1900-1949 – DoctorsTalents

2025-11-08
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Rainer Bach

Tags : 1900-1949 Germany Hamburg

Category : ComposerDocs , GuitarDocs , SingerDocs

Rainer Bach (* December 14, 1947 in Bielefeld) is a German country singer and pedal steel guitarist. He was a founding member of the group Truck Stop, released solo albums, and worked as a dentist. Musical Career Rainer Bach began playing the piano at the age of seven. In April 1963, he discovered the Beatles and started learning to play the guitar, initially on an acoustic guitar. During his school years, he founded a beat band called The Misfits, which performed in front of audiences Read more [...]

2025-05-05
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Christoph Wagner

Tags : 1900-1949 Germany Marburg (Lahn)

Category : ComposerDocs , conductorDocs , PianoDocs

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 home. Despite only sporadic piano lessons due to the war, the boy soprano developed into a sensitive pianist who mastered the great works of piano and violin literature. Read more [...]

2025-05-04
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Krzysztof Komeda

Tags : 1900-1949 Poland Warsawa

Category : ComposerDocs , jazzDocs , monumentDocs , movieDocs , PianoDocs

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 [...]

2025-05-03
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Dannie Abse

Tags : 1900-1949 GB London

Category : WriterDocs

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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK3qbLAluIA Dannie Abse at the Cheltenham Literature Festival 2013 | age 90 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 older than him.[2] After successfully Read more [...]

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Giorgos Chimonas

Tags : 1900-1949 Athens Greece

Category : TranslatorDocs , WriterDocs

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 Paris, specializing in psychiatry and neurolinguistics. After completing his studies, he returned to Greece and lived in Athens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIkyuNmRSfw In Read more [...]

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Hiester Richard Hornberger Jr.

Tags : 1900-1949 Philadelphia USA

Category : movieDocs , TV-doc , WriterDocs

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 [...]

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Periklis Sfyridis

Tags : 1900-1949 Greece Thessaloniki

Category : EventDocs , JournalistDocs , movieDocs , philosophyDocs , SpiritualDocs , TV-doc , WriterDocs

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 [...]

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Vasos Ilias Vogiatzoglou

Tags : 1900-1949 Athens Greece

Category : CharityDocs , EthnologyDocs , JournalistDocs , TeacherDocs , WriterDocs

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 studied medicine at the University of Athens and specialized in pediatrics. She provides voluntary pediatric care for children in the women's prisons of Korydallos and Thebes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX8qAffxkz0 Vasos Read more [...]

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Takis Sinopoulos

Tags : 1900-1949 Athens Greece

Category : ArtDocs , monumentDocs , streetnameDocs , WriterDocs

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 first-born son of philologist Giorgos Sinopoulos and Roussa-Veneta Argyropoulou. He studied medicine at the University of Athens, graduating in 1944. In 1934, under the pseudonym Argyros Roubanis, Read more [...]

2025-05-02
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Manolis Pratikakis

Tags : 1900-1949 Crete Greece

Category : JournalistDocs , WriterDocs

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 in the 1970s, particularly towards the end of the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 and during the early years of the "Metapolitefsi." He received Read more [...]