Frieder Anders

Frieder Anders (b. 1944), grandmaster of Taiji, is one of the most famous teachers in Europe. A practitioner since 1973, he worked with the most important masters in East and West: Taiwan, New York, London, and Hong Kong. After twenty-six years of training with Grandmaster K. H. Chu (London), he was confirmed in 2002 as a 6th-generation master in the Yang-family style. In 1980, he founded the first German Taiji school in Frankfurt am Main, which still trains under his leadership as the "Taiji...See more

Frieder Anders (b. 1944), grandmaster of Taiji, is one of the most famous teachers in Europe. A practitioner since 1973, he worked with the most important masters in East and West: Taiwan, New York, London, and Hong Kong. After twenty-six years of training with Grandmaster K. H. Chu (London), he was confirmed in 2002 as a 6th-generation master in the Yang-family style. In 1980, he founded the first German Taiji school in Frankfurt am Main, which still trains under his leadership as the "Taiji Academy - School of Inner Strength." Besides teaching, he publishes books and essays and also produces educational films (www.tao4me.de). Emanuel Seitz (b. 1985) works as a freelance philosopher and translator in Bad Kreuznach. He studied philosophy, archaeology, history, and Indo-European linguistics in Rome, Freiburg, and Frankfurtand received his doctorate from the University of Amsterdam. He has practiced Taiji with Frieder Anders since 2018 and is currently in his first year of teacher training. His most recent publication is List and Form: On Prudence (Klostermann, 2019) and a translation of Aristophanes' Clouds (Residenztheater Munich, 2022). See less