Special edition of the standard work on the life and work of Fritz Bauer
Appears 2023Life, work and impact of the jurist and advocate for human rights Fritz Bauer.
Special edition in the Library of Literature and Human Rights
The biography of Fritz Bauer in the Library of Literature and Human Rights places the jurist alongside the international lawyers and fighters for human rights of significant standing – a place he was denied much too long.
About the author
Irmtrud Wojak is executive director of the Fritz Bauer Forum and the Buxus Foundation. She is a historian, author and curator. Her research focuses on contemporary legal history, exile and political “cultures of memory,” and a historiography that understands and explores resistance as a struggle for human rights. As a Frieda L. Miller Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (Harvard University), she examined the resilience of individuals who, in the face of prevailing bias and political discrimination, maintain a standpoint based on legal norms and compassion. In 2004, I. Wojak curated the first major exhibition on the Auschwitz trial, and in 2009 she published the authoritative Fritz Bauer biography. In 2008, she completed her habilitation and received her venia legendi at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hannover. Until 2005, she was deputy director at the Fritz Bauer Institute in Frankfurt. She was head of the Historical Department of the International Tracing Service (Bad Arolsen) 2007/08 and founding director of the “NS-Dokumentationszentrum” Munich 2009-2011.
I. Wojak has published numerous monographs, scholarly articles and translations, she is co-editor of the “Library Literature and Human Rights” and editor of the “Fritz Bauer Library”.
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