Victor Klemperer (9 October 1881 – 11 February 1960) worked as a commercial apprentice, a journalist and eventually a Professor of Literature, specialising in the French Enlightenment at the Technische Universität Dresden. His diaries detailing his life under successive German states -the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic- were published in 1995. His recollections on the Third Reich have since become standard sources; extensively quoted by Saul Friedlander, Michael Burleigh and Richard J. Evans.
geboren am 23. Dezember 1953 in Berlin wohnhaft in Berlin und Brandenburg Studium der Chemie und Biologie an der Freien Universität Berlin, Diplombiologe, Forschungstätigkeit, Arbeit als ökologischer Gutachter und Lehrbeauftragter
1986-1991 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Biologie der TU Berlin, Arbeitsschwerpunkte Zoologie (Insekten, Käfer) und Ökologie, Lehrtätigkeit
1991 Promotion zum Dr. rer. nat. mit einer agrarökologischen Arbeit über Nebenwirkungen von Pflanzenschutzmitteln auf Bodentiere, zahlreiche wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen
1992-1995 Koordinator und Bearbeiter einer zoologischen Bestandsaufnahme („Monitoring“) aller Naturschutzgebiete von (West-)Berlin im Auftrag der Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung und Um
Klaus Theweleit is a German sociologist and writer.
Theweleit studied German studies and English studies in Kiel and Freiburg. From 1969-1972, he worked as a freelancer for a public radio station (Südwestfunk).
His book Männerphantasien (1977); translated as Male Fantasies (1987), a study of the fascist consciousness in general and the bodily experience of these former soldiers in particular, easily detected in their hatefilled, near-illiterate books, was well received and much discussed.
Theweleit writes in a non orthodox, highly personal and associative style. His book are heavily illustrated with cartoons, advertisements, engravings, posters and artwork.
Theweleit lives in Freiburg, he teaches in Germany, the United States, Switzerland, and
Lutz Seiler grew up in the Langenberg district of Gera, Thuringia (former East Germany). After training as a skilled building construction worker, he worked as a bricklayer and carpenter. During his national service in the National People’s Army (NVA) of the DDR, he started to take an interest in literature and wrote his first poems. In the summer of 1989 Seiler worked as a seasonal employee on the island of Hiddensee, a popular former East German holiday resort located west of the island of Rügen off the north-eastern coast of Germany, an experience that later formed the basis of his first novel published in 2014, Kruso. Seiler read German Studies at the universities of Halle (Saale) and Berlin up to 1990. His 2014 debut novel, Kruso, won nu
