Angelika Timm

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Angelika Timm (born September 24, 1949 in Hildburghausen , née Heyn) is a German Middle East scholar and university professor . From 2009 to 2015 she headed the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation's international office in Israel .

Life

From 1968 to 1973 Timm studied Hebrew and Arabic at the Humboldt University in Berlin and received his doctorate in 1976 with a thesis on the history of Palestine .

From 1977 to 1983 she was in the diplomatic service for the GDR in Baghdad and Cairo. 1987/88 she qualified as a professor with another doctoral thesis on Israeli politics and then until 1998 was a lecturer and head of the Israel Studies seminar at Humboldt University.

In 1994/95 Timm was a fellow of the Volkswagen Foundation at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies and a post-doctoral student at the United States Holocaust Research Institute in Washington, DC From 1994 to 1996, she headed a German Research Foundation project at the Humboldt University on GDR on Shoah , Zionism and the State of Israel .

After visiting professorships at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1992), the University of Innsbruck (1994), the Bar Ilan University (1998) and the University of Haifa (1999), she moved to Freie Universität in 1999 as a research assistant for the politics of the Middle East Berlin . In 2002 she was elected a member of the learned society Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin .

In 1995, Michael Wolffsohn and Henryk M. Broder accused her of having represented the anti-Israeli and anti-Zionist positions that were common there in the GDR , but then soon after the fall of the Wall they presented themselves as a differentiated mediator who recommended “East German scientists” that of to correct them for decades "distorted and one-sided image of Zionism and Israel".

After a renewed visiting professorship at Bar Ilan University, she was head of the branch office of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Tel Aviv , which she founded from 2009 to 2015 .

Publications

  • 100 documents from 100 years. Partition plans, settlement options and peace initiatives in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (1917 - 2017). Berlin 2017 (editor)
  • Israel: Society in Transition. Opladen 2003
  • Israel. History of the state since its inception. Bonn 1998
  • Hammer, compass, star of David. The disturbed relationship between the GDR and Zionism and the State of Israel. Bonn 1997
  • Jewish Claims against East Germany. Moral Obliagtions and Pragmatic Policy. Budapest 1997
  • All for free? Negotiations between the Claims Conference and the GDR on “ reparation ” and compensation. Berlin 1996
  • The painful triangle: Germans - Israelis - Palestinians. ( Israel and Palestine - Journal for Dialog, Special Issue 27), Frankfurt 1991
  • Israel. The history of the state since its foundation (together with Johannes Glasneck ), Bonn 1992
  • Twenty years of Israeli occupation policy in the West Bank and Gaza. (together with Klaus Timm), Berlin 1988
  • Program and political practice of right-wing Israeli social democracy in government responsibility and opposition (1967–1984). Berlin 1987 (doctoral thesis recognized as habilitation)
  • Nationalism and social reformism in the Jewish workers' organizations in Europe and Palestine until 1930. Berlin 1976 (incl. Diss. Phil.)
  • Ideology and "Realpolitik". East German attitudes towards Zionism and Israel, in Jeffrey Herf Ed., Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism in Historical Perspective: Convergence and Divergence. Routledge Chapman Hall, NY 2006 ISBN 0-415-40069-4 (readable and searchable online; in English), pp. 186-205

(Furthermore, articles and articles, especially on the Middle East, e.g. for the Federal Agency for Civic Education or the Neue Zürcher Zeitung .)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Short biography about Angelika Timm ( memento of September 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Leibniz Society, accessed on March 12, 2011
  2. ^ Spiegel Online: The Useful Idiots , September 25, 1995
  3. ↑ Angelika Timm: In the shadow of the Gaza war. In: Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Israel Office. September 9, 2014, accessed June 12, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Timm, Angelica
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heyn, Angelika (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor and Middle East expert
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildburghausen