Nelli Kossko

Nelli Kossko (née Maser; born August 29, 1937 in Marienheim, Odessa Oblast , USSR ) is a Russian-German writer and editor.

Life

Kossko's father was an educator who was executed in 1937. In 1944 the mother and her daughter traveled to Dresden via Poland. The following year, at the end of the war, the Soviet German family was deported to the north of Russia. In 1952 she came to the Magadan region in the Russian Far East and lived under strict Soviet command.

In 1956 Nelli Kossko began studying German at the Pedagogical University in Yekaterinburg , which she graduated in 1961. As a German lecturer , she finally taught in the Moldavian SSR at the predecessor institute of today's Shevchenko University of Tiraspol and the State University of Belzy , as well as in Nizhny Tagil in Soviet Russia . As she soon applied to leave Germany , she was dismissed. Nelli Kossko came to Germany in 1975 as a recognized repatriate .

From 1977 to 1995 she worked as an editor at Deutsche Welle in Cologne, then for six years editor-in-chief of the Wostotschny Express (German: Der Ost-Express), which addressed the Russian-German emigrants and Jewish quota refugees from the successor states of the Soviet Union in the Federal Republic . On her 70th birthday, Nelli Kossko received the golden badge of honor from the Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland eV for her voluntary work and for the foundation of the women's association, Aussiedler hilft Aussiedler . In 2008 she received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany from the Interior Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Works

• The robbed childhood , self-published, 2003, ISBN 978-3000033155
• Squaring the circle - Part 2: At the other end of the world , literary circle d. Germans from Russia, ISBN 978-3933673619
• Where is the country Waldemar Weber Verlag, Augsburg, 1998, ISBN 978-3-939951-26-1

Web links

• Literature by Nelli Kossko in the catalog of the German National Library