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  Die Silberpfeile - Hermann Lang
Lang stated that since it was Mercedes that gave him his first chance he felt a loyalty to the team, which was rewarded with a new contract.
Lang was thrown clear and was lucky to escape with only cuts; two spectators were less lucky and died when the car continued out of control to where they had been standing.
Lang was at the peak of his career winning five of the eight races entered but the war interrupted his career and by the time it was over he had lost what should have been his best years.
www.ddavid.com /formula1/lang.htm   (1130 words)

  
  Hermann Lang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lang's big break came when he landed a job at the Mercedes factory where he became part of their Grand Prix motor racing team.
Nevertheless, in spite of Hermann Lang's skills and racing success and his popularity with racing fans, being a part of the Mercedes Silver Arrows team was not easy.
In 1953, Hermann Lang was given a chance to participate in Formula 1 racing driving for Maserati after one of their team drivers was injured.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hermann_Lang   (705 words)

  
 Hermann Lang - Das Gespräch als Therapie - Perlentaucher.de, Kultur und Literatur Online
Seit 1990 lehrt Lang Psychotherapie und Medizinische Psychologie an der Universität Würzburg.
Bei genauerer Betrachtung zeigt sich jedoch, dass sie hier in erster Linie gescheit über Langs Haltung zu Freud und Lacan als solche zu referieren weiß.
Lang, stellt Andreas Cremonini fest, greift in diesem Buch auf wesentliche Thesen seiner Dissertation zurück, die in den richtungsweisenden Einführungsband von 1973 über Lacan mündete, behandele sein Thema aber "aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln" seiner Fragestellung nach dem Sprachbegriff.
www.perlentaucher.de /buch/1236.html   (523 words)

  
 F1 News - Grandprix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Drivers > Hermann Lang
Hermann Lang was one of the Titans of the 1930s who survived the dangers of racing and the war to emerge as a Grand Prix driver in the 1950s.
Lang may have been the butt of their jokes but he let his driving speak for himself and in 1938 won again in Tripoli.
Lang reappeared in 1951 when Neubauer put together a new team and went off to Argentina where he finished second in the Peron Cup to team-mate Juan-Manuel Fangio.
www.grandprix.com /gpe/drv-lanher.html   (461 words)

  
 Spaceflight :Hermann Oberth
Hermann Oberth was an early member of the Society for Space Travel (Verein fuer Raumschiffahrt or VfR) formed in 1927.
Hermann Oberth was one of the most significant rocketry pioneers of the 20th-century, by birth a Romanian but by nationality a German.
Lang wanted his movie set to be technically correct so he called upon Herman Oberth to be his main technical advisor.
www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/SPACEFLIGHT/oberth/SP2.htm   (881 words)

  
 publications_hermann   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
HERMANN, A. and DANDO, M.R. Mechanism of command fibre operation onto the bursting pacemaker neurones of the crab, Cancer pagurus.
HERMANN, A. and GORMAN, A.L.F. The calcium dependence of the slow inward current in the Aplysia pacemaker cell R 15.
HERMANN, A. and KERSCHBAUM, H. (1994) Insulin-signaling in neurons of the snail, Helix pomatia.
www.zoologie.sbg.ac.at /people/Hermann/Publications.htm   (4381 words)

  
 8W - Who? - Hermann Lang
Lang was fastest during the first practice and the Mercedes team decided not to start in the last session to save the new cars, a decision not appreciated by Caracciola.
Lang was fastest during practice but as the grid was decided by ballot he found himself at the middle of the first row for the race.
Lang was clearly faster but every time he tried to pass he was hit in the face by water thrown up by the Auto Union and had to back off as the face mask did not hinder the water from entering Lang's mouth, making him choke.
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 8W - Who? - Hermann Lang
Lang was fastest during the first practice and the Mercedes team decided not to start in the last session to save the new cars, a decision not appreciated by Caracciola.
Lang was fastest during practice but as the grid was decided by ballot he found himself at the middle of the first row for the race.
Lang was clearly faster but every time he tried to pass he was hit in the face by water thrown up by the Auto Union and had to back off as the face mask did not hinder the water from entering Lang's mouth, making him choke.
www.forix.com /8w/lang2.html   (3405 words)

