Wolfram Tschiche

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Wolfram Tschiche (born April 18, 1950 ) is a GDR civil rights activist , philosopher and Protestant theologian .

life and work

The son of the Protestant pastor Hans-Jochen Tschiche , who was critical of the system , has been active in the GDR since 1968 . He protested against the military intervention in the ČSSR and completed military service as a construction soldier . He was monitored by the Stasi while he was studying theology . The discussion group around Christoph Prüfer and Wolfram Tschiche in Halle , which the Stasi regarded as "subversive group formation", was broken up in 1973, Tschiche was arrested and interrogated overnight in the Roter Ochse prison . The next morning he was released and Christoph Prüfer was sentenced to five years in prison. Tschiche has been organizing illegal philosophical working groups since 1980 and in 1983 took part in actions of the peace movement such as the formation of a chain of lights between the American and Soviet embassies in Berlin and the fasting in the Church of the Redeemer : "We hunger for disarmament - fast for peace". He worked closely with Katja Havemann , both were observed by Section III of Main Department XX / 9 of the Stasi, Tschiche was listed under the name OV "Philosopher". He maintained contacts with Charter 77 and the Greens . He also put Rolf Henrich in contact with the opposition. With Ulrich Stockmann , he organized the summer and winter academies of the Solidarity Church from 1988 . In 1989 he was one of the editors of the samizdat magazine Ostkreuz: Politics, History, Culture .

During the peaceful revolution in the GDR , he was involved in the New Forum and in 1990 co-founded the Association for Political Education and Social Democracy in Weimar . From 1991 to 1992 he was the office manager of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Leipzig . The civil rights activist has been working in youth and adult education since 1993 and is a freelancer in political and philosophical education. Since 2008 he has also been organizing contemporary witness projects, especially with people from Eastern Europe.

Tschiche lives in Badingen (Bismark) .

Publications

  • Philosophy and Political Education in Resistance - Personal Experiences in the GDR , in: Carsten Passin, Wolfram Tschiche, Thomas Weiß: Democracy and Values: Practical Philosophizing with Young People , Working Group of German Educational Institutions , Bonn 1999, pp. 44–47 ( online ; PDF; 624 kB)
  • Democracy and human dignity - on the establishment of human rights in a European context , in: Carsten Passin, Wolfram Tschiche, Thomas Weiß: Democracy and Values: Practical Philosophizing with Young People , Working Group of German Educational Institutions , Bonn 1999, pp. 172–203 ( Online ; PDF; 624 kB)
  • Concepts of “civil society” of the Central and Eastern European dissident movement and opposition , in: Half-year publication for South-Eastern European history, literature and politics , 17 (2005) 1, pp. 77–81
  • Conceptions of “civil society” , in: Liberal - Vierteljahreshefte für Politik und Kultur 2/2005, pp. 40–45
  • Islam and human rights - an irrevocable contradiction , in: Liberal - Vierteljahreshefte für Politik und Kultur 3/2005, pp. 49–53
  • “Is happiness a matter of luck?” , In: Liberal - Vierteljahreshefte für Politik und Kultur 1/2006, pp. 63–67

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Dirk Wirausky: GDR opposition member reports to MCG students , Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , December 14, 2010
  2. Harald Schultze, Waltraut Zachhuber: Espionage against a church leadership: Detlef Hammer - Stasi officer in the Magdeburg Consistory: Talks, documents, research, comments , Evangelical Office Saxony-Anhalt, 1995, pp. 10-12, 87-89
  3. ^ Notes , online catalog on bohemia and dictatorship in the GDR. Groups conflicts quarters. 1970-1989 , exhibition by the German Historical Museum from September 4 to December 16, 1997
  4. Wolfram Tschiche: The Czechs Were My Destiny - On the personal and historical significance of the “Prague Spring” 1968. In: Erinnern! Task, opportunity, challenge 2/2018 of the Sachsen-Anhalt Memorials Foundation , pp. 1–16
  5. rallies, parties, castle whispers , online catalog to Boheme and dictatorship in East Germany. Groups conflicts quarters. 1970-1989 , exhibition by the German Historical Museum from September 4 to December 16, 1997
  6. ^ A b Thomas Klein : "Peace and Justice": the politicization of the Independent Peace Movement in East Berlin during the 1980s , Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar 2007, ISBN 3412025062 , p. 168 ff.
  7. Katja Havemann, Joachim Widmann: Robert Havemann, or, How the GDR took care of itself , Ullstein Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3550075707 , p. 355 f.
  8. ^ Thomas Auerbach , Matthias Braun, Bernd Eisenfeld , Gesine von Prittwitz, Clemens Vollnhals : Main Department XX: State Apparatus, Block Parties, Churches, Culture, “Political Underground” (MfS Handbook). Ed. BStU. Berlin 2008. pp. 165, 168 ( online )
  9. ^ A b Leonore Ansorg: The land is still - still !: Change of rule and political opposition in the GDR (1971-1989) , Zeithistorische Studien Vol. 40, Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar, 2009, ISBN 3412143065 , pp. 333, 345 f ., 388; limited preview in Google Book search
  10. Walter Süß : Staatssicherheit am Ende: why the powerful did not succeed in preventing a revolution in 1989 , Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 386153181X , p. 202
  11. Joachim Goertz: The Solidarity Church in the GDR: Experiences, memories, findings , BasisDruck, 1999, ISBN 3861630990 , pp. 169, 178
  12. ^ Siegfried Lokatis, Ingrid Sonntag: Secret Readers in the GDR: Control and Distribution of Forbidden Literature , Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 352
  13. Henning Fülle: Heaven on Earth? Origin, structure, working methods of the political foundations close to green , Stiftungsverband Regenbogen eV, Hein, Dortmund 1992, p. 151
  14. Peter Lindner: Preacher in the dispute of historians , Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , June 7, 2009
  15. Hannes Harthun: heater and Porter edited poems and texts , popular vote 15 November, 2011