Susanne Pechel
Susanne Madleen Pechel (born March 19, 1966 in Montevideo , Uruguay ) is a German doctor , musician and founder of the Christian Development Service . She lives in Munich .
Life
Susanne Pechel was born as the only child of the ARD correspondent for Latin America Jürgen Pechel and the film editor Rose Pechel. Her grandfather was the German journalist and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime Rudolf Pechel . After the early death of the father in 1969, the mother returned to Munich with the three-year-old Susanne. Susanne Pechel has lived there since then and has been married to Patrik Scherrer since 2004.
Pechel attended primary school at the Munich International School (MIS), an international English-speaking school in Percha, near Starnberg. At the age of ten she moved to a German-speaking state high school and graduated from high school in 1986 at the modern-language Oscar von Miller high school in Munich.
In the same year she began studying medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (LMU) in the winter semester . In 1997 she obtained her license to practice medicine and in 1998 did her doctorate in tropical medicine on the subject of "Malaria prophylaxis and emergency medication for travelers". In 1998 she successfully passed the diploma examination for tropical medicine with the DTMP diploma for "Tropical Medicine and Medical Parasitology" at the Bernhard Nocht Institute in Hamburg. During her medical work at the Tropical Institute in Munich, she received the additional designation "Tropical Medicine" from the Bavarian State Medical Association in 2003. In 1998 she wrote and developed the travel medicine internet service “Fit For Travel” in accordance with national and international guidelines of the DTG and WHO (World Health Organization) . She is a member of the travel medicine committee of the German Society for Tropical Medicine and International Health (DTG) and has been responsible for editing the malaria recommendations since 2014. In 1999 she opened the interMEDIS advice center and editorial team for vaccinations, tropical and travel medicine in Munich, where she has been working since then.
Volunteering
Helping people in need has shaped Susanne Pechel's life since early childhood. The question of why people in the world have to starve or die of thirst has not let them rest since childhood and drives them to stand up for the needy and needy. At the age of six she made a collecting can from her mother's cream jar and asked for donations from relatives and friends, which she passed on to various aid organizations. As a teenager, she recruited like-minded people in her school and among friends and organized small charity and collection campaigns with them.
She organized the first major public benefit concert on October 13, 1982 in Munich's Schauburg . The Munich Bach Choir and an honorary orchestra, consisting of musicians from the Bavarian State Orchestra, the Gärtnerplatztheater, the Munich Philharmonic and the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, took to the stage. When the conductor was canceled at short notice, the then 16-year-old Susanne Pechel directed the evening herself. In front of the camera on Bavarian TV and in front of around 350 guests, she conducted “ Eine kleine Nachtmusik ” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the 4th Brandenburg Concerto by Johann Sebastian Bach . The proceeds of the evening went to St. Paul's School in Calcutta, which is still supported today by Susanne Pechel's Foundation. In 1984 she founded the artists' association “Music for the Third World” with which she organized benefit concerts and charity events, the proceeds of which she donated mainly to the mission organization missio , Karlheinz Böhm's foundation Menschen für Menschen and the German Red Cross .
In 1990, Susanne Pechel organized her first benefit music recording: “Praise the gentlemen, the most beautiful songs from church services.” The music CD is a collection of famous church hymns that were recorded for the first time on a sound carrier by more than 200 musicians from 25 Munich choirs and orchestras were. All those involved took part on a voluntary basis and waived fees. Bayerischer Rundfunk recorded the songs and made the tapes available free of charge for CD production. The proceeds from the sale of the CDs were used to provide basic medical care for the rural population in El Limón, a province in the east of the Dominican Republic. When she visited the aid project on October 18, 1991, she had the idea to support even more people in need through further aid projects around the world and to set up an organization for this purpose. On September 13, 1992, at the age of 26, she founded her own aid organization, the Christian Development Service , or “CED” for short.
Since then, in addition to her job as a doctor, she has initiated and supported numerous fundraising campaigns to set up and operate poor hospitals and HIV / AIDS wards, orphanages and schools, homeless shelters and soup kitchens in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. In the nineties Susanne Pechel got to know Mother Teresa and on her advice began to support the construction of homeless shelters in India. In 2005 she donated her private fortune to convert the CED into a foundation. The CED currently has around 2,000 active sponsors and 200 volunteer helpers across Germany.
Music career
Susanne Pechel began taking classical piano lessons at the age of 10 and learned to play the guitar a few years later. As a teenager she wrote her first songs and performed as a singer and songwriter on Munich cabaret stages. From 1982-89 she appeared at music events and on stages across Germany and was discovered by an international record company who offered her a five-year contract. However, she declined because of her ongoing medical studies. Only after graduation did she continue her musical career and record her first music CD.
In 2003 she won the 1st prize of the International Pop Trophy 2003/2004 in all three categories "Composition", "Text poetry" and "Interpretation" with her song "Living in a rich world, able to give", which she and children of one of her own Had started aid projects in Tanzania. Susanne Pechel appears publicly with her songs and sings for her goal to alleviate the plight of the poor.
Discography
- 2010: Breathe on , maxi single
- 2007: Living In A Rich World ... Able To Give , studio album
- 2007: Star Falling Into Space , maxi single
- 2007: Living In A Rich World , bonus DVD
- 2002: Living In A Rich World , maxi single
- 1998: Bread For The World , maxi single
- 1997: Here I Am , studio album
Biographies
- Doris Andreas (author), "Signs of the times: Not only at Christmas time ..." (2001, television documentary, 43 minutes)
- Renate Stegmüller (author), "Lebenslinien: Der kleine Himmel, Susanne P. - vom Glück des Helfens" (1997, television documentary and portrait, 45 minutes)
- Werner Reuß (editor, ARD-alpha), Sabrina Staubitz (moderation), "Alpha Forum with Susanne Pechel" (2014, TV talk and portrait, 45 minutes)
- Elke Zimmermann, Evangelical Radio Agency, broadcast “Hauptsache Mensch” (2012, radio broadcast and portrait, 40 minutes), accessed: October 24, 2014
- Norbert Joa, Bayern 2, “One to one. The Talk "in conversation with Susanne Pechel (2013; radio interview 55 minutes)
- Biographical short portrait of Susanne Pechel 2013 in: Mittendrin , 3 (9th / 10th year) "Jesus - the trace of tomorrow". Learning landscapes religion. Teaching work for Catholic RE at grammar schools in BW right in the middle. Learning Landscapes Religion, Volume 5.
Awards
- 2014: EMOTION.Award in the "New Values" category
- 2003/2004: 1st prize of the international pop trophy in the categories "composition", "text poetry" and "interpretation".
- 2016: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
- 2018: Prize of the inVITAtio Foundation
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Archives of the Tropical Institute of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich
- ↑ Arne Hillienhof "Travel Medicine on the Internet: First click, then take off" in: Deutsches Ärzteblatt, 2005; 102-37
- ↑ Franziska Nikola: "Helping for a lifetime" in: Süddeutsche Zeitung August 4, 2012
- ↑ Janina Korn: "You just have to tackle" in: Sonntagsblatt Bayern, 18/2012
- ↑ efa radio show "The main thing man" Part 1 and Part 2 Susanne Pechel 14 in conversation with Elke Zimmermann, premiere in January 2013
- ↑ Werner Reuss (editor), "Alpha Forum" Susanne Pechel in conversation with Sabrina Staubitz, ARD-alpha, first broadcast October 30, 2014
- ↑ Press release on EMOTION.Award 2014 in: Press portal from May 21, 2014
- ↑ FOCUS Online: Coburg: Coburg woman awards 1st donor award: CED supports aid projects in India . In: FOCUS Online . ( focus.de [accessed on July 5, 2018]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pechel, Susanne |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pechel, Susanne Madleen (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German tropical medicine specialist and musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 19, 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montevideo , Uruguay |