Marianne Koch

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Marianne Koch (2018) at the German Seniors' Day in Dortmund
Marianne Koch in an interview at Bayern 1 (June 2019). Interviewer: Gabi Fischer.

Marianne Elisabeth Koch (born August 19, 1931 in Munich ) is a German internist , book author and former film actress .

Life

Marianne Koch was born in Munich as the older of two children of the pianist Mathilde Aumüller. Marianne Koch and her brother Rudolf come from a relationship between their mother and the Jewish doctor Rudolf Schindler , who was already married. She grew up in Geiselgasteig . From September 1933 to July 1934 Schindler was after because of critical remarks about Hitler denunciation in protective custody were taken. After being released from the Dachau concentration camp in the summer of 1934 with his own family, he emigrated to Chicago and became one of the leading figures in American gastroenterology . He only returned to Munich in 1965. When Marianne was two years old, her mother married the businessman Rudolf Koch. Although this marriage only lasted a short time, Marianne Koch's last name comes from her stepfather. At the age of 17, Marianne Koch passed the Abitur examination in 1949 after she had skipped two grades.

Then she began studying medicine . During the semester break, she worked in the copy shop of the Bavaria film studios . Here she was discovered for the film, without ever having completed an acting training. Koch interrupted her medical studies because of her blossoming film career after the physics . At the age of 22, Koch married her fiancé Gerhard Freund in 1953, who meanwhile worked as a doctor. While Koch was filming in the USA, she made contact with her biological father, Rudolf Schindler, with whom she had previously had no contact. After Schindler's wife died, he married Marianne Koch's mother. After a short time in the United States, Koch's parents returned to Germany in 1965, where Schindler died in 1968.

Career in film and television

During the 1950 semester break, Koch was discovered by director Viktor Tourjansky , who was looking for a "bitter fried fish" for his film The Man Who Wanted to Live Twice . Without studying acting or stage experience, she was convincing with her informality and spontaneity, so that numerous other, also demanding roles followed.

By 1970, Koch played in around 70 films. She made some international appearances. For example, in 1954 she was the partner of Gregory Peck in the spy thriller The Invisible Network and in 1964 played alongside Clint Eastwood in the spaghetti western For a Fistful of Dollars . For her portrayal of Diddo Geiss in Helmut Käutner's Des Teufels General , she received the silver film for Best Supporting Actress in 1955 . In 1957, on the other hand , she played the bride of Heinz Rühmann, who was almost 30 years her senior, in his father . In 1963 she impersonated the female lead in the street sweeper Tim Frazer by Francis Durbridge . She was particularly successful as a reliable buddy in German film, as a patent country doctor (1958) and as the journalist in the television series of the same name (1970). Koch, who, according to her own admission, was “the 'good woman' of German film because the audience wanted me like that”, broke this stereotype in 1968 as a frank lesbian in screams in the night .

She was also one of the regular cast of the TV guessing game What am I? with Robert Lembke . The entire guessing team received the Golden Camera in 1967 . From 1974 to 1982 she was the presenter of the talk show 3 to 9 . For many years she appeared on commercial television for ADO curtains ("the ones with the gold edge"), Gillette , Jacobs coffee , Martini and Lux ​​soap. During the years of the economic miracle , Marianne Koch was one of the most famous faces in the German advertising industry.

Studied medicine and worked as an internist

In 1971 Marianne Koch resumed her medical studies and passed the state examination at the age of 43 . In 1978, she was with the thesis histamine release after rapid infusion of Plasmasubstituten at the Medical Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich "summa cum laude" doctorate and later worked until 1997 as internal medicine in their own practice in Munich .

Since 1995 she has been the patron of the German Hypertension League . From 1997 to 2011 she was president of the German Pain League and has been its honorary president since then. She has also been a curator at the General Practice Foundation since 2020 .

Medical advisory activity

Since 2001, Marianne Koch has been designing the weekly program Notebook - Health Conversation on medical topics with telephone audience participation in the Bayern 2 program , first with the medical journalist Werner Buchberger , and since 2016 with the moderators Ulrike Ostner and Klaus Schneider.

She has also published several health guides since 1999, including My Health Book , Body Intelligence, and The Health of Our Children . Some of these books had multiple editions and some of them were also translated into different languages.

Private

Marianne Koch married the physician Gerhard Freund (1925–2008) in 1953, with whom she has two sons. Koch's marriage to Gerhard Freund broke up in 1973 because of his relationship with Petra Schürmann .

From the mid-1970s until his death in July 2019, the publicist Peter Hamm was Koch's life partner. The couple lived in Tutzing .

In 2018, Bayerischer Rundfunk broadcast a television documentary about Marianne Koch in the series Lebenslinien .

Filmography

movie theater

Television (selection)

Radio plays

  • 1955: A hundred minutes too early - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1956: Story - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1959: The Lark Garden - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm

Awards

Fonts

  • together with Ditta Gertler and Kurt Rittig: That's what counts ! For young women about cosmetics, fashion, good behavior . Conté, Frankfurt am Main 1955.
  • The pleasure of traveling . Schwann, Düsseldorf 1972, ISBN 978-3-508-00227-1 .
  • Histamine release after rapid infusion of plasma substitutes . Dissertation. Munich 1978.
  • My health book . Dtv, Munich 1999, ISBN 978-3-423-24151-9 (6th, revised edition in Dtv 2004, ISBN 978-3-423-24421-3 ).
  • Take a deep breath. A journey of discovery into the body . Hanser, Munich 2001, ISBN 978-3-446-20013-5 .
  • Body intelligence. What you should know to stay young . Dtv , Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3-423-24366-7 .
  • The health of our children . Dtv, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-423-24588-3 .
  • as co-editor: White Paper Pain. An inventory of the care situation for patients with chronic pain in Germany . Thieme, Stuttgart and New York 2008, ISBN 978-3-13-149911-0 .
  • The heart book . Dtv, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-423-24870-9 .
  • The pension book . Dtv, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-423-26135-7 .

In addition, the Graefe und Unzer publishing house has also published several themed volumes on their radio program Health Talks.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Life Lines: Marianne Koch - Doctor on the Red Carpet. In: br.de. Retrieved December 26, 2019.
    Marianne Koch - Doctor on the red carpet. In: br.de. Retrieved December 26, 2019.
  2. ↑ referenten.de: Marianne Koch
  3. ↑ merkur.de: Marianne Koch gives tips for old age
  4. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: Health talk: Talking medicine with head and heart. Retrieved January 21, 2018 .
  5. ↑ The health talk as a podcast download
  6. ↑ abendzeitung-muenchen.de: Gerhard friend is dead
  7. ↑ "I'm under full stress !": Marianne Koch will be 85th dpa report from August 13, 2016, accessed online from the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung on August 14, 2016
  8. ↑ Ralf Empl: Bavarian Order of Merit: Awarded 2017. Accessed on July 13, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Cook, Marianne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koch, Marianne Elisabeth (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film actress, doctor and book author
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich , Germany