Daniela Dahn

Daniela Dahn in 2012

Daniela Dahn , b. Daniela Gerstner , also Daniela Zimmer, (born October 9, 1949 in Berlin ) is a German journalist and writer with a focus on essay writing .

Life

Daniela Dahn is a daughter of the journalist Karl-Heinz Gerstner and the set designer ( DEFA ) and fashion journalist Sibylle Boden-Gerstner , founder of the GDR fashion magazine Sibylle . Her younger sister was Sonja Gerstner . At the age of nine she took on the lead role in the DEFA children's film An Unusual Day under her maiden name Daniela Gerstner .

Daniela Dahn studied at the journalism section in Leipzig until 1973 and then worked as a television journalist for youth television and the business magazine Prisma . In 1981 she resigned “so as not to lose self-respect”. She has been working as a freelance writer since 1982. In 1989, Dahn was one of the founders of the GDR opposition group Democratic Awakening . She later withdrew from it after it approached the CDU. She was a member of the commission of inquiry into the police attacks on October 7 and 8, 1989 in Berlin.

Dahn went on several lecture tours to the USA and gave lectures at various universities.

The PDS presented Dahn in 1998 as one of its two candidates for the office of constitutional judge in Brandenburg ; in December, however, it failed to achieve the required two-thirds majority in the Brandenburg state parliament. Originally, Dahn's candidacy was welcomed in the SPD , but the SPD parliamentary group at the time soon made numerous accusations. For example, falsified quotes were used against Dahn and she was accused of playing down the Waldheim trials . Prime Minister Manfred Stolpe (SPD), however, spoke out in favor of Dahn.

She is a member of the writers' association PEN and on the advisory board of the Humanist Union . In addition, Dahn was co-editor of the weekly newspaper Freitag and a supporter of the surveillance-critical data protection demonstration freedom instead of fear . She is the deputy chairwoman of the Willy Brandt Circle and a member of the international commission of inquiry “Fundamental Rights and Globalization”. Her husband Joochen Laabs was Vice President of the PEN Center Germany from 1999 to 2001 . Dahn's daughter is the director Laura Laabs .

Daniela Dahn publishes in the biweekly magazine Ossietzky (named after Carl von Ossietzky ), of which she is co-editor.

She supports the Gathering Movement .

Works

• Prenzlauer Berg tour. Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle / Leipzig 1987, ISBN 978-3-354-00139-8 . New edition Rowohlt Verlag, Berlin 2001. ISBN 978-3-87134-430-5
• We stay here or who owns the east . Political non-fiction book, Reinbek 1994, ISBN 978-3-499-13423-4
• Westward and don't forget. From the discomfort in unity . Essay. Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-499-60341-1
• Expulsion into paradise. Out of date texts at the moment . Essays. Reinbek 1998, ISBN 3-499-22379-1
• In good condition. How much criticism does democracy need? Essay and Documentation, Reinbek 1999, ISBN 3-499-22709-6
• Ifs and buts. Incitement to contradict . Essays. Reinbek 2002, ISBN 3-499-61458-8
• Democratic demolition, rubble and taboos . Essays, Reinbek 2005, ISBN 3-499-61973-3
• Woe to the victor! No west without east . Rowohlt, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-498-01329-5
• We are the state! Rowohlt, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-498-01333-2
• Yesterday's snow is today's deluge. The unit - a settlement . Rowohlt, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-499-00104-8

literature

• Bernd-Rainer Barth :  Dahn, Daniela . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Awards

• 1988: Theodor Fontane Prize of the Potsdam district for the film Liane
• 1999: Kurt Tucholsky Prize
• 2002: Louise Schroeder Medal
• 2004: Ludwig Börne Prize 2004

Quotes

" Whoever does not want to talk about capitalism should also keep silent about the causes of flight "

“ We live in a democracy in which the supposed sovereign has little more to say. «

Web links

• Literature by and about Daniela Dahn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website of Daniela Dahn
• Interview with Daniela Dahn on Deutschlandradio Kultur , June 2009
• Short biography and reviews of works by Daniela Dahn at perlentaucher.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Daniela Dahn on chronicle of the turning point in the RBB.
2. ↑ Biography on danieladahn.de .
3. ↑ Michael Mara: Bisky: After Dahn's election failure, relationship with SPD hit rock bottom . In: Der Tagesspiegel, December 17, 1998.
4. ↑ PDS initially withdraws Dahn . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 12, 1998.
5. ^ Demonstration of freedom instead of fear , list of supporters .
6. ↑ Brigitte Biermann: Interference on principle . In: Die Zeit , No. 23/1997, p. 6.
7. ↑ Police violence out of control ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , published 11/2011, on sopos.org The unmanaged language by Joachim Gauck ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , published 17/2014, on sopos.org 
    
8. ↑ stand up The collection movement: supporters
9. ↑ Daniela Dahn: Reclaiming the primacy of politics: The »Stand Up« collection movement aims to open up opportunities for self-empowerment , Neues Deutschland, August 17, 2018
10. ↑ Winner at Wayback Machine
11. ^ Louise Schroeder Medal for Daniela Dahn , February 20, 2002.
12. ^ In: Nachdenkseiten, WDR Funkhausgespraeche, January 26, 2016
13. ↑ WDR Funkhausgespraeche, September 8, 2016 ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.