‘Be Brave!’: Memories of an Adventurous 95 Years
‘I’m getting on a bit. But so far things have gone pretty well.’
Courage, confidence, self-assurance: All these things are characteristic of Marianne Koch. They are qualities she learned from her mother, who brought her up in a single-parent household. She didn’t meet her father – Rudolf Schindler, a Jewish doctor who was forced to emigrate – until she was an adult. By then she had left medical school to become an actress, and her film career had taken her to Hollywood. Yet medicine remained her passion, and after divorcing the father of her sons – a period of major upheaval in her life – she resumed her studies. She worked as a specialist in internal medicine, while remaining a media presence. In this book, she offers us an insight into various episodes of her rich and eventful life. Marianne Koch looks back, and what she feels most of all is gratitude.
- Daughter, Hollywood actress, mother, doctor, television host and journalist: insights into an eventful life
- The long-awaited autobiographical retrospective: for the author’s 95th birthday on 19th August 2026
- Total print-run of Marianne Koch with dtv: 900,000 copies
Marianne Koch, born in 1931, practised for decades as an internist, and now works as a medical journalist and author. The doctor hosts the weekly radio programme 'Das Gesundheitsgespräch' (The Health Talk). Marianne Koch has been honoured numerous times for her work in the media communication of medical topics. In May 2019, she received the Paracelsus Medal, the highest honour granted by the German Medical Association.
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