The author
Stefan Jan Brede
Hello, nice to meet you virtually!
My name is Stefan Jan Brede and I’m the author of the manuscript ‘That Damn German Language!’. Below are a few facts and figures about me for your information.
Stefan Jan Brede was born in the year of the first moon landing and grew up in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, where he attended secondary school and took his A-levels („Abitur”) before studying Political Sciences and Modern History at the Goethe University in Frankfurt. During this time, Stefan had already begun working as a freelance journalist.
After two years at the Goethe-University Stefan relocated to the United Kingdom where he went on to study European Politics and Applied Linguistics at the University of Buckingham and graduate with a first-class honours Bachelor-degree.
After returning to Frankfurt, he continued working as a journalist for several years before he changed tracks and began his second career as a copywriter at an advertising agency. This was followed by promotions and moves to various other advertising agencies, including one he co-founded, until he started his own advertising consultancy in 2013.
‘On the side’, he also opened a specialist whisky shop during that time, and in 2017 a renowned language school in Frankfurt asked him if he would be interested in teaching some evening German classes. As working as a consultant and copywriter can be quite a solitary affair at times, he accepted the offer and discovered a passion for helping others to gain a better understanding of the German language.
In 2023, he finally began to organise and compile the various documents and papers he had produced for his students on the subject. And from this, almost organically, emerged the manuscript that now lies before you in digital form.