Robert Sommer (historian)

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Robert Sommer (born June 17, 1974 in Cottbus ) is a German cultural scientist and historian . His research focus is on the investigation of camp brothels and sexual forced labor in Nazi concentration camps. The doctoral thesis was published under the title Das KZ-Bordell: Sexual Forced Labor in National Socialist Concentration Camps and for the first time provided a comprehensive scientific overview of the topic.

He has been married to the politician Evrim Sommer since 2009 , has a daughter and lives in Berlin .

Life

Studies and PhD

After graduating from high school , Robert Sommer studied political science , cultural studies and American studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin and the University of Florence . After completing his studies , he did his doctorate in 2009 at the Institute for Cultural Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin on the subject of camp brothels in National Socialist concentration camps .

Scientific activity

He has been a freelance scientist and author since 2009. He is a freelancer at the Ravensbrück Memorial and also works for the Humboldt University in Berlin , the Hampshire College in Amherst (Massachusetts) and DePaul University . As a scientific advisor, he worked on various documentaries, such as the BBC documentary Auschwitz: The Nazis and 'The Final Solution' or These cursed hours in the evening. The prisoner brothels in Andrea Oster's concentration camp (2012), involved.

His other research interests include: sexual violence in war, prostitution in the Third Reich, the history of the concentration camps, and the persecution of “anti-socials” under National Socialism. He is also involved in the field of commemoration and compensation policy, in particular for the rehabilitation of "forgotten victims of National Socialism". He coined the term “sexual forced labor” and called for the female victims of the concentration camp brothels to be recognized. The Auschwitz survivor Ruth Klüger paid tribute to him in her commemorative speech on January 27, 2016 in front of the German Bundestag as part of the commemorative hour on the day of commemoration of the victims of National Socialism .

Works

Books

  • The concentration camp brothel: Sexual forced labor in National Socialist concentration camps . Paderborn 2009, ISBN 978-3-506-76524-6 .
  • The special construction. The establishment of brothels in Nazi concentration camps . Master's thesis at Humboldt University Berlin. Morrisville / USA 2003, ISBN 1-84728-844-8 .

Essays

  • Myth and truth in the sexualized image of German fascism. An epilogue. In: Marcus Stiglegger: SadicoNazista. Fascism and Sexuality in Film. 3. Edition. St. Augustin 2015, ISBN 978-3-942090-36-0 , pp. 281-292.
  • Pipels. Situational homosexual slavery of young adolescent boys in Nazi concentration camps. In: Hilary Earl, Karl Schleunes (Ed.): Lessons and Legacies Volume XI. Expanding Perspectives on the Holocaust in a Changing World. Evanston (Illinois / USA) 2014, ISBN 978-0-8101-3090-6 , pp. 86-103.
  • Compensation for “anti-social” victims of National Socialism after 1945. In: Das Blättchen. Two-week magazine for politics, art and business. 13/2014.
  • On the history of persecution of “anti-social” women from camp brothels. In: Neuengamme Memorial (Ed.): Excluded. “Asocials” and “criminals” in the National Socialist camp system. (= Contributions to the history of National Socialist persecution in Northern Germany. No. 11). Bremen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8378-4005-6 , pp. 111-127.
  • Camp Brothels. Forced Sex Labor in Nazi Concentration Camps. In: Dagmar Herzog (Ed.): Brutality and Desire: War and Sexuality in Europe's Twentieth Century . New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-230-28563-7 , pp. 168-196.
  • Masculinity and Sexual Exploitation. Brothel goers in concentration camps. In: Elke Frietsch, Christina Herkommer (Ed.): National Socialism and Gender. On the politicization and aestheticization of the body, “race” and sexuality in the “Third Reich” and after 1945 . Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-89942-854-4 , pp. 156-179.
  • “Special buildings”, a room for forced sex labor in Nazi concentration camps. In: Michael C. Frank, Bettina Gockel, Thomas Hauschild, Dorothee Kimmich, Kirsten Mahlke (eds.): Rooms. Journal of Cultural Studies. Issue 2/2008, ISBN 978-3-89942-960-2 , pp. 29-40.
  • Why the silence? Reports from former prisoners about forced sex labor in National Socialist concentration camps. In: Insa Eschebach, Regina Mühlhäuser (Hrsg.): War and Gender: Sexual Violence in War and Sex Forced Labor in Nazi Concentration Camps . Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-940938-21-3 , pp. 147-165.
  • "Special construction" and storage company. The importance of brothels in the concentration camps. In: Theresienstadt studies and documents. Issue 1/2006, ISBN 80-85924-52-8 , pp. 288-339.
  • with Christa Paul: SS brothels and oral history. Problematic sources and the existence of brothels for the SS in concentration camps. In: BIOS. Volume 19, issue 1/2006, pp. 124-142.
  • The prisoner brothels in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp complex. Forced sex labor in the area of ​​tension between Nazi “racial politics” and the fight against venereal diseases. In: Akim Jah, Christoph Kopke, Alexander Korb, Alexa Stiller (eds.): National Socialist Camps. New contributions to the history of persecution and extermination policy and to the theory and practice of memorial work . Ulm 2006, ISBN 3-932577-55-8 , pp. 81-103.
  • Goebbels and the speech. In: Karin Hirdina , Janis Augsburger (Hrsg.): Light as an aesthetic phenomenon . Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-932602-95-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Homepage of Robert Sommer , accessed on April 5, 2016.
  2. ↑ Mareike Fallet, Simone Kaiser: The main thing is that you survive. In: Der Spiegel. May 25, 2009.
  3. ↑ Speech by Ruth Klüger: "Forced Laborers". ( Memento from April 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Compensation for “anti-social” victims of National Socialism after 1945. on: www.das-blaettchen.de
  5. ^ SS brothels and oral history. on: www.ssoar.info
personal data
SURNAME Summer, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural scientist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH 17th June 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH cottbus