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Rilke, Rainer Maria
(Encyclopedia)Rilke, Rainer Maria r´nr mär´ä rl´k [key], 1875–1926, German poet, b. Prague, the greatest lyric poet of modern Germany. Life Rilke's youth at military and business school was not hap...Modersohn-Becker, Paula
(Encyclopedia)Modersohn-Becker, Paula m´drzn-bk´r [key], 1876–1907, German painter. After studying in London and Berlin, she was greatly influenced by her experience at Worpswede, an artists' colony...Tsvetayeva, Marina Ivanovna
(Encyclopedia)Tsvetayeva or Tsvetaeva, Marina Ivanovna tsvytä´yv [key], 1892–1941, Russian poet. She was a major Russian poet, who survived the civil war, emigrated to Prague and Paris, and returned to Ru...Celan, Paul
(Encyclopedia)Celan, Paul pôl sln [key], pseud. of Paul Antschelänt´shschwa;l [key], 1920–70, Romanian-French poet. Although he spent his early years in Romania and his later years in France, Celan wrote i...lyric
(Encyclopedia)lyric, in ancient Greece, a poem accompanied by a musical instrument, usually a lyre. Although the word is still often used to refer to the songlike quality in poetry, it is more generally used to ref...Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
(Encyclopedia)Fassbinder, Rainer Werner r´nr vr´nr fäs´bndr [key], 1946–82, German filmmaker, b. Bad Wörishofen, Bavaria. One of the most highly regarded and prolific directors of the post–Wo...Sierre
(Encyclopedia)Sierre syr [key], Ger. Siders, town (1990 pop. 14,143), Valais canton, S Switzerland, on the Rhône River. A market town, it is the center of a rich horticultural region. There is a large aluminum p...Carossa, Hans
(Encyclopedia)Carossa, Hans häns kärôs´ä [key], 1878–1956, German poet and novelist. His autobiographical novel Childhood (1922, tr. 1930) and its sequels (1928, 1941) are noted for clear, graceful style. F...Weiss, Rainer
(Encyclopedia)Weiss, Rainer, 1932–, American physicist, b. Berlin, Germany, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1962. Weiss has been on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1964...Judson Dance Theater
(Encyclopedia)Judson Dance Theater, a loose collective of dancers, musicians, and visual artists that produced an influential series of avant-garde performance pieces at Judson Memorial Church in New York City's Gr...Browse by Subject
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