Harald Stocker

Harald Stocker (born July 8, 1969 in Roth near Nuremberg ) is a German science journalist specializing in technology.

Career

After graduating from school, Stocker trained as an industrial mechanic. He then studied mechanical engineering and completed a journalistic training.

After working for regional television and as a freelance writer in Berlin , Stocker came to Munich in 1998 to join the founding team of the ProSieben show Galileo . In 2000 he moved to the production company of the show Welt der Wunder and since 2003 he has worked as a freelance writer and producer for various television stations. His popular science reports, documentaries and magazine articles have so far been seen on Bayerischer Rundfunk , ProSieben, ARTE , RTL II , ZDF , Kabel 1 , Phoenix , n-tv , 3sat , RTL , RBB and N24 .

In his journalistic work, Stocker mostly devotes himself to topics related to aerospace. He also produced reports from the war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan . Based on the comedy series M * A * S * H , he shot the report The real M * A * S * H ​​* in spring 2004 . He spent eight days with the Hamburg cameraman Uwe Alborn in a US Army war hospital in Balad , 50 kilometers north of Baghdad , and portrayed the lives of the nurses, doctors and patients. He then accompanied a patient on the flight for further treatment in Germany.

Harald Stocker lives in Munich.

Awards

• 2005: Hugo Junkers Prize , for a film about the crash of the Columbia space shuttle, Welt der Wunder , ProSieben
• 2006: Ludwig-Bölkow-Journalistenpreis , television section, for the report on Airbus A380 painting , Galileo , ProSieben, February 10, 2006
• 2007: Ernst Schneider Prize , television section, for the report on Airbus A380 livery , Galileo , ProSieben, February 10, 2006