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Eckart von Hirschhausen

Eckart von Hirschhausen (born 25 August 1967) is a German doctor, talk show host and comedian.

Journalism and television

In 1996, von Hirschhausen started writing, mainly for Focus and Der Tagesspiegel. His first appearance on television is believed to have been as a guest contestant performing magic tricks in Jürgen von der Lippe‘s show Geld oder Liebe (‘Money or Love’).[2] From 1998 to 2003, he hosted the weekly health advisory show Service: Gesundheit (‘Service: Health’) on Hessischer Rundfunk Television. Since 2004 he has been a weekly contributor to Stern: Sprechstunde (“Stern: Consultation Hour”): his column is called Die Etwas Andere Medizinkolumne (“The Somewhat Different Medicine Column”).[3]

Since the mid-1990s, von Hirschhausen has performed as a stand-up comedian, show host and magician in variety. He is also a cabaret artist performing his own, and other, cabaret programmes. He was a guest artist in Berlin, in London and at the Cologne Comedy Festival 1997. Hirschhausen was also a member of the panels of contributors to the Knoff-Hoff-Show on ZDF and 7 Tage, 7 Köpfe (‘7 days, 7 heads’) on RTL. Since 21 January 2004, he has been answering viewers’ questions in his column Dr. von Hirschhausen wills wissen (‘Dr. von Hirschhausen wants to know’) in the scientific television show W wie Wissen (‘K for Knowledge’) on ARD. In Hirschhausens Wissensbisse (‘Hirschhausen’s knowledge-bites’) he also presents strange news and facts from the world of scientific research.[4] Hirschhausen is a regular on the cabaret show Ottis Schlachthof (‘Otti’s Slaughterhouse’) on Bayerisches Fernsehen and Quatsch Comedy Club on Pro Sieben.[5] In 2007, he was a frequent guest on the ARD show ‘Schmidt and Pocher’. He is also a speaker specialising in communication and motivational training. At the end of 2008, he founded a charity foundation ‘Humor hilft heilen – für mehr gesundes Lachen im Krankenhaus’ (‘Humour helps the healing process – for more healthy laughing in hospitals’). Since September 2009, he has co-hosted the successor show of ‘Die Tietjen und Dibaba’ on NDR with Bettina Tietjen.

Von Hirschhausen has developed a cabaret routine similar to that of Ludger Stratmann, also a PhD Medical Doctor and cabaret artist. They both focus on the doctor-patient relationship, while von Hirschhausen specifically points out the inability and unwillingness of professionals in his field to express themselves clearly. He also focuses on the typical routines and rituals which, when separated from the professional environment, appear comical and absurd.

Magician

Since 1995 Hirschhausen is member of Magischer Zirkel von Deutschland. in competitions he won 1st and 2nd prizes and founded a “Think Theatre” with a mixture of comedy and magic.

He ended his stage career in 2023 and is now working to improve the earth´s climate and other constructive things.

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Fernsehmoderator

1997 hatte Eckart von Hirschhausen in der Sendung Casino Royal des WDR einen seiner ersten TV-Auftritte als zaubernder Barkeeper. Von 1998 bis 2003 moderierte er im HR-Fernsehen die wöchentliche Ratgebersendung Service: Gesundheit und von 2004 bis 2006 beantwortete er im ARDWissenschaftsmagazin W wie Wissen in der eigenen Rubrik Hirschhausen wills wissen die Fragen der Zuschauer. 2008–2010 moderierte er die Sendung Deutschlands größter Gedächtnistest. 2012 leitete er gemeinsam mit Vince Ebert die WDR-Sendung Der dritte Bildungsweg[25], moderierte im selben Jahr Prix Pantheon und wirkte in Die RTL Comedy Woche mit. Von 2012 bis 2014 moderierte er zusammen mit Barbara SchönebergerHubertus Meyer-BurckhardtBettina TietjenJudith Rakers und Giovanni di Lorenzo die von 2012 bis 2014 einmal jährliche Show Best of Talk im NDR.

2013 moderierte von Hirschhausen drei Folgen von Ist das ein Witz? und die einmalige Comedyshow Hirschhausen hilft!. Gemeinsam mit Bettina Tietjen führte er von September 2009 bis November 2014 einmal im Monat durch die NDR-Talkshow Tietjen und Hirschhausen.[26][27] Von 2010 bis 2023 moderierte er in der ARD die Wissensshows Frag doch mal die Maus[28][29] und seit Hirschhausens Quiz des Menschen (bis 2013: Das fantastische Quiz des Menschen).[23] 2017 moderierte er die Sendung Hirschhausens Check-up sowie deren Nachfolgesendung Hirschhausen im…. Seit 2020 moderiert er die Gesundheitsshow Hirschhausens Sprechstunde, zu der seit Herbst 2020 unter anderem der Podcast Hirschhausens Sprechstunde – Der Podcast im WDR 4 gehört. Seit 2021 moderiert Hirschhausen die Sendung Wissen vor acht. 2023 gab er die Wissensshow Frag doch mal die Maus an Esther Sedlaczek ab. Dafür erhielt er eine neue Show beim Ersten Deutschen Fernsehen: Was kann der Mensch? Die Hirschhausen-Show.

Daneben hatte er zahlreiche Gastauftritte in vielen bekannten Talkshows, Quizshows, Kabarett- und Comedy-Formaten bei ARD, ZDF, NDR, WDR etc.

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Helmut Pfleger

Helmut Pfleger (born August 6, 1943) is a German chess grandmaster and author. He was one of the most promising chess players in the 1960s and 1970s. From 1977 until 2005, Pfleger hosted a series of chess programs on German public TV, including Chess of the Grandmasters, often together with grandmaster Vlastimil Hort. By profession, he is a doctor of medicine.

In 1960 he won the German Junior Championship, in 1961 was fourth in the World Junior Chess Championship. In 1965 he tied for 1st with Wolfgang Unzicker in the German Chess Championship in Bad Aibling, but lost an additional match to him there.

He took 1st at Maputo 1973, tied for 1st–2nd at Polanica-Zdrój 1971, tied for 1st–2nd at Montilla 1973, tied for 2nd–3rd at Montilla 1974, tied for 2nd–5th at Manila 1975, tied for 2nd–3rd at Havana 1982, was 4th at Royan 1988.

Pfleger played for Germany in the Chess Olympiads of 1964, 1968, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1980 and 1982. At the Tel Aviv Olympiad of 1964, he was awarded the gold medal for best performance on fourth board and a bronze medal for his contribution to the team’s overall performance.[1] He was awarded the Grandmaster title in 1975.

On the April 2009 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2477, although he has been virtually inactive since 1990.

Notable games

Pfleger is inactive at FIDE because he has not made games with Elosince 1999.

He participated in the chess olympics 1974 in Nizza as well as in European or world championships.

Pfleger organises Medical Chess Championships in Germany for >30 years now. That association is very radical denying to use their photos, more unfriendly than anybody in THIS web, but you can see lots of the photos in the Deutsches Ärzteblatt: https://www.aerzteblatt.de/search?q=schachmeisterschaft

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ÄrzteSchach.de | DoctorsChess.de

80. Geburtstag | 80th birthday laudatio

Great interview in TV BR Bayerischer Rundfunk

game against Karpov
Schachkolumne DIE ZEIT

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Alexander Heisler

Alexander Heisler (* 21. Juni 1949 in Königsfeld im Schwarzwald) is a German event managerand founder of the Zelt-Musik-Festival in Freiburg and MD.

Heisler has grown up in a family of country doctors. He studied law, journalistics and behavioural science in Munich. 1970 he studied medicine in Freiburg. He was film assistant of Walter Frentz, who was camera-man of Leni Riefenstahl. At the  Olympic Games in Munich 1972 he was personal assistent of IOC-Vice president David Cecil, 6. Marquess of Exeter.

In 1972 he founded the Audimax classics and jazz concerts Freiburg until the ZMF – Zeltmusik-Festival Freiburg (Tent Music Festival) was founded in 1983. Roncalli chief Bernhard Paul borrowed him tents and internationale stars drew hundreds of thousands visitors. After high losses in 2006 because of the football championship in Germany he changed to the board and others took over the organisation.

Heisler is friend with any artists of the ZMF as to Perry Robinson[3]Konstantin WeckerCab Calloway or Chick Corea. His son is the drummer Frederik Heisler.

From 1986 thru 2021 he had an office as GP in Teningen.

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Susanne Holst

Susanne Holst (* 19. September 1961 in Hamburg) is a German MD, medical journalist, author and TV moderator.

She worked as moderator for Sat1 morning magazine, then a health magazine and other productions.

Since 2001 she moderates the German news magazine Tagesschau and Tagesthemen.

She has written several medicine books about diabetes, pain therapy, sleep and rheumatic diseases.

She is married with Halko Weiss since 1992, a psycho-therapist and specialist for Hakomi, they have twins (see book title!) but live separated actually.

She is engaged in the foundation Kindergesundheit.

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Werner Bockelmann

his CD “Leipzig Polonaise”, one of his major compositions.

Jan Bochański (natural name Werner Bockelmann) was born in St. Wendel/Saar/Germany as son of a doctor family (5th generation). After World War II he was in Melsungen/Germany where he got rare piano lessons and did not have composition but made his first attempts to compose. 1947 to 1953 he studied medicine and law in Homburg/Saar, Paris and Heidelberg. After his MD, thesis and specialisation in ophthalmology he worked scientifically and got severyl patents atz the Battelle-Institute. He settled as ophthalmologist in Oberursel/Germany, later in Frankfurt (Main).

He was active Rallye-driver (seven participation at the “Tour d’Europe”), motor journalist and wrote a book about eye-glasses-cardriving, he was free lance for several car magazines and radio stations. Since 1975 he regularly writes compositions, mainly piano works in form of variations, dances and character pieces.

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Johann Georg Adam Forster

Johann George Adam Forster, also known as Georg Forster[nb 1] (German pronunciation: [ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈfɔʁstɐ], 27 November 1754 – 10 January 1794), was a German naturalistethnologisttravel writer, journalist and revolutionary. At an early age, he accompanied his father, Johann Reinhold Forster, on several scientific expeditions, including James Cook‘s second voyage to the Pacific. His report of that journey, A Voyage Round the World, contributed significantly to the ethnology of the people of Polynesia and remains a respected work. As a result of the report, Forster, who was admitted to the Royal Society at the early age of twenty-two, came to be considered one of the founders of modern scientific travel literature.

After returning to continental Europe, Forster turned toward academia. He taught natural history at the Collegium Carolinum in the OttoneumKassel (1778–84), and later at the Academy of Vilna (Vilnius University) (1784–87). In 1788, he became head librarian at the University of Mainz. Most of his scientific work during this time consisted of essays on botany and ethnology, but he also prefaced and translated many books about travel and exploration, including a German translation of Cook’s diaries.

Forster was a central figure of the Enlightenment in Germany, and corresponded with most of its adherents, including his close friend Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. His ideas, travelogues and personality influenced Alexander von Humboldt, one of the great scientists of the 19th century [5] who hailed Forster as the founder of both comparative ethnology (Völkerkunde) and regional geography (Länderkunde).[6] When the French took control of Mainz in 1792, Forster played a leading role in the Mainz Republic, the earliest republican state in Germany. During July 1793 and while he was in Paris as a delegate of the young Mainz Republic, Prussian and Austrian coalition forces regained control of the city and Forster was declared an outlaw. Unable to return to Germany and separated from his friends and family, he died in Paris of illness in early 1794, not yet 40. In 1785, Forster traveled to Halle where he submitted his thesis on the plants of the South Pacific for a doctorate in medicine.

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Wolfgang Ellenberger

piano = Handgepäck | hand luggage

Wolfgang Ellenberger, the author of this web site has studied also piano diploma and concert exam besides music therapy.
1987-1989 he worked at the ballet of the Scala of Milano as pianist.
1994 debut as conductor with the Sibirian State orchestra Kemerovo. In the nineties he conducted three choirs and in the opera project Magic Flute.
He has lived three years of his life in a camper on camping sites.
He invented several things: piano-lift-hydraulics, piano fingering system and he introduced cinema therapy to a psychosomatic hospital.
Since 1982 he manages an event service (see clients list).
In his youth he played a pneumatic organ in a church in Hamburg Altona for 12 years.
Since his workshop with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross he studied spirituality intensively and finally wrote a film script about the communication with the spiritual world according to the book of Johannes Greber.
He produced many hundreds of films for his youtube account and other places.
In 2011 he moved to Switzerland (with two interruptions in Germany) where he likes to hike in the mountains.

Ellenberger worked as a waiter fully employed @ maritim hotel Würzburg for some months.

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