Kay Schweigmann-Greve

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Kay Schweigmann-Greve at the awarding of the Theodor Lessing Prize to Iris Berben 2013 in Hanover

Kay Schweigmann-Greve (also: Kay Schweigmann-Grewe ; born 1962 ) is a German lawyer and translator of the Yiddish language as well as an author .

life and work

Kay Schweigmann-Greve, born in 1962, studied philosophy, history and law and received his doctorate in Potsdam at the university there in 2011 on the neo-Kantian and Jewish-Russian social revolutionary and theorist Chaim Zhitlowsky .

In addition to translations from Yiddish, Kay Schweigmann-Greve published in particular on the bourgeois and proletarian youth movement and the Jewish workers' movement .

Schweigmann-Greve has been a legal advisor in a municipality since 1996. Furthermore, he heads in Hannover as chairman of the local branch of the German-Israeli Society (DIG) and the sponsoring organization of the Jewish Library in Hanover .

In the daily media he comments on current issues, for example in the left-wing newspaper Junge Welt on anti-Semitism, judicial decisions and freedom of expression.

Fonts (selection)

own writings

  • Citizen equality and national-cultural autonomy. The "General Jewish Workers 'Union": A social democratic minority party in the fight for political equality and personal national-cultural autonomy in Tsarist Russia and the Republic of Poland up to the Holocaust (= Archive Forum , No. 1), Oer-Erkenschwick: Archive of the Workers' Youth Movement, 1988, ISBN 978-3-926734-40-2 and ISBN 3-926734-40-X
  • Chaim Zhitlowsky. Philosopher, social revolutionary and theorist of a secular national Jewish identity , also dissertation 2011 at the University of Potsdam, 1st edition, Hanover: Wehrhahn, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86525-268-5 ; Table of contents and content text
  • Erich Lindstaedt. 1906-1952. With a hordes pot and rucksack, as a functionary of the workers' youth movement in the Bonn Republic (= Kleine Schriften zur Gedächtnis, Volume 4), [Peine]: Hahn, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7752-6172-2 ; Table of contents and content text
  • Kurt Lowenstein. Democratic education and counter-world experience (= Jewish miniatures , volume 187), 1st edition, Berlin: Verlag Hentrich & Hentrich, 2016, ISBN 978-3-95565-153-4 and ISBN 3-95565-153-3 ; contents

as editor:

  • Yiddish poetry seminar. Schoolchildren translate poems by Lev Berinsky , texts partly in German, partly in Yiddish and German, event from November 21 to 23, 2003 in the Naturfreundehaus on Löns-See, organized by the Socialist Youth of Germany - Die Falken (Hanover district) in conjunction with the German-Israeli Society - AG Hannover, Hanover: SJD - Die Falken, 2004
  • Straight talking! Award of the Theodor Lessing Prize to Wolf Biermann , documentation of the verbal contributions given on March 6, 2008 in the House of the Region of Hanover, 1st edition, Hanover: DIG, 2008
  • Iris Berben: standing up for Israel. Awarding of the Theodor Lessing Prize 2013 , documentation of the speeches, with photos by Torben Stephan and Cordula Paul, 1st edition, Hanover: German-Israeli Society, 2013

See also

Web links

Commons : Kay Schweigmann-Greve  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Compare the information and cross-references in the catalog of the German National Library
  2. ↑ a b c d o. V .: Kay Schweigmann-Greve on the website of the Hentrich & Hentrich publishing house [undated], last accessed on October 29, 2018
  3. ↑ "The central argument was none at all", in: Junge Welt, December 28, 2019, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Schweigmann-Greve, Kay
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schweigmann-Grewe, Kay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal advisor, translator and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1962