Annette Leo

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Annette Leo (born February 25, 1948 in Düsseldorf ) is a German historian , biographer and editor.

Life

In 1952 Annette Leo's parents emigrated to Berlin (East) . Her father was the journalist Gerhard Leo , who came from a Jewish family . In 1966 she passed her high school diploma, completed a traineeship at the Berliner Zeitung until 1968 and studied history and Romance studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin in East Berlin from 1968 to 1973 . She then worked as a journalist, including for the magazine Horizont . Their son Maxim Leo was born in 1970 while studying . In 1982 she did her doctorate on the subject of "Spanish workers' commissions in the fight against the Franco regime".

From 1982 to 1986 she worked as an editor at Neue Berliner Illustrierte and from 1986 to 1989 as a freelance historian and journalist. After the end of the GDR she had a job as a research assistant at the Prenzlauer Berg Museum from 1991 to 1993 . From 1993 to 1996 she was employed at the Research Institute for Workers Education Recklinghausen .

From 2001 to 2005 she worked at the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University of Berlin , where she published a biography about Wolfgang Steinitz in 2004. She then moved to the Historical Institute of the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena as a research assistant .

In 1991, Annette Leo published a biography of her grandfather Dagobert Lubinski , a communist journalist and resistance fighter , who was murdered as a Jew in Auschwitz concentration camp under the title Letters Between Coming and Going . In 2012, with her Strittmatter biography , she sparked a broad discussion on how to deal with the writer and his historical classification.

For “This is such a double-edged sword here, our concentration camp…”: In 2008 she was awarded the Annalize Wagner Prize for everyday life in Fürstenberg and the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp .

In her documentary report Das Kind auf der Liste , published in 2018, Leo describes the fate of the Sinto Willy Blum and his family. In 1944, at the age of 16, Willy Blum was taken from Buchenwald to Auschwitz-Birkenau together with his 10-year-old brother Rudolf . there both were murdered. The two boys were among 200 children and adolescents on this death train from Buchenwald to Auschwitz. Originally the 3-year-old Stefan Jerzy Zweig with the number 200 should also belong to it; Willy Blum then received this number, so that both fates were linked.

Annette Leo lives in Berlin (2018). Her son Maxim Leo is a journalist for the Berliner Zeitung, film author and writer.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs:

  • The kid on the list. The story of Willy Blum and his family . With a foreword by Romani Rose . Structure paperback, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-7466-3431-9 .
  • With Christian König : The »dream child pill«. Female experience and state birth policy in the GDR . Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8353-1655-3 .
  • Erwin Strittmatter - The biography. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-351-03395-8 . (Review by Wilfried F. Schoeller on Deutschlandfunk)
  • "It's such a double-edged sword here, our concentration camp ..." Everyday life in Fürstenberg and the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp . With photos by Peter Grätz. Metropol, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-938690-61-1 .
  • Life as an act of balance. Wolfgang Steinitz: Communist, Jew, Scientist. Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-320-02905-0 .
  • Knocked over. Provocation at the Jewish cemetery in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg in 1988 . Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-938690-06-2 .

Editorships:

  • My country disappeared so quickly ...: 16 life stories and the turning point in 1989/90. With Agnès Arp. Editor Martin Boeck. wtv campus, Weimar 2009, ISBN 978-3-939964-48-3 .
  • Polyphonic silence. New studies on GDR anti-fascism . Edited by Peter Reif-Spirek, Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-932482-78-6 .
  • Heroes, perpetrators and traitors. Studies on GDR anti-fascism . Edited with Peter Reif-Spirek, Metropol, Berlin 1999, ISBN 978-3-932482-22-9 .
  • History becomes memory - on the 50th anniversary of the liberation in the state of Brandenburg. Reports, documents, essays, photos . Published by the Ministry for Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg, Brandenburg State Center for Political Education, editor Annette Leo, Ministry for Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg, Potsdam 1995, ISBN 978-3-930294-06-0 . (Brandenburg, Sachsenhausen, Ravensbrück 45 - 95.)
  • The rediscovered memory - suppressed history in Eastern Europe. Edited and with a foreword by Annette Leo, from the Franz. By Barbara Hahn, Basisdruck, Berlin 1992, ISBN 978-3-86163-048-7 .
  • Letters between coming and going . Collection of letters from Dagobert Lubinski 1936–1943. Basis-Druck, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-86163-017-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anne Kwaschik: "It's a double-edged sword here, our concentration camp ...": Everyday life in Fürstenberg and the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp . Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-61-1 ( hsozkult.de ).
  2. ↑ Tom Fugmann: Willy Blum - the forgotten child from Buchenwald concentration camp and the story of his family , mdr.de, March 13, 2018, accessed on March 28, 2018
  3. ^ Berlin, 1989: les folles heures de l'étudiant Maxim Leo . August 22, 2019 ( lemonde.fr [accessed August 23, 2019]).
  4. ↑ DLF, July 29, 2012 The long shadows of the past.
personal data
SURNAME Leo, Annette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, biographer and editor
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf