Edelweiss (disambiguation)

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Edelweiss (German: Edelweiß) is a European mountain flower.

Edelweiss may also refer to:

People

  • Edelweiss (actress) (born 1977), Russian-Bulgarian pornographic actress
  • Edelweiss (given name)

Plants

  • Edelweiss (grape), a table and white wine grape
  • Chasselas or Edelweiss, a wine grape
  • Javanese edelweiss or Anaphalis javanica, a plant species found on the mountains of Indonesia
  • Leontopodium
  • Rauschling Edelweiss or Completer, a wine grape

Arts, entertainment, and media

Gaming

  • Edelweiss, an expansion module for the Panzer Grenadier series board games
  • Edelweiss, a tank prototype in the videogame Valkyria Chronicles

Literature

  • Edelweiss (visual novel), a 2008 Japanese visual novel developed by Overdrive
  • Edelweiss, an online book publishers' catalogue by Above the Treeline
  • Edelweiss, capital of the fictional European nation of Graustark

Magazines

  • Edelweiss (magazine), a magazine published by Ringier in Switzerland

Music

  • Edelweiss (band), an Austrian band in the late 1980s and early 1990s
  • Edelweiß (album), a 1982 album by Joachim Witt
  • Edelweiss (Drezden album), 2009
  • "Edelweiss" (song), a 1959 show tune from the Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music
  • Edelweiss, a piano solo, Op. 31 by Gustav Lange

Television

  • "Edelweiss" (Space Ghost Coast to Coast), a television episode

Film

  • Edelweiss (film), a 1987 Taiwanese film starring Michael Miu

Brands and enterprises

  • Edelweiss, a beer produced by the Schoenhofen Brewing Company
  • Edelweiss Air, a Swiss charter airline
  • Edelweiss Lodge and Resort, an AFRC hotel complex in Germany run by the United States military
  • Edelweiss Pianos or Edelweiss, a British piano company
  • Edelweiss Valley or Edelweiss, a ski resort in Quebec

Nazi-related

  • Edelweiss (anti-partisan unit), a German anti-partisan unit organized on the Slovak territory during World War II
  • Edelweiss Pirates, an anti-Nazi youth culture in Germany before, during, and after World War II
  • Kampfgeschwader 51 "Edelweiss", a World War II German Luftwaffe bomber group
  • Operation Edelweiss, a German plan to capture the Caucasus and the oil fields of Baku in World War II

Transport vehicles

  • Edelweiss (train), an international express train in Europe
  • Duruble Edelweiss or Edelweiss, a French light utility monoplane designed by Roland Duruble
  • Siren Edelweiss, a French glider produced by SIREN as the C30S Edelweiss

Other uses

  • Edelweiss (skyscraper), a building in Moscow
  • Edelweiss (political party), a regional political party of Aosta Valley (Italy)
  • EDELWEISS, a European experiment searching for dark matter
  • 10th Mountain Assault Brigade (Ukraine), a unit of the Ukrainian Ground Forces known as Edelweiss
  • Special Purpose Unit of the National Guard "Vanguard" [ru] (previously "Edelweiss"), a special unit of the National Guard of Russia

See also

Topics referred to by the same term
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