Irene Meichsner

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Irene Meichsner (* 1952 in Bonn ) is a German science journalist and author. She works regularly for the Kölner Stadtanzeiger and as a freelance journalist.

education

Irene Meichsner studied philosophy and history in Cologne and Freiburg and was graduated from the University of Cologne in 1982 with a thesis in philosophy with the thesis The logic of commonplaces . Demonstrated on helmsman's topos and ship metaphor for Dr. phil. PhD . From a literary point of view, Dietmar Peil rated the work as thoroughly stimulating and invigorating, but criticized omissions in metaphor-theoretical literature and “too casual” basic arguments such as the mechanism of the metaphor itself.

Work as a freelance journalist

Meichsner has been working as a freelance journalist in Cologne since 1981. Since 1990 she has been in charge of the science page of the Kölner Stadtanzeiger . Some of her book publications incorporate contributions from her journalistic work.

Meichsner is the author of over 70 episodes of the daily radio broadcast ZeitZeichen or Kalenderblatt .

Report on the dispute over Elisabeth Ströker

She gained national fame in 1990 when a report by Meichsner on the allegations of plagiarism by Marion Soreth against a colleague, the well-known Cologne philosopher Elisabeth Ströker , was stolen under the title Hübsch in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit . In the case of Soreth's allegations of plagiarism, the Philosophical Faculty in Bonn came to the conclusion that Ströker's work was "essentially ... independent". The Cologne faculty distanced itself from this judgment, stating that "neither then nor now" would Ströker's work have been accepted as a dissertation in Cologne. In an “ open letter ” from over 100 scholars, “one-sided reporting” against Ströker was also rejected as “not appropriate”. The discussion about the Ströker case continues to this day.

Work on environmental issues

With Gerd Rosenkranz and Manfred Kriener , Irene Meichsner dealt with the public relations work of the operators of nuclear energy in 1992 . The accompanying book was provided with a foreword by Greenpeace and described by Udo Leuschner as "media effective flank protection for an ongoing campaign by Greenpeace in the anti-nuclear movement ".

Together with Egmont R. Koch , she published a book in 1990 on the dubious handling of blood transfusions in the post-reunification period.

An article by Irene Meichsner in the Frankfurter Rundschau on alleged errors in the IPCC report on climate change was withdrawn from the newspaper after a complaint from Stefan Rahmstorf . The New York Times reported on this alleged success of Rahmstorf . Because of a blog post by Rahmstorf, Meichsner successfully sued the climate researcher and government advisor for omission in 2011 . Among other things, the conflict became the subject of an exchange of articles and statements with the science press conference , the Association of Science Journalists and their editor-in-chief Markus Lehmkuhl .

Award

Meichsner was awarded the Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Science Journalism in 2005.

Book publications (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Irene Meichsner: The logic of platitudes. Demonstrated on helmsman's topos and ship metaphor . Dissertation 1983
  2. Review (PDF; 1.8 MB) in: Journal for Reviews of German Literature Studies 5/1987, edited by Wolfgang Frühwald and Wolfgang Harms, CH Beck, Munich
  3. Why doesn't the woodpecker get a headache? Kuhrt, Nicola. - Cologne: DuMont, 2010 Spectrum April 15, 2008, Everyday Life in the Lucky Bag , by Christian Wiens
  4. Jump up ↑ The science of antiquity : Mss. On the series of the Bavarian radio, Irene Meichsner, Simona Schwerthöffer , Rüdiger Schwerthöffer Verlag TR-Verl.-Union, 1985
  5. Irene Meichsner: Pretty stolen. Cologne professor must fear for her doctorate . In: Die Zeit , No. 44/1990.
  6. Marc Dressler: Science out of control '. Part 2: Plagiarism . ( inspective.de - as of August 12, 2014)
  7. published in: Information Philosophy 1991, Issues 3 and 4
  8. ^ Debora Weber-Wulff: False Feathers. A Perspective on Academic Plagiarism . Heidelberg 2014. pp. 53–54.
  9. Review by Udo Leuschner
  10. Jump up ↑ Climate Change: The Truth About Climate Council Errors . Frankfurter Rundschau , April 30, 2010, accessed December 12, 2011 .
  11. Comments from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) + on the text “Independent scientist or political agitator” + by Markus Lehmkuhl in WPK Quarterly II / 2011 (accessed January 8, 2014; PDF; 130 kB), comments from the WPK Quarterly editorial team on the criticism of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) on the text "Independent scientist or political agitator?" by Markus Lehmkuhl in WPK Quarterly 2/2011 . [1] (accessed January 8, 2014; PDF; 130 kB)
  12. ^ Condemned researcher, scandal about the federal government's climate advisor , Spiegel Online, by Jana Hauschild December 1, 2011