Eckart von Hirschhausen

Eckart Axel von Hirschhausen (born 25 August 1967 in Frankfurt) is a German physician who became known as a television host, comedian, author and journalist. He studied medicine at the Free University of Berlin, the University of Heidelberg and the University of London on a scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, and graduated magna cum laude from Heidelberg with a doctoral thesis on intravenous immunoglobulin therapy in pigs. In 1996 and 1997 he studied scientific journalism in Berlin. From 1998 to 2003 he presented the health advice programme Service: Gesundheit on Hessischer Rundfunk, and from 2004 he has written a weekly medicine column for Stern. He performs cabaret and magic, often on the doctor-patient relationship, and at the end of 2008 he founded a charitable foundation, Humor hilft heilen, to bring laughter into hospitals.