Education
Ehgartner studied in Vienna, journalism, political science and computer science (no degree) and completed courses on evidence-based medicine.
Ehgartner studied in Vienna, journalism, political science and computer science (no degree) and completed courses on evidence-based medicine.
Since 1987 he has worked as a freelancing journalist writing for the weekly news magazine profil, Der Standard, an Austrian daily newspaper, and for Süddeutsche Zeitung, the largest German daily newspaper. From 1990 to 1996 he was editor in charge of the Austrian weekly magazine Die Ganze Woche, and from 2000 to 2005 he was editor in charge of the health website surfmed.de He also wrote several books on health and science topics. He spent the past years investigating the topic of aluminum and human health and wrote a book, "Dirty Little Secret – The Aluminum Files" (only available in German) and directed a 90-minute documentary film, The Age of Aluminum, where he explains the science behind the threat that he infers from certain aluminium compounds (eg Aluminium sulfate by referencing the Camelford water pollution incident) 2000: Medikinale-International Munich, Germany: First price "summa cum laude" for the documentary film "Ticks - The Real Vampires" (2000).