Marion Dönhoff
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Marion Hedda Ilse Gräfin von Dönhoff (2 December 1909 – 11 March 2002) was a German
Early life and ancestry
Dönhoff was born in
Biography
Marion studied economics at
In January 1945, as
In 1946, Dönhoff joined the fledgling, Hamburg-based intellectual weekly Die Zeit as political editor. In August 1954, she temporarily left the newspaper in protest against articles by Richard Tüngel, who had published, inter alia, a text of Nazi constitutional lawyer Carl Schmitt and went to London to work for The Observer. Soon afterwards, however, she returned to Hamburg, and was promoted to deputy editor-in-chief in 1955, then editor-in-chief in 1968, and publisher in 1972. She was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1990.[7]
She was involved in helping refugees settle in West Germany from East Germany and other parts of Europe.[6]
At the time of her death on 11 March 2002, aged 92, Dönhoff was still co-publisher of the influential newspaper. She was the author of more than twenty books, including political and historical analyses of Germany as well as commentary on U.S. foreign policy. Among many international distinctions, Dönhoff was awarded honorary doctorates by Columbia University[8] and Georgetown University.[citation needed]
Published works
English
- Foe into Friend: The Makers of the New Germany from Konrad Adenauer to Helmut Schmidt, translated by ISBN 0-312-29692-4
- "A UN Volunteer Force: The Prospects", New York Review of Books, 15 July 1993 (contributor)
German
- Namen die keiner mehr nennt, Eugen Diederichs Verlag, Köln 1962
- Amerikanische Wechselbäder : Beobachtungen und Kommentare aus vier Jahrzehnten, Stuttgart, 1983
- Weit ist der Weg nach Osten: Berichte und Betrachtungen aus fünf Jahrzehnten
- Kindheit in Ostpreußen, 1988
- Preußen—Maß und Maßlosigkeit, 1990
- Die Biene, Bibliogr. Inst. + Brockhaus, 1993; ISBN 3-411-08621-1
- Meyers Kleine Kinderbibliothek: Groß und Klein, Bibliographisches Institut & F.A. Brockhaus AG, 1993; ISBN 3-411-08641-6
- 'Um der Ehre willen', Erinnerungen an die Freunde vom 20 Juli., Berlin 1994,
Awards and honors
- 1971 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade
- 1982 Honorary Senator of the University of Hamburg
- 1990 Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1994 Four Freedoms Award for the Freedom of Speech[9]
- 1999 Honorary citizen of the city of Hamburg
References
- ^ Kilian Heck / Christian Thielemann (eds.): Friedrichstein. The castle of the Counts of Dönhoff in East Prussia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich and Berlin 2006 and 2019, ISBN 978-3-422-07361-6
- ^ https://www.geographie.hu-berlin.de/de/institut/direktorium_zentraledienste/zentrale_dienste/geodaten/kartensammlung/PFS/bfphtml/BFP074
- ISBN 0-394-58255-1.
- ^ "The Week in Germany for 15 March 2002 (Dönhoff obituary)". Germany-info.org. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
- ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-01-26.
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- ^ "D". Book of Members, 1780–2010 (PDF) (alphabetical list). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
- ^ "Complete List of Recipients (1945-Present)". Recipient List. Columbia University, Office of the Secretary. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
- ^ "Four Freedoms Awards - Roosevelt Institute". 1 November 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-11-01.
Bibliography
- Dönhoff, Marion Gräfin. 'Um der Ehre willen', Erinnerungen an die Freunde vom 20 Juli. Berlin (1994), Bundesrepublik, ISBN 978-3886805327
- Heck, Kilian & Christian Thielemann (Hrsg.): Friedrichstein. Das Schloß der Grafen von Dönhoff in Ostpreußen. ISBN 3-422-06593-8
- Von Schlabrendorff, Fabian. Offiziere gegen Hitler, a.a. O., 1945/1990 Bundesrepublik, ISBN 978-3886800964
External links
- Marion Dönhoff at perlentaucher.de – das Kulturmagazin (in German)