Jörn Schütrumpf

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Jörn Schütrumpf (* 1956 ) is a German historian, author, publisher and editor . From 2003 to 2017 he was managing director of Karl Dietz Verlag Berlin and is considered an expert on the person and work of Rosa Luxemburg .

Life

Born in 1956, Schütrumpf studied history at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . In 1982 he began to work at the Central Institute for History of the Academy of Sciences in the GDR , where he worked until the end of the GDR in 1990; the academy was dissolved in 1992.

Since the 1990s, Schütrumpf has also been working as a journalist on topics from recent history and was editor of the periodicals UTOPIE Kreativ and Das Blättchen . In 2003 he took over the management of Karl Dietz Verlag Berlin for almost a decade and a half ; In the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation , which cooperates closely with Dietz Verlag , he is head of the Rosa Luxemburg focus point . In addition to the writings of Luxemburg, he also edits texts by Paul Levi and Angelica Balabanoff .

His main focus as a doctor of history is the history of the GDR and the German left and workers' movement. He publishes book projects primarily as a publisher and editor, but also as an author at Karl Dietz Verlag, and he also publishes shorter texts such as articles and essays on his main work in various anthologies and magazines.

reception

The Leipzig Slavist Erhard Hexelschneider wrote in 2017 about the work of Jörn Schütrumpf:

Today he “is certainly one of the most important German historians who deal intensively with the relations between the German and Russian revolutions and their leading representatives in the first third of the 20th century. A respectable list of publications shows him not only as a connoisseur of the literature by and about Rosa Luxemburg, but also as a competent author of biographies on Angelica Balabanoff, Paul Levi, Jenny Marx and others and as a publisher and editor of forgotten, rare or even remote socialist writings which were mostly published by Karl Dietz Verlag Berlin. "

Wilfried Gaum certifies Schütrumpf in a Prague Spring published review of his book freedoms without freedom he had in this an "important contribution to the historiography of the GDR and a phase of social movements that we as a labor movement know" done. In the mass media he is presented and heard primarily as a Luxembourg expert.

Work (selection)

author

  • A hero of Poland . In: Academy of Sciences of the GDR. Central Institute for History (Ed.): Dietz History Calendar 1986 . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1985, p. 217.
  • Freedoms without freedom - The German Democratic Republic , Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-320-02177-1

Editor, editor

  • Jenny Marx - or: The search for walking upright , Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02147-4
  • Dictatorship instead of socialism - The Russian Revolution and the German Left 1917/18 , Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-320-02331-7
  • Rosa Luxemburg - or: The Price of Freedom , Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2018 (3rd revised edition), ISBN 978-3-320-02351-5
  • Without a drop of lackey's blood - writings, speeches, letters from Paul Levi:
  • Spartacus uprising. The suppressed report of the committee of inquiry of the constituent Prussian state assembly on the January 1919 riots in Berlin , Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-320-02357-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Winfried Dolderer ( Deutschlandfunk ): The murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht
  2. ↑ Jörn Schütrumpf in the oxiblog
  3. ^ Literaturkritik.de : Lexicon literary studies: Jörn Schütrumpf
  4. ^ Unrast Verlag - Books of Criticism: Author information: Jörn Schütrumpf
  5. ↑ Erhard Hexelschneider: Dictatorship instead of socialism in Leipzigs Neue , July 2017
  6. ↑ Wilfried Gaum: “Comrades, what else do we have to do with the GDR?” , A review of Jörn Schütrumpf's book Freedom Without Freedom , published in Prager Frühling
personal data
SURNAME Schütrumpf, Jörn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, publisher and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1956