Almut Ilsen

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Almut Ilsen (born September 23, 1950 in Jena , Thuringia ) is a German chemist, academic library assistant, photographer, author and civil rights activist . She belonged to the opposition in the GDR in the 1980s. In 1982 she was co-founder of the " Women for Peace " in East Berlin.

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Almut Ilsen studied chemistry at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena from 1969 to 1973 and moved to East Berlin in 1975. Here she worked from 1976 at the German State Library as a subject librarian for natural sciences, from 1991 at the Prussian State Library in Berlin, from 2000 to 2016 then in the Potsdamer Strasse building. Between 1981 and 1983 she completed a postgraduate course in library sciences at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

In 1982 she co-founded the state and church-independent group "Women for Peace", one of the first larger opposition groups in the GDR. In 1989 she was involved in founding the EWA women's center in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg .

She has been photographing nature, landscapes, still lifes and architecture since the 1990s. Since 2017 she has also devoted herself to the scanography of plants. She took part in several exhibitions with her works.

In 2019 she published a book on “Women for Peace / East Berlin” together with Ruth Leiseworitz, which contains contributions from her and 17 other women.

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SURNAME Ilsen, Almut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil rights activist (GDR)
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena