Undine
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Undine, Undina or Ondine are sometimes interchangeable and may refer to:
- Ondine (mythology)Ondine (mythology)Undines , also called ondines, are elementals, enumerated as the water elementals in works of alchemy by Paracelsus. They also appear in European folklore as fairy-like creatures; the name may be used interchangeably with those of other water spirits. Undines are said to be able to gain a soul by...
, a water nymph from mythology
In literature and painting
- Undine (novella)Undine (novella)Undine is a novel by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué in which Undine, a water spirit, marries a knight named Huldebrand in order to gain a soul. It is an early German romance, which has been translated into English and other languages...
(1811), a novella by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué - Ondine (novel)Ondine (novel)Ondine is a romance novel first published in 1988 under Heather Graham Pozzessere’s pen name, Shannon Drake. It is the story of a lady of 17th century England who finds herself cast from nobility when her father is accused of treason and murdered. As a noose rests at her neck, her one regret is...
, a novel by Shannon Drake - Undine (novel) (2004), a novel by Penni Russon
- Ondine (play)Ondine (play)Ondine is a play written in 1938 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux that tells the story of Hans and Ondine. Hans is a knight-errant who has been sent off on a quest by his betrothed. In the forest he meets and falls in love with Ondine, a water-sprite who is attracted to the world of mortal man....
(1939), a play by Jean Giraudoux with Ondine played by Audrey Hepburn - Undine (Schreiner), an autobiographical book by Olive SchreinerOlive SchreinerOlive Schreiner was a South African author, anti-war campaigner and intellectual. She is best remembered today for her novel The Story of an African Farm which has been highly acclaimed ever since its first publication in 1883 for the bold manner in which it dealt with some of the burning issues...
(1928) - Undine (Waterhouse painting), by John William WaterhouseJohn William WaterhouseJohn William Waterhouse was an English painter known for working in the Pre-Raphaelite style. He worked several decades after the breakup of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which had seen its heydey in the mid-nineteenth century, leading him to have gained the moniker of "the modern Pre-Raphaelite"...
(1872) - Ondine, a poem by Aloysius BertrandAloysius BertrandLouis-Jacques-Napoléon “Aloysius” Bertrand was a French poet instrumental in the introduction of the prose poem into French literature and is credited with inspiring later Symbolist poets...
(1842) - Undine geht, a short story by Ingeborg BachmannIngeborg BachmannIngeborg Bachmann was an Austrian poet and author.-Biography:Bachmann was born in Klagenfurt, in the Austrian state of Carinthia, the daughter of a headmaster. She studied philosophy, psychology, German philology, and law at the universities of Innsbruck, Graz, and Vienna...
(1961) - Undine, a poem by Seamus HeaneySeamus HeaneySeamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He lives in Dublin. Heaney has received the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Golden Wreath of Poetry , T. S. Eliot Prize and two Whitbread prizes...
(1969) - Undine, a graffito by Harald NaegeliHarald NaegeliHarald Naegeli is a Swiss artist best known as the "Sprayer of Zurich" after the graffiti he sprayed in the late 1970s onto walls and buildings in Zürich, Switzerland.- The "Sprayer of Zürich" :...
(1978) - Undine Spragg, the protagonist of Edith Wharton's novel The Custom of the CountryThe Custom of the CountryThe Custom of the Country is a 1913 novel by Edith Wharton. It tells the story of Undine Spragg, a Midwestern girl who attempts to ascend in New York City society.-Plot summary:...
- Ondine, character in the novel Tar BabyTar Baby (novel)-Plot introduction:This novel portrays a love affair between Jadine and Son, two Black Americans from very different worlds. Jadine is a beautiful Sorbonne graduate and fashion model who has been sponsored into wealth and privilege by the Streets, a wealthy white family who employ Jadine's aunt and...
by Toni Morrison
In music and ballet
- Sonata UndineSonata UndineSonata Undine is a flute and piano sonata written by Carl Reinecke that is based on the novel Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué. It is his opus 167, written in 1882.This sonata is normally associated with the Romantic genre...
, a Romantic sonata for flute and piano (in E-minor) by Carl Reinecke - Ondine, a movement of the piano piece Gaspard de la nuitGaspard de la nuitGaspard de la nuit: Trois poèmes pour piano d'après Aloysius Bertrand is a piece for solo piano by Maurice Ravel, written in 1908. It has three movements, each based on a poem by Aloysius Bertrand...
by Maurice Ravel (1906) - Ondine, ou La naïade, a ballet with music by Cesare Pugni and choreography by Jules Perrot, first produced in 1843
- Ondine (ballet)Ondine (ballet)Ondine, ou La naïade is a ballet with choreography by Jules Perrot and music by Cesare Pugni, with a libretto inspired by the novel Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué. Pugni dedicated his score to the Duchess of Cambridge, Princess Augusta, a long-time balletomane and patron of the arts in...
, a ballet with music by Hanz Werner Henze and choreography by Frederick Ashton, first produced in 1958 for the Royal Ballet - Undine, a prelude for pianoPreludes (Debussy)Claude Debussy's Préludes are two sets of pieces for solo piano. They are divided into two separate livres, or books, of twelve preludes each. Unlike previous collections of preludes, like those of JS Bach and Chopin, Debussy's do not follow a strict pattern of key signatures.Each book was written...
by Claude Debussy (1911–13) - Ondine, a song by They Might Be Giants, from the EP Back to SkullBack to Skull-Track listing:# "Snail Shell" - 3:21# "Ondine" - 2:31# "She Was A Hotel Detective" - 3:21# "Mrs. Train" - 3:00# "Snail Dust" - 3:38...
In opera
- Undina, an opera by Alexei Lvov (1846)
- Undina (Tchaikovsky)Undina (Tchaikovsky)Undina is an opera in 3 acts by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The work was composed in 1869. The libretto was written by Vladimir Sollogub, and is based on Vasily Zhukovsky's translation of Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué's Ondine.The opera was composed during the months of January to July, 1869, but...
, an opera (1869) by Pyotr Tchaikovsky to the Russian libretto by Vladimir Sollogub - Undine (Hoffmann)Undine (Hoffmann)Undine is an opera in three acts by the German composer and author E.T.A. Hoffmann. The libretto, by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, is based on his own story Undine. It received its premiere at the Königliches Schauspielhaus, Berlin on 3 August, 1816. Undine was Hoffmann's greatest operatic success...
, an opera by E.T.A. Hoffmann (1814) - Undine (Lortzing)Undine (Lortzing)Undine is an opera in four acts by Albert Lortzing. The German libretto was by the composer after Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué's story of the same name....
, an opera by Albert Lortzing (1845)
In film
- Ondine (film)Ondine (film)Ondine is a 2009 Irish romantic drama film directed and written by Neil Jordan and starring Colin Farrell and Alicja Bachleda.The film mixes themes from Irish mythology into contemporary settings.-Plot:...
, a 2010 film by Irish film maker Neil Jordan - The Loves of Ondine, a film by Andy WarholAndy Warhol filmographyThe following are the films directed or produced by Andy Warhol....
In ships
- HMS UndineHMS UndineEight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Undine, after the Ondines of mythology:* HMS Undine was an iron paddle packet purchased in 1847 and sold in 1854....
, eight ships in the Royal Navy - USS UndineUSS UndineTwo ships in the United States Navy have been named USS Undine.* The first Undine was a steamer built in 1863 that served in the American Civil War, first in the Union Navy and later captured by the Confederate States Navy....
, two ships in the United States Navy
In video games
- Undine, one of the eight elementals representing water in Seiken Densetsu 3Seiken Densetsu 3is an action role-playing game developed and published by Square for Nintendo's Super Famicom as a part of the Mana series.The game features three lengthy main plotlines, six different characters, each with their own storylines, and a wide range of classes to choose from, which provides each...
, part of the Mana series - Undine, one of the four races in Oblivion in Primal
- Undine, a water-dwelling race in Riviera: The Promised LandRiviera: The Promised Landis a console role-playing game originally produced in 2002 by Sting Entertainment for WonderSwan Color as the first episode of the Dept. Heaven series of games. The game was later introduced to Nintendo's Game Boy Advance in 2004, which Atlus USA released in North America in 2005...
- Undine, the formal name of Species 8472Species 8472Species 8472 is a fictional extraterrestrial race in the science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager. They inhabit another dimension called fluidic space. These beings are rendered by animation from Foundation Imaging, Inc...
in the video game Star Trek Online - Undine, a race in the video game Yggdra UnionYggdra UnionYggdra Union: We'll Never Fight Alone is a tactical role-playing game for the Game Boy Advance and PlayStation Portable, developed by Sting Entertainment as the second episode of the Dept. Heaven saga of games. Atlus USA localized and published both versions of the game in North America...
- Undine, one of the many summon spirits from Tales of SymphoniaTales of Symphoniais a video game first released for the Nintendo GameCube and later for the PlayStation 2 in Japan. It debuted in Japan on August 29, 2003, selling 953,000 copies, in Canada and the United States on July 13, 2004, and in Europe on November 19, 2004. The game received a Japanese-only PlayStation 2...
. - Undine, one of the spirits of elements in Tales of VesperiaTales of Vesperiais the tenth main title in the Tales series. It was developed by Namco Tales Studio and published by Namco Bandai Games for the Xbox 360. The title was announced on December 22, 2007 at Jump Festa, and was released on August 7, 2008 in Asia, and on August 26, 2008 in North America...
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- Undines are peaceful, intellegent, elegant and cultured mermaid like creatures that communicate telepathically in the video game Primal Primal (video game)Primal is an action-adventure video game released in 2003 for the PlayStation 2. It was developed by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe aka SCE Studio Cambridge. It tells the story of Jennifer Tate, a 21-year-old woman searching for her boyfriend through a series of demonic realms...
In popular culture
- Undines, the name for female gondoliers in the manga ARIA
- Undine, a character from the Claymore anime & manga series
- Ondine (actor)Ondine (actor)Robert Olivo aka Ondine was an American actor. He is best known for appearing in a series of films in the mid-1960s by Andy Warhol, whom he claimed to have met in 1961 at an orgy....
aka Robert Olivo (1937–1989), American actor - 92 Undina92 Undina92 Undina is a large main belt asteroid. It has an unusually high albedo and an M-type spectrum. It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on July 7, 1867. It is named for the eponymous heroine of Undine, a popular novella by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué. Undina is a member of the Veritas asteroid...
, an asteroid - Ondine (record label)Ondine (record label)Ondine is a Finnish classical record label founded in 1985 in Helsinki, Finland, where the company is still based, and today offers an extremely eclectic catalogue of both contemporary Finnish music, as well as recordings with major Finnish and international artists...
, a classical record label
See also
- Ondine's curseOndine's curseOndine's Curse, also called congenital central hypoventilation syndrome or primary alveolar hypoventilation, is a respiratory disorder that is fatal if untreated...
, a medical condition - Undine Barge ClubUndine Barge ClubUndine Barge Club is an amateur rowing club located at #13 Boathouse Row in the historic Boathouse Row along the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The club was founded in 1856. Undine was not initially listed as a founder of the Schuylkill Navy, but is now considered a founder...
, an amateur rowing club in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania