Bernhard Richter (doctor)

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Bernhard Richter (* 1962 ) is a German musician and director of the Freiburg Institute for Musicians' Medicine .

Life

Richter received his musical training in childhood and adolescence as a singer with the Stuttgart Hymn Choir Boys and through violin lessons with Hedwig Pahl. He studied medicine at the Universities of Freiburg im Breisgau , Basel and Dublin . While studying graduated Richter 1986-1991 one with the concert exam completed vocal studies at the Freiburg University of Music in Beata Heuer-Christen. Since 1992 Bernhard Richter had numerous appearances as a singer, a. a. with the pianist Claudia Spahn in the music cabaret duo The beautiful Baritons.

After graduating as Dr. med. and the two specialist training courses for ENT and phoniatrists , Bernhard Richter completed his habilitation in 2002. In 2005, he was appointed professor of musicians' medicine with a focus on artistic voice training at the Medical Faculty of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg. He teaches voice physiology and hearing physiology at the University of Music and at the Medical Faculty of the Albert Ludwig University.

Bernhard Richter has headed the Freiburg Institute for Musicians' Medicine together with Claudia Spahn since it was founded in 2005 . Here he is responsible for the medical care of singers and musicians. He also looks after voice patients from the speaking professions, for example actors and teachers.

Research areas

Richter's research areas are in the opera stage as a workplace, in the use of high-speed glottography and dynamic magnetic resonance imaging to examine the vocal physiology of singers, the vocal development of singers from a lifetime perspective, the teacher's voice and hearing protection for orchestral musicians.

Memberships

Awards

  • 1997: Annelie Frohn Prize together with Rainer Schönweiler
  • 2009: Award of the Medical Faculty Freiburg for outstanding teaching together with Claudia Spahn and Edgar Voltmer
  • 2010: Award of the Research Association of German Hearing Aid Acousticians for work on hearing protection for musicians
  • 2010: Karl Storz Prize of the German Society for Phoniatrics and Pedaudiology together with Claudia Spahn and Edgar Voltmer
  • 2012: Countess Sonja Memorial Prize from the Singing with Children Foundation for services to musicians' medicine together with Claudia Spahn

Fonts (selection)

As an author
  • Pediatric audiological aspects of cochlear implantation in childhood. Shaker, Aachen 2002, ISBN 3-8322-0846-1 (habilitation thesis, University of Freiburg, 2001).
  • with Mark Zander and Claudia Spahn : hearing protection in the orchestra (= Freiburg contributions to musicians' medicine. Vol. 4). Projekt-Verlag, Bochum / Freiburg im Breisgau 2007, ISBN 3-89733-181-0 .
  • with Claudia Spahn, Matthias Echternach and Johannes Pöppe: The wind instrument game: Physiological processes and insights into the body. DVD-ROM. Helbling, Esslingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-86227-089-7 .
  • The voice. Basics, artistic practice, maintaining health. Henschel, Leipzig 2013, ISBN 978-3-89487-727-9 .
As editor
  • with Claudia Spahn and Edgar Voltmer: Being a doctor, making music and health (= Freiburg contributions to musicians' medicine. Vol. 5). Projekt-Verlag, Bochum / Freiburg im Breisgau 2008, ISBN 978-3-89733-185-3 .
  • with Claudia Spahn and Eckart Altenmüller : Musicians Medicine. Diagnosis, therapy and prevention of music-specific diseases. Schattauer, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-7945-2634-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME Richter, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medical musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1962