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Margarete Steiff (24 July 1847 – 9 May 1909) [1] was a German seamstress who in 1880 founded Margarete Steiff GmbH, more widely known as Steiff, a maker of toy stuffed animals. [ 2 ] Born in Giengen , Kingdom of Württemberg , Margarete contracted polio as a child, leaving her with both legs paralyzed and pain in her right arm.
In 2003, she and the rest of the cast of Love Actually were nominated for the Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast. She was nominated in 2006 for an International Emmy Award for Best Actress for her role in Margarete Steiff – A Story of Courage.
Steiff was founded in 1880 by Margarete Steiff, a seamstress. [2] [3] She began making fabric elephants that were sold in her shop as pincushions.[3] [4] [5] However, children began playing with them, and in the years following she went on to design many other animal-themed toys for children, such as monkeys, donkeys, horses, camels, pigs, mice, dogs, cats, rabbits, and giraffes.
A teddy bear is a stuffed toy in the form of a bear.Developed apparently simultaneously by toymakers Morris Michtom in the U.S. and Richard Steiff under his aunt Margarete Steiff's company in Germany in the early 20th century, the teddy bear, named after President Theodore Roosevelt, became a popular children's toy and has been celebrated in story, song, and film.
In the summer 1999, Krassnitzer presented the film series Wunderland as a personal love letter to Austria, in which he presented his favorite music and his favorite places. Krassnitzer is committed to Hilfswerk Austria. He is co-owner of the company Blinklicht, a production company for mobile TV, which he founded in Vienna with two childhood ...
Margrete: Queen of the North (Danish: Margrete den Første) is a 2021 Danish historical drama film, directed and co-written by Charlotte Sieling.The film is a fictionalised account of the 'False Oluf', an impostor who in 1402 claimed to be the deceased King Olaf II/Olav IV of Denmark-Norway, son of the title character Margrete I of Denmark.
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Haindling has composed music for television series and theatrical movies, including Irgendwie und Sowieso, Zur Freiheit, Café Meineid, Der Kaiser von Schexing, Der Schandfleck, Bavaria, Margarete Steiff, among others.