Wolf-Dieter Storl

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Wolf-Dieter Storl (born October 1, 1942 in Crimmitschau in Saxony ) is a German-American cultural anthropologist , ethnobotanist and author . Storl's publications deal primarily with ethnobotany, ethnomedicine , traditional phytotherapy and cultural ecology . Even Indian religiosity , organic farming and horticulture are among the topic.

Life

Storl grew up in Germany. At the age of eleven, Storl emigrated to America with his parents and lived in rural Ohio until his studies . It was there that he became interested in nature, forests and plants:

“I understood that people divided the world into two sides: on the one hand there was nature, the wilderness, the evil - and on the other hand there was civilization, the ordered world, the good. In throwing the baseball bat away, I had chosen - without realizing it - the wild, the untamed nature. From now on I spent every free minute in the forest, in the great outdoors. There was a universe to discover. "

- Wolf-Dieter Storl : Ö1 - Images of People , 2012
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After gaining a bachelor's degree in anthropology (1966) from Ohio State University , Storl became an assistant in cultural anthropology at Kent State University (Ohio). At the same time he conducted a field research by participant observation ( participant observation by) in a traditional spiritualists settlement. (Masters Thesis, The Structural Analysis of a Spiritualist Camp ). After receiving his MA ( sociology ), he was appointed full-time lecturer in sociology and anthropology from the same university . In 1970 he did post-graduate studies in ethnology at the University of Vienna and he was a visiting lecturer at the Institute for International Studies ( Palais Kinski, Vienna ).

As an American Fulbright scholar ( American Exchange Scholarship Program, 1973-1974) received his doctorate Storl to Dr. phil ( magna cum laude ) at the University of Bern (Switzerland) in 1974. From 1975 to 1978 he worked as a sociology and anthropology lecturer in Oregon (RC College), where he also acted as Facuilty Advisor for Native American Students and also a teaching garden for biodynamic agriculture at the university. From 1978 to 1979 he was visiting professor for cultural ecology at the University of Bern (Switzerland) and carried out field research in the Emmental and in the Charente-Maritime department . From 1980 to 1982 Storl managed the biodynamic garden of the Camphill Community in Village Aigues Vertes, Bernex (Canton of Geneva ) and was a seminar teacher at the Séminaire pour la Formation de Socio-Therapeuts at the same location. From 1982 to 1984 he was a visiting scholar at Benares Hindu University (BHU) in Uttar Pradesh , India . Study trips and ethno-religious field research in Bangladesh , Burma , Thailand , China and Japan followed . From 1984 to 1985 Storl was a lecturer at Sheridan College in Wyoming , where he read ethnobotany, ethnomedicine, religious ethnology, Native American culture and at the same time maintained intensive contact with the medicine people (Bill Tallbull, George Elkshoulder) of the Cheyenne for the purpose of ethnobotanical data collection. From 1985 to 1986 Storl lived with his wife in Kerala , North India and Nepal for the purpose of collecting data on the subject of Shaivism and cultural ecology .

A serious illness that afflicted Storl during his last stay in India led to a complete reorientation of life. Instead of pursuing an academic career in America , he and his wife found a remote house in the Allgäu , to which they moved in 1988.

The ethnobotanist and cultural anthropologist Storl is a book author. Storl also leads plant seminars, ethnobotanical workshops, herb hikes and accepts invitations to international conferences and symposia.

Private

Storl is married to an American from Wyoming. They have a son and a daughter together. The family lives on a remote farm in the western Allgäu . The courtyard is a former knight's seat built in 1188 and hidden in the forest.

criticism

Storl's theses on naturopathy are controversial. In particular, his book Healing Borreliosis Naturally - a disease Storl himself claims to suffer from - attracted heavy criticism.

In interviews, Storl described certain publications as a smear campaign against herbal medicine and contradicted the carcinogenic effects of pyrrolizidine alkaloids in comfrey and coltsfoot on the liver under normal use.

His views on the climate crisis in an interview on the controversial YouTube channel KenFM also met with criticism.

Publications

Books

  • The garden as a microcosm. Biological natural secrets as a way to a better harvest. 2nd Edition. Verlag Hermann Bauer, Freiburg im Breisgau 1988, ISBN 3-7626-0353-7 .
  • together with M. Scheffer: The soul plants of Edward Bach. 3. Edition. Hugendubel, 1995, ISBN 3-88034-821-9 .
  • Of medicinal herbs and plant deities. Aurum, Braunschweig 1997, ISBN 3-591-08344-5 .
  • Herbalism. Aurum, Braunschweig 1996, ISBN 3-591-08372-0 .
  • Henbane plant of the gods. Nachtschatten Verlag, Solothurn 2000, ISBN 3-907080-63-7 .
  • Medicinal herbs and magic plants between the front door and the garden gate. AT-Verlag, Aarau (Switzerland) 2000, ISBN 3-85502-556-8 .
  • Plant devas. AT-Verlag, Aarau 2002, ISBN 3-85502-763-3 .
  • together with Claudia Müller-Ebeling, Christian Rätsch : Hexenmedizin. AT-Verlag, Aarau 1998, ISBN 3-85502-601-7 .
  • Plants of the Celts. Medicine, plant magic, tree calendar. AT-Verlag, Aarau 2000, ISBN 3-85502-705-6 .
  • SHIVA. The wild, kind God. KOHA, Burgrain, ISBN 3-929512-90-4 .
  • Bom Shiva. The ecstatic god of the ganja. Nachtschatten Verlag, Solothurn 2003, ISBN 3-03788-114-3 .
  • I am part of the forest. “The shaman from the Allgäu” tells his life story. Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart, ISBN 3-440-09548-7 .
  • Nature rituals. Find your roots with shamanic rituals. AT-Verlag, Aarau, ISBN 3-85502-964-4 .
  • The bear. Power animal of the shamans and healers. AT-Verlag, Baden / Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-03800-245-1 .
  • together with Paul Silas Pfyl: known and forgotten vegetables. AT-Verlag, Aarau 2002, ISBN 3-85502-808-7 .
  • Forays on the outskirts of Midgard. Stories from my life. KOHA, Burgrain 2006, ISBN 3-936862-86-9 .
  • Cure Lyme Disease Naturally. AT-Verlag, Aarau 2007, ISBN 978-3-03800-360-1 .
  • The soul of the plants. Messages and healing powers from the realm of herbs. Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-440-11565-7 .
  • Associated with plants. My experiences with medicinal herbs and magic plants. Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-453-70100-7 .
  • Know yourself in nature. Conversations under the rainbow recorded by Rébecca Kunz. AT-Verlag, Baden / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-03800-457-8 .
  • Migratory plants. Neophytes the silent conquerors. Ethnobotany, medicine and applications. AT-Verlag, Aarau 2012, ISBN 978-3-03800-680-0 .
  • together with Mechthild Scheffer: The soul plants of Edward Bach. New insights into Bach flower therapy. Aurum in J. Kamphausen Verlag, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-89901-655-0 .
  • The self-sufficient. Gräfe and Unzer Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-8338-2657-3 .
  • The old goddess and her plants. How we find our original spirituality through fairy tales. Kailash, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-424-63080-0 .
  • Primal medicine. The real origins of our folk medicine. AT-Verlag, Aarau / Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-03800-872-9 .
  • The self-sufficient. My garden year. Gräfe and Unzer, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-8338-5165-0 .
  • My American culture shock: My youth among hillbillies, flower children and rednecks . Kailash, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-424-63154-8 .
  • The "weeds" in my garden. 21 Recognize & use plant personalities. Gräfe and Unzer, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-833-86349-3 .
  • Wolf medicine: A journey to the herbalists in Mongolia and Siberia AT-Verlag, Aarau / Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-038-00058-7
  • We are creatures of the forest: why we are inseparable from the trees. Gräfe and Unzer, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-8338-6669-2 .

"From the right handling of healing plants", Bauer Verlag, Freiburg 1986, ISBN 3 7626 0303 0

Video

  • Return to the Ganges DVD, KOHA, 2013, EAN 9783867282154.
  • Medicinal herbs - A hike in the footsteps of native plants DVD, Neue Weltsicht, Potsdam 2012, EAN 4260155680977.
  • The living gods! A journey through the mythical world DVD, New Worldview, Potsdam 2012, EAN 4260155680878.
  • The spiritual essence of plants DVD, New Worldview, Potsdam 2011, EAN 4260155680311.
  • Forgotten plant knowledge of ancient cultures DVD, New Worldview, Potsdam 2011, EAN 4260155680229.
  • Healers by the wayside. Herbal and plant knowledge. DVD, Aurum, Braunschweig 2008, ISBN 978-3-89901-147-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c "I am part of the forest" - Wolf-Dieter Storl. In: Ö1 . ORF .at in the series Menschenbilder , September 9, 2012. Accessed on September 9, 2012.
  2. ^ Wolf-Dieter Storl: The Structural Anthropology of a Spiritualist Camp. Kent, Ohio. Kent State University Graduate School. August, 1967.
  3. ↑ Franz-Theo Gottwald, Christian Rätsch (ed.): Rituals of healing. AT-Verlag, Aarau Switzerland 2000, ISBN 3-85502-699-8 , p. 214.
  4. ↑ Wolf-Dieter Storl: Shamanism among Americans of European Origin : A Case Study in Diffusion and Convergence. Inaugural dissertation of the Philosophical-Historical Faculty of the University of Bern. Bern, 1974.
  5. ↑ Wolf-Dieter Storl: I am part of the forest. Franckh-Kosmos Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-440-13912-7 , pp. 176f.
  6. ^ Wolf-Dieter Storl: Shiva, the Wild God of Power and Ecstasy. Inner Traditions, Rochester, Vermont 2004, ISBN 1-59477-014-X .
  7. ↑ Wolf-Dieter Storl: Of medicinal herbs and plant deities. Aurum, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-89901-821-9 , pp. 158ff. 
  8. ↑ Statement in Ö1 images of people (audio only, not on the associated Ö1 website).
  9. ↑ Anna Klott: Negligent tips against Lyme disease. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. August 26, 2007.
  10. ↑ Martin Koradi: Karde & Borreliose-Therapy according to Storl: Contributions to the debate 4. On: heilpflanze-info.ch, 25 February 2009
  11. ↑ Card against Lyme disease: Still confused claims instead of well-founded justifications!
  12. ↑ Wolf Dieter Storl: Pharmaceutical Industry & Medicinal Herbs. On youtube.com, September 24, 2009.
  13. ↑ Christian Kreil: Esoteric Advent Calendar, Door 7: The forest shaman cancels the climate crisis. In: Der Standard , December 7, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Storl, Wolf-Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American cultural anthropologist, ethnobotanist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Crimmitschau , Saxony