Benedict Vallendar

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Benedikt Vallendar (born February 14, 1969 in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler ) is a German publicist .

Life

Benedikt Vallendar grew up in the Rhineland as the son of a Latin teacher . In 1988 he passed the Abitur at Are Gymnasium Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler . He finished his studies in Berlin in 1996 with the first state examination for teaching at grammar schools in the subjects of Spanish and history. In 1999 he passed the extension examination for Dutch in Lower Saxony . In 2004 Vallendar received his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin under Hagen Schulze with a thesis on the history of the reception of Alexander von Humboldt's (1799–1804) trip to South America .

He teaches at a business school in Saxony .

Vallendar published numerous articles on contemporary and cultural-historical topics, including a. in the monthly magazine Cicero , in the Catholic Sunday newspaper for Germany , the debate magazine The European , the Internet magazine Justament , the website of the Steyler missionaries , in the daily mail and for the Catholic news agency .

In January 2016, Vallendar was arrested and interrogated by Cuban security forces after accompanying a peaceful protest march by opposition groups in the Miramar district of the capital Havana .

reception

Together with Jenny Krämer, Vallendar published the non-fiction book Life Behind Walls about the everyday life of full-time employees of the State Security , an aspect of GDR history that has not been scientifically researched .

In the Frankfurter Allgemeine, Karl Wilhelm Fricke praised the authors' extensive study of files and only criticized a few editorial flaws - namely imprecise sources and the lack of a bibliography and person index.

Philipp Springer from the Jahn authority, however, complained to H-Soz-Kult that the work did not meet scientific standards. Relevant literature was partially neglected, the chapter structure was misleading, the selection of files was not adequately explained and too many statements were not substantiated. The authors, who provide "a number of interesting sources", however, so the review concluded, "deserve the credit for having shown again the need for further and well-founded, if possible comparative, research into the everyday life of the full-time MfS employees".

Publications (selection)

  • Together with Jenny Krämer: Life behind walls. Everyday work and private life of full-time employees of the Ministry for State Security of the GDR. Klartext Verlag , Essen 2014, ISBN 978-3837509595 .
  • Doctoral thesis Between the New and Old World. Alexander von Humboldt's trip to South America in German literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. VDM Verlag Dr. Müller Saarbrücken 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b PhD FU Berlin: curriculum vitae. Retrieved January 5, 2020 .
  2. ↑ On the doctoral thesis, accessed on January 5, 2020
  3. ↑ Vita at Cicero , accessed on January 5, 2020
  4. ↑ Justament Article List, accessed on January 5, 2020
  5. ↑ Divine Word Missionaries Article List, accessed January 5, 2020
  6. ^ German journalist arrested in Cuba. Deutschlandfunk , January 25, 2016, accessed on September 27, 2019 .
  7. ^ Karl Wilhelm Fricke: GDR State Security: Stasi in the Ghetto . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed October 4, 2019]).
  8. ↑ Philipp Springer: Review of: J. Krämer u. a .: Life behind walls. Retrieved October 4, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Vallendar, Benedict
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, publicist and human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler