There was a folk etymology that supported a derivation based on the legendary figure of Mrs. ( Frau ) Perchta, Berchta, a woman ( Holle < Holda ‘ well disposed, dear ’) with good and bad changing features, who was venerated on Perchtertag (= Three Kings Day ) and at Shrovetide was sworn to during the Perchta procession.

In Germanic folklore as established by Jacob Grimm, Frau Holda or Holle is the supernatural matron of spinning, childbirth and domestic animals, and is also associated with winter, witches and the Wild Hunt.

She is also called Frau Bercht, Frau Percht, and Striga Holda, among other names.

Frau Holda teaches, inspires and rewards the hard worker, sometimes finishing an industrious worker's reels for her during the night, but she punishes the lazy, fouling their work.

In the third volume of his Deutsche Mythologie, Grimm writes: “ I am more and more convinced that Holda can be nothing but an epithet of the mild and ‘ gracious ’ Fricka ; and Berhta, the shining, is identical with her too .” In Lower Saxony, the parts assigned to Frau Holle are played by fru Freke corresponding to Anglo-Saxon Fricg, Old High German Frikka, Frikkia, Old Norse Frigg.

Johann Georg von Eckhart ( 1664-1730 ) in De orgine Germanorum ( p. 398 ) writes: “ The common people of the Saxons honor Frau Freke, who bestows on them gifts, the same whom the nobles amongst the Saxons reckon as Holda .” In Westphalia, the name of an old convent, Freckenhorst, Frickenhorst points to a sacred hurst or grove of Frecka ( feminine ), or of Fricko ( masculine ) compare Frœcinghyrst.

The most famous account of Holda was collected by the Brothers Grimm, the fairy tale Mother Hulda ( German: Frau Holle ):

There were early challenges to connecting this figure with a pagan goddess, since her earliest definite appearance links her with the Virgin Mary, commonly called " Queen of Heaven ": an early-13th-century text listing superstitions states that " In the night of Christ's Nativity they set the table for the Queen of Heaven, whom the people call Frau Holda, that she might help them ".

In Germanic mythology, Holda ( Frau Holle ) and Perchta ( Frau Perchta, Berchta, Bertha ) were both known as goddesses who oversaw spinning and weaving.

An account of Holda was collected by the Brothers Grimm, as the fairy tale " Frau Holda ".

The name Freyja is in fact a title meaning " lady ", from Proto-Germanic * frawjōn, cognate with West Frisian frou, Dutch vrouw, Low German Fro, Fru, German Frau.

It has been suggested that " Frau Holle " of German folklore is a survival of Frigg.

Regarding Seo Hell in the Old English Gospel of Nicodemus, Michael Bell states that " her vivid personification in a dramatically excellent scene suggests that her gender is more than grammatical, and invites comparison with the Old Norse underworld goddess Hel and the Frau Holle of German folklore, to say nothing of underworld goddesses in other cultures " yet adds that " the possibility that these genders are merely grammatical is strengthened by the fact that an Old Norse version of Nicodemus, possibly translated under English influence, personifies Hell in the neuter ( Old Norse þat helviti ).

The celesta is used in many 20th century opera scores, including Puccini's Tosca ( 1900 ), Ravel's L ' heure espagnole ( 1911 ), Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos ( 1912 ), and Die Frau ohne Schatten ( 1918 ), while " an excellent example of its beauty when well employed ", is the Silver Rose scene in his Der Rosenkavalier ( 1911 ), Busoni's Arlecchino ( 1917 ) and Doktor Faust ( 1925 ), Orff's Der Mond ( 1939 ), Menotti's Amelia Goes to the Ball ( 1937 ), Britten's The Turn of the Screw ( 1954 ) and A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1960 ), Susa's Transformations ( 1973 ), and Philip Glass ' Akhnaten ( 1984 ).

The correct style of address in German is Herr Bundeskanzler ( male ) or Frau Bundeskanzlerin ( female ).

Use of the mixed form " Frau Bundeskanzler " was deprecated by the government in 2004 because it is regarded as impolite.

The city skyline is dominated by the majestic " Münster " Cathedral (" Münster Unserer Lieben Frau "), several other churches and three towers left over from the city wall, one of which marks the place of the former medieval bridge over the Rhine.

