Jens Michelsen

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Jens Michelsen (born September 17, 1952 in Hamburg ; † November 17, 2007 there ) was the educational director of the study center of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, as well as an author , journalist and editor .

Life

Jens Michelsen was born as Jens-Uwe Michelsen in Hamburg in 1952 as the son of the banker Karl-Heinz Michelsen and his wife Edith. After graduating from high school in 1971, he studied German , sociology and education at the University of Hamburg . In 1978 the first state examination for teaching at grammar schools followed; from 1979 to 1980 then community service in the Protestant student community in Hamburg and in 1980 a three-month study visit to the USA and Nicaragua.

Michelsen died unexpectedly in Hamburg in 2007. The Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg organized a memorial event for Jens Michelsen on December 15, 2009 in the Kaisersaal of the Hamburg City Hall . His urn was buried in the New Cemetery in Warder (Segeberg district) . Parts of his estate are in the Research Center for Contemporary History , the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, the Institute for the History of German Jews and the Hamburg Institute for Social Research .

Activities in educational work, as a journalist and author from 1983 to 1999

After completing his studies, he worked in youth and adult education and since 1983 has also been an author and journalist for various radio companies as well as a lecturer at the Volkshochschule Hamburg and at “Arbeit und Leben Hamburg”. Since 1991 he has worked on the concept development and editorial support of the series "Eimsbüttler Lebenslaufen", for which he conducted numerous interviews with victims of Nazi persecution; since 1993 he has been a freelance oral history interviewer for the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial and the Research Center for Contemporary History in Hamburg.

From 1995 he worked on target group and public relations work for the Church Development Service of the North Elbian Church and as an author and editor at the Diakonisches Werk Hamburg; from 1997 to 1998 Michelsen was author and editor for the main office of Brot für die Welt , Stuttgart, and from 1998 concept and program developer for the German-American encounter program “Bridge of Understanding”, Munich; Support and advice for the program "Maintaining contacts with former Jewish citizens of Hamburg" on behalf of the Hamburg Senate Chancellery. 1999 lecturing at US universities (“Jewish Studies”).

Pedagogical director of the study center in the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial

In 2000, he took over the pedagogical management of the study center that was being set up in the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, which was opened in May 2003 and which Michelsen has significantly influenced up to the present day through the development of new educational projects, including his contribution to international networking and on cross-national projects as well as his approach to combine commemoration with questions of democracy and human rights education as well as educational work with professional groups, projects on democracy and human rights as well as international contacts and encounter projects.

Selection of publications by Jens Michelsen

  • The memory pedagogical perspective. In: Nonviolent Action, 39, H. 150. Karlsruhe 2007, pp. 18-22.
  • With André Heinker: Questions about the de-construction of contemporary witness narratives as a task and contribution to historical learning. In: Dealing with History at Memorials. Neuried 2006, pp. 62-79.
  • From being concerned to learning about history: Notes on the educational work in the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial. In: Guilty. Bremen 2005, p. 164-171.
  • With Regina Gabriel, Daniel Gaede, Wolf Kaiser, Thomas Lutz, Ulrike Puvogel, Gunnar Richter, Helmut Rook: Information on the work of the AG Memorial Education. In: Gedenkstätten-Rundbrief (2002), 110, pp. 1–33.
  • The educational offer of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial. In: Standpunkt: Sozial Heft 1. Hamburg 2002, pp. 55–56.12
  • The city, its concentration camp and its mistakes: on the dispute over the Neuengamme concentration camp memorial. In: Period. Hamburg 2002, 2, pp. 8-11.
  • Joachim Grabbe: When the tram was still running in Eimsbüttel. A childhood and youth in the 50s. Edited by Jens Michelsen. Hamburg 2001. (Eimsbüttler résumés; Vol. 6.)
  • Feasibility study for the realization of a meeting and study center with overnight accommodation in the Neuengamme concentration camp memorial. Hamburg 2001.
  • To prepare for visits to memorial sites. In: Persecution, Terror and Resistance in Saxony-Anhalt 1933–1945. Berlin 2001, pp. 31-42.
  • Homosexuals in the Neuengamme concentration camp. In: Homosexuals in Concentration Camps. Bad Münstereifel 2000, pp. 126–132.
  • “Life is a construction site”: feature films on ways of life and identity. [Concept, texts: Jens Michelsen]. Ed. North Elbian media center in the Pedagogical-Theological Institute. Hamburg 2000.
  • Fair trade - act fairly. [Concept and editing: Jens Michelsen]. Edited by the Diakonische Werke Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein. Hamburg 1999. (Media information development policy; 30.)
  • "Rosa Winkel" prisoners in Neuengamme concentration camp: the prisoner group of homosexuals. In: Prisoners in Neuengamme Concentration Camp. Published by Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial. Hamburg 1999, pp. 188-198
  • Gerhard Großkopf: With cookware and rabbit bread. [Ed. and edit by Jens Michelsen]. 1st edition Hamburg 1998. (Eimsbüttler résumés; Vol. 5.)
  • Kiek mol: new and proven district tours / erarb. and written down by Hamburg history workshops. Edited by the cultural authority of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. [Red. Responsible: Jens Michelsen]. 1st edition Hamburg 1998.
  • With Helmut Glagla and Jochen Wiegandt: rewriting campaign in the former Jewish quarter of Altona: to the song “An de Eck steiht'n Jung ...” by the Wolf brothers. In: shadow. Hamburg 1998, pp. 132-136
  • Martha Hückstaedt: a woman's life between Hamburg and Holstein; with an encyclopedia on northern German living environments in the 20th century. Edited and edited by Rita Bake and Jens Michelsen. 1st edition Hamburg 1996. (Eimsbüttler résumés; Vol. 4.)
  • History discovered in children's everyday life: where today little people from eleven nations romp around in the crèche, after-school care center and kindergarten of the Sternipark association on Wohlers Allee, Jewish children used to play and learn to read the Torah. In: the daily newspaper Hamburg, No. 4955 of June 22/23, 1996, p. 31.
  • "Esther Bejarano - A Portrait in Music". In: Bejarano / Sefkow (Hrsg.): Songs for life - Lider fars live. Hamburg 1995.13
  • Eimsbüttler promenades between the backyard and Hagenbeck: 1894 to 1945. Edited by Jens Michelsen. Hamburg 1994. (Eimsbüttler résumés; Vol. 3.)
  • Jewish life on Wohlers Allee. Ed. Evangelical Lutheran St. Johannis Parish Altona. Hamburg 1994
  • Uwe Storjohann: “The main thing is survival”. A youth in the war 1938–1945. Edited by Jens Michelsen. Hamburg 1993. (Eimsbüttler résumés; Vol. 2.)
  • Jewish identity using the example of a student's fate. Hamburg 1992. ("400 years of Jews in Hamburg": material for preparation / follow-up of the exhibition with school groups; secondary level I.)
  • Gunter Lust: The flat foot floogee - faithful German, faithful German: experiences of a Hamburg Swingheinis. Edited by Jens Michelsen. 1st edition Hamburg 1992. (Eimsbüttler CVs; Vol. 1.) Z
  • Together with Chr. Pritzlaff and others: Accompanying materials for the exhibition “400 Years of Jews in Hamburg” in the Museum for Hamburg History. Hamburg 1991.
  • Together with D. Letzig and M. Kirchner: Project folder "World trade in Hamburg, for example tea - suggestions for lessons and project weeks from grade 9/10." Hamburg 1987.
  • Other conditions: communication texts from homosexuals. Edited by Jens Michelsen and Jan Florian Kirchhoff. Frankfurt am Main 1984. (Suhrkamp Taschenbuch; 1038.)
  • Heaven is restored: a departure in the church. Reinbek near Hamburg 1982. (Rororo; 5050: rororo-panther)
  • Together with Michael Broszka and others: "Nuclear weapons will also destroy Hamburg if we don't abolish nuclear war." Frankfurt a. M. 1981.
  • Together with others: say no! A picture sheet on the peace movement since 1950. Pedagogical-Theological Institute Hamburg 1981.

Choice of authoring activities for NDR and SWF

  • Enemy contact - a forbidden love in occupied Poland.
  • Out of line - the swing youth in World War II.
  • Hachshara. A respite on the flight to the promised land.
  • German, Jewish, homosexual - Gad Beck survived the Nazis.
  • Prince Mpundo Akwa from Cameroon and the Cabinet Justice in the German Empire.
  • Never again war! - The rearmament of the Federal Republic of Germany 1949–1956.
  • Fight against atomic death - The dispute over tactical nuclear weapons 1957/58.
  • Our march is a good thing - the Easter marches in the 60s.
  • Between perpetrators and victims - A reading tour with Grete Weil to Amsterdam.

Interviews

  • Story told - layered narrative. To the biographical interviews with the Holocaust survivor Esther Bauer (Andrea Althaus, Linde Apel)
  • Interview with Esther Bauer (B) from November 20, 1998, interviewer: Jens Michelsen (M), minutes 00:09 to 3:53

Video film

Not just in lockstep - Eimsbüttler contemporary witnesses about their youth in the war. (Script and direction: Jens Michelsen on behalf of Galerie Morgenland e.V.)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://epub.sub.uni-hamburg.de/epub/volltexte/2010/4493/lltexte/2010/4493/
  2. ↑ http://grabsteine.genealogy.net/tomb.php?cem=4520&tomb=91&b=&lang=de
  3. ↑ https://www.hamburg.de/geschichtswerkstatt/250086/galerie-morgenland/
  4. ↑ Prof. Dr. Bodo von Borrie, Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial: Report on the memorial event Potentials of the culture of remembrance in the fight for human rights - In Memoriam Jens Michelsen of November 21, 2017; [1]
  5. ↑ https://www.kz-gedenkstaette-neuengamme.de/fileadmin/user_upload/aktuelles/2017/Flyer_In_Memoriam_Jen_Michelsen_2017.11.21_Bild_links.pdf
  6. ↑ https://juedische-geschichte-online.net/person/gnd/14211748X
  7. ↑ https://juedische-geschichte-online.net/person/gnd/14211748X
personal data
SURNAME Michelsen, Jens
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Michelsen, Jens-Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, educational director of the study center in Neuengamme concentration camp, author and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 2007
Place of death Hamburg