Michael Kröher
Michael Kröher , also the author's name: Michael OR Kröher (* 1956 in Pirmasens ) is a non-fiction author and journalist with a focus on science, automobiles and business, previously also popular music and medicine.
Career
Kröher was born as the eldest child of the folk singer Heinrich Kröher (1927-2016). After graduating from high school in mathematics and science in 1975, he began studying human medicine in Hamburg and Auckland / NZ in 1983 as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . He graduated in 1989 with a medical examination and doctorate (1990).
From 1979 to 1981 Kröher was a volunteer at the music magazine Sounds , then an editor at twen . He financed his medical studies as a freelancer at Die Zeit , Geo , Süddeutsche Zeitung and TransAtlantik, among others . From 1983 on he wrote reports and essays for Merkur - German magazine for European thinking and everyday life - sensational paper of the ordinary , contributions to anthologies by Michael Rutschky ( Suhrkamp-Verlag , S. Fischer Verlag ) and for Rowohlt-Verlag . From 1989 Kröher was editor at Stern , from 1990 head of department for science, environment and medicine. In 1995 he moved to Berlin as the founding editor-in-chief of the online platform Lifeline and was a member of the management team at Bertelsmann-Springer Gesundheitsgesellschaft mbH . From 1997 he took over the department for science and technology at Die Woche in Hamburg. Kröher has been an editor at manager-magazin since 1999, and has also been an editor at Harvard Business Manager since 2018 . In 2009 Kröher was the initiator of the Hall of Fame for German Research , which he has been responsible for editorially and organizationally since then; since 2001 he is the author of the motor column exit .
Michael Kröher lives in Berlin.
Awards
1994 on the shortlist of the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize for the best reportage in German (together with Katja Gloger) 2006 Journalist Prize Innovations for Europe of the VDE
Works
- Knowledge as an economic factor - How our cutting-edge research is advancing Germany as a business location , Econ-Verlag / Ullstein, 2007, ISBN 978-3-430-30017-9
- Into the sun, into the distance - On a road of longing for the Mediterranean (together with the photographer Wolfgang Groeger-Meier) Corso-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7374-0712-0
- A thousand miles of Dolce Vita - A round trip through the land of joie de vivre , Corso-Verlag, Hamburg / Verlagshaus Römerweg, Wiesbaden, 2016, ISBN 978-3-7374-0725-0
- The Nobel Laureate Club - How the 20th Century Was Reinvented in the Harnack House , Knaus-Verlag, Munich, 2017, ISBN 978-3-8135-0726-3 )
Web links
- Book review in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (accessed April 10, 2018)
- Süddeutsche Zeitung from July 29, 2015
- Book review in Tichy's insight
- Book review 'Club of Nobel Prize Winners' in the taz
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kröher, Michael |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kröher, Michael OR |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German non-fiction author and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pirmasens |