Dagmar Röhrlich

Dagmar Röhrlich (* 1956 in Aachen ) is a German science journalist .

Life

Röhrlich studied geology and geophysics . She works as a freelance journalist for radio and print media . Their radio features could be heard on WDR , Deutschlandfunk and Südwestrundfunk , among others . In 1999 she received the Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Science Journalism for her radio work . Your radio feature The Search for Other Earths - From the Origin of Life for WDR was awarded the RWTH Prize for Science Journalism in 2003. In January 2012 Röhrlich received the award "Science Journalist of the Year" from medium magazin of Oberauer-Verlag.

Röhrlich published numerous books on various scientific topics, some of which are specifically aimed at children and young people.

In April 2002, Röhrlich became (as the successor to Edgar Forschbach ) treasurer of the Science Press Conference (WPK). She lives with her family in Cologne .

In 2010, Röhrlich worked as a “Goethe Writer in Residence” at the University of British Columbia , where she held seminars at the Institute for Journalism.

She is the author of entire programs for the daily Deutschlandfunk Background magazine .

In the 2019/2020 winter semester, Röhrlich held the Springer Nature Guest Professorship for Science Communication at Heidelberg University, where she designed a program with several workshops and public lectures.

Awards

• 1997: Media award of the "State Initiative Future Energies NRW"
• 1999: Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Economic Journalism for Chelyabinsk 65 - the secret disaster in the Urals
• 2002: Karl Winnacker Prize of the German Atomic Forum
• 2003: RWTH Prize for Science Journalism
• 2011: Science Journalist of the Year for her comprehensive coverage of the Fukushima nuclear disaster
• 2013: RWTH Prize for Science Journalism, 3rd Prize for Dose of Anxiety - About the Effects of Weak Radioactive Radiation
• 2018: Expopharm media award, category “Pharmacy and Politics” for delivery bottlenecks for medicines - emergency on the pharmacy shelf
• 2019: Springer Nature visiting professor for science communication at Heidelberg University

Fonts

• Primordial Sea: The Origin of Life . Mare, 2012 (Illustration: Jürgen Willbarth )
• Deep sea: Black smokers and flashing fish . Mare, 2010 (Illustration: Jan Feindt )
• The trace of humans: Or what the earth has to endure . Bloomsbury, 2008
• Hello? Someone out there? The origin of life and the search for new worlds . Spectrum Academic Publishing House, 2008
• Evolution on the roller coaster: Or why we humans owe our existence to a volcanic eruption . Bloomsbury, 2006 (Illustration: Kristina Möller )

Web links

• Literature by and about Dagmar Röhrlich in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Dagmar Röhrlich  in the German Digital Library
• Dagmar Röhrlich at perlentaucher

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dagmar Röhrlich receives the 2003 RWTH Science Journalism Prize. Science Information Service, October 2, 2003
2. ↑ Science Journalist of the Year
3. ↑ Book review of the trace of people in Deutschlandradio Kultur
4. ↑ WPK treasurer Dagmar Röhrlich receives journalist award. Science Information Service, May 15, 2002
5. ↑ 2010 Goethe Writer in Residence - Dagmar Röhrlich | University of British Columbia - Institute for European Studies
6. ↑ Broadcasts Deutschlandfunk background by Dagmar Röhrlich:
   • Safety of nuclear power plants - Germany and Sweden in a country comparison from August 29, 2006
   • Trust is good - control is not always better - How does nuclear supervision work in Germany? dated July 21, 2009
   • with Jule Reimer: Pumped Out - Big Oil and the Future of Oil Production from June 17, 2010
   • with Bettina Klein and Stephan Lochner: Endurance test - The BP Group and the consequences of the oil disaster of July 21, 2010
   • with Annette Wilmes : After the abandonment of the nuclear phase-out - constitutional lawsuits against longer power plant runtimes filed on February 28, 2011
   • with Arndt Reuning and Günter Hetztke: After the catastrophe in Japan - Germany is again discussing the nuclear phase-out on March 13, 2011
   • with Wolfram Stahl and Dirk Vilsmeier: Yes, nuclear phase-out, the only question is when? - At the weekend, ethics committee and coalition committee discussed on May 27, 2011
   • with Uschi Götz and Susanne Schrammar: After the nuclear phase-out - The search for alternatives to the nuclear repository in Gorleben from July 7, 2011
   • Meltdown of a Society - Insights into the Fukushima Exclusion Zone from August 23, 2011
   • Dispute over raw material extraction in the Central Pacific - Treasure on the sea floor provides explosive material on July 12, 2013
   • Disaster control 30 years after Chernobyl - difficult emergency planning for the worst-case scenario of April 25, 2016
7. ↑ Renowned science journalist Dagmar Röhrlich takes on the next Springer Nature guest professorship for science communication - Klaus Tschira Foundation. Retrieved January 9, 2020 (German). 
8. ↑ The Journalists of the Year 2011 - medium magazin
9. ↑ Awards - Excellent Authors . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed October 17, 2018]).
10. ↑ Journalist Awards at journalistenpreise.de, accessed October 12, 2018
11. ↑ Press release Expopharm accessed October 12, 2018
12. ↑ Delivery bottlenecks for medicines - emergency on the pharmacy shelf , Deutschlandfunk , background from February 26, 2018
13. ↑ Article at mirror online
14. ↑ Book tip at 3sat