Petra Gentz-Werner

Petra Gentz-Werner (* 1951 in Leipzig ) in publications mostly Petra Werner , is a German biochemist, science historian and author . Until the end of 2015, she worked at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences .

Life

Gentz-Werner grew up in Berlin, she studied biology in Leipzig, graduated as a plant physiologist and did her doctorate in 1980 at the University of Halle in the field of metabolism research (biochemistry). Then she switched to the history of science , in 1990 she completed her habilitation in this subject. Her work on the life and work of the founder of biochemistry Otto Heinrich Warburg was honored in "Nature", among others. From 1999 she became a member of the Alexander von Humboldt Research Center of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. In 1996 and 2003 she made guest residencies at Yale University in the USA.

Gentz-Werner has been writing since her early youth: first poetry, later short stories, literary non-fiction books and novels. She received inspiration from her work on the history of science.

Publications (selection)

In addition to many scientific publications, Gentz-Werner has 19 monographs.

Monographs

• A genius is less likely to err / Otto Heinrich Warburg - a picture of life in documents. Akademie-Verlag, Weinheim / Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-05-501282-8 .
• with Angelika Irmscher: Art and love are a must. Letters from Anna v. Helmholtz to Cosima Wagner. Druckhaus Bayreuth, Bayreuth 1993 private printing.
• The establishment of the Royal Biological Institute on Helgoland and its history up to 1945. (= Helgoland marine studies. Volume 47 Supplement). Hamburg 1993, DNB 942513509 .
• with Angelika Irmscher: Fritz Haber / letters to Richard Willstätter 1910–1934. Publishing house Dr. Michael Engel, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-929134-09-8 .
• Otto Warburg and the problem of oxygen activation. Basilisken-Presse, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-925347-40-2 .
• as publisher: Vitamins as myth / documents on the history of vitamin research. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-05-003305-3 .
• Heaven and Earth. Alexander von Humboldt and his cosmos. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-05-004025-4 .
• Red snow or the search for the coloring principle. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-05-004432-3 .
• Natural truth and aesthetic implementation / Alexander von Humboldt's correspondence with visual artists. Akademie Verlag / de Gruyter, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-05-006339-3 .

Non-fiction and fiction

• Bake yourself a man. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1982. (in several editions).
• The lie has colorful wings. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-355-00173-2 . (in several editions)
• Otto Warburg. From cell physiology to cancer research. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-355-00789-7 .
• The healer. Tuberculosis researcher Friedrich Franz Lothar Friedmann. Kohler & Amelang, Leipzig / Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-7338-0319-1 .
• with Hans-Joachim Veigel. Hitler's Reich Chancellery. Berlin center. (= The historical place. Number. 52). Kai Homilius Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-931121-51-8 .
• The Feininger case. Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig / Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-7338-0341-8 .
• Darwin. The discovery of the doubt. Osburg-Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-940731-24-1 .
• Fragrant distance. On the trail of beautiful floral scents. Trafo-Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86465-093-2 .
• The silence of Venus. The painter Emma Gaggiotti-Richards between Wilhelm I and Alexander von Humboldt. Trafo-Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86465-106-9 . (with references); E-book: Grande Dame im Schatten. Egmont-Verlag Copenhagen, 2017. ISBN 978-87-11-57791-2 .
• Sirène macabre or the golden child. Trafo-Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-86465-098-7 .
• Werner, Petra: Penguin Alexander visits his relatives in the Antarctic or: Penguins for future! Trafo-Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-86465-126-7
• Werner, Petra: woman in landscape with lanterns . Trafo-Verlag, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-86465-147-2

Web links

• Literature by and about Petra Gentz-Werner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page about Gentz-Werner at Alexander von Humboldt.de
• BBAW website about Gentz-Werner
• Website of the University of Potsdam about Gentz-Werner

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mikuláš Teich: The making of a biochemist . In: Nature . tape 394 , July 16, 1998, ISSN  1476-4687 , p. 240 , doi : 10.1038 / 28323 ( nature.com [accessed March 15, 2019]).