Marie Mannschatz lives and writes in Schleswig, Holstein, close to Hamburg in Germany.
She has just published her latest book, "Buddhas Anleitung zum Glücklichsein", after a first book about Metta-Meditation (2002) and a best-selling introduction to mindfulness meditation (2005) which was recently translated into the Dutch language.
Marie Mannschatz has been working as a psychotherapist in private practice for more than twenty years.
In the beginning of the Nineties she was trained by Jack Kornfield as a meditation teacher.