Dorothea Countess Razumovsky

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Dorothea Countess Razumovsky - née Dorothea Princess zu Solms-Hohensolms-Lich - (born December 11, 1935 in Lich ; † January 2, 2014 ibid) was a German journalist and publicist .

Life

She was born in Lich, Hesse, as the second of five children of Hermann Prinz zu Solms-Hohensolms-Lich and his wife Gertrud geb. Freiin von Werthern . Her siblings include the agricultural entrepreneur Philipp Reinhard zu Solms-Hohensolms-Lich , the politician Hermann Otto Solms and the Germanist Wilhelm Solms . She was married to the journalist Count Andreas Razumovsky (* Schönstein November 15, 1929; † Vienna July 26, 2002). The marriage had three children, including the painter Katharina Razumovsky .

Together with her husband she spent many years as a journalist a. a. for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and broadcasters from Germany , Austria and Switzerland in numerous countries: until the Warsaw Pact troops marched into Prague in 1968 , then in The Hague and five years in Belgrade , where she maintained contact with Yugoslav dissidents . After an interlude in Paris , her path led her to South Africa for seven years , where the political upheaval away from the apartheid regime was taking place.

In addition to numerous non-fiction books on the history and politics of the Balkans and South Africa as well as book translations from the Czech, e.g. B. by Jiří Mucha , she has also published several novels in recent years.

For many years she did volunteer work in the German Red Cross , in the care of dementia patients and as chairwoman of the family education project HIPPY Germany. From 2008 to 2012 she was on the hardship commission of the Hessian Ministry of the Interior and for sport on the proposal of the League of Free Welfare Care .

Awards

Publications (selection)

Non-fiction

  • Tito's legacy: Yugoslavia between yesterday and today. Ploetz, Freiburg im Breisgau / Würzburg 1978, ISBN 3-87640-172-0 (= Ploetz pocket books on current events , volume 2).
  • Children and violence in South Africa with Elisabeth Wätjen. Original edition, dtv, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-423-10870-3 .
  • Last Hope at the Cape: Report from Southern Africa. DVA, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-421-06561-6 .
  • Chaos Yugoslavia. Historical causes, backgrounds, perspectives. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-492-11577-2 .
  • The Balkans. History and politics since Alexander the great. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-492-03519-1 .

Novels

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Countess Razumovsky died. In: Gießener Anzeiger from January 6, 2014
  2. ↑ Obituary notice In: Zeitungsgruppe Zentralhessen from January 7, 2014 ( Memento of the original from January 7, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.giessener-anzeiger.de
  3. ^ Dorothea Countess Razumovsky. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2014/2015: Volume I: AO. Volume II: PZ. , Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2014, p. 827, ISBN 978-3-11-033720-4 .
  4. ↑ From the contemplative Lich out into the wide world. In: Gießener Allgemeine, No. 161, Friday, July 13, 2012, p. 35.
personal data
SURNAME Razumovsky, Dorothea Countess
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Lich
DATE OF DEATH 2nd January 2014
Place of death Lich