Werner Bartens

Werner Bartens, 2017

Werner Bartens (* 1966 in Göttingen ) is a German doctor , historian , science journalist and non-fiction author .

Career

Werner Bartens attended the Hainberg-Gymnasium in Göttingen and, after graduating from high school, studied medicine, history and German at the universities of Giessen , Freiburg , Montpellier and Washington DC from 1985 to 1993, and passed the US state examination in medicine in 1992. Research stays at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda (Maryland) followed . In 1993 he also passed the German state examination in medicine at the University of Freiburg and then did his doctorate on the topic: Influence of genes on premature heart attack . In 1995 the master's degree in history and German studies followed in Freiburg. The subject of his master's thesis was race theories of the 19th and 20th centuries. After working as a doctor at the University Hospitals in Freiburg and Würzburg , another research stay at the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology followed . From 1997 Bartens worked as a book author, translator, freelance journalist and editor for the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Die Zeit , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , the daily newspaper and the Badische Zeitung . Since 2005 he has been working as an editor in the science department of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, since 2008 as managing editor.

In addition to his journalistic work, he has published numerous books with a total circulation of 1 million copies, which have so far been translated into 14 languages. Some of them such as B. Body lucky , the doctors Hater book or The Encyclopedia of Medical Errors developed within a short time bestsellers and were partly for months on the bestseller lists. He has received several journalism awards for his publications, including a. as Science Journalist of the Year 2009.

He also became known to a wider public through appearances on talk shows on German television.

Bartens lives near Munich.

Awards

• 1997: 1st prize from the Friedrich Deich Foundation for science journalism
• 2000: 1st Prize of the Health Foundation for Medical Journalism
• 2003: 2nd prize “ Science Book of the Year ” (Category: The Most Original Book) for “What am I? The best diseases in the world "
• 2006: 1st prize for the orthopedic journalism prize
• 2008: One of the journalists of the year 2008 (choice of Medium Magazin)
• 2009: 1st prize "Science Journalist of the Year"
• 2010: 1st prize Dr. Georg Schreiber Media Prize (nationwide special prize)
• 2012: 2nd prize "Science Journalist of the Year"
• 2013: 1st prize "Tönissteiner Media Prize"
• 2017: 1st prize "Media Prize of the Christoph Lohfert Foundation"
• 2018: 1st Prize Journalist Prize of the German Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (DGPRÄC)
• 2019: 1st prize Human Award

Publications (selection)

• Fat metabolism disorders in nephrotic syndrome with special consideration of lipoprotein (a) . Microfilm, Freiburg im Breisgau 1993, DNB 941116484 (dissertation University of Freiburg im Breisgau 1993, 95 sheets with graphic representations, 1 microfiche : 24 ×).
• The tyranny of genes. How genetic engineering is changing our thinking . Blessing, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-89667-066-2 .
• with Martin Halter, Rudolf Walther : Last Lexicon: with an essay on the era of encyclopedias (= Die Other Bibliothek , Volume 208), Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-8218-4512-0 .
• Lexicon of medical errors: half-truths, prejudices, questionable treatments . Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2004.
• The new lexicon of medical errors: even more prejudices, half-truths, questionable treatments . Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2006.
• The doctor haters book. An insider unpacks . Knaur, Munich 2007.
• Consultation hours - what is the problem with medicine, what patients want, how to recognize a good doctor . Knaur, Munich 2008.
• At the expense of the patient. How the hospital makes us sick . Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2008.
• Caution precaution! When prevention becomes useless or dangerous . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2008.
• Medicine and madness. Stories from the yellow sofa . Droemer, Munich 2009.
• Body happiness. How good feelings make you healthy . Droemer, Munich 2010.
• Happiness medicine - what really works . Droemer, Munich 2011.
• Desperate conditions. Why medicine makes people sick and the country poor . Droemer, Munich 2012.
• What holds couples together. Why you have to be able to smell yourself and why sex is overrated . Knaur, Munich 2013.
• Happy children. What makes them strong and healthy . Droemer, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-426-27583-2 .
• But that doesn't look good at all. What we never want to hear from doctors again . Pantheon, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-570-55232-2 .
• It is enough! No more wrong regulations. A polemic . Weissbooks.w , Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-86337-064-0 .
• How touch helps. Why women love hot water bottles and men should drink more tea . Knaur, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-426-78718-2 .
• Empathy: The Power of Compassion - Why Empathetic People Are Healthy and Happy . Droemer, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-426-27651-8 .
• The terror of healthy eaters: put an end to the wrong dietary regulations . Goldmann, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-442-22121-9 .
• Feel! You! Well! 333 recipes for a long and healthy life . Droemer, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-426-27681-5 .
• Injured, screwed up, burned. How sports clubs and coaches destroy our children . Droemer, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-426-27708-9 .
• Partner happiness - how a healthy and lasting relationship succeeds . Insel Verlag 2017, ISBN 978-3-458-17676-3 .
• Women's consultation - what helps us, what makes us healthy . (with Silke Bartens), Droemer, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-426-27625-9
• Emotional violence. What really hurts us: hurt, humiliation, deprivation of love and how we protect ourselves against it . Rowohlt, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-7371-0028-1 .

Web links

Commons : Werner Bartens  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Werner Bartens in the catalog of the German National Library
• Werner Bartens website