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Hans Weiss was born on 1950 in Vorarlberg, Hittisau, Austria, is an An austrian male writer. Discover Hans Weiss's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 74 years old?

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Age 74 years old
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Born 1950
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Birthplace Vorarlberg, Hittisau, Austria
Nationality Austria

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1930

For Example, in the book "The People of Langenegg" (Die Leute von Langenegg), where he described life in the 1930s and 1940s in a remote Austrian Peasant village.

Occasionally he writes fiction.

1950

Hans Weiss (born 1950) is an Austrian writer (fiction and non-fiction), journalist and photographer

Hans Weiss lives and works as an independent writer and photographer in Vienna, Austria.

His books sold more than five million copies worldwide and have been translated into twenty languages.

Weiss was born in Hittisau, a remote village in Austria.

1976

He studied psychology, philosophy and sociology in Innsbruck and Vienna and graduated in 1976 with a PhD. His thesis about the horrible state of care in an Austrian psychiatric clinic caused a scandal.

After legal disputes and an internal investigation the director of the clinic was dismissed.

The PhD-theses led to widespread reforms in the psychiatric services in Austria.

1977

In 1977 he got a four-month scholarship from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to study psychiatric services in Italy.

1978

Hans Weiss completed his studies at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna with an MA in sociology in 1978.

In 1978–79 he went to Cambridge, England, and London with a scholarship from the British Council to study the psychiatric services in England.

1981

His first book Gesunde Geschäfte (Healthy Business – about the malpractices of the pharmaceutical industry), written 1981 in collaboration with three colleagues, was an immediate bestseller in the German speaking world.

For this book he worked as a salesman for the pharmaceutical companies Bayer and Sandoz and collected thousands of highly confidential files.

Healthy business describes in detail how pharmaceutical companies bribe doctors and use patients as guinea pigs.

1982

Between 1982 and 1984 he directed award-winning TV-documentaries for the Austrian Broadcast Corporation ORF.

1983

His next book Bittere Pillen (Bitter Pills – risks and benefits of the most frequently used drugs), written 1983 in cooperation with the same colleagues as his first book, was an even greater success – with more than three million copies sold.

This comprehensive reference work is updated every three years and is up to the present day used by patients and doctors alike.

Since then, he wrote more than twenty books, as author or co-author, fiction and non-fiction.

His main topics are unethical practices of multinational companies (The Black Book of Corporations), tax evasion tricks of global banks and companies (Antisocial Market Economy) and especially Medicine (Corrupt Medicine, The promises of the Beauty Industry).

1989

During the spring-term of 1989 he taught methods of investigation at the Institute for Journalism and Communications (University of Vienna).

For his often daring investigations he posed as a salesman for drug companies, as a consultant for big pharmaceutical companies, doctor, import/export-dealer, heir of a wealthy company owner, prison psychologist and patient.

Sometimes he is focussing his view on very small communities or on one person.

1994

In 1994/95 he lived in New York City and attended classes at the International Center of Photography.

1998

In 1998 and 2011 he completed courses at the Schule für künstlerische Fotografie (School of Art Photography) in Vienna.

1999

For Example, the novel Kulissen des Abschieds (Scenery of the goodbye), published in 1999 by Ullstein Verlag/Berlin.

2005

In his fiction work he intertwines personal experience with historic facts, for Example in the book Mein Vater, der Krieg und ich (My father, the war and I), which was published in 2005 by Kiepenheuer & Witsch in Cologne, Germany.

For this publication he used the secret diaries his father wrote during military service in World War II and during the holidays in his village.

His father was a simple soldier with an anti-Nazi attitude, stationed in Norway at the Russian Front and captured as a prisoner of war in France.

2006

His journalistic reports for the magazines Der Spiegel, Stern, Die Zeit or the Austrian newspaper Der Standard often caused heated political debates, for Example the illegal employment of a nurse in the family of the Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel in 2006 or the lush farm subsidies to multimillionaires.

2012

His photographs were on show in group exhibitions in the Museum der Moderne in Salzburg (2012, Rupertinum Salzburg (2012), Fotogalerie Vienna (2011), Saline Hallein (2010), Palazzo Zenobio in Venice (2009) and various other places. Single exhibitions at "Deutsches Haus New York" (2015) and Soho Photo Gallery New York (2016, 2017 and upcoming October 2018). In 2014/15 he again lived in New York City and published the diary Große Träume (big dreams) about his everyday live.

2018

In February 2018 he published a series of three articles in the German weekly Die Zeit, about the tax avoiding schemes of multinational companies in Austria.