Thomas Kraupe

Exploration and Inspiration...Telling the greatest stories of all: "We Are Born of Stars" - this is what drives Thomas. He is officer of International Planetarium Society IPS and will be the next President 2013-2014 and Chair of the IPS 2014 Conference in Bejing (China). Thomas grew up in Munich (Bavaria), studied mathematics and physics and specialized as astrophysicist on X-Ray astronomy at the “Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics” in Garching near Munich. As assistant director at Stuttgart´s Carl-Zeiss-Planetarium (1983-1992) and director of the Planetarium at “Forum der Technik - Deutsches Museum” in Munich 1993-1996 he created numerous ArtScience crossover-projects. Since late 2000 he is director of Planetarium Hamburg in Northern Germany – which he transformed into one of the most advanced and diversified facilities of its kind in the world. Thomas leads initiatives in interactive edutainment and the popularisation of cutting edge scientific research for “Leisure Attraction