Lenya

American  

[len-yuh, layn-] / ˈlɛn jə, ˈleɪn- /

noun

1. Lotte Karoline Blamauer, 1900–81, Austrian actress and singer, in the U.S. after 1935 (wife of Kurt Weill).

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Lenya British  

/ ˈlɛnjə /

noun

1. Lotte (ˈlɒtɪ), original name Caroline Blamauer. 1900–81, Austrian singer and actress, associated esp with the songs of her husband Kurt Weill

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Lenya

Meanwhile, we could do without descriptions of Harry Truman’s attire at Potsdam or what Kurt Weill wrote to Lotte Lenya on V-E Day—a dozen years after the couple fled Europe for show-business success in America.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026

“It’s really just that we got lucky,” said Lenya Quinn-Davidson, a fire adviser for the University of California Cooperative Extension.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2022

Although it seems counterintuitive, the escape actually demonstrated the need for agencies and partners to put more fire on the landscape, said Lenya Quinn-Davidson, area fire advisor for the University of California Cooperative Extension.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2022

In 2018, the fire ecologist Lenya Quinn-Davidson founded the Humboldt County Prescribed Burn Association, a firelighting co-op of landowners who manage each others’ properties – the first like it in the west.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 21, 2019

Green had spent time in Europe and collaborated with Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 21, 2019

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