Boris Konrad

Boris Konrad, 2018

Boris Nikolai Konrad (born May 28, 1984 in Bochum ) is a German neuroscientist , physicist , author , multiple world champion in memory sports and board member of memoryXL.

Life

Boris Konrad successfully studied physics and applied computer science with the minor subjects mathematics and business administration at the TU Dortmund . At the World Memory Championship in Bahrain in 2008 , he was world champion in word and name memorizing. He set several world records , including a. he memorized 201 names and faces as well as 280 words in 15 minutes each, both at the 2010 German Championships.

He appeared three times at Wetten, dass ..? on. In 2004 he memorized the restaurant orders of 50 guests in four minutes, in 2006 five unsolved Sudoku puzzles in two minutes, to which he then assigned the correct solutions and in 2014 twenty Rubik's cubes , from which he then solved one blindfolded at random. He has already been a guest on television programs in China five times, including the Chinese edition of Wetten, dass ..? , Super brain and the Guinness Show of Records . In December 2012, he won the ZDF show Germany's super brain . For this issue, a training session was agreed with the sports presenter Andrea Kaiser , who then demonstrated a memory performance herself in the 2013 follow-up program after training with Konrad. In October 2013 Konrad published the popular science book Superhirn - Gedächtnistraining with a world champion in Goldegg Verlag .

In the 2014 edition of the Guinness Book of Records Konrad is printed in the international section with his two world records in the name and date of birth.

From 2010 to 2014 he did his doctorate on the neuronal basis of extraordinary memory performance at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich . He presented his research results on memory techniques at specialist conferences around the world . He is currently researching at the Donders Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging in Nijmegen, the Netherlands .

Sporting successes

• 2004 - Winner of the North German Championship in Berlin , fourth place at the German championship in Ulm and fourth place at the Austrian Open Memoriad in Vienna

• 2005 - World Team Champion at the World Championships in Oxford and North German Champion

• 2006 - World Team Champion and Word Marking Champion at the World Cup in London

• 2007 - World champion in word marking and team world champion at the World Cup in Manama

• 2008 - World champion in word marking, world champion in name marking and team world champion in Manama, Best International Competitor at the UK Open in London, first place in name marking at the Memoriad in Istanbul

• 2009 - World record in word memorizing (280 words in 15 minutes) and name memorizing (195 names in 15 minutes) at the German championship in Hamburg and North German champion in Magdeburg

• 2010 - World record in memorizing names (201 names in 15 minutes) at the German championship in Heilbronn , three-time vice world champion (in memorizing names, words and history) at the world championship in Guangzhou , Best International Competitor at the UK Open 2010 in London and third place at the Swedish Open in Gothenburg

• 2011 - Guinness world record in the category "Remember names and dates of birth": 21 people saved in two minutes

• 2012 - World record in the discipline “memorize words” (five minutes): 114 terms in the correct order at the South German Championship in Karlsruhe , winner of the UK Open 2012 in London and third place at the German Championship in Heilbronn

• 2012 - Winner of the TV show Germany's super brain

• 2013 - World record in word marking (119 in five minutes) at the Italian championship in Rome , world champion in name marking at the world championship in Croydon

• 2014 - Guinness world record in the category "Knowing capitals" (56 in one minute)

Works

• 2011: The perfect name memory - memorizing names with the 5-star method, Gabal Audio, ISBN 978-3869362779
• 2013: Super brain - memory training with a world champion, Goldegg , ISBN 978-3902903549
• 2016: Everything just in my head - The secrets of our brain, Ariston Verlag ( Random House ), ISBN 978-3-424-20153-6

Individual evidence

1. ↑ MemoryXL website. Retrieved September 14, 2012 . 
2. ^ Guinness World Records. Retrieved September 14, 2012 . 
3. ^ Guinness World Records. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 19, 2014 ; Retrieved April 7, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ^ World Memory Statistics. Retrieved September 14, 2012 . 
5. ^ World Memory Statistics. Retrieved February 17, 2014 . 

Web links

• Boris Nikolai Konrad's website
• Literature by and about Boris Konrad in the catalog of the German National Library