Markus C. Schulte von Drach

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Markus C. Schulte von Drach

Markus Christian Schulte von Drach (born October 5, 1965 in Dortmund ) is a German science journalist and writer.

Life

After studying biology and doing a doctorate with Hubert Markl at the University of Konstanz , Schulte von Drach worked as a freelance journalist for various newspapers, including Süddeutsche Zeitung , Berliner Zeitung , Die Welt and Neue Zürcher Zeitung .

From 1999 he worked as a freelancer for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, since 2000 he has been working at Süddeutsche.de as an editor in the politics , science and society departments . His specialist areas of expertise are brain research , psychology , behavioral biology and biology in general.

Schulte von Drach has published two novels with which he brings the readers closer to aspects of brain research that are important for society , in particular the danger of consciousness manipulation and the question of freedom of will and responsibility. In his third novel, he takes a critical look at the subjects of religion and belief, atheism , evolution and creationism .

Positions

In 2017, he wrote an article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung in which he dealt with the social and moral effects of global warming and other environmental problems . In it he called for an expansion of the concept of freedom , which includes the planetary limits . The philosophy of “being able to buy and sell everything that people want or think they need” is not only “irresponsible and anti-social” but also in the end in view of global warming, since humanity is no longer a great waste of resources could afford. There is also no right to this “freedom of consumption”. Rather, "the freedom of one [...] not only stops where the freedom of the other" begins, but "where it comes at the expense of the livelihoods of others", that is, of people in developing countries and of future generations.

Works

  • Furor. dtv, Munich 2005.
  • The foreign will. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2009; Paperback: The Parasite. Knaur, Munich 2010.
  • Myth. Springer Spectrum, Heidelberg 2013.
  • with Lutz Wicke : The energy transition: more climate protection, but socially and economically compatible . Neumünster / Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-529-05395-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Climate heating. The time for small steps is over . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 9, 2017. Accessed November 11, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Schulte von Drach, Markus C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schulte von Drach, Markus Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund