Alexander of Plato

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Alexander von Plato (born February 25, 1942 in Salzwedel , Saxony-Anhalt ) is a German historian and author.

He studied philosophy, sociology and theater studies at the Free University of Berlin and after receiving his doctorate in 1973 worked as a director of studies and lecturer at the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst.

In the 1970s he was at the head of the Communist Party of Germany (organizational structure) .

1980–1983 he was a research assistant at the oral history expert Lutz Niethammer at the University of Essen . He then moved to the Fernuniversität Hagen , where he founded the Institute for History and Biography in 1993, which he headed until 2007.

1996–2000 he was secretary of the International Oral History Association , 2006–2008 vice president. He is co-editor and editor of BIOS - Journal of Biography Research, Oral History and Life Course Analysis . Von Plato was a scientific advisor to the TV documentary drama Deutschlandspiel , published in 2000 .

In 2012 he received the John G. Diefenbaker Prize , which is intended to enable cooperation with a Canadian university.

Publications

  • KPD and Comintern, Social Democracy and Trotskyism to assess d. Class struggles in d. Weimar Republic dissertation by Alexander von Plato, Oberbaumverlag, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3876280656 .
  • with others: Another Germany - texts and images of resistance from the peasant wars to today ; 1978.
  • Risen from the ruins ... From the Soviet occupation zone to the GDR (1945–1989) - a path to unity and socialism ; Cologne Red Flag 1979.
  • with Niethammer: "We'll get other times now". In search of the experience of the people in post-fascist countries. Life history and social culture in the Ruhr area 1930 to 1960 ; 1989.
  • with Almut Leh: An unbelievable spring. Experienced history in post-war Germany 1945–1948. ; Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn, 1997
  • with Niethammer, Wierling: The people's own experience ; 1991.
  • Times of transition - walls of times - for denazification and de-Stalinization
  • The unification of Germany - a world political power game: Bush, Kohl, Gorbachev and the internal minutes of the meeting. 3rd edition 2010 ISBN 978-3861535850 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander von Plato: A Second “Denazification”? (PDF; 105 kB), in: trade union monthly books , edition 7/1991, accessed on May 2, 2012
  2. ↑ K-Group: turning comrades - Focus online
  3. ↑ On the history of the communist group Bochum / Essen (KGB / E)
  4. ↑ 2012 John G. Diefenbaker Award: Alexander von Plato - Finding Canada's voice in the post-Berlin Wall era ( Memento from June 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) at the Canada Council for the Arts (canadacouncil.ca); Retrieved May 25, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Plato, Alexander von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzwedel , Saxony-Anhalt