Category: movieDocs

Hans Wolf

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 diploma. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYAWURw8OtE Premieres of his own compositions at the Munich Festivals for Contemporary Read more [...]
Krzysztof Komeda

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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NnFPllvyh8 In his youth, he received piano lessons in Ostrów Wielkopolski (German: Ostrowo), where he lived from 1946 to 1951. Later, he became a student at the Conservatory in Read more [...]
Hiester Richard Hornberger Jr.

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, critically and commercially successful movie M*A*S*H (1970) 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 [...]
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 [...]
Karl Kruszelnicki

Karl Kruszelnicki

Karl Sven Woytek Sas Konkovitch Matthew Kruszelnicki AM (born 1948), often referred to as Dr Karl,[2] is an Australian science communicator and populariser,[2] who is known as an author and a science commentator on Australian radio, television, and podcasts. Kruszelnicki is the Julius Sumner Miller Fellow in the Science Foundation for Physics at the School of Physics, University of Sydney. Kruszelnicki was awarded a Master of Biomedical Read more [...]
Roland Garve

Roland Garve

Roland Garve (born December 9, 1955 in Boizenburg/Elbe) is a German dentist and ethnomedical specialist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktEUlLs2E7I Garve, born and raised in Boizenburg/Elbe, attended the Polytechnic High School from 1962 to 1972 and then the extended High School Boizenburg, where he received his Abitur in 1974. After his military service, he studied dentistry at the University of Greifswald from 1976 and received his license to practice dentistry in 1981. From 1981 Read more [...]
Tess Gerritsen

Tess Gerritsen

Tess Gerritsen (born Terry Tom; June 12, 1953[1]) is the pseudonym of Terry Gerritsen,[2] an American novelist and retired general physician. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOg2km-Pwr4 Tess Gerritsen is the child of a Chinese immigrant and a Chinese-American seafood chef. While growing up in San Diego, California, Gerritsen often dreamt of writing her own Nancy Drew novels.[4] Her first name is Terry; she decided to feminize it when she was a writer of romance Read more [...]
Jussi Adler-Olsen

Jussi Adler-Olsen

Carl Valdemar Jussi Henry Adler-Olsen (born 2 August 1950) is a Danish crime fiction writer, a publisher, editor, and entrepreneur, best known for his Department Q series. He made his debut as a nonfiction writer in 1984, and as a fiction writer in 1997. Born in Copenhagen, he was the youngest of four children and the only boy. Son of the successful sexologist and psychiatrist Henry Olsen, he spent his childhood with his family in doctors' official residences at several mental Read more [...]