Martin Jander

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Martin Jander (born January 21, 1955 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German historian , political scientist and journalist . One of his main focuses in research and publications is the history of the opposition in the GDR.

Life

Martin Jander studied German, history, sociology and political science in the late 1970s and early 1980s at the Free University of Berlin (FU). During this time he made contacts with opposition members in the GDR in West Berlin and followed their activities. 1984-1986 he worked as a lecturer for social politics and the history of the trade union movement at the DGB-Bundesschule in Hattingen, from 1989 to 1990 as trade union secretary in the education department of the ÖTV main board. In 1995 he received his doctorate with his dissertation on the formation and crisis of the GDR opposition at the Otto Suhr Institute .

From 1990 to 1995 he worked at the FU as a research assistant in the field of trade union research at the Central Institute for Social Science Research and from 1995 to 2000 in the SED State research association . He has been working as a freelance author and journalist since 2001, teaching German and European history in the Berlin programs of Stanford University and New York University as well as in the European Studies Program of the FU. He researches the history of German left- wing terrorism , a project funded by the Hamburg Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Culture .

His journalistic articles have appeared in TAZ , Tagesspiegel , HaGalil and in the Jüdischen Allgemeine .

Publications

Monographs
  • Theo Pirker on "Pirker" - A Conversation , Marburg 1988
  • Formation and crisis of the GDR opposition , Berlin 1996
travel Guide
  • Berlin (GDR). A political city walk , Berlin 2003
  • Berlin (East) 1945 - 1990 , Halle 2015
Editorships
  • With Enrico Heitzer, Anetta Kahane and Patrice Poutrus: After Auschwitz: Difficult Legacy GDR , Frankfurt 2018
Educational materials
  • Preliminary chronology: persecution, opposition, dissidence and refusal in the GDR. 1945 - 1990, in: Working papers of the SED State Research Association No. 23/1997, Berlin 1997
  • With Esther Dischereit : 1./2. May 1933 - Collection of documents for the exhibition by Anna Adam: Window closed, DGB Berlin-Brandenburg brochure, Berlin 2003
  • Everyday life in the GDR , in: History concerns us 4/2005, Aachen 2005
  • Medicine without ethics , in: History affects us 3/2008, Aachen 2008
  • Anti-Semitism: Recognize and Outlaw , teaching unit for Cornelsen Teach-Web, Ethics Update Service, February 2008
  • Reunification , in: history concerns us 3/2009, Aachen 2009
  • With Susanne Bressan: Terrorism in the Federal Republic , in: History affects us 5/2011, Aachen 2011
  • With Beate Niemann: Nazi criminals after 1945 - An example: Bruno Sattler , in: Geschichte geht uns 6/2012, Aachen 2012
Collaboration on Internet history portals
  • Chronicle of the Wende , Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg 1994ff ( online )
  • Human Einstein , Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg 2005 ( online )
  • FDGB Lexicon , Friedrich Ebert Foundation 2009 ( online )
Book contributions
  • With Bernd Rabehl , Werner Süß, Siegward Lönnendonker, Klaus Schröder: Workers 'Movement, Populism and the New Social Movements , in: Rolf Ebbighausen, Friedrich Tiemann (Eds.): The end of the workers' movement in Germany? A discussion volume for Theo Pirker's sixtieth birthday , Opladen 1984, pp. 145ff
  • With Thomas Voss: The special role of the political self-image in the formation of a political opposition in the GDR outside of the SED and its mass organizations in the 1970s , in: German Bundestag (ed.): Materials of the Enquete Commission processing of history and consequences of the SED dictatorship in Germany , nine volumes in 18 sub-volumes, Baden-Baden 1995, Volume VII, 1, pp. 896ff
  • Walter Janka , in: Karl Wilhelm Fricke et al. (Ed.): Opposition and resistance in the GDR, Munich 2002, p. 224ff.
  • Helmut Eschwege - "Strange among my equals" , in: Vito Palmieri et al. (Ed.): Seeing through the horizon - learning and remembering in interreligious dialogue, Berlin 2005, p. 193ff.
  • Biograms on Rainer Eppelmann, Johanna Kalex, Thomas Klein, Vera Lengsfeld, Wolfgang Templin and Hansjörg Weigel, in: Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk , Tom Sello (ed.): For a free country with free people , Berlin 2006
  • Differences in the anti-imperialist struggle. On the connections of the Ministry for State Security with the RAF and the German left-wing terrorism , in: Wolfgang Kraushaar (Hrsg.): Die RAF und der Link Terrorismus , Hamburg 2006, Volume 1, p. 696ff.
  • Horst Mahler , in: Wolfgang Kraushaar (Ed.): The RAF and the Left Terrorism , Hamburg 2006, Volume 1, p. 372ff.
  • With Susanne Bressan: Gudrun Ensslin , in: Wolfgang Kraushaar (ed.): The RAF and the left terrorism , Hamburg 2006, Volume 1, p. 398ff.
  • "Draws the dividing line, every minute" - The first generation of the RAF , in: Wolfgang Kraushaar (Hrsg.): The RAF - demythologizing a terrorist organization , Federal Center for Political Education, series of publications Volume 657, Bonn 2006, pp. 140ff.
  • Isolation or isolation torture. The dispute about the conditions of detention of the RAF prisoners , in: Nicole Colin et al. (Ed.): Der "Deutsche Herbst" and the RAF in politics, media and art, Bielefeld 2008, p. 141ff.
  • "... the hearts of our comrades are apparently even harder than stone". - Two unexplained deaths: Willi Kreikemeyer and Rudolf Feistmann , in: Amadeu Antonio Foundation (ed.): "We never did that!" - Anti-Semitism in the GDR. The book accompanying the exhibition by the Amadeu Antonio Foundation, Berlin 2010, p. 44ff.
  • Culture of offsetting , in: Wolfgang Benz (Hrsg.), A struggle for interpretive sovereignty: Anatomy of the dispute over the memorial and meeting place Leistikowstraße Potsdam, Berlin 2013, p. 125ff.
Articles, lectures, interviews
  • With Rainer Maischein: We, the children of the murderers , in: Union of Public Services, Transport and Traffic (ed.): Judenmord und public administration , Stuttgart undated (1993), p. 16ff. ( online )
  • Paratrooper and post-war partisan - Obituary for Theo Pirker , in: express 1/1996, p. 8ff ( online )
  • With Rainer Maischein: Renationalization against western democracy, comments on a speech by Bernd Rabehl to the dutiful fraternity "Danubia" , in: Express 2/1999 ( online )
  • With Andrei S. Markovits : The anti-American cultural revolution of some 68ers , in: specifically 10/2001, p. 24ff ( online )
  • Rudolf Schottlaender - Civil courage in both German post-war societies, in: Horch and Guck 38/2002, p. 29ff ( online )
  • From Leninist to spiritual critic of modernity , book review on: G. Herzberg, K. Seifert: Rudolf Bahro, Berlin 2002, in: H / Soz / Kult from November 29, 2002 ( online )
  • We are the victims. An old problem is reflected in the redesign of the memorial sites in Saxony - the relationship between the dissidence in the GDR and the Shoah , in: jungle world from February 11, 2004 ( online )
  • "The eastern side of the perpetrator country." A conversation with Anetta Kahane about racism and anti-Semitism in the GDR , in: jungle world from August 4, 2004 ( online )
  • The wrong victims , book review on: Florian Schmaltz: Warfare agent research in National Socialism, Göttingen 2005, in: the daily newspaper of January 7, 2006 ( online )
  • Unified union without Dischereit? Esther Dischereit, cultural representative of the DGB district Berlin-Brandenburg, is fighting in court for her reinstatement. , in: haGalil from October 17, 2006 ( online )
  • German Leftist Terrorism and Israel: Ethno-Nationalist, Religious-Fundamentalist, or Social-Revolutionary? in: Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Volume 38, 2015 - Issue 6 ( Abstract )
  • Open secrets. Contemporary history in the Federal Republic of Germany and non-state terrorism after 1945 , lecture at the conference "From Entebbe to Mogadishu: Terrorism in the 1970s and its History, Memory and Legacy" in January 2017 at the Hebrew University Jerusalem ( online )
  • Legenden um Entebbe , book review on: Markus Mohr (Ed.), Legenden um Entebbe, Münster 2016, in: haGalil from January 23, 2017 ( online )
  • Selected individual cases , book review on: Niklas Frank, dunkle seele - feiges maul, Bonn 2016, in: haGalil from July 10, 2017 ( online )
  • The RAF and the State of Israel , lecture for the Heinrich Böll Foundation Saar on September 28, 2017 ( Youtube )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Table of contents, portal for political science (accessed on August 5, 2018)
  2. ^ From the myth of the labor movement , review by Gerd Hurrle, Taz, July 28, 1989 (accessed August 5, 2018)
  3. ↑ Review by Jacqueline Boysen, Deutschlandfunk, May 19, 2003 (accessed August 5, 2018)
  4. ↑ Review by Elke Sieber, website of the interactive DDR Museum, September 10, 2015 (accessed August 5, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Jander, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau