Zsuzsa Breier

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Zsuzsa Breier (also Susanne Breier ; born 1963 in Budapest ) is a German-Hungarian literary scholar, diplomat, former State Secretary and author.

Life

Breier studied German, Slavic and cultural studies at the universities in Budapest and Heidelberg and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. She then worked as a lecturer at the Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest and was later given a teaching position at the Humboldt University in Berlin . Her main literary interests were in the authors Max Frisch and Botho Strauss ; She also translated essays by Peter Turrini , Paul Nizon , Peter Bichsel and Eveline Hasler into Hungarian. Breier was one of the initiators of the first young Germanist conference in Hungary and in 1998, together with Angelika Thumm and Edit Király, published the anthology "Memory in German-Language Literature". At the center of her literary research, Breier dealt primarily with the transformation of the urge for freedom in Eastern Europe before and after the fall of the Iron Curtain, thus connecting the very different histories of Eastern and Western Europe.

Breier is married to the former State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Health Thomas Ilka (FDP). She has five children.

Professional Activities

Diplomat

In 2000, she was supported by the Hungarian Ambassador Gergely Pröhle the head of the cultural department of the Hungarian embassy called and member of the Political Department. In 2002 she founded the "Circle of Cultural Diplomats Berlin". In 2004 she left the diplomatic service . In this context, the FDP politician Wolfgang Gerhardt described her as “a woman with culture” and a “whirling manager”. The Tagesspiegel ruled by Breier retirement, she had "made the Hungarian embassy to a place cultural influence" in their term of office.

Cultural Year of the Ten

As a cultural attaché in Germany, Breier initiated and organized the “Cultural Year of the Ten” in 2004, a joint festival of the ten new EU countries under the patronage of the Federal Government's Cultural Commissioner Christina Weiss and Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer , for which Breier also won Manfred Eichel as co-organizer could. For one year, more than 500 authors, composers, musicians, artists, politicians and young talents from Eastern Europe came together in Germany in 60 dialogue events.

State Secretary

In May 2012, Breier was appointed State Secretary for European Affairs in the Justice, Integration and European Ministry of the Hessian state government led by Jörg-Uwe Hahn (FDP) . Breier, which was previously independent in Germany, then joined the FDP . Breier was the first State Secretary in Germany who was not a German citizen. With the end of the Bouffier I cabinet , Breier also left office in 2014.

Criticism and debate in the Hessian state parliament

Before the swearing-in, the “ Die Linke ” and the Greens parliamentary group in the Hessian state parliament accused her of not having distanced herself enough from Viktor Orbán's anti- democratic tendencies . For the Hessian state government, State Minister Jörg-Uwe Hahn fully defended the state government's decision to appoint Breier as State Secretary.

Handelsblatt Global Edition

As managing director of Handelsblatt Global Edition, Breier was responsible for the development and expansion of the international edition of Handelsblatt in 2015 .

Author

As a Europe expert, Breier received an invitation from Stony Brook University in 2014 and supported the EuroPoint blog as a “distinguished guest” as part of the university's Globality Studies.

Breier has been working as a freelance writer since 2016.

Further commitment

Until 2011, Breier was a managing board member of the "Society for the Promotion of Culture in Extended Europe eV" in Berlin. Together with the chairman of the board of the society Adolf Muschg , she published the anthology "Freiheit, ach Freiheit" in 2011. The texts in the volume bear witness to the East-West dialogue initiated by Breier.

Breier was elected the FDP Bremen's top candidate for the 2019 European elections in November 2018 . At the European Party Congress in January 2019, she was voted 20th on the federal list.

Fonts

Monographs
  • Hungarian-German literature and its audience = A magyarországi németnyelvü irodalom és közönsége , Diss. Budapest 1988.
  • (Published under the name of Susanne Breier :) Search for real life and real self in the work of Max Frisch , Bern 1992.
Anthologies
  • Zsuzsa Breier; Edit Király; Angelika Thumm (Hrsg.): The memory in the German-language literature. Symposium of young Hungarian Germanists . Budapest: ELTE Germanistic Inst., 1998.
  • With Hermann Rudolph : Der Europa-Almanach , Bostelmann and Siebenhaar, Berlin 2005. ISBN 978-3-936962-27-7
  • Zs. With Adolf Muschg (Ed.): Freedom, oh freedom… United Europe - shared memory , Wallstein-Verl., Göttingen 2011. ISBN 978-3-8353-0955-5
items
  • Che on Giselle Bündchen's bikini . Two decades after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, socialism is becoming a fashionable accessory - tyranny and oppression are all too happy to be suppressed. In: Die Welt , June 24, 2008.

Web links

Commons : Zsuzsa Breier  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Germanist index : Zsuzsa Breier. Retrieved February 3, 2019 .
  2. ^ [1] Hermann Rudolph, Full storage room. What remains of Wendeglück, in: Tagesspiegel on October 30, 2011
  3. ↑ Christian Stang: Zsuzsa Breier new European State Secretary of the Hessian state government , in: Wiesbadener Kurier , May 14, 2012
  4. ↑ State Secretary for European Affairs: Dr. Zsuzsa Breier ( Memento from January 5, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  5. ^ Franziska v Mutius: Successful ambassador of the European idea . December 11, 2005 ( welt.de [accessed February 3, 2019]).
  6. ↑ A woman with culture. Retrieved February 3, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Tagesspiegel on August 28, 2004
  8. ^ Return to Europe: Cultural Year of the Ten Newcomers. Retrieved February 3, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Silvia Meixner: The Hungarian Zsuzsa Breier organizes the "Cultural Year of Ten" . July 10, 2004 ( welt.de [accessed February 3, 2019]).
  10. ↑ Culture tip of the month: Zsuzsa Breier is planning her September . In: Spiegel Online . August 30, 2004 ( spiegel.de [accessed February 3, 2019]).
  11. ↑ New State Secretary for Europe in Hesse: Dr. Zsuzsa Breier | Network EBD. Retrieved on February 3, 2019 (German).
  12. ↑ "The Hungarian Zsuzsa Breier has a unique selling point: She is the first State Secretary in Germany without a German passport", in: Cornelia von Wrangel: The Hungarian State Secretary , Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, October 7, 2012, p. 14.
  13. ↑ Plenary report of the left parliamentary group in the Hessian state parliament from 01.06.2012. Retrieved February 3, 2019 .
  14. ↑ https://www.gruene-hessen.de/landtag/pressemitteilungen/vorstellung-der-desi/
  15. ↑ Plenary report of the left parliamentary group in the Hessian state parliament from 01.06.2012. Retrieved February 3, 2019 .
  16. ^ German medium-sized businesses and Berlin hipsters. Retrieved on February 3, 2019 (German).
  17. ↑ On our own behalf: Handelsblatt now also in English. Retrieved February 3, 2019 .
  18. ^ Zsuzsa Breier: Mission Unaccomplished Yet - The Task of the Incoming European Commission. GSJ is published at Stony Brook University by the Stony Brook Institute for Global Studies (SBIGS), October 26, 2014, accessed February 3, 2019 .
  19. ↑ zsuzsa breier - biography, publications. Retrieved on February 3, 2019 (German).
  20. ^ German Cultural Forum for Eastern Europe. Retrieved February 3, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Zsuzsa Breier, Adolf Muschg: Freedom, oh freedom ...: United Europe - shared memory . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8353-0955-5 ( hsozkult.de [accessed on February 3, 2019]).
  22. ↑ D. Ruloff: Book review by: Zsuzsa Breier, Adolf Muschg (ed.), Freiheit, ach Freiheit. United Europe - shared memory, Göttingen. Wallstein, 2011, 247 p. In: Ruloff, D. Book review by: Zsuzsa Breier, Adolf Muschg (eds.), Freiheit, ach Freiheit. United Europe - shared memory, Göttingen. Wallstein, 2011, 247 p. In: NZZ am Sonntag, 48, 27 November 2011, p.22. No. 48 , November 27, 2011, ISSN  0376-6829 , p. 22 , doi : 10.5167 / uzh-56908 ( uzh.ch [accessed on February 3, 2019]).
  23. ↑ Press / press releases - FDP Bremen. Retrieved February 3, 2019 .
  24. ↑ Federal List of Free Democrats for the 2019 European Election. (No longer available online.) In: fdp.de. Free Democratic Party , archived from the original on January 30, 2019 ; accessed on January 30, 2019 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fdp.de
personal data
SURNAME Breier, Zsuzsa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Breier, Susanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest