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Marianne Koch

Marianne Koch, born in 1931, gave up her international film career in order to resume her medical studies. For decades, she practised as an internist and worked as a medical journalist with her own radio programme as well as being a prolific author for many years. Marianne Koch has been honoured numerous times for her work, thus receiving the Paracelsus Medal in 2019 (the highest honour granted by the German Medical Association) and the Federal Cross of Merit (Bundesverdienstkreuz) in 2023.

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