Anna-Katharina Messmer

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Anna-Katharina Meßmer (* 1983 ) is a German speaker, consultant, activist and sociologist. Her work focuses on digitization , politics , social media , online hatred, body and biopolitics , feminism and social politics . She became known through her contribution to the # outcry campaign and the open letter to Federal President Joachim Gauck .

Life

From 2008 to 2009, Messmer advised the SPD party executive and Gesine Schwan during the election campaign for Federal President . At the beginning of 2013 she was one of the initiators of the #aufschrei campaign , in which many people shared sexist experiences on Twitter . The hashtag was also the first hashtag to be awarded the Grimme Online Award in 2013 . On March 3, 2013, Messmer and six other women published an open letter to the then Federal President Joachim Gauck , in which they criticized Gauck's reaction to #aufschrei. Among other things, he was accused of "lacking sensitivity towards women who have had sexist experiences".

In 2017, Messmer received her doctorate from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with her book Excess tissue. Intimate surgery between aestheticization and medicalization .

Since autumn 2019 she has been project manager for digital news and information literacy at the New Responsibility Foundation in Berlin. Before that, she was head of the office of the Research Institute for Social Development in Düsseldorf (FGW) and head of strategic partner development at the opinion research startup Civey.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Speaker list. Retrieved August 7, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Open letter on the occasion of the sexism debate - outcry against sexism. Retrieved August 7, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Anna-Katharina Messmer: Excess tissue: intimate surgery between aestheticization and medicalization (=  gender and society ). VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-17053-0 ( springer.com [accessed August 7, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Anna-Katharina Meßmer on the website of the New Responsibility Foundation. Retrieved November 5, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Own website. Retrieved November 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Messmer, Anna-Katharina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German speaker, consultant, activist and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1983