Alwin Schönberger

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Alwin Schönberger (2015)

Alwin Schönberger (* 1968 in Vienna ) is an Austrian science journalist and author . He is the head of the science department of the news magazine profil .

Life

Alwin Schönberger has been writing for various media in Austria and Germany since 1989, mainly in the magazine sector. Among other things, he wrote for Basta magazine . He is the author of several non-fiction books and a designer of television documentaries. At the news magazine profil he heads the science department and is responsible for the project for the knowledge magazine profil Wissen, which is published four times a year .

In the book Grenzgänger: Austrian Pioneers between Triumph and Tragedy , he and a team of authors dealt with the biographies of Austrian visionaries and inventors, including those of Karl Kordesch , Hermann Oberth , Ludwig Hatschek , Eduard Suess , Oleh Hornykiewicz , Wilhelm Kress , Marietta Blau , Joseph Hyrtl , Wolfgang Schleidt , Walter Thirring and Hans Tuppy .

Together with Christian Köberl , he published the book Achtung Steinschlag! Asteroids and Meteorites: Deadly Peril and Cradle of Life , which was nominated as Science Book of the Year 2019 in the Natural Science / Technology category.

Besides his work as a journalist and author, he is a guitarist and blues musician active, along with about Titus forest rock , and stepped at Jazzfest Wiesen , the Vienna Blues Spring and ORF - RadioKulturhaus on.

Awards

  • 2012: Pain Award - Austrian Journalist Prize Pain from Grünenthal GmbH and the Austrian Pain Society (ÖSG)
  • 2015: Cardinal Innitzer Prize - Appreciation Prize

Publications (selection)

  • 1994: Alm-Rausch: the everyday tragedy behind the leisure machinery , with a prologue by Felix Mitterer , Ueberreuter, Vienna 1994, ISBN 978-3-8000-3499-4
  • 1995: Patient doctor: der kranke stand , Ueberreuter, Vienna 1995, ISBN 978-3-8000-3560-1
  • 2006: The unique intelligence of dogs , Piper, Munich / Zurich 2006, ISBN 978-3-492-04823-1
  • 2015: Cross-border commuters: Austrian pioneers between triumph and tragedy , with a foreword by Brigitte Ederer and contributions by Regina Adler et al., Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-85033-897-4
  • 2016: The anti-allergy book: triggers, chances of recovery and the latest forms of therapy , together with Rudolf Valenta, Piper, Munich / Berlin / Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-492-05704-2
  • 2018: watch out for falling rocks! Asteroids and meteorites: Deadly danger and cradle of life , together with Christian Köberl , Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-7106-0094-4

Discography (selection)

  • 2011: First Blues
  • 2013: The Fingerstyle File , live recording of a solo evening in the Kulturcafé of the ORF - Radiokulturhaus

Web links

Commons : Alwin Schönberger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Alwin Schönberger: Information . Retrieved January 9, 2018.
  2. ^ Alwin Schönberger | PROFIL.at . Retrieved January 9, 2018.
  3. ↑ derStandard.at: A culture of dignified failure . Article dated June 9, 2015, accessed on January 9, 2018.
  4. ↑ derStandard.at: Between fame and lucklessness: Austrian inventors' fates . Article from March 28, 2015, accessed on January 9, 2018.
  5. ↑ Public vote for Science Book of the Year begins . Article dated October 30, 2018, accessed October 30, 2018.
  6. ↑ orf.at: election to the science book of the year . Article dated October 30, 2018, accessed October 30, 2018.
  7. ^ Alwin Schönberger: Occupations . Retrieved January 9, 2018.
  8. ↑ JournalistenPreise.de - Pain Award - Austrian Journalist Prize Pain . Retrieved January 9, 2018.
  9. ↑ Innitzer Prize 2015 goes to former VfGH President Korinek . Article from November 16, 2015, accessed on January 9, 2018.
  10. ^ Alwin Schönberger: Sound carrier . Retrieved January 9, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Schoenberger, Alwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian science journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna