Werner Smigelski

Werner Smigelski (2009)

Werner Ernst Smigelski (born January 27, 1929 in Leipzig ; † March 19, 2018 in Waxweiler , Eifel ) was a German university professor , musician , graphologist , artist and mystic of modern times .

Life

Origin and family

Werner Ernst Smigelski, son of Ernst Richard Edmund Smigelski and Martha Magdalena Smigelski, née Möbius, grew up in Leipzig. The father was a university lecturer, composer and former Salvatorian brother, but escaped from the monastery of St. Peter in Rome in 1907 . The mother was devoted to mysticism and astrology. Werner Smigelski had a sister and a half-brother.

School and study

Smigelski attended the Petri High School in Leipzig from 1935 to 1947 with an interruption of 2 years, during which he fled to Poland with his mother and sister and attended school there in Racibórz . After graduating from high school, he began studying music at the University of Music in Leipzig. He finished his studies in 1950 with the pianist examination. On the same day he fled Leipzig and joined Professor Silvia Kind's harpsichord class at the Berlin Music Academy . A few years later Smigelski began as a harpsichordist to perform as a soloist and within chamber music events. In addition to this concert practice he took at the Free University Berlin on the study of musicology, which he in 1957 with the promotion of Dr. phil. graduated with a thesis on the aesthetics of musical ornament . Since the mid-1950s he has been concerned with graphology and passed the professional examination as a graphologist in 1959.

Werner Smigelski at the harpsichord (1955)

He actively participated in international exchanges, e.g. B. 1952 at the 8th International Music Competition " Concours de Genève " in Geneva and 1958 at the meeting of the international youth orchestras at the Brussels World Exhibition.

Working life

Between 1956 and 1965 he made various recordings with the RIAS Youth Orchestra under the conductor Willy Hannuschke. He made recordings with the Berliner Philharmoniker in 1961 under the conductor Hans von Benda (EMI / Elec 1C 037-28907 1 S 30). He also played with the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos , among others

In 1959 he moved to Düsseldorf to take a lectureship at the Robert Schumann Academy of Music (at that time still a conservatory). His lectures included areas of music history, Latin for Catholic church musicians, pedagogy, child psychology, piano and harpsichord, and chamber music.

In 1967 he founded the Monday group "Philosophical-Spiritual Exchange" with his students.

retirement

Since 1972 Smigelski turned to mysticism and inner contemplation, triggered by a mystical experience. He was a detailed expert on the mystical traditions of all world religions. When he retired in 1992, he withdrew to the Eifel and devoted himself entirely to mysticism. He published a total of 12 books on this. Smigelski laid the foundation stone for CASA SMI, a seminar center and spiritual meeting place in Waxweiler, which is named after him.

Literature in German

• Jacob's dream. Frankfurter Verlagsgruppe, ISBN 978-3-86548-488-8 .
• Telepathy. BoD Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8334-3158-6 .
• Paths to enlightenment between self-knowledge and delusion. BoD Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8334-6984-8 .
• Illness as genesis of consciousness / healing through self-knowledge. BoD Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7460-4963-2 .
• Rays, cosmos, human. BoD Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7392-4699-4 .
• Creation: Unclear relation of spirit and matter, concealment and revelation. BoD Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8370-4821-6 .
• Energy - substance - consciousness: Attempt to fix a definition as a bridge between physics and spirituality. BoD Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7460-6195-5 .
• Incarnation: where we come from - who we are and where we are - where we are going. BoD Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8334-8509-1 .
• Etheric body and quantum consciousness. BoD Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8391-8283-3 .
• Radioactivity: function of all transformation processes in the cosmos. BoD Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7460-6239-6 .
• Autoimmune Diseases and the Etheric Body. BoD Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7460-6238-9 .
• Uncertainty relation: of spirit and matter. BoD Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8370-9706-1 .

Web links

Commons : Werner Smigelski  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Collection on the life of Werner Smigelski

• Collection on the life of Werner Smigelski
• Report on the meeting of the international youth orchestras in Brussels in 1958
• RIAS Orchestra Chronicle 1948–2011
• Solo with the Berliner Philharmoniker in 1961
• Dissertation "On the aesthetics of musical ornament"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ECKART SCHWINGER: With dark glasses to Brussels. Retrieved December 14, 2018 . 
2. ↑ RIAS Orchestra Chronicle 1948-2011. RIAS, accessed December 14, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Solo with the Berliner Philharmoniker in 1961. Idagio, accessed on December 14, 2018 . 
4. ^ Catalog of the German National Library. German National Library, accessed on December 14, 2018 .