Karsten Schwanke

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Karsten Schwanke (2019)

Karsten Schwanke (born February 5, 1969 in Ziesar , Brandenburg-Land district , GDR ) is a German meteorologist and television presenter .

Life

Karsten Schwanke grew up in Ziesar and attended school there until he graduated from high school. From 1987 to 1988 he then trained as a technical assistant for meteorology at the Meteorological Service of the GDR in Potsdam . He then began basic studies in meteorology at the Humboldt University in Berlin in 1988 , which he continued from 1991 to 1995 with the main studies at the University of Hamburg . He wrote his diploma thesis entitled “Simulation of volcanic eruptions” with the help of the world's first 3D volcano model at the German Climate Computing Center in Hamburg.

Schwanke lives in Cologne , is married and has two children.

Professional

From 1995 Schwanke worked for Jörg Kachelmann's Meteomedia AG and presented Das Wetter in Erste and from 1996 Das Wetter in ARD morning magazine . 1996–2001 he presented the animal program for children Chameleon as the first non-weather-related broadcast, and 1999–2003 also the ARD science program Kopfball and other science programs. In 2006 he switched to ZDF , where he presented the knowledge magazine Adventure Knowledge until May 4, 2011 , which was broadcast for the last time on that day. In January 2010, the show received the Golden Camera for “Best Information Knowledge Magazine”.

Since autumn 2011 he can be seen again as a meteorologist in the ARD, among other things in the weather before eight , in the ARD-Tagesthemen as well as in various third programs. In 2012 he founded the production company WQ Media GmbH together with Peter Prestel . With this company he produces the science talk show "SMS - Schwanke meets Science" moderated by him on ARD-alpha as well as reports for Arte .

In November 2018, Karsten Schwanke explained the connection between the long, dry summer and climate change in the weather before eight. The explanatory video became one of the most watched internet videos in November 2018. For this declaration he was nominated for the Grimme Prize 2019 . In September 2019 it was awarded the "TV Weather Forecast Award" for the best weather forecast in Europe.

Honors

TV presentations

  • since 1995 the weather in the ARD (with interruption from 2006 to 2011)
  • 1996–2001 "Chameleon" (ARD)
  • 1999–2003 " Header " (ARD)
  • 2002 Reporter at the world's first live ascent of a mountain in the Himalayas (Ama Dablam) with Hans Kammerlander ( ARD-Morgenmagazin )
  • 2004-2005 "Animal sake" ( RBB )
  • 2006–2011 " Adventure Knowledge " ( ZDF )
  • 2012-2013 "Pub Quiz" (RBB)
  • 2015 "Vancouver - the greenest city in the world?" (Presenter report, WDR worldwide)
  • 2016–2017 "Knowledge in the Flow" (Science Talk, ARD Alpha )
  • 2018 "Inside ISS" (ARD-Alpha)
  • since 2018 "SMS - Schwanke meets Science" (ARD-Alpha)

Movies

  • 2018 : "Melting Arctic - With climate researchers in the realm of polar bears" (Arte)
  • 2019 : "Adventure cave exploration - descent into the Hölloch" (Arte)

Books

  • Karsten Schwanke, Heike Rosbach: Clear to cloudy. Lightning clever and curious things about the weather . Ehrenwirth, Bergisch Gladbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-431-03715-9
  • Karsten Schwanke, Nadja Podbregar, Harald Frater: Weather, Climate, Climate Change: Knowledge for a world in upheaval . Springer, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-79291-8
  • Karsten Schwanke, Nadja Podbregar, Dieter Lohmann, Harald Frater: Natural disasters: cyclones, quakes, volcanic eruptions - unleashed violence and its consequences . Springer, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-88684-6
  • Karsten Schwanke, Harald Frater: Landforms: Our earth is changing - on the trail of the creative forces (phenomena of the earth) . Springer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-01312-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Doreen Brumme: ZDF presenter Karsten Schwanke on environmental protection, sustainability and a white Christmas. YaaCool-bio.de, accessed December 26, 2009 .
  2. ↑ Jens Schröder: #trending. meedia.de, November 26, 2018, accessed on January 21, 2019 .
  3. ↑ EMS TV Weather Forecast Award for Karsten Schwanke, Germany: European Meteorological Society. Retrieved September 12, 2019 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME Schwanke, Karsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH 5th February 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Ziesar , Brandenburg-Land district , GDR