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Wolf Haas
Haas, also de Haas, is a German and Dutch surname, also Jewish (Ashkenazic), usually from Hase or de Haas, the German and Dutch words for "hare". It is also a given name. Notable people with the surname include the following: Andreas Haas (born 1982), German footballer Arthur Erich Haas (1884–1941), Austrian physicist Barbara Haas (born 1996), Austrian tennis player Bénédicte Haas (born 1976), French mathematician Bernt Haas (born 1978), Austrian footballer Bill Haas (born 1982), American golfer Bob Haas (born 1942), American business executive Brittany Haas (born 1987), American Fiddler Carl Haas (1929–2016), American auto racing impresario Charles F. Haas (1913–2011), American film and television director Charles S. Haas (born 1952), American screenwriter and actor Charlie Haas (born 1972), American wrestler Christian Haas (born 1958), German sprinter Chrislo Haas (1956–2004), German musician Christl Haas (1943–2001), Austrian skier Clark Haas (1919–1978), American cartoonist Conrad Haas (1509–1576), Austrian military engineer Damien Haas (born 1990), German-born American actor Daniel Haas (born 1983), German footballer Darius de Haas (born 1968), American stage actor and singer David Haas (born 1957), American author and composer of liturgical music Dolly Haas (1910–1994), German-American actress Earle Haas (1888–1981), inventor of the modern menstrual tampon Eddie Haas (born 1935), American baseball outfielder and manager Eduard Haas (1897–1989), Austrian inventor of Pez candy Ernst Haas (1921–1986), Austrian photographer and photojournalist Ernst B. Haas (1924–2003), American political scientist Felix Haas, German investor Frank Joseph Haas, American freemason from West Virginia Fred Haas (1916–2004), American golfer Friedrich Haas (1924–1945), German fighter pilot Fritz Haas (zoologist) (1886–1969) Geertruida de Haas-Lorentz (1885–1973), Dutch physicist Gene Haas (born 1952), American machine tool manufacturer Georg Haas (physician) (1886–1971), German medical doctor Georg Friedrich Haas (born 1953), Austrian composer Hans Haas (1886–1935), German Protestant theologian Harald Haas (born 1968), German professor of Mobile Communications, University of Edinburgh Helmut Haas (fl. 1949), discoverer of the Haas effect, a psychoacoustic effect Hildegarde Haas (1926–2002), German-born American artist Hugo Haas (1901–1968), Czech film actor and director Isaac Haas (born 1995), American basketball player Jacob de Haas (1872–1937), UK journalist and an early leader of the Zionist movement Jay Haas (born 1953), American golfer Johann Wilhelm Haas (1649–1723), German trumpet maker Josef Haas (1937–2024), Swiss cross country skier Joseph Haas (1879–1960), German composer Karen L. Haas (born 1962), American government administrator and lobbyist Karl Haas (1913–2005), American classical music radio show host Karl Wilhelm Jacob Haas (1900–1970), German émigré musicologist and conductor Kim Haas, American journalist and television host Leonard Haas (1915–1998), American politician from Wisconsin Lisbeth Haas (born 1954), American historian and anthropologist Lukas Haas (born 1976), American actor Mario Haas (born 1974), Austrian footballer Marius Haas (born 1945), German journalist and diplomat Mary Haas (1910–1996), American linguist Mauritz de Haas (1832–1895), Dutch-American marine painter Maximilian Haas (born 1985), German footballer Michael Haas, multiple people Mimi Haas (born 1946), American billionaire businesswoman Monique Haas (1909–1987), French pianist Moose Haas (born 1956), American baseball player Mule Haas (1903–1974), American baseball player Nathan Haas (born 1989), Australian cyclist Nico de Haas (1907–1995), Dutch editor, photographer, and artist Pavel Haas (1899–1944), Czech composer Payne Haas (born 1999), Australian rugby player Payton Haas (born 1979), American actor Peter E. Haas (1918–2005), American businessman Peter E. Haas Jr. (born 1948), American businessman and philanthropist.
The Dojo is sixty feet long and thirty feet wide,its walls covered in mirrors, its floor made of polished wood.
— from Resurrection, 2006
Most acclaimed
Resurrection
2006
"When the corpses of an American couple are found frozen to death on a ski lift in a pristine Alpine village, Brenner is called in to investigate, in his first case as a P.I. When Inspector Simon Brenner leaves the police force, he's looking forward to some peace and quiet, and the lovely Alpine village of Zell seems like just the place. That is, until the corpses of an American couple are found frozen on a ski lift, and Brenner, doing some part time work for an insurance company, is called in to investigate the matter. It turns out that the victims have relatives in the area, and the crime--if it is a crime--seems like it could be a family affair. Except the prime suspect has a solid alibi and no one in picture-perfect Zell is talking. So Brenner, in his inimitable style, draws out all the village's characters--the longtime residents, the resort staff and guests--and uncovers the dirty doings that lurk underneath the pristine snow ... and family secrets long buried. This first book sets up the totally unique, quirky narrative voice that runs throughout the series and introduces the reluctant, yet brilliant, Detective Brenner, in a plot with as many twists and turns as a Double Black Diamond"--
The weather fifteen years ago
"The Weather Fifteen Years Ago is no conventional narrative. The reader must infer a sensational love story that the author hasn't actually written, but which his fictional persona describes to a contentious interviewer. This narrative grips the reader as they argue about the mysterious plot." "The real Haas plays several mind-games at once, for the love story begins with an exquisite kiss between the protagonists who have known each other since childhood. The reader must deduce the mysterious relationships, which zigzag erotically through several characters and two generations. At the core of all this is a sophisticated web of scientific and poetic weather lore." "The prosaic romantic hero, Vittorio Kowalski possesses a strange talent: he can remember the weather for every day of the past fifteen years in a certain village in the Austrian Alps. When he is invited to display this uncanny ability on a TV game show, he uncovers memories of his unrequited love for an Austrian girl named Anni, the accident that led to her father's death, and his own near-fatal experience at the place of their secret childhood meetings. As the interview progresses, intricacies of the children's parents' stories unfold to reveal a startling erotic entanglement. On the very last day of the fictional transcription, we learn almost everything else."--Jacket.