Famous People with Name Christoph

Christoph Theinert            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Christoph Theinert: is a German cellist and composer. Having studied with Antonio Janigro, Antonio Meneses, Anner Bylsma and Hidemi Suzuki, he developed special interest in early music interpretation on period instruments. Founder of the group German Baroque, he performed with Taka Kitazato, Hidemi Suzuki, Corrado Bolsi, Linde Brunmayr. The composer Christoph Theinert was influenced by Heitor Villa Lobos, Lukas Foss, Steve Reich, Egberto Gismonti, Giovanni Sollima, Jean Michel Jarre and Philip Glass. He records for the label Ancient Music Edition. As a soloist he regularly works with his brother, the conductor Markus Theinert.

Christoph Wolf            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Christoph Wolf: is a West German sprint canoer who competed in the mid 1980s. He was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-1 1000 m event at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

Christoph Gruber            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Christoph Gruber: is an Austrian skier competing in all World Cup disciplines apart from slalom. In his World Cup debut, the Super G in Aspen, Colorado on November 27, 1998, he finished in fourteenth position.

Christoph Meinel            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Christoph Meinel: is a German scientist and university professor of computer sciences. He is president and CEO of the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) for IT Systems Engineering at the University of Potsdam (Germany), which is ranked a top university department in computer sciences in Germany (CHE-Ranking 2009). His actual research interests and activities is concentrated on Internet Technology and Systems and on innovation research (Design Thinking research). It is particularly focused on Internet security and security engineering (highest network security, safer Internet, SOA-Security and Trust), on innovative froms or teaching and learning (Web3.0, e-learning, tele-lecturing, e.g. tele-TASK), and on secure telemedicine. In 2006, he hosted together with Hasso Plattner the first German “National IT-Summit” of the German Federal Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel.

Christoph Korn            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Christoph Korn: is a German audio and media artist working with diverse artistic forms of expression: Composition and Installation, video, text, net art and improvisation. He is a lecturer for Improvisation and Aesthetics at the University of Applied Sciences, Frankfurt and lives in Düsseldorf. In the 1980s, he was involved in political movements and worked with street children in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo in the liberation theological project in 1988 and 1989.[clarification needed] At the beginning of the 1990s his first artistic works emerged, even though a political or historical perspective for the subsequent artistic work always remained definitive.[clarification needed] From 1992–1998, he studied Political Science and Philosophy in Frankfurt upon Main at the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe University.