Roland Garve

Roland Garve (born December 9, 1955 in Boizenburg / Elbe ) is a German dentist and ethnomedicist .

Life

Garve, born and raised in Boizenburg / Elbe, attended the polytechnic high school from 1962 to 1972 and then the extended high school Boizenburg, where he received his Abitur in 1974. After completing his military service, he studied dentistry at the University of Greifswald from 1976 and received his license to practice medicine in 1981. From 1981 to 1983 he was imprisoned in Brandenburg-Görden because of preparations for the “ illegal border crossing ” from the GDR . During his detention he treated fellow inmates as a trained dentist. Finally, he left the GDR, expelled in 1984, and received his doctorate in 1986 from the University of Hamburg . After his time as an assistant in a Jesteburg dental practice, Garve ran a dental practice in Geesthacht in Schleswig-Holstein from 1985 to 2010 . Then he finished his dental practice. He undertook many research trips (including Africa, Brazil, Thailand, Venezuela, Papua New Guinea) to indigenous peoples in cooperation with the ethnological museums in Dresden and Leipzig . Garve also gives lectures on ethno-dentistry and ethnology. He has written several books about his experiences. Garve also works part-time as a cameraman, photographer and producer of documentaries.

Works

Books and publications

• Irian Jaya , Leipzig: Kiepenheuer, 1991
• Indians on the Amazon , Adliswil 1995
• Among murderers: a doctor experiences the felonist. Ullstein, Munich 2000, ISBN 978-3-86153-179-1
• Among Amazonas Indians , Munich: Herbig, 2002, ISBN 3-7766-2303-9
• Roland and Miriam Garve: Among Papuans and Melanesians. Art-loving cannibals, headhunters, tree house people, swamp nomads, high divers and other South Sea natives . Verlag Neue Literatur, Jena, Plauen, Quedlinburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-940085-37-5 .
• together with Frank Nordhausen:
  • Kirahé - The white stranger. On the way to the last primitive peoples , 2007, ISBN 978-3-86153-425-9
  • Laleo - The Stolen Stone Age. As a dentist with the last primitive peoples , 2009, ISBN 978-3-86153-546-1
• From the life of the Asmat, Kombai and Korowoi in the Irian Jaya expedition to the last “tree people” in New Guinea , Rudolstädter Naturhistorische Schriften 3, pages 69–81, 1999
• Cunahá Madý- The people of poison. Ritual mass suicide among an isolated Indian tribe on the Rio Purús , Rudolstädter Naturhistorische Schriften 4, pages 17–34, 2002

TV reports and documentaries

• Hidden in the rainforest - The Zoé Indians , co-author Andreas Kuno Richter , ARD / NDR, 1996
• In search of the Korubo Indians , co-author Steffi Moritz, ARD / NDR, 1997
• The high diver from Pentecost , co-author Steffi Moritz, ADR / NDR 1998
• The tree house people - expedition into the interior of New Guinea , co-author Steffi Moritz 1999
• Death in the Rainforest , GeoTV, Discovery Channel, co-author Axel Grote, 2001
• Din - The discovery of a previously unknown people in New Guinea , ProSieben, 2002
• Völker special . World of Miracles, co-author Karin Gerber ProSieben 2002
• Back to the Stone Age - Dani Death Cults in New Guinea , co-author Najda Trübenbacher, Kabel1, 2003
• The cult of pig teeth in Melanesia , World of Miracles, ProSieben, 2003
• Apatani - Expedition to the nasal stake people , World of Miracles, ProSieben 2004
• Animal welfare in Cameroon, report about a Saxon animal rights activist , co-author Jana Lemme, 3sat, 2005
• In the realm of dwarf people - Kimyal , co-author Andreas Kuno Richter ARD / NDR 2006
• Duel on the Amazon - expedition to the Kalapalo Indians on Xingú , co-author Andreas Kuno Richter, ARD / NDR 2008
• God's children. Among the Amazon Indians, author Andreas Kuno Richter, RTL 2013

source

• Andreas Mettenleiter: Testimonials, memories, diaries and letters from German-speaking doctors. Supplements and supplements II (A – H). Würzburg medical history reports 21 (2002), pp. 490-518, here p. 507 (quoted from Garves' dissertation)

Web links

• Website for two books and a list of Roland Garve's expeditions. Retrieved February 6, 2011 . 
• Literature by and about Roland Garve in the catalog of the German National Library
• Roland Garve in the Internet Movie Database (English)