Annelies Laschitza

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Annelies Laschitza (born February 6, 1934 in Leipzig ; † December 10, 2018 in Berlin ) was a German historian . She was considered one of the best experts on the life and work of Rosa Luxemburg .

Life

In 1954 Annelies Wegert passed her matriculation examination at the workers and farmers faculty in Leipzig. From 1954 to 1958 she studied history at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . From 1950 to 1971 she was an employee and later a sector leader in the Department of History of the German Labor Movement until 1945 at the Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED (IML) in East Berlin. In 1966 he received his doctorate A at the Academy for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the SED with the topic “The fight of the German left for the democratic republic and the application of the political mass strike. On the Development of the German Left as a Political-Economic Current in German Social Democracy (1909/1910) ”. From 1971 to 1990 Laschitza was a full professor and head of research at the IML. In 1982 the doctorate B took place . From 1983 to 1990 she was an editorial member of the journal Contributions to the History of the Labor Movement .

Laschitza focused on the German labor movement from the end of the 19th century to 1918. She worked on the collected works of Rosa Luxemburg, where she was also able to interview Karl Liebknecht's widow Sophie Liebknecht (1884–1964) as a contemporary witness. The text The Russian Revolution appeared for the first time in the 4th volume of the work edition , a fragment from 1918 that was not allowed to appear in the GDR until then due to critical passages from Luxembourg on the October Revolution. She was adviser to the Luxembourg film by Margarethe von Trotta excited, in 1986 a lot of attention and was listed in November 1986 in the GDR.

From 1972 to 1990 she was Vice President of the Historians' Society of the GDR . She headed the collective of authors for the first volume in the history of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany , which was published by Dietz in 1988 .

1991/92 Laschitza taught temporarily at the University of Bremen . After her retirement, she remained scientifically active and worked on supplementary volumes to the Luxembourg edition - with texts that either could not appear in the GDR or were only found in archives or translated from Polish. In 2017, Volume 7 of the Collected Works of Luxembourg was published by Karl Dietz Verlag in Berlin.

Honors

In 1966 she was awarded the Silver Patriotic Order of Merit in the GDR .

Works (selection)

Monographs
  • In the frenzy of life, despite everything. Rosa Luxemburg. A biography , Berlin 1996.
  • The Liebknechts: Karl and Sophie; Politics and Family , Aufbau-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-7466-2491-4 . (1st edition 2007)
Essays
  • “My dearest Berta!” An unknown postcard from Rosa Luxemburg to Berta Thalheimer . In: Ursula Becker, Heiner M. Becker, Jaap Kloosterman (editor): No obituary! Articles about and for Götz Langkau . IISG, Amsterdam 2003, pp. 117–121.
  • Rosa Luxemburg, Karl and Sophie Liebknecht: Insights into an emerging new Liebknecht biography . In: Rainer Holze, Eckhard Müller (Hrsg.): Being human, that means ... Rosa Luxemburg and her friends in the past and present. International colloquium on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Prof. Dr. Annelies Laschitza (= Pankower lectures, issue 69/1). Helle Panke eV, Berlin 2004.
  • Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in the fight against the impending war 1911 to 1913 . In: Yearbook for Research on the History of the Labor Movement , Volume II / 2014.

literature

  • Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic . KG Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X . , P. 384.
  • Manfred Neuhaus : Farewell to Rosa's biographer . In: Saxony's Left! No. 1-2. Leipzig 2019, p. 8.
  • "Remain true to yourself ...". In memoriam Annelies Laschitza (1934-2018) . With contributions by: Günter Benser , Michael Brie , Holger Czitrich-Stahl, Gerhard Engel , Klaus Gietinger, Sonja Goldmann, Ursula Herrmann, Jürgen Hofmann, Rainer Holze, Volker Külow , Eckhard Müller, Manfred Neuhaus, Siegfried Prokop , Bärbel Schindler-Saefkow, Jörn Schütrumpf , Karlen Vesper, Marlene Vesper, Marga Voigt and Jörg Wollenberg. Berlin 2019. (= booklets on DDR history booklet 151) Reading edition (excerpt)
  • Ines Mietkowska-Kaiser: Memories remain . In: Communications sponsorship group archives and libraries on the history of the labor movement . No. 56 September 2019, Berlin 2019, pp. 58–60. ISSN  1869-3709

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lothar Mertens: Red think tank? The Academy for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the SED. LIT-Verlag, Berlin 2004, p. 387.
  2. ^ The feature film "Rosa Luxemburg" was shown in Berlin. Conversation with the director Margarethe von Trotta , In: Neues Deutschland , November 29, 1986, p. 10
  3. ↑ Neues Deutschland, October 6, 1966, p. 5
personal data
SURNAME Laschitza, Annelies
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wegert, Annelies (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 2018
Place of death Berlin