Ulrich Grober

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Ulrich Grober (2012)

Ulrich Grober (* 1949 in Lippstadt ) is a German journalist , publicist and author .

Life

Ulrich Grober studied German and English at the universities in Frankfurt am Main and Bochum . He works as a freelance journalist and publicist . Grober writes books, essays and works for newspapers (including Die Zeit ). He makes reports , radio broadcasts and documentaries . He gives lectures and gives seminars. Preferred topics are cultural history and visions of the future , experience of nature and sustainability , ecotourism and the art of hiking .

Grober is an expert in sustainability . His book The Discovery of Sustainability (2010) is considered a standard work. In 2012 it was translated into English. In 2013, the Royal Society invited him to present his findings on sustainability. In 2014, a text by Grober of the UN in its "Global Sustainable Development Report" (see link below) served as a reference for the history of the concept of sustainability.

He lives with his wife in Marl in Westphalia .

Awards

In 2011, Grober received the Brandenburg Environmental Literature Prize from the Ministry of the Environment in Brandenburg. In the press release it says u. a .: With his book, Grober makes an important contribution to ensuring that sustainability does not degenerate into a buzzword, but that the idea of ​​sustainable thinking, living and acting reaches people's minds and hearts in everyday life. He traces the historical development of the word in an entertaining and easy-to-read form. On a journey of thought from the book Genesis about medieval monasteries, baroque administrative language, Woodstock and John Lennon - to name just a few stations - the reader learns amazing things about and about the concept of sustainability. Environmental lawyer Klaus Bosselmann gave the laudation

In 2014, Grober and Ernst-Ulrich von Weizsäcker were awarded the Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz Sustainability Prize 2014 from the Saxon Carlowitz Society. The laudation was given by Prime Minister a. D. Kurt Biedenkopf. In the same year he was appointed to the board of trustees for the 250th anniversary of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg.

reception

  • to the discovery of sustainability : "With his work he wants to achieve a people aware of this fundamental task for the future by showing how intuitive precautionary thinking is crystallized into a concept, like dreams and hopes were saved from the eras of human history and a vision of the future. It shows how a whole field of words with meanwhile everyday words such as ecology, environment, quality of life and management developed under the term sustainability. This makes his book current and historical at the same time and serves to measure and set standards from a distance in order to re-measure the world of thought, the term and the word field of sustainability. ”Lexicon of Sustainability.
  • “Ulrich Grober is one of those active and courageous fighters against the denial of reality and for a holistic understanding. He wants to secure attention to the consequences of our growth-driven overexploitation of nature and our existential livelihoods, from which a feeling of shared responsibility can grow. ", Kurt Biedenkopf , Freiberg 2015
  • “In my opinion, the author Ulrich Grober aptly describes sustainability“ as a compass, as our navigation device for a journey to an unknown territory - the future ”. With a navigation device like this, we can aim to achieve very specific goals again and again. ” Angela Merkel at the 16th annual conference of the German Council for Sustainable Development on May 31, 2016.
  • “Anyone who really gets involved with Ulrich Grober's new book will be very impressed and deeply influenced - by what has to change in general, what has already changed and what concrete change in the sense of strict sustainability is still pending. “Prof. Udo E. Simonis
  • “It may be that Grober a little underestimated the systematic constraints of capitalism and the power of political inertia. And it may also be that he overestimates the signs of hope a little, after all, numerous ecologically disastrous developments worldwide continue unabated. And yet reading this book is an asset, because Grober tells what is possible with a little courage. ” Reinhard Loske
  • “In Hauff's fairy tales, a magician helps to exchange the stone for the heart. Grober believes that the new will be created in the lap of the old: The shimmering pearl grows in the hard and rough shell of the clam. ”Hanne Tuegel
  • "I define sustainability as the unity of self-care, care and provision."

Publications (selection)

Books
  • 1998: Exit into the future. A trip to eco-settlements, energy workshops and think tanks. Chr. Links Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-861531593 .
  • 2005: The song writer Paul Gerhardt in Berlin , Mittenwalde and Lübben 1642–1676. (= Frankfurt colored books. 30). Kleist-Museum Frankfurt (Oder), 2005, ISBN 3-942476-42-8 .
  • 2006: About hiking . New ways to an old art. Zweausendeins Verlag, Frankfurt 2006, ISBN 3-86150-772-2 ; Paperback edition: rororo 62685, Reinbek 2011
  • 2010: The discovery of sustainability. Cultural history of a term. Kunstmann Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-88897-648-3 .
    • Sustainability. A cultural history. Translated from the German by Ray Cunningham. Green Books Publisher, Totnes UK 2012, ISBN 978-0-85784-045-5 .
  • 2016: The quiet breath of the future. On the rise of sustainable values ​​in times of crisis. 315 pages. Oekom-Verlag, 2016, ISBN 3-865818072 ; Paperback edition: oekom Verlag, Munich 2018
  • 2017: The value of sustainability. Traditions and visions of a central idea. Series of publications on sustainability of the Hessian State Center for Political Education , Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 3-943192415 .
  • 2018: Paul Gerhardt in Berlin, Mittenwalde and Lübben 1642 - 1676 (increased and changed edition), (Frankfurter Buntbücher 30); ISBN 978-3-947215-21-8 publishing house for Berlin-Brandenburg
Articles, posts, miscellaneous
  • 1993: summer singing. Variations on an old song. Audio play about Paul Gerhardt . Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg and WDR Cologne , 1993.
  • 2012: What belongs to everyone. About the return of the commons. A search for clues. In: Greenpeace magazine. 3/2012.
  • 2013: Great landscape. The exotic nearby in Wenses Hiking Notaten. Lecture in Kassel 2013.
  • 2015: Against overexploitation . Freiberg's contribution to the modern model of sustainability. Ed. TU Bergakademie Freiberg, 2015, DNB 103509777X .
  • 2019: Creating a European We . . . about the rise of sustainable values ​​in times of crisis; Interview by Wolfgang Fleckenstein in: Luxemburger Wort , Glaube & Leben./14. April 2019, p. 32
  • 2020 (February 10th): Another world is possible - the deep roots of a current slogan; Radio essay (10:05 p.m.)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Royal Society: [1]
  2. ^ Speech by Klaus Bosselmann; [2]
  3. ↑ Carlowitz Society / Sustainability Award: [3]
  4. ↑ invitation 250 years; 2nd meeting of the Festival Board of Trustees; 2014; [4] , Festkurator Ulrich Grober speaks at the opening of the anniversary year
  5. ↑ from: [5] Lexicon of Sustainability
  6. ↑ [6] , review by Udo E. Simonis
  7. ↑ Preface to "Against the overexploitation"
  8. ↑ Speech by Chancellor Merkel at the 16th annual conference of the Council for Sustainable Development on May 31, 2016; Berlin
  9. ↑ [7] , Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel at the 16th annual conference of the Council for Sustainable Development, on May 31
  10. ↑ Review of “The quiet breath of the future”, in: [www.sonnseite.com], taken from August 9, 2016
  11. ↑ ZEIT LITERATUR No. 43, October 2016, p. 42
  12. ↑ in OYA-online, 41/2016
  13. ↑ Ulrich Grober, Interview with Wolfgang Fleckenstein: Creating a European We. . . about the rise of sustainable values ​​in times of crisis; in: Luxemburger Wort, Glaube & Leben./14 April 2019, p. 32
  14. ↑ Grober 1998 (exit) - reading sample at the large supplier - 261 (283) pages.
  15. ↑ Grober 2012 (Allmende) - What belongs to everyone. About the return of the commons. A search for clues.
  16. ↑ Grober 2013 (Landscape) - Lecture in Kassel


personal data
SURNAME Grober, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Lippstadt