Category: theatreDocs

Kwame Boaten

Kwame Boaten

Kwame is something quite unusual, a collaboration between an African trumpeter and metal musician (Kwame Boaten) and a Swedish guitarist who has previously devoted himself primarily to classical music (Carl Ljungström). They met a few years ago in a music student dormitory in London. This would be the beginning of "Volatile." On the album cover, I see a blurry image of a dark-haired guy with dreadlocks. Yes, I think it's another Swedish hip-hop artist hanging out with Ken and the guys. Oh, Read more [...]
Reinhold Merten

Reinhold Merten

Reinhold Merten dirigiert 1926 bei einer Radio-Liveübetragung Bild © hr-Archiv Reinhold Adolf Merten (June 6, 1894 in Wiesbaden; August 19, 1943 in Munich[1][2]) was a German conductor and physician. Coming from a family of musicians, Merten initially attended the conservatory in Wiesbaden, but then studied medicine at the Philipps University of Marburg and the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main, and served as a medical officer in World War I. After the war, he received Read more [...]
Carl Firle

Carl Firle

In addition to regular benefit concerts with piano solo programs, I am dedicated to musicians' medicine. Since 2019, I have been a board member of the German Society for Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFqxj4FvM1c&list=PL9BqxpzYJAh4oraHi8ZIPRD5DpKqS-3jQ https://www.carl-firle.eu/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8Q_zXF1QSU&list=PL9BqxpzYJAh7qJcBK7OKfCqyZQ9xytuBY&t=1s https://www.youtube.com/@carlf3940 Read more [...]
Arthur Schnitzler

Arthur Schnitzler

Arthur Schnitzler (May 15, 1862 in Vienna,[1] Austrian Empire; October 21, 1931, ibid.) was an Austrian physician, narrator, and playwright. He is considered one of the most important representatives of Viennese Modernism. From 1871 to 1879, Arthur Schnitzler attended the Akademisches Gymnasium in the 1st district and graduated with honors on July 8, 1879.[2] Afterwards, at his father's request, he studied medicine at the University of Vienna. On May 30, 1885, he received his doctorate in Read more [...]
William Somerset Maugham

William Somerset Maugham

William Somerset Maugham [ˈsʌməsɪt mɔːm] (January 25, 1874 in Paris – December 16, 1965 in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat near Nice), also known as W. Somerset Maugham, was an English novelist and playwright. He is one of the most widely read English-language authors of the 20th century. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35zdFvas0uQ William Somerset Maugham was the son of an English lawyer who worked for British clients in Paris. His older brother was the jurist Frederic Maugham. His parents 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 [...]
Fabian Unteregger

Fabian Unteregger

Fabian Unteregger (* 28. März 1977 in Zürich) is a Swiss comedian and moderator. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b1Rj2WaEHo&pp=ygUlRmFiaWFuIFVudGVyZWdnZXIsIENvbWVkaWFuIHVuZCBBcnp0LA%3D%3D Fabian Unteregger graduated from ETH Zurich with a MSc in Food Science in 2003 and received his ETH teaching credential in 2004. From 2008 to 2014, he studied human medicine at the University of Zurich. He received his doctorate in medicine in 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bru-3laDbsw&pp=ygUlRmFiaWFuIFVudGVyZWdnZXIsIENvbWVkaWFuIHVuZCBBcnp0LA%3D%3D Unteregger Read more [...]
Abe Kōbō 

Abe Kōbō 

Kōbō Abe (安部 公房, Abe Kōbō), pen name of Kimifusa Abe (安部 公房, Abe Kimifusa, March 7, 1924 – January 22, 1993), was a Japanese writer, playwright, musician, photographer, and inventor. He is best known for his 1962 novel The Woman in the Dunes that was made into an award-winning film by Hiroshi Teshigahara in 1964.[2] Abe has often been compared to Franz Kafka for his modernist sensibilities and his surreal, often nightmarish explorations of individuals in Read more [...]
Joe Bausch

Joe Bausch

Tatort Köln: Freddy Schenk (Dietmar Bär), Joseph Roth (Josef Bausch-Hölterhoff) und Max Ballauf (Klaus J. Behrendt, von links) sind ein eingespieltes Team. Foto:WDR Joe Bausch (Hermann-Joseph Bernhard Anton Maria Bausch-Hölterhoff; * 19. April 1953 in Ellar) is a German MD, author, actor and speaker of audio books. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9WVSNJxoHg&pp=ygUKam9lIGJhdXNjaA%3D%3D Bausch-Hölterhoff was born in the Westerwald as son of a farmer, later Read more [...]
Gunther Philipp

Gunther Philipp

Gunther Philipp (8 June 1918 – 2 October 2003) was an Austrian film actor, physician and swimmer.[2] From 1949 to 2002 he appeared as an actor in 147 movies for cinema and television, mainly in comic roles. As an author, Philipp wrote 21 film scripts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37YfeJ6MoBY During World War II, Philipp studied acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar and at the University of Vienna philosophy, majoring in psychology and then medicine. In 1943 Read more [...]