Margarethe Philipp, born in 1956, MD, is a specialist in neurology and psychiatry, a psychotherapist with a focus on depth psychology, and additional training in specialized psychotrauma therapy (DeGPT), PITT (Reddemann), and TRIMB. She is a founding member of the Working Group on Body-Oriented Methods in Psychotrauma Therapy (DeGPT).
During her continuing education in psychotherapy, she became acquainted with meditative dance and attended seminars with Ritu Bajracharya, Dimitris Barbaroussis, Ulli Bixa, Kyriakos Chamalidis, Drs. Hannelore and Ernst Eibach, Ulli Jobst-Brünsch, Krisana Kirchner, Bunu Shrestha, Eka Suschke, Prajwal Ratna Vajracharya, Dr. Maria-Gabriele Wosien, and other teachers and dancers. By combining them with imagery, she adapted the dances for resource strengthening and therapeutic work.
Tess Gerritsen (born Terry Tom; June 12, 1953[1]) is the pseudonym of Terry Gerritsen,[2] an American novelist and retired general physician.
Tess Gerritsen is the child of a Chinese immigrant and a Chinese-American seafood chef. While growing up in San Diego, California, Gerritsen often dreamt of writing her own Nancy Drew novels.[4] Her first name is Terry; she decided to feminize it when she was a writer of romance novels.[2] Although she longed to be a writer, her family had reservations about the sustainability of a writing career, prompting Gerritsen to choose a career in medicine.[5] In 1975, Gerritsen graduated from Stanford University with a BA in anthropology, intrigued by the ranges of human behavior.[6] She went on to study medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.[5] She received her medical degree in 1979 and started work as a physician in Honolulu, Hawaii.[7][8]
While on maternity leave, she submitted a short story to a statewide fiction contest in the magazine Honolulu. Her story, “On Choosing the Right Crack Seed“, won first prize and she received $500.[7][9] The story focused on a young male reflecting on a difficult relationship with his mother. Gerritsen claimed the story allowed her to deal with her own childhood turmoil, including the repeated suicide attempts of her mother.[7]
Inspired by the romance novels she enjoyed reading while working as a doctor, Gerritsen’s first novels were romantic thrillers.[7] After two unpublished “practice novels”, Call After Midnight was bought by publisher Harlequin Intrigue in 1986 and published a year later.[10] Gerritsen subsequently wrote eight romantic thrillers for Harlequin Intrigue and Harper Paperbacks.
In 1996, Gerritsen wrote Harvest, her first medical thriller.[10] The plot was inspired by a conversation with a retired homicide detective who had recently traveled in Russia. He told her young orphans were vanishing from Moscow streets, and police believed the kidnapped children were being shipped abroad as organ donors.[11]Harvest was Gerritsen’s first hardcover novel, and it marked her debut on the New York Times bestseller list at number thirteen.[12] Following Harvest, Gerritsen wrote three more bestselling medical thrillers: Life Support,[13]Bloodstream,[14] and Gravity.
In 2001, Gerritsen’s first crime thriller, The Surgeon, was published and introduced homicide detective Jane Rizzoli. Although a secondary character in The Surgeon, Rizzoli has been a central focus of 13 subsequent novels (see below) pairing her with medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles.[16] The books inspired the Rizzoli & Isles television series starring Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander.[17] Gerritsen also made an appearance in the series’ final season as a writer who helps Isles establish herself in the literary field
Although most of her recent books have been in the Rizzoli/Isles series, in 2007 Gerritsen wrote a stand-alone historical thriller titled The Bone Garden. A tale of gruesome murders, the book is set primarily in 1830s Boston and includes a character based on Oliver Wendell Holmes.[19][20]
Gerritsen’s books have been published in 40 countries and have sold 25 million copies.
Gerritsen co-wrote the story and screenplay for Adrift, which aired on CBS as Movie of the Week in 1993 and starred Kate Jackson and Bruce Greenwood
She is also the composer of the musical piece “Incendio” for violin and piano, a waltz that features in the plot of her novel “Playing With Fire”.[24] The composition has been recorded by violinist Susanne Hou.
Gerritsen’s mother told her traditional Chinese stories, e.g. about Monkey King. Her novel The Silent Girl uses Chinese martial arts and traditional motives in contemporary Boston. One of the victims is a Chinese chef.
The German bass, Matthias Gerchen, had worked as a physician, when he started studies in singing with Prof. Carl-Heinz Müller in Hannover. Studies with Christoph Stephinger and – for many years – with Margreet Honig, Amsterdam, followed. These were completed by master-classes with Ingrid Bjoner, Jessica Cash, Elio Battaglia and Josef Metternich.
