Jürgen Neffe

Jürgen Neffe
Neffe in 2009
Born	(1956-06-05) 5 June 1956 (age 68) Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Nationality	German
Occupation	Writer

Jürgen Neffe (born 5 June 1956 in Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany^[1]) is a German writer.

Jürgen Neffe received a PhD in biochemistry 1985 from RWTH Aachen University.^[2][3] After graduating, Neffe worked as a reporter for various publications, including Nature, GEO, and Der Spiegel.^{[1][3][4][5][6][7]} In 1991, he won third prize in the Egon Erwin Kisch Awards, which are among the most prestigious awards for print journalism in Germany,^[8] for his reportage Der Fluch der guten Tat on a burn unit in Pittsburgh, published in GEO.^[7]

In the beginning of 2003 he moved from Spiegel to Max Planck Society. He organized, started and then ran its federal office in Berlin for the first year.^[9]

In 2005, Neffe published a biography on Albert Einstein, which ranked eighth among non-fiction bestsellers that year in Germany.^[10] The book was translated into more than ten languages, including English. In 2007 the Washington Post named it "Book of the Year".^[11] It received many favorable reviews.^{[12][13][14][15][16][17][18]}

In 2007 and 2008, Neffe traveled for seven months, recreating Charles Darwin's travels on the Beagle. As a result, he published the book Darwin - Das Abenteuer des Lebens, consisting of a combination of travel writing, science reportage on the development of the theory of evolution, and biographical information about Charles Darwin.

In 2011, Neffe created a new interactive e-book format called Libroid.^[19][20][21]

In 2014, Neffe published his first novel, Mehr als wir sind (More than we are).^[22]

In 2017, Neffe published his highly acclaimed biography on Karl Marx, Marx. Der Unvollendete (The unfinished man).^[23]

In 2020, Neffe published his second novel, Das Ding. Der Tag, an dem ich Donald Trump bestahl (The Thing. Or: The Day I Stole from Donald Trump).^[24]

„Das Ding. Der Tag, an dem ich Donald Trump bestahl“. Die Fachzeitschrift BuchMarkt bezeichnete das Buch als „Der beste politische Roman des Jahres“ ^[25] Neffe lives in Berlin.^[26] His wife Hania Luczak is also a writer.^[27]

• Evidence for an early degradative event to the insulin molecule following binding to hepatocyte receptors; S. M. Juul, R. H. Jones, J. L. Evans, J. Neffe, P. H. Sönksen, D. Brandenburg; Biochim. Biophys. Acta 856, 310-319 (1986)
• Demonstration that the insulin receptor undergoes an early structural modification following insulin binding; S. M. Juul, J. Neffe, J. L. Evans, R. H. Jones, P. H. Sönksen, D. Brandenburg; Biochim. Biophys. Acta 856, 320-324 (1986)
• Irgendwann habe ich einen ganz starken Willen entwickelt. In: Charlotte Kerner: Nicht nur Madame Curie – Frauen, die den Nobelpreis bekamen. Beltz Verlag, Weinheim/ Basel 1999, ISBN 3-407-80862-3.
• Vorbild Einstein - Gedanken zu Wissenschaftspopularisierung und Technikskepsis. In: Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Matthias Machnig (HG.): Made in Germany '21. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-455-10417-7
• Einstein – eine Biographie. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-499-61937-7
• EINSTEIN - A Biography. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York 2007, Translated by Shelley Frisch, ISBN 978-3-7414-6640-3
• EINSTEIN - A Biography. Polity Press, London 2007, Translated by Shelley Frisch, ISBN 978-0-7456-4220-8
• Darwin. Das Abenteuer des Lebens. C. Bertelsmann, München 2008, ISBN 978-3-570-01091-4.
• Mehr als wir sind. C. Bertelsmann, München 2014, ISBN 978-3-570-10205-3
• Marx. Der Unvollendete. C. Bertelsmann, München 2017, ISBN 978-3-570-10273-2
• Das Ding. Der Tag, an dem ich Donald Trump bestahl. Europa Verlag, München 2020, ISBN 978-3-958-90340-1.

• Literature by and about Jürgen Neffe in the German National Library catalogue