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Despite moving to Australia, he was a proud Hungarian and his ex-libris included a portrait of Lajos Bíró. |
He received the Order of Australia (AM) from Queen Elizabeth II in 1985. |
He was made a Fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1988, a few days before his death in Adelaide. |
He bequeathed his library and collections to the Hungarian Museum of Natural History in Budapest. |
Roger Steinmann |
Roger Steinmann ([]; born November 6, 1961 in Zurich, Switzerland) is a filmmaker and entrepreneur. |
Most notable is his biopic "Illusion Infinity" (aka "Paradise", 2004), starring Dee Wallace, Mickey Rooney, Timothy Bottoms, Barbara Carrera, Martin Kove, and Theresa Saldana. |
At the age of eight, Steinmann borrowed his uncle’s Super-8 camera. |
He shot his very first motion picture ‘Zurich’ (1969), a five minute-documentary. |
When the Swiss national TV in 1974 launched a youth-film-competition based on the key-word ‘door’, Steinmann directed his first feature ‘Die Türe’ (‘The Door’, 1975). |
Steinmann casted both lead roles in ‘Die Türe’ with Peter Bürgisser and André Bellmont. |
A string of short features and documentaries followed. |
Notably are: |
‘Die Flutkatastrophe’ (‘Flood Disaster’, 1977) was labeled ‘Switzerland’s first disaster movie. |
It depicts a major water dam-break what subsequently floods the metropole of Zurich. |
It won numerous awards. |
And, it was aired on Swiss national TV on November 4, 1978 together with a live-interview with Steinmann. |
‘’ ('The Machine-Animals', 1977) is a 22-minute documentary analyzing large-scale husbandry against classic farming. |
Still in his teens, Steinmann aimed to execute larger scale feature-projects based on his original screenplays. |
In 1978/79, he developed the conception ‘Krebs!’ (‘Cancer!’) about the life-threatening virus in a woman’s organism, visualized by a simultaneous life-threat of the organism of an entire city by a Godzilla-like monster-crab. |
In German language the title ‘Krebs!’ bears the double meaning of Cancer and Crab. |
The project had huge dimensions in respect of budget but as well of, at the time, demanding special effects. |
Therefore, the project stalled. |
Steinmann turned to theater as well; notable are: |
1982: ‘Beschti Referenze’ (aka ‘Buchhalter Noetzli’, ‘Bookkeeper Noetzli’) with Steinmann producing and directing. |
1986: ‘Achtung-Fertig-Los!’ (‘Ready-Steady-Go!’) as producer and writer, with directing. |
Imthurn became Steinmann’s long time partner. |
1988: ‘Schelmereie’ (‘Sweet Cheating’, 1988) as a director at the theater in Oberentfelden, Switzerland. |
From 1991, Steinmann lived alternatively in Los Angeles. |
There, he wrote several screenplays on spec, alone but mostly in association, e.g. |
'Bum and the Kid' with Scott Steindorff, outlines, e.g. |
‘Love of my Life’ with Don Mankiewicz, rewrites, e.g. |
‘Project: Metalbeast’. |
Among Steinmann´s several projects, Illusion Infinity (aka Paradise, 2004) caught the eye of casting director Gerald I. Wolff. |
He was able to engage six well known Hollywood actors: Dee Wallace, Mickey Rooney, Timothy Bottoms, Barbara Carrera, Martin Kove, and Theresa Saldana. |
‘Illusion Infinity’ was labeled as biopic; however, it was an original screenplay by Steinmann about the supposed real Las Vegas singer Patricia Paradise (played by Dee Wallace) and her life-long search for a genuine soul-mate, and a home she calls ‘Shangri-La’. |
In 2014, Thai film star Mike Angelo became interested to star in ‘The Partykillers’, a screwball-comedy about a humble inventor of a magical teddy-bear crashing the engagement party of a toy manufacturer. |
This screenplay Steinmann wrote back in 1995/98 in collaboration with Rodney Heeringa. |
But another concept of a screwball comedy fit Angelo’s talent even better: A male singer gaining success only when performing as a woman, attracting both a father and his daughter. |
After Angelo agreed to star in this dual role, Steinmann originated the 2015-screenplay ‘Ladies First’. |
Swiss actors Beat Schlatter and Pascal Ulli confirmed their interest to participate, the latter also as co-produce. |
Our world caught up with constant (ab-)use of cell-phones: What would happen if all cells and computers became unusable? |
This topic led to the 2016/2018-screenplay 'PhonY' with the unique interactivity between segments in Los Angeles, Switzerland, Australia, Thailand and Canada. |
In spring 2018, the filming commenced in Switzerland with Pascal Ulli and Gilles Tschudi; it was followed by the Thai segment. |
The remaining segments with Burt Reynolds and Barbara Carrera were scheduled in Los Angeles for October 2018. |
Though, a mere month before, Burt Reynolds untimely passed away, and the production stalled temporarily. |
