Rūta Vanagaitė

Rūta Vanagaitė (born January 25, 1955 in Šiauliai ) is a Lithuanian writer.

Life

From 1961 to 1972 Rūta Vanagaitė attended the 22nd Middle School in Vilnius . After attending the Antanas-Vienuolis Middle School in Vilnius from 1972 to 1973, from which she graduated from high school, from 1973 to 1978 she completed a diploma in theater studies at GITIS in Moscow .

From 1991 to 1998 she organized the theater festival "LIFE" and directed it as director. In 1999 and 2000/2001 she was an advisor to the Prime Minister Rolandas Paksas .

From 1999 to 2001 Rūta Vanagaitė was a member of Lietuvos liberalų sąjunga , then of Liberalų ir centro sąjunga . 2011–2015 she was a member of the Vilnius City Council in the coalition with Artūras Zuokas .

In her book Mūsiškiai ( Ours ) is about the historical responsibility of the Lithuanian society in the Holocaust . She wrote the book with the help of Efraim Zuroff . In doing so, the author sparked a historical dispute about the murderers of Jews , collaborators and KGB agents. The books were recalled from the stores by the publisher.

Due to hostility in Lithuania, she moved into exile in Israel in 2018 .

The European Rabbinical Conference awarded her the Moshe Rosen Prize in 2018.

Rūta Vanagaitė is divorced. She has a daughter and a son.

Fonts

• Mūsiškiai . Alma littera, Vilnius 2016, ISBN 978-609-01-2208-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Carsten Schmiester: Ruta Vanagaitè: "The Ours". Revelations about Lithuania's Holocaust past. Deutschlandfunk culture . March 29, 2016, accessed November 6, 2017.
2. ↑ Silke Bigalke: The track of the falcon. A Lithuanian author harvests hatred with a thoughtless remark about a national hero. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of November 25, 2017, p. 7.
3. ↑ Keno Verseck: Lithuanian author causes a historical dispute . Jewish murderers, collaborators, KGB agents. Spiegel Online . November 2, 2017. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
4. ↑ Ralf Leonhard: "I have destroyed the Lithuanian lie of life" . In: The daily newspaper: taz . April 19, 2018, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 15 ( taz.de [accessed April 19, 2018]).
5. ↑ ^{a b} Michael Thaidigsmann: At the side of Europe's Jews. In: www.juedische-allgemeine.de. May 31, 2018, accessed June 2, 2018 . 
6. ↑ 2012 m. spalio 14 d. Lietuvos Respublikos Seimo rinkimai (Lithuanian). Rūta Vanagaitė's curriculum vitae at the Lithuanian electoral committee. Retrieved November 6, 2017.