Kerstin Wolff

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Kerstin Wolff (* 1967 in Düsseldorf ) is a German historian . She heads the research department at the Archive of the German Women's Movement Foundation in Kassel. Her research focus is the history of the women's movement in Germany .

Life

Wolff studied history, political science and art history at the comprehensive university in Kassel - today the University of Kassel. In 1995 she became a research assistant at Heide Wunder and dealt with the influence of Protestant princesses on the government of their countries. In 1999 she took over the management of the research department at the Archive of the German Women's Movement Foundation in Kassel. In 2002 she received her doctorate from the University of Kassel with a thesis on the influence of bourgeois women on local politics in the 19th century.

She is the editor of the historical specialist journal of the Archive of the German Women's Movement Foundation, Ariadne - Forum for Women's and Gender History . The Ariadne appears continuously since 1986, making it one of the oldest historical gender magazines of the Federal Republic. Wolff is a member of the IAG Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Kassel and works at irregular intervals as a lecturer at the University of Kassel. She is a board member of the working group historical women and gender research and member of the AK Hessische Zeitgeschichte as well as the AK Gender Movement.

Research priorities

Wolff researches and works on the history of the women's movement in Germany and covers the period between 1848 and 1970 with her work. She is interested in a wide range of topics. For example, she has published a book about the morality debate in the women's movement around 1900 ( abolitionism ), in which she introduces the active abolitionist Anna Pappritz . She was able to prove that abolitionism around 1900 was not shaped conservatively and that the 'old' women's movement through the debate about prostitution contributed to making this social phenomenon even debatable. The book is considered to be “one of the most important books not only on abolitionism in Germany, but also on the first women's movement”.

In the anniversary year 2018, Wolff turned to the fight for women's suffrage . Together with Hedwig Richter , she organized a conference on this topic in 2017, which at the same time prepared the content for the major women's suffrage exhibition in the Frankfurt Historical Museum - Ladies' Choice! 100 years of women's suffrage - was. The presentations at the meeting were titled Women's Suffrage. Democratization of Democracy in Germany and Europe published. At the same time she published an independent volume, gave numerous lectures and organized a variety of activities on 100 years of women's suffrage in Germany. Her main thesis is that German women also fought for women's suffrage and were very successful in doing so. It thus contradicts older research that assumed a conservative women's suffrage movement in Germany, which (in international comparison) started too late and also argued and acted more cautiously than in other European countries. She refers to the work of Gisela Bock and Angelika Schaser. Together with the Federal Agency for Civic Education, she designed an online dossier on the fight for women's suffrage in Germany.

Wolff has also presented works on International Women's Day or individual women's rights activists such as Helene Stöcker or Louise Otto-Peters , as well as published on the 'inheritance processes' within the women's movement phases. She also does research on the post-war period, in particular on the independent women's committees and their protagonists such as Fini Pfannes .

Wolff's commitment is also aimed at the interested public. Together with the Federal Agency for Civic Education, she has developed an online dossier on the history of the women's movement, publishes articles on the history of the women's movement at regular intervals, participates in blogs, gives lectures and gives interviews on television and radio.

She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Weimar Republic Association for the House of the Weimar Republic .

Prices

  • 2003 Elisabeth Selbert Prize of the State of Hesse for her dissertation city ​​mothers. Bourgeois women and their influence on local politics in the 19th century
  • 2018 2nd place of the Argula von Grumbach Prize of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria for the essay "Retelling the history of women's suffrage in Germany"

Fonts

Monographs

  • Anna Pappritz (1861–1939). The manor daughter and prostitution, Sulzbach / Ts. 2017.
  • Together with Gilla Dölle: »Respect for the Province«. Kassel - the city of the strong women's movement, a journey through 150 years (series of publications by the Archives of the German Women's Movement, Vol. 15), Kassel 2013.
  • "City Mothers". Bourgeois women and their influence on local politics in the 19th century, Königstein i.Ts. 2003.
  • Together with Elke Schüller: Fini Pfannes (1894–1967). Protagonist and bird of paradise of the post-war women's movement, Königstein i.Ts. 2000.
  • “We want housewife work to be recognized as a profession”. The Kasseler Hausfrauenverein 1915–1935, series of publications by the Archives of the German Women's Movement, Vol. 10, Kassel 1995

Editorships

  • Together with Hedwig Richter (2017), women's suffrage. The democratization of democracy in Germany and Europe. Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2017.
  • Together with Reinhold Lütgemeier-Davin in cooperation with the Foundation Archive of the German Women's Movement (Ed.): Helene Stöcker - Memories. The unfinished autobiography of a pacifist who was passionate about women. Vienna u. a. 2015 (L'HOMME Archive, Volume 5).
  • together with Julia Paulus and Eva-Maria Silies: Contemporary history as gender history. New perspectives on the Federal Republic. Frankfurt a. M. 2012.
  • together with Eva Schöck-Quinteros , Anja Schüler and Annika Wilmers: Political Networkers. International cooperation between women 1830–1960. Berlin 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ IAG Women and Gender Studies: Home. Retrieved December 6, 2018 .
  2. ^ Rolf Löchel: The prostitution expert - Kerstin Wolff's study on Anna Pappritz and abolitionism has what it takes to become a standard work: literaturkritik.de. January 31, 2018, accessed December 6, 2018 (German).
  3. ↑ Hedwig Richter, Kerstin Wolff (Ed.): Women's suffrage. Democratization of Democracy in Germany and Europe . Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-86854-323-0 .
  4. ↑ Kerstin Wolff: Our voice counts The history of German women's suffrage . Bast Medien, Überlingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-946581-52-9 .
  5. ↑ z. B. Christel Wickert (Ed.): Out with women's suffrage, Pfaffenweiler 1990.
  6. ↑ Federal Agency for Civic Education: Women's Suffrage (Dossier). Retrieved December 6, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Federal Agency for Civic Education: “Women's Movement” (accessed December 16, 2015).
  8. ↑ For example in the NDR, Classic à la carte Studio guests: Hedwig Richter and Kerstin Wolff
  9. ^ House of the Weimar Republic • House of the Weimar Republic. (PDF) Weimarer Republik eV, accessed on July 29, 2019 .
  10. ↑ List of award winners since 1983, [1]
  11. ↑ Barbara Pühl: Bavarian State Church awards Argula von Grumbach Prize - ELKB. In: Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria. February 19, 2019, accessed March 23, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Kerstin Wolff: Stadtmütter: Bourgeois women and their influence on local politics in the 19th century (1860-1900) . Ulrike Helmer Verlag, Königstein 2003, ISBN 3-89741-122-9 ( hsozkult.de [accessed December 6, 2018]).
  13. ↑ Helene Stöcker: Memoirs: The unfinished autobiography of a pacifist who was moved by women, ed. v. Reinhold Lütgemeier-Davin u. Kerstin Wolff . Böhlau Verlag Köln, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22466-0 ( hsozkult.de [accessed December 6, 2018]).
  14. ↑ Hedwig Richter: Memories of Helene Stöckers: Spiritual is great love and good sex . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed December 6, 2018]).
  15. ↑ Julia Paulus, Eva-Maria Silies, Kerstin Wolff: Contemporary history as gender history: New perspectives on the Federal Republic . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-593-39742-9 ( hsozkult.de [accessed December 6, 2018]).
  16. ^ Eva Schöck-Quinteros, Anja Schüler, Annika Wilmers, Kerstin Wolff: Political Networkers: International Cooperation of Women 1830-1960 . Trafo Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89626-641-5 ( hsozkult.de [accessed December 6, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Wolff, Kerstin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf