Bärbel Bohley
Bärbel Bohley (24 May 1945 – 11 September 2010) was an East German opposition figure and artist.
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Bärbel Bohley
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- Born
- 24 May 1945
- Birthplace
- Berlin, Germany
- Died
- 11 September 2010
- Education
- Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin (Dipl.)
- Occupation
- Artist, human rights activist
- Nationality
- Germany · German Democratic Republic
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• Born — 24 May 1945 • Birthplace — Berlin, Germany • Died — 11 September 2010 • Education — Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin (Dipl.) • Occupation — Artist, human rights activist • Years Active — 1980 — 2010
Documentary record
Bärbel Bohley, a civil rights activist, painter, graphic artist and pacifist, was born on 24 May 1945 in Berlin and died on 11 September 2010 in Strasburg (Uckermark). Both events are recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
Biography
Biography
As an artist, Bohley won prizes from the authorities, including a trip to the Soviet Union. Her opposition to the government did not start until the 1980s. In 1983 she was expelled from the GDR artists federation (VBK) and was banned from travelling abroad or exhibiting her work in East Germany. She was accused of having contacts to the West German Green Party. In 1985 she was one of the co-founders of the Initiative for Peace and Human Rights. In 1988 she was arrested during a demonstration and expelled from the DDR. She was given a six-month visa to the United Kingdom, and she returned to East Germany that August. In 1989 she was one of the founders of New Forum. After the unification of Germany in 1990 she was involved in several court trials because she publicly proclaimed Gregor Gysi to have been a Stasi informer. Bohley spent several days in prison because she would neither publicly retract the statement nor pay a fine. One of her later projects was a group help project near Sarajevo, where she put great effort into building homes in order to enable refugees to return after the armed conflicts in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Bärbel Bohley died on 11 September 2010 of lung cancer.
Selected works
Selected works
• "'Es gibt keine wichtigen und unwichtigen Menschen in der Revolution' – 20 Jahre Mauerfall", in: Robertson-von Trotha, Caroline Y. (eds): Herausforderung Demokratie. Demokratisch, parlamentarisch, gut? (= Kulturwissenschaft interdisziplinär/Interdisciplinary Studies on Culture and Society, Vol. 6), Baden-Baden 2011
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For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. ADN- Thomas Lehmann 4.11.90
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1945
Bärbel Bohley was born on 24 May 1945.
2006
2006 • Bärbel Bohley • Vortrag an der Universität Augsburg (2006) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
2007
2007 • Bärbel Bohley • Vortrag am German Historical Institute in Washington (2007) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
2010
Bärbel Bohley died on 11 September 2010.
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- 1., abgerufen am 4. Oktober 2010.
- 2.Todesanzeige
- 3.Gran, P.: Bärbel Bohley gestorben, DW 11.09.2010
- 4.FAZ, 4. April 2009, S. Z4.
- 5.Bärbel Bohley: 20 Jahre NEUES FORUM. Abgerufen am 30. November 2011.
- 6.superillu.de. Bärbel Bohley: Krebs-Schock!.
- 7.Krebsleiden: DDR-Bürgerrechtlerin Bärbel Bohley ist tot. Spiegel Online, abgerufen am 11. September 2010.
- 8.Renate Oschlies: Einfach frei leben. In: Berliner Zeitung, 27. September 2010, S. 3.
- 9.Stern, Trauergottesdienst für Bärbel Bohley vom 27. September 2010
- 10.Grab von Bärbel Bohley. knerger.de
- 11.Nachruf: Bärbel Bohley gestorben, Deutsche Welle, 11. September 2010, abgerufen am 17. September 2010.
- 12.Heidi Bohley auf memoryofnations.eu anlässlich der Nominierung für den Memory of Nations Award
- 13.Vgl. auch: DIE WESPEN. Ein Dokumentarfilm über die Frauen für den Frieden Halle/DDR. Buch und Gespräche: Ingrid Miethe, Kamera: Julia Kunert, Regie: Teodora Ansaldo / Julia Kunert. LA LONTRA Film- und Videoproduktion, Deutschland 1996.
- 14.Beispiele, wie sie überwacht wurde, und zugleich Abhörprotokolle, die Bohleys politische Haltungen veranschaulichen, enthält: Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk, Arno Polzin (Hrsg.): Fasse dich kurz! Der grenzüberschreitende Telefonverkehr der Opposition in den 1980er Jahren und das Ministerium für Staatssicherheit. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-525-35115-4.
- 15., abgerufen am 19. September 2010.
- 16.Alpha-Forum: Bärbel Bohley im Gespräch mit Ernst Emrich. (PDF) Bayerischer Rundfunk, 18. September 2001, abgerufen am 22. September 2013.
- 17.Gerald Praschl: In: Super-Illu, 13. September 2010, abgerufen am 17. September 2010.
- 18.Irena Kukutz: Chronik der Bürgerbewegung Neues Forum 1989–1990, herausgegeben von der Robert-Havemann-Gesellschaft e. V., Basisdruck-Verlag Berlin, 2009, ISBN 978-3-86163-065-4, S. 252.
- 19.Chronik der Bürgerbewegung NEUES FORUM 1989–1990, abgerufen am 17. September 2010.
- 20.Renate Oschlies: Dem Herzen trauen. In: Berliner Zeitung, 13. September 2010; Nachruf.
- 21.Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk, Tom Sello (Hrsg.): Für ein freies Land mit freien Menschen. Opposition und Widerstand in Biographien und Fotos. Robert-Havemann-Gesellschaft, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-938857-02-1, S. 309.
- 22.Bästlein, Klaus. „Meine Akte gehört mir!“. Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung. 2011-02-08.
- 23.Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk, „Wir wollten Gerechtigkeit und bekamen den Rechtsstaat“ – der berühmte Ausspruch der Bürgerrechtlerin Bärbel Bohley wird bis heute zitiert. Dabei hat sie ihn nie gesagt, In: FAZ vom 21. September 2020. Die in diesem Artikel von Kowalczuk aufgestellte Behauptung, das Bohley-Zitat sei „eine Erfindung des (westdeutschen) Journalisten Andreas Zielcke“, wurde von der FAZ in der Ausgabe vom 10. Oktober 2020 widerrufen. In dem Artikel heißt es: „Das ist falsch. Andreas Zielcke hat den Satz nicht erfunden“.
- 24.Eine ausführliche Quellenkritik des Bohley-Zitats findet sich bei Patrick Bahners, Gerechtigkeit und Rechtsstaat – Noch einmal zum Ausspruch von Bärbel Bohley. Eine quellenkritische Untersuchung, in: FAZ vom 12. Oktober 2020.
- 25.Absolut geschmacklos. 1999. 37.
- 26.Website des Bürgerbüros.
- 27.Bärbel Bohley: 28 Zisternen Trinkwasser für Domanovici in BiH (offizielle Website)
- 28.Verein, Seestern e. V., Balkan, Homepage. www.baerbelbohley.de.
- 29.Kritik an Schabowski wegen Unterstützung der Berliner CDU. In: Die Welt
- 30.Künstlerischer Nachlass
- 31.Datenbank der Träger des Bundesverdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bundespräsidialamt
- 32.Stiftung, Eugen Bolz. Eugen-Bolz-Preis Träger. www.eugen-bolz-stiftung.de.
- 33.baerbel-bohley. Bärbel Bohley. Irmgard Zündorf.
- 34.Bärbel Bohley Malerei und Grafik.
- 35.Bärbel Bohley-die KÜnstlerin. Grafik und Zeichnung.
- 36.Bärbel Bohley lebte für die Freiheit. zeit.de, 11. September 2010 – Die Freie – Bärbel Bohley ist tot. tagesspiegel.de, 11. September 2010
- 37.Sie gab dem Widerstand in der DDR ein Gesicht faz.net, 11. September 2010
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