Alexa Waschkau

Alexa Waschkau (2019)

Alexa Waschkau (born December 13, 1974 in Bad Pyrmont ) is a German author , podcaster and folklorist .

Life

In 2003, Alexa Waschkau completed her studies in folklore / European ethnology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster with a master's degree . The topic of the master's thesis was therapeutic fasting . A therapy in the context of the life reform movement .

From 2003 to 2012 she worked in Münster in the administration in the area of quality assurance . Since 2013 she has been working as a freelance writer, journalist and audio producer. She is married to Alexander Waschkau and lives in Hamburg .

Under the title Lebenslinien , she produces individual hearing biographies for private individuals.

Podcasting

Alexa Waschkau gained notoriety with the podcasting project Hoaxilla , which she has been running as "Hoaxmistress" with her husband, who podcasts under the pseudonym "Hoaxmaster", since 2010. The podcast describes itself as follows: “Hoaxilla deals with modern sagas (urban legends), media, culture and science from the point of view of the skeptical movement , without taking itself too seriously. The special thing about Hoaxilla is the pairing of skepticism and sociocultural consideration of everyday issues. It never gets dry, but always scientifically sound. ”In the first two years after the start of the project, it recorded more than a million downloads. In 2015, each new episode had between 25,000 and 50,000 listeners.

Furthermore, Waschkau operates the “dark” read- aloud podcast Black Sweet Stories , in which not only classical literature but also stories of young authors are read aloud.

Waschkau was several times at the Skepkon , which is held annually by the Society for the Scientific Investigation of Parasciences , as well as a guest speaker at the annual Symposium des turmdersinne in Nuremberg .

TV and radio appearances

On June 12, 2014, Alexa Waschkau was a guest with an article on conspiracy theories in the magazine Elektrischer Reporter of the broadcaster ZDFinfo . On January 18, 2017, the NDR media magazine ZAPP reported on the HOAXILLA project under the title Hoax as a hobby: A couple fights against fakes. Together with Alexander Waschkau she was in 2018 as an expert in the cable one telecast the most spectacular conspiracy theories invited.

Waschkau can be heard regularly as an expert at Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg and has been a guest several times on the DRadio Wissen broadcast Die Redaktionskonferenz.

From 2014 to 2018, she and her husband presented the Hoaxilla-TV magazine on the Internet television portal massengeschmack.tv run by the Hamburg journalist Holger Kreymeier .

She is with her husband Alexander regular guest at the series # long distance calls from Thomas Krappweis on the twitch -Channel WildMics .

Publications

• with Sebastian Bartoschek: Ghosthunting - In search of traces in the afterlife . Alibri Verlag , Aschaffenburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86569-173-6 .
• with Sebastian Bartoschek and Alexander Waschkau: You have to know! An interview with Dr. Axel Stoll . JMB Verlag , Hannover 2013, ISBN 978-3-944342-29-0 .
• with Sebastian Bartoschek: Psycho in the fairytale forest. A stroll through 24 fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm. Edition Roter Drache, Remda-Teichel 2014, ISBN 978-3-939459-83-5 .
• with Alexander Waschkau: The HoaX-Files Volume 1: Horror, Spuk and Bloody Mary . JMB Verlag, Hannover 2014, ISBN 978-3-944342-52-8 .
• with Diana Menschig: Dark Roots. dotbooks , Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-95824-520-4
• with Alexander Waschkau: The HoaX-Files Volume 2: Dangerous Dead . JMB Verlag, Hannover 2017, ISBN 978-3-944342-84-9

Contributions in publications

• Agartha in OP classified . Publishing house without ears, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-903006-27-0 or ISBN 978-3-903006-28-7 .
• Preface in Thought Worlds 2 - Interviews between madness and meaning. by Sebastian Bartoschek. JMB Verlag, Hannover 2014, ISBN 978-3-944342-39-9 .

Translations

• Edzard Ernst : Nazis, needles and intrigues. Memories of a skeptic . JMB Verlag, Hannover 2015, ISBN 978-3-944342-56-6 .
• Edzard Ernst: SchmU. Sham medical nonsense . JMB Verlag, Hannover 2019, ISBN 978-3-95945-008-9 .

Web links

• Hoaxilla website
• Literature by and about Alexa Waschkau in the catalog of the German National Library
• The skeptical dream team , interview with this side - the humanist magazine of March 1, 2014, accessed on August 2, 2015
• Alexa Waschkau in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Website Lebenslinien
2. ^ Homepage of Hoaxilla
3. ↑ Hoaxilla: A podcast is hunting for conspiracy theories , report by Augsburger Allgemeine from May 11, 2013, accessed on August 2, 2015.
4. ↑ Hoaxilla - A podcast hunted down conspiracy theories , report by Der Standard on May 11, 2013, accessed on August 2, 2015.
5. ↑ Hoax as a hobby: A couple fights against fakes , report by NDR.de on January 18, 2017, accessed on May 28, 2020
6. ↑ Hoaxilla: portrait
7. ^ From Aliens and Fortune Tellers , report of the taz on May 25, 2012, accessed on August 2, 2015.
8. ^ Science against nonsense , report by the taz in May 2015, accessed on August 2, 2015.
9. ^ Website of the podcast
10. ↑ On the trail of the ghost hunters , report of the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from May 10, 2013, accessed on August 2, 2015.
11. ↑ Monster, Pendel, Bloody Mary - Modern Big City Legends and Narrative Culture in Everyday Life ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), program of the series of events Except Senses 2014, accessed on August 2, 2015.
12. ↑ Episode 099: Conspiracy Theories , article from June 12, 2014, accessed on August 2, 2015.
13. ↑ ZAPP - the media magazine: Hoax as a hobby: A couple fights against fakes. In: ZAPP. NDR, January 19, 2017, accessed February 27, 2017 . 
14. ↑ GWUP: Kabel 1: “The most spectacular conspiracy theories” from October 24, 2018, accessed on January 9, 2019
15. ↑ DRadio Wissen: Jäger der Hidden Fakes , broadcast on March 26, 2015, accessed on August 2, 2015.
16. ↑ DRadio Knowledge: Don't believe every shit! , accessed August 2, 2015.
17. ↑ https://www.hoaxilla.com/hoaxilla-tv-endet-mit-sequence-100/ Hoaxilla-TV ends with episode 100
18. ↑ Hoaxilla-TV website on massengeschmack.tv ( memento from July 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 2, 2015.
19. ↑ https://www.twitch.tv/wildmics