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

1. ↑ https://www.spektrum.de/news/der-see-unter-dem-marsgletscher/1580692
2. ↑ https://www.schwarzwaelder-bote.de/inhalt.donaueschingen-frederick-tag-in-der-stadtbibliothek.eb052c99-ec50-477c-81ec-24b96bbba297.html
3. ↑ http://www.die-fachwerkstatt.de/urban/