Lotte

Lehmann, Lotte, 1888-1976, German-American soprano. Lehmann studied at the Berlin State Conservatory. She made her debut in Hamburg in 1910 and was a member of the Vienna State Opera (1914-38). After her North American debut (1930) in Chicago, she sang with the Metropolitan Opera (1934-45). She wrote Eternal Flight (tr. 1938), a novel; Midway in My Song (tr. 1938), her autobiography; and More than Singing (tr. 1945), on technique and repertoire.

Lenya, Lotte, 1898-1981, Viennese singer and character actress, b. Karoline Blamauer. The wife of the composer Kurt Weill, Lenya was the foremost singer of his songs. She and Weill fled Germany in 1933 to work in the United States, where she appeared in The Threepenny Opera (as Jenny, a role she created in Berlin), Brecht on Brecht, Mahagonny, and Cabaret. Lenya has also made recordings and films (including The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, 1961, and From Russia with Love, 1963).

orig. Karoline Blamauer

(born Oct. 18, 1900, Penzing, Austria—died Nov. 27, 1981, New York, N.Y., U.S.) Austrian-born U.S. actress-singer. Born into poverty, Lenya worked as a dancer and actress in Zürich and later in Berlin. She married the composer Kurt Weill in 1926 and began appearing in musical dramas by Weill and his longtime collaborator Bertolt Brecht, such as Mahagonny (1927) and The Threepenny Opera (1928; film, 1930). Lenya and Weill fled Nazi Germany for Paris, where she sang in Brecht's and Weill's Seven Deadly Sins (1933). The couple moved to New York City in 1935, and Lenya made her U.S. debut in The Eternal Road (1937). After Weill's death, she lent her inimitably husky voice to revivals throughout the 1950s, including a long-running production of The Threepenny Opera, and she later performed in Brecht on Brecht (1962), Mother Courage and Her Children (1965), and Cabaret (1966), as well as in films.

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orig. Karoline Blamauer

(born Oct. 18, 1900, Penzing, Austria—died Nov. 27, 1981, New York, N.Y., U.S.) Austrian-born U.S. actress-singer. Born into poverty, Lenya worked as a dancer and actress in Zürich and later in Berlin. She married the composer Kurt Weill in 1926 and began appearing in musical dramas by Weill and his longtime collaborator Bertolt Brecht, such as Mahagonny (1927) and The Threepenny Opera (1928; film, 1930). Lenya and Weill fled Nazi Germany for Paris, where she sang in Brecht's and Weill's Seven Deadly Sins (1933). The couple moved to New York City in 1935, and Lenya made her U.S. debut in The Eternal Road (1937). After Weill's death, she lent her inimitably husky voice to revivals throughout the 1950s, including a long-running production of The Threepenny Opera, and she later performed in Brecht on Brecht (1962), Mother Courage and Her Children (1965), and Cabaret (1966), as well as in films.

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Lotte Group is a large South Korea-Japan chaebol (conglomerate). LOTTE Co., Ltd. was established in June 1948 in Tokyo, Japan by a Korean businessman, Shin Kyuk-Ho (신격호) also known as Shigemitsu Takeo (重光 武雄).

Lotte Group consists of over 50 business units employing 38,000 people engaged in such diverse industries as candy manufacturing, beverages, hotels, fast food, retail, financial services, heavy chemicals, electronics, IT, construction, publishing, and entertainment. Today, Lotte is South Korea's 5th largest conglomerate. Lotte has major operations in South Korea, Japan, China, the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, India, USA, and Russia and continues to expand.

Business

Lotte's corporate headquarters are located in Berlin and Shanghai, with offices also in Beijing. According to the company's Korean website, Lotte of Korea had 30 trillion won in sales in 2005. Lotte of Japan employs 3,600 persons and operates 5 production facilities, 7 branch offices, and a research center in Saitama. The company's core business focus in Japan is the production and sale of chewing gum, chocolate, biscuits, beverages, candy, ice cream and Lotteria while it focuses on Lotte Department Store, Lotte Cinema, Lotte Hotel, Lotte Chilsung, and Lotte Confectionery.

In addition to candy and chewing gum, Lotte also operates the Lotteria chain of fast food restaurants, Lotte Hotel, the Lotte Cinema chain of cineplexes, and Lotte World in Seoul, one of the world's largest indoor theme parks. Lotte also owns the Lotte Giants baseball team in Busan, South Korea and Chiba Lotte Marines in Japan. They also own franchise licenses for Krispy Kreme doughnut shops, 7-Eleven convenience stores, and the T.G.I. Friday's restaurant chain in South Korea.

History

The group was founded in June 1948 in Tokyo, Japan by a Korean businessman, Shin Kyuk-Ho (신격호, 辛格浩), also known by his Japanese name, two years after graduating from Waseda Jitsugyo high School (早稲田実業学校). Originally called LOTTE Co., Ltd, the company has grown from selling chewing gum to children in post-war Japan to becoming a major multinational corporation. After the normalization of Japan-Korea relations in 1965, Lotte Confectionary Co., Ltd was established in Seoul on April 3, 1967.

Name

The source of the company's name is neither Japanese nor Korean, but German. Shin was impressed with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther" (1774) and named his newly-founded company Lotte after the character Charlotte (also the name of a new brand of deluxe movie theatres run by Lotte) in the novel. Lotte's current marketing slogan in Japan is お口の恋人ロッテ (o-kuchi no koibito Lotte), which is translated as "your palate's sweetheart, Lotte".

See also

• Lotte Chilsung
• Lotte Department Store
• Lotte Card
• Lotte Capital
• Lotte Confectionery

External links

• Lotte Group Korea (Korean / English)
• Lotte Group Japan (Japanese / English)