Carlo Lejeune

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Carlo Lejeune (also Karl ; born October 5, 1963 ) is a German-speaking Belgian historian .

Life

Carlo Lejeune grew up in the Belgian Eifel and attended the Episcopal School in St. Vith from 1975 to 1981 .

He then studied at the universities of Louvain-la-Neuve , Bonn and Cologne . He wrote his dissertation at the University of Trier on German-Belgian cultural relations 1925–1980 . After a traineeship at the Georg von Holtzbrinck School for Business Journalists in Düsseldorf and a job as a business journalist for the Handelsblatt , he returned to the Belgian Eifel in 1993 and works there as a high school teacher and journalist , as a lecturer at the Autonomous University in the German-speaking Community of Belgium (AHS) and since 2014 as head of the Center for East Belgian History (ZOG).

In his mostly historical works he worked on three main areas: everyday history, German-Belgian relations and the history of the German-speaking community in Belgium.

In 2014, Lejeune was awarded the Anton-Hecking-Schild from the History and Museum Association Between Venn and Schneifel (ZVS) for his services. In addition, Lejeune received the Parliament's Prize for Outstanding Works in German for three of his writings : 1991 for The German-Belgian Cultural Relations 1925–1980 - Paths to European Integration? , 1997 for living and celebrating in the country. The customs of the Belgian Eifel and 2006 for The Cleansing (Volume 1) Disenchantment, Liberation, Uncertainty (1920–1945) .

Works (excerpt)

  • Oh, old fellowship ... Eumavia Lovaniensis, a student association as a mirror of East Belgian history. Hünningen 1989.
  • German-Belgian Cultural Relations 1925–1980 - Paths to European Integration? Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-412-01092-8 .
  • Living and celebrating in the country. The customs of the Belgian Eifel. Aktuell-Verlag, St. Vith.
    • Volume 1: From New Year's Eve to Christmas. The piety of the people. 1992, ISBN 3-925048-13-8 .
    • Volume 2: From the cradle to the grave. The village as a living environment. 1993, ISBN 3-925048-14-6 .
    • Volume 3: On the way to the modern age. Building and living. 1996, ISBN 3-925048-18-9 .
  • as publisher: Courage for one's own history: May 8, 1945 - comments on the East Belgian past. Aktuell-Verlag, St. Vith 1995, ISBN 3-925048-17-0 .
  • with Andreas Fickers and Freddy Cremer : Traces into the future, comments on a turbulent century. Lexis Verlag, Büllingen 2001.
  • The future lies in rural areas, opportunities for the villages of the Belgian Eifel. Lexis Verlag, Büllingen 2002, ISBN 90-806682-2-2 .
  • The far west of Germanness. In: Burkhard Dietz, Helmut Gabel, Ulrich Tiedau (eds.): Griff nach dem Westen. Waxmann, Münster / New York / Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-8309-1144-0 , pp. 493-539.
  • The purge. Lexis-Verlag, Büllingen.
  • Matthias Zender as a war administrator and his files: a helper of Hitler or an upright humanist? In: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter. 2013 (77), pp. 130–158.
  • with Christoph Brüll (ed.): Border experiences - A history of the German-speaking community of Belgium .
    • Volume 5: Purge, Reconstruction, Autonomy Discussions (1944–1973). Grenz-Echo Verlag, Eupen 2013, ISBN 978-3-86712-086-9 .
  • with David Engels (Ed.): Border experiences - A history of the German-speaking community of Belgium .
    • Volume 1: Villas, Villages, Castles (Ancient and Middle Ages). Grenz-Echo Verlag, Eupen, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86712-104-0 .
  • as publisher: Borderline experiences. A history of the German-speaking community of Belgium .
    • Volume 2: Cloths, Pots, Theresian Cadastre (1500–1794). Grenz-Echo Verlag, Eupen, 2016, ISBN 978-3-86712-108-8 .
    • Volume 3: Code civil, accelerated modernity and dynamics of persistence (1794–1919) Grenz-Echo Verlag, Eupen, 2016, ISBN 978-3-86712-115-6 .
  • with Christoph Brüll, Peter Quadflieg (eds.): Border experiences - A history of the German-speaking community of Belgium .
    • Volume 4: Change of State, Identity Conflicts, War Experiences (1919-1945). Grenz-Echo Verlag, Eupen, 2019, ISBN 978-3-86712-139-2 .

Web links

source

  • Belgian radio: Between the Venn and Schneifel

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prize of the Parliament for outstanding works in German
personal data
SURNAME Lejeune, Carlo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian historian
DATE OF BIRTH 5th October 1963