Jürgen Neffe (born 5 June 1956 in

Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia Herne () is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the Ruhr area directly between the cities of Bochum, and Gelsenkirchen. History Herne (ancient Haranni) was a tiny village until the 19th century. When the mining of c ...

, Germany) is a German writer.

Life

Jürgen Neffe received a PhD in biochemistry 1985 from

RWTH Aachen University RWTH Aachen University (), in German ''Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen'', is a German public research university located in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With more than 47,000 students enrolled in 144 study prog ...

. After graduating, Neffe worked as a reporter for various publications, including ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. In 1991, he won third prize in the Egon Erwin Kisch Awards, which are among the most prestigious awards for print journalism in Germany, for his reportage ''Der Fluch der guten Tat'' on a burn unit in Pittsburgh, published in ''GEO''. In the beginning of 2003 he moved from ''Spiegel'' to

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. He organized, started and then ran its federal office in Berlin for the first year. In 2005, Neffe published a biography on

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, which ranked eighth among non-fiction bestsellers that year in Germany. The book was translated into more than ten languages, including English. In 2007 the

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named it "Book of the Year". It received many favorable reviews. In 2007 and 2008, Neffe traveled for seven months, recreating

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'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 Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. It occurs when evolutionary processes such as natural selection and genetic drift act on genetic variation, resulting in certai ...

, and biographical information about Charles Darwin. In 2011, Neffe created a new interactive e-book format called Libroid. In 2014, Neffe published his first novel, ''Mehr als wir sind'' (More than we are). In 2017, Neffe published his highly acclaimed biography on Karl Marx, ''Marx. Der Unvollendete'' (The unfinished man). 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). „Das Ding. Der Tag, an dem ich Donald Trump bestahl“. Die Fachzeitschrift

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bezeichnete das Buch als „Der beste politische Roman des Jahres“ Neffe lives in

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. His wife Hania Luczak is also a writer.

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, . * ''Vorbild Einstein'' - Gedanken zu Wissenschaftspopularisierung und Technikskepsis. In: Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Matthias Machnig (HG.): ''Made in Germany '21''. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2004, * ''Einstein – eine Biographie''. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2005, * ''EINSTEIN - A Biography''. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York 2007, Translated by Shelley Frisch, * ''EINSTEIN - A Biography''. Polity Press, London 2007, Translated by Shelley Frisch, * ''Darwin. Das Abenteuer des Lebens''. C. Bertelsmann, München 2008, . * ''Mehr als wir sind''. C. Bertelsmann, München 2014, * ''Marx. Der Unvollendete''. C. Bertelsmann, München 2017, * ''Das Ding. Der Tag, an dem ich Donald Trump bestahl''. Europa Verlag, München 2020, .

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Neffe, Jurgen 1956 births Living people People from Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia Social Democratic Party of Germany politicians Aufstehen German male writers Writers from North Rhine-Westphalia