Ulla Lachauer

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Ulla Lachauer (2012)

Ulla Lachauer (born February 6, 1951 in Ahlen / Westphalia as Ulla [Ursula Maria] Demes ) is a documentary filmmaker , freelance journalist and author. She is primarily known for her research on the history of East Prussia .

Life

Ulla Lachauer was born in 1951 as the eldest of four children in Ahlen / Westphalia. Her father was the country veterinarian Dr. Karl Demes and her mother the economist Marianne Beumer. The paternal ancestors were farmers, the maternal merchants.

From 1969 she began studying history, philosophy and political science in Giessen and Berlin , which she completed with the first state examination in 1978. Until 1979 she worked as a trainee lawyer in Berlin, but since then has doubts about her career choice. Until 1981 she worked as a research assistant in the “German History” school competition organized by the Hamburg Körber Foundation .

From 1982 to 1986 she worked as a research assistant in the history department of the comprehensive university in Essen . In 1981 she also began her freelance work and worked as a freelancer for radio and television from the mid-1980s. Working as a television journalist gave her a great deal of interest in the big changes ( glasnost , perestroika, etc.) that were taking place in the Soviet Union and the Baltic States during this period . Since the changes were too complex and multi-layered for her, she looked for a more suitable medium than the broadcast formats of television. That is why she has been writing her own books since the early 1990s and no longer just articles for newspapers and magazines such as FAZ and Zeit .

Lachauer lived in Baden-Württemberg from the mid-1980s and in Stuttgart from 2008 . She has lived in Lüneburg since 2015.

Awards

Works

Her works focus on geographically central and eastern Europe, European Russia to the Soviet era , during the turn and then as well as Siberia and Kazakhstan . She also moves in France, Turkey, Ireland, her home country Westphalia and Baden-Württemberg.

She mainly writes female biographies and deals with the fall and afterlife of rural worlds, urban survival art, ethnic mix-ups, expulsions in Europe and Jewish culture. The extended range of topics includes oral history as a method, body history and horticulture.

Together with Winfried Lachauer she turned for the SWR the documentation "apprenticeship at the enemy - Hitler Youth prisoner of war" over three Mannheimer members of the Hitler Youth , the end of the Second World War in French captivity came.

Fonts

Monographs

The books were published by Rowohlt Verlag .

  • Land of many heavens. Memelland picture sheet. 1992.
  • The Tilsit Bridge. 1994.
  • Paradise road. Memoirs of the East Prussian farmer Lena Grigoleit. 1996. Paperback edition: 1997, ISBN 3-499-22162-4 .
  • East Prussian résumés. 1998.
  • Rita's people. German-Russian family history. 2002.
  • The Acacia Cavalier: Of People and Gardens. 2008.
  • Magdalena's blue. The life of a blind gardener. 2011.

Editorships

Contributions

  • History is made. In: Lutz Niethammer and others (ed.): People don't make their story of their own free will, but they make it themselves. Berlin / Bonn 1984, pages 250–264

Movies

From Ulla Lachauer's filmography :

  • "West Prussia" (2009)
  • “When the Germans were gone. Gablonz / Sudetenland " (2005)
  • “ Bessarabia . Germans and other peoples " (1993)
  • “ Wroclaw . The Silesian Metropolis " (2000)
  • "Buchela - The Clairvoyant from the Rhine" (2014)
  • "My great-grandfather's war ( 1870/71 )" (1997)
  • “The Latvian song cabinet. Flashback " (1998)
  • "Good Hope. Of Pregnancy and Birth " (1999)
  • "Empire and Empire, World Power Rome VI" (1987)
  • " Kant , Königsberg , Kaliningrad" (1991)
  • “ Karaganda . The City of the Exiled " (2001)
  • “Kobelowo. A village in the taiga " (1994)
  • "Apprenticeship with the enemy" (2005, with Winfried Lachauer)
  • " Memelland " (1989)
  • " Odessa " (1993)
  • "East Prussia's long post-war period " (2004)
  • " East Prussia , West Russia " (1991)
  • “ Riga . Faces of a City " (1999)
  • "Trakehnen" (1991)
  • “Transit Bruges - Novgorod . 4000 km of European history " (1997)
  • "Displaced persons - Germans, Poles, Ukrainians" (1995)
  • “Vive L'Empereur! Vive lamp oil! " (1989)
  • " Vladimir Vysotsky , flashback" (1995)
  • "How equestrian sport came to Westphalia" (2011)
  • "The Heinrichs from Kazakhstan" (2012)

Radio plays and features

  • 2015: Die Moschee am Bahndamm (Muslim Roma in Düsseldorf) - also director ( Feature - DLF )

Narratives in anthologies

  • "The war of my great-grandfather Heinrich Beumer (1870/71) , in: The winged eel, Heimatliches from Ahlen - Vorhelm Dolberg, vol. 16, p. 75 ff (1997)
  • Gladiolus time in: Der Akazienkavalier, Von Menschen und Gärten , Rowohlt, Reinbek 2008, p. 22 ff.
  • Hänschen and the apple egg in: Der Akazienkavalier, Von Menschen und Gärten , Rowohlt, Reinbek 2008, p. 28 ff.
  • The curious monkey . A hero from childhood returns in: Seduction to Read, Fifty-two celebrities on books that shaped their lives , Rowohlt, Reinbek 2003, pp. 140 ff

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alumni Association of St. Michael High School V .: Dates and actions. Archived from the original on March 24, 2007 ; Retrieved January 10, 2012 .
  2. ↑ schorndorf.de: Barbara Künkelin Prize 2012 to Ulla Lachauer from Stuttgart , November 10, 2011, accessed on January 10, 2012
  3. ^ Federal Cross of Merit for author Ulla Lachauer. In: die-glocke.de. September 19, 2017. Retrieved September 19, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Dehio Book Prize for Ulla Lachauer and Gusel Jachina , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, published and accessed on April 9, 2020.
  5. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: overview on the SWR website@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.swr.de
personal data
SURNAME Lachauer, Ulla
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Demes, Ulla (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German documentary filmmaker, journalist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Ahlen , Westphalia