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Doctor Peter Radtke (19 March 1943 – 28 November 2020) was a German actor and playwright who was the author of many scientific publications on disability issues and had a Disability in Twentieth-century German Culture by Carol Poore, pg 220
/ref> From 1957 to 1961 Peter Radtke completed training as an interpreter of English, French and Spanish at a private foreign language school in
German National Ethics Council page mentioning him
His website
* 1943 births 2020 deaths German male stage actors German male film actors German people with disabilities Actors with disabilities Writers with disabilities Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany People with osteogenesis imperfecta German Hispanists {{Germany-actor-stub
Doctor Peter Radtke (19 March 1943 – 28 November 2020) was a German actor and playwright who was the author of many scientific publications on disability issues and had a PhD PHD or PhD may refer to:
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in Romance languages
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. As a small boy his parents and a sympathetic doctor allowed him to escape a Nazi
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euthanasia program./ref> From 1957 to 1961 Peter Radtke completed training as an interpreter of English, French and Spanish at a private foreign language school in
Regensburg
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. In 1963 he studied at the University of Pennsylvania
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and acquired a "Certificate into American Culture and Civilization." Afterwards he studied at Regensburg
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and Geneva
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. He would then go on to write an autobiography and appear in three films starting in 1995 with '. He did drama and theater work before that. In 2003 he was appointed as a member of the national ethics advisory committee by resolution of the Federal Cabinet. Dr. Radtke received a service medal from Bavaria
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on 17 July 2003. He had osteogenesis imperfecta
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.
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External links
German National Ethics Council page mentioning him
His website
* 1943 births 2020 deaths German male stage actors German male film actors German people with disabilities Actors with disabilities Writers with disabilities Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany People with osteogenesis imperfecta German Hispanists {{Germany-actor-stub