With his wide-ranged repertoire from renaissance to modern music, Matthias Gerchen is a much sought-after concert performer. On the opera stage, he performed in works by Cavalli, George Frideric Handel, Mozart and Rossini. Recently, he performed the title role in Ulysse by Reinhard Keiser at Braunschweig State Theater. He may also be heard as a Lied interpreter. His interest lies with the late Romantic period in particular. He has been invited to numerous international festivals, such as Brügge, Innsbruck, Melbourne, Prague, and Utrecht, and has worked with conductors as Martin Gester, Eduardo Lopez Banzo and Konrad Junghänel. He has recorded works by J.S. Bach, Biber, Monteverdi, Johannes Brahms, Dvorák and Strauss for various European radio stations and for CD’s.
Matthias Gerchen teaches at Hanover and Bremen and at the Bremen University for the Arts. From 1997 to 2001 he was a visiting professor at Escola das Artes in Porto/Portugal.
Fabian Unteregger graduated from ETH Zurich with a MSc in Food Science in 2003 and received his ETH teaching credential in 2004. From 2008 to 2014, he studied human medicine at the University of Zurich. He received his doctorate in medicine in 2017.
Unteregger can be found in theater sports, as an impersonator, or as a presenter on various stages. He imitates well-known Swiss personalities from politics and sports. In 2007, he answered viewer questions once a week on Radio Top as National Councilor Christoph Mörgeli. In 2008, he became known to a broad national audience with appearances on the Swiss TV satire show Giacobbo/Müller on SF 1. In addition to Mörgeli, he also parodies other Swiss personalities such as Roger Federer, Köbi Kuhn, and Moritz Leuenberger, the latter in his weekly radio column Moritz explains German on Radio 24 and Capital FM. From 2009, he toured cabaret stages in German-speaking Switzerland with his first solo show Showbiss. Since July 4, 2013, he has also been a weekly presenter of the TV comedy show Metzgete – Heiteres Prominentenraten on SRF 1. His second stage show premiered on October 7, 2015.
2005, 2007: Second place at the Swiss Theater Sports Championships (with Improvenös)
2008: European Theater Sports Champion[2]
2008: Winner of Best of Swiss Web Gold, Best Football Marketing Site (for Natifans.ch)[3]
2016: Prix Walo in the Comedy category
In December 2010, Fabian Unteregger organized the first “Christmas Medical Lecture” at the University of Zurich for the benefit of the ALS Association Switzerland and was subsequently appointed its ambassador.
(born 1955), associate professor of anatomy and cell biology, studied singing with Prof. S. Colombo. Since 1986, he has performed as a soloist, with a repertoire focused on sacred music. In addition to numerous engagements in Germany, concert tours have taken him to Luxembourg, France, the Czech Republic, and Switzerland.
Werner Bartens (born 11 July 1966 in Göttingen) is a German physician, historian, science journalist and non-fiction author.
Werner Bartens was born the second child of Werner Bartens and his wife Luise, née Marienhagen, in Göttingen and grew up in Niedernjesa. He attended primary school in Reinhausen and then the Hainberg-Gymnasium in Göttingen, where he graduated from high school in 1985. From 1985 to 1993, Bartens studied medicine, history, and German at the universities of Giessen, Freiburg, Montpellier, and Washington D.C. In the fall of 1988, he completed a clinical internship in the emergency department at the Royal Infirmary in Cardiff, Wales. In 1991, he completed clinical internships at the University Hospital of Freiburg, the Urban Hospital in Berlin, and in cardiology at the Bad Krozingen rehabilitation center. In 1992, he received his medical degree and subsequently worked as a research fellow at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
In 1993 he passed the German state examination in medicine at the University of Freiburg and received his doctorate there in the same year under Christoph Wanner with a thesis on lipid metabolism disorders in nephrotic syndrome with special emphasis on lipoprotein(a). In 1995 he also received his master’s degree in history and German studies in Freiburg with a thesis supervised by Gerd Krumeich on racial theories in the 19th and 20th centuries.[1] After working as a doctor at the university hospitals in Freiburg and Würzburg, he held a fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology in the research group of Nobel laureate Georges Köhler. From 1997 onwards, Bartens worked as an author, translator, freelance journalist and editor for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, die tageszeitung and the Badische Zeitung. Since 2005 he has been an editor in the science department of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, and since 2008 he has been editor-in-chief.
In addition to his journalistic work, he has published numerous books with a total circulation of 1 million copies, which have been translated into 14 languages. Some of them, such as “Body Happiness,” “The Doctor Hater Book,” and “The Encyclopedia of Medical Errors,” quickly became bestsellers, some of them remaining on the bestseller lists for months. He has received numerous journalism awards for his publications, including several Science Journalist of the Year awards.
He also became known to a wider public through appearances on talk shows on German and Austrian television.
