Kareen Zebroff

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Kareen Zebroff , b. Helge-Kareen Brüggemann, (* 1941 in Windsbach ) is a Canadian yoga teacher of German origin.

Life

Kareen Zebroff - daughter of a medical doctor - grew up in Marienbad during the Second World War . In 1946 the family fled to southern Germany , where their father then worked as a doctor. In 1951 she lived with her younger sister in an orphanage for a year . In 1953, their parents divorced. In 1956 the mother emigrated with daughter Kareen and her older brother from Heidelberg to Canada to the village of Dawson Creek .

Kareen Zebroff studied at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver , where she worked as a primary school teacher after graduation. After her marriage and the birth of her three children, she began - living in the small town of Hundson Hope on the Peace River in northern Canada - at the community college with the teaching of yoga . Previously, Kareen Zebroff had started her own yoga exercises from a depressive and overweight situation.

In the spring of 1970, Canadian television broadcast Zebroff's half-hour yoga course for the first time. And after the approval of the then sports director Hanns Joachim Friedrichs , Kareen Zebroff was able to present the exercises Yoga for Yeden in the television series Die Sport-Information for five minutes on the German ZDF from October 1973 . After 59 broadcasts there was a new slot for the exercises from January 1975 in the turntable .

Publications

  • The ABC of Yoga. Fforbez, Vancouver 1971
    • German edition: Yoga for everyone. Translated from English by Rosemarie Litzenberger. Econ, Düsseldorf / Vienna a. Falken, Wiesbaden (1971?), ISBN 3-430-19945-X
  • Yoga for mothers and children. Together with Peter Zebroff. Translated from English by Horst Kube. Econ, Düsseldorf / Vienna a. Falken, Wiesbaden (1974?), ISBN 3-430-19946-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Der Spiegel No. 36/1974, pp. 125–127.
  2. ↑ Kareen Zebroff: Yoga. 31st edition, Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2010, biographical data.
  3. ↑ Kareen Zebroff: Yoga for Everyone. German by Rosemarie Litzenberger. Econ, Düsseldorf / Vienna a. Falken, Wiesbaden (1973), p. 7.
  4. ^ The sports information 1963-1974
  5. ↑ Der Spiegel No. 5/1975, pp. 92-102.
personal data
SURNAME Zebroff, Kareen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brüggemann, Helge-Kareen (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian yoga teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Windsbach