Karl-Heinz Wellmann

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Karl-Heinz Wellmann (2012)

Karl-Heinz Wellmann (born August 12, 1954 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German science journalist . From April 1988 to April 2017 he was a science editor at Hessischer Rundfunk .

Life

After attending primary school (Robert Schumann School, 1961-1965) and Geschwister-Scholl-Realschule (1965-1970) in Frankfurt-Heddernheim and graduating from the Frankfurt drawing school (1973) - in the same class with Matthias Horx and Rudolf Kriszeleit - Wellmann initially studied German and political science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, but soon interrupted his studies and did his community service in the day care center of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt in a so-called social hotspot . From 1975 onwards, Wellmann studied biology in Frankfurt and German studies with Christa Bürger and Horst Dieter Schlosser . From 1974 to 1980 he was - at times together with Harald Dörig - a member of the student parliament for the Liberal University Association , in the Biology Student Council (together with Engelbert Schramm ) and in other self-governing bodies at Frankfurt University. He was also part of the Frankfurt local executive committee of the Young Democrats . From 1984 to 1990 Wellmann was chairman of the Frankfurt branch of the Humanist Union . In 1990 he received his doctorate from the Friedrich Naumann Foundation in Wolfgang Wiltschko's group on house mice .

In 1978 Karl-Heinz Wellmann began his journalistic activity, initially part-time for the local newspaper Frankfurter Nachrichten , from 1980 also for the nature and science editorial team of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and from 1982 for the science section of the hr television .

Wellmann completed a traineeship at hr television in 1985/86 . From April 1988 to the end of 2013 he worked as a science editor in the radio program hr2-kultur and moderated until it was discontinued in 2003 a. a. the science magazines of hr2-kultur; from the beginning of 2014 to the end of April 2017 he worked as a science editor for the radio program hr-info . From 1989 to 1991 and then again from 1998 he was also editor of the Funkkolleg , from 1999 to 2012 he was also a trainer for the digital audio editing and archiving systems used by the hr radio from 1999 .

In 1998 Karl-Heinz Wellmann began to publish books accompanying the Funkkolleg as well as books with a selection of 111 questions each that listeners of the Hessischer Rundfunk had asked in a series of programs he had developed, of which around 700 to 800 were partly by him, partly by a group of specialist authors in the hr1 program . Since 2014 he has been a lay judge in the youth chambers at the Frankfurt am Main regional court .

The father of two Karl-Heinz Wellmann has been married since 1986 and lives in the Rhine-Main area .

Publications

  • with Heike Ließmann, Eberhard Nembach and Henning Steiner (eds.): Funkkolleg Sicherheit. Subjective fears - objective dangers. Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-8260-6216-2
  • with Judith Kösters and Heike Ließmann (eds.): Welt der Wirtschaft. New questions, simply explained. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-593-50572-5
    • Special edition with the same title: Volume 1718 of the publication series of the Federal Agency for Civic Education. Bonn 2016, ISBN 978-3-8389-0718-5
  • Between liberation and product ideology - swarm intelligence using the example of Wikipedia. In: Peter Kemper , Julika Tillmanns and Alf Mentzer (eds.): “We call it reality”: Food for thought on internet culture. Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-15-020357-6 .
  • with Regina Oehler and Eva Maria Siefert (eds.): Live healthy, stay healthy. About self-healing powers and the opportunities and risks of modern medicine. Beltz Verlag, Weinheim / Basel 2014, ISBN 978-3-407-85999-0 .
  • with Regina Oehler and Utz Thimm: What is good weather? Selected texts from the Funkkolleg Mensch und Klima. Jonas Verlag, Marburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-89445-441-8 .
  • with Utz Thimm and Regina Oehler (eds.): Wetter im Wandel. Accompanying book for the Funkkolleg “Mensch und Klima” Jonas Verlag, Marburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89445-438-8 .
  • with Regina Oehler and Volker Bernius (eds.): What can psychology do? Who we are and how we could be. Beltz Verlag, Weinheim 2009, ISBN 978-3-407-47203-8 (as audio CD: ISBN 978-3-407-47204-5 ).
  • with Regina Oehler (Ed.): Everything wanders: Migration as a principle of life. Jonas Verlag, Marburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89445-415-9 .
  • with Regina Oehler and Volker Bernius (eds.): Who we are - and how we could be: Funkkolleg Psychologie. Herder Verlag, Freiburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-451-29967-4 .
  • with Volker Bernius, Peter Kemper and Regina Oehler (eds.): Experience listening. Rediscover a key competence. (= “Edition Listening”. Volume 7). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-525-48007-6 .
  • with Volker Bernius, Peter Kemper and Regina Oehler (eds.): Der Aufstand des Ohrs - the new pleasure in hearing. Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-525-49095-X .
  • with Utz Thimm (Ed.): Why is it dark at night? What we really know about space. Kosmos-Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-440-10719-1 .
  • with Utz Thimm (Ed.): Not from this world. 25 excursions into the universe. Kosmos Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-440-10554-7 .
  • Can birds cough? 111 new answers to questions that have always been on your fingertips. Jonas Verlag, Marburg 2005, ISBN 3-89445-346-X .
  • with Xiuru Huang [translator]: 魚 會 口渴 嗎? : 90 個 異想天開 的 趣味 問題 ('' Yu hui kou ke ma? 90 ge yi xiang tian kai de qu wei wen ti. '') Taibei Shi: Jiu jing chu ban she gu fen you xian gong si, 2005, ISBN 986 -137-034-X .
  • Modern encyclopedists. How the free internet database Wikipedia is created. Hessischer Rundfunk, hr2, May 18, 2005, ( audio file )
  • with Utz Thimm (Ed.): On everyone's lips. Diet today. Suhrkamp Verlag (stw 3602), Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-518-45602-4 .
  • with Utz Thimm (ed.): Eating is human. On the food culture of the present. (= stw 3533). Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-518-45533-8 .
Are fish thirsty?
in Braille and on it the original version with the same text for sighted people
  • Are fish thirsty? 111 answers to questions that have always been on your fingertips. Jonas-Verlag, Marburg 2003, ISBN 3-89445-316-8 (revised new edition: Piper, Munich 2007, ISBN 3-492-24988-4 ; a special edition of the German Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired in Study and Work e. (DVBS) , Marburg o. D., appeared in Braille ).
  • with Utz Thimm (ed.): Darwin's great grandson. Between evolution research and genetic engineering. Jonas Verlag, Marburg 2002, ISBN 3-89445-299-4 .
  • with Utz Thimm (Ed.): From Darwin to Dolly - Evolution and Genetic Engineering. Jonas Verlag, Marburg 2001, ISBN 3-89445-289-7 .
  • The future of thinking: from psychology to the electronic brain. Lit Verlag, Münster 2000, ISBN 3-8258-5110-9 .
  • with Utz Thimm (Ed.): Intelligence between man and machine: from brain research to artificial intelligence. Book accompanying the new Funkkolleg “The future of thinking”. Lit Verlag, Münster 1999, ISBN 3-8258-4466-8 .
  • On the effect of disruptive selection on the behavior of house mice (Mus musculus domesticus Rutty). Maraun, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-927548-18-9 .

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  • Karl-Heinz Wellmann: On the effect of disruptive selection on the behavior of house mice (Mus musculus domesticus Rutty) . Maraun, Frankfurt am Main 1991, pp. 190–191.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christa Bürger: My way through literary studies. 1968-1998. Edition Suhrkamp 2312, Frankfurt am Main 2003, p. 228, ISBN 3-518-12312-2
personal data
SURNAME Wellmann, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German science journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main