Brigitte Oleschinski

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Brigitte Oleschinski at the Poetry Festival Berlin 2018

Brigitte Oleschinski (born August 10, 1955 in Cologne ) is a German political scientist and poet.

Life

Oleschinski studied political science at the Free University of Berlin . In 1993 she earned her doctorate in philosophy with a thesis on the history of prison chaplaincy in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich . In 1990 she worked at the German Resistance Memorial Center in Berlin. In 1992 she was one of the founders of the Documentation and Information Center Torgau , for which she edited and edited several historical treatises. She lives in Berlin today.

In addition to her work as a contemporary historian, Oleschinski has published poems and essays since 1990 .

Oleschinski has been a member of the PEN Center Germany since 1998 .

Awards

For her lyrical work she received a. a. In 1998 the Bremen Literature Prize and the Peter Huchel Prize , the Ernst Meister Prize for Poetry in 2001 and the Erich Fried Prize in 2004 .

Works

As an author:

  • Mental heat control , Reinbek near Hamburg 1990
  • Courage to be human. The prison chaplain Peter Buchholz in the Third Reich , Königswinter 1991
  • "One last strengthening service ..." 'The German prison chaplaincy between republic and dictatorship 1918–1945 , Berlin 1993 (dissertation)
  • Plötzensee Memorial , Berlin 1994 (PDF file; 3.84 MB)
  • The Swiss Correction , Basel 1995 (together with Durs Grünbein and Peter Waterhouse )
  • "Hostile elements are to be kept in custody". The Soviet special camps No. 8 and No. 10 in Torgau 1945–1948 , Leipzig 1997 (together with Bert Pampel)
  • Your passport is not guilty , Reinbek near Hamburg 1997
  • Stimulation current in Aspik , Cologne 2002
  • Argo cargo , Heidelberg 2003
  • Spirit flow , Cologne 2004
  • Roll turf on the self-propelled gun. On three poems by Ron Winkler , in: BELLA triste , No. 17 (special edition on contemporary German-language poetry ), Hildesheim 2007

As editor:

  • Das Torgau-Tabu , Leipzig 1993 (together with Norbert Haase)
  • Torgau - an end of the war in Europe , Bremen 1995 (together with Norbert Haase)

As a translator:

  • Susan N. Kiguli: Home drifts far away. Poems, English – German, edited by Indra Wussow. Verlag Das Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-88423-404-4

Web links

Commons : Brigitte Oleschinski  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Erich Fried Prize 2004: Laudation by Wilhelm Genazino , accessed on March 9, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Oleschinski, Brigitte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and poet
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne