Volker Stollorz
Volker Stollorz (born January 12, 1964 in Leverkusen ) is a German science journalist and since 2015 managing director and editor-in-chief of Science Media Center Germany gGmbH.
Live and act
After graduating from high school in 1983, Stollorz began studying biology at the University of Cologne . From 1988 he conducted research for his diploma thesis at the Netherlands Cancer Institute Antoni van Leeuwenhoek in Amsterdam , the results of which were published in the journal Cell in 1990 . In the same year the University of Cologne awarded him the biology diploma with the major in genetics and the minor subjects developmental biology and philosophy.
From then on, a freelance science journalist, Stollorz sat in 1992 with a scholarship from the Robert Bosch Stiftung in the knowledge department of Die Zeit and in spring 1993 at the Tages-Anzeiger in Zurich . Between 1993 and 1998 he was a science editor for the weekly newspaper Die Woche in Hamburg. He then published as a freelance science journalist as a regular author in the science section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung as well as in newspapers, magazines and public radio. As a scholarship holder, Stollorz came to the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies in 2012 as “Journalist in Residence” .
The Klaus Tschira Foundation made it possible in 2015 to set up the non-profit Science Media Center Germany (SMC), at which Stollorz has been employed as the editor and managing director ever since.
Science journalist was honored for his publications and films, including 2004 with the Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Science Journalism and in 2015 with the Universitas Prize for Science Journalism of Hanns Martin Schleyer Foundation .
Stollorz is a member of the science press conference and the research network , lives in Cologne and Berlin and has a son.
Publications
- with Jaques Neefjes, Peter J. Peters, Hans J. Geuze, Hidde L. Ploegh : The biosynthetic pathway of MHC class II but not class I molecules intersects the endocytic route. In: Cell Volume 61, Number 1, 1990, pp. 171-183, DOI: 10.1016 / 0092-8674 (90) 90224-3
- Grit Kienzlen, Jan Lublinski, Volker Stollorz: fact, fiction, falsification: trends in science journalism UVK Verlagsgesellschaft, 2007, Stuttgart ISBN 978-3-17-020683-0
- The Pandemic of the Experts in the Mass Media. How to Create Trust in Public Communication by Acknowledging Ignorance and Uncertainty. In: Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz Volume 56, Number 1, 2013, pp. 110–117, DOI: 10.1007 / s00103-012-1581-5
- We love enlightenment In: Johannes Schnurr, Alexander Mäder (Hrsg.): Science and society: A trustful dialogue . ISBN 978-3-662-59466-7
Prices
- 2000 Smith Kline Beecham Foundation (now GlaxoSmithKline Foundation) journalism award
- 2002 Ludwig Demling Media Prize of the Gastro League
- 2003 GlaxoSmithKline Foundation's Print Media Prize
- 2004 Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Science Journalism
- 2009 European Journalists' Prize from the Association of German Medical Journalists
- 2010 Medtronic Media Prize
- 2010 Helmut Stickl Prize from the German Academy for Child and Adolescent Medicine
- 2012 "Journalist in Residence 2012" at HITS in Heidelberg
- 2015 Universitas Prize for Science Journalism
Web links
- " How journalists observe science ", public lecture by Volker Stollorz at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (2012)
- “ The challenges of the next ten years: from the perspective of science journalism ”, lecture by Volker Stollorz at the IQWiG autumn symposium 2014
- "Picky science journalists" , essay by Volker Stollorz, meta - the magazine about journalism and science, April 4, 2018
- "Will the media do justice to science in the Corona crisis? ", Volker Stollorz in "Streitkultur", Deutschlandfunk , April 4, 2020
- "Selection criteria in science journalism" , Volker Stollorz in conversation with Stephan Karkowsky in radioeins, RBB , April 4, 2020
- "The pressure on science is great ", Volker Stollorz in NDR Info Aktuell, April 14, 2020
Individual evidence
- ↑ team | Science Media Center Germany. Retrieved December 23, 2019 .
- ↑ "Best of Science Journalism" (p. 10). medium, magazine for journalists, 2016, accessed on January 5, 2020 .
- ↑ Volker Stollorz as a speaker at re: publica18. Retrieved January 5, 2020 .
- ↑ Michael Spieker (ed.): Good life science for the 21st century . Academy for Political Education, Tutzing 2013, ISBN 978-3-9814111-1-9 , p. 127 .
- ↑ Jacques J. Neefjes, Volker Stollorz, Peter J. Peters, Hans J. Geuze, Hiddle L. Ploegh: The biosynthetic pathway of MHC class II but not class I molecules intersects the endocytic route . In: Cell . tape 61 , no. 1 , April 6, 1990, ISSN 0092-8674 , pp. 171-183 , doi : 10.1016 / 0092-8674 (90) 90224-3 , PMID 2156628 ( cell.com [accessed December 23, 2019]).
- ↑ Article by Volker Stollorz in DIE ZEIT. Retrieved December 23, 2019 .
- ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH: Article by Volker Stollorz. Retrieved December 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Volker Stollorz - Journalist in Residence 2012. November 11, 2014, accessed on December 23, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Members | WPK - the science journalists. Retrieved December 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Excellent work The End Times of Figaro. Retrieved December 23, 2019 .
- ↑ www.VMWJ.de
- ^ Deutscher Ärzteverlag GmbH, editorial office of the Deutsches Ärzteblatt: Award. Retrieved December 23, 2019 .
- ^ Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
- ↑ Prize winners. In: Hanns Martin Schleyer Foundation. Accessed December 23, 2019 (German).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stollorz, Volker |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German science journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leverkusen |