Overview
- He died in Berlin on November 10, 2025 after a long, serious illness, according to institutional obituaries and news agencies.
- Brumlik led the Frankfurt‑based Fritz Bauer Institut from 2000 to 2005, focusing on research into the history and impact of the Holocaust.
- His career included professorships in educational science at Heidelberg (1981–2000) and Goethe University Frankfurt (2000–2013) and service for the Greens in Frankfurt’s city parliament (1989–2001).
- Born in Davos in 1947 to Jewish parents who fled Nazi Germany, he moved to Frankfurt with his family in 1953 and later became a prominent author and public intellectual.
- He received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic in 2025 and advocated carefully prepared student visits to concentration camp memorials, while articulating complex positions on Zionism and BDS.