Silke Klewin

Silke Klewin

Silke Klewin (born March 2, 1967 in Gehrden ) is a German historian and the scientific director of the Bautzen Memorial .

Career

After studying German and history with a focus on contemporary history and the history of the GDR at the Universities of Hanover and Vienna , which Klewin completed with a Magister Artium in 1994, she completed a scientific traineeship at the Museum of Transport History and Technology in Berlin (now the German Museum of Technology ) Berlin . There she carried out the project coordination of the technical-historical-biographical special exhibition "I only served the technology - eight careers between 1940 and 1950", and Klewin also worked on the exhibition unit "Zeitbogen 1940-1950". She was responsible for the editorial coordination of the accompanying volume for this exhibition.

From 1996 to 1999 Klewin, as an employee of the Bautzen Komitee eV, was responsible for the scientific management of the project group “Construction of the Bautzen Memorial ”, of which she has been the head since the memorial opened in April 1999. Klewin works for the Saxon Memorials Foundation .

Exhibitions

• October 1999 - January 2000 WITHOUT POWER. The October '89 events in Dresden and the Bautzen feeder point. A chronicle from 3. – 10. October 1989
• since May 2000 “The Gross Case” The escape and imprisonment story of Peter and Christa Gross-Feurich , prisoners in the “Stasi prison” Bautzen II 1975–78
• since May 2001; new since March 2010 First section of the permanent exhibition at the Bautzen Memorial: Chronicle of the history of the two Bautzen prisons
• April 2002 - September 2002 “Bautzen citizens” portraits from three epochs of political persecution: the time of National Socialism, Soviet occupation and the GDR.
• since May 2004 history of the special camp Bautzen. 1945-1956
• fates in prison since September 2005. 20 biography steles of politically persecuted people
• since September 2006 Stasi prison Bautzen II. 1956 - 1989

Publications

• 1995 Silke Klewin: Heinz W .: “Hopefully never again!” War and post-war in Berlin - a review after five decades, in: I only served technology (Berlin contributions to the history of technology and industrial culture, 13), Berlin 1995.
• 1995 Silke Klewin / Alfred Gottwaldt: "Technology. Power. War. Preliminary remarks on the book and exhibition", in: I only served technology (Berlin contributions to the history of technology and industrial culture, 13), Berlin 1995.
• 2001 Silke Klewin / Kirsten Wenzel: "Ways to Bautzen II. Biographical and autobiographical portraits" (life testimonies - ways of suffering, 8), Dresden 2001.
• 2002 Karl Wilhelm Fricke / Silke Klewin: "Bautzen II. Special Detention Center under MfS control. 1956 to 1989" report and documentation, Leipzig 2002.
• 2002 Silke Klewin u. a .: "Bautzen citizens", in: "Between the times." Volume II: The museums and archives of the city of Bautzen present themselves in a joint anniversary exhibition in six parts, Dresden 2002.
• 2002 Silke Klewin: "Benno von Heynitz", in: Karl Wilhelm Fricke u. a (ed.), "Opposition and Resistance in the GDR. Political Life Pictures", Munich 2002.
• 2003 Silke Klewin / Mike Schmeitzner, "Prosecution" Social Democratism ". The Benno von Heynitz Case", in: "Soviet Military Tribunals", Vol. 2: "The Judgment of German Civilians 1945-1955", ed. Andreas Hilger / Mike Schmeitzner / Ute Schmidt (writings of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism 17/2), Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2003, pp. 417–437.
• 2004 Susanne Hattig / Silke Klewin / Cornelia Liebold / Jörg Morré, "Das Spezialager Bautzen. 1945-1956" Catalog for the permanent exhibition at the Bautzen Memorial (series of publications by the Saxon Memorials Foundation), Dresden 2004.
• 2006 Silke Klewin: The work of the Bautzen Memorial. In: Peter März / Hans-Joachim Veen : Remember what? Communism in the German culture of remembrance. Cologne 2006, pp. 153-165.
• 2007 Susanne Hattig / Silke Klewin / Cornelia Liebold / Jörg Morré, "Stasi prison Bautzen II. 1956-1989", catalog for the permanent exhibition at the Bautzen Memorial (series of publications by the Saxon Memorials Foundation), Dresden 2007.
• 2009 Silke Klewin "Bautzen", in: Martin Sabrow (ed.) Places of Remembrance of the GDR, Munich 2009, pp. 43–54. "Tunnel Dieter. Dieter Hötger"
• 2009 Silke Klewin / Cornelia Liebold: "To the Navy and then away. Hans-Jürgen Meckert" in: Ines Geipel, Andreas Petersen (eds), "Black Box GDR. Untold lives under the SED regime" 2009.
• 2010 "Behind bars. On the history of imprisonment between punishment, reform and political exclusion from the 18th century to the present" (Ed. With Herbert Reinke and Gerhard Sälters), Leipzig 2010.

Web links

• Literature by and about Silke Klewin in the catalog of the German National Library
• Article Silke Klewin - Federal Foundation for Work-Up