Mirko Drotschmann

Mirko Drotschmann
Mirko Drotschmann, 2018
YouTube channel ( knowledge )
language	German
founding	May 14, 2012
channels	MrWissen2go , MrWissen2go story
Subscribers	over 1.3 million subscribers (MrWissen2go) over 500,000 subscribers (MrWissen2go story)
Calls	over 172 million views (MrWissen2go) over 53 million views (MrWissen2go story)
Videos	over 600 videos (MrWissen2go) over 180 videos (MrWissen2go story)

Mirko Drotschmann (born April 30, 1986 in Malsch , Karlsruhe district ) is a German journalist , book author and web video producer .

Life

During his school days, Drotschmann was editor-in-chief of the school newspaper and school spokesman at the Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium in Ettlingen , where he worked on the youth council from 2002 to 2004 and on the local council for the SPD until 2010 .

After graduating from high school, he sat in on the SWR and then worked there as a freelancer as well as a reporter and moderator at Dasding . After his community service he studied history and cultural studies at the University of Karlsruhe , at the same time he worked as a freelance journalist . He then worked on the ZDF children's program Logo and was a presenter for N-Joy and a freelance reporter for other broadcasters and the Stuttgarter Zeitung .

In 2013 and 2014 he completed a journalistic traineeship at SWR.

From October 2014 to December 2017 Drotschmann was a reporter and presenter at Logo (ZDF). He is also managing director of the production company objektiv Media GmbH, with which he produces formats for broadcasters, federal authorities, companies and NGOs.

Mirko Drotschmann is a member of the non-partisan state council for digital development and culture, which advises the Rhineland-Palatinate state government on digital issues. Drotschmann is also part of the health science think tank “iHealth” of the Handelsblatt editorial team .

At the end of March 2020, he started the three-part series A short story about ... (... the Middle Ages, ... the witch hunt, ... ancient Egypt) on ZDF's Terra X program .

He is married and has two daughters. He currently lives in Rheinhessen .

YouTube career

On his YouTube channel “MrWissen2go”, Drotschmann deals with current political and social phenomena. This channel has over 1.3 million subscribers and is part of the online media service funk of ARD and ZDF . In addition, Drotschmann has been moderating the YouTube channel “MrWissen2go Geschichte” (formerly “need-to-know history”) since 2017, on which he explains a topic from history every Thursday. This is also produced by funk .

In January 2015 Drotschmann initiated the campaign #YouGeHa ( YouTubers Against Hate), in which videos were collected from YouTubers who position themselves against racism , xenophobia and homophobia , among other things . The campaign won an audience award at the The BOBs Awards in 2016 .

In the course of the 2017 federal election , Mirko Drotschmann and three other YouTubers each conducted an interview with Chancellor Angela Merkel and her challenger Martin Schulz , which was broadcast live on YouTube .

From 2015 to April 2019 he moderated the YouTube channel, "MDR ZEITREISE2go" and the history magazine MDR Zeitreise on MDR television , on which he explains historical events and prominent figures in history. His successor is Janett Eger .

Works

• Crazy story - absurd, funny and unbelievable from the past. riva, Munich 2016.

Web links

Commons : Mirko Drotschmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• MrWissen2go on YouTube
• MrWissen2go story on YouTube
• MDR DOK on YouTube

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kristin Haug: YouTuber Mirko Drotschmann: "A good teacher knows what Snapchat is". In: Spiegel Online , October 26, 2016.
2. ^ Official Journal Ettlingen - Annual Report of the JGR. City of Ettlingen, December 18, 2018, accessed on December 14, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Julia Störmer: MrWissen2go : We asked Mirko Drotschmann. In: Karlsruhe | Blog. December 27, 2017, accessed December 13, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Profiles of the JGR. City of Ettlingen, accessed on December 14, 2018 . 
5. ^ Official Journal Ettlingen - City Council: Preliminary final result of the elections. City of Ettlingen, June 18, 2009, accessed January 8, 2020 . 
6. ^ Simon Hilner: Official Journal Ettlingen - From the municipal council. City of Ettlingen, April 13, 2017, accessed on January 5, 2020 . 
7. ↑ About us. In: objektiv-media.de. Retrieved January 26, 2017 . 
8. ↑ References - Objektiv media GmbH. Retrieved July 7, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Digital dialogue started. In: rlp.de. Retrieved January 26, 2017 . 
10. ^ Health-i Award. In: handelsblatt.com. Retrieved January 26, 2017 . 
11. ↑ "Our view of history is overloaded with clichés" - ZDFmediathek. Accessed March 31, 2020 . 
12. ↑ Mirko Drotschmann: 7 things that will change in 2020. Closing words. In: YouTube. December 28, 2019, accessed on December 28, 2019 (German, from 7:15 am): “[...] is now a wonderful opportunity to thank everyone who has supported me this year: my wife, of course Anna [...] " 
13. ↑ Mirko Drotschmann: Post from May 16, 2020. In: Instagram. May 16, 2020, accessed on May 17, 2020 (German): "And then, about four hours after this recording, I was happy in the delivery room with our second daughter in my arms." 
14. ↑ SWR Aktuell, SWR Aktuell: How do you become an influencer? Retrieved November 28, 2019 . 
15. ↑ MrWissen2go YouTube stats, Channel Statistics - Socialblade.com. Retrieved June 19, 2019 . 
16. ↑ Laila Oudray: YouTube campaign against exclusion: With #YouGeHa against Pegida. In: The daily newspaper . January 21, 2015, accessed April 6, 2017 . 
17. ↑ Voting 2016 - The Bobs - Best of Online Activism. In: thebobs.com. Retrieved April 6, 2017 . 
18. ↑ MDR ZEITREISE2go: Thank you Mirko, Welcome Janett! April 5, 2019, accessed April 8, 2019 . 
19. ↑ Drotschmann, Mirko .: Crazy story: the absurd, the funny and the unbelievable from the past . Riva, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86883-669-1 .