Ralf Zerback (born 1961) is a German historian, [1] writer and author.
Ralf Zerback was born in Stuttgart. He studied history in Frankfurt and Heidelberg. He was a pupil of the historian Lothar Gall. He wrote his doctoral thesis about the bourgeoisie of Munich in the 19th century. Zerback works as a journalist for Die Zeit and author in Frankfurt. [2]
In 2022, he published Triumph der Gewalt: Drei deutsche Jahre 1932 bis 1934 on the Nazi's early reign of power in Germany. [3]
Alfred Kerr was an influential German theatre critic and essayist of Jewish descent, nicknamed the Kulturpapst.
Ernst Klee was a German journalist and author. As a writer on Germany's history, he was best known for his exposure and documentation of medical crimes in Nazi Germany, much of which was concerned with the Action T4 or involuntary euthanasia program. He is the author of "The Good Old Days": The Holocaust Through the Eyes of the Perpetrators and Bystanders first published in the English translation in 1991.
Reimar Oltmanns is a well-known journalist and author in Germany.
Otto Friedrich Bollnow was a German philosopher and teacher.
Eckhard Jesse is a German political scientist. Born in Wurzen, Saxony, he held the chair for "political systems and political institutions" at the Technical University of Chemnitz from 1993 to 2014. Jesse is one of the best known German political scholars in the field of extremism and terrorism studies. He has also specialized in the study of German political parties and the German political system.
Jochen Böhler is a German historian, specializing in the history of Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th century, especially the World Wars, the Holocaust, nationality and borderland studies. He is the recipient of several international awards. and known to a larger audience due to frequent appearances in TV productions and articles in national newspapers such as, for example, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung or DIE ZEIT. His main thesis on the beginning of WWII and the end of WWI in Eastern Europe has been discussed vividly in German, English, and Polish academic circles.
The Heyne Verlag is a German publisher based in Munich, which was founded in Dresden in 1934 and sold to Axel Springer in 2000. In 2004 it became part of Random House. Heyne was one of the largest publishing houses in Germany in 1999.
Volkslied is a genre of popular songs in German which are traditionally sung. While many of them were first passed orally, several collections were published from the late 18th century. Later, some popular songs were also included in this classification.
Germany saw significant political violence from the fall of the Empire and the rise of the Republic through the German Revolution of 1918–1919, until the rise of the Nazi Party to power with 1933 elections and the proclamation of the Enabling Act of 1933 that fully broke down all opposition. The violence was characterised by assassinations and by confrontations between right-wing groups such as the Freikorps, and left-wing organisations such as the Communist Party of Germany.
Jan Philipp Fürchtegott Reemtsma is a German literary scholar, author, and patron who founded and was the long-term director of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. Reemtsma lives and works mainly in Hamburg.
Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk is a German historian and author. His work is focused on the German Democratic Republic and its Ministry for State Security.
Die Zeit was a German language daily newspaper published in Prague, Czechoslovakia from 1935 to 1938. The newspaper was the central organ of the Sudeten German Party (SdP). The first issue came out on 1 October 1935. Die Zeit took over the role as the central party organ from the weekly Rundschau. Walter Brand was the editor-in-chief of Die Zeit.
Heiner Thiel is a German sculptor and curator. He is an exponent of concrete art.
Carolin Emcke is a German author and journalist who worked for Der Spiegel from 1998 to 2006, often writing from areas of conflicts. From 2007 to 2014, she worked as an international reporter for Die Zeit. Her book Echoes of Violence – Letters from a War Reporter was published in 2007 at Princeton University Press. In 2008, she published Stumme Gewalt, in 2013 How We Desire, in 2016 Against Hate, and in 2019 Yes means yes and.... Carolin Emcke was honoured with several awards such as the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels in 2016, and a Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in 2017.
Jürgen Becker is a German poet, prose writer and radio play author. He won the 2014 Georg Büchner Prize.
Walter Hinck was a German Germanist and writer. He was professor of German literature at the University of Cologne from 1964 to 1987.
Notker Hammerstein was a German historian. His research interests were mainly in the field of University history and history of science as well as the history of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.
Sigfried Asche was a German art historian and museum director.
Germany and Thailand share bilateral relations officially dating to 1858. Thailand has an embassy in Berlin, consulates generals in Frankfurt and Munich and Germany has an embassy in Bangkok.
Heide Gerstenberger is a German political scientist and economist. She has been Professor of Theory of Civil Society at the State at the University of Bremen since 1974. She was awarded emeritus status in 2005.