Eva Sternheim-Peters
Eva Sternheim-Peters (born March 25, 1925 in Paderborn ; † April 13, 2020 in Berlin ) was a German teacher , psychologist and author.
Life
After graduating from the state high school for girls in Paderborn, Eva Sternheim-Peters worked in a day care center for the Reich Labor Service and in a people's kitchen of the National Socialist People's Welfare in 1943/44 . She then matriculated at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena for German studies, history and biology. She did military service in Paderborn in 1944/45 and worked as a tram conductor until the air raids on Paderborn destroyed the city. Then she fled to the country.
In 1947 she began teaching at the Pedagogical Academy (later in the Bundeshaus ) in Bonn. After her first teaching examination (1949) and a study visit to Tübingen, she was a teacher at a practical secondary school in Hamburg from 1950. From 1952 to 1954 she studied psychology at the University of Hamburg . After completing her intermediate diploma, she was again a teacher in Hamburg from 1954 to 1960.
With a grant from the Victor Gollancz Foundation, she continued her psychology studies in Hamburg in 1960. After completing her main diploma, she went to the Pestalozzi-Fröbel-Haus in Berlin as a lecturer in psychology, pedagogy , curative pedagogy and the history of pedagogy in 1963 . In 1973 she was given a teaching position at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences . In Berlin-Frohnau she worked for a year in a clinic for child and adolescent psychiatry. She prepared reports for youth welfare offices and youth court assistance.
From 1977 to 1982 she was a research assistant at the Sociological Institute of the Free University of Berlin . At that time she wrote the book about her youth under National Socialism , which was published in 1987.
In 1968 she married the painter and publicist Arie Goral-Sternheim . She died on April 13, 2020 as a result of a SARS-CoV-2 infection during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany .
Works
- The time of great delusions. Girls life in fascism. With an afterword by Arno Klönne , Bielefeld 1987, ISBN 978-3921680681 . Further editions. From the 5th and 6th edition: Did I cheer alone? A youth under National Socialism . Foreword by Jürgen Reulecke , Verlag Kramer, Berlin 2012. ISBN 978-3879563661 . Significantly expanded new edition:
- Did I cheer alone? A youth under National Socialism . Foreword by Jürgen Reulecke, Europa Verlag, Berlin a. a. 2015, ISBN 978-3-95890-010-3 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Eva Sternheim-Peters in the catalog of the German National Library
- "In my youth there was no Auschwitz" (Westfälisches Volksblatt / Westfalen-Blatt, March 21, 2013)
- "I did not run, I stormed with enthusiasm" (Der Tagesspiegel, April 30, 2015)
- Obituary. Der Tagesspiegel, May 24, 2020.
Individual evidence
- ↑ memorial on trauer.tagesspiegel.de, published and accessed on April 26, 2020
- ↑ Was she the only one? Der Tagesspiegel , accessed on May 31, 2020
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sternheim-Peters, Eva |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Peters, Eva (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German teacher, psychologist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paderborn |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 13, 2020 |
| Place of death | Berlin |