Mona Matthews, midwife and course coordinator at the University of Lübeck for the course in midwifery, is probably the closest thing to descendants. She teaches her students how children are born and why this help is so important, especially in times of staff shortages. Alina Kokoschka, curator at the columbarium DIE OAK in Lübeck, will take a closer look at what obstetrics has to do with dying. In her work, she deals with legacies for future generations and the role of objects in memory and mourning. A central question of her work is the importance of art in dealing with death, grief and overcoming them and what descendants ultimately remember. Angela Firkins, professor for flute at the Lübeck University of Music, approaches the subject of descendants musically. Not only did she instill musicality in her own children, but she has also been successfully teaching students from all over the world in her flute classes for years and also coordinates the ISMA (Institute for School Music Education), in which young students are supported musically at the university will. This is particularly important to her in the age of digital media. André Drews, Professor of Business Informatics at the Technical University of Lübeck, examines the issue of descendants from the economic and technical side and explores how digitization can be used to secure succession in medium-sized companies and what opportunities and challenges the use of artificial intelligence in corporate succession presents and establishment entails.
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The panel discussion in episode 15:
Dipl. oec.troph. Mona Matthews completed her degree in Oecotrophology in 1999 and immediately went on to do her midwifery training in Berlin. Since then, the mother of three children has worked as a freelance midwife in Berlin and Lübeck and as an employee at the Marien Hospital and the midwifery practice at the Stadtpark. Since 2019 she has been a teaching assistant and course coordinator at the University of Lübeck for the course in midwifery.
The Islamic scholar Dr. As the curator of the columbarium “The Oak Tree”, Alina Kokoschka is interested on the one hand in what future generations will bequeath and what role objects play in the culture of remembrance, and on the other hand in the importance of art in dealing with death, mourning and overcoming them – both in the individual as well as in the societal dimension. In Islamic Studies, she did her doctorate on the aesthetics of Islamization using the example of goods in Syria, Turkey and Lebanon. The Syrian war gave her work a new dimension. The Hawass archive (www.hawass.org) arose from her research work.
Prof. Angela Firkins, née Tetzlaff, together with Prof. Konstanze Eickhorst, heads the Institute for School-related Music Education (ISMA) affiliated with the MHL and is thus today on the other side of the musical promotion of young talent: She was a member of the Federal Youth Orchestra, of the Young Germans Philharmonie and in the youth orchestra of the European Community and received many first prizes at “Jugend musiziert”. She studied with J.-C. Gérard (Hamburg), W. Bennett (Freiburg) and P. Meisen (Munich). As a member of the Albert Schweitzer Quintet, she won prizes at numerous competitions. In 1997 she was appointed professor at the MHL.
Prof. André Drews is a professor of business informatics in the industrial engineering course in the department of mechanical engineering and economics at the Technical University of Lübeck. Among other things, he developed a new storage concept based on nanostructures, set up a corresponding research team with which he developed a software product that is still used internationally today. At the THL he is also spokesman for the Artificial Intelligence in Application (KIA) group; Head of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Business Development (IEBD); Head of the Artificial Intelligence Research Group (AIR).
The moderator Vivian Upmann has been press spokeswoman for the University of Lübeck and head of the communication department since the beginning of 2021. As an experienced news journalist, TV correspondent and journalism lecturer, Vivian Upmann has been able to develop a keen sense for good stories over the past few years of her professional life. She has remained true to the microphone and enjoys moderating events with a focus on science, politics and digital issues. She is particularly looking forward to moderating the podcast, “because exciting discussions can arise with experts from such different areas.”