Ludger Weß

Ludger Weß (* 1954 ) is a German science journalist and novelist .

Weß studied chemistry and biology at the University of Münster and then worked for four years as a researcher in the field of molecular developmental biology at the University of Bremen . In the 1980s he began writing about science, mostly genetic and biotechnology. In 2006 he was one of the founders of the communications agency akampion .

Book publications

The dreams of genetics. Genetic utopias of social progress. Greno, Nördlingen 1989; 2nd Edition. Mabuse, Frankfurt am Main 1998.
(Ed.) Creation made to measure. Perfect or perverted? Science at the border of life and death - medicine between manipulation and therapy - genetic engineering between market and morality. Publik-Forum, Oberursel 1995.
Oligo. Thriller. Tredition, Hamburg 2012; Piper, Munich 2017.
Vironymous. Thriller. Piper, Munich 2017
Tiny, tough and numerous. A bacterial atlas. Mathes & Seitz, Berlin 2020

Web links

Posts on Novo Arguments
Posts on salon columnists

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Heidrun Kaupen-Haas (Ed.): The grip on the population. Topicality and continuity of Nazi population policy. Greno, Nördlingen 1986, p. 177.
↑ Lisbeth N. Trallori (ed.): The conquest of life: Technology and society at the turn of the 21st century. Publishing House for Social Criticism, Vienna 1996, p. 315.

personal data
SURNAME	Weß, Ludger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German science journalist and novelist
DATE OF BIRTH	1954

[kh-1] Heidrun Kaupen-Haas (Ed.): The grip on the population. Topicality and continuity of Nazi population policy. Greno, Nördlingen 1986, p. 177.

[2] Lisbeth N. Trallori (ed.): The conquest of life: Technology and society at the turn of the 21st century. Publishing House for Social Criticism, Vienna 1996, p. 315.