Rainer Erices

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Rainer Erices (* 1969 ) is a German doctor and publicist . Erices works as a scientist at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and as a freelancer for the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk .

Life

Erices studied medicine at the University of Leipzig from 1990 to 1997 and in 1996 and 1997 philosophy and logic at the Distance University in Hagen . In 2003 he was awarded the doctorate degree for his dissertation, Comparing the internal representations of cognitive structures between healthy children and child and adolescent psychiatric patients at the Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Leipzig. med. PhD. He received his license to practice medicine in 2005.

After further training in journalism from 1997 to 2001, he worked as a freelance artist, speaker and presenter. Since 2001 he has been working for Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk in the content editing department of the Landesfunkhaus Thuringia, the first tri-media research department within ARD. Erices is a writer of television documentaries and radio features. He publishes on German-German contemporary history, in particular on coming to terms with the GDR state security. His books, published together with Jan Schönfelder: West visit. The secret GDR trip by Helmut Kohl and his work on the first state visit of a Federal Chancellor to the GDR Willy Brandt in Erfurt. The first German-German summit in 1970.

Since 2010 he has been working part-time at the Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg . He is a working group leader for the history of medicine in the GDR. His main research is the GDR health system, in particular drug tests by western manufacturers, the international blood trade and the German-German health agreement. He also researches the importance of state security and its protagonists within health care in the GDR.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rainer Erices, Jan Schönfelder: West visit. Helmut Kohl's secret GDR trip. Pearl divers , accessed January 31, 2017.