Willy EJ Schneidrzik

Willy Erich Josef Schneidrzik ( pseudonyms : Thomas Bruckner , Dr. med. Fabian , Gerd Hafner , Peter Sartorik , Peter Sebastian ; born September 10, 1915 in Berlin ; † January 9, 2007 in Cologne ) was a German thoracic surgeon and writer.

Life

Willy EJ Schneidrzik was the son of a businessman. He attended the Falk-Realgymnasium in Berlin-Tiergarten , where he passed the school leaving examination in 1936. He then studied medicine at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . In 1941 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. After participating in World War II and being released from American captivity, Schneidrzik worked from 1945 as an assistant doctor to Erich von Redwitz at the Bonn University Hospital . During a one-year study visit to Great Britain (Liverpool, Bristol, London) in 1948 he specialized in the field of thoracic surgery , in which he was mainly active after his return to Bonn. From 1953 to 1957 he was senior physician in surgery at the Cologne University Hospital and from 1957 to 1959 head of the plastic surgery department at the Cologne University Skin Clinic.

After he had occasionally written columnist articles for the Düsseldorfer newspaper Der Mittag in the first post-war years , Schneidrzik wrote numerous medical articles for the illustrated Revue and Bunte in the 1950s . In addition, he wrote his first novels from the hospital environment. When the critical novels Kaserne Krankenhaus (1956) and Der Chefarzt (1959) appeared and the pseudonym was exposed, Schneidrzik lost his position and official status. He then opened a surgical doctor's practice in Cologne in 1959, which he ran until 1972.

Between 1964 and 1982 he delivered one novel per month under the pseudonym “Gerd Hafner” for the doctor's novel series “Dr. Thomas Bruckner ”from Bastei Verlag . The total circulation of these 239 works, which can be assigned to trivial literature, was already more than 10 million copies at the end of the 1980s. In the years that followed, Schneidrzik wrote a number of medical non-fiction books for laypeople as well as a weekly medical advice column in the program magazine Prisma until 2000 .

Willy EJ Schneidrzik was a member of the German Society for Surgery and the International Society of Surgery .

Honors

• Walter Trummert Medal from the Association of German Medical and Professional Press
• Prize medicine in the word of the Federal Association of Drug Manufacturers (1985)
• Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (1987)
• Johann Weyer Medal of the North Rhine Medical Association (1995)
• Media award from the professional association of ophthalmologists in Germany

Medical works and health guides

• Renal function after prostatectomy and electroresection . Berlin 1941
• Lung and esophageal resections . Jena 1950
• Pocket book of practical thoracic surgery . Stuttgart 1954 (preface by Erich v. Redwitz)
• Cosmetic surgery . Düsseldorf [u. a.] 1970
• Hope for millions . Bergisch Gladbach 1973
• Make the disease subject to you . Munich 1983
• The right medicine . Bergisch Gladbach 1985
• You don't have to be nervous! . Geneva 1985
• Saving pain . Geneva 1985
• Allergies - no reason to despair! . Geneva 1986
• Health in “prism” . 2 volumes, Düsseldorf 1986 and 1987
• Good looks, one more chance . Geneva 1986
• Relieve and get rid of rheumatism! . Geneva 1986
• The world of drugs . Stuttgart [u. a.] 1987
• Health guide for seniors . Stuttgart [u. a.] 1990
• Healthy all round . Bergisch Gladbach 1994

literature

• Volker Klimpel : A Surgeon Who Dr. Bruckner was . Surgical general , 16th year, 11th + 12th Heft (2015), pp. 605–607.

Web links

• Literature by and about Willy EJ Schneidrzik in the catalog of the German National Library
• Portrait on aerzteblatt.de
• Interview in May 2001

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} V. Klimpel (2015)