, when his son was born. In the 2001/2002 season he returned to the ski jumping elite. At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City he won the bronze team medal together with Robert Kranjec, Damijan Fras and Peter Žonta. Season 2002/2003 was also very successful, Peterka won two individual events (Kuusamo and Garmisch-Partenkirchen) and finished the season 7th overall.
Seasons after 2002/2003 weren't so good for Peterka. Since 2004 he has never managed to finish inside top 10 in individual World Cup event. However, at the World Championships in Oberstdorf he won another bronze team medal for Slovenia (together with Jure Bogataj, Rok Benkovič and Jernej Damjan). This makes Peterka the only Slovenian jumper with medals from both, Olympic games and the World Championship.
Two sports documentary films were made about his life and career. First is called Vleci, Primož ("Fly, Primož"). It was directed by Beno Hvala in 1997 and it's a story of his early career. Second is called Peterka: leto odločitve ("Peterka: Year of Decision"), it was directed by Vlado Škafar in 2002 and it focuses on personality crisis of young champion and finding his way back to the top.
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A piece from his album Worlds, OAM's Blues, can be found in the Sample Music folder on all Windows Vista systems.
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