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October 14, 2003

Dress-up game

2 German Luper experts, Herbert and Max Cohen, have developed a dress-up game which is now published on the site. It is 1,5 Mb in filesize, so it might take some 4 min. to download when you are connected to the net with a 56K modem. View it through section Archives_Category_experts_ expert nr. 14

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October 01, 2003

The nomen project

Dear supporters,

I'm terribly sorry for being so late in answering your comments. These are quite interesting incitations!
I was for some time on a journey abroad and had no time to look at the project at all.

There will be done more research about that in the nearer future. Thanks a lot for your stimulations! Especially the Gottschalk-case seems to be thrilling.

I don't know, if the scandinavian languages will do much support for the etymologic questions of the name Luper. In Danish there were just two references. And I am not really an expert on northern languages.
The Mediterranean countries are much more fruitful (the roman sources!) at this topic. But no reason to neglect your incitation, Alan!

Best wishes and many thanks, Gianfranco.

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September 29, 2003

Water

Knockavelli and Luper - Water as a source of inspiration
This is the title of an essay that was recently sent to us by two Luper experts, Terry Montaner and Palmyra Miller. The essay concerns a letter supposedly written by Martino Knockavelli to Luper in 1990 in connection with some film material they obtained from another source.

I have published the essay and a scan of the original letter in the Category section, subcategory nr. 5, experts nr. 13. The movie is not yet in our possession so it is not available to the public yet, but we hope to be able to publish it or parts of it in the near future.

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June 10, 2003

Nomen est Omen, isn't it?

Under the title "Nomen est omen, isn’t it? Etymologic-onomastic attempts on the name ‘Tulse Luper’" there has been an examination of possible sources in different European languages for the analysis of the name ‘Tulse Luper’.

Gianfranco Sobillatoro a Luper expert from Leipzig University (Institute of Theatre Science), specialised in the examination of unusual names took the

challenge to work with this rare sample to deepen the general understanding of the evolution of names and to give the international Luper research some new traces and tools to examine his special history.

In the Archives section of this site under Category, subcategory nr. 5 Experts, expert nr. 12 Gianfranco Sobillatoro, can be found a small collection of first results of this research.

Firstly the surname ‘Luper’ is examined. According to hints, which are given by Luper or were drawn from other sources, the possible regions, from which the family of Tulse Luper might have come from, could be named.
Later will there be a presentation of some hints for the first name ‘Tulse’. Unfortunately it is unknown, why the parents of Tulse Luper gave their son that particular name. But some speculations can be done about the influences of their decision. From this the deduction of some remarkable indications for the emergence of the name ‘Tulse Luper’ shall be possible.

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