The correct style of addressing is for females " Frau Bundespräsidentin " and for males " Herr Bundespräsident ".

" To have met him ," Frau Wagner declared, " is an experience I would not have missed.

In 1943 Lincke toured Marienbad, Bohemia to conduct Frau Luna, whose first performance in 1899 is now regarded as the birth of the Berlin operetta.

She marries her former " Möwennest " teacher in German and Literature, has a baby girl ( Katharina ) and finally becomes headmistress of Malory Towers, after Miss Grayling ( Frau Greiling ) had been seriously injured in a traffic accident, and is unable to work any longer.

In English-speaking countries, the wife of a foreign dignitary is called Madame in direct address and formal correspondence, rather than the equivalent title in the person's native language ( Señora, Frau, etc.

The best known is the hymn entitled “ Die Ehre Gottes aus der Natur .” Gellert wrote a few sentimental comedies: Die Betschwester ( The Praying Sister, 1745 ), Die kranke Frau ( The Sick Woman, 1747 ), Das Los in der Lotterie ( 1748 ), and Die zärtlichen Schwestern ( The Affectionate Sisters, 1747 ), the last of which was much admired.

Nouns denoting a person, such as die Frau (" woman ") or der Mann (" man "), generally agree with the natural gender of what is described.

This results in an awkward “ sometime after ” situation when Frau reveals that she is “ late .” However, at the same moment Scott ( Seth Green ), Dr.

The technique is also frequently used in Spanish zarzuela, both in the 19th and 20th centuries, and continued also to be used as a " special effect " in opera, for instance Richard Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten.

A Woman in Flames ( Die Flambierte Frau, literally " The Flambéed Woman ") is a German drama film from 1983, directed by Robert van Ackeren, starring Gudrun Landgrebe, Mathieu Carrière, and Hanns Zischler.

* In the 1920s, Hermann Oberth described a method in which the rocket is assembled vertically on a floating barge, which he used in the movie Frau im Mond.

Fräulein is the diminutive form of Frau, which was previously reserved only for married women.

" Later on, she is proven to be Ozma, and to be a powerful enough witch to lead the Fable community's magic-users, after Frau Totenkinder leaves unexpectedly.

On his grave is the replica of an open book with an extract from one of his poems ( An Frau Kleyle ) inscribed on the lefthand page, while on the righthand page there is the final stanza from his poem Vergangenheit.

All holders of doctorate degrees are appropriately addressed as " Herr / Frau Dr. _____ " in all social situations.

Nowadays, style guides and dictionaries recommend that all women be addressed as Frau regardless of marital status, particularly in formal situations.

In Germany, Koch Media has released all three seasons on DVD under the name Die Sieben Millionen Dollar Frau.

On March 2008 he published a new collection of poems, Flesh Gospel that he presented all around Italy ( Turin, Milan, Genoa, Venice, Rome, XXI Turin International Bookfier ) and in Europe ; his poems will be published on French magazines Les Citadelles in Paris, Frau und Hunt in Germany, DiVersos in Portugal, on polish literature review Studium, ion the Literary Review Singapore, in Hong Kong ' mag Softblow.

Without further ado, for the hurried Vienna premiere, the tempo was reduced and the words were replaced with the more agreeable ' Ach, wie so herrlich zu schaun, sind all ' die liebchen Frau ' n!

She sang Aminta in the first Italian performances of Richard Strauss's Die schweigsame Frau, and Egloge in the 1935 world-premiere of Mascagni's Nerone ( in which she stole all the reviews ), both at La Scala, where she continued to appear until 1955.

Strauss continued to ignore critical fashion, producing the mixture of farce and high tragedy of Ariadne auf Naxos, the complex allegory of Die Frau ohne Schatten, the domestic dramas of Intermezzo and Arabella, and the mythological Die ägyptische Helena and Daphne.

She tells him to save the world and he succeeds in doing so by kicking Frau, diverting it and saving Washington D. C.

* Tränen weint jede Frau so gern / Wenn du einmal dein Herz verschenkst ( Grammophon 22168 )

Frau Holzinger assured us that this was so and that the pictures should be removed before the bad weather set in .”