Sonja Margolina

Sonja Margolina ( Russian Соня Марголина ; * 1951 in Moscow ) is a Russian-German publicist and writer .

Life

Sonja Margolina, born into a Jewish family, has been living as a freelance journalist in Berlin since 1986 after studying biology and ecology at Moscow's Lomonossow University , where she received her doctorate in biology in 1981 . She is married to the historian Karl Schlögel . In October 1991 she received the Carinthia Prize for International Journalism in Klagenfurt . She is a member of the advisory board of the network for reporting on Eastern Europe n-ost.

Positions

Judaism and the October Revolution

In her controversially discussed work The End of Lies, Sonja Margolina set out her interpretation of the role of Russian Jews in the October Revolution . This book was critically discussed by some historians - including Juliane Wetzel , who accuses Margolina of blaming the Jews for Soviet "communism and thus ultimately also for anti-Semitism ".

Margolina writes socio-political articles in the journal Internationale Politik of the German Society for Foreign Policy . She published several articles in the Merkur magazine , in the TAZ and in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ).

Climate change

In a guest commentary in the NZZ, Margolina described climate change as "a highly ideological term that has made the utopia of" saving the climate "the goal of political action and a moral imperative" and praised US President Donald Trump's instructions to the US Department of Agriculture, to delete the term, as a “reflection of reason” with the following words: “It may be that this worst US president of all time falls into the role of a Mephisto who wants evil and unintentionally creates good.” She argued similarly in one Article in the monthly magazine Cicero , for which she also writes, as well as for the author's blog Strong Opinions . In 2019 she published a critically received blog post entitled Confessions of a Climate Denier. In 2020 the word climate hysteria was chosen as the unword of the year 2019, which Margolina had already used in the title of her 1995 book The cozy Apocalypse .

Ukraine conflict

In June 2014, she called Ukraine a real bilingual country: "If you rely on your eyes and ears, you will assume that Ukrainian is still a minority language in Kiev." The anger towards Russia as a mastermind in the Crimea and Donbass has grown not yet transferred to their language, but that could change. On Russia, she quoted Tatiana Stanovaya in 2018 and with it the tacit election of Putin as “vozhd”, the leader, a title last held by Stalin. In contrast to Stalin, who tried to hide the memory of human suffering in the Second World War, in the propaganda turmoil of modern Russia, its victory becomes the country's patriotic bracket.

Works

• Understand Russia. Rowohlt, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-87134-103-7 (= course book , booklet 103).
• The end of the lies. Russia and the Jews in the 20th Century. Siedler, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-88680-449-6 .
• The shackles of the past: Russian thinking after perestroika. Edited by Sonja Margolina. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-596-11610-4 .
• Russia. The non-civil society. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-13424-1 .
• The cozy apocalypse: insubordinate news on climate hysteria and the immigration debate in Germany. Siedler, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-88680-546-8 .
• Vodka: Drinking and Power in Russia. wjs, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-937989-03-X .
• Burning smell. Novel. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-8270-1046-9 .
• Cold Age - A climate novel. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013, ISBN 978-1-493-76965-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Sonja Margolina in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Sonja Margolina at perlentaucher.de
• Deutschlandfunk
• Interview by Margolina with Junge Freiheit
• International politics authors' contributions
• Putin's ideology of the Eurasian Greater Russia. The whites won , the influence of Ilyin's ideas on Russia today. Sonja Margolina in NZZ , November 27, 2014.
• Sonja Margolina: Russia in the mirror of its road traffic «Fart» or: lucky , in: NZZ, January 29, 2015.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sonja Margolina , on the website of Die Welt , accessed on January 25, 2018.
2. ↑ Caucasian Roulette. taz , August 25, 2008
3. ^ Federal Association of German West-East Societies V. (BDWO) , Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian literature
4. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 12, 2015 
5. ↑ Juliane Wetzel: In: Yearbook for Antisemitism Research , Vol. 2 (1993), pp. 359-377.
6. ^ German Society for Foreign Policy eV
7. ↑ The ideological sides of climate change. Retrieved September 1, 2017 . 
8. Jump up ↑ Climate Change - The West's Last Great Story , Cicero August 8, 2018
9. ↑ Climate change - The last great story of the West in the Cicero of August 8, 2018
10. ↑ Author's blog 'Strong Opinions' Sonja Margolina accessed on January 19, 2020
11. ↑ Rotary Magazine Article: Cover Story - Confessions of a Climate Denier. Retrieved January 14, 2020 . 
12. ↑ All roads lead to Kiev , NZZ, June 19, 2014
13. ↑ On May 9, there will be eternal victory again in Russia - at least on the screen , NZZ, May 8, 2018