Marion Detjen

Marion Detjen (born January 4, 1969 in Munich ) is a German historian and journalist . She teaches at Bard College Berlin and lives with her family in Berlin.

Life

Marion Detjen grew up in Brannenburg am Inn in Upper Bavaria. In 1988 she passed the International Baccalaureate at the United World College of the Atlantic in Wales / Great Britain . From 1989 to 1995 she studied German and history in Berlin and Munich. At the beginning of the 90s, she became involved as a language teacher in refugee accommodation and founded the association “German for Refugees”, which is still active today

As a historian, exhibition organizer and author, Marion Detjen u. a. with topics from Nazi history, GDR history and contemporary history of the Federal Republic. In 1997 she designed an exhibition in Munich on the history of resistance against National Socialism in the Bavarian capital. In addition, she published the study “Appointed as an enemy of the state. Resistance, denial and resistance to the NS regime in Munich ”.

Together with Maximilian Steinbeis and Stephan Detjen , she designed the exhibition “In the best of shape ?! 50 Years of the Basic Law ”, which was opened in 1999 by the President of the Federal Constitutional Court , Jutta Limbach , in the building of the Federal Constitutional Court and was shown for several years in court buildings and in the German Bundestag.

In 2009 the three authors published a new overall presentation of the constitutional history of the Federal Republic, which appeared under the title "The Germans and the Basic Law" in the Pantheon publishing house and was incorporated into the series of publications of the Federal Agency for Civic Education.

In her doctoral dissertation, Marion Detjen described the history of German-German escape aid after the Wall was built. The study was published in 2005 under the title “A Hole in the Wall. The history of escape aid in divided Germany ”published by Siedler-Verlag and is considered a standard work. Christoph Kleßmann described the book in the “Die Zeit” as a “masterpiece of scientific reflection”, which evaluated previously unknown sources and impressed with its “intellectual and stylistic level”. In the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" Karin Hartewig wrote that the book describes the organized escape aid "extremely exciting" and "informative" as a "barometer for the perceived unity and for the real division of Germany".

Marion Detjen worked as a lecturer and scientist at the Humboldt University Berlin, the Center for Contemporary History in Potsdam and the Bard College Berlin, where she is co-initiator of a study program for refugees and students from crisis regions. With the support of the German Research Foundation, Marion Detjen is working on a biography of the publisher Helen Wolff .

Marion Detjen is co-founder, author and editor of the blog “10 to 8”, which will appear on faz.net from 2013 and since 2015 under the title “10 to 8” on zeit.de. On the blog, writers, scientists and artists comment on current issues of the time.

Marion Detjen is married and has three children.

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Appointed enemy of the state. Resistance, denial and resistance to the Nazi regime in Munich , ed. from the state capital Munich, Buchendorfer Verlag 1998, 368 pages
A hole in the wall. The history of refugee aid in divided Germany 1961–1989 . Munich, Settlers 2005
The Germans and the Basic Law. History and limits of our constitution , together with Max Steinbeis and Stephan Detjen, Munich, Pantheon 2009
The wall as an experience and a subject. Interpretation and reinterpretation between the construction of the wall and the fall of the wall , in: Franka Maubach / Christina Morina (eds.): Tell the 20th century. Time experience and time research in divided Germany, Göttingen Wallstein 2016, pp. 328–385

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SURNAME	Detjen, Marion
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	4th January 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH	Munich

Marion Detjen

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