Minka Pradelski

Minka Pradelski (* 1947 in Zeilsheim, Frankfurt am Main ) is a German writer, journalist and filmmaker.

Life

Minka Pradelski was born in 1947 in a camp for displaced persons in Frankfurt am Main. Her parents were Holocaust escape - her father as a survivor of the Ghetto Lodz, her mother as so-called illegals with false papers. 1952 Germany left the family with the goal of New York, but after a stopover in Montreal, they returned to Frankfurt am Main. Pradelski put her high school diploma from the Frankfurt School Elizabeth school.

After studying sociology at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main Pradelski works from 1983 to 1987 as a research assistant with Prof. Clemens de Boor ( Sigmund -Freud- Institut) in the project after effects of massive trauma suffered by Jewish survivors of the Nazi period.

From 1988 to 1994 Pradelski oversaw the public relations for the Central Welfare Office of Jews in Germany. She is also a volunteer for various social committees of the Jewish Community of Frankfurt am Main and can look back on a volunteer activity for the Steven Spielberg Shoah Foundation.

Her novel " And there came Mrs. Ball Man " also appeared as an audio book with Iris Berben, and was translated into Dutch. The book was in the ZDF series Read 2005! presented and discussed in the FAZ and the NZZ.

Works

Essays and books

  • Ghetto Theresienstadt: Caring between life and death. - An interview with Simon Trude son and Minka Pradelski. In: tzedakah - Jewish social work in changing times. Jewish Museum, Frankfurt am Main 1992. ISBN 3-9802125-4-8.
  • And then came woman ball man. Frankfurt publishing house, Frankfurt am Main, 2005. ISBN 978-3-627-00123-0. (Novel)

Movies

  • Stalin had our hearts broken - Jewish comrades in the young GDR. Documentary, 52 minutes, Germany 2000 Directed and produced. Pradelski Minka and Eduard Erne. ( As a television report shortened to 45 minutes in 2003 by the NDR broadcast. )
  • The ghosts of the past - about the forgotten victims of the GDR. Documentary, 30 minutes, Germany 2001. A film by Eduard Erne and Minka Pradelski. ( Original Air Date NDR, sent, among others, on 29 September 2002 Phoenix)
  • Tzedakah: Jewish integration work in Germany. Documentary, 60 minutes, Germany 2004 Director:. Pradelski Minka and Eduard Erne. ( Aired among other things, on March 14, 2004 Phoenix)
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