Thomas Friedrich (publicist)

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Thomas Friedrich (born October 28, 1948 in Dresden ; † May 13, 2011 in Berlin ) was a German publicist .

Life and accomplishments

Friedrich grew up in West Berlin. After researching at the Free University of Berlin , he started working as a journalist and exhibition curator in 1977.

In August 1977 he co-founded the small publishing house "LitPol". Until autumn 1984 he worked as an editor and in the picture editing department.

Friedrich was a member of the working group “Who Owns the World” (exhibition 1977) in the New Society for Fine Arts Berlin (NGBK). From February 1981 to March 1983 he was the curator of the exhibition project “Gray Zones Color Worlds” of the NGBK. He then worked as a freelancer for exhibitions and publications until May 1986. From June 1986 to July 1987 he was a research assistant for the documentation " Topographie des Terrors , Berlin" and was responsible, among other things, for the conception of the urban historical part of the exhibition. A year later he was part of the team for the exhibition “Before All Eyes: The November Pogrom 1938”, which was shown on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the pogroms in the Academy of Arts in West Berlin. The exhibition caused a sensation, not least because Friedrich succeeded in re-analyzing the title motif of the exhibition (a well-known photo from the November pogrom in Baden-Baden) after it had been listed under the wrong name in numerous publications and archives for decades. Since 1986, Friedrich has been a research assistant at the Museum Education Service Berlin (today “Kulturprojekte Berlin”), head of the history department and editor at the “Museum Journal”. From November 1998 he was a member of the planning group of the Jewish Museum Berlin (JMB) in the editing of publications and the conception of the first permanent exhibition up to the opening in 2001. From 2001 to 2006 he worked on the book The Abused Capital. Hitler and Berlin. At the same time he conducted research in the fields of photography, journalism and press photography. Since 2002 he has lectured at the Institute for European Ethnology and at the Humboldt University in Berlin , among others on "Erna Lendvai-Dirksen: People's Image and Face of the People" and "1968". From 2004 he was curator of the European Month of Photography (Issue 1 to 4/2011).

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SURNAME Friedrich, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 2011
Place of death Berlin