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SWR author Kathi Liesenfeld accompanied the three visually impaired people and witnessed their daily struggle for their eyesight. The 74-year-old now faces an important examination at the eye clinic, which will determine whether there are still treatment options for him.

Peter Schroeder suffers from macular degeneration, a retinal disease that often leads to blindness in older people. The 45-year-old is not giving up hope and wants to raise money for research with a charity run. Now the 22-year-old hopes for a new gene therapy.ДЄnne Kinski is also at risk of losing her eyesight. This eye disease was previously considered incurable. As a result, his field of vision narrows more and more into what is known as tunnel vision. Maximilian Maag is nearly blind, he has Retinitis Pigmentosa, a hereditary retinal disease. Donations can also still be made there.ДЄbout the film 'Hope for Eyesight - New Therapies, New Chances?' by Kathi Liesenfeld: Information about the run and the research project can be found at the following link. Professor Ueffing is grateful for any support that can help to give a perspective to the more than seven million people with age-related macular degeneration and an estimated eighty thousand others affected in Germany. Research is being conducted into a therapy for all retinal diseases, regardless of whether they are genetically caused or not.

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That is why she is particularly committed to promoting research: 'I am convinced that medical progress will soon make it possible to cure progressive eye diseases that were previously untreatable.'ДЄs a member of PRO RETINA, Anne Kinski donated the funds raised from her 100-kilometer run to support a scientific project at the Research Institute for Ophthalmology led by Professor Dr. There is currently no therapy for this genetic retinal disease. No matter what life situation they are in.' Anne Kinski was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa in 2015. 'My hope is to encourage people that it is always worth fighting. Before and during the run, she was accompanied by the film team and can now be seen with her story in the aforementioned documentary and to encourage all those affected (Link to ARD Mediathek) and in September 2021 she ran the 100km -Ostseewanderweg in 22.5 hours for research funding. Anne Kinski is a member of the patient organization PRO RETINA Deutschland e.V. But new treatment methods and innovative inventions give hope - as in the case of Maximilian Maag, Anne Kinski and Peter Schroeder, who fear for their eyesight. Because often neither conventional medicine nor alternative healing methods can help. Serious and rare diseases leave affected people and their relatives in despair.

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