Sylvia Wagner has attracted a lot of attention with her investigations into pharmaceutical testing done on children in child protective services. Without her research, it would probably still not be known today that such trials took place. Wagner was born in Essen in the mid-1960s and spent the first years of her life in state-run orphanages and child-care homes. With this background, it was not natural for her to go to high school and graduate. But she refused to attend any other school. She studied pharmacology and then worked in various pharmacies. When she began to look more closely at her own biography about ten years ago, she came across the topic of pharmaceuticals in educational institutions. In 2019, she completed her doctorate on this issue. Today, as a pharmaceutical historian, she continues to research it. In the autobiographical novel "heimgesperrt" she interweaves her own story with her scientific findings.
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Mit Sylvia Wagner and Marcus Bensmann
Der Roman der Autorin und Pharmazeutin Sylvia Wagner beleuchtet ein dunkles Kapitel der deutschen Geschichte: Bis in die 1970er Jahre wurden in Deutschland Menschenversuche an Heimkindern durchgeführt. Sie spricht mit Marcus Bensmann darüber wie sie, selbst ein früheres Heimkind als Pharmazeutin Medikamentenversuche in deutschen Kinderheimen aufdeckte.