Brigitte Oleschinski
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Brigitte Oleschinski | |
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 Oleschinski at a poetry festival in Berlin, 2023 | |
| Born | 1955 (age 70–71) |
| Education | Political science |
| Alma mater | Free University of Berlin |
| Notable awards | |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | German Resistance Memorial Center |
Brigitte Oleschinski (born August 10, 1955, in Cologne) is a German political scientist and poet.[1]
Oleschinski studied political science at the Free University of Berlin. In 1993 she received her doctorate in philosophy with a thesis on the history of prison chaplaincy in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. In 1990, she worked at the German Resistance Memorial Centre in Berlin. In 1992, she was one of the co-founders of the Erinnerungsort Torgau. Justizunrecht - Diktatur - Widerstand, for which she published and edited several historical essays. She now lives in Berlin.[2]
In addition to her work as a contemporary historian, Oleschinski has been publishing poems and essays since 1990.
Angelika Overath described her in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung as "one of the important new voices in German-language poetry".[3]
Oleschinski holds the view that the meanings and effects of poems do not arise from the intention of the writer, but arise individually in each recipient. Poems are, she believes, latent energies that are released by engaging with them.[3]
Oleschinski has been a member of the PEN Centre Germany since 1998.
Awards
Oleschinski has received awards for her lyrical work, including the Bremen Poetry Prize. 1998 the Bremen Literature Prize and the Peter Huchel Prize, 2001 the Ernst Meister Prize for Poetry and 2004 the Erich Fried Prize.[4]
