Ronny Kabus

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Ronny Kabus

Ronny Kabus (born April 21, 1947 in Görlitz ) is a German historian and museum scholar .

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Kabus grew up in Görlitz and spent his school and training time here from 1953 to 1966, which he completed as a mechanical engineer with a high school diploma. After studying history and German at the University of Education and today's University of Potsdam , he began his professional career as a teacher in his hometown in 1970. With a dissertation on the origin of Görlitz industry and its factory workers in the 19th century it was in 1975 at the University of Leipzig Dr. PhD. After criticism of the Biermann -Ausbürgerung 1976 and the related cultural policy of the SED , he lost his professional and social positions and one offered by the University of Leipzig Habilitation - postgraduate . Until 1989, he was called "operational control person" by the Ministry of State Security of the GDR monitored. From 1978 to 1988 he worked as a research assistant, deputy director and director of the Reformation History Museum Staatliche Lutherhalle (today Lutherhaus ) in Wittenberg , where he worked through exhibitions, collections and publications, especially at the Luther ceremony in 1983. He was editor and co-author of the series of publications of the Staatliche Lutherhalle Wittenberg published in Wittenberg from 1984 to 1989.

After he had refused in 1987 to join the CDU block party and to put the exhibition on the fate of the Wittenberg Jews, which opened in 1988, under SED control, he was replaced as director by a CDU cadre member and his work opportunities were considerably restricted.

Shortly before the “ Wende ”, he left the GDR in 1989 and moved with his family to the vicinity of Nuremberg , where he worked briefly as a research assistant at the Germanic National Museum . In 1990 he won the job advertisement for the management of the district museum Helmstedt (border and university museum ); In 1991 he became director of the East Prussian State Museum in Lüneburg through another tender , where he stayed until 2004/2005. In addition to the general enhancement of the museum image, it was effective in public during this time through self-curated exhibitions and publications as well as diverse collaborations with Polish, Russian and Lithuanian museums and cultural institutions in the former East Prussia . In 2004, at the request of members of the Bundestag and the "Culture in Germany" commission of inquiry of the German Bundestag , Kabus justified the need to separate the museum, which is fully financed by the public sector, from the sponsorship and the "dictation" of the expellees' organizations . Prior to this, Wilhelm von Gottberg (then CDU ), the spokesman for the East Prussian Landsmannschaft and at the same time chairman of the East Prussian Cultural Foundation , who has been a member of the AfD Bundestag since 2017 , tried, according to Kabus, to make the museum the stage for his political views. At the end of 2004, Kabus was terminated without notice by the Board of Trustees of the East Prussian Cultural Foundation because of "disloyalty". The case was covered in the media across Germany.

After leaving the East Prussian State Museum, Kabus started working as a freelance book author , journalist and exhibition organizer from 2005 . In 2010 he re-edited a book with Görlitzer sagas , which used to be very popular and was first published in 1954. In 2011 he published the research paper "... I cry for my father every day". In the power of Stalin and the SED , in which he sheds light on the post-war years of his hometown under the Soviet occupation system . In 2014 an autobiography followed under the title Lenin-Luther-Lorbass. Mercy! In addition, Kabus presented the revised exhibition "Jews of Lutherstadt Wittenberg in the Third Reich" in 2017 in the community hall of the Jewish community in Dresden . The victims of historical trials are at the center of Kabus’s wide-ranging interest.

Publications

  • (as new editor :) Eberhard Wolfgang Giese , Herbert Nitsche: The tower keeper tells Görlitzer sagas. 4th extension u. edit New edition of the first edition from 1954 by Ronny Kabus. Graphische Werkstätten Zittau, Zittau 2018. ISBN 978-3-929744-94-1 (first published in 2010 by Oettel-Verlag Görlitz)
  • "... I cry for my father every day" - Under the control of Stalin and the SED. 2. edit again and exp. Norderstedt 2016 edition. ISBN 978-3-7392-4237-8 (1st edition 2011)
  • Jews of the Luthertown Wittenberg in the Third Reich. Lutherstadt Wittenberg 2005. ISBN 3-933028-91-4
  • (Ed. And editor :) Rainer Radok: From Königsberg to Melbourne. Expulsion from East Prussia in the Third Reich. Lüneburg 1998. ISBN 3-932267-15-X
  • Jews in East Prussia. Ostpreußisches Landesmuseum Lüneburg, Husum 1998. ISBN 3-88042-888-3
  • (Ed. And co-author :) East Prussia. Landscape - history - culture. Ostpreußisches Landesmuseum Lüneburg, Husum 1997. ISBN 3-88042-812-3
  • (with Jörn Barfod :) Hans Preuß 1904 Königsberg - 1984 Kemerowo. A painter between art and class struggle. Exhibition in the East Prussian State Museum in Lüneburg, Husum 1996. 3-88042-763-1
  • (with Anke Zühlke :) From East Prussia to the Lüneburg Heath. Expulsion and integration 1945–1953. Catalog for the exhibition in the East Prussian State Museum, Lüneburg 1995
  • Ruins of Koenigsberg. Pictures by a Kaliningrad architect. East Prussian State Museum, Lüneburg 1992 (2 editions). ISBN 3-88042-610-4
  • (as publisher :) Staatliche Lutherhalle Wittenberg - 100 years of the Reformation History Museum. Series of publications by the Staatliche Lutherhalle Wittenberg, issue 1. Rostock 1984.
  • (as editor and co-author with Hans-Joachim Beeskow :) Martin Luther 1483 to 1546. Catalog of the exhibition in the State Luther Hall in Wittenberg. Rostock 1984.
  • (with Wolfgang Böhmer :) On the history of the Wittenberg health and social system. Part I: From the early days of the city to the end of the 17th century. Lutherstadt Wittenberg 1981. Part 2: The 18th century. Lutherstadt Wittenberg 1983. Expanded and revised published in: Wolfgang Böhmer, Andreas Wurda (Hrsg.): Das Heilkundige Wittenberg (= publications of the municipal collections of Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Volume 15). Drei Kastanien Verlag, Wittenberg 2009. ISBN 978-3-942005-10-4
  • On the constitution of the Görlitz proletariat in the course of the industrial revolution. Görlitz 1975 (dissertation)

Web links

  • https: // gegenstromer.jimdo.com:/ Ronny Kabus's author website

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Silvia Dammer: The book for the festival. Luther's wedding. About the origins of one of the most popular folk festivals in Germany in the Luther Hall Museum of the Reformation history. Kropstädt 2008, p. 20th f .
  2. ↑ Friedrich Schorlemmer : Words open fists. The return to a difficult fatherland . Kindler Verlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 978-3-463-40169-0 , pp. 78 .
  3. ↑ See Kai Schöneberg: driven out by the expellees. In: TAZ , January 13, 2005; Elke Snowfuss: Lüneburg: Why did Kabus have to go? In: Hamburger Abendblatt , January 7, 2005; both accessed on September 19, 2018.
  4. ↑ Türmer tells Görlitzer sagas. In: Lausitzer Rundschau , March 22, 2010, accessed on September 19, 2018.
  5. ↑ Book presentation on June 30, 2011 at Görlitzer Anzeiger , accessed on September 19, 2018.
  6. ↑ Review by Christine Schoenmakers on recensio.net , accessed on September 19, 2018.
  7. ↑ Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Archive for Social History 54/2014:
    “A contribution to the reappraisal that moves between scientific analysis and historical commemoration… Kabus is the first to take on the many facets of the topic in a micro-study. ... The author delivers an impressive research performance ... Cross-references to previously under-researched topics, such as the 'special camps' east of the Oder, are not least due to the book. "
  8. ↑ Book presentation on October 17, 2014 in the Schlesisches Museum zu Görlitz , accessed on September 19, 2018.
  9. ^ Jews of Wittenberg in the Third Reich in Dresden. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , April 11, 2017, accessed on September 19, 2018.
  10. ↑ Detlef and Ute Stummeyer: Paul Bosse. His clinic in Wittenberg. Unwanted search for truth. Eisleben and Halle 2014, p. 218 a. Note 511:
    “One becomes aware of how far ahead Kabus was of his time ... Kabus was the first to give a clear face to Wittenberg's involvement in National Socialism with the aid of his exhibition in 1988/89. He named 'local executors of terror' ... and named victims and assigned a picture to them ... "
personal data
SURNAME Kabus, Ronny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and museum scholar
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Goerlitz