Roland Garve

2025-04-20
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Tags : 1950-1999 Germany Hamburg

Category : EthnologyDocs , movieDocs , photographyDocs , ProducerDocs , SpeakerDocs , travelDocs , TV-doc , WriterDocs

Roland Garve (born December 9, 1955 in Boizenburg/Elbe) is a German dentist and ethnomedical specialist.

Garve, born and raised in Boizenburg/Elbe, attended the Polytechnic High School from 1962 to 1972 and then the extended High School Boizenburg, where he received his Abitur in 1974. After his military service, he studied dentistry at the University of Greifswald from 1976 and received his license to practice dentistry in 1981. From 1981 to 1983 he was imprisoned in Brandenburg-Görden for preparing an “illegal border crossing” from the GDR. During his imprisonment he treated fellow inmates as a trained dentist. Finally, after being expelled from the GDR in 1984, he left the GDR and received his doctorate from the University of Hamburg in 1986. After working as an assistant in a dentist’s office in Jesteburg, Garve ran a dental practice in Geesthacht in Schleswig-Holstein from 1985 to 2010. He subsequently retired from dental practice. He undertook numerous research trips (including Africa, Brazil, Thailand, Venezuela, and Papua New Guinea) to study indigenous peoples in collaboration with the Ethnological Museums in Dresden and Leipzig. Garve also gives lectures on ethnodentistry and ethnology. He has authored several books about his experiences. Garve also works part-time as a cameraman, photographer, and documentary film producer.

In Neuguinea Garve visited the people of the Dani. He DISCOVERED this indigenous people. They used to mumify their eminent warriers....

In Neuguinea Garve visited the people of the Dani. They used to mumify their eminent warriers....

...at least he could play "Indians" with his friends!

as a child in the GDR (German Democratic Republic) he dreamt of visiting the indians - no way at that time of the "iron curtain"....

Garve is documenting his experiences and has published books and films

typical nose sticks at the Apatani people in the tibet-mongolian area

Garve with the famous indian chief Rauni

guest at the Kimyal people - maximum 1,45 m tall!

Typical "Lip-sticks" mark "real people" in this group, but they accept Garve nevertheless because of his treatment of their teeth.

Typical "Lip-sticks" mark "real people" in this group. at age 14 they get them.

The Dani make their koteka from pumpkin fruits to protect their genitals.

Since 2011, Roland Garve has been a lecturer at the Center for Human Cultural and Natural History, Faculty of Medicine/Dentistry, Krems (Austria), at the Danube Private University.[1]

In 2012, he received his diploma in Tropical Medicine from the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine at the University of Hamburg.

In 2014, he was appointed Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Ethno-Dentistry at the Danube Private University Krems. Garve is considered the founder of the interdisciplinary research field of ethno-dentistry.

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