Minka Pradelski

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Minka Pradelski (* 1947 in Zeilsheim , Frankfurt am Main ) is a German writer and filmmaker.

Life

Minka Pradelski was born in 1947 in a camp for displaced persons in Frankfurt am Main. Her parents escaped the Holocaust - her father as a survivor of the Łódź ghetto , her mother as so-called illegals with false papers. In 1952 the family left Germany for New York , but after a stopover in Montreal they returned to Frankfurt am Main. Pradelski passed her Abitur at the Frankfurt high school Elisabethenschule .

After studying sociology at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Pradelski worked as a research assistant at Clemens de Boor ( Sigmund Freud Institute ) from 1983 to 1987 on the project after the effects of massive trauma among Jewish survivors of the Nazi era.

From 1988 to 1994 Pradelski was in charge of public relations for the Central Welfare Office for Jews in Germany . In addition, she works on a voluntary basis for various social commissions of the Jewish community in Frankfurt am Main and can also look back on voluntary work for the Steven Spielberg Shoa Foundation .

Her novel "And there came Frau Kugelmann" was also published as an audio book with Iris Berben and was translated into Dutch. The book was published in 2005 in the ZDF series Read! presented and discussed in the FAZ and the NZZ .

Works

Essays and books

  • Theresienstadt ghetto: care between life and death. - An interview with Trude Simonsohn and Minka Pradelski. In: Zedaka - Jewish social work through the ages . Jewish Museum, Frankfurt am Main 1992. ISBN 3-9802125-4-8 .
  • And there came Frau Kugelmann . Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main 2005. ISBN 978-3-627-00123-0 . (Novel)

Movies

  • Stalin broke our hearts - Jewish comrades in the young GDR. Documentary, 52 minutes, Germany 2000. Direction and production: Minka Pradelski and Eduard Erne. ( Broadcast as a television report shortened to 45 minutes in 2003 by NDR .)
  • The ghosts of the past - about the forgotten victims of the GDR. Documentary, 30 minutes, Germany 2001. A film by Eduard Erne and Minka Pradelski. (First broadcast on NDR, broadcast on September 29, 2002 on Phoenix )
  • Zedaka: Jewish integration work in Germany . Documentary, 60 minutes, Germany 2004. Directors: Minka Pradelski and Eduard Erne. (Aired on March 14, 2004 on Phoenix, among others)

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personal data
SURNAME Pradelski, Minka
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, journalist and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Zeilsheim , Frankfurt am Main