Helmut Pfleger

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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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Sheila Malek

Sheila Malek, born in 1981, began acting already as child. Her Persian family has created many actors. Nevertheless she studied medicine and becomes asthetic surgeon.

Walking along the street in Munich / Bavaria the director Klaus Lemke (see picture) talked to her and offered her a first part in a film “Schmutziger Süden”. Later came TV performances and engagements as moderator and model.

“Schmutziger Süden”: Regisseur Klaus Lemke zusammen mit den beiden Hauptdarstellerinnen, Sheila Malek (l.) und Indira Madison (r.).
 (Foto: Klaus Lemke)

She has also had a professional dancing education and acting.

Her ability of discipline and responsability which is essential in medicine assisted her in her acting career.

In 2001 she spontaneously participated in a competition and became:

  • Miss Bayern 2001

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Maria Furtwängler

Maria Furtwängler-Burda (short version: German: [maˈʁiːa ˈfʊʁtvɛŋlɐ] ; born 13 September 1966) is a German physician and television actress.

Maria Furtwängler-Burda is a daughter of architect Bernhard Furtwängler and actress Kathrin Ackermanngreat-niece and step-granddaughter of conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, and granddaughter of politician Katharina von Kardorff-Oheimb. She has two older brothers, David and Felix. She was given her first movie role, for which she earned a bike, at the age of seven in Zum Abschied Chrysanthemen, produced by her uncle Florian Furtwängler. Her mother taught her acting and she later took acting classes in Germany and other countries.[1]

After leaving secondary school, Furtwängler studied medicine at the University of Montpellier, France, and graduated from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany. Afterwards she trained and worked as a medical doctor.

Furtwängler began her acting career in the mid-1990s. Since then, she has acted in German television series and productions such as the Tatort series, as Hanover-based police detective Charlotte Lindholm since 2002, the successful television movies March of Millions, and Die Schicksalsjahre and cinema production The Weather Inside [de] (Das Wetter in geschlossenen Räumen).[4]

For her work in Tatort and March of Millions, Furtwängler was honored with Germany’s most important award in the field of acting. With the movie The Weather Inside she won best actress at the 2morrow festival in Moscow; she was shortlisted in the Deutscher Filmpreis (German film prize). The film opened at the 2016 German Film Festival in New York City.

In 2022, Furtwängler chaired an independent jury that selected Edward Berger’s All Quiet on the Western Front in the race for the 95th Academy Awards in the Best International Feature Film category.[5]

Since its inception in 2005, Furtwängler has been involved in the Burda-sponsored Digital Life Design (DLD) conference series. She annually hosts a joint Burda/DLD networking reception at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos.

In 2010 Furtwängler founded the MALISAhome in the Philippines. For the ONE Campaign, she became a goodwill ambassador for Women, Girls and Child Health. In 2015 she co-signed the ONE Campaign’s open letter to Chancellor Angela Merkel and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, urging them to focus on women. Also in 2015, she interviewed Merkel on development policy issues for the Chancellor’s weekly podcast.[6]

In 2013, after a meeting with Eve Ensler in Berlin, Furtwängler became more involved campaigning to end violence against women and girls in Germany. She is particularly interested in the role of the media in perpetuating harmful gender stereotypes. She has been inspired by the Geena Davis Institute and by the Women’s Media Center in the US.[7]

On International Women’s Day 2016, Furtwängler supported the call of UN Women‘s German National Committee for a reform of the German legislation on sexual violence, based around the No Means No consent principle, which is currently not recognised in Germany. Also on International Women’s Day 2016, she co-authored an op-ed with Manuela Schwesig, the German Minister for family, older people, women, and youth, highlighting the need for a stronger sexual violence law and for an end to stereotyping of women and men, particularly in the media.[8]

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Marianne Koch

Marianne Koch (German: [maˈʁi̯anə ˈkɔx]; born 19 August 1931) is a German actress of the 1950s and 1960s, best known for her appearances in Spaghetti Westerns and adventure films of the 1960s. She later worked as a television host and as a physician.

Frau im Besten Mannesalter | KOLORIERT | Marianne Koch | Deutsche Komödie – YouTube

Between 1950 and 1971, Koch appeared in more than 65 films. She had numerous leading roles in the German cinema of the 1950s and 1960s. In the 1954 American thriller Night People, she appeared in a supporting role alongside Gregory Peck. Koch also had major roles in the Hollywood films Four Girls in Town and Interlude, both released in 1957. She remains perhaps best known internationally for Sergio Leone‘s 1964 production A Fistful of Dollars, which showcased her with Clint Eastwood as a civilian tormented by ruthless local gangsters, torn between her husband and child and the villains.

In Germany, she was probably best known for her many years of participation as one of the regular panelists in the highly popular TV game show Was bin ich?, the German adaption of the American TV show What’s My Line?, which ran from the 1950s until 1988 and achieved ratings of up to 75% at its peak.

In 1971, she resumed the medical studies she had broken off in the early 1950s to become an actress.[1] In 1974, she earned her degree and practiced medicine until 1997 as a specialist for internal medicine in Munich. Also in 1974, she was one of the initial hosts of Germany’s pioneering talk show 3 nach 9 (Three After Nine), for which she was awarded the Grimme-Preis, one of the most prestigious awards of the German television industry. She also hosted other television shows, and in 2014, still had a medical advice program on radio.

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Helena Mamić

Croatian-Australian soprano Helena Mamich pursued her undergraduate studies and a Master’s degree in Performance – Classical contemporary music at the Australian National University and School of medicine, University of Split.

Ms Mamich recently performed at Bethanien Theater, Berlin where she made her debut as Soprano Bird in opera CILS composed by Ken ShakinAs a result of collaboration with “Black Needle Noise” her debut single “Nocturnal” was released in December 2020.

As a recitalist, she focuses on Croatian composers and composers from 20th and 21st century. She premiered a number of works composed by Kunsu Shim, Gerhard Stäbler, Kyle Ghann and works by many aspiring composers.

During her studies in music she has participated in masterclasses by Angelika Luz, Gerhard Staebler, Annika Rutkovsky, Sara Maria Sun, Pille Lill, David Aronson, Sylvia Greenberg, David Ciavarella, Steven Delaney, Ghillian Sullivan, Anthony Legge, Paul McMahon, Tobias Cole, Angela Gibblin, Darryl Edwards, Marvin KeenzeClaudia Visca.

Ms Mamich was the 2014 recipient of the prestigious Christel Larko Scholarship for an outstanding young musician and the Traveling Scholarship from Friends of the School of the Music. In year 2015 she is a recepient of Kornfled Postgraduate Scholarship for Opera singers and Fankhauser Travelling Scholarship.

In year 2017 she has been awarded with a prize Transition Award – Endowment of Excellence from Australian National University for her academic and performance achievements. In year 2019 she is a winner of Večernjakova Domovnica (Bad Homburg, Germany) as the most successful musician od Croatian diaspora.

She lives and works in Germany as a concert and opera singer as well as a doctor.

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Theresa Pilsl

Studied at the Berlin University of the Arts as well as at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music Berlin. Winner of numerous prizes and scholarships, including prize of the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang Junior, 9th International Competition for Baroque Opera – Pietro Antonio Cesti (Audience Prize and Special Prize of the Wiener Konzerthaus), Bundeswettbewerb Gesang Berlin 2018 (Special Prize of the Walter Kaminsky Foundation) and Emmerich-Smola-Förderpreis at the SWR Young Opera Stars 2020.

Recent engagements include her debut at the Leipzig Opera – as Leonore in the new production MASKERADE, Susanna in Mozart’s LE NOZZE DI FIGARO at the Blaibach Concert Hall, Genius in DER STEIN DER WEISEN or DIE ZAUBERINSEL at the Würzburg Mozart Festival and the soprano solo in the World premiere of Enjott Schneider’s “Ein sinfoniesches Spiel zum Nibelungenlied” at the Festival Europäische Wochen in Passau.

Alumna of the Lied Academy of the Heidelberger Frühling Chamber Music Festival and the International Meistersinger Academy Neumarkt, scholarship holder of the Yenudi Menuhin Live Musik Now e.V. Berlin. Recitals at the Pierre Boulez Saal Berlin, the Konzerthaus Wien, the Konzerthaus Blaibach, at the Deutschlandfunk Kultur as part of the Corona conditioned Geisterkonzerte. Concerts with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (“The Creation”), with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under Kent Nagano (“Magnificat” by Bach and “Christmas Oratorio” by Saint-Saëns). Guest appearances with the Kammeroper München in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. 2022 Debut at the Leipzig Opera as Leonora in “Maskarade” and scholarship holder of the Atelier lyrique at the Verbier Festival.

Parallel to singing, Theresa studied medicine at the Charité and became a licensed physician in December 2021.

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Groove BigBand

The Munich Medical BigBand has young and ever-young jazz musicians who have a direct relation to the medical field, no matter if general or privately insured.

The repertoire is from casslics of swing to contemporary music.

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Andrew Russon

Originally I wanted to become concert pianist – the piano gave me inner peace. I started late but got the diploma early in Luxembourt, my teacher believed in me as pianist.

But I also was troubled by the question why people suffer – thus became MD and keep the piano as a hobby. After my medical studies my re-discovery of faith made me play the organ as well.

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Georg Ringsgwandl

Georg Ringsgwandl (* 15. November 1948 in Bad Reichenhall) is a bavarian, comedian song writer and MD.

He is a real “bavarian RockDoc”! Who can rock in the bavarian dialect?
ALways on tour – see his web site!

some of his lied texts:

Saure Drops und Schokoroll
(Text & Musik: Georg Ringsgwandl)

Lucie-Baby und Valentino
mach’n büschen rum im Autokino
in Papas Mercedes Benz, ah
läuft heut was mit Buddy Spencer.

Nebenan sitzt Kurt mit Lola
im Taunus bei ‘nem Whisky-Cola
und wie sie lächeln, so hintergründig
Mann, was ist die Welt doch sündig!

I say Sex and Drugs and Rock’n Roll
saure Drops und Schokoroll
hey Mann, was braucht der Mensch noch mehr?
I say Sex and Drugs and Rock’n Roll
saure Drops und Schokoroll
hey Mann, was braucht der Mensch noch mehr?

Schon kurz nach der Wochenschau
nimmt man’s nicht mehr so genau
und manche Leute dreh’n schon munter
ihre Liegesitze runter.

Zwischendurch gesalzne Nüsse
zum Knabbern ein paar Zungenküsse
yeah-yeah! I say yeah-yeah!
Zwischendurch gesalzne Nüsse
zum Knabbern ein paar Zungenküsse
yeah-yeah! I say yeah-yeah!

Oh, was bringt das für’nen Spaß
ich lach mich tot Mann, ich mach mich naß!
Auf der Leinwand die volle Aktion
und im Mercedes Satisfaction!

I say Sex and Drugs and Rock’n Roll …

Film vorbei, das war’s nun Puppe
Motor an und ab die Truppe
yeah-yeah! I say yeah-yeah!
Film vorbei, das war’s nun Puppe
Motor an und ab die Truppe
yeah-yeah! I say yeah-yeah!

 

… den Pabst gesehen
(Text & Musik: Georg Ringsgwandl)

Der Chor, der sing so schön,
so daß ich weinen muß,
wo sind meine Augenwischer?
Zweihundert blütenreine Kinderstimmen,
da dirigiert Herr Gotthilf Fischer, ah.
Da steht wer auf meinem Zeh,
stechend ist der Schmerz.
Heut’ isses wurscht, ich laß’ ihn stehn,
mir ist so warm um’s Herz.

Ja ja ich, ohohoh ich,
ich hab’ den Papst gesehn.
Ja ja ich, ohohoh ich,
ich hab’ den Papst gesehn.

Böse Zungen sagen, der Papst Woityla,
der liest ganz heimlich Henry Miller.
Und unser Nachbar, der ein Ketzer ist,
der Protestant Jankowski,
der grinst so schmierig und erzählt,
der Papst, der liest Bukowski.

Aber ich, ich glaub’ das nicht,
ich hab’ den Papst gesehn.
Aber ich, ich glaub’ das nicht,
ich hab’ den Papst gesehn.

Der eine fliegt im Urlaub runter nach Teneriffa,
der and’re nur nach Bayrisch Zell,
ein Dritter gibt sein Geld für Haschisch aus,
das ist ein Kiffer.
Doch jetzt hör’ zu, was ich Dir erzähl’!
Ich war in Altötting da
und hat’s auch schlimm geregnet,
ich fühl’ mich trocken, ich bin warm,
mich hat der Papst gesegnet.

Ja ja mich, ohohoh mich,
mich hat der Papst gesegnet.
Ja ja mich, ohohoh mich,
mich hat der Papst gesegnet.

Jetzt steh’ ich schon acht Stunden da und übe Geduld,
zweihundert Meter weg vom Altar.
Der Papst hält seine Predigt
und er hat ja auch recht,
es ist ja wirklich oft ein bißchen schlecht
mit dem Geschlecht.
Und wie ich grad so hinschau, ich armer Sündenmann,
da schaut der Papst grad so zu mir her,
ja der Papst, der Papst schaut mich an.

Ja ja mich, ohohoh mich,
mich hat der Papst gesehn.
Ja ja mich, ohohoh mich,
mich hat der Papst gesehn.
Ja ja mich, ohohoh mich,
mich hat der Papst gesehn.

Ja ja ich, ohohoh ich,
ich hab’ den Papst gesehn.


Hart sein
(Text: Georg Ringsgwandl / Stoppok – Musik: Georg Ringsgwandl)

Ich hab’ mich schon gewundert,
da war ich noch ganz klein.
Und ich fragte meinen Papa:
Papa sag’, wie kann das sein.

Daß wir zu Haus’ noch immer
kein Fernseh’n haben
und immer noch, ja immer noch
mit dem Pfennig spar’n,
während alle anderen
mit schweren Autos
und den allerschärfsten Frau’n
durch die Gegend fahr’n.

Da wird mein Alter traurig
und er schaut mich an und sagt:
Mein Gott Junge, das ist so,
seit die Menschheit denken kann.

Doch alles, was ich gelernt hab’
in meinem Leben,
jetzt hör’ mal gut zu,
das möcht’ ich dir mitgeben.

Es gibt Leute, die brauchen
ihr Leben lang nichts mehr tun,
das Geld kommt von alleine,
die machen keinen Finger krumm.
Die verdienen jeden Tag
tausendmal mehr als ich.
Doch hör’ gut zu Junge,
zu denen gehörst du nicht.

Du mußt hart, knallhart sein,
damit du auch was kriegst.
Du mußt hart, knallhart sein,
denn geschenkt wird dir hier nichts.

Du mußt hart …

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