Peter Siegfried Krug (born November 23, 1966 in Salzburg) is an Austrian FIDE Master in Chess Composition, yoga teacher, and photographer.

Background and Career
Chess: At the age of 12 or 13, Krug learned chess from a psychologist in Liefering. In 2017, he received the title of "FIDE Master in Chess Composition," which he describes as an ideal way to process the traumatic experiences of his childhood. He specialized in chess studies but is also interested in other types of chess problems.
Occupation: Krug worked as a trained projectionist and night porter in Salzburg hotels, but was unable to complete a commercial apprenticeship due to financial difficulties.
Yoga: Due to stress and sleep disorders, he began practicing yoga around 2003 and completed yoga teacher training in Bad Meinberg and the Westerwald region. He has been teaching yoga classes ever since.
Photography: As a hobby photographer with a Nikon D7200, Krug devotes himself primarily to landscape photography, but also to portraits and wildlife photography. He has achieved "Master" status on the photo platform "GuruShots."

Personal life and background
Childhood: Peter Siegfried Krug grew up in residential care and with foster parents. His mother had a very poor relationship with him, often experiencing him as verbally inexpressive and depressed in her presence. He never met his biological father, a doctor.
Traumatic experiences: His difficult childhood is the reason for his later yoga and chess activities as a means of compensation. He has published his own story about his childhood on the platform story.one.
Relationship with his mother: Krug finally broke off his relationship with his mother, Herta Bertel, in 2011 because she constantly belittled him. His mother died in April 2024.

Childhood

Peter Siegfried Krug's childhood, born in Salzburg in 1966, was marked by extreme hardship and life as an orphan. He later processed his childhood experiences in texts on the story.one platform.
Early Years in Institutions
Infant and Children's Home: Krug grew up separated from his mother after his father, whom he never met, suggested an abortion. He spent his first two years in an infant home and was then placed in a children's home in Itzling.
Psychological Terror: In this children's home, which he perceived as a prison, he had no friends or caregivers. Despite the absence of physical violence, psychological terror was commonplace, and he was locked in the basement as punishment.
Relationship with his Mother
Weekend Visits: Occasionally, he was allowed to spend weekends with his biological mother, which were the only moments of freedom he had during the first six years of his life.
Blame: However, the visits were marked by speechlessness and constant blame from his mother, which Krug, as a young child, could not understand. This emotional burden led to difficulties at school, where he found himself an outsider. His mother reinforced his fear of failure by calling him a failure because of his poor academic performance.
Abuse in the Children's Village
Moving to the Children's Village: When he was six years old, he had to leave the children's home and was transferred to a Pro Juventute Children's Village in Guggenthal.
Severe physical abuse: Peter Krug was severely physically abused in the Children's Village.
Withdrawal and grief: In response to his experiences and the feeling of being ignored, Krug withdrew into silence and grief.
Reaction to the traumatic experiences
Withdrawal into nature: In his early childhood, he spent many hours alone in the forest, which helped him cope with his experiences.
Intensive Internet use: As an adult, he used the Internet extensively to search for relatives, as he grew up without a family.

Unknown neurological disease

"At the end of 2023, neurological problems began to develop gradually. Before that, I had a heel spur.

At first, they were only noticeable in my left foot. However, as soon as I lay down in bed, the tingling stopped.

These symptoms worsened at the beginning of 2025.

At that time, I was still regularly practicing yoga asanas and pranayama, and, to further improve my health, I also went swimming regularly.

In the evening, when I was about to go to bed, this constant tingling wouldn't stop. That was in July or August 2025. It became so severe that it even tingled while I slept.

After these symptoms robbed me of sleep for a week, I visited the neurology department at the Christian Doppler Clinic in Salzburg. There, I was diagnosed with polyneuropathy. I was also prescribed vitamin capsules (vitamin B1, B6, B12). I was very worried that I had developed a vitamin B12 deficiency due to a purely plant-based diet over a period of 20 years.

From August 2025

The symptoms continued to worsen. The tingling is now noticeable not only in my feet, but also in my calves and legs up to the pelvis, and it persists from night to morning. It was like a nonstop activity in my body.

I noticed that my discomfort increased with every exertion in yoga and other physical activities and insisted on another appointment with a neurologist.

This time I went to the neurology department in Hallein. The neurologist, who was the representative, tested nerve conduction velocity and reflexes using electric shocks and couldn't find anything unusual. He said that

it was probably not polyneuropathy. He said that the diagnosis also contradicted the fact that the symptoms worsen with movement. His new diagnosis was "tingling paraesthesia."

The cause is unknown.

For the first time in over 20 years of daily practice of asanas and mountain climbing, I had to completely forgo yoga exercises and exercise. It frustrated me greatly.

New Mental Challenge

This presents a completely new mental challenge for me. It would be good if I didn't worry too much to make it easier to fall asleep, but at the same time, I'm aware that this neurological disorder points to another, previously unknown, underlying disease. Since then, I've been going from doctor to doctor, from neurologist to neurologist. However, I learned that doctors aren't at all interested in taking a detailed medical history, thus encouraging misdiagnosis—what doctors call "suspected diagnoses." For example, the suspicion of a vitamin B deficiency after a blood test was apparently incorrect, and so I had to pay for the vitamin B capsules myself, even though the doctor prescribed them and I have insurance. Meanwhile, completing everyday tasks has become increasingly difficult because the tingling is becoming increasingly uncontrollable. So I spend as much time as I can lying down. The high bills I have to pay because of the tingling are adding up exponentially. I haven't been able to pay them yet. I've always earned a modest income as a yoga teacher. Every time I get up, stand, or walk, I consider not moving around too much.

The neurologist in Hallein again prescribed Neupro patches, suspecting possible restless leg syndrome. Initially only 1 mg. And since that didn't work, 2 mg. The active ingredient, rotigotine, is a centrally acting dopamine receptor agonist used in the form of a transdermal therapeutic system (TTS) for Parkinson's disease and restless leg syndrome (RLS).

Nothing helped. Instead, I developed another serious problem I've never had before in my life. I was constipated for over a week, which worsened to the point of painful unbearability last Sunday.

Because of the constipation, I urgently went to a pharmacy, and of course, no pharmacy was open on Sunday, October 19, 2025. Desperate, I cycled to Golling. There, I received a remedy and, after another 30 minutes of struggle and pain, found relief. However, the constipation problem remains unresolved. I haven't had a single bowel movement in the days that followed.

Aside from that, I don't think I have restless leg syndrome, because the symptoms of restless legs syndrome (RLS) include an irrepressible urge to move my legs, as well as unpleasant sensations such as pulling, tingling, burning, or cramps. These occur primarily during rest periods, typically in the evenings and at night, and are relieved by movement.

But that's exactly not the case for me! While I do have the tingling, the symptoms are usually not resolved." Peter Krug

Living with Lucia Nadia Cipriani:

 Lucia Cipriani and Peter Krug met in May 1987 in a shared flat at Nußdorferstraße 17, Riedenburg. After moving several times (Linzergasse 50 in Salzburg, Essergasse 8 in Salzburg, Brückenstraße 55 in Siezenheim, Plainstraße 27/8 Salzburg), they both moved to Hallein in the historic town centre at the end of July 2016.

More about him: story.one, Yoga Vidya, sasukepedia.fandom.com

Source: archive.org/details/@peterkrugaussalzburg

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