Karl Urban (journalist)
Karl Urban (* 1984 ) is a German author, freelance science journalist and occasional lecturer at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen . His subjects are: astronomy, energy, geosciences, internet and space travel.
Life
Karl Urban took an early interest in planets and studied geosciences in Tübingen, where he works as a science journalist, where he spent a semester on a research trip in Iceland in 2011 with a grant from the European Geosciences Union . He worked for student media and runs the science blog “AstroGeo” and podcast about stones and stars . He writes books about space travel and astronomy and has been running the internet portal "Raumfahrer.net" since 2001. Today he works for radio, online and print editors, including mainly Deutschlandfunk, Spektrum.de , Tagesspiegel , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Stuttgarter Zeitung and Süddeutsche Zeitung , as well as the radio stations SWR2 , WDR5 , Deutschlandfunk Nova , Substance and Welt am Sonntag and occasionally as Lecturer at the University of Tübingen. In 2015 he took over the editorial work for a publication of the Federal Institute for Hydraulic Engineering .
He was on a press trip, invited by the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility , to the Synchrotron in Grenoble and by EUMETSAT to visit the environmental satellite Sentinel-3 A in the clean room in Cannes and to the centers of Polish space research in Warsaw and Gdansk from the Polish Ministry of Economics.
Awards
- 2013: Prize of the blogger community SciLogs for its science blog "AstroGeo".
- 2017: Alternative media award in the future category for its radio feature cheerful to insurgent .
Works
- Was ist Was: Our Earth (non-fiction book for children), Tessloff, Nuremberg 2013, ISBN 9783788620356 (translated into other languages)
- Karl Urban on Deutschlandfunk - " Science in focus " :
- Mars News - Red and Dead July 12, 2015
- Man-made tremors - In the depths it will be loud on November 8, 2015
- Satellite Wars - The War Reaches Orbit , May 15, 2016
- Cheerful to insurgent - A prediction for the people from October 16, 2016 (awarded the Alternative Media Prize)
- Energy from Hell - Iceland plays with magma from January 29, 2017
- Rings, moons, adventure - Cassini dies on Saturn on September 10, 2017
- Extreme temperatures - Arabia is facing the heat collapse of November 12, 2017
- Good moon - who is building the village up there? from March 30, 2018
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Urban in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- http://podcast.pikarl.de/
- “AstroGeo” as a podcast
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.spektrum.de/news/der-see-unter-dem-marsgletscher/1580692
- ↑ https://www.schwarzwaelder-bote.de/inhalt.donaueschingen-frederick-tag-in-der-stadtbibliothek.eb052c99-ec50-477c-81ec-24b96bbba297.html
- ↑ http://www.die-fachwerkstatt.de/urban/
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SURNAME | Urban, Karl |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German science journalist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1984 |