Wieland gable

Wieland Giebel (born February 12, 1950 in Schmalkalden ) is a German author , publisher , editor , journalist , translator and photographer . In 2005 he founded Berlin Story Verlag .

Life

At the age of two, Giebel and his parents moved to Kassel in the Federal Republic of Germany . In Kassel he attended the humanistic grammar school and passed his Abitur there in 1970 . In 1971 he was one of the founders of the Elefanten Press publishing house . From 1971 to 1973 Giebel was federal managing director of the Association of Conscientious Objectors . From 1973 to 1976 he studied law at the University of Bochum and from 1987 to 1988 at the University of Münster Ecotrophology . In 1976 he organized a tour of revolutionary Portuguese soldiers through 50 German garrison towns, and from 1977 to 1981 tours for Irish freedom fighters. From 1976 to 1983 he worked as a warehouse worker and forklift driver in a television factory in Bochum .

From 1983 to 1986 he worked as a development worker for rural development in Rwanda . From 1987 to 1990 he worked as a freelance journalist for public radio and in 1989 for the daily newspaper taz in Berlin. Giebel also wrote as an author and translator for publishers such as DuMont , Bertelsmann , Brockhaus , Weltbild , Ravensburger and Luchterhand . From 1989 to 1990 Giebel was a consultant for the European Parliament and dealt with the environmental inventory in the GDR .

Giebel worked for travel book publisher APA Guides in Singapore from 1990 to 1993 as managing editor and publisher. In 1997 he opened the Berlin Story bookstore in Berlin . In 2002 Giebel produced the film The Making of Berlin , which was released on DVD in ten languages. In 2005 he founded the Berlin Story Verlag, which mainly has literature on the history of Berlin and National Socialism in its program. From 2006 to 2012, the Historiale association he founded held an annual history festival with up to 90,000 visitors. Evening dinner shows were held in the Berlin Story Salon Theater Unter den Linden from 2008 to 2011. After several moves and the bankruptcy of the bookstore, café and dinner show theater in early 2011, the three Berlin Story stores were housed on Unter den Linden 10 and 40 until the end of 2016. The Berlin Story Museum, designed by Giebel in 2010, is located in the Berlin Story Bunker, the original Anhalter Hochbunker Berlin at the Anhalter Bahnhof . The museum is the only one in Berlin to show the entire history of the city as a continuous narrative from its beginnings to the present day. Since October 2016, the history bunker has also been offering the documentary Hitler - how could it happen? Over three floors, curated by Giebel .  with 350,000 visitors in 2019. In this bunker from the Nazi era, the most extensive exhibition on National Socialism with audio guide in eight languages ​​turns against racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia.

Giebel works on a voluntary basis in numerous associations, including Historiale eV (as chairman of the board) and the friends and supporters of the Stadtmuseum Berlin .

Personal

Giebel has three grown children.

He wrote travel diaries about his trips to Turkey , Syria , Iran and Iraq from 2006 to 2009 and to the Arabian Peninsula in 2013 , which he published on the Internet.

Works (selection)

author

• Three times Berlin - earlier, divided, today - then, divided, now , Berlin Story Verlag , Berlin 2014, together with Norman Bösch; ISBN 978-3-95723-030-0 .
• 1945 in Berlin. Berlin Story Verlag, Berlin 2014; ISBN 978-3-95723-001-0 . (also published as Italian and Russian editions)
• Change in flight - Berlin's change after the fall of the Berlin Wall. (together with Robert Grahn ), Berlin Story Verlag, Berlin 2014; ISBN 978-3-95723-009-6 .
• 1933−45, 1945−89, Berlin, National Socialism, Cold War. Berlin-Story-Verlag, Berlin 2013; ISBN 978-3-86368-118-0 . (also published as an English edition)
• In the sky of Berlin and Potsdam - aerial photographs. (together with Dirk Laubner), Berlin Story Verlag, Berlin 2013; ISBN 978-3-86368-099-2 .
• GDR in Color - East Berlin 1960−1989. (together with Klaus Morgenstern), Berlin-Story-Verlag, Berlin 2013; ISBN 978-3-86368-074-9 .
• Night over Berlin - the shining capital from above. (together with Robert Grahn ), Berlin Story Verlag, Berlin 2013; ISBN 978-3-86368-122-7 .
• Berlin today. [Book and DVD] (together with Ron Mertiny and Bernd Papenfuß), Berlin-Story-Verlag, Berlin 2012; ISBN 978-3-86368-066-4 . (also published as English, Spanish, French, Italian and Dutch editions)
• Hitler's terror in Berlin - the brown violence in pictures. Berlin-Story-Verlag, Berlin 2012; ISBN 978-3-86368-065-7 .
• Berlin History , Berlin Story Verlag , Berlin 2009; ISBN 978-3-95723-011-9 . (also published as English, Dutch, Spanish, French, Russian, Polish and Italian editions)
• Berlin. DuMont-Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2009; ISBN 978-3-7701-6407-3 . (published in 5 editions, also in Denmark and the Netherlands)
• Hikes in the Mark Brandenburg. Steiger, Augsburg 1997; ISBN 3-89652-063-6 .
• Kassel. Dubilski, Berlin 1992; ISBN 3-929100-00-2 .
• A peaceful place Otto Maier Verlag, Ravensburg 1991; ISBN 3-47335-106-7 . Joan Lingard , Tales from Northern Ireland, epilogue to the youth novel
• Over the barricades Otto Maier Verlag, Ravensburg 1990; ISBN 3-47335-081-8 . Joan Lingard , Tales from Northern Ireland, epilogue to the youth novel
• The twelfth of July Otto Maier Verlag, Ravensburg 1989; ISBN 3-47335-079-6 . Joan Lingard , Tales from Northern Ireland, epilogue to the youth novel
• The Short Life of Brian Stewart - Everyday Life in the Irish Civil War. Elefanten-Press-Verlag, Berlin 1981; ISBN 3-88520-051-1 .
• Don't go back - The story of an escape Weismann Verlag, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-921040-10-8 . Nigel Gray , documentary report on the situation in Northern Ireland

