Volker Wolff
Volker Wolff (born June 11, 1951 in Bad Rothenfelde ) is a German business journalist and journalism teacher.
Life
After graduating from Beethoven-Gymnasium Bonn in 1969 , he studied business administration at the University of Cologne (business administration graduate). In 1978 he was with the dissertation marketing strategies of the insurance company to Dr. rer. pole. PhD . He was then assistant to the CEO of Colonia Insurance . In 1980 he became an editor at the Handelsblatt in Düsseldorf and, after a short break, in 1985 at Capital . He held the position of head of department there and finally moved to Wirtschaftswoche as editor-in-chief in 1991 .
From 1995 to 2014 he was a professor at the Journalism Seminar at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . In the meantime he was also dean and vice dean (social sciences, media and sports). From 1998 to 2000 he was managing director of the Institute for Journalism in Mainz. From 2001 to 2008 he published the trade journal business journalist .
Wolff was a member of the board of trustees of the Rhineland-Palatinate Foundation for Innovation and a member of the advisory board of HUK-Coburg . From 2003 to the end of 2014 he was a member of the board of trustees of the Democracy Foundation of the University of Cologne and has been a member of the board of directors of Stiftung Warentest since 2012 .
Fonts (selection)
Monographs
- Marketing strategies of the insurance company (= series of publications by the Institute for Insurance Science at the University of Cologne , issue 35). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1979, ISBN 3-428-04341-3 .
- ABC of newspaper and magazine journalism (= practical journalism series , volume 67). UVK Verlagsgesellschaft, Konstanz 2006, ISBN 3-89669-578-9 . (2nd edition, 2011)
- with Dominik Bartoschek: Beware of surreptitious advertising! UVK Verlagsgesellschaft, Konstanz 2010, ISBN 978-3-86764-210-1 .
Editorships
- with Hans-Peter Mehring: Festschrift for Dieter Farny. on the completion of his 60th year of life by his students . Verlag Versicherungswirtschaft, Karlsruhe 1994, ISBN 3-88487-405-5 .
- with Lothar Rolke : How the media control reality and how it is controlled itself . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen u. a. 1999, ISBN 3-531-13398-5 .
- with Lothar Rolke: financial communication. Course maintenance through opinion maintenance. The new rules of the game on the stock market . FAZ Institute, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-934191-36-3 .
- with Lothar Rolke: The fight for the public. How the Internet is redistributing power between the media, businesses and consumers . Luchterhand, Neuwied u. a. 2002, ISBN 3-472-05042-X .
- with Lothar Rolke: The opinion makers in the media society. Germany's communication elite from the inside . Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-531-14089-2 .
- with Gabriele Reckinger: Financial journalism . UVK, Konstanz 2011, ISBN 3867642532 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Volker Wolff in the catalog of the German National Library
- Volker Wolff at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolff, Volker |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and journalism teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Rothenfelde |