Dietmar Schultke

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Dietmar Schultke

Dietmar Schultke (born March 24, 1967 in Beeskow ) is a German author and political scientist.

Life

Schultke attended the Ludwig Leichhardt High School in Trebatsch . He had been pen pals with a German-American living in New York since he was ten. The correspondence aroused his wanderlust, and at the age of 16 he wanted to emigrate to the USA. After finishing school, Schultke completed an apprenticeship as a machining specialist for boring mill technology and then worked in this profession. From 1987 to 1988 he served as a conscripted GDR border soldier on the inner-German border . His place of work was the Brocken in the Harz Mountains. Because of the rigid surveillance apparatus, he made no attempt to escape. A violation of the service weapon regulations (he left his Kalashnikov in the forest after a border shift) led to a degradation . Schultke described the demotion as his happiest experience with the border troops. Between 1988 and 1990 he worked as a nursing assistant. In the winter of 1989/90 they left the country via the Marienfelde emergency reception center to West Germany. From 1990 he stayed for six months in the Worpswede artists' colony , after which he traveled to the USA and Canada for several months. Then Schultke made up his Abitur on the second educational path and took a degree in political science , urban and regional planning, educational sciences and psychology at the Universities of Duisburg and Dortmund , as well as guest studies at Occidental College (USA) and at the Charles University in Prague .

In 1994 he worked for the United Nations Population Fund in New York and in 2000 at the Expo 2000 in Hanover . From 2007 to February 2017 he worked for the German Red Cross as a youth coordinator in the Unterspreewald office. In particular, he was committed to the integration of young migrants. Since March 2017 he has been working as a consultant for historical education in the Dahme-Spreewald district. As an expert and contemporary witness on the border regime of the GDR, he stood in front of the camera several times for film documentaries. Schultke works as a freelance journalist and is a member of the Association of German Writers . Furthermore membership in the Scientific Forum for International Security eV (WIFIS) at the command academy of the Bundeswehr . Schultke organized a writing workshop for young people, they called themselves "Young authors on behalf of the homeland". From the excursions in her home region, the Spreewald , travel reports emerged, which were published in 2008, 2010 and 2011 as a book. Schultke went on numerous reading and lecture tours at home and abroad - among others to Australia, Bulgaria, Italy, Israel, Japan, South Korea and Spain. On the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Schultke went on a reading tour under the motto "Europe without borders", which took him through Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland and the Ukraine. Since 2018 he has been offering tours on the Brocken for historically interested citizens, with the focus on his experiences as a GDR border soldier.

Works

  • "Nobody gets through". The history of the inner-German border and the Berlin Wall. 1945–1990. 5th edition. Construction paperback, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-7466-8157-3 .
  • Dietmar Schultke: The border that divided us. Contemporary witness reports from East and West. 2nd Edition. Köster, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-89574-565-2 .
  • My Brandenburg youth. With contributions by Iring Fetscher and Günter Wallraff. Köster, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89574-588-X .
  • with The Young Authors (i. A.) for the homeland: “... once Spreewald, please!” Regia-Verlag, Cottbus 2008, ISBN 978-3-939656-98-2 .
  • Ukrainski Blues. Forays through the Ukraine. Regia-Verlag, Cottbus 2009, ISBN 978-3-86929-017-1 .
  • with The Young Authors (i. A.) for the homeland: Between Spreewald and Märkische Seen. Regia-Verlag, Cottbus 2010, ISBN 978-3-86929-041-6 .
  • with The Young Authors (i. A.) for the homeland: Von Märkern, Rittern & Klosterbrüdern. Regia-Verlag, Cottbus 2011, ISBN 978-3-86929-188-8 .

Contributions to anthologies and magazines

  • The border regime of the GDR - interior views of the seventies and eighties. In: From Politics and Contemporary History. No. B-50, December 1997
  • Power and impotence of the death line. In: The political opinion. No. 371, October 2000.
  • Nobody gets through - bitter memory of the building of the wall. In: The political opinion. No. 381, August 2001.
  • Erich Peter - From trained locksmith to border troop general. In: Comrade General - The GDR's military elite in biographical sketches. On behalf of the Military History Research Office. Ch. Links, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-86153-312-X .
  • As a border soldier on the Brocken. In: The Harz - A seduction to read. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-65007-1 .
  • Patricia. In: Children We Were. Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-945256-22-0 .

Film documentaries (selection)

  • How the Brocken became a fortress - Central German landmarks, film by Beate Gerber, broadcast on January 4, 2012 on tagesschau24
  • Interview with contemporary witnesses for the permanent exhibition in the National Park visitor center Brockenhaus - high up on the Brocken, opened on June 30, 2018
  • RESIN welcome! A journey around the Brocken, film by Annegret Oster, broadcast on German Unity Day, October 3, 2018 on ZDF
  • Impossible Railway - The Harz Steam Enigma, film by Simon Deelay, Yesterday Channel, BBC special interest channel, production 2018
  • Broilers, Bonzen and Bananas, film by Hilmer Rolff, 12-part documentary, broadcast on Ntv from October 8, 2019

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Märkische Allgemeine Halbe - New advisor for historical education
  2. ↑ Mitteldeutsche Zeitung Secret paths in the restricted area: A former border soldier ...
personal data
SURNAME Schultke, Dietmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Beeskow