Helmut Offermann, professor for construction management at the Technical University of Lübeck and project manager for the project “Building the future of Ukraine” can now look back on a 10-year partnership with the National Ukrainian University of Czernowitz. Together with his and the students there, he plans what the people most urgently need locally now as a result of the war and will continue to do so in the future. This requires planning and conception, with which he brings hope, but also works meaningfully with students and people from the construction industry, who not only lost all hope but also their jobs as a result of the war.
Jannik Prasuhn, Parkinson’s researcher at the Clinic for Neurology and at the Institute for Neurogenetics at the University of Luebeck pursues a basic concept of hope, encountering it anew every day. Be it in patient-doctor communication, which he conducts transparently and honestly, as well as in research, in which a lot has happened in recent years. There is one now Blood test to determine Parkinson’s disease and genetic engineering is no longer pure science fiction.
Darko Bunderla, lecturer for sight singing at the Music Academy in Lübeck as well as conductor and choirmaster and leader in marketing, still appeals to the common sense of man and the individual. A new hope is possible, that is known since Star Wars and the sinking of several galaxies. But the music really gives him hope. As soon as a room fills with singing and you move in harmony, suddenly everything is possible again.
Moderated by Theresia Lichtlein, Head of Communications at the Technical University of Lübeck, the podcast from Lübeck to the power of 3 once a month topics of research, culture and society. Representatives of the three universities involved in the project (Lübeck University of Music, Lübeck University of Applied Sciences and Lübeck University of Applied Sciences) and, depending on the topic, an expert as a guest are invited.
The podcast is available through the website www.gedankenspruenge-podcast.de and all common platforms ready for retrieval. The episodes go online on Wednesdays in the middle of the month at 12 noon.
Knowledge transfer, mutual dialogue and new ideas – this is what Lübeck stands for 3. The initiators and representatives of the three universities see their own podcast as an important building block to stimulate discourse with society about science and culture.
The discussion round in episode 27:
Dr.-Ing. Helmut Offermann is a professor for construction management at the Technical University of Lübeck. At the beginning of the 1990s, Offermann headed the engineering and environmental protection department at the Business Administration Institute of the West German Construction Industry in Düsseldorf until he was appointed professor at Kiel University of Applied Sciences and then at Lübeck University of Applied Sciences. Helmut Offermann is a co-founder of the Laboratory for Innovative Building, which works, among other things, on recycling in the building industry. The engineer has been supporting the partner universities of the TH Lübeck in the Ukraine for years and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Yuri Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University for his commitment in 2018.
dr medical Jannik Prasuhn has specialized in research into Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. His particular interest lies in the linking of basic science and clinical application, primarily using imaging methods. His medical studies at the University of Lübeck took him to Cape Town, Sydney, Singapore and London, among other places, before he began his further training at the Clinic for Neurology in Lübeck. He is currently working at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, USA) as part of a 12-month stint abroad, where he is deepening his skills in the field of advanced MRI-based imaging methods.
Darko Bunderla has been teaching sight singing at the Lübeck University of Music since 2000 and is Head of Marketing. He studied school music at the Lübeck University of Music, majoring in singing, and after passing the first state examination, he went on to study musicology, political science and history at the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel. He is a renowned singer, conductor and choir director, with “Singeleiter Lübeck” since 2001 and in the women’s vocal ensemble “Intonare” since 2022. Darko Bunderla is just as active as a singing teacher and voice coach as he is a welcome leader of various vocal ensembles and choir seminars.
The moderator Theresia Lichtlein has been Head of Communications at the Technical University of Lübeck since 2016. In addition to the podcast “Gedankensprung” she moderates online and offline events, workshops and panels on science, business and academic life. “The podcast GEDENKENSPRÜNGE shows like no other format what different associations a keyword can trigger in different people,” she explains. “I find it incredibly fascinating when these perspectives collide and our world view expands. Our guests as well as our listeners can benefit from the perspectives of others and draw inspiration.”