Jörg Blech

Jörg Blech (* 1966 in Cologne ) is a German science journalist and non-fiction author.

He first studied biology at the University of Cologne and, in an exchange year, biochemistry at the University of Sussex , in order to take a position as medical and science editor at Stern after graduating in 1994 in Cologne . After that he switched to Spiegel for the time being and in 1999 . After working in Hamburg and Boston, he is currently working in the capital city office.

He became known primarily as a critic of the health care and pharmaceutical industries .

Jörg Blech lives with his family in Berlin .

Fonts

• Life on man. The story of our colonists. Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Reinbek 2000, ISBN 3-499-60880-4 ; Revised and expanded new edition, ibid. 2010, ISBN 978-3-499-62494-0
• People & Co. Exciting stories about living things that live on us. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2001, ISBN 3-499-21162-9
• The inventors of disease. How we are made into patients. S. Fischer, Frankfurt 2003, ISBN 3-10-004410-X ; extended edition: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt 2005, ISBN 3-596-15876-1 ( 1st place on the Spiegel bestseller list from February 16 to 22, 2004 )
• Desperate medicine. Questionable therapies and how to protect yourself from them. S. Fischer, Frankfurt 2005, ISBN 3-10-004413-4 ; Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16822-4
• Move. The power that conquers diseases and extends life. S. Fischer, Frankfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-004414-3 ; Revised and updated edition: Healing with Movement. How to beat diseases and extend your life. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17761-5
• Genes are not fate. How we can control our genetic makeup and our lives. S. Fischer, Frankfurt 2010, ISBN 978-3-100-04418-1 ; Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt 2012, ISBN 978-3-596-18619-8
• The Psycho Trap: How the Soul Industry Makes Us Patients. S. Fischer, Frankfurt 2014, ISBN 978-3-100-04419-8

Audio books

• Movement . Read by Wolfgang Rüter , Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, 2008, ISBN 978-3-89813-754-6 (reading, 2 CDs, 146 min.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Author portrait at Rowohlt (accessed May 2015)

Web links

• Literature by and about Jörg Blech in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jörg Blech in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Jörg Blech: The pursuit of health is exploited . In: Ärzteblatt . 2003 (Interview with J. Blech on The Disease Inventors ).
• Susanne Nessler: Dizziness in the Health System - Review of Heillose Medicine on Deutschlandradio Kultur on September 2, 2005
• Jörg Blech at Perlentaucher