Rosina Sonnenschmidt

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Rosina Sonnenschmidt (born September 5, 1947 in Cologne ) is a German alternative practitioner and animal health practitioner . She lives in Pforzheim in Baden-Württemberg and is the author of many books on the esoteric and alternative medical treatment of humans and animals.

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Rosina Sonnenschmidt studied music and oriental studies from 1965 to 1971. In 1977 she received her doctorate from the University of Cologne on a topic of Indian music. phil. Her Indian consultants was the Rudra- Vina -spielende Dhrupad musician Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar from Mumbai , who had worked intensively on European music (especially Johann Sebastian Bach ) and one year as a visiting professor at the Music Academy of Seattle held. After completing her doctorate, Rosina Sonnenschmidt-Schlenker worked as a specialist librarian for non-European music at the Stuttgart Music Academy {source: first meeting in 1980 at the Music Academy’s Open Day} and moderated the program "Music between." Every Thursday for one hour at the Süddeutscher Rundfunk in Stuttgart (SDR2) den Welten "(mostly music, i.e. pop and jazz) with non-European elements and fusion projects such as the group Between by minimal music composer Peter Michael Hamel and 1 hour of non-European music with a focus on Asia, but also e.g. B. the music of the Sephardic Jews (see Sephardim ) in Spain. She also worked as a critic for Indian music in the concert editorial team of the Stuttgarter Zeitung. From 1980 to 1998 she was a soprano in the Sephira Ensemble from Stuttgart and founded and directed the ensemble "Vor ettlich little days" with medieval music that was historically strongly influenced by Arabic music, including the crusaders who brought the violin on their crusades (original form Arabic: Rabāb ) to Europe. Rosina Schlenker dealt with Indian music in order to be able to better reconstruct the modal music of the Middle Ages at a concert of her group according to her own verbal information (cf. church keys, i.e. monophonic music with a lying continuous chord as accompaniment), since Indian music is the highest developed form of modal music applies. Cultural contacts with India also existed in antiquity (see Alexander the Great and his Alexanderzug as far as the Indus tributary Jhelam in the Himalayas, known as Hydaspes ). According to her own statements, she has been running a naturopathic practice for homeopathy since 1999.

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  1. Rosina Sonnenschmidt: Bhairavi-Ragini - Studies on a North Indian Melody Type . Katzbichler, Munich 1976.
  2. ^ Homepage of Rosina Sonnenschmidt. Retrieved December 30, 2012 .

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