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First a pandemic, then war: A fasting and burnout clinic prepares for it. When Leonard Wilhelmi took over the management of the Buchinger Private Clinic in 2019 - he graduated from the Salem Castle School in 2006 - he could not have imagined that he would soon only be called upon as a crisis manager: "Im Kloster am Bodensee", in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, 23.3.2022, No., 68, p. 16

The head of the Buchinger-Wilhelmi fasting clinic, Leonhard Wilhelmi, graduate of the Schule Schloss Salem, in an interview: „The walk after the meal must be“, in: FAS Magazin, 10.4.2021, Nr. 4, S. 86

Rüdiger Fritsch, a graduate of Schule Schloss Salem, was German ambassador to Moscow until 2019. He knows the heartbeat of the huge country - and the idiosyncrasy of its president:

„How Putin ticks“, in: Eßliner Zeitung, von Robin Szuttor, 12./13.3.2022

The Spanish conductor Pedro Halffter, graduate of the Schule Schloss Salem, in conversation with the news agency Keystone-SDA about the Corona pandemic, unknown operas and the challenges of the opera "Florencia en el Amazonas":

"Conductor Pedro Halffter promises exotic sound experience" on: blue News, 6.5.2021

Military pastor Hans Wirkner, who graduated from Salem with a high school diploma, is leaving for a mission in Afghanistan in the second half of the year:

"Need for pastoral care "gigantically large"", in: Südkurier, 7.4.2021, Nr. 79, S. 19

Christian Kracht, he attended the Schloss Salem school, tells of a writer named Christian Kracht in his new novel "Eurotrash:

„It can't go on like this“, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, 3.3.2021, Nr. 51, S. 9

Marc Fielmann, a graduate of Schule Schloss Salem, inherited his father's position at the helm of the eyewear group just over a year ago - then came the crisis. A conversation about his parents' expectations and his daring plans for the future:

„I was afraid that someone would say I was just putting myself in the feadered nest", in: DIE ZEIT, 14.1.2021, Nr. 3, S. 22

Roman Gorovoy, Managing Director of ELECTROSTAR GmbH and graduate of Schule Schloss Salem (Abitur 2002) in an interview with Wirtschaftsforum online:

„It sucks and blows...the starmix“, in: Wirtschaftsforum online, 15.11.2020

Schule Schloss Salem celebrates its hundredth birthday this year. Bettina Ehrhardt, Altsalemerin - Abitur 1975, remembers the years she spent there at the boarding school in this audio clip:

„Salem Boarding School - Memories of a student“, in: SWR 2 Leben, 6.11.2020