Jens Jürgen Korff

Jens Jürgen Korff (born July 3, 1960 in Aachen ) is a German historian and political scientist .

Life

After graduating from high school at the Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium in Aachen , Korff studied history , political science and biology at RWTH Aachen University from 1978 to 1986 , completing a Magister Artium . One of the main areas of study was the history of the German labor movement . From 1990 to 1991 he was a town historian in Waldbröl in Oberberg (ABM position interviewing contemporary witnesses ). From 1991 to 1999 he was employed as a copywriter in an advertising agency in Cologne . a. Brochures, catalogs and promotional campaigns designed and written for Sony , Kodak and Reynolds Tobacco . From 2000 to 2002 he was a web copywriter at ICSmedia in Münster , where he a. a. designed and wrote two websites for a furniture and kitchen retailer association. He has been a freelance copywriter in and near Bielefeld since 2002 .

Works

• The Padover Report: Aachen 1944/45 (Aachen 1985)
• Gramsci in Moscow, Moscow in Gramsci . In: Utopia and civil society ... Antonio Gramsci , ed. v. U. Hirschfeld et al. W. Rügemer (Berlin 1990) ISBN 3-88520-335-9 .
• Oat Spain in the pre-march. Economic and social history of the Waldbröl district 1836-1848 ... (sheets on Oberbergischen history, Gummersbach 1991).
• Environmental advice from AZ (Dreisam Verlag, Cologne 1994) ISBN 3-89452-331-X .
• Environmental lexicon with bite (CED CD-ROM-Verlag, Troisdorf 1997) ISBN 3-93204-507-6 .
• Article on disposal, climate, environment and nature in the yearbook "Harenberg Aktuell '99 -2008" ( Harenberg Verlag or Meyers Lexikonverlag , Dortmund 1998-2007) ISBN 978-3-411-76168-5 .
• Several posts in seas and coasts . Volume 16 of the series "Fascination Nature" ( Wissen Media Verlag , Gütersloh 2006). ISBN 3-57716-324-0 .
• Lies with numbers. How we are manipulated with statistics (with Gerd Bosbach ; Heyne Verlag, Munich 2011) ISBN 978-3-453-17391-0 .
• The stupidest sayings from politics, culture and economy and how they contradict them carefully (Westend-Verlag, Frankfurt 2015) ISBN 978-3-86489-086-4 . ( Weblog for the book )
• The number tricksters. The fairy tale of the dying Germans and other statistical lies. (with Gerd Bosbach ; Heyne Verlag, Munich 2017) ISBN 978-3-453-20132-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Jens Jürgen Korff in the catalog of the German National Library
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• Weblog "Wortmacht"
• Weblog "Lies with Numbers"