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- Sven Fürst
was born in Kempten/Allgäu.While still studying pharmacy, he was accepted into the vocal class of Professor Monika Bürgener at the Würzburg University of Music and Performing Arts, where he completed the advanced training class with distinction in March 2002. Since then, he has worked freelance. Sven Fürst now has an extensive concert schedule both in…
- Hans Wolf
Hans Wolf, born May 31, 1958 in Braunschweig, is a German physician, concert pianist, and multimedia artist. From 1977 to 1985, he studied medicine and worked as a medical officer. He performed numerous cabaret shows at holistic medicine conferences in Bad Herrenalb. He completed classical piano studies with Prof. Edith Picht-Axenfeld in Freiburg, receiving his…
- Eric Pearl
Over the past three decades Dr. Eric Pearl has shed a new light on the essence of healing. Undeniably, Reconnective Healing® and the Reconnective Healing Experience™ (RHE) have redefined both what healing is and how it is received. Through Jillian Fleer’s insights, it has become clear the RHE has shown us how our direct awareness…
- Maya Kokew
2010-2014Host of the show “vigo TV” since 2009As an expert on ZDF, RTL, N24, Sat1, and HR for “Service:Gesundheit” and “Einfach gesund!” 2008“Gesundheit!”, BR, working as an expert in nutritional medicine 2006-2007“Die Sprechstunde” (The Consultation Hour), BR, Engagement: Nutrition Expert 2006-2007“Weck Up” (SAT.1), Engagement as a Consulting Physician Kokew impresses with her naturalness and freshness,…
- Simon Heiniger
Simon Heiniger: Born in 1962 and raised in Emmental, he studied medicine in Bern. Thanks to a curriculum from the FIAM Bern, he trained as a general practitioner. Since 1994, he has been a family doctor in Olten. Married to a very understanding and patient wife, with three adult children. He writes like a writer:…
- Hans-Roman Kitterer
In addition to his work as a senior physician, Hans-Roman Kitterer leads an active musical life in and around Aalen as a pianist in the theater with solo and chamber music programs and on the organ solo or in ensembles such as here: https://www.theateraalen.de/projekt/293-beethoven-252-vorsicht-ansteckend https://www.schwaebische-post.de/ostalb/ostalb-kultur/konzert-in-gmuend-eine-wiener-musik-akademie-mit-mozart-93028679.html
- Christoph Wagner
Few people know the musician Christoph Wagner. Anyone who listened to him improvise on the piano understood that it was this immediate proximity to music that motivated and drove him to create a science for musicians. Born on May 20, 1931, in Marburg, Christoph Wagner grew up in Weilburg/Lahn in a culturally diverse and stimulating…
- Jochen Blum
Jochen Blum (born January 22, 1959 in Ludwigshafen) is a German specialist in surgery and trauma surgery, professor of music physiology, and author of specialist books. He is a co-founder and long-standing board member of the German Society for Music Physiology and Musicians’ Medicine (DGFMM). Excerpt from an interview: Back then, a violin maker and…
- 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…
- 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,…
- Richard Bauer
Seine erste Liebe, sagt der heute (2025) 72-Jährige, war jedoch immer die Musik. Und das begann schon im Kindesalter. Wenn seine älteren Schwestern Klavierunterricht hatten, dann hörte er zu und spielte die Melodien später selbst nach – ohne Noten, nur nach Gehör. Aber auch an der Gitarre war Richard Bauer talentiert: Schon 1972 hatte er…
- Matthias Weikert
Dr. Weikert ist im Amateurbereich als Geiger- und Kammermusiker engagiert und in dieser instrumentalen Ausübung u.a. Mitglied des Bayerischen Ärzteorchesters (ehem. unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. R. Steinberg; jetzt Projektorchester mit wechselnden Dirigenten) und des Orchesters am Singrün Regensburg (Dirigent Michael Falk). https://der-stimmarzt.jimdofree.com https://www.youtube.com/@matthiasweikert2362
- Claudia Spahn
Claudia Spahn (*1963) is a German musician’s medicine specialist and director of the Freiburg Institute for Musicians’ Medicine. She is a leading researcher in the development of music physiology and musicians’ medicine, particularly in the field of stage fright and performance anxiety. Claudia Spahn has received artistic training in recorder as a solo instrument, piano…
- Bernhard Richter
Bernhard Richter (* 1962) is a German physician-musician and director of the Freiburg Institute for Musicians’ Medicine. Richter received his musical training as a singer with the Stuttgart Hymnus Boys’ Choir and through violin lessons with Hedwig Pahl. He studied medicine at the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau, Basel, and Dublin. Parallel to his studies,…
- Uwe Ochs
1982 Passed the C-level examination in church music (choir conducting, organ, piano, vocals) 1984–2000 Organist and pianist of the Daimler-Benz Choir Stuttgart, the Esslingen Police Department Choir, and the Swabian Singers’ Selected Choir. 1976–2000 Temporary organist and choir director (St. Ulrich, Maria Königin, Kreuz- und Thomaskirche Kirchheim-Teck) Singing, organ and piano playing, classical music, swimming,…
- Krzysztof Komeda
Krzysztof Komeda (born Krzysztof Trzciński; April 27, 1931 in Poznań – April 23, 1969 in Warsaw) was a Polish jazz pianist and composer of jazz and film music of international renown. According to Jan Wróblewski, Komeda occupies a similar musical rank in Poland to Chopin. In his youth, he received piano lessons in Ostrów Wielkopolski…
- Reinhold Merten
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…
- Elisa Kafritsas
My name is Elisa, named after Beethoven’s “Für Elise,” a piece my mother loved. I started piano lessons at the age of 6, supported by my Korean mother and Sicilian father, and music has always been a big part of my life. After studying dentistry 🦷 and working as a dentist, I returned to the…
- Jürgen Jage
Jürgen Jage comes from a musical family in Berlin; his father was a pianist. Most recently, he worked as a professor of anesthesiology at the University Medical Center Mainz. Since his retirement, he has devoted himself intensively to piano music. He continues his studies at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory in Mainz and enjoys giving concerts,…
- Peter Menger
We are Deborah and Peter Menger, and we met in a choir in 1995. It’s only fitting that we’ve been making music together for many years. We perform in choirs, bands, other vocal ensembles, and as a duo in Germany and internationally. For the past 12 years, we’ve enjoyed making music together, especially with our…
- Arthur Wolff
Personendaten name: Wolff, Arthur born: 28. Febr. 1885 Guttentag (Oberschlesien)/Dobrodzień, Deutschland/heute: Polen died: 23. Dez. 1945 Shanghai, China mother: Eugenie Wolff, geb. Straßmann (gest. vor 1939) father: Berthold Wolff (gest. vor 1939), Dr., Arzt matrimony ∞ 23. Dez. 1916 Berlin Elisabeth Wolff, geb. Heine (geb. 13. Okt. 1889), Exil 1939 in Shanghai mother language: German…
- Horst Hildebrandt
Horst Hildebrandt, born in Marburg (Germany), completed violin studies in Freiburg (Germany) and London, and studied medicine in Freiburg. He has furthered his training in movement therapy, dispokinesis, mental training, and pain therapy. He is a member of the German National Youth Orchestra and the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie. He has worked as a violinist in…
- André Lee
He has been playing the violin since he was 6 years old and has studied with Prof. Michael Goldstein (Hamburg University of Music, First Concertmaster of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra), Prof. Wilfried Laatz (Lübeck University of Music), and Prof. Ingolf Turban (Munich University of Music), among others, and continues to be active in various…
- Jean Faber
ca. 1870 – 1948 Jean Faber was most likely born in the 1870s. He studied medicine and worked as a practicing surgeon, but was also interested in music and gave informative lectures about musicians, including Beethoven. He also performed as a pianist at a Beethoven celebration, specifically in Beethoven’s Trio in E-flat major for violin,…
- Lukas Nowak
Lukas Nowak began playing the piano at the age of 6. At 14, he switched to the organ and received church music training from Helmut Kickton. He also learned the piccolo and guitar and acquired basic proficiency in horn and percussion. As a student, he wrote, among other works, choral and poem settings, a four-movement…
- Christoph Schreiber
Founded in 1998, the Piano Salon Christophori in the listed Uferhallen in Berlin’s Gesundbrunnen district is a gem for piano lovers and those who aspire to become one. Solo, chamber, and jazz concerts with exquisite programs take place almost daily in the former tram depot, which salon founder Christoph Schreiber also uses as a workshop…
- 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/@carlf3940
- Thomas Löffler
Playing the piano is my passion and I am happy that I can still practice it today, even though I decided to study medicine rather than music. Sieh dir diesen Beitrag auf Instagram an Ein Beitrag geteilt von Anamica Löffler (@ana.loeffler)
- Alexander Schmidt
Alexander Schmidt (born January 15, 1977 in Kiel) is a German neurologist and musician. He has been Professor of Musician Medicine at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin since 2014, where he directs the Kurt Singer Institute for Music Physiology and Musician Medicine (KSI), and since 2015, Director of the Berlin Center for…
- Tom Steinmetz
The son of an architect and a teacher, he began playing the piano at the age of five and considered pursuing a career as a pianist as a young man. But ultimately, he found that too uncertain. Music remains a favorite hobby to this day. In addition to his music, which he enjoys pursuing with…
- Rüdiger Penthin
Rüdiger Penthin, a member of the Music Working Group and the board, introduces himself below: Born in 1959. Born in Cologne. Father of three children. He received his first piano lessons at the age of 6. At 17, he received a scholarship as a junior student at the Cologne University of Music, specializing in piano….
- Carl Clauberg
Carl Clauberg (September 28, 1898 in Witzhelden-Wupperhof; August 9, 1957 in Kiel) was a German gynecologist who, as an SS doctor, performed forced sterilizations on hundreds of female concentration camp prisoners. Due to his research into hormone-based contraceptive methods, which he also conducted in the Auschwitz extermination camp using brutal human experiments, Clauberg is considered…
- Georg Weidinger
Since 1994, freelance composer and pianist, giving lectures on his own work and the Iannis Xenakis-Stochastics connection between scientific thought and composition, and lecturing on Traditional Chinese Medicine.Since 1996, practicing as a physician.In 1998, he founded the label “klaviermusik.at” and has released numerous CDs since then.In 2000, the CD “Vienna Concert 2000” was released by…
- Dannie Abse
Dannie Abse, CBE (born Daniel Abse on 22 September 1923 in Cardiff, Wales; died on 28 September 2014[1] in Golders Green, London) was a British author and poet. Dannie Abse grew up in his Jewish family with his brothers Leo Abse (1917–2008; lawyer, politician, author) and Wilfried Abse (1915–2005; psychoanalyst), who were about ten years…
- Christos Pantazis
Christos Pantazis (born October 9, 1975 in Hanover)[1] is a German physician and politician (SPD). He has been a member of the German Bundestag since October 26, 2021. Previously, he was a member of the Lower Saxony State Parliament from February 2013 to November 2021 and deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group there from…
- Giorgos Chimonas
Giorgos Chimonas (Kavala, March 17, 1938 – Paris, February 27, 2000) was a Greek prose writer, translator and psychiatrist who became known and distinguished in the field of Greek literature in the 1960s. Giorgos Himonas was born in Kavala in 1938 and grew up in Thessaloniki. There he studied medicine. He continued his studies in…
- Hiester Richard Hornberger Jr.
Hiester Richard Hornberger Jr. (February 1, 1924 – November 4, 1997) was an American writer and surgeon who wrote under the pseudonym Richard Hooker. Hornberger’s best-known work is his novel MASH (1968), based on his experiences as a wartime United States Army surgeon during the Korean War and written in collaboration with W. C. Heinz. It was used as the basis for the award-winning,…
- 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. 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- Takis Sinopoulos
Takis Sinopoulos was born in 1917 in the Peloponnese. He served as a military doctor in the Greek Civil War from 1946 to 1949; his experiences of fratricide and excessive violence had a lasting impact on him and his work. He died in 1981 in Pyrgos in the Peloponnese. He was born in Agolinitsa, the…
- François Rabelais
François Rabelais [fʁɑ̃.swa ʁa.blɛ] (c. 1494, perhaps 1483, in La Devinière near Chinon, Touraine; † April 9, 1553, in Paris) was a French Renaissance writer, humanist, Roman Catholic friar and secular priest, practicing physician, and lecturer. He is one of the most important prose writers in French literature; of his works, the novel cycle Gargantua…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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….
- 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…
- 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. William Somerset Maugham was the son of an English lawyer who…
- 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. He has published 83 scientific articles in…
- Archibald Joseph Cronin
Archibald Joseph Cronin (July 19, 1896 in Cardross, Scotland; January 6, 1981 in Glion, Switzerland) was a Scottish physician and writer. Some of his novels became international successes. His narrative is characterized by exciting plots, realistic characters, and pronounced social criticism. In his autobiography, Adventures in Two Worlds, he also unequivocally professes his Christian faith….
- Adamantios Korais
Adamantios Korais (Greek: Αδαμάντιος Κοραής – Adamántios Koraís, also Koraés; April 27, 1748 in Smyrna, Asia Minor, Ottoman Empire – April 6, 1833 in Paris) was a Greek scholar and writer. Korais is considered a reformer of Greek literature. Korais was born in Smyrna, but his father came from the island of Chios, and Korais…
