Andreas Rothe

Andreas U. Rothe also known under his pseudonym Andro (born August 25, 1941 ; † December 22, 2019 in Capanema (Pará) ( Brazil )) was a German teacher of neotantra , alternative practitioner and author.

Life

Rothe was born in south-eastern Poland during the German occupation in World War II ( Generalgouvernement ). He spent his childhood at the end of the Second World War in 1945 in the natural health sanatorium in Pforzheim-Würm, his maternal grandfather Wilhelm Silbereisen (1865–1950), a German jewelry manufacturer and naturopath in Pforzheim . The grandfather used to associate with the sculptors and painters Adolf Sautter and Adolf Hildenbrand . In 1906 ten jewelry manufacturers who were enthusiastic about nature and art as well as the sculptor Adolf Sautter decided to buy land on a slope above the Würmtal in order to give a place to the ideas of life reform and naturopathy . Over time, the mountain developed into an artist and finally into a villa colony in the Black Forest .

Andreas Rothe was the son of his father Curt Rothe (1899–1973) from Wachwitz near Dresden . In 1938 he got a teaching post at the Kraków Academy of Painting . He later became a professor at the School of Applied Arts in Pforzheim. His mother was the artist Lore Rothe geb. Silbereisen (1907-1956). Andreas Rothe attended a Rudolf Steiner school . As a teenager he took part in a painting class and was often used as a model for nude drawings . After graduating from high school, he left Pforzheim and became a photographer in Berlin. Rothe was a co-founder of the children's theater " Die Kullerköpf ". Rothe continued to work there for ten years as a freelancer, especially in the curative educational program. In the time of the 1968 movement , he opened an alternative café in Berlin as a scene meeting point. In the 1960s he completed a non-medical practitioner training and worked in drug rehabilitation for " Release 1 Berlin eV ", a drug rehabilitation association that still exists.

Andreas Rothe was the founder of the oldest tantra school in Germany, the " Diamond Lotus Tantra " in 1976 in Berlin and a vehement advocate of red tantra .

Rothe traveled extensively through Africa and Asia. He began to collect his tantric studies in 1975 in Khajuraho , an Indian tantra center, and in Poona with the Indian philosopher Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (called "Osho"). In Bodnat in Nepal he dealt with Tibetan Buddhism . This was followed by stays in Ceylon , in a small temple shaped by Mahayana Buddhism in Madampe ( Puttalam ). Finally he visited in Pakistan's Kashmir , in Zenggenpoche, a monastery that cultivated the Gelugpa tradition. He was ordained a Zen monk in the school of the Japanese Zen master Taisen Deshimaru . He studied acupuncture at the Medical Center (Men-Tsee-Khang) of the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala .

In 1978 he developed therapeutic forms of massage, such as Yin-Yang massage, stereo massage, erotic massage, tantra massage, tripitaka massage, talana massage and orgone massage. Through his diverse travels and experiences, which led him to his sometimes long stays in the Arabian North Africa, the Middle East and India (Turkey, Kurdistan, Afghanistan, Balochistan, Pakistan, India, Ceylon, Nepal, Tibet), he learned various forms of massage and body techniques , for example from the Byzantine (Arab and Turkish hammam baths) and the Asian cultural area, which explains his 'multimodal massage technique approach'. In 2004 he co-founded the "Tantra Massage Association" and in 2006, "Tantric Body Psychotherapy TKPT" was created with Iris Paul-Feussner . In 2007 he founded the Brazilian “Fundacao Andro-Logica”. On the island of Fortaleza, near São João de Pirabas , he regularly held seminars and workshops with Michaela Faridéh (* 1967) until his death.

He died in a hospital in northeastern Brazil.

Publications (selection)

• The Imohagen. (1973), Reprint Antinous Verlag, Berlin 2001 ISBN 978-3-924226-16-9 .
• The olive garden. Antinous Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-924226-17-6 .
• Kamasutra 2000. Antinous Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-924226-19-0 .
• Furs grow at the North Pole. Antinous Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-9242-2620-6 .
• Intimate: A novel full of poetry, passion and ecstasy. Christine Janson Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-9392-2978-0 .
• Visit to an old tantric. Antinous Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-9242-2621-3 .
• The tantric massage according to Andro: Touch me. Amantara, Basel 2016, ISBN 978-3-033-05031-0 .
• Tantra Yoga: The Yoga of Love. Amantara, Basel 2013, ISBN 978-3-0330-3858-5 .
• The Five Tantrika: The Secret of Eternal Youth. Amantara, Basel 2018, ISBN 978-3-0330-6915-2 .
• One Life - The twelve secret rituals of the Dhyani Buddahs and two other tantric rituals. Bohmeier, Johanna, Verlag, 2000, ISBN 978-3-89094-322-0 .
• Tantric sex therapy. Synergia Verlag, Basel / Zurich / Roßdorf 2012, ISBN 978-3-930442-81-2 .
• Touch me. Suggestions for erotic massages. Hans Nietsch Verlag, Freiburg 1998, ISBN 978-3-9294-7519-7 .
• Tantric Sex Therapy. Löhrbach Pieper & The Grüne Kraft, Birkenau-Löhrbach 2012, ISBN 978-3-9304-4281-2 .
• Taboo. Erotic novel. Verlag Christine Janson, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-939229-76-6 .

literature

• Julia Sparmann: Body-Oriented Approaches to the Sexual Education of Young Women: An Interdisciplinary Introduction. Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2015, pp. 64–65 [9]
• Franz Littmann: On the mountain - A search for traces in Würm. Stark Druck Pforzheim, 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-036178-4 .

Web links

• Web page of the institute founded by Andro [10]
• Portrait photography [11]
• Photography [12]
• Obituary by Michaela Faridéh [13]

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Andro. City wiki Pforzheim-Enz [1]
2. ↑ Vita on tantramassage.de [2]
3. ↑ Opened in the 1820s
4. ↑ Silbereisen, Wilhelm on leo-bw [3]
5. ↑ 1901–1909 co-owner of the Lauer & Wiedmann company, Pforzheim, then sole owner from 1909–1919, partner from 1919–1936
6. ↑ Current photo of the "Landhaus Silbereisen", Auf dem Berg 13, former naturopathic institution [4]
7. ^ "Auf dem Berg" artist and villa colony. 2020 City of Pforzheim, on www.pforzheim.de [5]
8. ↑ Synanon Foundation, Chronology, at www.synanon-aktuell.de [6]
9. ^ Andro, on the website diamond-lotus.de [7]
10. ↑ In “red tantra” the adept practices various “energy practices” in order to gather sensual, sexual and spiritual experiences and to improve his ability to love. In "black tantra" mantras are recited, yantras are worn as amulets, and certain rituals are performed in order to ultimately achieve selfish goals. In "white tantra" the adept practices in order to increase his energy level and to become an instrument of divine power, to develop and improve the ability to love and finally to reach unity. In the Indian tradition, a distinction is made between a tantric path according to its methodology. Which is based solely on meditation, energy work and spiritual worship is known as the right path or right-handed tantra . The path that also includes sensuality, sexuality and passion is called the left path or left-handed tantra .
11. ↑ Men-Tsee-Khang is one of the institutions established by the 14th Dalai Lama ( Tenzin Gyatso ). Since the opening of the Men-Tsee-Khang Institute on March 23, 1961, it has become one of the leading academic institutions in the field of Tibetan medicine, astrology and astronomy.
12. ↑ Official website of the Tantra Massage Association eV, professional association for certified tantric body work and sexual health [8]