Antje Bultmann

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Antje Bultmann (* 1941 ) is a German freelance journalist , science journalist , non-fiction author and artist.

Life

Antje Bultmann studied behavioral and social sciences in Heidelberg , Tübingen and Göttingen . She then worked for ten years as a home manager, teacher and lecturer and then completed another degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart . Then she headed a project “Environmental Protection and Church” in Munich.

Since 1991 Bultmann is a freelance journalist and science writer for various newspapers and magazines, among other things, for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the Munich-based Sunday paper, for the ecumenical magazine Publik-Forum , the science magazine W & F Science & Peace , space and time , and the Swiss magazine time . Bultmann's main topics are court reports , risk technologies , whistleblowing and moral courage . In this subject area, she also published several non-fiction books [1] and organized conferences at the Evangelical Academies. She conducted interviews with well-known personalities, e. B. with Klaus von Bismarck , Peter Ustinov , Jane Goodall , Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker , José Lutzenberger , Karlheinz Böhm , Carl Amery . She also published several non-fiction books on this subject.

Since 2001, as the successor to Günter Emde, she has headed the Ethics Protection Initiative (ESI) he founded in 1992 , a project of the International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility (INES). The focus is on voluntary support for whistleblowers. Bultmann was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Environmental Foundation from 2005 to 2007 and is a founding member of the Whistleblower Network e. V. , of which she was a member of the board until 2008. She was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Solbach-Freise Foundation for Civil Courage , which annually awards a prize for civil courage from the Solbach-Freise Foundation .

Bultmann sounded the alarm against the dependence of science on the economy and pleaded for a life-friendly science. She has turned to artistic-scientific photography since 2012 (Water Worlds). With hundreds of unknown water views, it draws attention to the complexity and vulnerability of life and to an ecologically sustainable world.

Bultmann is regarded as a “renowned expert” on the subject of “whistleblowing and moral courage” and is working on making this subject area public through publications and conferences. She also advises and networks whistleblowers and the media .

Antje Bultmann lives in Wolfratshausen .

Awards

In 2006 she was awarded the Austrian Science Prize Vienna Rupert Riedl Prize for her work on civil courage and whistleblowing for the preservation of nature and social peace , which was awarded to her by the Club of Vienna and the City of Vienna .

Fonts

Authorship

  • Heroes in the shadow of society. Civil courage and whistleblowing. 1st edition. Michaels-Verlag, Peiting 2010, ISBN 978-3-89539-229-0 .
  • Whistleblower: everyday heroes? In: Hans Herbert von Arnim (Ed.): Deficits in state and administration. Contributions to the 10th Speyer Democracy Conference on October 25 and 26, 2007 at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-13262-1 , pp. 47-54.
  • Trapped science. Between excellence and sustainability. 1st edition. VAS Verlag for Academic Writings, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-88864-152-7 . (With: Günter Altner)
  • For a transparent and life-friendly science and technology. In: Anita Fabig, Kathrin Otte (eds.): Environment, power and medicine. In honor of Karl-Rainer Fabig's life's work. Verlag Jenior, Kassel 2007, ISBN 978-3-934377-24-0 , pp. 291-298.
  • Dangerous moral courage. How whistleblowers mess with those in power. 1st edition. Westend-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-938060-07-7 . (With: Lothar Hausmann)
  • Whistleblower - The conscious conscience of our society. In: Antje Bultmann (ed. :) On the hit list. How critical scientists should be silenced. Natural scientist initiative Responsibility for Peace, Droemer Knaur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-426-77265-5 , pp. 17–36.
  • Scratches in the paint. Bullying in the company. In: Günter Grass et al. (Ed.): In a rich country. Evidence of everyday suffering in society . 3. Edition. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-88243-841-X , pp. 64-75.
  • “Nobody believes that anyway.” The restless life of Siegwart-Horst Günther . In: Günter Grass et al. (Ed.): In a rich country. Evidence of everyday suffering in society . 3. Edition. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-88243-841-X , pp. 252-262.
  • Our daily poison. In: Antje Bultmann (ed.): Poisoned and left alone. The victims of toxins in the mills of science and justice. Droemer Knaur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-426-77214-0 , pp. 13–34.
  • Experts in the twilight. In: Antje Bultmann et al. (Ed.): Purchasable Science. Experts in the service of industry and politics. 3. Edition. Droemer Knaur, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-426-77115-2 , pp. 14-26.

Editing

  • On the hit list. How critical scientists should be silenced. Natural scientist initiative Responsibility for Peace, Droemer Knaur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-426-77265-5 . ( Review )
  • Unscrupulous business. How business and industry put our lives at risk. Droemer Knaur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-426-77225-6 . (Co-editor: Hans-Jürgen Fischbeck ; review )
  • Poisoned and left alone. The victims of toxins in the mills of science and justice. Droemer Knaur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-426-77214-0 . ( Review )
  • Science for sale. Experts in the service of industry and politics. 3. Edition. Droemer Knaur, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-426-77115-2 . (Co-editor: Friedemann Schmithals; review )

items

  • Civil courage, courage and conscience. Article in the UNESCO online encyclopedia EOLSS (Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems), www.eolss.net, 2006. ( Digitized copy of the article in a publication of the Evangelical Academy Villigst , 2006; PDF file, pp. 10-14 .)
  • World Transition, Civil Courage and Whistleblowing to Protect Social Peace. UNESCO online encyclopedia EOLSS (Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems), www.eolss.net, 2006. (English)
  • An environmentalist as a spy in court. The "whistleblower" Nikitin . In: Science magazine W&F Wissenschaft & Frieden , ISSN  0947-3971 , 2002, issue 2. ( digitized version )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Antje Bultmann - Vita ( Memento of the original from November 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the José Lutzenberger initiative (currently under construction) . (Accessed December 15, 2010.) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.regina-rau.de
  2. ↑ Cf. The Ethics Protection Initiative ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Information on www.g-emde.de. (Accessed December 15, 2010.) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.g-emde.de
  3. ↑ See the Whistleblower Network Association founded! ( Memento of the original from December 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Information on the website of the Whistleblower Network e. V. of January 15, 2007. (Accessed December 15, 2010.) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.whistleblower-net.de
  4. ↑ See information on the Board of Trustees on the Solbach Freise Foundation for civil courage . (Accessed December 15, 2010.)
  5. ↑ Water Worlds
  6. ↑ See Klaus-Peter Strohm, Department for Information and Communication: Deficits in State and Administration: 10th Democracy Conference (…) . Press release of the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer from October 23, 2007. (Accessed December 15, 2010.)
  7. ↑ Cf. Werner Rügemer: Petze? Woman of the year! In: taz , January 5, 2005. (Accessed December 15, 2010.)
personal data
SURNAME Bultmann, Antje
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, science journalist and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH 1941