Hans-Peter Hempel

Hans-Peter Hempel (* 1934 in Berlin ) is a German yoga teacher and book author.

Life

Hempel is the son of a German mother and an Indian father who, however, did not live with the family. He was adopted by Felix Hempel, his stepfather. As a child he saw the bombings of Hanover and Berlin. After finishing school, he first trained as a nurse at the Jewish Hospital in Berlin . He then studied political science, became a member of the SPD and is involved in trade unions. At times he was the personal advisor to Heinrich Albertz , who was the governing mayor of Berlin at the time. After Albertz resigned in 1967, Hempel initially set up the press office at the TU Berlin . He later became head of the department for international relations at the TU Berlin.

After a personal crisis, he started training as a masseur, but then became a yoga teacher. Today he teaches yoga in his own school and at the TU Berlin, where he is also a lecturer.

Hempel is the author of several books, for example on " Heidegger and Zen " and two introductions to the philosophy of Zen yoga.

Works

Heideggers Holzwege , Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8260-4443-4 .
Heidegger and Zen , 4th supplemented edition, Philo-Verlag, Berlin, Vienna 2002 (first edition 1987), ISBN 3-8257-0297-9 .
All people are Buddha: the way of Zen , Reclam, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-379-20032-8 .
In the here and now: Instructions in Zen Yoga , Reclam, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-379-20031-X .
Nature and history: the century dialogue between Heidegger and Heisenberg , Hain, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-445-09242-7 .
"Feasibility delusion and Daseinsgefräßigkeit in the biotechnical age", Philo Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Berlin 2003, ISBN 9783825702694 (formerly: 3825702693).

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personal data
SURNAME	Hempel, Hans-Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German yoga teacher and author
DATE OF BIRTH	1934
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin