Lisbeth Schröder
Lisbeth Schröder (born 1992): Science doesn’t always have to be a dull string of facts. For Lisbeth Schröder, reporting on science means something quite different: the tribal elder of an Indigenous group in Canada fighting to preserve his forest, the New Zealander trying to save whales, or how people struggling with their body images due to the improvement of slimming injections.
Since earning her biology bachelor's degree and completing her master’s at the German School of Journalism, she brought topics like psychology, environment, and medicine closer to people. She has primarily worked in print journalism for Die Zeit or Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, but has increasingly ventured into video and documentary formats. As a director and author she created movies like Are Invasive Species Always a Problem? or The Great Drought for arte or Emotional Eating: Das hilft dir! for ZDF. She co-founded a narrative journalism collective that meets weekly to explore the dramaturgy of texts and films.
Her work has earned i.e. a nomination for the Holtzbrinck Prize for Science Journalism and the Media Prize from the Foundation for Disabled Children. Additionally, she received grants such as those from the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Washington and the International Journalists’ Program.
