Foto: Zürner
2 August 2021
Ursula Krechel
Writer
Statement on the occasion of 2 August 2021, Holocaust Memorial Day for Sinti and Roma
Biographie
Ursula Krechel studied Geman philology, theatre studies, art history and received her doctorate from the University of Cologne. Afterwards she was a theatre dramaturge. Since the 1980s, Ursula Krechel has taught many times, she was a visiting professor at Warwick University/England, and in 1989/90 she gave lectures on poetics in Vienna, which were included in the volume “Playing with the Father’s Body”. In 1991 she was writer-in-residence at Washington University St. Louis/USA, in 1993/94 poet-in-residence at the University of Essen, 1997-1999 visiting professor at the German Literature Institute at Leipzig University, 1998-2001 and again in 2008-2011 director of the Prose Workshop at the Literary Colloquium Berlin, 2002 Escriptora convidada in Barcelona, in the summer semester 2007 Research Fellow at Washington University St. Louis/USA. Ursula Krechel is a member of the Akademie der Künste Berlin, the Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung in Darmstadt and Vice-President of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz.
Statements 2021

Romani Rose
Śerutno e Centralone Sombeśesqo e Germanikane Sintenqo aj Rromenqo

Katarina Barley
Vice President of the European Parliament

Helena Dalli
Komisàrka e EU-aqi vaś o barabaripe

Claudia Roth
Vice President of the German Bundestag

Paul Blokhuis
Dutch State Secretary Paul Blokhuis

Chris J. Lazaris
Amb. Chris J. Lazaris, IHRA Chairman

Fernand des Varennes
UN Special Rapporteur UN minorities

Anna-Nicole Heinrich
President of the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD)

Justin Trudeau
Prime Minister of Canada

Roman Kwiatkowski
Chairman of the Association of Roma in Poland

Erich Schneeberger
Deputy Chairman of the Documentation and Cultural Center of German Sinti and Roma and Chairman of the Association of German Sinti and Roma

Timea Junghaus
Executive Director
European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC)

Adam Strauß
Chairman of the Council of German Sinti and Roma in Hesse

Manon Aubry
Manon Aubry, MEP

Adrian-Nicolae Furtuna
Historian at the University of Bucharest

Philomena Franz
Holocaust Survivor

Angelina Kappler
German former Weinkönigin

Marian Kalwary
Chairman of the Association of Jews,
Survivors and Victims of the Second World War

Piotr Gliński
First Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of Poland

Izabela Tiberiade
Young Activist from Sweden

Ursula Krechel
Writer

Marija Pejčinović Burić
Generàlo Sekretàra e Evropesqe Sombeśesqi

Klaus Iohannis
Prezidènti e Rumaniaqo