Inge Deutschkron

Inge Deutschkron (born August 23, 1922 in Finsterwalde ) is a German - Israeli journalist and author .

Life

Inge Deutschkrons house 1941–1943 in Berlin-Schöneberg , May 2007

Inge Deutschkron is the daughter of Ella and the social democratic high school teacher Martin Deutschkron. In 1927 the family moved to Berlin . In 1933 Inge Deutschkron found out from her mother that she was Jewish. In April 1933, as a member of the SPD, the father was dismissed from school service because of “political unreliability” under the “ Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service ”. He then taught at the Zionist Theodor Herzl School in Berlin. At the beginning of 1939 he obtained a visa for Great Britain through his cousin , who had deposited a large amount of bail for him .

Since there was only enough money for one person, he was supposed to leave the country first and take care of the family. However, when the Second World War broke out on September 1, 1939 , Inge Deutschkron and her mother could no longer flee. From 1941 to 1943 Inge worked in the workshop for the blind of Weidt in Berlin-Mitte , who before deportation preserved. From January 1943 she lived illegally in Berlin and, in order to avoid the Holocaust, hid with her mother with non-Jewish friends. Several of the people who supported and hid Inge Deutschkron and her mother were members of or from the environment of the left-wing socialist resistance group, the Red Shock Troop . B. Otto Ostrowski .

In 1946 she moved with her mother to her father's in London , studied foreign languages ​​and became a secretary at the Socialist International . In 1954 she traveled to India , Burma , Nepal and Indonesia , from which she returned to Germany in 1955 and after which she worked as a freelance journalist in Bonn . In 1958 she became a correspondent for the Israeli daily Maariw . In 1963 she took part in the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial as an observer for Maariw . In 1966 she received Israeli citizenship .

Annoyed by the flare - up of anti-Semitism in German politics and what she saw as the anti-Israel stance of the 1968 movement , she moved to Tel Aviv in 1972 . Until 1988 she worked there as an editor for Maariw . She dedicated herself particularly to international and Middle East politics. Her autobiography I wore the yellow star made her famous in 1978.

For the play Ab heute du Sara , a stage adaptation of her autobiography I wore the yellow star , she returned to Berlin in December 1988 at the GRIPS Theater . Since 1992 she has lived as a freelance writer in Tel Aviv and Berlin; since 2001 she has lived entirely in Berlin. She works to ensure that the “ silent heroes ” (people who saved Jews) are honored by the German state. On her initiative, the Friends of Blind Trust was founded, of which she is chairman.

In 1994, the documentary Daffke…! Was made under the direction of Wolfgang Kolneder with and about Inge Deutschkron . The four lives of Inge D. Another documentary with the title Suddenly I was Jewish. The unbelievable life of Inge Deutschkron by Jürgen Bevers was broadcast on WDR in 2012 .

On January 30, 2013, she gave the speech in the German Bundestag on the occasion of the memorial service for the day of commemoration of the victims of National Socialism . As a contemporary witness, she led through the docu-drama Ein blind Held - Die Liebe des Otto Weidt , which also tells her story, at the beginning of 2014 .

Inge Deutschkron is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Awards

The Order of Merit has Inge repeatedly rejected because in the 1950s, many Nazis were awarded it.

• 1994: Moses Mendelssohn Prize
• 2002: Rahel Varnhagen von Ense Medal
  • Order of Merit of the State of Berlin
• 2008: Carl von Ossietzky Prize for Contemporary History and Politics : “Your life's work is characterized by ongoing commitment to democracy and human rights,” the jury stated, “and against all forms of racism ”. She had succeeded in impressively conveying experiences of persecution and resistance to National Socialism to a large audience.
  • Louise Schroeder Medal of the State of Berlin.
• 2018: Honorary Citizenship of Berlin

Works

• 1978: I wore the yellow star . Science and politics, Cologne, ISBN 3-8046-8555-2 , dtv, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-423-30000-0 .
• 1983: Israel and the Germans: The Difficult Relationship . Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik , Cologne, ISBN 3-8046-8612-5 . New edition 2000.
• 1985: ... because hell was hers: children in ghettos and camps . As before, ISBN 3-8046-8565-X .
• 1988: Milk Without Honey: Living in Israel . As before, ISBN 3-8046-8719-9 .
• 1992: Inconvenient: My After Survival Life . As before, ISBN 3-8046-8785-7 .
• 1996: They stayed in the shadows: a memorial for “silent heroes” . Edition Hentrich, Berlin, ISBN 3-89468-223-X .
• 2000: my life after survival . dtv , Munich, ISBN 3-423-30789-7 .
• 2001: The lost happiness of Leo H. Book Guild Gutenberg, Frankfurt am Main / Vienna / Zurich, ISBN 3-7632-5105-7 .
• 2001: Emigranto: On Survival in Foreign Languages . Transit, Berlin, ISBN 3-88747-159-8 .
• 2001: Papa Weidt: He defied the Nazis . Butzon & Bercker, Kevelaer, ISBN 3-7666-0210-1 (with Lukas Ruegenberg )
• 2004: Open Answers: My Encounters with a New Generation . Transit, Berlin, ISBN 3-88747-186-5 .
• 2007: we escaped. Berlin Jews in the underground. German Resistance Memorial Center , Contributions to the Resistance 1933–1945, Berlin
• 2018: Auschwitz was just a word. Reports on the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial 1963-1965 , Metropol-Verlag Berlin, ISBN 978-3-86331-417-0 .

literature

• Wolfgang Kolneder (Ed.): Daffke…! The four lives of Inge Deutschkron. 70 years of politics . Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-89468-144-6 .
• Robert Kain: Otto Weidt. Anarchist and "Righteous Among the Nations" (Writings of the German Resistance Memorial Center / Series A / Analyzes and Representations; Volume 10). Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86732-271-3 , esp. Pp. 281–285, full text in excerpt online.
• Werner Renz: There is no right life in the wrong one. ( Memento from June 25, 2002 in the Internet Archive ) Review on The lost happiness of Leo H. In: Newsletter - Information of the Fritz Bauer Institute No. 22 Spring 2002.

Web links

• Literature by and about Inge Deutschkron in the catalog of the German National Library
• Inge Deutschkron in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Thorsten Stegemann: German perpetrators and their indistinct guilt , interview with Inge Deutschkron
• Inge Deutschkron Foundation , website of the Inge Deutschkron Foundation
• Blind Museum Otto Weidt
• Maximilian Preisler: Silent Heroes in the Third Reich , broadcast by Deutschlandradio Kultur with excerpts from an interview with Inge Deutschkron
• Annotated link collection of the university library of the FU Berlin ( Memento from August 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (Ulrich Goerdten)
• Speech by Federal President Johannes Rau to Inge Deutschkron at the opening event "Grenzdenker" of the Deutsche Bank Cultural Foundation , March 11, 2001 in Berlin
• Uta Ranke-Heinemann: The BDM cellar in my father's house. In: Alfred Neven DuMont (ed.): Born 1926/27, memories of the years under the swastika . Cologne 2007, pp. 95-106
• Inge Deutschkron archive in the archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ^ Deutschkron, Martin , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 68
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 30, 2013, Franziska Augstein : Inge Deutschkron.
3. ^ Library for Educational History Research of the German Institute for International Pedagogical Research , dipf.de: "We like going to our school." An exhibition about the Zionist Theodor Herzl School in Berlin until 1939 ( Memento des Originals from December 24, 2013 in 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. (PDF; 6.2 MB) 
4. ^ Zeit.de , March 9, 1979, Rolf W. Schloss : The unsung hero: Inge Deutschkrons unusual survival in terrible times. (Book review of "I wore the yellow star")
5. ↑ Dennis Egginger-Gonzalez: The Red Assault Troop. An early left-wing socialist resistance group against National Socialism. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3867322744 , pp. 291-298
6. ↑ Suddenly I was a Jew. The incredible life of Inge Deutschkron. In: WDR-dok from March 14, 2012 (to be broadcast on March 23, 2012)
7. ↑ bundestag.de: Speech by Inge Deutschkron ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2013 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. , accessed January 31, 2013. 
8. ↑ sueddeutsche.de, January 30, 2013, Oliver Das Gupta: Holocaust survivor stirs the Bundestag (July 9, 2016)
9. ↑ Inge Deutschkron accepts the Carl von Ossietzky Prize ( Memento of the original from July 3, 2014 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. , Website of the city of Oldenburg. 
10. ↑ Philipp Gessler: Reviled, hidden, finally honored. taz , July 18, 2007.
11. ^ Louise Schroeder Medal: Writer Inge Deutschkron is awarded by the State of Berlin. Tagesspiegel , March 22, 2008, online at tagesspiegel.de, accessed on April 2, 2011.
12. ↑ Press release from June 22, 2018
13. ↑ gdw-berlin.de ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2014 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.