Renate Merkel-Melis

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Renate Merkel-Melis (born September 16, 1937 in Berlin ; † October 1, 2012 in Berlin) was a historian and editor .

Life

Renate Schultz was the daughter of a sales representative and a seamstress. Between 1951 and 1955 she attended the Berlinisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster . In 1955 she graduated from school in the ancient language branch with the Abitur . From 1955 to 1957 she worked as an intern at the Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED in the Lenin department. She then studied Slavic and Romance Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin . She completed her studies with the state examination for teaching. From 1966 to 1970 she did an apprenticeship at the Institute for Social Sciences , Chair of the History of the Labor Movement. She did her doctorate on the subject: On the development of the conception of socialism in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the period of the emergence of scientific communism (1842–1846) with summa cum laude . In 1982 she qualified as a Dr. sec. phil. From 1983 she was a full professor for the history of the German labor movement. From 1962 to 1966 and from 1970 to 1990 she worked in the Marx-Engels department at the Berlin Institute for Marxism-Leninism. After the institute was closed, she worked on a fee basis for the Marx-Engels Complete Edition .

Renate Merkel-Melis was married to Gerhard Merkel until February 1989. She had two children. She had been married to François Melis since 1993 and since then has had the double name Merkel-Melis .

Honors

  • Scientific colloquium on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Prof. Dr. Renate Merkel-Melis on October 13th in Berlin on the topic: "The late work of Friedrich Engels".

Works (selection)

  • The library of utopian socialists planned by Marx and Engels. In: Contributions to the history of the labor movement. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1966, issue 5
  • On the development of the conception of socialism in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the period of the emergence of scientific communism (1842–1846) . (Berlin, Institute for Social Science at the ZK d. SED, diss. From July 2, 1970)
  • Heinrich Scheel; Horst Adameck; Renate Merkel. Peter Schuppan: Research on German History 1789–1848 . In: Historical research in the GDR, 1960–1970. Analysis and reports. To the XIII. International Congress of Historians in Moscow 1970 . Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1970, pp. 380–407 ( Journal of History 18.1970, special volume)
  • On the international character of the conception of the socialist and communist society in the “ Manifesto of the Communist Party ” . In: 125 Years of the Communist Manifesto and the bourgeois-democratic revolution of 1848/49. Lectures and contributions to discussions Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1975, pp. 139–145 ( International series of the Central Institute for the History of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR )
  • Marx and Engels on socialism and communism. On the development of the conception of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels about the socialist and communist society in the period of emergence of scientific communism (1848–1846) . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1974.
  • On the dating of Karl Marx's Abitur theses. In: Contributions to the history of the labor movement. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1974, issue 6
  • Rolf Dublek, Renate Merkel (eds.): Marx and Engels on the socialist and communist society. The Development of the Marxist Doctrine of Communist Transformation . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1981.
  • On the origin, meaning and effect of Friedrich Engels' work "The Development of Socialism from Utopia to Science" . In: Marx-Engels-Jahrbuch 5, Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1982, pp. 30-62.
  • On the origin, meaning and effect of Friedrich Engels' work "The Development of Socialism from Utopia to Science". In: Contributions to Marx-Engels research. 9, Berlin 1981, pp. 15-25.
  • News about the history of the Anti-Dühring . Results of the MEGA research. In: Contributions to the history of the labor movement. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1985, issue 6
  • Introduction to Marx 'and Engels' work “Manifesto of the Communist Party” . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1982 (5th, verb. Edition, Berlin 1989) (Bulgarian 1986)
  • To date an excerpt by Friedrich Engels on the history of Greece. In: Contributions to Marx-Engels research 17, Berlin 1984, pp. 133-134.
  • On the theory-historical place of the "Anti-Dühring" from the point of view of the relationship to the " dialectic of nature ". In: Contributions to Marx-Engels-Research 23, Berlin 1987, pp. 215–225.
  • On some aspects of the Marxist foundation of socialism from the perspective of the late angel . In: Central Institute for Philosophy (ed.): Thinking alternatives . Berlin 1991, pp. 87-90.
  • Engels' collaboration on Hermann Schlüter's brochure 'The Chartist Movement in England'. In: MEGA studies 1/1995. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-320-01910-4 , pp. 5-32.
  • An unknown letter from Friedrich Engels from 1893. In: MEGA studies. 2/1995, Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-320-01924-4 , pp. 54-61.
  • "... we will eat it all up". On Engels' support of Edward Aveling in his conflict with the SAP in 1887. In: MEGA studies 1/1997. IMES , Amsterdam 1998, ISBN 90-804191-1-7 , pp. 41-64.
  • Who wrote the article “Legal Socialism”? Problems of justifying authorship when editing for volume I / 31 of MEGA² . Contributions to Marx-Engels research. New episode 2000 . Argument, Hamburg 2000, pp. 86-94.
  • On the genesis of the French edition of the 18th Brumaire by Louis Bonaparte. In: Contributions to Marx-Engels research. New series 2002. Argument, Hamburg 2002, pp. 100–112.
  • Prehistory of the Second International . To the results of the work on MEGA-Band I / 31. In: Year Book for Research on the History of the Labor Movement. Verlag NDZ, Berlin 2002 ISSN  1610-093X
  • How Engels did not want to be understood . In: On the arduous search and the happy finding. Reviews and experiences of Marx-Engels researchers and historians of the labor movement. Colloquium on the occasion of the 75th birthday of Prof. Dr. Heinrich Gemkow on June 28, 2003 in Berlin . Berlin 2003, pp. 34–39 (Pankower Lectures, Issue 54, Part I)
  • MEGA, MEGA and no end…. In: No obituary! Articles about and for Götz Langkau . IISG , Amsterdam 2003, pp. 101-104.
  • The journalists Marx and Engels. The example of the “Neue Rheinische Zeitung”. In: Year Book for Research on the History of the Labor Movement. II / 2005, Berlin 2005, pp. 148-101.
  • The Neue Rheinische Zeitung in Engels' late journalistic work. In: Contributions to Marx-Engels research. New series 2005. Argument, Hamburg 2005, pp. 249-258.
  • On the edition history of Friedrich Engels' work 'The Foreign Policy of Russian Tsarism'. In: Contributions to Marx-Engels research. New episode. Special volume 5th Argument, Hamburg 2006, pp. 263–270.
  • "Who pays the dynamite?" A newly discovered article by Friedrich Engels. In: Marx-Engels-Jahrbuch. 2007. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-05-004436-1 , pp. 156-162.
  • Engels without Marx. To the publication of the MEGA 2 volume I / 30. In: Contributions to Marx-Engels research. New series 2011. Argument Verlag, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-88619-758-3 , pp. 190–200.

Editor

  • Marx-Engels-Werke Vol. 22. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1963
  • Marx-Engels Works. Vol. 31. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1965
  • Marx-Engels Complete Edition. Department I. Works, articles, designs. Vol. 1. Karl Marx. Works Articles Literary attempts until March 1843 . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1975
  • Marx-Engels Complete Edition. Department I. Works, articles, designs. Vol. 27. Friedrich Engels Mr. Eugen Dühring's upheaval in science (Anti-Dühring) . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-320-00017-9
  • Marx-Engels Complete Edition. Department I. Works, articles, designs. Vol. May 30 , 1883 to September 1886 . Arranged by Renate Merkel-Melis. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-05-004674-7 .
  • Marx-Engels Complete Edition. Department I. Works, articles, designs . Vol. October 31 , 1886 to February 1891 . Arranged by Renate Merkel-Melis. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-05-003482-3 .
  • Marx-Engels Complete Edition. Department III. Correspondence . Vol. 30 Friedrich Engels correspondence October 1889 to November 1890 . Arranged by Gerd Callesen and Svetlana Gavril'čenko. With the collaboration of Regina Roth and Renate Merkel-Melis. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-05-006024-8 .

literature

  • Carl-Erich Vollgraf, Richard Sperl and Rolf Hecker (eds.): Contributions to Marx-Engels research. New episode. Special volume 5. The Marx-Engels editions of works in the USSR and GDR (1945–1968). 1945 - New beginning or continuation of the Marx-Engels-Edition? The Russian Marx-Engels work edition. The publication of the MEW in the GDR and its editors. To the reception based on the first MEGA and MEW. Documentation. In search of the SPD library 1947/46. Marx documents from the Longuet family archive. Letters from Roman Rosdolsky to Karl Korsch (1950–54). Argument Verlag, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-88619-691-7 , pp. 499-500.
  • Contributions to Marx-Engels research. New episode 2008. The late work of Friedrich Engels - To the edition in the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe . Argument, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-88619-668-5 , pp. 7-226.
  • Rolf Hecker : Laudation for Renate Merkel-Melis . In: Contributions to Marx-Engels research. New series 2008. Argument, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88619-668-5 , pp. 7-14.
  • Maria Hufenreuther: She accepted contradictions in silence. She stayed with her sources. In: Der Tagesspiegel . Berlin November 30, 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Engels to Jules Guesde June 14, 1893.
  2. ↑ Editorial work: Horst Merbach, Dieter Krause, Hanni Wettnagel, Renate Merkel, Adelheid Wolf, Richard Sperl.
  3. ^ Editorial processing: Ruth Stolz, Renate Merkel, Walter Schulz.
  4. ↑ "Overall management: Inge Taubert . Renate Merkel (Head of Part II) "[...]
  5. ^ "Renate Merkel (Head)" [...]
personal data
SURNAME Merkel-Melis, Renate
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Merkel, Renate; Schultz, Renate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and editor
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 2012
Place of death Berlin