Torsten Schäfer

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Torsten Schäfer (born December 31, 1977 in Darmstadt ) is a German university professor, journalist and author. Since 2013 he has been teaching journalism with a focus on text production at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences .

Life

After working in nature conservation groups, Schäfer began in 1996 with lyrical publications, readings in schools and youth centers, and press work for the young socialists . He wrote for the Darmstädter Echo and then studied journalism and political science in Dortmund with semesters in Tours and Brussels. After a newspaper traineeship in Bielefeld, from 2002 he concentrated on environmental journalism and endangered species at Süddeutscher Zeitung and taz . Climate policy and overfishing were added as priorities.

After completing an EU master’s degree in Aachen, Schäfer worked in the online editorial team of Deutsche Welle and for Geo . At RWTH Aachen he wrote his doctorate in politics on EU reporting in regional newspapers. In 2008 he founded the blog euroreporter.de on environmental journalism, nature topics and literary experiments. In 2009 Schäfer went to Hamburg as an editor for the international Geo edition. He also blogged and, according to his own proposal, helped to build the “Journalism and Sustainability” certificate at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg . In 2013 he moved to Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, where he teaches as a journalism professor. He also writes travel and nature reports, essays and poems.

Torsten Schäfer is married and has three children.

Research and Teaching

Torsten Schäfer's main areas of work are text theory (especially portraits, interviews and reports), journalistic storytelling, European and international reporting as well as environmental and travel journalism. In 2013 Torsten Schäfer set up the internet portal Green Journalism together with Peter Seeger at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences , which he is editorially responsible for.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Page by Torsten Schäfer on the homepage of the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences ( memento of the original from February 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / journalismus.h-da.de
  2. ↑ Schäfer's dossier on the climate policy of the federal states
  3. ↑ Schäfer's dossier on the EU's fisheries policy ( Memento of the original dated February 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.geo.de
  4. ↑ Thorsten Schäfers doctorate on EU reporting in German regional newspapers  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.uvk.de  
  5. ↑ euroreporter.de: Blog on the environmental debate, reporting on Europe and nature writing
  6. ↑ GEO-Blog Ökoströmung ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.geo.de
  7. ↑ Journalism Certificate Sustainability and Journalism
personal data
SURNAME Schäfer, Torsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt