Michael Okroy

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Michael Okroy at the 2013 Angel Festival in Wuppertal

Michael Okroy (* 1959 in Cologne ) is a German literary and social scientist.

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After graduating from secondary school, Okroy studied literature and social sciences at the Bergische Universität in Wuppertal . During and after completing his studies in 1992, he worked for the historical-critical edition of Franz Kafka's works and at the Heinrich Böll Research Center. From 1994 to 2000 Okroy worked as a research assistant in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Michael Okroy has been working freelance in the field of documentation and research on contemporary history since 2000 and in administration at the Chair of General Literature at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal since 2013. As a research assistant for the Old Synagogue in Wuppertal, he is in charge of series of events and publication projects and regularly offers tours of the city's history during the Nazi era and tours of the Wuppertal police headquarters . Michael Okroy designed the series of events The Beautiful Three - Literature and Music in Architecture (2004–2007) for the city's cultural office, and in 2008 he organized the literature project Wuppertal Reads . His research, research and projects resulted in numerous publications and lectures on the history of National Socialism in the region and on the local cultural history. In 2012/2013 he worked as a research assistant and as an author for the exhibitions " With us the new time is moving ... Consumer cooperatives in the Rhineland 1900–1918" (as part of the LVR exhibition project "1914 In the Middle of Europe. The Rhineland on the eve of the First World War ") And" Lived Reformation - The Barmen Theological Declaration ". From 2010 to 2013 Michael Okroy was a lecturer in history and its didactics as well as modern and contemporary history at the Department of History at the Bergische Universität.

Okroy is a member of the advisory board of the Wuppertal department of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein .

Michael Okroy is married and lives in Wuppertal.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • National community, hereditary files and Aryanization. A city guide during the Nazi era in Wuppertal. Supporting association for the meeting place of the old synagogue, Wuppertal 2002, ISBN 3-9807118-2-X (2nd, revised and updated edition, ibid 2008, ISBN 978-3-940199-00-3 ).
  • As editor with Ulrike Schrader : January 30, 1933 - a date and its consequences. Current research on National Socialism in Wuppertal. Supporting association for the Old Synagogue meeting place, Wuppertal 2004, ISBN 3-9807118-6-2 .
  • Kosice was a European city. A reading and travel book on Jewish culture and history in Košice and Prešov. = Košice boli európskym mestom. Slovak translator Adam Bžoch. Arco, Wuppertal 2005, ISBN 3-938375-01-9 (bilingual).
  • "... so that dreams can breathe." From the Barmen City Theater to the Wuppertal Opera House. JH Born-Verlag, Wuppertal 2009, ISBN 978-3-87093-095-0 .

Book and magazine articles

  • 50 years ago in Nuremberg. The task force process and Paul Blobel , in: Tribüne. Journal for understanding des Judentums , vol. 36, no. 142 (2nd quarter 1997), pp. 21–32.
  • "After 26 years now a mammoth trial against police officers." The judicial processing of Nazi crimes by the police using the example of the Wuppertal Bialystok proceedings , in: Jan-Erik Schulte (Ed.), Die SS, Himmler and die Wewelsburg , Paderborn 2009, p 449-470.
  • "... eight gypsy families picked up from the settlement". Fragments of a history of persecution of the Sinti and Roma from Wuppertal , in: Karola Fings / Ulrich F. Opfermann (ed.), Gypsy persecution in the Rhineland and in Westphalia. History, processing and memory , Paderborn 2012, pp. 279–301.

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  • Michael Okroy: Whose friend and whose helper? Police in Wuppertal during the National Socialism . Materials for history lessons in grades 10–13 at grammar schools and comprehensive schools. Published by the Wuppertal Initiative for Democracy and Tolerance eV, Wuppertal 2004.

Web links

Commons : Michael Okroy  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This and the following information, unless otherwise stated: "Persons" page of the Bergische Universität Wuppertal, see: Archived copy ( memento of the original from February 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.geschichte.uni-wuppertal.de
  2. ^ Board of the BGV, accessed March 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Okroy, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary and social scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne