Eva Haller

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Eva Haller (born June 18, 1948 in Temeschburg , Romania ) is co-founder and since 2009 honorary president of the European Janusz Korczak Academy .

Eva Haller in 2018
Eva Haller, European Janusz Korczak Academy

Live and act

Eva Haller attended the girls' high school of the Carmelite Order in Vienna from 1954 to 1966 . She graduated from New Utrecht High School in New York . Between 1966 and 1970 she studied journalism at Columbia University , New York and at the Université Libre Bruxelles (ULB) . From 1972 to 1975 she studied Romance and Semitic languages at Tel Aviv University .

From 1976–1999 she was a freelance journalist in various radio media and then accompanied students in their MA and PhD theses until 2006. She was the project manager and coordinator of the youth department of the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria (2006–2009) and since 2007 has led tours of the Fritz Bauer exhibition in the Justizpalast. In 2009 she founded the forum for intercultural and interreligious encounters and is still active there today. Since 2007 she has been guiding the synagogue of the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria.

Haller was a freelance journalist in the radio media, foreign correspondent for Radio Judaica, Brussels and assistant to the history and literature departments of the Universities of Padua and Venice .

voluntary work

Haller volunteers for charity organizations such as the women's association WIZO and KKL as well as for youth and cultural work in the Jewish communities in Frankfurt, Krefeld and Düsseldorf.

Honors

  • Award of the state capital Munich with the medal " Munich shines " in bronze

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eva Haller | European Janusz Korczak Academy. Accessed January 26, 2019 .
  2. Elisa Holz: "You have to talk to each other". Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 6, 2017, accessed on January 10, 2019 .
  3. Katrin Diehl: Honoring a busy man. Jüdische Allgemeine , July 3, 2018, accessed January 10, 2019 .
  4. ^ Munich shines for Eva Haller. münchen.de The official city portal, 2018, accessed on January 10, 2019 .