Jan Grossarth

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Jan Grossarth (born December 6, 1981 in Heidelberg ) is a German journalist and author .

Life

Grossarth grew up in Osnabrück , where until he Abitur the school Carolinium visited. As a schoolboy he worked as a reporter for the newspaper Osnabrücker Nachrichten , whose decline he made the subject of a report 20 years later. He studied economics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich ( graduate economist 2007). During his studies he worked for four years as a freelancer for the local section of the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Munich. In 2008 he became a volunteer at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . From 2010 to 2019 he was an editor in the economic department. In 2011 a travel report about " dropouts " appeared in book form. From 2013 he was responsible for the FAZ report page “People and Economy”.

In 2016, Grossarth published the report volume Vom Land in den Mund, in which he describes the tension between modern food production between emotional consumer wishes, ecological limits and economic realities.

In 2018 Grossarth received his doctorate from the University of Regensburg with a cultural studies thesis on metaphors in agricultural policy discourses. phil.

In 2019 the science journalistic volume Future Food , which he edited, was published . The future of world food , in which journalists and scientists explore the possibilities and limits of future world food. The research is based on a long-term journalistic project that he coordinated in 2018 for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the European Journalism Center in Maastricht.

In May 2019, Grossarth became project manager at the Federal Statistical Office for setting up a newsroom. He continues to publish texts in newspapers as a freelance writer. In November 2019 he became head of the media and communication staff in the Federal Ministry of Agriculture.

Grossarth left this position on April 1, 2020.

honors and awards

  • 2019 Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Science Journalism, shortlist
  • 2017 Ludwig-Erhard-Förderpreis for business journalism
  • 2016 Nominated in the field of economics in national print media for the Ernst Schneider Prize
  • 2014 Salus media award, special award
  • 2013 Nominated for the best essay at the German Reporter Award
  • 2012 Bernd Tönnies Prize for Animal Welfare in Farm Animal Husbandry for the article In conversation with Peter Wesjohann: People simply don't have the money for organic chicken
  • 2011 Media Prize Politics of the German Bundestag for the article The Turkey Minister
  • 2011 nomination and honorable mention at the German Reporter Award
  • 2010 Ernst Schneider Prize, award winner
  • 2009 Axel Springer Prize for young journalists (print category supra-regional / national contributions) for the article And forgive us our carbon debt
  • 2008 Hessian Journalism Prize (2nd place) for the article That is freedom

Publications

  • About getting off and arriving. Visiting people who dare to live a simple life. Riemann Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-570-50123-8 .
  • North & South: Life, Work, Economy in South Tyrol (ed.). Edition Raetia, Bozen 2015, ISBN 978-88-7283-541-8 .
  • From the land to the mouth. Why the food industry has to reinvent itself. Nagel & Kimche Verlag, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-312-00692-2 .
  • Blueberries from the Upper Palatinate in: Nadja Mayer (Ed.): Nothing like out! Stories of happiness in the country. Insel Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-458-36145-9 .
  • The poisoning of the earth, metaphors and symbols of agricultural policy discourses since the beginning of industrialization. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 2018, ISBN 978-3-593-50881-8 (also dissertation University of Regensburg)
  • Future Food. The future of world food WBG Theiss Verlag, Darmstadt 2019, ISBN 978-3-8062-3971-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jan Grossarth: The last reporter. Journalism is getting more difficult, but Werner is still looking for good stories , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, No. 227, September 29, 2017, p. 18.
  2. ↑ Randomhouse website
  3. ↑ Tobias Becker: Dropout book: Last Exit Ökodorf. In: Spiegel Online . May 30, 2011, accessed June 10, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Elves in the outhouse. In: sueddeutsche.de. May 9, 2011, accessed August 15, 2018 .
  5. ^ Profile at the FAZ
  6. ↑ Internet site Hanser Literaturverlag
  7. ↑ Discussion on the Foodwatch website
  8. ↑ Eckhard Fuhr: Jan Grossarth pleads for the change in the agricultural industry. In: welt.de . March 8, 2016, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  9. ^ Jan Grossarth (Ed.): Future Food. The future of world food . wbg Theiss, Darmstadt 2019, ISBN 978-3-8062-3971-3 .
  10. ^ Journalism Grants: Race to Feed the World. Retrieved September 30, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Von der FAZ ins Amt, in: Wirtschaftsjournalist, 2/2019, p. 10.
  12. ↑ Journey to the last German pear tree . Die Welt, August 12, 2019
  13. ↑ The anti-ecological hysteria . Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 31, 2019
  14. ↑ New head of the media and communication staff in the Federal Ministry of Agriculture. Retrieved February 28, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Jens Urban takes over the management of the media and communication staff . bmel.de. March 21, 2020. Accessed May 27, 2020.
  16. ^ Event forum : Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Science Journalism. Retrieved September 30, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Award ceremony 2017 »Ludwig Erhard Foundation . In: Ludwig Erhard Foundation . November 22, 2017 ( ludwig-erhard.de [accessed March 20, 2018]).
  18. ↑ Ernst Schneider Prize website
  19. ^ Reporter Forum
  20. ↑ German Bundestag website
  21. ↑ Reporter forum website
  22. ↑ Axel-Springer-Verlag website
personal data
SURNAME Grossarth, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg