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Gunda Trepp at a reading from The Last Rabbi in October 2018

Gunda Trepp (born December 30, 1958 in Oldenburg ) is a German author and journalist .

Life

Gunda Trepp studied law at the Free University of Berlin from 1982 to 1987 , during which time she and others founded the first women's group in the legal department. She then attended the Henri Nannen Journalism School under Wolf Schneider . After a few years as a business lawyer and lecturer in law, she started working as a freelance journalist for various media such as Spiegel , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and NDR . Until 2004 she was the business editor of the Berliner Zeitung . From 2000 she lived with the religious philosopher and rabbi Leo Trepp and converted to Judaism in 2001 . In 2019 she founded the Leo Trepp Foundation, whose aim is to deepen knowledge about Jewish life and Jewish ethics in the population. Trepp is a board member of the American Jewish Committee and their synagogue. She lives in San Francisco and Berlin .

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Gunda Trepp is particularly concerned with coming to terms with the past and dealing with the Shoah as well as with social justice. After an early book about violence and bullying among young people, “Your God is my God” appeared in 2005 together with Leo Trepp . Paths to Judaism and the Jewish Community . In her essays for the Berliner Zeitung , Trepp was often concerned with familiarizing readers with somewhat unknown aspects of Jewish life. In 2006 she wrote about Gina Bublis, who had to flee Libya as an Arab Jew , and at the same time addressed the fate of the almost 900,000 Jewish refugees in the Middle East . In 2007 Herder Verlag published So many days without you , a reminder of the death of Gunda Trepp's first husband and a plea to look death in the eye and thereby fill the remaining time with life. Three years after Leo Trepp's death, Gunda Trepp published Lebendiges Judentum , which brings together texts on the topic from 1943 to 2010. His most recent book The last rabbi. The unorthodox life of Leo Trepp (2018). According to Simon Berninger ( Frankfurter Rundschau ), the biography "becomes the key to understanding this unusual rabbi". Nikoline Hansen writes in the Jüdische Rundschau that it is a book that “is not only exciting to read, but also brings the voice of the deceased to life again and again”. In a conversation with Christiane Florin ( Deutschlandfunk ), Gunda Trepp said that only knowledge and education could help against anti-Semitism , especially “about the living Jews, about the life of the Jews, about the ethics of the Jews, about the emergence of the State of Israel ".

Publications

  • “I'm really scared before the break”. Violence and bullying among young people. What can be done about it , Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1998.
  • "Your God is my God". Paths to Judaism and the Jewish Community , together with Leo Trepp, Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 2005.
  • So many days without you Your death, my grief, my life , Herder Verlag, Freiburg 2007.
  • Living Judaism. Texts from the years 1943 to 2010 , by Leo Trepp, edited by Gunda Trepp, Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 2013.
  • The last rabbi: The unorthodox life of Leo Trepp , WBG Theiss, Darmstadt 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the WBG website
  2. ↑ "The Germans should turn to the living Jews" In: Deutschlandfunk . November 9, 2018.
  3. ↑ Unorthodox to the last In: Frankfurter Rundschau . 29 May 2019.
  4. ↑ The unorthodox life of the orthodox rabbi In: Jüdische Rundschau . November 9, 2018.
  5. ↑ "The Germans should turn to the living Jews" In: Deutschlandfunk . November 9, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Stairs, Gunda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg in Oldenburg