Gerhard Gnauck

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Gerhard Gnauck

Gerhard Gnauck (* 1964 in Warsaw ) is a German journalist and historian .

Life

Gerhard Gnauck was born in Warsaw. In 1965 he came to Wiesbaden and Mainz with his parents . He later studied Eastern European history , political science and Slavic studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and at the Free University of Berlin . He did his PhD in political science with Gesine Schwan . Gnauck was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation .

In 1995 he took over the position of news editor for foreign policy at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in Frankfurt. Since 1999 Gnauck was a permanent correspondent for the newspaper Die Welt in Warsaw, from where he covers the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. As a freelance author, he also wrote for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung . Since 2018 Gnauck has been the political correspondent for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in Warsaw for Poland, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

In 2018, Gnauck was awarded the Maciej Płażyński Prize (“Foreign Journalist” category) for his reports on Poland.

“Cloud and willow. Marcel Reich-Ranicki's Polish Years "

Gnauck has published several works in which he deals with the politics and present of Eastern Europe.

Gnauck's best-known work is “ Cloud and Weide. Marcel Reich-Ranicki's Polish Years ”, in which he depicts Reich-Ranicki's time in Poland. In this, Gnauck writes, among other things, that the literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki played a prominent role as an employee of the Warsaw Ministry of Public Security from 1944 to 1949 . The agent "Platon", who wrote reports about his colleagues in the branch office of a Polish authority in occupied Berlin in 1946, was most likely Reich-Ranicki. The literary critic refused to comment on the allegations. Later, according to Gnauck's account, Reich-Ranicki's friend Andrzej Wirth observed the critic in Germany at meetings of the " Group 47 " on behalf of the secret service . Wirth took legal action against the book and achieved the blackening of a heading.

The Yad Vashem memorial awarded the Gawin family from Warsaw, who hid the Reich-Ranicki with them from 1943 to 1944, at Gnauck's request in 2006, the award “ Righteous Among the Nations ”. The Polish edition of the book was shortlisted in Poland in 2010 for the prize for the “Historical Book of the Year”.

The book found a mixed response in the feature sections. While Zeit , Neue Zürcher Zeitung and the Polish Gazeta Wyborcza found words of praise for Gnauck's research, Frankfurter Rundschau , Tagesspiegel and Süddeutsche Zeitung criticized Gnauck for having found no evidence for some of his suspicions.

Works and publications (selection)

  • Parties and Nationalism in Russia. Democratic versus nationalist integration after the end of the communist system ; Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt, 1997; ISBN 3-631-31122-2
  • Russia in the work of Leopold von Rankes , in: Klaus Meyer (Ed.): Germans, Baltic Germans and Russians. Studies on their mutual images and relationships , Verlag Nordostdeutsches Kulturwerk, Lüneburg 1997, pp. 55–102; ISBN 3-932267-01-X
  • Syrena on the royal road. Warsaw Changes ; Picus Verlag, Vienna 2004; ISBN 3-85452-786-1
  • State Instinct or National Complex? What Europe can expect from Poland's new president , in: Osteuropa, Issue 11/2005, pp. 3–8; ISSN  0030-6428
  • Andrzej Sosnowski: The poem loses its memory (translation), in: Akzente. Zeitschrift für Literatur, Issue 5/2008, pp. 454–459; ISSN  0002-3957
  • Cloud and willow. Marcel Reich-Ranicki's Polish Years ; Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2009; ISBN 978-3-608-94177-7
  • Marcel Reich-Ranicki. Polskie lata ; WAB, Warszawa 2009; ISBN 978-3-446-24181-7
  • Czesław Miłosz: Poems (as one of the translators). Hanser Verlag, Munich 2013; ISBN 978-3-446-24181-7
  • My Ukraine. A personal memory , in: Simon Geissbühler (Ed.): Kiev - Revolution 3.0. The Euromaidan 2013/14 and the future prospects of Ukraine , ibidem-Verlag, Stuttgart 2014, pp. 155–160. ISBN 978-3-8382-0681-3
  • Poland: Frontline State in Eastern Europe? , in: Josef Braml u. a. (Ed.): Foreign policy with autocracies. International Politics Yearbook, Volume 30. De Gruyter-Verlag, Berlin / Munich / Boston 2014, pp. 229–245; ISBN 978-3-11-034643-5
  • "An infantile autocratism" . Kaczyński, the PiS and Poland's Way to the East (a conversation with Jadwiga Staniszkis), in: Osteuropa, Issue 1–2 / 2016, pp. 103–108. ISBN 978-3-8305-3653-6
  • Understand Poland. History, politics, society. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-608-96296-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Płażyński Prize
  2. ↑ Ullrich M. Schmid: A modern Wallenrod. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. March 11, 2009, accessed February 18, 2015 .
  3. ^ Piotr Buras: Biografii nie oddam. In: Gazeta Wyborcza. May 5, 2009, accessed February 17, 2015 (Polish).
  4. ↑ Martin Lüdke: The monument fall does not take place. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. March 9, 2009, accessed February 17, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Gerrit Bartels: Half the home. In: Der Tagesspiegel. March 26, 2009, accessed February 17, 2015 .

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personal data
SURNAME Gnauck, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw