Norbert Boesche

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Norbert Boesche (pseudonym Avigdor Ben Trojan ; born September 11, 1959 in Berlin ; † November 20, 2002 ibid) was a German author, publisher and private historian.

Life

Boesche was born the second of three children to the writer Tilly Boesche-Zacharow , with whom he founded a publishing company in 1981. After giving up his career aspiration to become a ballet dancer and a few supporting roles in acting and film (including beautiful gigolo - poor gigolo , The Great Comteess ), he went to Israel as a member of a volunteer group of the Action Reconciliation . Norbert Boesche was seriously injured in a nail bomb attack in Nablus on April 26, 1978, which killed two people.

In Israel he met his future wife Paulene Wrate, with whom he lived in England for several years. After the divorce he returned to Berlin around 1988 and lived with his partner in Schöneberger Leberstrasse. Here he began his life's work as a private historian.

As a pacifist, he was concerned with coming to terms with the time of National Socialism . Under the nickname Avigdor Ben Trojan he wrote two books about the missing Jewish neighbors in Frohnau and Hermsdorf, whose fate he had researched for several years in a small working group with local politician Dirk Thesenvitz under the title “Project Reinickendorfer Judenheit”. The first volume appeared in two editions. Boesche campaigned for the erection of a memorial stone for the forgotten Jews in front of the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Frohnau . Boesche's work results also flowed partially into the traveling exhibition "Searching for traces - Jewish life in Reinickendorf".

He was responsible for design and layout at M. and N. Boesche Verlag (Berlin / Haifa ). His health, battered by a long-standing illness, deteriorated increasingly. He died in Berlin on November 20, 2002 after a 12-day coma . His memorial can be found in the old St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof in Berlin-Schöneberg, while his ashes were scattered under the Israeli sky in an orange grove as requested.

Works

  • Jewish search for traces in Reinickendorf , Volume 1: Greetings to Miss Ilse . Frohnau, Boesche, Berlin 2000 (2nd revised edition 2003, 57 pages), 43 pages, ISBN 3-923809-57-3
  • Jewish traces in Reinickendorf , Volume 2: I often think of Uncle Franz . Boesche, Berlin 2004, 115 pages, ISBN 3-923809-82-4 .

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personal data
SURNAME Boesche, Norbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ben Trojan, Avigdor (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, publisher and private historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 2002
Place of death Berlin