Ursula Goldmann-Posch

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Ursula Goldmann-Posch (born April 26, 1949 in Bozen , Italy ; died June 4, 2016 in Würzburg ) was a South Tyrolean author and medical journalist .

Life

Ursula Goldmann-Posch was the daughter of the South Tyrolean politician Pepi Posch (1914–1991) and the art and antiques dealer Elisabeth “Lily” Kronau (1923–2013), as well as the sister of the actress Krista Posch . After graduating from high school in Milan in 1968, she studied comparative linguistics at the University of Padua . Since 1970 she has lived in Germany and worked in the fields of medicine, psychology and women's issues as a journalist, non-fiction author and editor for Die Welt , Weltbild Verlag , Famiglia Cristiana, Brigitte and other media.

In 1999, three years after her own aggressive breast cancer was discovered too late, Goldmann-Posch founded the association mamazone - women and research against breast cancer eV in Augsburg. Under her aegis, the non-profit association became one of the largest and most active patient initiatives in the fight against breast cancer in Germany. Ursula Goldmann-Posch always wanted mamazone - Women and Research Against Breast Cancer eV to be understood as a “self-help group plus”, that is, a self-help initiative by women with breast cancer who, for their support, also take active researchers on board or take responsibility fetch and not "remain in the ghetto of suffering alone".

In 2000, Ursula Goldmann-Posch set up an innovative knowledge academy for women with breast cancer with the provocative name “Project Diplompatientin” at the Augsburg Clinic . Every year around 45 renowned breast cancer experts and around 600 listeners from all regions of Germany, Luxembourg, Italy and Austria take part in the four-day patient congress.

In 2002 Ursula Goldmann-Posch set up the world's first and only patient tumor tissue bank "PATH - Patients Tumorbank of Hope" as a foundation. Their goal: "Share your tumor with research" / "Share your tumor with science". With this project, Ursula Goldmann-Posch campaigned for women affected by breast cancer to take responsibility for and control over research and the right direction for research.

In 2008, together with her long-time colleague and friend Petra Stieber, she launched the “PONS - Patient-Oriented Aftercare” foundation. Her goal: The 27-year-old "dogma of symptom-oriented follow-up care", anchored in all guidelines worldwide, must be "overthrown".

In 2010 Ursula Goldmann-Posch returned to her adopted home Augsburg after 7 years from Kulmain (northern Upper Palatinate). She lived there with her husband and journalist colleague Peter Goldmann and four Siamese cats in the Western Forests nature reserve near Augsburg. She was the mother of one son and the grandmother of two grandchildren.

Awards

In April 2010 Ursula Goldmann-Posch was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany by Horst Seehofer . In December 2011 Goldmann-Posch received the Bavarian Constitutional Medal in silver from Barbara Stamm .

On December 6, 2013 in Berlin she was awarded eighth among the 15 finalists for the German Engagement Prize of the Alliance for Charity.

On October 30, 2015 Ursula Goldmann-Posch was honored with the Bavarian State Medal for Social Affairs for her life's work by the Bavarian Minister of Social Affairs, Minister Emilia Müller .

Publications

  • Diary of a Depression . Kindler / Droemer Knaur, 1985, ISBN 3-463-40002-2 . (Translations into French, Japanese, Dutch, Serbo-Croatian)
  • Unholy marriages - conversations with women priests . Kindler / Droemer Knaur, 1985, ISBN 3-426-03916-8 .
  • When mothers mourn . Kindler / Droemer Knaur, 1988, ISBN 3-426-04806-X .
  • Blessed Meal - The best recipes from the rectory kitchen . Liborius, 1994, ISBN 3-9801261-6-1 .
  • The knot above my heart . Karl Blessing Verlag, 2000, ISBN 1-4000-3970-3 .
  • Breast Cancer Survival Book . Schattauer Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-7945-2487-X .
  • Mutual fairy tales for women with breast cancer - fairy tales help heal. Published by mamazone - Women and Research Against Breast Cancer eV, from 2012.

Memberships

  • since 1972 member of the Italian Chamber of Journalists in Rome
  • since 2001 member of the German Cancer Society (DKG)
  • since 2004 member of the advisory board of the German Society for Senology (DGS)
  • since 2008 member of the Oncological Gynecology Working Group (AGO)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Luise Malferteiner: The cancer and its opponent. (PDF; 329 kB) In: Dolomites. 19./20. November 2011.
  2. ↑ Who is Ursula Goldmann-Posch. (PDF; 115 kB) In: In Focus Oncology. 3/2011.
  3. ↑ Competent patient. In: Augsburger Allgemeine. October 4, 2008.
  4. ^ Sibylle Huebner-Schroll: With knowledge against powerlessness and fear. (PDF; 197 kB) In: Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung. October 12, 2009.
  5. ^ Regina Albers: Learning from the killers. ( Memento of the original from April 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 4.8 MB) In: Focus. 6/2002. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stiftungpath.org
  6. ↑ pons-stiftung.org
  7. ↑ Follow-up care: After breast cancer is often before (the next) breast cancer. Video interview by Ursula Goldmann-Posch with oncologist Volker Heinemann, LMU Munich-Großhadern campus
  8. ↑ After breast cancer: We feel left alone. (PDF; 377 kB) at: pons-stiftung.org
  9. ↑ mamazone founder receives award. (PDF; 569 kB) In: Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung. April 21, 2010 (for the award of the Federal Cross of Merit to Ursula Goldmann-Posch)
  10. ↑ Message on mamazone.de , accessed on July 14, 2016
  11. ↑ About us - German Engagement Prize
  12. ↑ mutmachmaerchen.de
personal data
SURNAME Goldmann-Posch, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian author and medical journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Bolzano
DATE OF DEATH 4th June 2016
Place of death Wurzburg