  
 Hermann Lang: bio and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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 8W - Who? - Hermann Lang
Lang was the poor guy whose dream came true; after his first victory he and his wife actually locked themselves into the hotel room as they owned no evening clothes for the winners' party… While immensely popular by his mechanic friends, to the other drivers he remained just a mechanic.
The team won a joyless triple victory with Kling, Lang and Riess in the Swiss GP as Caracciola in the fourth car had a crash that ended his racing career and put him in a wheelchair for a year.
Lang had also made a good start and was 4th during the early part of the race advancing to third when Moss had to retire his Maserati.
www.forix.com /8w/lang.html   (1402 words)

  
 Mercedes Benz Tripoli W165   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
After testing the cars at Monza it was recommended that Lang be given a trial as a racecar driver and his new career with Mercedes was launched.
Caracciola and von Brauchitsch, Langs teammates were drivers from the old school who did not involve themselves in the mechanical workings of their cars.
Lang was at the peak of his career winning five of the eight races entered in 1939 but the war interrupted his career.
www.compulsiongallery.com /tripolilge.htm   (287 words)

  
 8W - Who? - Hermann Lang
Lang was the poor guy whose dream came true; after his first victory he and his wife actually locked themselves into the hotel room as they owned no evening clothes for the winners' party… While immensely popular by his mechanic friends, to the other drivers he remained just a mechanic.
The team won a joyless triple victory with Kling, Lang and Riess in the Swiss GP as Caracciola in the fourth car had a crash that ended his racing career and put him in a wheelchair for a year.
Lang had also made a good start and was 4th during the early part of the race advancing to third when Moss had to retire his Maserati.
8w.forix.com /lang.html   (1402 words)

  
 1939 GRAND PRIX SEASON - PART 1
However there is no doubt that the dominant driver of the season was Hermann Lang with 4 GP victories, winner of the most prestigious Voiturette race of the season and 2 major mountain climb victories.
The team lineup was the familiar one with Rudolf Caracciola, Manfred von Brauchitsch, Hermann Lang and Richard Seaman as senior drivers.
Lang had a nasty moment when his brakes failed but he was able to stop the car without damage.
www.kolumbus.fi /leif.snellman/gp391.htm   (2140 words)

  
 8W - When - The 1939 European Championship
Hermann Lang was the dominant driver of the 1939 season, taking seven wins from ten starts: the Pau GP, the Tripoli GP for voiturettes, the Eifel GP, the Kahlenberg hillclimb, the Belgian GP (seen here), the Grossglockner hillclimb and the Swiss GP.
Lang won again, narrowly if you read only the result — he had in fact wanted to withdraw after seeing Seaman’s car in flames and stopped at his pit but was persuaded to continue in what became a race of attrition.
In that year Hermann Lang participated in ten major races and was with seven wins indisputably the best driver of the year, although in consideration of the results for the four Grande Épreuves the score of the Auto Union driver Müller would have been better by two points than that of Lang.
8w.forix.com /ec1939.html   (9224 words)

  
 Hermann-Lenz-Preis
Parallel arbeitete er in verschiedenen Berufen, unter anderem in den Verlagen Rowohlt und Suhrkamp.
Zwanzig Jahre lang, bis 1993, leitete Becker die Hörspielredaktion des Deutschlandfunks.
Beckers Beobachtungen streifen die Hügellandschaft seiner rheinischen Heimat, wandern nach Berlin und in den deutschen Osten, richten sich auf Bilder der ersten Jahre nach dem Krieg, erinnern sich an einen Karmann Ghia und an lange Fernsehabende, daran, wie man vor dem Radio saß, um Welt zu empfangen, an Möbel und Bilder.
www.hermann-lenz-preis.de /2006.html   (175 words)

  
 Kitsch, Sensation - Kultur und Film
Also, Lang's themes of paranoia (Lang's characters are always shown watching each other) and deception, of criminal networks who threaten anarchy and instability (reaching their apotheosis in the Dr. Mabuse films), appealed to a angst-ridden German public caught in post-war political unrest, rising inflation and the perceived collapse of moral standards.
Lang was able to rework his favourite themes, in one form or another, either more or less sublimated for the rest of his career.
Lang's lecture presented in Vienna in 1924 and reprinted in: E. Beyfuss and A. Kossowsky (eds), Das Kulturfilmbuch (Berlin: Carl P. Chryselius, 1924).
www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/cteq/02/21/spinnen.html   (1453 words)

  
 Rear View Mirror
Hermann Lang was a Mercedes works meachanic in the racing shop where during the 1934 season he served as Luigi Fagioli's chief mechanic.
While not of the same bolt of cloth as Lang, Muller was clearly a very good driver and one fully capable of driving the Typ D Auto Union to its limits.
Perhaps, it seems a bit unfair to deny a title to such a great driver as Hermann Lang, but there it is, it was Muller who ended up with the best record when it counted.
www.atlasf1.com /99/apr21/mirror.html   (1452 words)

  
 Lacan-Schule, Klaus Ebner
In diesem Kapitel wird auch erstmals von Hermann Lang die Spanne des Symbolischen bis an ihrer Grenze ausgereizt, an der Hermann Lang meiner Meinung nach zu Einseitigkeiten gezwungen wird, die dem Denken Lacans nicht mehr gerecht werden.
Hermann Lang postuliert eine Läsion in der symbolischen Funktion als Basisstörung der diversen Auffälligkeiten, die in einer floriden Psychose zur Schau gestellt werden können.
Außerdem soll noch beschrieben werden, wie Hermann Lang seine postulierte Sprach- und Symbolpathologie genetisch in der dualen Sozialisationspathologie schizophrener Patienten zu motivieren versucht.
www.lacan.at /seiten_LA/ebner.html   (11418 words)

  
 The Return of the Three Pointed Star: the Swansong of Alfred Neubauer
Although Lang, Fangio, and Kling were 2nd, 3rd, and 6th there was no doubt that they had been defeated in a manner thought almost inconceivable a dozen years before - although both Lang and Neubauer still remembered the Pau race of 1938.
Lang retired after clouting a roadside obstacle and damaging the rear axle.
The entries were for Karl Kling and his navigator Hans Klenk, Hermann Lang and his mechanic Erwin Grupp in Gullwings and American John Fitch with Eugen Geiger in a roadster.
www.atlasf1.com /2001/jan03/capps.html   (5027 words)

  
 pitpass - the latest, hottest F1 & A1GP news
M-B brought on Hermann Lang, a young mechanic from the racing team who had performed well in long-distance motorcycle trials.
Lang was promoted because he was talented, everyone liked him and the idea of a working class mechanic becoming a Grand Prix star had attractive PR possibilities.
Nobody in motor racing remembers von Brauchitsch with any respect or affection, but Lang must be considered among the greats, even though he lost his best years to WWII and the international quarantine imposed on Germany and Germans until 1950.
www.pitpass.com /fes_php/pitpass_feature_item.php?fes_art_id=10537   (568 words)

  
 ARA Race Facts Bulletin (01/25/98): Consistent Winners and Model Review
Car #16 was driven to victory by Hermann Lang in the Nurburgring Eifelrennen and the Swiss GP at Bremgarten; Lang's car also carried #16 when he retired due to mechanical causes in the 1939 German GP at the Nurburgring.
Lang won the August 20 Swiss GP at Bremgarten after winning the qualifying race; he set Fast Lap in the final.
Lang led the 1939 Mercedes drivers with four wins in seven events; he also achieved a fifth and a tenth although both were retirements.
www.theautochannel.com /news/date/19980129/news009494.html   (1784 words)

  
 Lang : search word
Lang, Robert (born 1970), professional ice hockey player
Lang, Serge (born 1927), mathematician and AIDS dissident
John did not say, and sentiment were moonshine and fiction.
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 Anita Hilde Lang - RE/MAX Realty Solutions - REMAX Real Esatate - Anacortes Real Estate - Skagit Valley Real Estate
Geir tok det ikke lang tid før isen var brutt...
lang Tied: Lisbeth and Anton Janssen, Mieze and Heinz Karp, Martha and Karl Büttel, Anita and Willi Kramer, Eva and Karl Rosenboom un Hilde...
Kulturbox 16 Tage lang jeweils 16 Stunden gearbeitet haben...
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 Mercedes-Benz Owners¹ Association   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
It was in 1987 that the death was announced in Stuttgart of Hermann Lang, the German racing driver whose career spanned the pre- and post-war years.
Lang was 78, and had been suffering from cancer.
After practice at Monza he was allowed to test some newly fitted brakes on the autostrada, and soon afterwards Neubauer selected him for driver training.
www.mercedesclub.org.uk /merc_news_may02.html   (1550 words)

  
 THE GOLDEN ERA OF GP RACING 1934-40 - DRIVERS (L)
Coming from a home of small means, Lang had to fight the opinions of the period that racing drivers were to be "gentlemen".
Starting off as a motorcycle driver and then working as a racing mechanic, Lang had both the balance and the technical know-how to make it to the very top when he was offered a drive by Daimler-Benz.
Immensely popular by his mechanic friends but less so with his team mates, Lang was considered to be a high-speed track expert, winning three times at Tripoli and also winning the fastest race of the era, the Avus 1937 extravaganza.
www.kolumbus.fi /leif.snellman/dl.htm   (2465 words)

  
 Hermann Maier Interview on ski.mountainzone.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
He became a world-wide star in 1998 at Nagano where he won two gold medals after surviving a dramatic crash in the downhill.
Hermann, tell us your feelings about this Olympic run at Snowbasin.
It's a superb course, technically very demanding, a run which requires great determination and strong skiing.
ski.mountainzone.com /2001/worldcup/alpine/snowbasin/html/maier-interview.html   (1068 words)

  
 W 196 Monoposto   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
One fuel tank was in the rear, a second in the cockpit, above the driver's legs.
In this vehicle the drivers Caracciola, Lang, von Brauchitsch und Seam of the Daimler-Benz team gained one victory after the other.
In 1939 Hermann Lang became European Champion with the further developed W 154.
www.precisionscalereplicas.com /new_page_13.htm   (162 words)

  
 Grand Prix of Tripoli, Herman Lang in Mercedes-Benz
In Grand Prix of Tripoli, 1937, a Mercedes-Benz race car is driven by Herman Lang through a grove of palm trees.
The Tripoli race, which kicked off the 1937 racing season, was the first win in Lang’s distinguished career.
Hermann Lang (1909-1987) raced sidecars and became the German mountain sidecar champion in 1931.
www.georgeglazer.com /prints/auto/mercedes.html   (332 words)

  
 Legends of Grand Prix Racing 1907 - 1939
Manfred von Brauchitsch won in Monaco and Hermann Lang at the Avus (with streamline bodywork) and in Tripoli.
Hermann Lang was declared the European Champion in 1939.
Manfred von Brauchitsch siegte in Monaco und Hermann Lang auf der Avus (mit Stromlinien-Karosserie) und in Tripolis.
www.research-racing.de /ems04-x1.htm   (3836 words)

  
 Hermann Lang - Perlentaucher.de, Kultur und Literatur Online
Hermann Lang - Perlentaucher.de, Kultur und Literatur Online
Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 351828892X, kartoniert, 320 Seiten, 12,68 EUR
Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3518288938, kartoniert, 240 Seiten, 10,12 EUR
www.perlentaucher.de /autoren/1415.html   (168 words)

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