Renate Fischer (actress)

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Renate Fischer , from 1957 Renate Wilson (born April 20, 1930 in Berlin ; † December 7, 2008 in Towson , Maryland) was a German actress and social and medical historian who began her artistic career in the late 1940s.

She was seen in the 1949 film The Beaver Fur . In 1951 she played the Guste Daimchen in the film Der Untertan by Wolfgang Staudte . Renate Fischer appeared in the film Cinderella in the mid-1950s .

Her father Ernst Fischer was the first clarinet player in the Berlin Philharmonic . This created a connection to Wilhelm Furtwängler , who saved the Jewish family from the Nazis. Renate Fischer graduated from Humboldt University after the war and later worked as a translator for the American embassy in Berlin. In 1957 she married the second time, namely the Haitian Max William Wilson, who was studying philosophy in Berlin. About ten years later she emigrated to the USA. She was a Fulbright Fellow at Johns Hopkins University and received her PhD in history from the University of Maryland in 1988 .

Together with Hartmut Lehmann and Hermann Wellenreuther, she wrote In Search of Peace and Prosperity: German Migrations of the 18th Century (Penn State, 1999). She also published a special edition of Caduceus magazine on An 18th Century Traffic in Medicine and Medical Ideas .

In 2000 she wrote Pious Traders in Medicine: A German Pharmaceutical Network in Eighteenth-Century North America , a work on the influence of German emigrants on medicine and pharmacy in the USA. She received the award "Thyssen fellowship for historical studies of cross-cultural medical care". Most recently, she was Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management and the Department of Medical History at Johns Hopkins University.

Renate Wilson died on December 7, 2008 at the age of 78.

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SURNAME Fischer, Renate
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilson, Renate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 2008
Place of death Towson , Maryland