Gunda Trepp

Gunda Trepp (* 30 December 1958 in Oldenburg, Germany) is a German author and journalist.
==Life==
From 1982–1987, Gunda Trepp studied law at the Free University of Berlin. During this time, she worked with others to establish the first women’s group at the Faculty of Law. She subsequently attended the Henri-Nannen-School of Journalism. After embarking on her professional career as a lawyer
and law lecturer, she began working as a freelance journalist for various media such as Der Spiegel, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and the NDR. Trepp was business editor at the Berliner Zeitung until 2004. In 2000, she started a relationship with the religious philosopher and rabbi Leo Trepp and converted to Judaism in 2001. In 2019, she founded the Leo Trepp Stiftung (Foundation), which strives to deepen knowledge about Jewish life and Jewish ethics within society. 
Trepp has played an active role in her local Jewish community as a managing committee member of both the American Jewish Committee and her synagogue. She currently lives in San Francisco and Berlin.
==Works==
Gunda Trepp’s work focuses on the reappraisal of the past and processes of dealing with the Shoah, as well as issues of social justice. After writing a book on violence and bullying amongst young people, she wrote together with Leo Trepp the book “Dein Gott ist mein Gott”. Wege zum Judentum und zur jüdischen Gemeinschaft (Your God is my God. Journey to Judaism and the Jewish community), published in 2005. 
In her essays for the Berliner Zeitung, Trepp was eager to familiarise readers with lesser-known Jewish life aspects. In 2006, she reflected on the fate of nearly 900,000 Jewish refugees in the Middle East while telling the story of Gina Bublis, an Arab Jew who had to flee Libya. 
In 2007, Trepp’s book So viele Tage ohne dich (So many days without you) was published by Verlag Herder. Trepp wrote the book as a reflection on her first husband’s death and called upon readers to face death in all sincerity and, in doing so, to actively make the most of the remaining time each of us has.
Three years after Leo Trepp’s death, Gunda Trepp published texts written from 1943 to 2010 on Lebendiges Judentum (Vibrant Judaism). 
Her most recent publication is Der letzte Rabbiner. Das unorthodoxe Leben des Leo Trepp (The Last Rabbi. The unorthodox life of Leo Trepp) (2018). According to Simon Berninger (Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper), the biography is “the key to understanding this very unusual rabbi”.Bis zuletzt unorthodox In: Frankfurter Rundschau. 29 May 2019.. In Jüdische Rundschau, Nikoline Hansen writes that the book is “not only a gripping read but also manages to bring back to life the voice of Leo Trepp”Das unorthodoxe Leben des orthodoxen Rabbiners In: Jüdische Rundschau. 9 Novembre 2018.
In an interview with Christiane Florin (Deutschlandfunk radio), Gunda Trepp says that only through knowledge and education can non-Jewish Germans help fight antisemitism. They particularly should know more “about how Jewish people live today, about Jewish ethics and how the State of Israel was created”„Die Deutschen sollten sich den lebenden Juden zuwenden“ In: Deutschlandfunk. 9 Novembre 2018.. 
==List of works==
* „Vor der Pause habe ich richtig Angst“. Gewalt und Mobbing unter Jugendlichen. Was man dagegen tun kann, Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, 1998. 
* „Dein Gott ist mein Gott“. Wege zum Judentum und zur jüdischen Gemeinschaft, together with Leo Trepp, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag, 2005. 
* So viele Tage ohne dich. Dein Tod, meine Trauer, mein Leben, Freiburg: Herder Verlag, 2007. 
* Lebendiges Judentum. Texte aus den Jahren 1943 bis 2010, written by Leo Trepp, redacted by Gunda Trepp, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag, 2013. 
* Der letzte Rabbiner: Das unorthodoxe Leben des Leo Trepp, Darmstadt: WBG Theiss, 2018.
==Selected articles==
* Article “Verstecken ist fatal“ on Jewish life in Germany published in Welt (2019)
* Article “Why Germany needs to pay attention to Jewish life“ in The Times of Israel (2019)
* Article “Was bedeutet jüdisch sein in Deutschland?“ in Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung (2018) 
* Article “Bedrohlicher Trend“ on intersectionality in connection with Judaism published in Jüdische Allgemeine (2018)
* Interview “Der Holocaust ist ein winziger Abschnitt“ with Tad Taube in Der Spiegel (2014)
* Article “Unter die Haut“ on circumcision in Judaism in Der Spiegel (2012)
* Article “Es war die absolute Perversion“ on how academics were robbed of their titles by the Nazis in Der Spiegel (2011)
* Article about John Berggruen and his father in Berliner Zeitung (2004)
* Article “Nicht nur ein Museum der Trauer“ about the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Tageszeitung (1998)
==References==
==External links==
* Why Germany needs to pay attention to Jewish life
* Gunda Trepp: Kindle Store - Amazon.in
* The Last Rabbi. The Unorthodox Life of Leo Trepp
* Gunda Trepp | wbg – Wissen. Bildung. Gemeinschaft
* Gunda Trepp (Author of Der letzte Rabbiner) - Goodreads
* Gunda Trepp Books and Gifts | wordery.com
Category:1958 births
Category:German writers
Category:German journalists
Category:Author
Category:Free University of Berlin alumni
Category:Law degrees
Category:People from Oldenburg (state)