Silke Engel (German Literature Scientist, Journalist)

Silke Engel (born 27 March 1972, Pinneberg, Germany) is a German Literature scientist and Political scientist, Journalist and Author.
Personal life and education
Silke Engel grew up in Pinneberg near Hamburg and passed her High school graduation at the Theodor-Heuss Gymnasium in 1991. From 1991 Silke Engel studied Political science, modern German studies, Literature and Public law at the University of Freiburg, graduating with a Master's degree.
Silke Engel began her journalistic career at the public service Broadcaster, Sender Freies Berlin (SFB) in Berlin. Later she worked for the Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) as an editor, author and presenter. From 2006 to 2008 she worked as Correspondent in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland based in London. This was followed in 2009 by a position as a German Federal Political Correspondent for the ARD in Berlin. As a political correspondent she also took part in the Political discourse in Germany.
Career
As early as 2002 she devoted herself to research in . In 2016, Silke Engel received her Doctor of Philosophy with her research work at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg in Modern German Literature (Classical Moderne) about August Hermann Zeiz (1893-1964). The evaluation of the sources also found its way into intelligence research over the East Germany espionage (GDR) as part of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) in West Germany in Pullach in the 1950s.
Since 2015, she is the Departmental Director of Press and Public Relations and Spokesperson for the University of Potsdam. Silke Engel lived in Berlin-Charlottenburg since 1999.
Books
August Hermann Zeiz (1893-1964): Poet, Court Reporter, Playwright; Aesthetic changes and political resistance in the literary world of modernity. In various roles he conquered the literary world of modernity and helped shape the literary field. As a poet, A. H. Zeiz approached Stefan George and his circle in the 1920s. His court reportages appeared in the Berliner Tageblatt of the Weimar Republic. During the Nazi Regime, August Herrmann Zeiz worked as a film and comedy writer under the pseudonym Georg Fraser. This work provides exemplary and detailed insights into writing practices and networks from World War I until World War II.
Honorary position
Since 2013 Silke Engel is a member of the jury in the N-Ost-Reportage Award for journalistic reportages from countries in Central Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.
Since 2015 Engel has been a member of the Berlin Women's Association, which promotes equal rights and diversity in public administration.
Publications
as Writer
* The Biography about August Hermann Zeiz (1893-1964), Dichter, Gerichtsreporter, Bühnenautor, Literaturagent. Ästhetische Wandlungen und politischer Widerstand im Literaturbetrieb der Moderne. (German Edition) Ergon Verlag, Würzburg 2017,
as Publisher
* August Hermann Zeiz: Tanz um den Tod, (Dance around death) Regenbrecht Verlag, Berlin 2014, reprint of the amendment from 1918, (German Edition) .
Articles in Magazines (selection)
* ...das Ende jener Herrschaft anzustreben (...to seek the end of that reign), August Hermann Zeiz in the Austrian resistance. reprinted in the Magazine: Zwischenwelt (Mit der Zieharmonika), Publisher: Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft, (German Edition) Nr. 16, 1999, p. 35-39
* Kampf für Meinungsfreiheit (Fight for freedom of expression), reprinted in the Tagesspiegel-Beilage, Portrait of the first Voltaire Prize Winner, Hilal Alkan. (German Edition) 10. June 2017. page: B5

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