Chris Thomas (author) Chris Thomas (author) Chris Thomas is an Australian writer, actor, journalist and broadcaster. Thomas was born in Perth, Western Australia. He has extensive acting and journalistic experience, working for mainstream newspapers, independent publications and as a freelance. He has also worked in media and public relations and as a radio announcer. He is author of the novel "Journo's Diary", the "Doctor Who" short story "One Step Forward, Two Steps Back"(published in the collection "" and the plays "Which One?", "Reality Matters", "Appetite For Destruction", "Who's Your Daddy?", "SMS Mess", "The Bonza Land of Oz", "Pickles" and "King Bling", published in
Anton Schindler Anton Schindler Anton Felix Schindler (13 June 1795 – 16 January 1864) was an associate, secretary, and early biographer of Ludwig van Beethoven. He was born in Meedel, Moravia, and died in Bockenheim (Frankfurt am Main). Schindler moved to Vienna in 1813 to study law, and from 1817 to 1822 was a clerk in a law office there. He was a competent, though not an exceptional violinist, and played in various musical ensembles, first meeting Beethoven in 1814. He gave up his law career, becoming in 1822 first violinist at the Theater in der Josefstadt, and from 1825 first violinist