Gabriele Lesser

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Gabriele Alexandra Lesser (born May 16, 1960 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German historian and journalist . She lives in Berlin and Warsaw .

Life

Lesser studied Eastern European history , political science and philosophy in Cologne , Mainz , Frankfurt am Main and Krakow . In 1990 she received the Fritz Theodor Epstein Prize of the Association of Eastern European Historians in Germany, Austria and Switzerland for her book Leben als OB.

Lesser then worked for six years as an assistant at the seminar for Eastern European history at the University of Cologne with Andreas Kappeler and Manfred Alexander . She specialized in the 20th century , the time of National Socialism , the Second World War and the Nazi occupation in Poland and Ukraine . For a planned dissertation on Hans Frank , the governor general in Poland during the German occupation (1939-45), Lesser traveled for two years through Poland, Germany, Great Britain and Israel, spoke with contemporary witnesses and collected material in archives.

Since 1995 Lesser has been the permanent Poland correspondent of the taz in Berlin and other daily and weekly newspapers in Germany (including Badische Zeitung , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , Die Rheinpfalz ), in Austria ( Der Standard ), Switzerland ( Der Bund ) and in Luxembourg ( Luxembourg word ).

As the author and editor of a number of publications, Lesser deals with Polish history and the present, with culture and economy, in particular with Polish-German and Polish-Jewish relations. She also writes about Poland's eastern neighbors.

Publications

Books

  • Masurian Lakes , by Gabriele Lesser, Eva Krafczyk and Thoralf Plath , Mair Dumont Marco Polo, Ostfildern 2007
  • Between the poles. Political travel guide for the eastern neighbor , ed. by Randy Kaufman, (the daily newspaper), Berlin 2006 (several taz authors, most of the articles are from the Poland correspondent of taz Gabriele Lesser)
  • Heller, Edith: Church makes politics. The exchange of letters between the Polish and German bishops in 1965 , ed. by Gabriele Lesser, Cologne 1992
  • Poland today. Contemporary Polish Culture, Art and Economy , ed. by Gabriele Lesser, Cologne 1991
  • Life as if. The Underground University of Krakow in World War II , Freiburg 1979, 2nd edition Cologne 1980 (awarded the Fritz Theodor Epstein Prize of the Association of Eastern European Historians in Germany, Austria and Switzerland)

Essays

  • "We fought for freedom", Adam Michnik in conversation with Gabriele Lesser about the year 1968, in: Die last Chance? 1968 in Eastern Europe. Analyzes and documents over a key year , ed. by Angelika Ebbinghaus, Hamburg 2008, pp. 76–83
  • Giving meaning to death - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, in Tachles (Zurich), April 11, 2003
  • The bill is still open. March 1968 in the mirror of the Polish press 30 years later, in: The expulsion of Jews from Poland 1968 - Antisemitism and political calculation , ed. by Beate Kosmala, Berlin 2000, pp. 173–190
  • The “Jedwabne discussion” in anti-Semitic and right-wing extremist media, in: TRANSODRA - Polish Information Bulletin No. 23, 2001, pp. 363–379
  • A pogrom of 1941 becomes an election campaign topic in Poland, in: Illustrierte Neue Welt , No. 2, 2001

Internet

  • Janusz Korczak. The King of Children [1]
  • Beauty in melancholy. Historic center of Lviv [2]
  • The city of Copernicus. City of Torun (Thorn)
  • Of coat and sword games. Malbork Castle (Marienburg)
  • Underground cathedrals. Wieliczka Salt Mine
  • Angels over Krakow. A travel report
  • The grandchildren of the Marranos have returned, conversation with Konstanty Gebert, founder of the Jewish cultural magazine Midrasz, which is published in Warsaw [3]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ City of Torun ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wissen.de
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personal data
SURNAME Lesser, Gabriele
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lesser, Gabriele Alexandra (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main