Josef Klein habilitation at RWTH Aachen in 1985; professor of German Linguistics at the University of Koblenz-Landau from 1992 (university president 2000-2005); visiting professorships in Leiden, Bratislava, and Düsseldorf; at the Otto Suhr Institute at Freie Universität Berlin since 2005; member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts; consultant in media and politics. Main research interests: Political linguistics, argumentation theory, frame semantics.
