Waltraut Schälike

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Waltraut Schälike ( Russian Вальтраут Шелике ; born January 20, 1927 in Berlin ) is a German historian and Marx researcher in Moscow .

Life

Waltraut Schälike's father Fritz Schälike was the founder and director of the Comintern publishing house, Verlag der Jugendinternationale, which was based in Berlin until 1931 . When she was four, she moved to Moscow with her family. Waltraut Schälike lived in the Hotel Lux from 1931 to 1949 . In the 1930s she attended a school where many children learned about the Soviet nomenclature. Svetlana Stalina , with whom Waltraut Schälike later studied history in the same group of students at Moscow University , also learned at this school . Through her life in the Hotel Lux she got to know many leading functionaries of the Communist International , as well as emigrants like Erich Wendt and Friedrich Wolf , with whose children Mischa and Konrad she was friends. She also experienced the time of the Great Terror , to which many German communists in exile fell victim. During the war she spent in a Comintern children's home.

Her father returned in 1945, her mother and brothers returned to Berlin in 1946. Fritz Schälike was head of the Dietz publishing house there from 1946 to 1962 . Waltraut Schälike stayed in Moscow because she absolutely wanted to continue her studies at the historical faculty of Lomonossow University and she assumed that she would not get the training she wanted in Germany. However, she was expelled from the university and from the Komsomol because of skepticism . After an intervention by Stalin's daughter, she was allowed to continue studying. She was never accepted into the Komsomol again and was also not allowed to become a member of the CPSU . Out of a reaction of defiance, she applied for a Komsomol assignment in the Kyrgyz SSR . In Frunze she taught history and began her Marx research. She did her doctorate in 1959 with the topic “ March Fights 1919 in Berlin ”. She has lived in Moscow again since 1989 and worked there for five years as an editor in the literature department of the German-language newspaper Neues Leben until her retirement .

Writings with German-language editions

  • I didn't want to be German: Berlin-Wedding - Hotel Lux ; edited by Frank Preiss , translated from Russian by Karl Harms, Frank Preiss, Ruth Stoljarowa, Karl Dietz Verlag: Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-320-02082-X
  • For a human society! Marxism - Wisp or Holistic Theory? online (pdf, 327 kB)

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personal data
SURNAME Schälike, Waltraut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schälike, Waltraut Fritzewna; Шелике, Вальтраут Фрицевна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Soviet-Russian writer and historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin