Conference: The doctor and writer Martin Gumpert

Martin Gumpert wrote specialist books, prose, and poetry. As a Jew, he was subjected to systematic disenfranchisement and persecution under National Socialism and emigrated to the USA in 1936.

On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of his death, lectures will commemorate his life and work.


Program

11:00 a.m.: Welcome address, Nathan Friedenberg, Head of the Remembrance Culture and History Department, Director of the Mitte Museum

11:15 a.m.: Martin Gumpert – his life and work as a physician, poet, writer, and researcher, Dr. med. Ulrike Keim, specialist in internal medicine and author of a biography on Martin Gumpert

12:00 p.m.: Crisis in medicine in the 1920s – 100 years later?, Prof. Dr. phil. Florian G. Mildenberger, medical historian and author

12:30 p.m.: "Medicine is always also a social science" – Martin Gumpert's work as a physician and his legacy for contemporary medicine, Dr. med. Ellis Huber, President of the Berlin Medical Association 1987-1999

1:00 p.m.: Lunch break

2:00 p.m.: "Reviving a spiritual medicine" – Martin Gumpert's philosophical ideas, Prof. Dr. Christoph Quarch, philosopher, author, and publicist

2:30 p.m.: "Only the combination of science and art can produce a good doctor" – Martin Gumpert's visions in the 21st century, Prof. Dr. Hartmut Schröder, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Therapeutic Communication

3:00 p.m.: "Very, very alone..." – The loneliness of the human being and emigrant Martin Gumpert, Dr. Ulrike Keim, specialist in internal medicine and author of a biography about Martin Gumpert

3:30 p.m.: Recitation of the poem "You lack imagination," by Gerhard Haase-Hindenberg, actor and author

4:00 p.m.: Questions and discussion


(IN GERMAN)