Walter Skrobanek

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Walter Skrobanek (* 1941 in Graz ; † October 9, 2006 in Bangkok ) was an Austro-German sociologist, journalist and Southeast Asia expert.

Life

Growing up in Wiesbaden, he worked as a freelance journalist and local editor for daily newspapers in the Mainz area in the 1960s. From the mid-1960s he studied political science, sociology and history at the University of Heidelberg . In the summer of 1972 he received his doctorate for a thesis on Buddhist politics in Thailand . In 1973 he went to Saigon with his second wife Siriporn Skrobanek, whom he had met in Thailand during a research project . There he worked for the German children's aid organization terre des hommes. In 1975 he saw the defeat of the South Vietnamese regime in Saigon, the withdrawal of the remaining Americans and the entry of North Vietnamese troops. The diary he kept at the time was published in 2008 under the title After Liberation. So that you know that life goes on - Diary from Vietnam published in 1975 . In 1976 he moved to Bangkok , where he worked as terre des hommes coordinator for Southeast Asia until 2006. In 1983 he was one of the founding members of the supporting association of the Southeast Asia Information Center. He worked as an author for their quarterly magazine Südostasien Information. The father of three children died in Bangkok in 2006 a few months after the start of retirement.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Skrobanek, Buddhist politics in Thailand, Wiesbaden 1976
  2. ↑ Walter Skrobanek. After the liberation. So that you know that life goes on. Diary from Vietnam 1975, foreword by the editors, Horlemann-Verlag, Bad Honnef, 2008, page 7
  3. ↑ terre des hommes, The last days of the war; https://www.tdh.de/was-wir-tun/projekte/suedostasien/vietnam/mektiven/40-jahre-nach-kriegsende/ ; accessed on August 23, 2019
  4. ↑ Walter Skrobanek. After the liberation. So that you know that life goes on. Diary from Vietnam 1975, Horlemann-Verlag, Bad Honnef, 2008
  5. ↑ Peter Franke, In memory of Walter Skrobanek, in: Southeast Asia. Journal for Politics, Culture, Dialogue, Vol. 22, No. 4 (2006); https://crossasia-journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/soa/article/view/5622 ; accessed on August 23, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Skrobanek, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-German sociologist, journalist and Southeast Asia expert
DATE OF BIRTH 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 2006
Place of death Bangkok