Medi­cal Me­dia Group: In my opin­ion this is not a co­in­ci­dence, for the Jew, tra­di­tion­ally, is a great phi­loso­pher – this be­comes ob­vi­ous al­ready in his his­tory and in the en­tire prob­lem of Je­ru­sa­lem to­day. From Je­ru­sa­lem and Abraham’s de­scen­dants his­tori­cally three of the great world re­lig­ions emerged.

Peter Hübner: On the other hand the Jew and thus the Is­raeli, in my eyes, has on a broad scale the oth­er­wise ex­tremely rare talent of in­te­grat­ing great sci­en­tific cog­ni­tion with great ar­tis­tic per­form­ance at the same time.

With us, in Ger­many, sci­ence and art are al­most in no re­la­tion with each other and among the Jews we find both in­te­grated in per­fec­tion in in­di­vid­ual per­sons – and that, as said al­ready, in great num­ber.

From here also the envy of many peo­ple to­wards the Jews, within and with­out the Third Reich, can be un­der­stood.
There­fore I know by ex­peri­ence – who I also have to work sci­en­tifi­cally in the Mi­cro Mu­sic La­bo­ra­to­ries^® and at the same time have to be ef­fi­cient in my ar­tis­tic per­form­ance while cre­at­ing Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic^® – that I can reckon on the most prac­ti­cal un­der­stand­ing from their side.

And so, in my eyes, it is not a co­in­ci­dence, but a clear state­ment of des­tiny, that my in­spi­ra­tion and the tri­um­phal march of this new branch of medi­cine – of digi­tal phar­ma­ceu­tics: of Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic^® – started in Is­rael, or more ex­actly: in Je­ru­sa­lem on the In­ter­na­tional Con­fer­ence for Pre- and Peri­na­tal Medi­cine.

Medi­cal Me­dia Group: And why, then, do you not go with the whole thing to Is­rael and make use of the ideal pos­si­bili­ties there of a wide sci­en­tific-ar­tis­tic un­der­stand­ing, but also of the great sci­en­tific-tech­ni­cal know-how there?

Peter Hübner: My friends and I thought about it al­ready. But the po­liti­cal dis­putes there keep us from do­ing it. Oth­er­wise we would per­haps have done it long ago.

Medi­cal Me­dia Group: And in Ger­many you do not find such rec­og­ni­tion like in Is­rael, in the states of the for­mer So­viet Un­ion and in USA?

Peter Hübner: One can­not put it like this. The rec­og­ni­tion in Ger­many is dif­fer­ent – as it is also dif­fer­ent in the al­ready men­tioned ar­eas of the for­mer So­viet Un­ion, of USA and Is­rael.


Medi­cal Me­dia Group: And in the USA?

Peter Hübner: There I find among the phy­si­cians and sci­en­tists in­ter­ested in this new branch of medi­cine mainly per­sons of Jewish ori­gin – which means, again per­sons with an ex­cel­lent talent in the ar­tis­tic field and in the field of sci­ence as well.

It is cer­tainly no co­in­ci­dence that Albert Einstein, for in­stance, se­ri­ously prac­ticed play­ing vio­lin.

It is re­ported that he once came with his vio­lin to his phys­ics lec­ture at the uni­ver­sity, unpacked the in­stru­ment and played in front of his stu­dents in the lec­ture hall. Af­ter that he packed the vio­lin in again, said “That was it.” and went.

When I came to know Prof. Prigog­ine, I ac­com­panied some of my friends who were sci­en­tists and had an appointment with him. Af­ter he heard that I was a com­poser in the field of clas­si­cal mu­sic, he, who him­self prac­ticed play­ing mu­sic, al­most ex­clu­sively talked to me and only about mu­sic, which an­noyed my sci­en­tific friends – a re­ac­tion they thought to be logi­cal, but which he could not un­der­stand at all.

This, ac­tu­ally, was the dif­fer­ence be­tween a sci­en­tist and art­ist rolled into one, the dif­fer­ence be­tween some­one, who was striv­ing for uni­ver­sal­ity and in this case even was a Nobel Lau­re­ate – like Einstein too –, and young sci­en­tists, who still sought for their sal­va­tion in dif­fer­en­tia­tion only.

Medi­cal Me­dia Group: In Ger­many more the sepa­ra­tion of art and sci­ence pre­vails.

Peter Hübner: Un­for­tu­nately! In my opin­ion the rea­son for this is par­ticu­larly, that the Ger­man Jews, gifted with both, were driven out or mur­dered in the Third Reich and there­fore their achieve­ments and ef­fi­ciency is miss­ing in Ger­many to­day. And a sec­ond rea­son is the fact, that the peo­ple of­fi­cially lead­ing in­sti­tu­tion­al­ized mu­sic life in Ger­many are not tal­ented in mu­sic and thus are also not able to forge links be­tween mu­sic and sci­ence.