Christine von Kohl
Christine von Kohl (born March 23, 1923 in Berlin ; † January 23, 2009 in Vienna ) was a Danish journalist , human rights activist and Balkans expert.
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Christine von Kohl was the daughter of a Danish father (Louis von Kohl, 1882–1962) and an Austrian mother (Lisa von Kohl, née Steindl). She remained a Danish citizen for life. She grew up in Berlin, studied philosophy and comparative religion at the University of Copenhagen , but never finished her studies. In her youth she worked for Danish and German publishing houses.
In the 1960s she was a freelance correspondent in Vienna for a Danish newspaper and supported the work of Simon Wiesenthal and his documentation center for Jewish victims of the Nazi regime .
From 1968 to 1985 she lived with her husband, the journalist and writer Wolfgang Libal , in Belgrade , where she worked as a correspondent for a number of German, Austrian and Scandinavian media. From 1990 to 1994 she was an advisor to the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights in Vienna and took the initiative to found an association of friends of refugees and displaced persons from Bosnia and Herzegovina . In 1999 she founded the magazine BALKAN Südosteuropäischer Dialog (later Balkan anders ) together with Oliver Vujovic and supported the establishment of the web portal Balkanpoint.org
She has translated literature from Scandinavian languages into German.
In Austria during the years of the collapse of Yugoslavia, she was best known as a well-founded expert on the situation in the Balkans, in which capacity she was often heard on television and radio.
In 2002 she received the SEEMO Human Rights Award.
Her books include Yugoslavia (1990), Kosovo: Gordian Knot on the Balkans (1992, together with Wolfgang Libal), Albania (1998), Balkans: Stability or Chaos in Europe (2000) and - her last book - Eine Dänin am Balkan ( 2008). In addition, she was editor-in-chief of Balkan magazine .
Web links
- Literature by and about Christine von Kohl in the catalog of the German National Library
- Excerpts from last conversations with the Balkan expert. In: Wiener Zeitung of February 14, 2009
- ORF - Christine von Kohl died
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kohl, Christine von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish journalist and human rights activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 23, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 23, 2009 |
| Place of death | Vienna |