Freya Klier

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Freya Klier, reading in the Small Synagogue Erfurt , 2009

Freya Klier , née Krummreich (born February 4, 1950 in Dresden ), is a German author, director and former GDR civil rights activist .

Life

Freya Klier spent the third year of her life in a children's home due to her father's imprisonment . In 1968, she put on the EOS Romain Rolland , the High School from. In the same year she tried unsuccessfully to escape from the GDR via the Baltic Sea to Sweden. She was sentenced to 16 months in prison but was released early. Then she worked a. a. as a postal worker and waitress .

From 1970 to 1975 Klier studied acting at the Leipzig Theater Academy and at the Dresden State Theater . At that time she was married to the musician and composer Gottfried Klier , the younger brother of the director Michael Klier . She worked as an actress at the Senftenberg Theater before studying directing at the Institute for Drama Directing in Berlin from 1978 to 1982 .

Since 1982 she has been a director at the Schwedt Theater . In 1984 she received the GDR director's award for the world premiere of Ulrich Plenzdorf's Legend of Happiness Without End .

Since the early 1980s, Klier was a member of the Pankow Peace Circle and was active in the GDR peace movement. This led to a professional ban in 1985 . Since then she has performed in church with Stephan Krawczyk , with whom she was married from 1986 to 1992.

At the beginning of November 1987, Klier and Stephan Krawczyk jointly criticized the social state of the GDR in an open letter to Kurt Hager and called for reforms . Both decided to take part with their own banners in the official mass parade held annually in January in honor of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht . It was their aim to point out social grievances critically as well as to draw attention to their own professional bans. Since a number of those wishing to leave the country wanted to protest at the demonstration on January 17, 1988, Klier finally decided not to take part in order not to confuse their own concerns with those of those wishing to leave.

On November 8, 1987, after the brake lines had been cut, the State Security tried to murder them and Krawczyk using a neurotoxin in the car.

The Ministry for State Security (MfS) had planned the "Troublemaker" action in detail weeks beforehand: First of all, 105 people, including Stephan Krawczyk, Vera Wollenberger and Herbert Misslitz , were arrested on the sidelines of the Liebknecht Luxembourg demonstration . Freya Klier then made an appeal to the artists of the Federal Republic and asked them not to perform in the GDR anymore. Only a few days later, the MfS arrested several leading civil rights activists, including Klier, Lotte (Regina) and Wolfgang Templin , Werner Fischer , Bärbel Bohley and Ralf Hirsch . Klier spent her pre- trial detention in the pre-trial detention facility of the State Security Berlin-Hohenschönhausen . Your lawyer Wolfgang Schnur later turned out to be an unofficial employee of the MfS. Against the background of his deliberate disinformation that there was no solidarity from the opposition and the population, and anyway no other alternative, Klier and Krawczyk applied on February 2, 1988 to leave the GDR. They were deported just hours later. Immediately after their arrival in the West, at a press conference, they demanded their immediate re-entry into the GDR. Among others, the then Südwestfunk (SWF) and the political magazine Kontraste made it clear that Klier and Krawczyk had left the GDR involuntarily.

At the official Liebknecht-Luxemburg-Demonstration of the SED on January 17th, 1988 the civil rights activists showed Rosa Luxemburg's quote "Freedom is always the freedom of those who think differently" on posters.

Klier lives today as a freelance writer and film director in Berlin. In addition to the GDR past and coping with it, the National Socialist dictatorship in Germany and Stalinist socialism in Germany and Russia are among her preferred topics. She has made a special contribution to educating schoolchildren about the recent past of the GDR.

Klier is a founding member of the Bürgerbüro e. V. , an association for dealing with consequential damage caused by the SED dictatorship . Since 2005 she has been a member of the PEN Center for German-Speaking Authors Abroad . She has headed the Writers in Prison group there since 2006.

In the 2009 Bundestag election campaign, Klier campaigned for the continuation of Angela Merkel's chancellorship , and in 2016, together with other former GDR civil rights activists, she campaigned for Norbert Lammert to be elected Federal President. She is a member of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation .

Klier was a member of the advisory board of the Stasi victims memorial in Hohenschönhausen . In 2018 she resigned due to the dismissal of the director Hubertus Knabe together with Heidi Bohley and Barbara Zehnpfennig under protest.

Klier has a daughter, the Berlin photographer Nadja Klier , who was born in 1973 .

Publications

Movies

  • Kidnapped to the End of the World - 1993 documentary
  • Johanna , a Dresden Ballad - Documentary 1996
  • The Short Life of Robert Bialek - 1997 documentary
  • The Odyssey of Anja Lundholm - Documentary 1998
  • Escape with the Moscow-Paris-Express - Documentary 2001
  • The forgotten. Death Where Others Go On Vacation - 2011 documentary
  • We want to be free people! 1953 popular uprising - 2013 documentary

Pieces

  • Black rose gold - world premiere in 1991 in Berlin

Essays

  • Left - a thought trap SFB
  • In the rhythm of progress SFB
  • Berlin is not Bonn SFB 1999
  • We have to be West now SFB
  • The third German SFB
  • Germany in trouble SWR
  • Faces of June 17th, SFB 2003
  • The purple dragon and the fairy tale of the beautiful GDR WORLD 2008

Theater (direction)

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Freya Klier  - Collection of Images
Wikiquote: Freya Klier  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Freya Klier: tear-off calendar. Munich 1988, p. 5.
  2. ↑ Berliner Morgenpost - Berlin: Civil rights activist Freya Klier: No future without remembering. In: morgenpost.de. August 14, 2011, accessed May 15, 2020 .
  3. ↑ badische-zeitung.de
  4. ↑ ngz-online.de
  5. ↑ pro-medienmagazin.de (PDF)
  6. ↑ Klier's short biography. ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stiftung-hsh.de
  7. ↑ Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk: Endgame. The 1989 revolution in the GDR. CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-58357-5 , p. 269 ff.
  8. ↑ Luxemburg-Liebknecht-Demonstration documents, contemporary witness interviews and photos of the banners on jugendopposition.de ( Federal Agency for Civic Education / Robert Havemann Society )
  9. ^ Website of the Citizens' Office .
  10. ^ Writers in Prison »PEN Center Abroad. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 19, 2017 ; accessed on February 18, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blog.pen-zentrum-ausland.de
  11. ↑ brk / dpa: President: civil rights for Norbert Lammert as successor. In: Spiegel Online . October 21, 2016, accessed May 15, 2020 .
  12. ↑ https://www.kas.de/de/trägererversammlung
  13. ↑ Alexander Fröhlich: Advisory board members resign in protest against the eviction of boys , Tagesspiegel, October 10, 2018.
  14. ^ Johanna Krause: Persecuted twice - a Dresden Jewess tells . Recorded by Carolyn Gammon and Christiane Hemker. Metropol, 2004, ISBN 3-936411-42-5 , Library of Remembrance, Volume 13. Book presentation
  15. ↑ Freya Klier and Andreas Kuno Richter report on four refugee fates via Bulgaria and how they have not been dealt with so far. (Provobis GmbH and RTL, funded by the Federal Foundation for Work-Up)
  16. ^ Premiere of the new documentary film on the popular uprising on June 17 in the presence of Prime Minister Tillich on May 14, 2013 in Leipzig
  17. ↑ State Parliament President Erich Iltgen honors five deserving citizens with the Saxon Constitutional Medal . ( Memento of the original from September 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release dated June 1, 2007, accessed January 24, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.landtag.sachsen.de
  18. ↑ BAnz AT November 22, 2012 B1
  19. ↑ Federal Agency for Civic Education: Laudation by Thomas Krüger on the award ceremony for the competition "25 Years of the Fall of the Wall: Remembering History. In: bpb.de. December 19, 2014, accessed on May 15, 2020 .
  20. ↑ https://www.ministerpraesident.sachsen.de/ministerpraesident-tillich-ueberreich-saechsischen-verdienstorden-5400.html
  21. ↑ http://www.freya-klier.de/homepage/fotos.html
personal data
SURNAME Klier, Freya
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krummreich, Freya (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and director, GDR civil rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th February 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden