Marcel Hänggi

Marcel Hänggi (* 1969 ) is a Swiss journalist and historian . His journalistic specialties are climate change and progress .

Life

He studied history at the University of Zurich and worked as a journalist from 1996. At Weltwoche , he was initially the editor of the international section. He later worked as a science editor for the weekly newspaper . He has been a freelance science journalist since 2007. Hänggi is critical of research at CERN . He teaches science journalism as a guest lecturer at the media training center in Lucerne. In 2007 he received the Zurich Journalist Prize , and in 2013 he won the science category of the industry magazine Schweizer Journalist . For 2017 he was awarded the Conrad Matschoß Prize for the History of Technology .

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• Wir Schwätzer im Treibhaus , Zurich: Rotpunktverlag, 2008 ( ISBN 978-3-85869-380-8 ).
  • Addresses the rebound effect and is therefore an answer to the green paradox from the left politically.
• Exhausted. The end of the oil age as an opportunity , Zurich: Rotpunktverlag, 2011 ( ISBN 978-3-85869-446-1 ).
  • Criticizes a climate policy that relies unilaterally on technocratic solutions. The book therefore describes the mutual influence of forms of energy and social power structures from the age of coal to the idea of Desertec . Among other things, the NZZ writes: " ... However, as in the case of Cuba and the Amish people, the examples are not always convincingly chosen. And ultimately they are also unable to show how billions of people will benefit from their oil- fuel by the middle of this century. Able to solve addiction .... Nevertheless, for all those who do not want to accept that the state of the world as it currently presents itself is without alternative, Hänggi has a largely astute set of arguments in hand with his straightforwardly written book given. " Ulrike Müller from TAZ describes Hänggi's book Ausgepowert as an important contribution to the debate about the energy transition . He puts the topic in a political and social context and thus connects the question of life in the future.
• Progress stories. For a good use of technology , Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch, 2015 ( ISBN 978-3-596-03220-4 ).
  • Edited by Harald Welzer and Klaus Wiegandt questions common perceptions of what technical progress is, using twelve examples from the history of technology to the present day.
• Zero oil, zero gas, zero coal , Zurich: Rotpunktverlag, 2018 ( ISBN 978-3-85869-849-0 ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Marcel Hänggi in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry with pearl divers
• Marcel Hänggi's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dossier on CERN and its new particle accelerator LHC ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ woz.ch
3. ^ Entry in the NZZ
4. ↑ perlentaucher.de
5. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.