Nicole bell

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Nicole Glocke (born October 7, 1969 in Bochum ) is a German writer .

Life

Nicole Glocke was born in Bochum as the second daughter of the Stasi spy Karl-Heinz Glocke, who was later exposed by the defector Werner Stiller , and there she graduated from the Graf-Engelbert-Schule in 1989 .

She studied history and political science at the Ruhr University in Bochum and Bonn and received her doctorate in 1997 on the history of Christian missions in German colonial areas.

Between 1998 and 2002 she worked as a member of parliament at the German Bundestag and since then has been the author of several specialist articles and an autobiographical book that focuses on the activities of the Enlightenment Headquarters .

Works

Betrayed children

The first work of Nicole Bell was based on many years of research by the operations that after the escape from East Germany of Werner Stiller led in the 1970s to the imprisonment of her father. In the course of her professional archive work, she came into close contact with many HVA employees such as Werner Stiller, which ultimately led to an encounter with his daughter Edina Stiller, who had remained in the GDR after her father had fled. It was only after the book was published that there was a meeting with Markus Wolf , who had tried to arrange the meeting.

In the autobiographical-analytical tale Betrayed Children , the two daughters, betrayed by their fathers in different ways, describe their parallel fates.

The book received numerous reviews in the press and on the radio; At readings for school classes, the two authors try to familiarize the young generation with this almost forgotten problem.

Henry Bernhard described the book for Deutschlandfunk as “a testimony to the generation of 30-year-olds who have to live with the ruins of the Cold War for which they are not responsible. It is fluid and gripping to read, the editor should have noticed a few small factual errors. ”However, according to Bernhard, the authors do not make it easy for themselves and the readers with their allegations and their judgments about treason in the Cold War. You would sit down between all the chairs. Ulrich Schwarz wrote for Der Spiegel that this book was “an overdue review of the Stasi processing”. The book is a straightforward, open narration of the life stories of the authors without pathos. This makes the book convincing.

The life and suffering of Eugen Mühlfeit

In the book The Life and Suffering of Eugen Mühlfeit , the German-Czech dissident Mühlfeit tells the author his life story. The critical distance between the author and the narrator is supplemented by intervening narrative jumps in the interview situation and the inclusion of statements from other contemporary witnesses (including Katja Havemann ). In addition, some statements by Mühlfeit are put into perspective by partly contradicting contemporary documents.

Nevertheless, on February 2, 2010, there was a lawsuit over a statement by Mühlfeit. Katja Havemann wanted - regardless of her involvement in the creation of the book - to prevent Mühlfeit from making a statement that her late husband Robert Havemann played a role in the movement of works of art from Czechoslovakia to western Germany in the 1970s. This was preceded by a heated dispute between historians, the BStU and the author - measured by the extremely small edition of the book . The critics accused Nicole Glocke of saying that the book did not do justice to the research claim of historical research; There is no sound evidence of Robert Havemann's involvement in the art trade. The author, Mühlfeit and the publisher, on the other hand, argued that the depth of research went far beyond what is otherwise customary in memoirs; the book is not a scientific work. In addition, one could name other contemporary witnesses who remembered these events. Katja Havemann's claim for injunctive relief and compensation in the amount of € 50,000 was dismissed. The judgment is now final and the appeal period has expired.

In another trial, Erika Gaus, the widow of State Secretary Günter Gaus , who was the permanent representative of the Federal Republic of Germany in the GDR at the time of the disputed transfer of works of art , sued the owner of the Lukas Verlag, Franz Böttcher, the author Nicole Glocke and Eugen Mühlfeit at the Hamburg Regional Court for the omission of a passage in the book that concerns her deceased husband. In the passage Mühlfeit's memory is quoted as saying that Havemann and his circle of friends had decided to have the pictures brought to the West via diplomats. To do this, they wanted to contact Günter Gaus, who had promised to ask one of his employees whether he would like to participate. Mühlfeit is not aware of the exact execution; Günter Gaus reacted very angrily to a later request. Erika Gaus sees the allegation as a serious distortion of the personality of her deceased husband, as he would have made himself a criminal offense by participating in picture smuggling. The civil chamber of the Hamburg Regional Court dismissed the action as unfounded in its judgment of March 11, 2011. In the grounds of the judgment, it is argued that participation in the smuggling of works of art by persecuted artists from within the scope of Charter 77 is in no way defamatory, but rather apt to generate sympathy for Gaus in the reader. In addition, no direct participation is claimed. Ultimately, there is not even a criminal liability under German law.

Spontaneity was the order of the day

In the book Spontaneität was the order of the day , three members of the only freely elected People's Chamber , Burkhard Schneeweiß , Rolf Schwanitz and Dagmar Enkelmann , report from the time of the GDR upheaval. While Schneeweiß had been a member of the Eastern CDU since 1976 and Enkelmann had been a member of the SED since 1977, Schwanitz was only elected to the People's Chamber after the political upheavals. The three therefore embody very different types of politicians, who accordingly reflect the turbulent phase of the last People's Chamber period very differently. In a review for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Karl Wilhelm Fricke considers the book to be well researched and worth reading, but misses a representative of the civil rights movement among the protagonists.

In the secret war of espionage

The book In the Secret War of Espionage , published together with Peter Jochen Winters, is a double biography of Hans-Georg Wieck and Markus Wolf, with Nicole Glocke's chapter on Wieck being the first unauthorized biography of a West German secret service chief. The author relies on many hours of tape material on which she recorded her interviews. For his Markus Wolf portrait, Peter Jochen Winter had access to minutes of the conversations he had personally. The biographies start with the parents' generation of the two men; the different family situations are the key to understanding the personality traits of Wieck and Wolf.

items

  • In the course of his doctorate, he wrote scientific articles on colonial history, which were summarized in a book.
  • In the publication organ of the German Bundestag Das Parlament , Nicole Glocke published a very controversial article on the Reichstag fire .
  • May 2007: Several articles in various newspapers and online publications that deal critically with the scientific quality of teacher training for Waldorf schools . Thereupon a great echo from the readers, including in the FAZ.

Books

  • On the history of the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft in German South West Africa with special consideration of the colonial war from 1904 to 1907 (Diss. Bochum), Brockmeyer, Bochum 1997. ISBN 3-936858-15-2 .
  • with Edina Stiller: betrayed children. Two life stories from divided Germany , Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2003. ISBN 3-86153-302-2 .
  • Masquerade: Secret Service Contacts in Berlin , Matrixmedia Verlag, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-932313-22-6 .
  • In the clutches of StB, MfS and CIA: The life and suffering of Eugen Mühlfeit , Lukas Verlag für Kunst- und Geistesgeschichte, Berlin 2009, ISBN 3-86732-052-7 .
  • Commissioned by US military intelligence and the GDR secret service: The life story of two former agents in the Cold War , Dr. Köster Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89574-725-0 .
  • Education behind bars - fates in homes and youth work yards in the GDR , with an afterword by the former civil rights activist and co-founder of the Eastern SPD, Stephan Hilsberg , Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2011, ISBN 978-3-89812-782-0 .
  • Spontaneity was the order of the day - three members of the first and only freely elected GDR Volkskammer report , Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2012, ISBN 978-3-89812-898-8 (funded by the Herbert-Wehner scholarship of the Friedrich-Ebert- Foundation ).
  • Wir Kinder von Hartz IV - Three reports on families from precarious circumstances with an interview with Walter Riester , Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2012, ISBN 978-3-89812-950-3 .
  • with Peter Jochen Winters : In the secret war of espionage - Hans Georg Wieck (BND) and Markus Wolf (MfS) - two biographical portraits , Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2014, ISBN 978-3-95462-253-5 .
  • Nicole Glocke: But humans don't just live for themselves - four reports on borderline situations , ATE, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-89781-236-9 .
  • Peter Jochen Winters. A life as a political journalist in the 20th century . Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86331-290-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Children of Germany , Berliner Zeitung of March 19, 2004.
  2. ↑ My father, the spy ( memento of October 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Der Tagesspiegel of October 2, 2007
  3. ^ Henry Bernhard, Lost Youth , Deutschlandfunk, January 19, 2004
  4. ^ Spiegel Online from October 1, 2003
  5. ↑ Judgment of the 27th Civil Chamber of the Berlin Regional Court of February 2, 2010 on the Havemann Society website ( Memento of the original of January 19, 2016 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. (PDF; 735 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.havemann-gesellschaft.de
  6. ^ Judgment of the Hamburg Regional Court of March 11, 2011, business no. 324 O 438/10 in the Erika Gaus case against Glocke, Böttcher and Mühlfeit; Judges Maatsch, Buske and Link
  7. ↑ Novo magazine, incarnate the piano - Nicole Bell about their experiences at the Seminar for Waldorf Education in Berlin
personal data
SURNAME Bell, Nicole
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 7th October 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum