Helga (disambiguation)

Last updated November 05, 2019

Helga is a feminine given name of people and fictional characters.

Helga is a female name, used mainly in Scandinavia, German-speaking countries and the Low Countries.. The name was in use in England before the Norman Conquest, but appears to have died out afterwards. It was re-introduced to English-speaking nations in the 20th century from Germany, the Netherlands, and the Nordic countries. Scandinavian male equivalent is Helge, or Helgi. Eastern Slavic names Olga (Ольга) and Oleg (Олег) are derived from it.

Helga may also refer to:

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Irish patrol vessel Muirchú, previously HMY Helga
SS Helga, a Danish cargo ship in service 1933-38
522 Helga, a minor planet orbiting the Sun
Helga (crater), a crater on Venus
Helga – Vom Werden des menschlichen Lebens , a 1967 West German film
Hurricane Helga, a 1966 Pacific hurricane
Tropical Storm Helga, a 1970 Pacific tropical storm
Tropical Storm Helga, a 1974 Pacific tropical storm

Public Armed Ship Muirchú was a ship in the service of Irish Free State's Coastal and Marine Service (CMS). She was the former Royal Navy ship HMY Helga and was involved in shelling Liberty Hall in Dublin from the River Liffey with her pair of 12-pounder naval guns during the Easter Rising of 1916.

Helga, provisional designation 1904 NC is an asteroid orbiting the Sun discovered in 1904 by Max Wolf in Heidelberg. Helga is notable for being the first such object to be shown to be in a stable but chaotic orbit in resonance with Jupiter, its Lyapunov time being relatively short, at 6,900 yr. Despite this, its orbit appears to be stable, as the eccentricity and precession rates are such that it avoids close encounters with Jupiter.

Helga – Vom Werden des menschlichen Lebens is a 1967 West German sex education documentary and the first film of the Helga trilogy. Its release in West Germany was followed by international releases to many European countries, the British Commonwealth and the United States. It became one of the greatest box-office successes of West German cinema, viewed by forty million people in West Germany and internationally. In the first months of its showing in West Germany the audience had reached four million people. The film featured scenes of childbirth which were the first to be shown publicly in Germany. Helga was the first in a series of educational films which were considered "relatively permissive" at the time. The film was considered a part of an "enlightenment wave" which was undertaken by the West German Federal government at the time. In 1968, in France, the film was viewed by five million people. In Grenoble alone it is reported that 60,000 viewers had seen it in the first days of its screening, out of a population of 150,000. In Tours, the film played to full-houses for three consecutive weeks. The film used animation, stock footage and microphotography to depict the stages of life from conception to childbirth.

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