Gunda Trepp


Gunda Trepp is a German author and journalist.

Biography

Trepp was born in Oldenburg, Germany. From 1982 to 1987, she studied law at the Free University of Berlin. 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.

Works

Together with Leo Trepp, she wrote the book “Dein Gott ist mein Gott”. Wege zum Judentum und zur jüdischen Gemeinschaft, published in 2005.
In 2007, Trepp’s book So viele Tage ohne dich was published by Verlag Herder.
Three years after Leo Trepp's death, Gunda Trepp published texts written from 1943 to 2010 on Lebendiges Judentum.
Her most recent publication is Der letzte Rabbiner. Das unorthodoxe Leben des Leo Trepp .
According to Simon Berninger, the biography is “the key to understanding this very unusual rabbi”.. 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”
In an interview with Christiane Florin, 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”.

List of works