After last year's outstanding success, the science podcast festival is entering its second round on Friday 11 October from 19:00 - midnight. Listeners, scientists, hosts and editors will come together under the interested gaze of Giraffatitan and Tristan Otto. On two stages and a networking area, visitors can expect renowned live podcasts, lectures and quizzes from various disciplines in the humanities and natural sciences. The event's partner is Auf die Ohren.
‘Together, we want to enthuse people about science,’ says Johannes Vogel, Director General of the Berlin Research Museum. ‘Where better to do this than at such a fascinating place as the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, which stands for nature and dialogue with society.’
‘The podcast festival brings together the best and biggest science podcasts in the world's most spectacular dinosaur exhibition,’ says Lukas Klatschinski from Auf die Ohren. ‘Packaging science in a way that is exciting, insightful and has a direct impact on your life is a science in itself, which the podcasts at the festival have perfected. The podcast festival feels like an exciting place that inspires joy and curiosity and where you learn a lot at the same time.
The programmes include Zeit Wissen with ‘Woher weißt du das?’, the star newcomer ‘Was bisher geschah’, ‘Sag mal, du als Physiker’ from Audible, ‘Der Rest ist Geschichte’ from Deutschlandfunk, Die Welt's production ‘Aha! Zehn Minuten Alltags-Wissen’, ‘Die Schule brennt’ from SWR and ‘Klimabericht’ and ‘Smarter leben’ from SPIEGEL. The audience will discover, among other things, how the animal world exploits the rules of physics, why faeces are anything but waste products and how body chemistry influences our diet.
The headliner of the evening is, in fact, the award-winning podcast from the Berlin Natural History Museum, Beats & Bones. From stardust and supernovae to time travel, insects on the roadside and excursions into the mysterious rainforests of Ecuador - in this podcast, researchers give profound and often surprising insights into their work. Prof. Dr Jörg Fröbisch, palaeontologist at the Berlin Natural History Museum and excavation director at the world-famous Bromacker fossil site in Thuringia, will be live on the festival evening. Here, time is turned back 290 million years. Finds of so-called prehistoric dinosaurs are piling up. To understand who they were, you have to be able to read tracks. No problem for Jörg Fröbisch. He gives Lukas Klaschinski an insight into the life of the oldest four-legged land vertebrates in the history of the earth in the live episode ‘Fresh from the Earth: Ursaurians’.
The complete programme for your ears, heart and brain and all information about booking tickets - on sale for EUR 25 - can be found here on the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin website. The event will take place in German.
Media representatives should apply for accreditation by 10 October at gesine.steiner@mfn.berlin
To Beats & Bones and Auf die Ohren:
What began almost 10 years ago with the snap idea of two best friends is now an integral part of the German podcast market: Lukas Klaschinski and Timo Neitzel founded the podcast production company ‘Auf die Ohren’ in 2018 and reach well over 4 million people a month with their formats. As the organiser of the first major podcast festivals, AdO became known in the market and is now established as a 360° full-service production company involved in the creation and distribution of relevant, high-reach formats in the field of psychology. ‘So bin ich eben!’ and “Stahl aber Herzlich” with Stefanie Stahl, “Beste Freundinnen”, “In extremen Köpfen”, “Beats & Bones” and “Fühl ich” are just some of the programmes she has produced.