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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.