Wedekind (band)
Wedekind may refer to the following persons: * Claus Wedekind, a biological researcher * Frank Wedekind (1864–1918), a German playwright * Hermann Wedekind (1910–1998), an artistic director * Luther Lochman von Wedekind Luther Lochman von Wedekind (1864 – November 24, 1935) was medical director for the United States Navy. He was Commander of the hospital ship ''Solace''. Biography He was born in 1864 and graduated from Columbia University Medical School in 1 ...

Claus Wedekind
Claus Wedekind is a Swiss biological researcher notable for his 1995 study that determined a major histocompatibility complex (MHC) dependent mate preference in humans. This study is often known as the "sweaty T-shirt study". In it, men each wore the same T-shirt for two days. The shirts were then put into identical boxes. Various women were asked to smell the shirts, and to indicate to which shirts they were most sexually attracted. The results showed that women were most attracted to men with an MHC most dissimilar from their own. MHC and sexual selection It has been suggested that MHC plays a role in the selection of potential mates, via olfaction. MHC genes make molecules that enable the immune system to recognise invaders; generally, the more diverse the MHC genes of the parents, the stronger the immune system of the offspring. It would obviously be beneficial, therefore, to have a system of recognizing individuals with different MHC genes and preferentially selecting them ...
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Frank Wedekind
Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (July 24, 1864 – March 9, 1918) was a German playwright. His work, which often criticizes bourgeois attitudes (particularly towards sex), is considered to anticipate expressionism and was influential in the development of epic theatre.See Banham (1998) and Willett (1959). In his ''Messingkauf Dialogues'', Brecht cites Wedekind, along with Büchner and Valentin, as his "chief influences" in his early years: "he", Brecht writes of himself in the third person, "also saw the writer ''Wedekind'' performing his own works in a style which he had developed in cabaret. Wedekind had worked as a ballad singer; he accompanied himself on the lute." (1965, 69). In the English-speaking world, before 2006 Wedekind was best known for the "Lulu" cycle, a two-play series—''Erdgeist'' (''Earth Spirit'', 1895) and '' Die Büchse der Pandora'' (''Pandora's Box'', 1904)—centered on a young dancer/adventuress of mysterious origin. In 2006 his earlier play ''Frü ...
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Hermann Wedekind
Hermann Wedekind (18 November 1910, in Coesfeld, Westphalia – 16 January 1998, in Wadern) was an artistic director at Festspiele Balver Höhle from 1983 to 1996. Vita After his first engagements in Hagen and Bielefeld, Wedekind was brought to the Deutsches Theater in Berlin by the artistic director Heinz Hilpert in 1935 (1935–1943) and began a career in the field of youthful hero tenors at the Danzig Opera and then at the Dresden State Opera. After the war, he became senior director in Bonn from 1946 to 1950, built the theater in Münster and headed the theater in Basel from 1954. In 1960 he took over the management of the city theater and later Saarland State Theatre in Saarbrücken. http://tls.theaterwissenschaft.ch/wiki/Hermann_Wedekind He was artistic director at Festspiele Balver Höhle from 1983 to 1996. Wedekind was married to the actress Grete Schaun (1911–2007). The director Michael Wedekind is a son. The daughter Claudia Wedekind died in 2015. Works (select ...
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