Ingrid Strobl

Ingrid Strobl (* 1952 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian journalist and book author .

Life

Ingrid Strobl studied German and art history at the Universities of Innsbruck and Vienna. She received her doctorate on rhetoric in the Third Reich . During her studies she was involved in the new women's movement .

She initially worked as a freelancer at ORF in Vienna , moved to Cologne in 1979 and worked from 1979 to 1986 as an editor for the magazine Emma . In 1986 she started her own business as a freelance writer, but remained closely connected to Emma.

In 1987, Strobl was recognized by an officer from the Federal Criminal Police Office in a television report about the Emma editorial team as a woman on a surveillance video. The video came from a manhunt against the terrorist organization Revolutionäre cells and Strobl bought an alarm clock prepared by the BKA, the marked parts of which were found in the remains of a bomb that exploded in 1986 at the Lufthansa administrative building in Cologne.

She was arrested and sentenced to five years in prison in 1989 for supporting a terrorist organization and aiding and abetting a bomb attack. The judgment was overturned in 1990 by the Federal Court of Justice. In the appeal hearing before the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court , she was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for aiding and abetting a bomb attack. Taking into account the pre-trial detention, the remaining sentence not yet served was suspended.

In 2020, Strobl publicly stated that she knew the alarm clock was intended for an explosives attack.

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In the 1980s and 1990s, Ingrid Strobl researched the participation of Jewish women in the resistance against the Holocaust and the German occupation. She published two non-fiction books and made several documentaries, including "Mir zeynen do". The ghetto uprising and the partisans of Bialystok , which is also available in Hebrew translation in the Yad Vashem and Beit Lochamej haGeta'ot archives . In 1995 Strobl curated the exhibition In the Fight Against Occupation and “Final Solution” together with Arno Lustiger . Resistance of the Jews in Europe 1939–1945 for the Jewish Museum Frankfurt .

Ingrid Strobl writes non-fiction books and novels , short stories , radio features, makes documentaries and teaches as a lecturer at universities. Her journalistic work focuses on women-specific issues (Jewish women in resistance, daughters and the death of their mother, junkie women on the grain) as well as drugs, rock culture , social affairs and mutual respect. Since 2009 she has also been teaching creative writing .

Publications (selection)

• "That you discover your own toughness." Letter from jail. In: Schwarzer Faden, No. 30 (1/89), p. 8
• Never say you go the last way Women in the armed resistance against fascism and German occupation . Fischer, 1989, ISBN 978-3-596-24752-3 .
• Being a woman alone is not a program . Freiburg 1989, ISBN 3-926023-20-1 .
• Anna and the Anderle . A research. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-596-22382-2 . ( Review ( Memento of September 13, 2003 in the Internet Archive )).
• Strange Fruit. Population Policy: Ideologies Aims Methods Resistance. Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-89408-016-7 .
• The field of oblivion. Jewish resistance and German "coming to terms with the past". Berlin u. a. 1994, ISBN 3-89408-036-1 .
• The fear only came afterwards. Jewish women in the resistance 1939-1945 . Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-596-13677-6 .
• "I would have liked to ask you a lot more". Daughters and mother's death . Fischer, Frankfurt 2004, ISBN 3-596-15431-6 .
• End of the night. Orlanda Frauenverlag, October 2005, ISBN 3-936937-33-8 .
• Relapse , play, Fischer Theater Verlag. 2005
• It breaks the soul. Junk women on the road. Orlanda Frauenverlag 2006, ISBN 3-936937-35-4 .
• Deadly karma . Emons Verlag, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-89705-551-3 . ( Cologne crime thriller )
• End of the line trinkets . Emons Verlag, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-89705-773-9 . (Cologne crime thriller)
• Respect: treat each other differently! Stalemate. Munich 2010, ISBN 3-629-02240-5 . ( Text sample )
• Departure from sluggish times. In: Käthe Kratz, Lisbeth N. Trallori (editors): Love, Power and Adventure. On the history of the new women's movement in Vienna. Promedia, Vienna 2013, pp. 18–29. ISBN 978-3-85371-365-5 .
• Measured time. The alarm clock, the jail and me. Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-96054-228-5 .

feature

• 2013: Old Man Prison Blues - Director: Thom Kubli (WDR)

Web links

• Literature by and about Ingrid Strobl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ingrid Strobl's blog

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bertolt Hunger, Ansgar Siemens: Knockout for the after-work terrorists . Spiegel online - one day, December 18, 2019
2. ↑ Lock it up first . In: Der Spiegel . No. 21 , 1990 ( online ).
3. ↑ Interview by Doris Akrap: I knew what the alarm clock was for . taz, March 29, 2020
4. ↑ Never say you go the last way. Women in resistance against fascism and German occupation. Frankfurt am Main 1989. / The fear only came afterwards. Jewish women in the resistance in Europe 1939–1945. Frankfurt am Main 1998 '
5. ^ Authors: Ingrid Strobl . Fishing publishers online, theater and media. Frankfurt a. M. 2016