Couples therapist Dr Sharon Brehm is convinced: We are all capable of relationships. Because love is a skill and we can all learn it. In this guidebook, she tells us honestly and compassionately about the difficulties of finding a partner today and how we can overcome them. The scientifically based insight into the art of love is complemented by practice-tested tips, questions for self-reflection and coaching exercises.
Mona Nikolay is Eva Siegmund’s pseudonym. She is a full-time writer who publishes gripping adult and young adult books for Droemer, Knaur and cbt. Her crime novels and thrillers have all been recorded as audio books. Mona is a trained certified church painter with all the regalia as well as having studied law. She earned her first credits in the publishing world in the licensing department and the editorial office of a Berlin-based audio book publisher.
Dr. med. Klaus-Dieter Früchtenicht is a practising paediatrician and paediatric neurologist in Berlin, before which he worked as a senior physician at various hospitals.
Prof. Dr. Georg Seifert is a senior physician in paediatric oncology and professor of naturopathy and integrative medicine in paediatrics at the Charité in Berlin and at the University of Sao Paulo, where he researches Brazilian naturopathy and traditional medicine. Georg Seifert has three children.
Born in Düsseldorf in 1969, Frauke Scheunemann holds a doctorate in law. She completed a traineeship at NDR and then worked as a journalist and press officer.
Born in 1968, Professor Dr. Peter Vajkoczy has been Medical Director of Neurosurgery at the Charité Universitätsmedizin in Berlin since 2007 and is considered one of the most renowned neurosurgeons worldwide. Peter Vajkoczy received a scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation and studied in Munich. Before moving to Berlin, he worked for eleven years in Mannheim where he specialized in neurosurgery.
Claudia Ley is the pseudonym of a Spiegel bestselling author with German-Italian roots. She also studied in Italy and still maintains her second residence there. She lives with her family in the bubbling heart of London, still practices her profession as an editor and translator with enthusiasm and loves travelling, Italian cuisine including red wine and Juventus Turin.
Alec Martens, born in Belize in 1960, has written thrillers and non-fiction books on explosive scientific and social topics, including several Top 10 bestsellers. With a doctorate in humanities and social sciences, he has successfully dabbled as a hermit on an Indonesian island, a matchmaker in Isan, Thailand, a treasure hunter in the Guatemalan jungle, a spin doctor in boardrooms, a VIP whisperer, a trainee in a morgue, and a magician in Haiti, but has found happiness and fulfillment primarily in his books.
Mia Löw studied law and German and worked as a lawyer and assistant director in the theater. Today she writes successful New Zealand sagas, family mystery and romance novels. She lives in Hamburg with her family and dog.
Anne Hertz is the pseudonym of the sisters Frauke Scheunemann and Wiebke Lorenz. Before the author was born in Hamburg in 2006, she was born in Düsseldorf in 1969 and 1972. Fifty percent of her studied law, the other half German and English. After that, 100 percent worked as a journalist. Anne Hertz has an average of 3.5 children, 1.0 husbands and 0.3 pets, she is 170.5 cm tall and weighs - depending on the season - between 58.6 and 69.5 kilograms.