Luciana Castellina

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Luciana Castellina (born August 9, 1929 in Rome ) is an Italian politician and journalist . From 1976 to 1983 she was a member of the Italian Parliament and from 1979 to 1999 a member of the European Parliament .

Life

As the daughter of a Milanese businessman and a Jew from Trieste , she grew up in a middle-class neighborhood. Her schoolmate was Anna Maria Mussolini, the Duce's daughter . They often played together at Villa Torlonia . Already at the age of 15 she became interested in cinema and painting and thus got into the environment of left circles and groups. In 1947 she joined the Italian Communist Party . She was imprisoned several times for protest demonstrations. In 1969, when she founded the newspaper il Manifesto with Lucio Magri , Aldo Natoli, Valentino Parlato, Luigi Pintor and Rossana Rossanda , she was expelled from the party. As a journalist, Castellina, who had completed a law degree, worked for the left-wing newspaper Il manifesto. With "The Discovery of the World", her diary, in which she describes her politicization between the ages of 14 and 18, she was nominated for the Strega Literature Prize in Italy in 2011.

She was married to the politician Alfredo Reichlin and has two children, including Lucrezia Reichlin .

politics

After being expelled in 1969, Castellina was a member of the Italian Democrazia Proletaria party , and from 1974 a member of the Partito di Unità Proletaria per il Comunismo . This was incorporated into the Partito Comunista Italiano in 1984 . After the PCI was dissolved, Castellina joined the re-establishment of the left wing, the Partito della Rifondazione Comunista (PRC). In 1996 it was part of the PRC spin-off Movimento dei Comunisti Unitari , which eventually merged into the Democratici di Sinistra .

Since 2015 she has been active again in party politics. She joined the Sinistra Ecologia Libertà , which was incorporated into Sinistra Italiana at the end of 2016 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Eurollywood. Il difficile ingresso della cultura nella costruzione dell'Europa . Pisa, Edizioni ETS 2008, ISBN 978-8-846721-12-9 .
  • The discovery of the world . Translation by Christiane Barckhausen-Canale. Editor of the German edition Gabriella Angheleddu. Laika Verlag, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-944233-64-2 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "They don't want to know anything about the past", Interview, Der Freitag No. 27, July 7, 2016, p. 23
personal data
SURNAME Castellina, Luciana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian politician, member of the Camera dei Deputati, MEP and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome