Anne Applebaum

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Anne Applebaum (2013)

Anne Applebaum (born July 25, 1964 in Washington, DC ) is an American journalist and historian . Her work on the recent history of Eastern Europe has received several awards.

education and profession

Applebaum grew up in a very Reformed Jewish family. She attended Sidwell Friends School, a private school in Bethesda, Maryland . After graduating from school in 1982, she began a bachelor's degree in history and literature at Yale University , which she graduated summa cum laude in 1986. She then went to Great Britain on a Marshall Fellowship awarded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , where she studied international relations at the London School of Economics . She received her master’s degree in 1987.

Applebaum began her journalistic work in 1988 as a correspondent for the Economist in Warsaw. From 2002 to 2006 she was a member of the editorial board of the Washington Post . She continues to write op-eds for the Washington Post . She has also worked for The New York Review of Books , The Wall Street Journal , The New York Times , Financial Times , International Herald Tribune , Foreign Affairs , The New Criterion , The Weekly Standard , The New Republic , National Review , The New Statesman , The Independent , The Guardian , Prospect , Die Welt , Cicero , Gazeta Wyborcza , The Times Literary Supplement and other newspapers and magazines.

She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for European Policy Analysis . In spring 2008 Applebaum was a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin . In the same year she was named one of the 100 most influential intellectuals by the US magazine Foreign Policy . In London, she headed a division of the Legatum Institute , a think tank promoting democracy and capitalism. From June 11th to 14th, 2015 she took part in the 63rd Bilderberg Conference in Telfs-Buchen in Austria.

She has taught at various universities in the USA (Yale, Harvard, Columbia and Texas A&M, Houston), in Great Britain (Oxford, Cambridge, London and Belfast), in Germany (Heidelberg and Humboldt, Berlin), in Maastricht and Zurich. 2012–2013 she held the Phillipe Roman Chair in History and International Relations at the London School of Economics.

At the end of 2019, Anne Applebaum ended her position as a columnist at the Washington Post and switched to the magazine The Atlantic as a “staff writer” . She is also Professor of Practice at the London School of Economics and a senior fellow at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University .

Positions

Russia under Vladimir Putin is, in Applebaum's opinion, a refined dictatorship. The war in Ukraine is cynical because Russian President Putin is trying to intimidate and destabilize the West. In 2016 she also criticized Donald Trump for undermining the constitution, the justice system and freedom of the press with his backward-looking, imaginary image of America, authoritarian language, personality cult, distrust and vindictiveness. At the same time, the weakness of the European Union threatens a dark and intolerant Europe.

Books

In 2012 she published her study on the implementation of Soviet rule in Eastern Central Europe (Iron Curtain - The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944–1956) , which mainly focuses on the case studies of Poland, Hungary and East Germany. In 2017 she published Red Famine (German: Roter Hunger ), a book that addresses the Holodomor with around four million dead and the memory of this event. To this end, she interviewed contemporaries and studied files that had been available since Ukraine's independence in 1991. The book was awarded the Duff Cooper Prize for 2017, making Applebaum the only recipient to date to have received this award twice. In particular, her thesis of a planned genocide as a fitting description of the events did not go unchallenged.

Applebaum is also the co-author of a 2011 English cookbook with 90 Polish dishes.

Honors

family

Applebaum's parents are Harvey M. Applebaum, a partner in the law firm Covington and Burling , and Elizabeth Applebaum, nee Bloom, who worked at the Corcoran Gallery of Art . Applebaum described her family as Jewish Reformed . She is married to the former Polish Foreign Minister and Sejm Marshal Radosław Sikorski , has two sons with him and has lived in Poland since 2006 . Since 2013 she has both American and Polish citizenship.

Fonts (selection)

  • Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe . Pantheon Books, New York 1994, ISBN 0-679-42150-5 .
  • Gulag: A History . Doubleday, New York 2003, ISBN 0-7679-0056-1 .
  • Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 . Doubleday, New York 2012, ISBN 978-0-385-51569-6 .
    • The Iron Curtain: The Oppression of Eastern Europe 1944–1956 . Translated by Martin Richter. Siedler, Munich 2013, ISBN 3-8275-0030-3 .
  • Red Famine - Stalin's War on Ukraine . Allen Lane, London 2017, ISBN 978-0-385-53885-5 .
    • Red hunger - Stalin's war against Ukraine . Translated by Martin Richter. Siedler, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-8275-0052-6 .
  • Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism . Doubleday, New York 2020. ISBN 978-0385545808 .

Web links

Commons : Anne Applebaum  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anne Applebaum - biography. In: Website of the Berlin International Literature Festival. Retrieved March 1, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Anne Applebaum. Biography, Washington Post.
  3. ^ International Advisory Council . ( Memento of January 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) CEPA; accessed on January 21, 2017.
  4. ↑ Top 100 Public Intellectuals , Foreign Policy , May 15, 2008.
  5. ↑ anneapplebaum.com
  6. ↑ press releases, November 15, 2019. The Atlantic
  7. ↑ Mathias Plüss: Switzerland is helping Russia to win the war in Ukraine . (PDF) Anne Applebaum warns against underestimating the dangers for Europe . In: Das Magazin , N ° 14, April 4, 2015; Pp. 20-28.
  8. ↑ Alan Cassidy and Philipp Loser: There is something in the air like it was in the 1930s . In: Tages-Anzeiger , December 27, 2016, pp. 2–3.
  9. ↑ Luca De Carli: Stalin's Famine War . In: Tages-Anzeiger , September 9, 2017.
  10. ^ Franziska Davies: Ukrainian history of victims. In: sueddeutsche.de. Süddeutsche, January 12, 2020, accessed on January 14, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Tarik Cyril Amar: Politics, Starvation, and Memory: A Critique of Red Famine , in: Kritika , Vol. 20 (2019), No. 1, pp. 149-169 (here: p. 147).
  12. ↑ From a Polish Country House Kitchen: 90 Recipes for the Ultimate Comfort Food . Chronicle Books, San Francisco 2012. OCLC 806493935
  13. ↑ Inna Lazareva: Through a (communist) looking glass, then and now . In: Haaretz , January 4, 2013: “Applebaum stresses that 'I was brought up in a very reformed American Jewish family'”.
  14. ^ Anne Applebaum, żona Radosława Sikorskiego, została Polką . Onet.pl . August 23, 2013. Retrieved October 22, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Applebaum, Anne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American and Polish historian, journalist, and book author
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC