Heinrich Schiemann

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Heinrich Schiemann (born September 1, 1916 in Berlin ; † November 9, 2002 ) was a German science journalist .

Life

Heinrich Schiemann was born in Berlin, the son of the artist Elsa Schiemann , a sister of the educator Minna Specht , and the German-Russian graphic artist, painter and translator Eduard Schiemann . After various trips to the Orient, on which his mother and her partner, the newspaper correspondent Leopold Weiss (later: Muhammad Asad ), had taken him with them since 1922, he returned to Germany after his mother's death (1927 in Mecca). In 1938 he passed his exams as an aerospace engineer in Hamburg and began to work as an engineer at the German Research Institute for Aviation . From 1947 he worked as a science editor at NDR , from 1952 to 1954 he held a position as a consulting engineer in Pakistan , where he met Muhammad Asad again. He then returned to NDR and in 1963 switched to ZDF , where he headed the “Natural Science and Technology” department until his retirement in 1981.

Schiemann became popular through directing the ZDF series From Research and Technology and reporting on the Apollo moon landing project with the television broadcast of the 1969 moon landing . Schieman was also one of the live television commentators on the first manned return of a space shuttle on April 14, 1981 . He is considered a "pioneer of science reporting" (ZDF director Markus Schächter ).

His grave is in the Bleidenstadt cemetery .

Fonts

  • This is how space travel works. Technology and organization of the Apollo project. DVA, Stuttgart 1969.
  • 1 × orbit and back. Space travel 2nd generation. DVA, Stuttgart 1973, ISBN 3-421-02646-7 .
  • Experienced space travel. Locations and encounters. Umschau, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-524-69091-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pictures of the grave

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personal data
SURNAME Schiemann, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German science journalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 2002