Elster

Elster (/ˈɛlstər/; German pronunciation: [ˈʔɛlstɐ] ^ⓘ, meaning 'magpie') may refer to:

Places

• Elster (Elbe), a village and former municipality in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
• Elster Mountains, in Saxony and the Czech Republic
• Black Elster (Schwarze Elster), a river in Germany
• White Elster (Weiße Elster), a river in Germany and the Czech Republic
  • Elster Viaduct, a railway bridge over the White Elster
  • Elster Viaduct (Pirk), a road bridge over the White Elster
• Bad Elster, a spa town in the Vogtlandkreis district, in Saxony, Germany
  • Bad Elster Spa Museum
• Kleine Elster, a river of Brandenburg, Germany
• Amt Kleine Elster (Niederlausitz), an Amt (collective municipality) in the district of Elbe-Elster, Germany
• Berga/Elster, a former town in the district of Greiz, in Thuringia, Germany
• Crossen an der Elster, a village and municipality in the Saale-Holzland district, in Thuringia, Germany
• Elbe-Elster, a Kreis (district) in the southern part of Brandenburg, Germany
  • Falkenberg/Elster, a town in Elbe-Elster
    • Falkenberg (Elster) station, a railway station
• Wünschendorf/Elster, a village and former municipality in the district of Greiz, in Thuringia, Germany
• Zahna-Elster, a town in the district of Wittenberg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

People

Surname

• Charles Harrington Elster (born 1957), American writer, broadcaster, and logophile
• Charlotte Elster, German-American physicist
• Else Elster (1910–1998), German film actress
• Erwin Elster (1887–1977), Polish painter and pedagogue
• Gottlieb Elster (1867–1917), German sculptor
• Ingolf Elster Christensen (1872–1943), Norwegian jurist, military officer, county governor and politician
• Jennifer Elster (active since 2001), American experimental artist, filmmaker, writer, photographer and performer
• Jon Elster, (born 1940), Norwegian social and political theorist
• Julius Elster (1854–1920), German teacher and physicist
• Kevin Elster (born 1964), American Major League Baseball player
• Kristian Elster (born 1841) (1841–1881), Norwegian novelist, journalist, literary critic and theatre critic
• Kristian Elster (born 1881) (1881–1947), Norwegian novelist, literary historian, theatre critic and biographer
• Magli Elster (1912–1993), Norwegian psychoanalyst, literary critic, poet and translator
• Torolf Elster (1911–2006), Norwegian journalist, editor and writer

Fictional characters

• Elster, a protagonist of the video game Signalis
• David, Fred, Leo, Max, Mia, and Niska Elster, characters in the television series Humans

Other uses

• Elster (German tax portal)

• Battle on the Elster
• Elster glaciation (Elsterian Stage)
• Elster Valley Railway (White Elster)
• Operation Elster, a German espionage mission during World War II
• Pützer Elster, a light aircraft

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Elster
• All pages with titles containing Elster
• C. A. Elster Building, a historic commercial building in Springville, California
• Elstra, a town in the district of Bautzen, in Saxony, Germany
• The Stranger from Elster Street (German: Die Fremde aus der Elstergasse), a 1921 German silent drama film
• Elstree, a village in England