Michèle Victor Adamski
Vita in Excerpts • Lectures & SalonsToday

Born in 1963 in Cologne into a Russian-Ukrainian-Cologne-Swiss family with international involvement in tennis and hockey, event and incentive marketing, fashion and security industries, as well as art foundations and music promotion. From childhood I was deeply immersed in the family businesses and international projects. Through internships and active participation as a young woman, I gained profound insight into the worlds of art, business, society and politics – a foundation that continues to shape my work in culture and finance to this day and has ultimately led me to my current focus on high-level mental training and personal consulting. I live in Montreux, Switzerland.

2020-Independent development, direction and concept of the historic four-sided farmhouse “Victor’s Farmhaus” on the island of Usedom, including guest house (boutique stile), sound space and art barn
www.maisonvictorfarmhaus.com

Sound Practice & Mental Training

International Health Coach, Certification - Four Winds Society (Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D.), repeated trainings 2008–2022 (Miami/USA – Los Lobos/Chile) // Multiple certified sound practitioner (Peter Hess Institute 2008–2012) // 2019 Matrix Rhythm Therapy, Certification, Dr. Randoll, Munich // Certified instructor for voice, breathing, speech and relaxation techniques, Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR) and Autogenic Training
Music, art and the creation of salons shaped four decades of her life. The consistent feedback of heartfelt hospitality, happiness and deep relaxation in her presence, together with the intensive accompaniment of seriously ill people since 1989 and her 13 years of work for Afghanistan, led her to undertake demanding trainings in sound and mental techniques. Today she shares this knowledge in selected lectures, group or individual sessions – always upon explicit request and with the conviction that every human being already possesses their own inner technique.
• study trips following the traces of traditional healers and indigenous cultures in Asia (incl. Bali), South America (Peru, Ecuador, Central Brazil), Alaska and New Zealand

Berlin from 2003

2016 Co-founder of La Maison Victor Schilly & Friends GmbH Berlin (resort culture, co-organiser of the German Acting Award) // 2019 Concept and artistic direction of the Kunstspeicher Berlin Mitte – six-month art and culture project (supported by Kauri GmbH / Adler AG) // Managing role at the event agency Hardenberg Konzept Berlin (focus on culture & society) // Co-founder of the Cosmopolitan and Metropolitan School Berlin (international private schools) // Founder of Aladdins Children Afghanistan – 2013 dissolution of the association in favour of Laila Noor / IAWA e. V. (support for over 16,000 children and families)

Cologne 1995–2009

1999–2009 Director of the Kunstsalon Cologne Music Festival and the still successful salon festival “Music in the Houses of the City” in cooperation with “Literature in the Houses of the City” // 1996 Christie’s New York Auction House Certification // Organisation and curation of numerous exhibitions, cultural events and mental-theme projects (own salon format since 1989 and on commission) // Close collaboration with the family foundation and the artist HP Adamski

Education
• State-certified qualification in vocal technique and entertainment music (U-Musik) at the Rhineland Conservatory Cologne
• Studies in art history at the University of Cologne
• Completion of distance-learning degree in art and music history at the University of Tübingen
• Assistant director at theatres in North Rhine-Westphalia

Further Artistic Activities
• Long-standing collaboration with the international artist HP Adamski (co-founder of “Mülheimer Freiheit” / Junge Wilde) since 1996 till today
• Publications including the DuMont Verlag Cologne (biography HP Adamski “Wenn das Perlhuhn leise weint”) and catalogues with Verlag Walther König
• Active singer (jazz, French and German chanson)
• Speaker for, among others, WDR, Deutsche Welle and Deutschlandfunk

Languages
• German (native)
• English (fluent)
• French (fluent)
• Italian (good listening comprehension)

Lectures & Talks (Selection)

• Children and War Widows in Afghanistan – Sanofi Pasteur MSD, Schwarzwaldhalle Karlsruhe (under the patronage of Minister Oetinger)
• On “Freedom” – Lecture for the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom
• Culture and Civic Engagement in Harmony – Lions Club Berlin
• Epistemology, Astrology and Harmony (with Alexander Graf von Schlieffen) – Salon Berlin (ongoing since 2013)
• The Freedom of Art and the Art of Freedom – Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, Potsdam
• Free Painting, Inner Music, Inner Word – On Creativity, Kulturzentrum Schanzenviertel, Hamburg
• “When the Guinea Fowl Weeps Quietly”: The Art of the 1980s – Reading and Lecture (Kunstsalon Köln, Galerie König Hanau, Waldhaus Berlin and others)
• The Tradition and Mental Strength of Nomadic Peoples – for Laila Noor, Patron: Daniela Schadt, State Representation of Bremen in Berlin
• Engagement and Soul in Afghanistan – 10 Years of Laila Noor and IAWA e.V., Patron: Marie Luise Beck, State Representation of Bremen
• Schools in Afghanistan – IAWA e.V. with Dr. Klaus Kleber (ARD) and Dr. Willi Steul (Deutsche Welle), Political Club at the Federal Foreign Office, Berlin
• Introduction for Dr. Hannes Haberl, Pediatric Neurosurgery, Charité Berlin – Kammergesellschaft Berlin
• Introduction for Kirsten Niehuus, CEO Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
• Introduction for Giovanni di Lorenzo, Editor-in-Chief of DIE ZEIT – Kammergesellschaft Berlin
• Introduction and Moderation for the Zariya Foundation Switzerland, Film Project “Kavita & Teresa”, Berlin (Patron: Isa Countess von Hardenberg)
• Lecture in Words and Song on Madame Clicquot – in cooperation with Veuve Clicquot and Hardenberg Konzept, Hamburg
• Introductions and musical/literary readings for Ruinart, Laurel, von Tresckow and others
• Introduction and consulting for the ART Parade by La Maison Victor Schilly & Friends and Getränke Hoffmann, Berlin

• Sound Session, Lecture and Workshop – Green Actors Lounge, commissioned by La Maison Film Society, Berlin
• Sound Space & Meditation – Siemens Villa Berlin, Inline Foundation for Meditation & Neuroscience
• Introductions and musical/literary readings for Ruinart, Laurel, von Tresckow and others
• Introduction and consulting for the ART Parade by La Maison Victor Schilly & Friends and Getränke Hoffmann, Berlin and others

Salons & Distinguished Guests
(Small Selection from 25 Years of Culture and Sound Themes)

• Salon with Dr. José Ramos Horta, President a.D. of East Timor, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1996
• Introduction. Salon with Dr. José Ramos Horta, Dr. B. Murr and Jan Kuck, Respect & Liberty, in cooperation with Bernheimer Contemporary, supported by Meissen Manufaktur and Voss Versicherungen
• Introduction, Concert and Organisation with David Helfgott, Pianist – Siemens Villa Berlin
• Introduction “HELLO I AM DAVID”. An Evening with the award-winning director Cosima Lange about the world star David Helfgott
• Sternensalon 1–9 with the astrologer and artist Alexander Graf von Schlieffen
• Salon with the actress, author and photographer Judith Döker “On Happiness”
• Salon with Alexandra Kamp “Gut gegen Nordwind”, Berlin
• Salon with Danielle de Picciotto & Alexander Hacke (Einstürzende Neubauten) – Nomaden II
• Salon and Reading with Mariam Notten – Afghanistan, “I Chose Freedom”, author and NGO founder in Afghanistan
• Salon and Conversation with Siba Shakib “After Afghanistan God Only Came to Weep”, author
• Salon “Beltracchi and the Art of Forgery” with director Arne Birkenstock
• Salon “12 Tangos” with Argentine guitarist (Tango Nuevo) Luis Borda and director Arne Birkenstock
• Salon and Conversation (supported by Claudia Bousset – The Salon Festival) with Maria von Blumencron “Goodbye, Tibet”, author and filmmaker
• Introduction and Lecture “Wisdom” with former top manager Bernd Kolb – Maison Victor Salon, Berlin
• Introduction “Projekt Atman” with former top manager Bernd Kolb – Französischer Dom, Berlin
• Moderation and Reading on Love with Claude Oliver Rudolph, Contemporary Arts, Berlin
• Moderation and Reading “Brokeback Mountain” by Annie Proulx with Christian Brückner, Maison Victor Salon Berlin–Cologne, in cooperation with Claudia Bousset – The Salon Festival
• Salon and Conversation “Kippenberger & Co” in cooperation with Buchhandlung König, Berlin
• Moderation and Reading “Berlin–Moscow on Foot” with Wolfgang Büscher, editor of DIE ZEIT – Berlin–Cologne Festival Literature in the Houses of the City
• Moderation and Reading “The African” by Le Clézio with Matthias Habich – Siemens Villa Berlin, Festival Literature in the Houses of the City
• Salon and Reading “The Next Joyce Comes from the Orient” with Samuel Shimon (Iran), in cooperation with the Berlin Literature Festival
• Scenic Reading “Picasso’s Women” with Barbara Geiger and eight other actresses (production and direction: Barbara Geiger)
• Scenic Reading “The Jungle Book” by Rudyard Kipling with Barbara Geiger and Thomas Schmuckert
• Scenic Reading “Fräulein Brehm” with Barbara Geiger
• Salon, Conversation and Reading with Wolfgang Büscher “Berlin–Moscow on Foot”, editor and author – Festival Literature in the Houses of the City
• Salon and Reading “Russendisko” with Vladimir Kaminer – Festival Literature in the Houses of the City
• Charity Salon for the German DKMS – Children auctioning for children (full organisation)
• Charity Salon for Save the Children Japan in cooperation with Fiona Bennett, Berlin and many othersu.v.a.