User:Thomas Österheld

Musician, Composer, IT-Manager

1962, Kassel

Master of Arts and Culture

started composing 1975 ("tunings" for guitar)

more than 1000 own pieces from solo to orchestra

Arrangements of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Video-Games Music (GEMA-member)

Concerts in Rumania (Goethe-Institut), Paraguay, Guatemala, Bangkok etc.

Premieres on bass clarinet, tuba, saxhorn, flute, electric guitar (etc.) played contemporary music for and with Violeta Dinescu, Christian Wolff, Alvin Lucier, Dieb13, Manfred Stahnke, Tim Hodgkinson, Wu Wei, Phil Corner.

Roughly 2000 Concerts in Contemporary Music listed on Hamburg Verband für aktuelle Musik

Impro with Burkhard Beins, Rudi Mahall, Eugene Chadbourne. David Moss

Jazz and Studio in many areas.

I was in charge of PR, Young Workers Programs, 18plus, Anderer Dienst im Ausland, under Dr. Hanna-Beate Schöpp-Schilling from 1991 focussed on IT Manager for AFS Intercultural Programs (better known as American Field Service) and AFS in Germany for 26 years (famous Alumni). Volunteered as Betriebsrat, Datenschutzbeauftragter, Sicherheitsbeauftragter.

Now I am a "Bildungsmanager" at "Grone Online Akademie". The GOA team is in charge of large portfolio of IT-Services and a kind of "IT team" in charge of facebook, xing, insta, moodle, Gopas, the Windows Servers, ABES, and roughly 90 Software products). And part of the "Grone" Network with 2300 Staff Members and roughly 30.000.000 EUR net gross per year.

I am a humble de. en. ...Wikipedia Author since 2006 or so and in most cases I help to find sources, pictures, add urls, correct urls, correct typos. Its not fun, it feels often like a waste of time, even sources are deleted and against all odds I still believe in the idea.