Johann-Günther König

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Johann-Günther König (born August 15, 1952 in Bremen ) is a German writer and publicist . He lives and works in Bremen.

biography

education and profession

König spent his youth in the Langeoog boarding school . After graduating from high school , he studied social pedagogy in Bremen . From the late 1970s he worked on projects in the context of international children's culture research under the direction of Heinz Hengst. At the same time his first literary works appeared. After being recognized by the state as a social pedagogue, in 1986 he was given the opportunity to obtain a Dr. phil. to do a PhD.

From 1987 to 2000, König worked as a sales manager and managing director for international companies in the telecommunications / electronics sector. In 2000 he and Hajo König founded the company König und König for communication and design.

König has been publishing poems, prose, literary travel guides and non-fiction books since 1975 - since the 1980s he has mainly devoted himself to cultural-historical and political-economic topics. He publishes articles primarily in the two-week Ossietzky , in newspapers such as the Weser-Kurier and other organs more, works as an editor and writes articles for anthologies.

He is married to Doris Heitkamp-König for the second time.

Awards

  • 1984: Travel grant from the Foreign Office
  • 1984: Bremen advancement award for youth work
  • 1985: Amsterdam Scholarship from the Stichting Culturelle Uitvisseling
  • 1984–1986: PhD scholarship from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation

Other offices

König has been a member of the Association of German Writers (in ver.di ) since 1978 . From the 1980s to 2010 he worked in board positions; from 2004 to 2010 as 1st chairman of the VS state association Lower Saxony / Bremen. Since 2015 he has been chairman of the Association of German Writers in Lower Saxony and Bremen e. V.

In 1983, König was one of the founders of the Bremer Literaturkontor . Until 2005 he took part in the literature-promoting work of the Kontor as an assessor and most recently as chairman. In addition, he was a member of the jury for the Bremen Children's and Youth Literature Prize from 1984 to 2007. In 1985, König and other interested parties founded the Friedo-Lampe -Gesellschaft e. V. with headquarters in Bremen.

Works (selection)

  • Losing is not fate. Poems in prose . Publishing house Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 1976
  • Norderney - portrait of an island . Publishing house Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 1977
  • Change of position. Poems and prose . Publishing house Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 1978
  • Heini Holtenbeen , Fisch-Luzie and other Bremen originals - an attempt at resuscitation . Brockkamp, ​​Bremen 1990
  • Who is Europe good for? . Kellner, Bremen 1994 ISBN 978-3-927155-22-0
  • Peanuts for the shark society. Novel . Kellner, Bremen 1996 ISBN 978-3-927155-26-8
  • All power to the corporations . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1999
  • Bremen all over the world . Kellner, Bremen 1999 ISBN 978-3-927155-79-4
  • Bremen - literary walks. Insel, Frankfurt / M. 2000
  • Stock exchange - shares and actors, with Manfred Peters. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 2001
  • Friedo Lampe: From door to door. Fantasies and Capriccios. With an afterword edited by Johann-Günther König . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2002. (dtv, Munich 2005)
  • Financial crime - money laundering, insider trading, speculation. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / Main 2003
  • From pub to pub in London and the South of England . A literary pub crawl, Insel, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 2003 ISBN 3-458-34588-4 (Insel taschenbuch vol. 2888)
  • Irish Pubs - A travel companion through Ireland . Insel, Frankfurt am Main 2004
  • The lobbyists - who really rules us . Patmos, Düsseldorf 2007
  • Friedrich Engels - The Bremen Years 1838–1841 . Kellner, Bremen 2007 ISBN 978-3-927155-91-6
  • What did the big money with us before . Patmos, Düsseldorf 2008
  • The auto crisis . zu Klampen, Springe 2009 ISBN 978-3-86674-046-4
  • The Bremen Freimarkt. The showmen and their audience . Kellner Verlag, Bremen 2010 ISBN 978-3-939928-44-7
  • The history of the automobile . Reclam, Stuttgart 2010 ISBN 978-3-15-020214-2
  • Bremen . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2012 ISBN 978-3-455-50233-6
  • On foot. A story of walking. Reclam, Stuttgart 2013 ISBN 978-3-15-020297-5
  • With Rudolf Hickel : Stabilize the euro, democratize the EU. Kellner, Bremen 2014 ISBN 978-3-95651-025-0
  • Big business. A little history of human needs. zu Klampen, Springe 2015 ISBN 978-3-86674-515-5
  • The British are crazy. The book on Brexit. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2016 ISBN 978-3-49963-267-9
  • On time like Deutsche Bahn? A cultural-historical journey up to the present day. zu Klampen, Springe 2018 ISBN 978-3-86674-576-6

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personal data
SURNAME King, Johann-Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 15th August 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen