Münchhausen: Trapped in Pain (Swiss Press Text 2025, by Roland Gamp) - Swiss Press Award

Das Magazin

Roland Gamp

Wheelchair, feeding tube, artificial respiration: Vivienne suffers from a genetic defect – or are her parents making her sick? This story shows how a rare diagnosis tears a family in Aargau apart. And overwhelms the healthcare system. Legal proceedings are now pending against several doctors, and the parents are no longer allowed to see their child. Yet the teenager wants only one thing: "To finally be healthy."