People at Astrodienst
Webteam & Programmers

With their website www.astro.com, Astrodienst offer one of the largest services of serious astrology and extraordinary horoscope reports. Conception, design, editorial work as well as the coordination of translations are accomplished by a small, efficient web team which consists of five genuine individualists, all of whom have profound knowledge in their specialist fields as well as being well-versed in astrology.

Alois Treindl (March 7, 1950), founder and director of Astrodienst AG, graduated from the ETH Zurich with a doctorate in Physics. Today he is working at advanced astrological computer projects in order to create intelligent chart interpretation programs. He is also well known as the author of PLACALC and SWISS EPHEMERIS, the planetary calculation routines used by most astrological programmers in the world. He has twin daughters and lives in Zurich and Paris.

• Portrait of Alois Treindl
• Interview with Alois Treindl, by Markus Jehle

Dieter Koch (June 4, 1959), lic.phil., graduated in 1984 from Zurich University with a master's degree in Philosophy, Sanskrit and Classical Greek. He started studying astrology and astronomy intensively in 1988, and programming in 1989. He is a programmer at Astrodienst since 1995. Together with Alois Treindl in 1996-97, he created the Swiss Ephemeris, which is used worldwide by astrological applications developers. He has published books and articles on different topics related to astrology and archaeoastronomy.

• The Star of Bethlehem
  A new theory on the birth star of Jesus.
  Verlag der Häretischen Blätter, ISBN 978-3-9318-0609-5 Article on the Star of Bethlehem
  
  
• Kritik der astrologischen Vernunft
  Eine Klärung des Anspruchs der Astrologie - Antworten der Astrologie an ihre Kritiker.
  Verlag der Häretischen Blätter, ISBN 3-931806-03-0
  
  
• Der Stierkampf des Gilgamesch - Vom Ursprung menschlicher Kultur enthält u.a. Antworten auf die Frage nach dem Ursprung der Sternbilder
  ISBN 978-3-9318-0605-7 (Online lesen)
  
  
• Die Schalen des Menschen
  Ephemeriden der neuen interpolierten Lilith und Priapus". Verlag der Häretischen Blätter, ISBN 3-931806-02-2

Juri V. Stork (November 28, 1962) is an astrologer, web designer, musician, and father of two children. He has worked at Astrodienst since the Spring of 2000. He is responsible for the visual design of the website, for marketing and public relations. Since 2008, he is executive director of Astrodienst.
He is also a practicing astrologer and a "voice coach" in Switzerland. 2009 he has released the CD "Powerchant".

 

• www.astrolog.ch
• www.klangfeld.ch

Magnus Herold (7th May 1976) joined Astrodienst in November 2007. He studied Information Technology at Freiburg University (Germany) and now brings new technologies and ideas into the programming team. After his degree, he worked at a start-up enterprise which developed innovative software for the aviation industry. At the beginning of 2007, he decided that it was time for a long journey, quit his flat and job, and traveled around Australia and India for 6 months. He has now settled for Astrodienst in Zürich.
Six years ago he discovered his interest in astrology. He likes the mountains, be it for climbing, walking or snow-boarding. Besides, he loves traveling, different cultures, the sun, the sea and meditation.

 

Trudy Baumann (18.4.1965) joined the webteam of Astrodienst in june 2010. She gained her M.A. in German and English at the University of Zurich. A lover of the popular medium film (Neptune in the third house) and a dedicated critic (Virgo rising, with ruler Mercury in eight) she was working for several years as a film critic and editor for a movie magazine and the weekly supplement of a national newspaper. Astrology was part of her life since she was seventeen. Finally in 2002 she decided studying it properly and systematically during a four-year-training at SFER in Zurich, graduating with a certificate in consulting. She was a celebrity-columnist in the journal "Astrologie Heute", and is currently working in the team of a famous swiss radio/tv astrologer.

Astro-Databank, the world-wide unique collection of more than 35`000 chart data is online at and can be used for free! It not only contains birth data, but also all the chart drawings and thousands of biographies.

AstroWiki by Astrodienst is a free encyclopedia of astrology. It collects the knowledge of the astrological community and makes it available to everybody. The Wiki`s cadre consists of two astrological lexica.