Jürgen Neffe

Jürgen Neffe
Neffe in 2009
Born	(1956-06-05) 5 June 1956 (age 68) Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Nationality	German
Occupation	Writer

Jürgen Neffe (born 5 June 1956 in Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany[1]) is a German writer.

Life

Jürgen Neffe received a PhD in biochemistry 1985 from RWTH Aachen University.[2][3] After graduating, Neffe worked as a reporter for various publications, including Nature, GEO, and Der Spiegel.[1][3][4][5][6][7] In 1991, he won third prize in the Egon Erwin Kisch Awards, which are among the most prestigious awards for print journalism in Germany,[8] for his reportage Der Fluch der guten Tat on a burn unit in Pittsburgh, published in GEO.[7]

In the beginning of 2003 he moved from Spiegel to Max Planck Society. He organized, started and then ran its federal office in Berlin for the first year.[9]

In 2005, Neffe published a biography on Albert Einstein, which ranked eighth among non-fiction bestsellers that year in Germany.[10] The book was translated into more than ten languages, including English. In 2007 the Washington Post named it "Book of the Year".[11] It received many favorable reviews.[12][13][14][15][16][17][18]

In 2007 and 2008, Neffe traveled for seven months, recreating Charles Darwin's travels on the Beagle. As a result, he published the book Darwin - Das Abenteuer des Lebens, consisting of a combination of travel writing, science reportage on the development of the theory of evolution, and biographical information about Charles Darwin.

In 2011, Neffe created a new interactive e-book format called Libroid.[19][20][21]

In 2014, Neffe published his first novel, Mehr als wir sind (More than we are).[22]

In 2017, Neffe published his highly acclaimed biography on Karl Marx, Marx. Der Unvollendete (The unfinished man).[23]

In 2020, Neffe published his second novel, Das Ding. Der Tag, an dem ich Donald Trump bestahl (The Thing. Or: The Day I Stole from Donald Trump).[24]

„Das Ding. Der Tag, an dem ich Donald Trump bestahl“. Die Fachzeitschrift BuchMarkt bezeichnete das Buch als „Der beste politische Roman des Jahres“ [25] Neffe lives in Berlin.[26] His wife Hania Luczak is also a writer.[27]

Works

• Evidence for an early degradative event to the insulin molecule following binding to hepatocyte receptors; S. M. Juul, R. H. Jones, J. L. Evans, J. Neffe, P. H. Sönksen, D. Brandenburg; Biochim. Biophys. Acta 856, 310-319 (1986)
• Demonstration that the insulin receptor undergoes an early structural modification following insulin binding; S. M. Juul, J. Neffe, J. L. Evans, R. H. Jones, P. H. Sönksen, D. Brandenburg; Biochim. Biophys. Acta 856, 320-324 (1986)
• Irgendwann habe ich einen ganz starken Willen entwickelt. In: Charlotte Kerner: Nicht nur Madame Curie – Frauen, die den Nobelpreis bekamen. Beltz Verlag, Weinheim/ Basel 1999, ISBN 3-407-80862-3.
• Vorbild Einstein - Gedanken zu Wissenschaftspopularisierung und Technikskepsis. In: Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Matthias Machnig (HG.): Made in Germany '21. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-455-10417-7
• Einstein – eine Biographie. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-499-61937-7
• EINSTEIN - A Biography. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York 2007, Translated by Shelley Frisch, ISBN 978-3-7414-6640-3
• EINSTEIN - A Biography. Polity Press, London 2007, Translated by Shelley Frisch, ISBN 978-0-7456-4220-8
• Darwin. Das Abenteuer des Lebens. C. Bertelsmann, München 2008, ISBN 978-3-570-01091-4.
• Mehr als wir sind. C. Bertelsmann, München 2014, ISBN 978-3-570-10205-3
• Marx. Der Unvollendete. C. Bertelsmann, München 2017, ISBN 978-3-570-10273-2
• Das Ding. Der Tag, an dem ich Donald Trump bestahl. Europa Verlag, München 2020, ISBN 978-3-958-90340-1.

References

1. "The Founder - Libroid - more than a book". libroid.com.
2. Jürgen Neffe: Struktur und Internalisierung des Insulinrezeptors - Dissertation. Technische Hochschule Aachen, Aachen 1985.
3. Hunold, Dietrich (Summer 2009). "Abenteuer des Lebens". RWTH Alumni Keep in Touch. No. 47. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
4. "Max-Planck-Gesellschaft richtet ein Hauptstadtbüro ein" (press release). Max Planck Society. 3 December 2002.
5. [1] Auf der Seite der Sieger - über die Überlebenden der Aids-Seuche, DER SPIEGEL 23/1993
6. ""Jürgen Neffe" : nature.com search". www.nature.com.
7. "Alle Preisträger im Überblick". July 2003.
8. Richter, Konstantin (May–June 2008). "Shop Stewards". Columbia Journalism Review.
9. Max-Planck-Gesellschaft richtet ein Hauptstadtbüro ein. Pressemitteilung der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft 31/2002 vom 3. Dezember 2002.
10. [2] Best selling list Non Fiction 2005 in Germany
11. "Holiday Guide 2007: Gifts - Book World's Holiday Issue (washingtonpost.com)". www.washingtonpost.com.
12. [3] Master of the Universe by Corey S. Powell
13. [4] The Other Einstein by Lee Smolin
14. [5] Publishers Weekly
15. [6] Kirkus Review
16. [7] Studying the scientist by Daniel Sutherland
17. [8] Einstein by Michael Dirda
18. [9] "Books of the Year 2007"
19. [10]Reader Innovation: Exploring the Narrative Possibilities of the E-Book
20. [11] Never-ending book heralds new chapter in e-publishing
21. "German author launches multi-media ebook "Libroid"". Reuters. October 6, 2010. Archived from the original on October 26, 2010 – via in.reuters.com.
22. [12] Jürgen Neffe: Mehr als wir sind
23. [13] Jürgen Neffe: Marx. Der Unvollendete
24. Jürgen Neffe: Das Ding. Der Tag, an dem ich Donald Trump bestahl
25. Gerhard Beckmann (18 September 2020). ""Der beste politische Roman des Jahres": Jürgen Neffes "Das Ding. Der Tag, an dem ich Donald Trump bestahl" (Europa Verlag)". BuchMarkt.
26. "Wer nicht mehr schlafen will, trinkt Wasser". kurier.at. 20 September 2014.
27. "Hania Luczak – medium magazin".

External links

• Literature by and about Jürgen Neffe in the German National Library catalogue