Thomas Weibel (journalist)

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Thomas Weibel (2018)

Thomas Weibel (born August 12, 1962 in Biel ) is a Swiss journalist , author and lecturer for multimedia storytelling and convergent media production. As a journalist, Weibel works primarily in the fields of science, media and history, as well as finance and business.

Life

Weibel grew up in Büren an der Aare , graduated from the German Gymnasium Biel (type B; today Gymnasium Biel-Seeland ) and studied German and English at the University of Bern . He completed his studies with a licentiate thesis on home and foreigners in Jeremias Gotthelf's novel Jakobs Migrations .

Weibel began his professional career in 1985 as a national and international editor for the Thuner Tagblatt . In 1993 he moved to the Bern newspaper Der Bund , where he worked as a local and business editor, producer and news chief. Between 1997 and 2011 Weibel was a member of the program management of Schweizer Radio DRS 2 (today Radio SRF 2 Kultur ), where he realized cross-media programs among other things. Weibel has been a web developer and blogger since 2002. He publishes his contributions for Radio SRF 2 Kultur in the blog 100 Seconds and in several books.

Today Weibel is lecturer for media engineering ( media technology ) at the University of Applied Sciences Graubünden and at the Bern University of the Arts as well as a lecturer for interactive media at the journalism seminar of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . As a freelance journalist, Weibel continues to work for Radio SRF 2 Kultur ; He is also an occasional employee of the cultural radio station SWR 2 and a guest author for the LGT Group's financial blog . Weibel is committed to open data in the GLAM area and regularly takes part in the Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon , where he has implemented several applications on the basis of culturally or scientifically relevant digital copies. One of them, the online backgammon game Manesse Gammon , held in Middle High German , was added to the Europeana virtual library as an interactive exhibit in 2017 .

Weibel is a musician, married and the stepfather of two children. He lives in Freiburg im Üechtland and Basel .

Publications

As an author

  • Takeaway. 100 x 100 seconds of knowledge . Schwabe Verlag, Basel 2012, ISBN 978-3-7965-2842-2 .
  • Nerdcore. A conversation dictionary for nerds and anyone who wants to become one. Verlag Johannes Petri, Basel 2015, ISBN 978-3-03784-061-0 .
  • Face value. Gauls and holy geese: what to know about money. Verlag Johannes Petri, Basel 2017, ISBN 978-3-03784-133-4 .
  • Will Web 2.0 save the jazz scene? The Internet as a communication platform and virtual jazz club. In: Schaffhausen Jazz Talks. Edition 03 . Chronos Verlag, Zurich 2010, pp. 18–23.
  • Homo ludens: The computer game. In: Imagine you are ... The one-person role play in counseling, coaching and therapy. Verlag Hogrefe, Bern 2016, pp. 232–234.
  • In the beginning there was an exchange; Bracteates, the small change of the Middle Ages; The stony path of banknotes, etc. a. In: The best financial stories from the LGT finance blog. LGT Group Foundation, Vaduz 2016, p. 8ff.
  • Hack culture data. Plea for a sustainable digital culture. In: Museumskunde Vol. 84/2019, Update edition - Museums in the digital age, online expansion . German Museum Association, Berlin 2019.

As editor

  • Culture on Swiss Radio DRS. Swiss Radio DRS, Zurich 2003.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Weibel: 100 seconds. Retrieved September 11, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Adrian Sulc: francs and centimes are foreigners. In: The Bund . May 2, 2017, accessed December 8, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Valeria Heintges: Money is great. In: St. Galler Tagblatt . July 18, 2017, accessed December 8, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Graubünden University of Applied Sciences: Thomas Weibel. Retrieved September 11, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Dokublog SWR2: The feature in the digital age. March 4, 2012, accessed December 26, 2018 .
  6. ↑ SWR2 multi-track: cultural radio in Switzerland. March 6, 2013, accessed December 26, 2018 .
  7. ↑ SWR2 multitrack: Thomas Weibel blogs. December 6, 2015, accessed December 26, 2018 .
  8. ^ LGT Group: Thomas Weibel (guest author). September 2015, accessed December 6, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Swiss National Museum: Gambling on medieval handwriting. October 2018, accessed November 11, 2019 .
  10. ↑ re: publica 2019: Get out of the museum! May 8, 2019, accessed June 1, 2019 .
  11. ↑ MAY Conference 2019: Prof. Thomas Weibel on the Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon. May 24, 2019, accessed June 1, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Opendata.ch Wiki: Historical Tarot Freecell. February 28, 2015, accessed December 6, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Opendata.ch Wiki: Manesse Gammon - A medieval game: Play against Mr. Gœli. July 2, 2016, accessed December 6, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Opendata.ch Wiki: Hacking Gutenberg: A Moveable Type Game. September 16, 2017, accessed December 6, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Opendata.ch Wiki: Letterjongg. October 27, 2018, accessed December 6, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Opendata.ch Wiki: Back to the Greek Universe. September 8, 2019, accessed September 11, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Opendata.ch Wiki: swissAR. June 6, 2020, accessed June 9, 2020 .
  18. ^ Europeana: Manesse Gammon. December 2017, accessed December 19, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Blues Green: Bluespopjazz made in Switzerland. June 2019, accessed June 1, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Weibel, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist, author and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Biel / Bienne