Werner Renz (Germanist)

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Werner Renz (* 1950 ) is a German Germanist .

Career

Werner Renz completed a degree in German , linguistics and philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main with a Magister Artium . From 1995 to 2016 he was a research assistant at the Fritz Bauer Institute . There he set up the institute's archive and library and conducted research on the history of the 1st Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial as part of the research project “Holding a court day on ourselves ...”.

In the course of the research project, he published the first reports on the history of the "criminal case against Mulka and others", based on the case files, since 2000. In 2004, the Fritz Bauer Institute published a DVD-ROM edition containing, among other things, the complete, indexed transcription of the tape recordings (430 hours) of the Auschwitz trial (1963–1965), 100 hours of original sound, documents from the proceedings and in particular Contains photos of Auschwitz survivors who were interrogated in Frankfurt am Main. In the course of his work at the Fritz Bauer Institute, Renz published numerous articles on the socio-political and legal-historical process. In addition to the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials (1963–1981), he also published on the history of the Auschwitz camp, on the Jerusalem Eichmann Trial (1961) and, more recently, on the Hessian Attorney General Fritz Bauer (1903–1968). From 1995 to 2016 Renz was a member of the editorial team of the institute's bulletin (newsletter, insight), in which he published reviews as well as articles.

On his farewell at the Fritz Bauer Institute, Renz was honored with a symposium.

Works

  • Auschwitz. Annotated bibliography of German-language Auschwitz literature. Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-88270-805-0 .
  • with Friedrich-Martin Balzer (ed.): The judgment in the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial (1963–1965). Pahl-Rugenstein Verlag, Bonn 2004, ISBN 978-3-89144-352-1 .
  • Rudolf Vrba: I cannot forgive. My escape from Auschwitz. From the English by Sigrid Ruschmeier and Brigitte Walitzek. With a foreword by Beate Klarsfeld . Ed. And with an afterword by Dagi Knellessen and Werner Renz. Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-89561-416-3 .
  • as editor: interests around Eichmann. Israeli justice, German law enforcement and old comradeships. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / New York 2012, ISBN 978-3-593-39750-4 .
  • with Raphael Gross (ed.): The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial (1963–1965). Annotated source edition. With essays by Sybille Steinbacher and Devin O. Pendas with historical comments by Werner Renz and legal explanations by Johannes Schmidt. 2 volumes. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / New York 2013, ISBN 978-3-593-39960-7 .
  • with Katharina Rauschenberger (ed.): Henry Ormond - lawyer for the victims. Pleading in Nazi trials. With the assistance of Steven Schindler. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / New York 2015, ISBN 978-3-593-50282-3 .
  • as editor: 'Forsaken by God and the world'. Fritz Bauer's letters to Thomas Harlan. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-593-50468-1 .
  • Fritz Bauer and the failure of the judiciary. Nazi trials and their 'tragedy'. CEP European Publishing House, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86393-068-4 .
  • Auschwitz in court. Fritz Bauer's legacy and its disregard. CEP European Publishing House, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-86393-089-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry at the German National Library .
  2. ^ Fritz Bauer Institute: Scientific series. Retrieved November 30, 2018 .
  3. ^ Speech at the opening of the exhibition. Fritz Bauer Institute, October 10, 2017, accessed on September 2, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Sven Felix Kellerhoff: "Many perpetrators were only convicted as assistants". In: welt.de. August 30, 2016, accessed September 2, 2019 .
  5. ^ The first Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial. Genocide as a criminal matter. In: Journal for Social History of the 20th and 21st Century. Jg. 15, H. 2, 2000, pp. 11-48; Auschwitz as a visual object. Notes on Research into the Truth in the First Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial. In: Mittelweg. 36, Vol. 10, H. 1, 2001, pp. 63-72; The 1st Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial. Two stories. In: Journal of History. Vol. 50, H. 7, 2002, pp. 622-631; The unwilling Frankfurt prosecution. Hesse's attorney general Fritz Bauer had to overcome many obstacles before the Auschwitz trial could begin. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. December 19, 2003, No. 296, p. 8; also in: Newsletter. No. 26, Fall 2004, pp. 13-16; On unsteady ground. Exculpation of perpetrators and commemoration of victims 40 years after the judgment in the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. August 19, 2005, No. 192, p. 7; also in: Newsletter. No. 27, Fall 2005, pp. 14-17.
  6. ↑ The Auschwitz Trial. Tape recordings, minutes and documents. Edited by the Fritz Bauer Institute and the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. DVD-ROM, digital library, volume 101, 48,794 screen pages, 504 images, 100 h audio files, Directmedia Publishing GmbH. Berlin 2004.
  7. ↑ Werner Renz: Fritz Bauer and the failure of the judiciary: Nazi trials and their "tragedy" . CEP European Publishing House: Hamburg, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86393-068-4 ; Werner Renz (Ed.): "Forsaken by God and the world." Fritz Bauer's letters to Thomas Harlan . Campus Verlag: Frankfurt am Main / New York, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86393-068-4 ; Fritz Bauer for the purpose of the Nazi trials. A reconstruction. In: Insight 07. Bulletin of the Fritz Bauer Institute. April 2012, pp. 40-46; Fritz Bauer and the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial. In: Fritz Bauer. The prosecutor. Nazi crimes in court. Edited by Fritz Backhaus, Monika Boll and Raphael Gross, Frankfurt am Main a. a .: Campus Verlag: Frankfurt am Main / New York, 2014, pp. 149–169; The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial: ›Rule of Law Procedure‹ or ›Criminal Law Theater‹? Can political education be provided with the help of the criminal justice system? In: Wolfgang Form, Theo Schiller, Lothar Seitz (Eds.), Nazi Justice in Hessen. Persecution, continuity, inheritance. Historical Commission for Hesse: Marburg, 2015, pp. 439–451; Reluctant public prosecutor. In: The time. June 28, 2018, No. 27, p. 12; Torn from oblivion only late. Fritz Bauer and his portrayal in the film. In: information. Scientific journal of the German Resistance Study Group 1933–1945. Vol. 40, No. 81, 2015, pp. 31-34; »Against the moral guards.« Fritz Bauer's criticism of the traditional sexual criminal law of the 1950s and 1960s. In: Jahrbuch Sexualitäten 2017. Ed. On behalf of the Queer Nations Initiative by Maria Borowski, Jan Feddersen, Benno Gammerl, Rainer Nicolaysen and Christian Schmelzer, Wallstein Verlag: Göttingen, 2017, pp. 70–93; In search of the right. Notes on the 50th anniversary of Fritz Bauer's death. In: Law and Politics. Journal for German and European legal policy. Vol. 54, H. 2, 2018, pp. 215-219; Fritz Bauer and the fame. In: Law and Politics. Journal for German and European legal policy. Vol. 55, H. 3, 2019, pp. 285-296; Notes on the kidnapping of Adolf Eichmann. In: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft , Vol. 67, H. 12, 2019, pp. 1031-1043.
  8. ^ Department of Holocaust Literature: Symposium on the farewell to Werner Renz. Nazi trials in a temporal longitudinal section | Holocaust literature department. Retrieved November 30, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Renz, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 1950