Kerstin Hoppenhaus: Die Salze der Erde

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Moderator: Martina Kothe

Scarce resources, global injustice, ecological collapse: what do phosphorus, nitrogen and potassium have to do with it?

Our existence depends on the cycle of elements. Nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium are three of the most important. But we have disrupted their flows and are thus endangering the global basis of life. What is
What is it about these substances that we know so little about? In her search for answers, biologist Kerstin Hoppenhaus follows the elements - around the world and through time, from the individual cell to the ecosystem, from the over-fertilized field to politics. She shows: The history of the three elements is simultaneously one of industrial progress and ecological short-sightedness, of colonialism and global networking.

Kerstin Hoppenhaus studied biology in Jena and science film in Ludwigsburg. She has received several awards for her work as a science journalist. She received the NDR Non-Fiction Prize 2024 for her debut Die Salze der Erde.

Martina Kothe works as a freelance illustrator and has been working as an author and presenter for ARD radio since 2000, primarily for NDR Kultur.

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