Daniela Dahn

Daniela Dahn, born Daniela Gerstner, even Daniela Zimmer (born 9 October 1949 in Berlin ) is a German journalist and writer with a focus on essay writing.

Life

Daniela Dahn is a daughter of the journalist Karl -Heinz Gerstner and the set designer ( DEFA ) and fashion journalist Sibylle ground - Gerstner, founder of the East German fashion magazine " Sibylle ". Her younger sister was Sonja Gerstner. At the age of nine she took under her birth name Daniela Gerstner the main role in DEFA children's film An unusual day.

Daniela Dahn studied until 1973 at the Department of Journalism in Leipzig and afterwards worked as a television journalist with the youth television and the business magazine Prism. In 1981, she announced, " so as not to lose self-respect ." Since 1982 she works as a freelance writer. Dahn, 1989 was one of the founders of the GDR opposition group Democratic Awakening. She later retired to his approach to the CDU it back. She was also a member of the Commission of Inquiry on the police raids on 7 and 8 October, 1989 in Berlin.

Dahn made ​​several lecture tours in the United States and lectured at various universities.

The PDS presented Dahn 1998 as one of their two candidates for the office of Constitutional Court judge in Brandenburg, in December she missed in the Brandenburg state parliament but the required two- thirds majority. Originally candidacy Dahn was welcomed in the SPD, but made, among other things, the then SPD parliamentary leader Wolfgang Birthler soon numerous allegations. For example, fake quotes were used against Dahn and made ​​her the reproach of having downplayed the Waldheim processes. Prime Minister Manfred Stolpe (SPD ) spoke out for, however, Dahn.

She is a member of the writers' association PEN and belongs to the Advisory Board of the Humanist Union. In addition, Dahn was co-editor of the weekly newspaper Friday and the official Mitunterstützerin monitoring critical Privacy demonstration Freedom not fear. She is also deputy chairman of the Willy -Brandt- circle and a member of the International Commission of Inquiry on "Fundamental Rights and Globalization". Her husband Joochen Laabs was 1999-2001 Vice President of the PEN center of Germany. Dahn's daughter is the director Laura Laabs.

Works

  • Prenzlauer Berg tour. Means German Verlag Halle / Leipzig, 1987, ISBN 3-354-00139-9. Neuausg. Random House, Berlin, 2001. ISBN 9783871344305
  • We will stay here or Who owns the East. Political non-fiction, Reinbek 1994, ISBN 3-499-13423-3
  • Westward and not forgotten. From the discomfort in the unit. Essay. Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-499-60341-1
  • Expulsion from paradise. Untimely texts at the time. Essays. Reinbek 1998, ISBN 3-499-22379-1
  • In good shape. How much criticism needs democracy? Essay and documentation, Reinbek 1999, ISBN 3-499-22709-6
  • Ifs and buts. Incitements to contradiction. Essays. Reinbek 2002, ISBN 3-499-61458-8
  • Democratic demolition, From ruins and taboos. Essays, Reinbek 2005, ISBN 3-499-61973-3
  • Woe to the victors! Without East No West. Rowohlt, 2009, ISBN 978-3-498-01329-5
  • We are the government! . Rowohlt, 2013, ISBN 978-3-498-01333-2
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