Friday publisher Jakob Augstein in conversation with Antje Boetius
Listen to Science – About the Difficult Path from Knowing to Acting
Scientists are currently sought-after experts when it comes to coping with the corona pandemic or on the subject of climate change. However, findings from science do not necessarily lead to politicians acting accordingly. Because it has to be weighed up: Different specialist areas each have their own agenda and the democratic implementation of the will of the people must ideally take all factors into account, find majorities and communicate unwelcome but necessary decisions to the voters. The compromises found in this way are often far from sufficient to really turn things around. But even within the scientific community itself, there is disagreement about the degree of interference – and the right way to deal with the media. In any case, the marine biologist and deep-sea researcher Antje Boetius is of the opinion that science must get involved; She herself never tires of pointing out the dramatic consequences of global warming for our ecosystem using many examples from her own work.
In the radioeins and Freitag Salon, “Freitag” publisher Jakob Augstein and Antje Boetius discuss the tense relationship between science, politics and the media and what we can all learn from the depths of the sea.
On Monday, February 28, 2022 at 8 p.m. in the workroom of the Berliner Ensemble, Bertolt-Brecht-Platz 1, 10117 Berlin
Broadcast live by Radioeins from rbb, 8 p.m. – 9 p.m. (95.8 MHz).
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Marine biologist Prof. Dr. Antje Boetius is director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, head of the bridging group for deep-sea ecology and technology (AWI, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology Bremen and MARUM Bremen) and professor at the University of Bremen. She is an expert in science and culture in the Anthropocene and works on questions of social transformation and its traces in art and culture, including as part of the “Theater des Anthropocene” project under the patronage of the Humboldt University in Berlin. As a science manager, she also writes and communicates on questions of diversity and equal opportunities in science, sustainability strategies and transformation processes.
Im radioeins & Friday Salonthe journalist and publisher Jakob Augstein sits down with a guest once a month and talks – about the political in culture, about society and its constraints, about the mechanisms of publicity and lies, and about the disappearance of democracy in capitalism . Radioeins broadcasts live. This is where the excitement machine of the internet falls silent. The radioeins & Freitag Salon is “unplugged”, as one would have said in the past. Real people talk about real issues and practice skills that are becoming rare: taking time, listening, understanding, learning. The – unequaled – model of this current political discussion format are the legendary conversations of the journalist Günter Gaus, which were shown on television when it was still black and white.
Jacob AugsteiniHe has been the publisher and managing director of the weekly newspaper “der Freitag” since 2008. Born in Hamburg in 1967, he studied politics from 1989 to 1993 at the Freie Universität Berlin and at the Institut d’études politiques de Paris. For ten years he worked as a reporter for the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Berlin and East Germany. From 2011 to 2018 he wrote the column “In doubt left” on “Spiegel online”. From 2011 to 2020 he exchanged blows with Nikolaus Blome, the former deputy editor-in-chief of the Bildzeitung, in the Phoenix program “Augstein und Blome” on the political topic of the week.