{"id":18,"date":"2019-04-17T10:48:30","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T08:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biografieverlag.de\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2019-06-26T12:26:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T10:26:42","slug":"ueber-mich","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.biografieverlag.de\/en\/ueber-mich\/","title":{"rendered":"about me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-impuls-additional-containers-section  has-no-text-color has-white-background-color has-background-color has-no-background-image\" style=\"background-image:none\"><div class=\"InnerContent\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-2-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column img-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"749\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.biografieverlag.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img099-749x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"160\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.biografieverlag.de\/en\/ueber-mich\/img099\/\" class=\"wp-image-160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.biografieverlag.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img099-749x1024.jpg 749w, https:\/\/www.biografieverlag.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img099-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/www.biografieverlag.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img099-768x1051.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.biografieverlag.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img099.jpg 1519w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 749px) 100vw, 749px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"849\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.biografieverlag.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/portrait-849x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"161\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.biografieverlag.de\/en\/ueber-mich\/portrait\/\" class=\"wp-image-161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.biografieverlag.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/portrait-849x1024.jpg 849w, https:\/\/www.biografieverlag.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/portrait-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/www.biografieverlag.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/portrait-768x926.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 849px) 100vw, 849px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\" class=\"has-text-color has-blue-color\">Ruth Damwerth 1970 and 2018<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<table class=\"wp-block-table custom-td\"><tbody><tr><td>1986-1992 <\/td><td>studied Modern and Contemporary History, German and Roman Studies at the Universities of M\u00fcnster, Regensburg and Granada\/Spain, completing her studies with a Master\u00b4s degree<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1994<\/td><td>first publication: \u201cArnold Munter, Jahrhundertzeuge. Ein biografisches Geschichtsbuch,\u201d Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin.<br>(\u201cArnold Munter, Witness to a Century.\u201d A biography-based account of German History during the 20th century.)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2002<\/td><td>second publication: \u201cSchwarz Rot Braun,\u201d Verlag Sauerl\u00e4nder, D\u00fcsseldorf. <br> (\u201cBlack Red Brown.\u201d A YA novel with a historical background which was honored with a place on the prestigious \u201clist of 7 best books for young readers\u201d.) <br><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2003<\/td><td>foundation of biografieVerlag ruth damwerth<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-2-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-2 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-red-color\">\u201cReal-life stories have always fascinated me and perhaps it was only a matter of time until I became a biographer, even though my profession didn\u00b4t really exist when I first started out\u2026<br> In the fall of 1992, during the final stages of my university education, I went on a guided tour through an interesting quarter of post-socialist East-Berlin. The tour guide was an energetic man in his eighties, who had grown up in this area and his hints towards his own biography throughout the tour captivated me. I asked him, whether he had ever thought about writing his memoirs but he just laughed\u2026  After finishing my final exams at university I sat down to write him a letter. Could he imagine telling me his life story? The book, \u201cArnold Munter, Jahrhundertzeuge\u201d, was first published in 1994 and is still in print today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-red-color\">After a hiatus of several years, during which I gave birth to three children, my next book was published &#8211; a YA novel about a group of teenagers in my hometown, who had tried to prevent the Nazis from winning elections at the beginning of the nineteen thirties. This novel was based on contemporary newspaper articles, police reports and most of all on the recollections of three elderly gentlemen, who, now late in their nineties, had been members<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-red-color\">of this group. Our conversations and their accounts of their youth reminded me of my fascination for biographies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-red-color\">And so I went on to found a publishing company specializing in biographies in 2003: biografieVerlag ruth damwerth. I have since accompanied the development of more than sixty biographies, either as listener\/interviewer and ghostwriter or as editor and publisher. About half of these books were printed for private use only, the other half were published and have entered the book market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-red-color\">I was mostly interested in biographies heavily influenced by politics and history when I first started out as a biographer. Over the course of time, and with each story that I have been told, I have learnt that each and every life story is unique and special and therefore highly interesting. Each life story is worth being preserved.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-red-color\">I cannot conceive of a more exciting and rewarding job than speaking to people about their lives, listening to their stories and binding everything together in a worthy book.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-blue-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biografieverlag.de\/en\/ueber-mich\/aus-der-presse\/\"><strong>Press clippings<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":40,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"impuls_gutenberg_page_icon_class":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biografieverlag.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biografieverlag.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biografieverlag.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biografieverlag.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biografieverlag.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/www.biografieverlag.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"https:\/\/www.biografieverlag.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biografieverlag.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}