Inge Wolff

Inge Wolff (born July 8, 1945 in Bielefeld ) is a German non-fiction author . She has published more than 20 books so far, mostly etiquette books . In its cover story, Neue Zeiten, neue Mannieren, Focus referred to Inge Wolff as Germany's “Popess of Behavior”.

Live and act

Inge Wolff completed training as an ADTV dance teacher in 1964 and studied dance and expression therapy, which she completed in December 1989 at the Dietrich Langen Institute. She has been a lecturer since 1990 and lectures on the topics of modern manners / pleasant communication .

She is the President of the German Society of Social Forms and Member of the Board of the International Working Group on Social Forms (AUI) .

At the Pinneberg Chamber of Commerce and Industry , Wolff has been holding her "Trainer for Manners" course since 2011. In educational institutions, but also in dance schools, Wolff carries out the anti-embarrassment program she developed for young people.

"When young people are valued by parents and teachers, they also show respect for their fellow human beings."

- Inge Wolff in: Die Welt . November 27, 2009

Inge Wolff is also editor-in-chief of the loose-leaf collection Stil & Etiquette , which is published by VNR Verlag for Deutsche Wirtschaft AG. A hardback edition with 576 pages was published in 1999.

Working Group on Manners International (AUI)

As early as 1956, Inge Wolff's father, the ADTV dance teacher Tino Schneider, and Hans-Georg Schnitzer (journalist) founded the “Technical Committee for Etiquette”. The work of this committee ended due to illness around the years 1984 to 1986. In August 1989, the successor to the “Working Group Umhandformen International” (AUI) was established. Since then, Inge Wolff has headed it and represented it in public. The approximately 20 volunteer members of the AUI come from all industries that are professionally involved with manners, protocols, table manners, etc. The AUI works with the General German Dance Teachers Association (ADTV) .

Inge Wolff has been training business etiquette coaches since 2009.

Works (selection)

• Riktige omgangformer i 90- ° arene . Hjemmets Bokforl, Oslo 1993, ISBN 82-590-1165-4 .
• Business etiquette from A-Z . Falken, Niedernhausen / Ts. 1997, ISBN 3-8068-4887-4 .
• Congratulations! Falken Niedernhausen / Ts., 2000, ISBN 3-8068-2588-2 .
• Etiquette today . Goldmann, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-442-16592-X .
• Anti-embarrassment etiquette . Gräfe and Unzer, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7742-6343-4 .
• Etiquette on the job . Gräfe and Unzer, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-8338-0135-2 .
• Celebrate baptism . Urania, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-7831-6128-1 .
• The etiquette coach . Universum, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-942708-00-5 .
• The current etiquette on the job. DAMOKLES, Braunschweig 2019, ISBN 978-3-981903-20-1 . In collaboration with Danny Morgenstern

Awards

• Merit Medal of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany . Awarded in May 1997

watch TV

On March 9, 2011, Inge Wolff observed in the television program Der große Deutschen Benimm-Test , moderated by Sonja Zietlow and Micky Beisenherz , whether celebrities like Collien Fernandes , Dirk Bach , Janine Steeger and Willi Herren have mastered etiquette . Wolff had already participated in the planning of the program and also worked out the 50 questions that were asked during the program.

literature

• Frank Tippelt: Do you remember? Bielefeld in the 60s and 70s. Hercules 2008, ISBN 3-937924-75-2 .
• Christoph Gutknecht: Lots of Bohemian villages. How the words got their meaning. CH Beck 2000, ISBN 3-406-45989-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Inge Wolff in the catalog of the German National Library
• Inge Wolff's website
• Tim Pröse: The new etiquette: no more “ladies first”. on: Focus-Online. November 18, 2012.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ New times, new manners. Focus 47/2012, accessed December 17, 2012 . 
2. ↑ Christoph Gutknecht: Lauter bohemian villages , p. 19
3. ↑ Workshop 4: Modern etiquette: etiquette on the job. (PDF; 31 kB) Retrieved December 18, 2012 . 
4. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt of October 15, 2011: Behavior is not a matter of luck. Retrieved December 20, 2012 . 
5. ↑ Good behavior can be learned. Retrieved December 23, 2012 . 
6. ↑ The world online. Retrieved December 18, 2012 . 
7. ↑ test.de from July 25, 2002: Tips, the art of giving. Retrieved December 25, 2012 . 
8. ^ Style and etiquette advisor Inge Wolff. Retrieved December 25, 2012 . 
9. ↑ Inge Wolff (author): Stil & Etiquette , VNR Verlag für die Deutsche Wirtschaft AG 1999, ISBN 3-8215-0126-X
10. ^ Members of the AUI. Retrieved December 17, 2012 . 
11. ↑ Working Group on Manners International (AUI)
12. ↑ Ann Claire Richter: With good behavior, you climb the career ladder faster. February 27, 2019, accessed on March 1, 2019 (German). 
13. ↑ The great German behavior test by RTL II - The Quiz. ( Memento from March 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
14. ↑ In the jungle of etiquette. Retrieved December 18, 2012 .