Rolf Schlenker

Rolf Schlenker (* 1954 in Stuttgart ) is a German television and science journalist, documentary filmmaker and non-fiction author.

Since 1988 he has worked for several public TV broadcasters, from 1999 to 2020 he worked in the culture and science department of Südwestrundfunk (SWR), and since 2020 he has been a freelance. One focus of his work is the development of innovative TV formats for Das Erste and SWR television, e.g. B .:

• "Ex! What excited the nation "with Max Moor (1996)
• " Black Forest House 1902 - live like 100 years ago " (2002)
• "From zero to 42 - seven non-runners on their way to the New York Marathon" (2004)
• "Bye oil, Ciao gas - two apartment blocks get out" (2007)
• " Stone Age - The Experiment " (2007)
• “Never again have no idea! Painting "(2009)
• “Never again have no idea! Architecture "(2011)
• "Where our weather is created" with Sven Plöger (2016)
• "Where our weather is created: Wind" with Sven Plöger (2017)
• "Where our weather is made: Alps" with Sven Plöger (2020)

He has received several film and television awards, including a. with the Adolf Grimme Prize, the German Solar Prize, the Golden Gong or the Naturvision Prize "Best Story".

Books

• From zero to 42 - seven non-runners on their way to the New York Marathon , together with Thomas Wessinghage. Stuttgart 2004.
• Learning to walk with the 'from zero to 42' method, Stuttgart 2004.
• Stone Age - life like 5000 years ago , together with Almut Bick, Stuttgart 2007.
• Art for beginners , together with Simone Reuter, Stuttgart 2009.
• Architecture for beginners , together with Katrin Grünewald, Stuttgart 2011.
• Where our weather is created , together with Sven Plöger, Stuttgart 2015.
• How the wind determines our weather , together with Sven Plöger, Stuttgart 2017.
• 1933 - A hatchet against Hitler - factual novel about the "Stuttgart cable attack", Tübingen 2020

Web links

• Literature by and about Rolf Schlenker in the catalog of the German National Library