I am Fritz Habekuß. Born 1990, I grew up in the small village of Lindenberg in Brandenburg. After studying science journalism at the TU Dortmund University with a focus on life sciences and medicine, I interned at DER SPIEGEL in Washington, D.C.. 2013 I started working at DIE ZEIT in Hamburg as a reporter mainly for the fields of ecology, science and environment. I write books and work as a presenter.
I am interested in the fundamental relationship between man and nature: how humans define their role in the Anthropocene. How they deal with the existential threat of ecological crisis. Which mechanisms are behind the destruction of nature, and how things are connected in the global ecosystem earth. Such questions.
My research has taken me to research stations in Antarctica and ancient oases in Oman, to villages in Rwanda and atolls in Indonesia, to remote glaciers in Greenland and the beaches of Galapagos Island. My articles have been published in Süddeutsche Zeitung, SPIEGEL Online, Tagesspiegel, amongst others.
In 2020 the bestselling non-fiction “ÜBER LEBEN – Zukunftsfrage Artensterben: Wie wir die Ökokrise überwinden” was published by Penguin that I wrote together with Dirk Steffens.
Since 2010 I have been organizing the Lindenberger Frühlingskonzerte, a concert series for classical music and jazz that brings international talents to the small village of Lindenberg. Since 2018 I have been curating and moderating the Lindenberger Gespräche über Politik und Gesellschaft (Lindenberg talks on politics and society). In 2019, together with the Artspace Âme Nue in Hamburg, I launched the series Entering the Anthropocene to talk about science, ecology and art.
Awards:
2020 Arthur F. Burns Fellowship
2018 Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Science Journalism
2018 Election among the “Journalists of the Year” (category science journalism)
2013 Coburg Media Prize