Month: April 2025

Peter R. Berry IV

Peter R. Berry IV

Peter Berry is a CarillonDoc of a special kind: he restored a historic carillon that was once built by Willem Mengelberg near St. Moritz in the mountains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cloB98NwG90 He also plays some songs himself and, of course, operates the carillon’s electronics! CV mit seiner Eigenschaft als Notfallpilot, der im Oberengadin ein Flugrettungssystem aufgebaut hat. From 1978 to 1986, assistant physician in Zurich, Chur, New York, and St. Moritz.Between Read more [...]
Ian Brunt

Ian Brunt

The 49-bell Carillon of St Colman's Cathedral in Cobh is the largest such instrument in Ireland and Britain. Dr Ian Brunt was Director of The Lanchester Early Music Festival and City Carillonneur ofNewcastle Upon Tyne, regularly giving concerts and recitals on organ, carillon, harpsichordand fortepiano. He was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain 1979-1981 as flautist, composer and general musician and has specialised in the baroque flutefor over thirty years. He performs Read more [...]
Sjoerd Tamminga

Sjoerd Tamminga

Sjoerd Tamminga, born in 1947 in Goes, Netherlands, received his first carillon lessons at the age of eleven from his piano teacher, the then city carillonneur of Goes, Wilhelm Harthoorn. While studying dentistry in Amsterdam, he received further carillon lessons from the carillonneur of the Oudekerk in Amsterdam, Cees Roelofs, who had studied with Jef Denyn at the Carillon School in Mechelen, Belgium, and graduated there in 1933. Tamminga followed his example and earned his own carillon diploma Read more [...]
Oswald Oelz

Oswald Oelz

Oswald "Bulle" Oelz (born February 6, 1943 in Rankweil, Vorarlberg) is an Austrian-Swiss physician and mountaineer. From 1991 to 2006, he was chief physician at the Triemli City Hospital in Zurich. In addition to his medical work, the internist and high-altitude physician practiced extreme mountaineering, participated in numerous expeditions in the Himalayas, and gave slide presentations about his climbing tours. He breeds sheep. As an expedition doctor, Oswald Oelz accompanied numerous Read more [...]
Theodore Howard Somervell

Theodore Howard Somervell

Theodore Howard Somervell OBE, FRCS (16 April 1890 – 23 January 1975) was an English surgeon, mountaineer, painter and missionary who was a member of two expeditions to Mount Everest in the 1920s, and then spent nearly 40 years working as a doctor in India. In 1924 he was awarded an Olympic Gold Medal by Pierre de Coubertin for his achievements in mountaineering (Alpinism). Somervell was born in Kendal, Westmorland, Read more [...]
Jacques Rogge

Jacques Rogge

Jacques, Count Rogge KCMG (May 2, 1942 in Ghent; August 29, 2021 in Deinze) was a Belgian sports official. From 2001 to 2013, he was President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Lausanne, Switzerland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrEi4pCN5FE After completing his schooling at Sint-Barbaracollege, a Jesuit college in Ghent, Jacques Rogge studied at Ghent University, where he earned a doctorate in orthopedic surgery. He competed in sailing at the 1968, 1972, and 1976 Summer Read more [...]
Dagmar Rabensteiner

Dagmar Rabensteiner

Dagmar Rabensteiner (born June 15, 1963 in Innsbruck) is a former Austrian long-distance runner. As an elementary school student, she walked the seven-kilometer route from Sadrach, a district of Innsbruck, to school in the city center every day. As a high school student, she undertook climbing and ski tours, and later, with her husband and young son, she embarked on multi-week trips and trekking tours through jungles in Indonesia or into the highlands of Kashmir, all the way to the base of Mount Read more [...]
Christiane Moersel-Zimmermann

Christiane Moersel-Zimmermann

She has worked as a coach and trainer for many years and has studied communication psychology, clarification support, and coaching. She performs as a speaker and comedian and provides supervision. Additionally she writes books https://www.dr-moersel-zimmermann.de http://www.dr-moersel.de https://dr-moersel-events.de https://www.facebook.com/drmoerselzimmermann Read more [...]
Stanisław Herman LemSta

Stanisław Herman LemSta

Stanisław Herman Lem (also known as Stanislaw Lem, pronunciation: [staˈɲiswaf lɛm]; September 12, 1921 in Lwów, Poland – March 27, 2006 in Kraków) was a Polish writer, best known as a science fiction author, philosopher, and essayist. Lem's works have been translated into 57 languages ​​and sold more than 45 million copies. He is one of the most widely read science fiction authors, although he did not like to call himself that because of the complexity of his work. Due to the numerous Read more [...]
Taslima Nasrin

Taslima Nasrin

Taslima Nasrin (Bengali: তসলিমা নাসরিন IAST Tasalimā Nāsarin, anglicized: Taslima Nasreen; born August 25, 1962 in Maimansingh) is a Bangladeshi physician and writer. Taslima Nasrin advocates for women's equality and opposes the oppression of religious minorities in predominantly Islamic societies, such as her native Bangladesh. She has been threatened with death by Islamic fundamentalists, primarily because of her 1993 Bengali documentary novel Lajja (Bengali: Shame), Read more [...]