Ruth Leiserowitz

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Ruth Leiserowitz

Ruth Leiserowitz (born in Kibelka ; born December 25, 1958 in Prenzlau , Brandenburg ) is a German historian . She mainly conducts research on the Eastern European history of the 19th and 20th centuries as well as on the history of the Jews in the Baltic-Polish area and the former East Prussia . Since 2009 she has been the deputy director of the German Historical Institute in Warsaw .

Life

Ruth Leiserowitz was born as Ruth Kibelka in 1958 in Prenzlau in the Uckermark and grew up in Löwenberg as the daughter of a Protestant pastor. After graduating from high school, she moved to the Evangelical Gymnasium Hermannswerder near Potsdam, where she graduated from high school in 1978. Since the qualification in the GDR was not recognized as a higher education entrance qualification for general subjects, she successfully passed another Abitur examination at the Volkshochschule Berlin Mitte in 1981 . She still did not receive a university admission. From 1982 she was involved in the independent peace movement in the GDR, including women for peace .

Kibelka learned Polish and Lithuanian privately , traveled through the Eastern Bloc countries and also worked in the administration of the Berlin publishing house . Between 1987 and 1990 she worked as a freelance translator and interpreter for Lithuanian and Polish.

After the reunification of Germany, she studied history and Polish studies at the Free University of Berlin and in Vilnius since 1990 . She completed her studies in 1996 with a master's degree.

Between 1996 and 2000 Ruth Kibelka lived in Klaipėda , Lithuania, where she worked as a research assistant in the construction of the Thomas Mann Cultural Center in nearby Nida on the Curonian Spit . At the same time, she taught Western Lithuanian and Prussian history at the Klaipėda Research Center between 1996 and 2001. In 1997, Kibelka received her doctorate from the Humboldt University in Berlin in the subject of modern and recent history on the subject of "The German population between adaptation and expulsion north and south of the Memel 1945–1948" , supervised by Heinrich August Winkler .

In 2000 Ruth Kibelka took the surname Leiserowitz through marriage; in the following years until 2005 she worked on various research projects at the Universities of Potsdam , HU Berlin and Klaipėda, among others . Until the present (2009) she has a permanent teaching position at the University of Klaipėda .

Between 2005 and 2009, Leiserowitz was the project coordinator of the DFG research project Nations, Borders, Identities - The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in European Experiences and Memories at the Berlin College for Comparative History of Europe (BKVGE) at the Free University of Berlin . In 2007 she received her habilitation from the philosophy faculty at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Her habilitation thesis was on “Borderline Experiences. Jewish perspectives on a Prussian periphery ” . Heinrich August Winkler was again the supervisor.

In 2009 she was appointed deputy director of the DHI Warsaw . In 2015 Ruth Leiserowitz was appointed adjunct professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Ruth Leiserowitz was involved in research and advice in the production of several documentaries for ARD, including the missing in East Prussia. The long way of the wolf children (two parts, 2002/2004) and Silesian fairytale castles (two parts, 2003/2004).

Ruth Leiserowitz was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class in 2014 by Rolf Nikel , the then German ambassador to Poland .

In 2020 she received the Order of the Grand Duke of Lithuania Gediminas from the President of the Republic of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda .

She is married and has two sons.

Publications

  • We are Europe too. On the recent history and current development of the Baltic States. Structure, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-7466-0052-9 .
  • Born German - adopted Lithuanian. Wolf children in Lithuania. LKI, Lampertheim 1995.
  • with Ann Tenno: Life After. Northeast Prussia 1986–1993. Leer, Rautenberg 1995, ISBN 3-7921-0559-4 .
  • Vilko Vaikai - kelias per Nemuną ( Wolf Children - Paths across the Memel ). Translation into Lithuanian. Baltos Lankos, Vilnius 2001, ISBN 9955-00-014-7 .
  • East Prussia's fateful years 1944–1948. Structure, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-351-02505-X .
  • Memel country book. Five decades of post-war history. Basidruck, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-86163-128-8 .
  • From East Prussia to Kyritz. Wolf children on the way to Brandenburg. Brandenburg State Center for Political Education, Potsdam 2003, ISBN 3-932502-33-7 .
  • Wolf children. Cross-border commuters on the Memel. 4th expanded edition. Basisdruck, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-86163-064-8 .
  • Sabbath candlesticks and warriors' association: Jews in the East Prussian-Lithuanian border region 1812–1942. Fiber, Osnabrück 2010, ISBN 978-3-938400-59-3 .
  • Heroic times. The Polish Memories of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 1815-1945 (in the series: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in European Memory, edited by Arnd Bauerkämper, Etienne Francois and Karen Hagemann), Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2017, ISBN 978- 3-506-78605-0
  • Be loud! Women for Peace in East Berlin , Almut Ilsen (ed.), Ruth Leiserowitz (ed.) Series: Research on the GDR Society, Ch.Links, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-96289-065-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personnel. (PDF) In: on site worldwide. Max Weber Foundation, 2016, accessed on August 16, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Deputy Director Ruth Leiserowitz receives high distinction from the Federal President on dhi.waw.pl, February 26, 2015
  3. ↑ Database of medals from 1991. Spelling Leiserovitz. Office of the President of the Republic of Lithuania, accessed July 25, 2020 (Lithuanian).
personal data
SURNAME Leiserowitz, Ruth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kibelka, Ruth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Prenzlau