Real name: Monika Abendroth

MONIKA ABENDROTH (*1944) ICELAND

German born, but living in Iceland since 1976, I just fall in love with this country, travelling around in 1973/74 I am a harpist, so I applied for the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra and got the position in 1976, since 2012 I am retired.

Music is for me a wonderful way to touch feelings and the heart of people. I released a meditation CD in 2010: Óður til Jarðar ( Ode to the Earth) Since 1980 I am working as touring guide in Iceland and Greenland. For me it is important to open people´s eyes for Nature and Mother Earth, which is not difficult here to get a glimpse of force and beauty of nature. It is wild and powerful, uncivilized, ice and fire, earthquakes and blizzards, you can not tame – only arrange with it.

By all my heart I desire a more peaceful world, more respect for nature and human beings and not the living in the dominance of masculine principles. I love to be a part of an international network, the Grandmothers Council : starting by ourselves and return to a new future, for our planet and for our grandchildren. I have one daughter and two grandchildren.