Wolf Oschlies

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Wolf Oschlies (right) with Savo Kostadinovski in 2014

Wolf Oschlies (born September 29, 1941 in Königsberg ) is a German political scientist and journalist .

Life

He lived in the GDR until his Abitur and fled to the Federal Republic in 1959. After studying Slavic Studies , Philosophy and Educational Science in Hamburg , Oschlies worked for the German government's foreign policy think tanks , including at the Federal Institute for Eastern and International Studies in Cologne, most recently at the Science and Politics Foundation (SWP) in 2001/02 . In 1977 he completed his habilitation at the University of Giessen , where he taught as a professor until 2006. Today Oschlies is mainly active as a journalist, among other things he writes regularly for the online magazine Eurasisches Magazin , for the Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung , for Compact and for the newspapers for German and international politics .

Wolf Oschlies has published numerous publications on the history, politics and culture of the Balkan countries. His textbook on the Macedonian language is one of the few German-language textbooks on this Balkan-Slavic language. For years he has been involved in the Munzinger Archive's “Country Profiles” project with articles on Serbia , Macedonia , Montenegro and Moldova , which he is constantly updating. Wolf Oschlies also wrote numerous articles in the Biographical-Bibliographical Church Lexicon (BBKL).

Fonts (selection)

  • The Sorbs, Slavic people in eastern Germany . Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bonn 1990, ISBN 3-926132-45-0 .
  • Textbook of the Macedonian language in 50 lessons . Sagner, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-87690-983-7 .
  • Mother Teresa - The youth in Skopje . Wieser, Klagenfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-85129-828-4 .
  • Aeroflot to Zar. A cheerful non-fiction book on the 222 Russian words that ALL Germans know. Illustrations by Shenja Sidorkin . Wieser, Klagenfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-85129-889-5 .
  • Introduction . In: Georgi Markov : Reports from afar. Eyewitness accounts from post-war Bulgaria. Translated from Bulgarian by Wolf Oschlies. Wieser, Klagenfurt 2014, ISBN 978-3-99029-094-1 .
  • The European alphabet Cyrilliza. 1100 years of adventure of a font . Wieser, Klagenfurt, 2015, ISBN 978-3-99029-164-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Wolf Oschlies
  2. ^ Notes from a mausoleum by Judith Leister in the NZZ on October 30, 2014.