It is aimed for a 2020 delivery. |
In 2018, Steinmann started to film the farce-comedy "PhonY" in Switzerland and Thailand. |
The Los Angeles-segment had to be canceled due to lead actor Burt Reynolds' untimely death. |
In December 2019, Golden Globe winner Elke Sommer agreed to participate. |
1983: Steinmann invented an automatic bottle stopper; patented in 1985. |
1983: Steinmann prevailed over 73 candidates in the German TV-quiz show ‘Alles oder Nichts’ with a record-breaking TV-live-audience of 15 Mio. |
1984: Steinmann founded the Rotsch AG, a joint-stock company, to market his invention. |
At that time, he was 22 years old and became the youngest president ever of such an entity in Switzerland. |
He sold that entity in 1996. |
1995: Steinmann founded the SUNSET International AG, a joint-stock company, to produce films. |
Mamta Devi |
Mamta Devi is an Indian politician from Jharkhand and a member of the Indian National Congress. |
She is a member of the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly from Ramgarh. |
Janhavi Panwar |
Janhavi Panwar (born 2003 or 2004) is a child prodigy from Haryana in India. |
Nicknamed the "Wonder Girl of India", Panwar has given lectures to Indian Administrative Service officers. |
At the age of 10 Janhavi was able to speak in 12 foreign accents. |
Sebastian Plano |
Sebastian Plano (born 1985) is an Argentinian composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist based in Berlin, Germany. |
His 2019 album "Verve" has been nominated for Best New Age Album at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards. |
He has composed the soundtrack for the video game Everything alongside Ben Lukas Boysen. |
Sebastian Plano was born into a musical family in Rosario, Argentina in 1985. |
He started playing cello at the age of seven before creating his own music from the age of twelve. |
Lac à Mars |
The lac à Mars is a fresh body of water in the watershed of the rivière à Mars North-West, the rivière à Mars and the Saguenay River. |
This body of water is located in the unorganized territory of Lac-Pikauba, in the Charlevoix Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, in the province of Quebec, in Canada. |
Lac à Mars is located in the central eastern part of the Laurentides Wildlife Reserve. |
Upstream of the port, industrial and urban area, the rivière à Mars valley is mainly served by the Consol Paper road. |
The rivière à Mars North-West is served by a few other secondary forest roads for forestry and recreational tourism activities. |
Forestry is the main economic activity in the sector; recreational tourism, second. |
The surface of the lac à March is usually frozen from the beginning of December to the end of March, however the safe circulation on the ice is generally made from mid-December to mid-March. |
The mouth of Lac à Mars is located about northeast of the boundary of the administrative regions of Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean and Capitale-Nationale. |
The main watersheds near Lake Mars are: |
Lac à Mars has a length of in the shape of a woman's head seen in semi-profile, a maximum width of , an altitude is and an area of . |
This lake has a narrow bay stretching to the east. |
It also has a narrowing to in its southern part. |
A peninsula attached to the eastern shore stretching on in the shape of a hook causes another narrowing in the northern part of the lake. |
The mouth of this lake is located at the bottom of a bay on the north shore, at: |
From the confluence of the lac à Mars, the current descends the course of: |
The place names “Rivière à Mars”, “Rivière à Mars Nord-Ouest” and “Lac à Mars” have the same origin. |
The toponym "lac à Mars" was formalized on December 5, 1968 by the Commission de toponymie du Québec. |
Arno Volk |
Arno Volk (15 January 1914 – 7 July 1987) was a German musicologist and music publisher. |
Born in Würzburg, Volk studied at the University of Cologne under Karl Gustav Fellerer in 1943 with the dissertation "Ernst Eichner. |
Sein Leben und seine Bedeutung für die Entwicklung der Kammermusik und der Solokonzerte". |
In 1950 he founded the Arno-Volk-Verlag in Cologne, which later merged with the . |
Volk died in Ingelheim am Rhein at the age of 73. |
Amba Prasad (politician) |
Amba Prasad is an Indian politician from Jharkhand and a member of the Indian National Congress. |
She has been elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Jharkhand from Barkagaon in 2019 Jharkhand Assembly Election . |
She is the youngest legislature of the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly to be elected in 2019 |
Naushera, Budaun |
Naushera ("in hindi:नौशेरा") is a village in Ujhani Tehsil and Budaun district, Uttar Pradesh, India. |
Its village code is 128284. |