Dr. Gunther Karsten (Vita)
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Education |
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Scholarship from Colorado College (USA) (on recommendation of the German government) |
8/81-5/82 |
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Study of chemistry in Hamburg and Heidelberg: Honoured with the title Dipl. chemist |
5/88 |
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Attending lectures/seminars in biology, psychology and philosophy |
10/82-10/87 |
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Completing the 4-semester study course in biotechnology at the Technical University of Munich |
12/90 |
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Ph.D. in chemistry (thesis in biochemistry) at the elite University of Munich (magna cum laude) |
12/91 |
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Completing the diploma exams in „Business Marketing“ at the University of Hagen |
4/97 |
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Professional activities |
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Semi-professional photo-model/actor for advertising spots and movies |
1998-1993 |
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Founder and director of the „Patent translation office Dr. Karsten & partner” |
since 5/92 |
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Founder of the coaching company MemoVision "Memory, Mind & Mental Skills" |
since 7/98 |
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(having lectured e.g. at Microsoft, O2, Bayer, BASF, Lufthansa, VW, EnBW, Hitachi, NDR, IBM) |
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Memory coach for several companies in Spain/Portugal/Turkey/Norway |
since 5/00 |
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Author of the beststelling book “Erfolgsgedächtnis” (success memory) published in many countries (e.g.in Russia, China, and South America) |
9/02 |
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Advisor and cooperation partner of global amazmemory education limited in Hongkong |
since 9/2006 |
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Author of the beststelling book “Lernen wie ein Weltmeister” (Learning like a world champion) |
since 2/2007 |
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OTHER ACTIVITIES and MEMBERSHIPS |
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Mental coach for the organisation “Promotion of high talented kids” |
since 1/95 |
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Member, proctor, and lector of Mensa in Germany e.V. (Society for high intelligent people) |
since 6/85 |
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Member of the advisory board to the “World Memory Sports Council (WMSC)” |
since 6/00 |
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President of “MemoryXL” (European society for enhancing memory capabilities) |
4/02–7/06 |
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Coach of the German National Junior Memory Sport Team |
2001 |
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Member of the Lions Club Via Regia |
since 12/05 |
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Member of the Ambassador Club of Hour of Power |
9/07-3/10 |
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ACHIEVMENTS in MEMORY SPORT |
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Winner of the 2nd to 8th and 10th German Memory Championship |
´98-´04, 2007 |
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Bronze medal winner of the Memory World Championship in London |
8/98,8/00,8/02 |
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Receiving the grandmaster title in memory mind sport (at the Mind Sports Olympiad) |
8/99 |
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Victory in the memory competition as coach of the German Junior National Team versus Austria |
5/01 |
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Winner of the “ „Prague Open Memory Cup“ in 2001, 2002, and 2003 |
since 7/01 |
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Vice World Memory Champion 2001, 2005, 2006, & 2008 |
since 8/01 |
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Winner of the “Austrian open 2002” with 5888 points |
11/02 |
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Memory World Champion 2007 with 6986 points (Kingdom of Bahrain) |
9/2007 |
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WORLD RECORDS/TITLES in MEMORY SPORT (selection) |
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Guinness-Weltrekord im Mentalsport (fehlerfreies Memorieren einer 68-stelligen Zahl in 60 s) |
11/99-5/06 |
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Guinness world record in „spoken numbers“ with 400 digits |
8/2000 |
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World record holder in the discipline „1 h numbers“ (1949 digits in 1 h memorized)) |
8/05-11/09 |
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5-times World Champion in the discipline “binary numbers” |
´00-´03 & ´05 |
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(Guinness) world record (flawless memorizing of 102 digits in 60 s) |
1/2007 |
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TOP 1 on the all time “Memory Sport World Ranking List” with 7631 points |
7/07-8/08 |
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COACH OF THE FOLLOWING MEMORY CHAMPIONS |
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Junior Memory World Champion ‘98, Czech Memory Champion ’99, ’00 & ’01, German Female Junior Memory Champion ‘98+’99+’01, German Junior Memory Champion ‘00, German Kid Memory Champion ’01, Junior Female Memory World Champion ’99-’01, Female Memory World Champion ’99-’01, Kid Vize World Champion ´02, Kid World Champion ´04, Kid World Champion ´05, 4-fold Guinness World Record holder (in memorizing birthdays, Munich/Paris/London/Stockholm), Junior Guinness World Record holder (memorizing a maze), Junior Guinness World Record holder etc. (memorizing colours)
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