Rudiger Dammann

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Rüdiger Dammann (* 1959 in Hamburg ) is a German lecturer, literary agent, editor and publicist.

Life

After studying sociology and ethnology , he did his doctorate with a thesis on understanding in the social sciences. From 1990 to 1996 Dammann worked as a non-fiction editor at Rowohlt Verlag and from 1993 to 1996 as editor of the rororo aktuell and Öko-Test-Ratgeber series . From 1996 to 2000 he was responsible for the non-fiction program at Rowohlt Berlin. Until 2005 he was editor of the culture magazine Kafka, which he and Ingke Brodersen designed and published by the Goethe Institute . Journal for Central Europe , which was published in five countries in separate language editions (Czech, Slovak, Polish, Hungarian, German).

Since 2000, Dammann, together with Ingke Brodersen, has been running a literary agency and an independent editorial office. a. Program areas for various publishers and advises institutions and companies outside the book industry. In 2006 he founded the non-fiction book publisher Booklett in association with co-partners Ingke Brodersen, Peter Mathews and Klett Lern ​​und Wissen GmbH . In addition, he has accompanied numerous book projects as a ghostwriter, some of which have become Spiegel bestsellers.

In addition to his journalistic activities, Dammann is also active in numerous school projects, especially at elementary and secondary schools in so-called problem areas such as Neukölln , Wedding , Moabit , most recently in 2011-2014 as a sub-project manager of the future academy founded as part of a three-year EU project (BIWAQ program) Gropiusstadt , whose goal was to create structures that should improve the transition from school to work.

In addition to his work as editor, agent and author, Dammann is editor-in-chief of the magazine Coeur , which is published by the “Stiftung Initiative Courage” and appears irregularly.

Publications (selection)

As an author

  • Self-discovery in the exotic. Longings, fears and fantasies, often purposefully fueled, shape the way we deal with foreign people and cultures , in: Die Zeit 1987, No. 50.
  • The dialogical practice of field research. The ethnographic view as a paradigm for gaining knowledge . Campus, Frankfurt / Main, New York 1991, ISBN 3-593-34568-4 .
  • Together with Ingke Brodersen: Stories of an Exhibition. Two millennia of German-Jewish history. Jewish Museum, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-00-008282-4 .
  • Long live the editor! And of course the editor too. An outrageous hymn to those who swim through a sea of ​​text of banalities in: Die Welt, November 13, 2004.
  • Ghost writer. News from the life of a ghostwriter: How it feels to publish books under someone else's name , in: Die Welt, January 22, 2005.
  • Together with Ingke Brodersen: Torn Hearts. The history of the Jews in Germany. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-596-16236-X .
  • Together with Ingke Brodersen: The new Europe. United in diversity - history and future of the European Union. Ravensburger Buchverlag, Ravensburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-473-55138-5 .
  • Together with Ingke Brodersen: Meal! 60 years of Germany - a culinary journey through time. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-8321-9503-8 .
  • Together with Reimer Gronemeyer: Is aging a disease? How we cope with the social challenges of dementia. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-593-38968-4 .

As editor

  • Together with Thomas Becker and Ingke Brodersen: One world for everyone. Third world reader. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 1990, ISBN 978-3-499-12734-2 .
  • Together with Ulrich Plenzdorf: A country called the GDR. With illustrations by Klaus Ensikat. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-10-009645-2 .
  • Together with Daniel Cohn-Bendit: 1968. The revolt. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-010230-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The dialogical practice of field research. The ethnographic gaze as a paradigm for gaining knowledge , Frankfurt / Main, New York: Campus Verlag 1991
  2. ↑ Four languages, one magazine In: Die Zeit 16/2001, April 11, 2001, accessed on February 6, 2017.
  3. ↑ Booklet. brodersen & company: New publisher in the Klett Group In: Press release Ernst Klett Verlag , October 4, 2006, accessed on February 6, 2017.
  4. ↑ Zukunftsakademie Gropiusstadt In: berlin.de , accessed on February 6, 2017.
  5. ↑ Team: Editor-in-Chief In: coeur-magazin.de , accessed on February 6, 2017.
  6. ↑ Coer In: sic-stiftung.de , accessed on February 6, 2017.
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personal data
SURNAME Dammann, Rudiger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lecturer, literary agent, editor and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg