Antje-Katrin Kühnemann

Antje-Katrin Kühnemann (born 22 February 1945) is a German doctor and television presenter. The daughter of an officer grew up with her mother and three siblings in Munich after the early death of her father. Her family originally came from northern Germany. After graduating from the St. Anna Girls' High School (now: St. Anna Municipal High School) in 1965, she initially wanted to study art education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, but then decided to study medicine at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. In 1971 she received her doctorate on the subject of Parotid gland disease in childhood. During her time as an assistant doctor, she worked on diabetes mellitus at the Munich-Schwabing Hospital under Hellmut Mehnert, on plastic surgery under Ursula Schmidt-Tintemann at the Rechts der Isar Hospital and on radiology at the Harlaching Municipal Hospital. She then worked at the Neuwittelsbach Hospital, a specialist clinic for internal medicine. From 1979 to the end of 2018 she was medical director of the Sanatorium Vital-Zentrum GmbH in Rottach-Egern in Bavaria.

In June 2010, Kühnemann publicly announced that she had breast cancer. After an operation, she began chemotherapy. She has had 40 operations as part of her treatment.