Tom Lampert
Tom Lampert (* 1962 in Boston ) is an American political scientist and writer .
Lampert studied political science at Stanford and received his PhD from Cornell University on Max Weber . He has been working as a freelance translator and science writer since 1998 . He lives in Berlin .
After several years of research in German, American, Polish and Dutch archives about German society at the time of National Socialism and the Holocaust , in 2001 he published the highly acclaimed study One Life , in which he traces the life stories of eight perpetrators and victims. In addition, he researched, among other things, "seized valuables of French Jews in occupied France ".
Works
- A single life. Eight stories from the war . Munich; Vienna: Hanser, 2001. ISBN 3-446-20075-4 (expanded paperback edition: Munich: dtv, 2003, ISBN 3-423-34029-0 ).
- Documents
- Remember the shape! The American political scientist Tom Lampert in conversation with Heinz Bude and Thomas Medicus , in: Mittelweg 36 , Journal of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research , Volume 15, Issue 3, June / July 2006, pp. 16–28, ISBN 978-3-936096 -26-2 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Tom Lampert in the catalog of the German National Library
- Reviews of A Single Life with a Pearl Diver
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Lampert, Tom |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American political scientist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston |