Udo Grashoff

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Udo Grashoff (born January 4, 1966 in Halle / Saale ) is a German writer and historian.

life and work

Grashoff first studied biochemistry at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and, after the Peaceful Revolution in the GDR, history and literary studies. In 2006 he received his doctorate . He lived until August 2014 in Leipzig and taught and conducted research at the local university , especially the GDR history . Since September 2014 Grashoff is a DAAD - Lecturer at University College London worked.

Grashoff published poetry , including two volumes of poetry so far. In his non-fiction books he deals with GDR history and the regional history of Halle, among other things with black living . His publications on dealing with suicides in the GDR attracted particular attention . The collection of farewell letters I would like to close now, edited and commented on by him , was an "unexpected bestseller" in Germany, was translated into several languages ​​and was particularly well received in the English-speaking world.

Publications

  • Defending a piece of snow. Poems. Stekovics, Halle an der Saale 2001, ISBN 3-932863-60-7 .
  • In an attack of depression ... suicides in the GDR. Links, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-86153-420-4 .
  • Hallesche Originals: From a thousand two hundred years. Hasenverlag , Halle 2006, ISBN 978-3-939468-03-5 .
  • Johann Friedrich Struensee: doctor, statesman, lover of the queen. Hasenverlag, Halle 2008, ISBN 978-3-939468-15-8 .
  • Black living. The infiltration of the state control of housing in the GDR. V&R unipress, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-89971-826-3 .
  • Life in demolition: black living in Halle an der Saale. Hasenverlag, Halle 2011, ISBN 978-3-939468-58-5 .
  • First red, then brown? Defectors from the KPD to Nazi organizations in 1933 . In: Günther Heydemann , Jan Erik Schulte , Francesca Weil (eds.): Saxony and National Socialism (= writings of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarian Research . Volume 53). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 3-525-36964-6 , pp. 215-236.
  • Questioned suicides by political prisoners in the GDR. In: Listen and Look . 1/2008 as well as further articles in this journal.
  • Leaning menhirs. Verlagshaus Berlin, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-945832-01-1 .
  • Opportunism and defection in the Sachsenburg concentration camp in 1933 . In: Bert Pampel, Mike Schmeitzner (eds.): Sachsenburg Concentration Camp (1933–1937) (= series of publications by the Saxon Memorials Foundation. Volume 16). Sandstein, Dresden 2018, ISBN 978-3-95498-382-7 , pp. 262-276.
  • Udo Grashoff: Students on the move - independent student interest representation at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg 1987–1992 . Ed .: Zeit-Histories eV - Association for Experienced History. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2019, ISBN 978-3-96311-208-9 (112 pages).
as editor
  • I want to close now. Letters before suicide. Reclam, Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-379-20109-X .
  • The forgotten camp. A documentation on the external command of the Buchenwald concentration camp in Halle / Saale 1944/45. Hasenverlag, Halle 2010, ISBN 978-3-939468-33-2 .
  • with Uta Franke, Heidi Bohley, Falco Werkentin : Fatally entangled: Richard Hesse and Leo Hirsch - two Jewish functionaries and their lives in two dictatorships. Hasenverlag, Halle 2014, ISBN 978-3-945377-01-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/people/udo-grashoff
  2. ^ Carl-Christian Elze: New word treasure II: Udo Grashoff . In: Titel-Kulturmagazin from September 28, 2009. (Review of the poem “Zoo” by Udo Grashoff.) Retrieved July 8, 2018
  3. ↑ Roger Boyes: Suicide notes become a bestseller . In: "The Times" of December 8, 2004. (About the success of I want to close now in Germany.)
  4. ↑ Translations of I want to close now appeared so far on:
    • Korean: 「이제 그만 생 을 마치려 합니다.」, 해토, 2005.
    • English: Let me finish . Headline Review, London 2006.
    • Dutch: Ik sluit nu maar af: zelfmoordbrieven . De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam 2006.
    • Portuguese: Vou-me embora cartas de suicidas . Quetzal, Lisbon 2006.
    • Swedish: Nu måste jag sluta: avskedsbrev . Svenska förlaget, Stockholm 2006.
  5. ↑ Josh Lacey : No Way Out . Review, in: The Guardian , Jan. 28, 2006
personal data
SURNAME Grashoff, Udo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)