Krista Federspiel

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Krista Federspiel (* 1941 in Lower Austria , also Christa Federspiel) is an Austrian medical journalist and author with a doctorate in folklore .

Life

Krista Federspiel studied German, psychology, folklore and theater studies at the University of Vienna from 1959, graduating in 1966. This was followed by work as a freelance journalist and editor in several Austrian and German magazines and newspapers. She has also become known as a radio and television presenter. She was also a member of the Scientific Council of the Society for the Scientific Investigation of Parasciences (GWUP) and regularly publishes articles in their journal Der Skeptiker . She is a co-founder and active member of the Society for Critical Thinking , the Vienna regional group of the GWUP.

Her work focuses on social and women's policy, consumer protection , medicine and psychotherapy . Federspiel has become known as a critic of alternative medical procedures. For the Stiftung Warentest , she checked the effectiveness of alternative healing methods in her book "The Other Medicine". She lives in Vienna , is married and has three children.

Fonts

  • Women from the very beginning - 1945 to 1955 (co-author, co-editor) Europaverlag, 1985
  • with Andrea Ernst, Franz Köppl, Kurt Langbein : Welfare State Austria. Closed if necessary. Trend Profile Book, Orac, Vienna 1987.
  • Life cycle assessment Austria. (Co-author, co-editor) Kiepenheuer & Witsch / Falterverlag, 1988
  • Seamless - the golden business of dentists. (Co-author) Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1988/91
  • Who? - an anti-who's who from Austria. (Co-author) self-published, 1988
  • Course book health. (Co-author), Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1990, 1992, 1997, 2001, 2006
  • Tooth for tooth. 1986, The cramp with the stomach. 1987, and with different eyes. 1987 patient advisor at Kiepenheuer & Witsch
  • Work - 50 German careers . (Co-author), The Other Library series , Eichborn, 1990
  • The other medicine. (Co-author) Stiftung Warentest 1991 / 5th edition 2005. ISBN 978-3937880082 .
  • Course book soul. (Co-author), Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1996
  • Cancer - living with the disease. Heyne, 1999
  • Lexicon of Parasciences . (Ed. And co-author), Lit-Verlag, 1999
  • Childless - what to do? S. Hirzel / Association for Consumer Information, 2000. ISBN 978-3777610139 .
  • Eva's rib. The discovery of feminine medicine. by Marianne Legato, translation into German, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2002
  • Care at home. Association for Consumer Information, 2008

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christa Federspiel: From folk tales to children's tales. Changes of a folk tale in childish processing; with special consideration of the children's fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm. Vienna, Univ., Diss., 1965
  2. ↑ https://www.gwup.org/who-is-who/1075-krista-federspiel
  3. ↑ derStandard.at: Interview Austria is a paradise for parasciences , February 1, 2013
  4. ↑ http://www.wienerzeitung.at/themen_channel/wissen/mensch/702579_Eine-Gegenbewegung-zur-rationalen-Welt.html

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personal data
SURNAME Federspiel, Krista
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Federspiel, Christa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian medical journalist and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Lower Austria