Christian Schwägerl

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Christian Schwägerl (2017)

Christian Schwägerl (* 1968 in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate ) is a German science, politics and environmental journalist and author .

biography

Christian Schwägerl gained his first journalistic experience with the local newspaper Der neue Tag . In 1988 the Körber Foundation organized a history competition for the Federal President, and Schwägerl undertook a research trip to New Zealand with a grant . For his report he received the Herbert Weichmann Medal for journalistic talents. From 1989 to 1990 he trained as an editor at the German School of Journalism in Munich. He completed his studies in biology at the Free University of Berlin in 1996 with a Master of Science from the University of Reading . During his studies he worked as a freelancer for the magazine GEO and the Süddeutsche Zeitung .

In 1997 he joined the parliamentary editorial office of the Berliner Zeitung in Bonn . From 2001 to 2007 he worked for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in the feature section and in the politics and “nature and science” sections. From 2008 to 2012 he was responsible for the areas of environmental , energy and research policy in the capital city office of the news magazine Der Spiegel . Schwägerl has been working as a freelance author and journalist since 2012. He is also one of the directors of the "Anthropocene Project" at the Berlin House of World Cultures and is the external curator for the special exhibition on the Anthropocene at the Deutsches Museum in Munich.

Schwägerl has been writing about environmental issues for more than 20 years. For this he received several awards.

In September 2010, appeared in the Riemann-Verlag first book Schwägerls people's time - or make Destroy? The decisive epoch of our planet . It builds on the demand of the Nobel laureate in chemistry, Paul J. Crutzen, to rename our geological age from the Holocene to the Anthropocene ("Age of Man"), because man, through his consciousness, technology and the growth of population and economy, will protect the earth in the long term and irreversibly remodeled.

Schwägerl cites global warming , species loss and overfishing as evidence that humans have so far not been up to their new role as world rulers. In his opinion, this requires a process of cultural and social maturation, which can be achieved on the one hand with conscious moderation (for example in energy and meat consumption) and on the other hand with a scientific and technological offensive. Schwägerl developed the idea of ​​"biofuturism", in which the forces of science and technology are put at the service of the biosphere. The book was presented to the public on September 27, 2010 by the head of the UN environmental program , Achim Steiner . He praised it as an "intellectually demanding book" as well as "the work of a father who explains to his children what happens to our earth".

In January 2011 Schwägerl and Crutzen jointly published an essay in which they described the Anthropocene idea.

Together with the journalist Andreas Rinke, Schwägerl wrote the book 11 Threatening Wars , published in 2012 . It outlines conflict scenarios for the 21st century in fields such as space, nutrition, information technology, brain research and demography.

Awards

Publications

  • Human time: destroy or shape? The decisive epoch of our planet . Riemann Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-570-50118-4 .
  • Christian Schwägerl, Andreas Rinke: 11 threatening wars: The future conflicts over technologies, raw materials, demographics and food. C. Bertelsmann, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-570-10120-9 .
  • The analog revolution - when technology comes to life and nature merges with the internet . Riemann-Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-570-50137-5 .
  • The Anthropocene. The human era and how it shapes our planet. Synergetic Press, 2014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.menschenzeit.de
  2. ↑ essay (Engl.) ( Memento of the original on 28 January 2011 at the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / e360.yale.edu
  3. ↑ Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize ( Memento of the original from January 3, 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. .  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vf-holtzbrinck.de
  4. ↑ IUCN-Reuters Media Award ( Memento of the original from January 6, 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. .  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.iucn.org
  5. ↑ Ecosense Journalist Prize ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2011 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. .  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.econsense.de
  6. ↑ Reading sample from the publisher
  7. ↑ www.synergeticpress.com: Product Description
personal data
SURNAME Schwägerl, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German science, politics and environmental journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Willows in the Upper Palatinate