Jörg Skriebeleit

Jörg-Ulrich Skriebeleit (* 1968 in Vohenstrauß ) is a German cultural scientist .

Life

Skriebeleit grew up in his hometown Vohenstrauß and now lives in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate .

He studied empirical cultural studies and European ethnology at the University of Tübingen and the Humboldt University in Berlin . At the Center for Research on Antisemitism at TU Berlin , he did his doctorate on the Flossenbürg site of remembrance , on which he has been working since 1996. Since December 1999 he has been the head of the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial. He wrote about the history of the camp and initiated a fundamental redesign of the memorial. For a lived culture of remembrance and a tolerant, cosmopolitan society, he is also involved in the campaign alliance “Weiden ist bunt”.

Awards

In 2013 Skriebeleit was honored with the Cross of Merit on Ribbon for his commitment . In 2014 the memorial was nominated for the European Museum Prize. On December 9, 2016, the President of the Bavarian State Parliament, Barbara Stamm , presented him with the Bavarian Constitutional Medal in silver.

Web links

• Literature by and about Jörg Skriebeleit in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Jörg Skriebeleit in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Flossenbürg: a European place of remembrance ( Memento from March 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) , Bayerischer Rundfunk, May 2, 2013

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mittelbayerische via Skriebeleit , accessed on January 27, 2017
2. ↑ Ulrike Heidenreich: "You have to bring a favorite object with you" , Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 25, 2014, p. 6
3. ↑ European Museum Forum: EMYA 2014 Nominees ( Memento of the original from May 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Onetz on the Constitutional Medal , accessed on January 27, 2017