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 the south of France.

• 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, 4th edition, 2015, Pergula. (read online)
  A new theory on the birth star of Jesus.
  
• Astronomical Dating of the Mahabharata War, 2nd edition, 2015, Pergula. (read online)
  An attempt do determine the date of the Mahabharata War based on calendrical and astronomical information given in the Mahabharata Epic.
• Die Sonnenfinsternis von Troja, 1. Auflage 2016, Pergula. (online lesen)
  Versuch einer Datierung des trojanischen Krieges und der Odyssee aufgrund von astronomischen Angaben in Homers Werken.
• 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
  
• Die Schalen des Menschen
  Ephemeriden der neuen interpolierten Lilith und Priapus". Verlag der Häretischen Blätter, ISBN 3-931806-02-2
• See also www.gilgamesh.ch

Juri Viktor Stork (November 28, 1962) has been active at Astrodienst since 2000. He is a real all-rounder, responsible for web design, graphics, public relations, marketing and more. Since 2008, he is executive director of Astrodienst. For Astrodienst he also writes the astrological monthly forecast in the newsletter.

Juri Stork is father of two grown-up children and lives in Winterthur, Switzerland. He is a consulting astrologer (see his own website www.astrolog.ch, in German) and regularly publishes astrological articles in the magazine "Spuren" and on his own website.

• Monthly forecast
• www.astrolog.ch
• www.klangfeld.ch

Karin Hoffmann (19/05/1969) has worked as a (foreign language) editor at Astrodienst since October 2001. She coordinates translations of horoscope reports and the website into its many languages, translates English-German / German-English herself, and adds to the extension of the Understanding Astrology section, also by writing articles such as Astrology and Psychology, Harry Potter - a Hero's Journey, or reviews (The Dark of the Soul).