Annika Brockschmidt

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Annika Brockschmidt (born June 10, 1992 in Berlin ) is a German journalist and author . Her main interests include the influence of right-wing evangelicals on Donald Trump's government , the gospel of prosperity , religious rights in the United States, German and international politics, as well as propaganda and the Second World War . Her specialty is genocide studies with a focus on the crimes of the Einsatzgruppen in World War II behind the Eastern Front against a psychological-historical background.

Career

After graduating from the Canisius College in Berlin in 2011 , Brockschmidt studied history and German studies at the University of Heidelberg from 2012 to 2017, spending an Erasmus semester at Durham University in 2015 . From 2017 to 2019 she completed a master’s degree in military history at the University of Potsdam , which she completed with a master’s thesis on SS-Einsatzkommando 8 and the escalation of violence in 1941. From July 2014 to November 2017, together with the physicist Dennis Schulz, she ran the Science Pie podcast on topics in the natural sciences and the humanities. Brockschmidt works as a freelance journalist for ZDF , Tagesspiegel and Zeit Online, among others . She has been producing the histoPod podcast for the Federal Agency for Civic Education since 2020 . Together with the British opera singer Lawrence Halksworth, she is producing the podcast "Forza!" Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany . Love of Opera. "

Reviews

In their Science Pie podcast, which appears in German and English, Brockschmidt and Schulz combine bits of knowledge from German and physics in around 15-minute recordings in order to convey “science in an entertaining way”. For Denis Schnur ( Süddeutsche Zeitung ), the podcast stands out from other podcasts with this combination of “somewhat out-of-the-way” humanities and natural sciences, which the two of them would prepare “entertaining, but above all lavishly” with its “fairly wide” range of topics from. The Funke Mediengruppe recommended the podcast 2016 in their blog on the Golden Camera in a list of German and English-language podcasts that you should “absolutely know”. In 2016, Brockschmidt presented the podcast at the “Science Communication Forum” at the invitation of Wissenschaft im Dialog .

In her book “Goethe's Faust & Einstein's Hook”, published in 2017 and aimed at young people from the age of 14, Brockschmidt presented funny or original facts from history, German studies and philosophy, while her co-author Dennis Schulz presented obscure and unexpected things from physics with formulas, quotations and individual performances , Chemistry and Biology held against it. For the science journalist Ulf von Rauchhaupt , some of it appeared “not without entertainment value”, but he criticized “the many factual blunders”. The winged words “ throw pearls before swine ” and “put light under a bushel ” were not translated by Martin Luther , but only literally translated by him from the New Testament . It is also wrong that by using the toothpaste Doramad, which was available until 1945, "the teeth shone blue after brushing" like the fuel elements in the basin of a nuclear reactor. For the educator and philosopher Adelheid Müller-Lissner ( Tagesspiegel ) the authors fought an “unequal battle” with “culture [...] against the science of nature”; They would have passed on their knowledge "with great cheerfulness", which is why one would "like to learn from the two of them".

Publications

  • with Dennis Schulz: Goethe's Faust and Einstein's Hook. The battle of the sciences . 2nd Edition. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg December 2017, ISBN 978-3-499-63270-9 , ( limited preview ).

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Denis Denis Schnur: This book is dedicated to the fight of the nerds against the aesthetes . In: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung . August 8, 2017.
  2. ↑ Pieces of the Science Cake . In: ruprecht.de. May 26, 2015.
  3. ↑ Annika Brockschmidt . on Patreon .
  4. ↑ Canisius College . ( Memento from April 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Berliner Morgenpost . 17th June 2012.
  5. ↑ Research colloquium summer semester 2020 . In: Philosophical Faculty of the University of Potsdam . April 7, 2020.
  6. ^ Author profile of Annika Brockschmidt . In: ZDF .
  7. ^ Author profile of Annika Brockschmidt . In: Der Tagesspiegel .
  8. ^ Author profile of Annika Brockschmidt . In: The time .
  9. ↑ histoPod .
  10. ↑ Forza! Love of opera.
  11. ↑ Denis Schnur: A piece of the cake . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . February 22, 2016.
  12. ↑ Michael C. Starke / WSFT: Ohrenschmaus: These are the best podcasts . In: goldenekamera.de . May 20, 2016.
  13. ↑ 9th Forum Science Communication of Science in Dialogue , 5. – 7. December 2016 in Bielefeld (documentation p. 57.)
  14. ↑ Ulf von Rauchhaupt : Bernoulli vs. Medici . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . December 13, 2017.
  15. ↑ Adelheid Müller-Lissner: Goethe versus Einstein . In: Tagesspiegel . December 6, 2017.
  16. ↑ Hochschulperle digital of the month: Science Pie . In: Donors' Association for German Science . July 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Brockschmidt, Annika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin