Marion Schneider (Ger)

Marion is the co-owner and CEO of Klinikzentrum Bad Sulza, a rehabilitation clinic for chronic diseases of the joints, skin and respiration system, and the Hotel an der Therme Bad Sulza and Kurhotel an der Therme Bad Orb.

She is the CEO of Toskana Therme Bad Sulza, Bad Schandau and Bad Orb with its unique Liquid Sound. She is co-founder of the state-approved School for Physical and Massage Therapists in Bad Sulza, which offers full-time training for about 200 students in physical therapy and massage.

Marion‘s personal goal is the promotion of preventative and rehabilitative therapy to a key role in medicine and politics, as this is not only socially but also economically meaningful and necessary. This is the mission of her daily work and for this she also publishes articles, lectures and contributes at conferences and congresses.

Marion Schneider is Chairman of the British International Spa Association (www.spaassociation.org.uk) and President of the international children's aid organisation Ourchild (www.ourchild.de) which is supporting projects for children in five different countries, chairwoman of the Thüringer Herzinitiative (www.thueringer-herzinitiative.de) and co-founder of the state-approved School for Physical and Massage Therapists in Bad Sulza (www.schulewfp.de) which, in conjunction with the Klinikzentrum Bad Sulza, offers 2 ½ and 3 year full-time training to about 200 students at a time in aqua therapy, massage and medical gymnastics.

She is also Advisory board-member of of the Corporate Health Improvement Program (CHIP), University of Arizona (http://www.integrativemedicine.arizona.edu/chip/), of The American Spa Therapy and Education Certification Council (ASTECC), Florida (www.astecc.com), as well as of the Vision Spa Retreat, Missouri http://www.visionsparetreat.com/advisors-vsr.html and the Hot Wells Institute, Texas.

Together with the New York photographer Linda Troeller Marion published the book "The Erotic Lives of Women" in 1999 (Scalo, Basel/New York) – see www.erotic-lives-of-women.com – which is accompanied by and exhibition first shown in Salzburg, later in Amsterdam, Berlin and Weimar and a CD with the same name.

Marion Schneider's biography is in the Marquis "Who is Who in the World" und the index of "2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century" at the International Biographical Centre in Cambridge. In recognition of her contribution and services to medium- sized business, Marion was appointed to the Hessian-Thuringian State Council for Economic Affairs www.bvmw.de