editor

• I met Hitler - Karl Höffkes' interviews with contemporary witnesses. Berlin Story Verlag , Berlin 2020; ISBN 978-3-95723-153-6 .
• Why I became a Nazi - biographies of former National Socialists. Berlin Story Verlag , Berlin 2018; ISBN 978-3-95723-129-1 .
• The mara - the life of a famous singer. Berlin Story Verlag , Berlin 2012; ISBN 978-3-86368-045-9
• Bombs on Berlin - contemporary witnesses report on the air war. Berlin Story Verlag, Berlin 2012; ISBN 978-3-86368-079-4 .
• The brown Berlin. Berlin Story Verlag, Berlin 2012; ISBN 978-3-86368-064-0 .
• Goebbels' propaganda “The Awakening Berlin”. Berlin Story Verlag, Berlin 2012; ISBN 978-3-86368-071-8 .
• Die Mara - The life of a famous singer , Berlin Story Verlag, Berlin 2012; by Rosa Kaulitz-Niedeck; ISBN 978-3-86368-045-9 .
• The prima donna of Frederick the Great , Berlin Story Verlag, Berlin 2011, by Oskar Anwand ; ISBN 978-3-86368-043-5 .
• The old Fritz in fifty pictures for young and old , Berlin Story Verlag, Berlin 2011, by Richard Knötel (illustrator), Carl Röchling (illustrator); ISBN 978-3-86368-042-8 .
• Special Services Tour of Berlin 1950 , together with Norman Bösch, Berlin Story Verlag , Berlin 2010; ISBN 978-3-86855-041-2 .
• Correspondence with Friedrich II / Francesco Algarotti. Berlin Story Verlag, Berlin 2008; ISBN 978-3-929829-59-4 .
• Berlin then and now. Berlin Story Verlag, Berlin 2007; ISBN 978-3-86368-028-2 .
• The equestrian monument of Frederick the Great. Berlin Story Verlag, Berlin 2007; ISBN 978-3-929829-69-3 .
• The diaries of Count Lehndorff - The secret records of the Chamberlain of Queen Elisabeth Christine. Berlin Story Verlag, Berlin 2007; ISBN 978-3-929829-52-5 .
• The French in Berlin - 1806-1808. Berlin Story Verlag, Berlin 2006; ISBN 978-3-929829-41-9 .
• Frederick the Great and his Court - Personal memories of a 20 year stay in Berlin / by Dieudonné Thiébault. Berlin Story Verlag, Berlin 2005; ISBN 978-3-86368-049-7 .
• Sixty-nine years at the Prussian Court - From the memories of the Chief Chamberlain Sophie Marie Countess von Voss. Berlin Story Verlag, Berlin 2005; ISBN 978-3-86368-092-3 .
• Frankfurt & surroundings. Reise- und Verkehrsverlag, Munich 1993; ISBN 3-575-21048-9 .
• Dresden. Reise- und Verkehrsverlag, Munich 1992; ISBN 3-575-21034-9 .

Movies

• Everything about Berlin , Berlin Story Verlag, Berlin 2014; ISBN 978-3-95723-051-5 . with the films The Making of Berlin, The Berlin Wall and Berlin Today
• Berlin today , Berlin Story Verlag, Berlin 2012; ISBN 978-3-86368-066-4 . German and English, text and direction
• The Berlin Wall 1961-1989 , Berlin Story Verlag, Berlin 2010; ISBN 978-3-95723-039-3 . DVD in German and English
• The Making of Berlin , Berlin Story Verlag, Berlin 2002; ISBN 978-3-95723-033-1 . Updates to 2014; DVD in ten languages ​​(German, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Danish, Russian, Turkish, Chinese)

cards

• Berlin 1933-45, 1945-89, National Socialism, Cold War , Berlin Story Verlag, Berlin 2013; ISBN 978-3-86368-118-0 .

Web links

• Works by and about Wieland Giebel  in the German Digital Library
• Berlin Story portal page
• Travels and reports from Wieland Giebel
• Portrait of Wieland Giebel in Der Tagesspiegel
• Article about Wieland Giebel and the future projects in the Berliner Zeitung
• Article on Wieland Giebel's 60th birthday in Buchmarkt (trade journal)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mao Project From 1973 to 1983 Giebel was organized in the Bochum Communist Group