Hella Schlumberger

Hella Schlumberger (born June 27, 1943 in Denkhaus near Reetz , Pomerania ) is a German writer and journalist . The publicist is also strongly committed to the memory of the Hitler bomber Georg Elser . It is thanks to her initiative that the Georg-Elser-Platz in Munich and the Georg-Elser-Preis are among others .

Life

Her family fled Pomerania from the Soviet army at the end of the Second World War in 1945 . She grew up in the Black Forest and studied Romance languages in Tübingen , Paris and Munich and received her doctorate in Tübingen with the dissertation The Philosophical Dialogue. Studies on Voltaire, Diderot and Galiani .

As early as 1976, Hella Schlumberger worked with Günter Wallraff to uncover a putsch plan by the former Portuguese President General Spínola with the support of Franz Josef Strauss . Günter Wallraff and Hella Schlumberger then wrote the book Uncovering a Conspiracy. The Spínola action .

In the following years she toured numerous third world countries. In the process, critical works were created that take the point of view of those affected, expose the methods and machinations of governments and organizations, identify injustices and show ways to counter them.

This resulted u. a. the following works:

• "Through Free Kurdistan" 1980,
• "Way of the Cross Central America" ​​1983,
• "Bolivia, Unsteady Cradle of Freedom" 1985,
• "Kurdish Journey" 1989 and
• "The burning bush, in the forbidden land of the Kurds" 1991.

During a trip to the Turkish part of Kurdistan, she was arrested for her commitment to the Kurdish population in Diyarbakır . Thanks to the efforts of the then German Foreign Minister Genscher and the Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker , the Turkish judiciary released her after 10 days.

Her books, articles, programs and films deal not only with the problems of distant countries and peoples, but also with events in their homeland. The book "Türkenstrasse. Vorstadt und Hinterhof. Eine Chronik" tells "the author, who lives in Munich's Türkenstrasse, experiences of residents of the street from 1905 to 1970 and" which spirit prevailed when ". Schlumberger was awarded the Ernst Hoferichter Prize for this in 2000 .

Hella Schlumberger's most recent work from 2007 with the title "Mallorca, the raped beauty" is based on the story of the Mallorcan farmer Rafael about the history of his people and their fight against "forced Catalanization", which robs them of language and history.

Bibliography (selection)

• The philosophical dialogue. Studies on Voltaire, Diderot and Galian, 1971, ISBN 387452065X
• together with Günter Wallraff: Uncovering a conspiracy. The Spinola Action. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1976.
• Way of the Cross Central America. El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Guatemala, 1983, ISBN 3761005873
• Bolivia, the rocking cradle of freedom. Land between Cocaine Militaries and Democrats, 1985, ISBN 376630805X
• Kurdish trip. From the life of a threatened people, 1989, ISBN 3442114543
• Through free Kurdistan. Experiences in a Familiar Land, 1989, ISBN 3570052850
• The burning bush. In the Forbidden Land of the Kurds, 1991, ISBN 3821802529
• The ghost from the junk or whoever doesn't read shoots, 2002, ISBN 3934036767
• Türkenstrasse, Vorstadt und Hinterhof: A Chronicle, Narrated, 2003, ISBN 3000127356
• Mallorca, The Raped Beauty, 2007, ISBN 9783000215230

Web links

• Literature by and about Hella Schlumberger in the catalog of the German National Library