Ilya Seifert

Ilja Seifert, 2009

Ilja Seifert (born May 6, 1951 in Berlin ) is a German politician ( Die Linke ).

Life and work

Ilja Seifert has been paraplegic since a swimming accident in 1967 . After graduating from high school in 1970 at the special school for the physically handicapped in Birkenwerder , he completed a degree in German at the Humboldt University in Berlin , which he completed in 1975 with a degree in German. Seifert then worked as a research assistant at the Central Institute for the History of Literature at the Academy of Sciences in the GDR . In 1980 he received his doctorate here as a Dr. phil. with the work Vom Leben dreier Magazines, Arbeiter-Literatur (1924), Die Neue Bücherschau (1919–1929), Die Linkskurve (1929–1932) - on the way to profiling the journalistic front of the KPD in the cultural-political and aesthetic class struggles of the Weimar people Republic . From 1981 to 1990 he was a research assistant at the House for Cultural Work in Berlin.

In 1990 Seifert was the founding president of the General Disability Association in Germany For Self-Determination and Dignity e. V. and was chairman of the Berlin Disabled Association (BBV) from 1999 to July 2011 . Seifert has been a partner in the Barrier-Free Living Seifert & Schröder expert office in Berlin since 1995 .

In addition, he has published several volumes of poetry - some together with Christian Schröder.

State Security staff

From 1980 to 1983 and from 1986 to 1987 he was Stasi contact person and unofficial employee as IM Ilja and IM Robert .

Political party

Seifert at the federal party conference of Die Linke 2018 in Leipzig

Seifert became a member of the SED in 1974 . From 1990 to 1992 and from 2002 to 2004 he was a member of the PDS party executive. At the Magdeburg party congress on May 29, 2016, he was elected to the executive committee of the party Die Linke .

MP

From March to October 1990 Seifert belonged to the first freely elected People's Chamber of the GDR and was then one of the 144 members elected by the People's Chamber who became members of the German Bundestag on October 3, 1990 .

After Seifert had to leave the Bundestag after the Bundestag election in 1994 , he was re-elected to the Bundestag in 1998 . After the PDS failed to pass the five percent hurdle in the 2002 federal election , Seifert left the Bundestag again.

Since 2005 he was again a member of the German Bundestag. In the 1990 federal election, Ilja Seifert entered the Bundestag via the Berlin state list and then always via the Saxony state list. His constituency is Löbau-Zittau - Görlitz - Niesky .

In 2013, his place on the list in the state of Saxony was not enough for a new entry into the Bundestag.

Publications (selection)

• There was no close time. 1990, ISBN 3-893100-15-6 .
• "Provided" to the point of immaturity. (Ilja Seifert, Lothar Sandfort and Waltraud Jähnichen), 1991, ISBN 3-928556-01-0 .
• So: let me be wrong . Karin Fischer Verlag, Aachen 2006, ISBN 978-3-89514-599-5 .
• So: let me be wrong . Poetry. New, expanded edition. Karin Fischer Verlag, Aachen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8422-3918-0 .
• ... and also the erotic. Poems . Karin Fischer Verlag / deutscher lyrik verlag, Aachen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8422-4161-9 .

Honors

• 2010: Elke Bartz Prize from ForseA for his services to the self-determination of disabled people

literature

• Helmut Müller-Enbergs :  Seifert, Ilja . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

swell

1. ↑ New victim of the wall . In: Der Spiegel . No. 9 , 1992 ( online ).
2. ↑ Hubertus Knabe in Cicero from March 30, 2007 Party of the informers ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. 
3. ^ Uwe Müller: German Bundestag: Members of the Left refuse Stasi check. In: welt.de . February 18, 2010, accessed October 7, 2018 . 
4. ↑ https://www.die-linke.de/partei/parteiststruktur/parteivorstand/2016-2018/
5. ^ Elke Bartz Prize , accessed on January 31, 2013.

Web links

Commons : Ilja Seifert  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Ilja Seifert in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of Ilja Seifert
• Biography at the German Bundestag
• CV with the parliamentary group Die Linke
• Ilja Seifert on parliament watch.de
• Inside or outside A review of 16 years of work in the Bundestag