Adrienne Goehler

Adrienne Goehler (2016)

Adrienne Goehler (born October 13, 1955 in Lahr in the Black Forest ) is a qualified psychologist, former President of the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg , was Senator for Science, Research and Culture of the State of Berlin and curator of the Capital Cultural Fund. She lives and works as a publicist and curator in Berlin.

Life and work

After graduating from high school, Goehler began studying Romance and German at the University of Freiburg , during which time he spent long periods of study in France and West Africa. During her studies in Freiburg she was a member of the " Marxist-Reichist Initiative ", which, as the Bunte Liste Freiburg, temporarily provided a representative on the local city council. In 1978 she moved to Hamburg , where she began studying psychology , which she completed in 1986 with a degree in psychology. During his studies, Goehler did therapeutic work in a sex counseling center from 1983 to 1985. In 1989 she was appointed President of the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg and re-elected in 1995. Between 2002 and 2006, Goehler was the curator of the Hauptstadtkulturfonds. In 2006 she published her first book Liquids , which served as the basis for a course at the University of St. Gallen , which she held herself in cooperation with numerous experts.

Political career

After completing his studies, Goehler became a member of the GAL women's group she initiated in the Hamburg parliament , responsible for the committees for science and research, culture and women. In 1990 she co-founded the Council for Women in Science, Technology and the Arts. Goehler has been non-party since 1991 .

Public offices and activities

After Klaus Wowereit was elected Governing Mayor of Berlin on June 16, 2001, Goehler was elected Senator for Science, Research and Culture in the red-green transitional government of the State of Berlin. However, she resigned from office on January 17, 2002, when an SPD-PDS Senate was formed after the new elections on October 21, 2001 and the Greens left the state government .

Goehler was involved in numerous juries, councils and advisory boards, including from 1992 to 1997 as a member of the broadcasting council of the NDR , from 1991 to 2001 in the art advisory board of the International Women's University (ifu) and since 1998 as a member of the board of trustees of the "European Academy for Women in politics and economics "Berlin. From 2001 to 2006 she was on the board of the International Women's University (ifu) / Women's Institute of Technology, Development and Culture (WIT); from 2005 to 2007 on the board of Berlin 21 of the Berlin Agenda initiatives. From 2005 to 2008 she was a member of the supervisory board of the daily newspaper (taz) , from 2007 to 2010 of the board of trustees of the European Capital of Culture Ruhr 2010 and of the supervisory board of the arsenal institute for film and video art eV

In 2007 she curated ART GOES HEILIGENDAMM on the initiative of attac and in cooperation with the Rostock Cultural Office under the project management of Jaana Liisa Prüss , an artistic intervention in public space on the occasion of the G8 summit in Heiligendamm 2007 . The exhibition "Recommended for imitation! Expeditions in Aesthetics and Sustainability", which she curated, has been touring nationally and internationally since 2010. Recommended for imitation! has received the following awards: Special media award from Deutsche Umwelthilfe 2010, project "Workshop N" of the Council for Sustainable Development 2010 and "Project of the UN Decade 2014", Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). Adrienne Goehler has been an "affilated scolar" at the Institute for Transformative Sustainability Research | since 2020 IASS Potsdam .

criticism

Shortly after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 , Goehler caused outrage with statements that the towers of the World Trade Center were “ phallic symbols” and “towers of turbo-capitalism” that she “never really liked”.

Fonts

Liquefaction. Paths and detours from the welfare state to the cultural society , campus, Frankfurt a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-593-37812-4 .
together with Götz Werner : 1000 € for each. Freedom, equality, basic income , Econ, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-430-20108-7 .
Recommended for imitation! Expeditions in Aesthetics and Sustainability Exhibition publication, Ed. Hatje Canz Verlag, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7757-2772-3 .
Conceptual ideas for the establishment of an Aesthetics and Sustainability Fund (with Jaana Liisa Prüss ), Ed. Heinrich-Böll Foundation, Volume 10 Series Education + Culture, 2012 (2nd edition 2013), ISBN 978-3-86928-074-5 .
Conceptual Thoughts on a Fund for Aesthetics and Sustainability curated by Kampnagel in There is nothing that is beyond our imagination , Ed. Art In Side, 2020 Imagine art and climate change, edited by Claudia Galhós, 2015, ISBN 9789899539761 .
Sustainability needs deceleration needs basic income / making a living enables deceleration enables sustainability , Parthas Verlag, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-86964-125-6 .