Michael Gleich (journalist)

Michael Gleich (* 1960 in Oberhundem ) is a science journalist , moderator and developer of journalistic projects.

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Career

After graduating from high school in Lennestadt in 1979, Gleich studied journalism , sociology and history at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . In 1984 he co-founded the journalists' office kontur, for which he wrote science reports. They appeared in GEO , stern , Weltwoche , natur , Brigitte and ZEIT magazine , among others . From 1989 to 1992 he worked as an editor for the magazine natur in Munich, since 1993 again as a freelance journalist. He lives on the spiritually influenced Saunstorf estate near Wismar .

activities

Likewise books are aimed at a broad audience. For his project Peace Counts , journalists and photographers traveled to over thirty conflict regions and documented the work of peace makers who resolve conflicts in a peaceful manner and demonstrably successfully. The results appeared as articles in European magazines, as a multi-part radio series, as well as a website, book, CD-ROM for school lessons and were used in conferences and a photo exhibition. Multimedia projects initiated by the same, such as Life Counts, Culture Counts and Peace Counts, pursue the concept of constructive journalism . Immediately one of the first to use this term in Germany. He was made a Fellow of the international organization Ashoka for the concept .

Gleich looks after booklets and book concepts for publishers (GEOspezial India , GEOextra The 21st Century , CIPRA: Der Alpenreport 2 and 3 ). He develops communication concepts, magazines and reports for companies. Michael Gleich moderates panel discussions and conferences on the topics of mobility, peace, development and the environment. He wrote essays on cultural diversity for the online magazine ChangeX .

In 2010 he founded kongress tanzt with Tina Gadow - a network for good events

In 2016 he initiated the first Global Peacebuilders Summit, a summit for leading civil society peace makers from worldwide crisis areas.

He propagates the concept of "constructive journalism", which does not stop at describing global problems, but researches and publishes possible solutions. In order to practice, teach and develop it, he founded the Culture Counts Foundation gGmbH with the journalist Tilman Wörtz. She set up a radio school for peace journalists in Ivory Coast, Studio Mozaik, and has been publishing "MUT - magazin for solutions" once a year since 2016, as a supplement to major daily newspapers and specialist journalistic magazines.

Publications

• Mobility. Why the world is moving, Verlag Hoffmann & Campe 1997
• with Dirk Maxeiner , Michael Miersch , Fabian Nicolay: Life Counts - A global balance of life, Berlin Verlag 2000
• Web of Life. The art of living in a network, Verlag Hoffmann & Campe 2002
• with Dagmar Deckstein , Peter Felixberger , Wolf Lotter : We are resigning. And redefine the country, Hanser Verlag 2005
• with Petra Gerster : Die Friedensmacher, Hanser Verlag 2005
• We alps! People shape the future. 3. Alpenreport, concept, Haupt Verlag 2007
• with Peter Felixberger : Culture Counts. How we use the opportunities of cultural diversity, Econ Verlag 2008
• The congress is dancing. Inspiring events, meetings, conferences. A plea and practical book, Springer Gabler 2014
• with Wolfgang Endres, Hartmut Rosa : 75 picture cards for resonance education, Beltz 2019

Exhibition concepts

• “Stories from the History of Mobility”, BMW Museum, Munich, 1994
• “Living the future”, 50 years of the Fraunhofer Society, German Museum Munich, 1999
• "Mobility" theme park at Expo 2000, Hanover (scripts)
• "Web of Life", interactive media art work at the ZKM Karlsruhe and with four networked outstations, u. a. in Sao Paulo, Johannesburg, Beijing, Nagoya

Honors

• Scholarship from the Heinz Kühn Foundation , Düsseldorf, 1987
• Special prize at the German Environmental Prize for Journalism for Madagascar - A country is going down the drain , 1990
• Special prize at the German Environmental Prize for Journalism for The Wide Ride of Doña Eusebia (Indians in Bolivia), 1992
• Journalist Prize for Development Policy , 1993
• Journalist Prize for Economic Report of the Year for New Harvests for Coffee Growers (Colombia), 1993
• Journalist Prize for Development Policy , 1995
• Communication association award for the environmental magazine change (in cooperation with Hoechst AG), 1996
• Publication prize “Mobility Needs”, awarded by the Alcatel SEL Foundation College, TU Dresden, for the book “Mobility. Why the world is moving ”, 1998
• “Science Book of the Year” for “Life Counts. A Global Balance of Life ”, 2000
• Book Prize of the German Environmental Foundation for “Life Counts”, 2003 First prize in the “Future Ideas” competition of Sparda-Bank Hamburg for “Peace Counts”, 2003
• Appointed Ashoka Fellow, an award for social entrepreneurs, in August 2008
• Journalist Prize Other Times for “The horror is still in the head” (Libya)
• Peace Prize 2018 Sievershäuser Encouragement for the Culture Counts Foundation and its constructive reporting from crisis regions
• Journalist award for the issue of "Afrika Anders" from MUT - magazine for solutions (publisher)

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Gleich in the catalog of the German National Library
• Michael Gleich's website
• Web of Life ( Memento from June 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
• Peace counts
• der kongress tanzt - network for good events

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Gleich: Essay "The Devil Wears Prada". Retrieved April 24, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Michael Gleich becomes a fellow of Ashoka. In: Ashoka Germany. Retrieved April 24, 2016 . 
3. ^ The Story Teller: Achievements , accessed December 14, 2012.
4. ↑ Global Peacebuilder Summit - Global Peacebuilder Summit. Retrieved on January 21, 2018 (German). 
5. ↑ Culture Counts | Home. Retrieved January 21, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Culture Counts | Ivory Coast Radio School. Retrieved January 21, 2018 . 
7. ↑ MUT - magazine for solutions. Retrieved on January 21, 2018 (German). 
8. ↑ Ashoka Fellow
9. ↑ Another Times awards journalist prize for three current texts ( Memento of the original from August 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Press release of July 3, 2014, accessed on August 19, 2014 
10. ↑ Sievershauser encouragement
11. ↑ BIGSAS