Mouritz was established in 1995 for the purpose of publishing out of print material on the F. M. Alexander Technique.

Mouritz is run by Jean M. O. Fischer, a STAT certified teacher of the Technique. He trained with Karen Wentworth 1984-87 in Denmark. After two post-graduate terms at the Constructive Teaching Centre in London, he taught for one year at the Centre. Between 1990 and 1995 he lived in Leeds where he taught for five years at the North of England Teacher Training Course in the Alexander Technique.

He is now assistant director at The Alexander Technique Studio in London. This STAT approved training course was started in 1997 by Karen Wentworth. He lives in London where he also gives individual lessons in the Technique.

In 1990 Jean started STAT Books (which closed down in 2002). He has also edited and/or typeset a number of books for STAT Books, among them

• Authorised Summaries of F. M. Alexander's Four Books
• The Expanding Self
• Skill and Poise
• Constructive Conscious Control of the Individual ( STAT Books edition)
• The Congress Papers, 6th Congress in Freiburg
• The Congress Papers, 7th Congress in Oxford
• The Congress Papers, 8th Congress in Lugano

STAT Books publications are available from STAT. For other publishers he has typeset A Time to Remember (by Walter Carrington), Not to Do (by Fiona Robb) and Sit Happens (by Kri Ackers).

He is also the designer of websites on the Alexander Technique: www.atstudio.co.uk www.pimlicocat.com www.miriamwohl.com www.statarchives.org.uk He was co-director of the 7th International Congress of the F. M. Alexander Technique in Oxford, 2004.
Jean was STAT Council member 2007–09, and a member of STAT's Publications Committe 1991-2009.	Photo courtesy of Seanan Forbes © 1998