Born in 1956, Marion Schneider studied history, German language and literature and ethnology at the Philips Universität Marburg and the Albert Ludwig Universität Freiburg im Breisgau, both Germany, between 1975 and 1982, working in Halifax/England for a year as a language teacher from 1978 to 89. From 1983 onwards she has worked in the health care business and has since then focussed upon human health aspects and their improvement through effective short-term therapies. In particular she has examined the effects of water, heat and light as well as architecture, music and art in healing and therapy. She played a leading role in the introduction of balneophototherapy (Tomesa therapy), the simultaneous application of water and light on the human body, as well as of Liquid Sound, technology for bathing in light and music. Since 1991 she is personally involved in the research of psychological, spiritual and artistic methods to improve chronic diseases.
Together with her husband Klaus Dieter Böhm she owns and manages the Klinikzentrum Bad Sulza and and Hotel an der Therme Bad Sulza and since 2008 also the Kurhaus Hotel Bad Orb, all Germany. They also manage the Toskana Therme Bad Sulza and the Toskana Therme Bad Schandau which is romantically located at the river Elbe close to Dresden. Together with Micky Remann she owns TTS Product & Service GmbH, which manufactures and sells medicinal technology and cosmetics particularly for the chronically ill (www.ttsproduct.com), as well as Liquid Sound (www.liquidsound.com).
Her personal goal is the promotion of preventative and rehabilitative therapy to a key role in medicine and politics, as this is not only socially but also economically meaningful and necessary. To this end she publishes articles, and lectures and contributes at conferences and congresses.
Marion Schneider is President of the international children's aid organisation Ourchild (www.ourchild.de) supporting projects for children mainly in Brazil, chairwoman of the Thüringer Herzinitiative (www.thueringer-herzinitiative.de) and co-founder of the state-approved School for Physical and Massage Therapists in Bad Sulza (www.schulewfp.de) which, in conjunction with the Klinikzentrum Bad Sulza, offers 2 ½ and 3 year full-time training for up to 200 students at a time in aqua therapy, massage and medical gymnastics. She is also an Advisory board-member of The American Spa Therapy and Education Certification Council, ASTECC (www.astecc.com), as well as of the Vision Spa Retreat, Missouri/USA, the Hot Wells Institute in Texas and the Corporate Health Improvement Program of the University of Arizona, USA (http://www.integrativemedicine.arizona.edu/chip/). She is Chairman of the British International Spa Association (www.spaassociation.org.uk).
Together with the New York photographer Linda Troeller she published the book "The Erotic Lives of Women" in 1999 (Scalo, Basel/New York)
Marion Schneider's biography is in the Marquis "Who is Who in the World" und the index of "2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century" at the International Biographical Centre in Cambridge.
