Elke Fröhlich

Elke Fröhlich (born January 30, 1944 in Ottmachau , Silesia ) is a German historian . She is the editor of the 32-volume edition of all of Joseph Goebbels' diaries .

Life

Cheerful studied history , political science and German studies at the University of Munich , where he was in 1983 by Karl Bosl with a thesis on "individual cases resistance" doctorate . She is the widow of the historian Martin Broszat, who died in 1989 .

She worked at the Institute for Contemporary History for almost four decades . She worked u. a. as managing director of the project on resistance and persecution in Bavaria located there and was co-editor of five volumes and author of a volume in the series "Bavaria in the Nazi era", which emerged from this "pioneering project of a story 'from below'" (Michael Wildt) . She headed the major project on Joseph Goebbels' diaries and is the sole editor of the entire edition, which was completed in 2008 with three indexed volumes. All diary entries are published in full in 29 text volumes, a total of around 98% of the material actually written by Goebbels (around 6,700 pages) and dictated (around 35,000 pages). The edition of Goebbels' diaries is considered to be the "first-rate source on the history of the Nazi movement and the 'Third Reich' because no other top representative has recorded the rise and fall of the NSDAP and the Nazi regime with such energy and consistency over the past twenty years" (Yearbook Extremism & Democracy).

As a scientific expert, Fröhlich contributed to numerous TV documentaries about the Nazi era, including a. for ZDF-History , “Hitler's Helpers” and for the three-part ARD documentary “Joseph Goebbels”, which received the Bavarian TV Prize in 2005 .

Fonts (selection)

• The cultural and political press conference of the Reich Propaganda Ministry , in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte , 22nd year, 4th volume (1974), pp. 347–381.
• The instructions of the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda regarding the cultural problem in occupied areas , in: Inter arma non silent Musae. The War and the Culture 1939-1945, ed. By Czeslaw Madajczyk, Warszawa 1977, pp. 217-244.
• Bavaria in the Nazi era . Vol. 1–4, Vol. 6, Munich 1977–1983 (co-editor).
• The challenge of the individual. Stories about resistance and persecution , Munich 1983 (Bavaria in the Nazi era, vol. 6).
• The party at the local level. Between social assimilation and the dynamics of change , in: Gerhard Hirschfeld u. a. (Ed.), The 'Führer State'. Myth and Reality, Stuttgart 1981, pp. 255–269.
• with Martin Broszat : Everyday Life and Resistance. Bavaria under National Socialism , Munich 1987.
• Joseph Goebbels and his diary. On the handwritten notes from 1924 to 1941 , in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 35th Jg., H. 4 (1987), pp. 489-522.
• Joseph Goebbels' diaries. Complete fragments, Part I: Notes 1924-1941 , 4 vol. And 1 vol. Interimregister, Munich 1987 (editor).
• Hitler and Goebbels in the crisis year 1944. From the diaries of the Reich Propaganda Minister, in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 38th vol., No. 2 (1990), pp. 195–224.
• The diaries of Joseph Goebbels, completed Part I: Notes 1923-1941 , 14 vols., Munich 1998-2005 (editor).
• Joseph Goebbels' diaries, Part II: Diktate 1941-1945 , 15 vols., Munich 1993-1996 (editor).
• The Diaries of Joseph Goebbels, Part III: Register with Introduction to the Complete Edition (1923-1945) , 3 vol., Munich 2007-2008 (editor).
• Hitler-Goebbels-Straßer: a war of deputies, as seen through the Goebbels diaries , in: Working towards the Führer, ed. By Anthony McElligott u. a., Manchester 2003, pp. 41-67.
• When the earth burned German fates in the last days of the war , Munich 2005 (editor).
• Joseph Goebbels, portrait d'un populiste , in: Journal de Joseph Goebbels 1923–1933. Texts présenté by Elke Fröhlich u. a., Paris 2006, pp. XXXIX-LXXII.
• Joseph Goebbels, profil de sa propagande (1926-1939) , in: Journal de Joseph Goebbels 1933-1939. Texts présenté by Elke Fröhlich u. a., Paris 2007, pp. 17-53.
• Joseph Goebbels, un propagandiste profiteur de guerre , in: Journal de Joseph Goebbels 1939–1942, texts présenté par Elke Fröhlich a. a., Paris 2009, pp. XIX-XLIX.
• Victor Klemperer. LTI. According to the last edition , Stuttgart 2010 (editor).
• The Second World War , Stuttgart 2013.
• The second World War. A short story , Stuttgart 2015.

literature

• Who is who? The German who's who. Federal Republic of Germany. 2015-2016 52nd edition, Verlag Schmitt-Römhoff, Lübeck 2015, ISBN 3795020557 , p. 271.
• Furrier German scholar calendar 2009. Bio-bibliographical Index of German scientists from the presence , publishing DeGruyter 2009, ISSN  1616-8399 , pp 1070th
• Bernd Sösemann : Is it all just Goebbels propaganda? Investigations into the revised edition of the so-called Goebbels diaries of the Munich Institute for Contemporary History. In: Yearbook for Communication History. Volume 10 (2008), pp. 52-76.