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Storefront display of Body Worlds exhibition in Amsterdam (2016). Body Worlds (German title: Körperwelten) is a traveling exposition of dissected human bodies, animals, and other anatomical structures of the body that have been preserved through the process of plastination.
Gunther von Hagens (born Gunther Gerhard Liebchen; 10 January 1945) is a German anatomist, businessman and lecturer.He developed the technique for preserving biological tissue specimens called plastination.
Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds exhibitions are the original, precedent-setting public anatomical exhibitions of real human bodies, and the only anatomical exhibits that use donated bodies, willed by donors to the Institute for Plastination for the express purpose of serving the Body Worlds mission to educate the public about health and anatomy.
The bodies are prevented from decaying by means of plastination, a rubberization process patented in the 1970s by anatomist Gunther von Hagens.The essence of the process is the replacement of water and fatty material in the cells of the body first by acetone and then by plastics, such as silicone rubber, polyester or epoxy resin.
Markus Rühl performing in Biberach an der Riss (off-season). Markus Rühl (born 22 February 1972, in Darmstadt, West Germany) is a retired IFBB professional bodybuilder.Rühl began training at the age of 19 following a doctor's recommendation after sustaining a knee injury while playing football.
Heinrich Pudor (31 August 1865 in Loschwitz (near Dresden) – 22 December 1943 in Leipzig) was a German Völkisch-nationalist pundit and a pioneer of the Freikörperkultur (FKK; free body culture, naturism) in Germany. [1] He took the pseudonyms Heinrich Scham and Ernst Deutsch.
Richard Ungewitter (December 18, 1869 in Artern, Province of Saxony – December 17, 1958 in Stuttgart) was a German naturist and pioneer of the Freikörperkultur (free body culture) movement and one of its first organizers. There was a völkisch element in Ungewitter's ideas.
Adolf Karl Hubert Koch (9 April 1897 in Berlin [1] – 2 July 1970) was a German educationalist and sports teacher. He was the founder of a gymnastics movement named after him and a pioneer of the Freikörperkultur (free body culture) movement in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s, which in turn was part of the larger Lebensreform movement.