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Thomas Scherb

Thomas Scherb

Friday, April 18, 2025, 3 p.m.Xenia Preiseberger, Thomas Scherb, Wolfgang Heilmann (piano)Kurt-Laurenz Theinert (light installation)Angela Fabian, Dietmar Zoller (liturgy) Erik Satie's "Vexations" is a very short work. However, the composer demands that the piece be repeated 840 times. The three pianists alternate every two hours, and the church will be open all night. It is possible to enter and leave the church at any time. In addition to the music and the two services, a slowly changing Read more [...]
Periklis Sfyridis

Periklis Sfyridis

Periklis Sfyridis (born October 5, 1933, in Thessaloniki) is a contemporary Greek poet, prose writer, essayist, critic, and anthologist. His prose has been published in several languages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrodemyXb1U Periklis Sfyridis was born in 1933 in Thessaloniki, where he lives. He graduated from the American College "Anatolia" in 1952. He studied medicine at the University of Thessaloniki (as a student of the Military Medical School) and worked as a cardiologist Read more [...]
Vasos Ilias Vogiatzoglou

Vasos Ilias Vogiatzoglou

Vasos Vogiatzoglou, son of Elias, was born in 1935 in Nea Ionia, Attica. He is a pediatrician and member of the Doctors of the World organization, a researcher of the history and folk culture of the Greeks of Asia Minor, a poet, onomasticologist, and essayist. His parents were refugees from Sparta (Isparta) in Pisidia. He studied medicine at the University of Athens and specialized in pediatrics. She provides voluntary pediatric care for children in the women's prisons of Korydallos and Thebes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX8qAffxkz0 Vasos Read more [...]
Manolis Pratikakis

Manolis Pratikakis

Manolis Pratikakis (Greek: Μανόλης Πρατικάκης; born 1943) is a Greek poet. He studied medicine at the University of Athens and is a practicing neurologist and psychiatrist. His first volume of poetry was published in 1974; he is one of the so-called "Genia tou 70," a literary term for Greek authors who began publishing their works in the 1970s, particularly towards the end of the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 and during the early years of the "Metapolitefsi." He received Read more [...]
Elias H. Papadimitrakopoulos

Elias H. Papadimitrakopoulos

Elias H. Papadimitrakopoulos (Pyrgos, Ilia, August 23, 1930 – Athens, November 29, 2024) was a Greek novelist, prose writer, and military doctor. He was born in Pyrgos, Elis, where he spent his childhood and youth. After the death of his father, a lawyer, in 1943, his family faced difficult times. As he later wrote, he studied at the Military Medical Faculty of the University of Thessaloniki from 1949 to 1955 out of necessity. From 1959 to 1968 he served in Kavala. There he first Read more [...]
Pavlos Nirvanas

Pavlos Nirvanas

Pavlos Nirvanas (Greek: Parasloός Niρβάνας, * 1866 in Mariupol, Russian Empire; † 28 November 1937 in Athens, Greece) was a Greek writer whose real name was Petros K. Apostolidis. Nirvanas' father came from Skopelos, his mother from Chios. As a child, Pavlos Nirvanas moved from his then Russian hometown to Greece and lived in Piraeus. He studied medicine at the University of Athens and graduated in 1890. He joined the Navy and rose to the rank of senior physician (γενικός Read more [...]
Michail Afanassjewitsch Bulgakow

Michail Afanassjewitsch Bulgakow

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (Russian: Михаи́л Афана́сьевич Булга́ков, scientific transliteration: Mikhail Afanas'evič Bulgakov; May 3, 1891 in Kiev, Russian Empire – March 10, 1940 in Moscow, Soviet Union) was a Russian and Soviet writer. He is considered one of the great satirists of Russian literature. One of his major works is the novel The Master and Margarita, which was published posthumously in 1966 after heavy censorship. The excerpts were distributed Read more [...]
GEORGE POLYRAKIS

GEORGE POLYRAKIS

George Polyrakis was born in Sfakia, Crete. He studied military medicine and received his doctorate from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He trained as a surgeon and subsequently specialized in vascular surgery at Hammersmith Hospital in London. He currently works as a surgeon in Thessaloniki, where he lives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx3uf8GIQGM He has published 83 scientific articles in Greek and foreign medical journals, given dozens of presentations at medical conferences, Read more [...]
Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (May 22, 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland – July 7, 1930 in Crowborough, Sussex, England) was a British physician and author. He wrote about the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr. Watson. He is also known for the character Challenger from his novel The Lost World, which served as the basis for numerous films and a television series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7toqzP16H4c In 1880, Doyle traveled to the Arctic as a ship's doctor on the whaler Read more [...]
Wassili Pawlowitsch Aksjonow

Wassili Pawlowitsch Aksjonow

Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov (Russian: Василий Павлович Аксёнов, scientific transliteration: Vasilij Pavlovič Aksënov, born August 20, 1932 in Kazan; died July 6, 2009 in Moscow) was a Russian writer. He began his career in the Soviet Union and later had to emigrate to the United States. Wassili Aksjonow (left) with Viktor Nekrasov (in front of the equestrian statue of Joan of Arc, Place du Martroi, Orléans, 1983) From 1956 to 1960, he worked as a doctor, but had Read more [...]