Annemarie Madison

Annemarie Madison (1986)

Annemarie Madison , née Zimmermann (born November 21, 1920 in Jakarta , Indonesia , † January 30, 2010 in San Francisco , USA ) was a carer for AIDS sufferers . She is the namesake of the Annemarie Madison Prize and last lived in San Francisco.

biography

Annemarie Madison had to leave her native Indonesia when she was 4 years old because her mother became seriously ill with malaria . She attended boarding school in the Netherlands , but was later too young to study according to the Dutch school system. She bridged the time as a secretary for a Dutch company. When the Second World War broke out, she became a trained nurse with the Dutch Red Cross . She then worked for a Dutch company in Berlin , but left the city when Russia took over East Berlin. She then worked in the British zone as a translator for the British administration and as a court translator, before taking up a position as personal assistant to the Minister of Economics and Transport in North Rhine-Westphalia . She later gave up this job to work with her husband, the writer Louis E. Madison (1914-2008). In 1979 she moved to San Francisco with him and their son, who was born in 1958.

Work with AIDS

In 1984 Madison began volunteering for people with AIDS , caring for more than 250 AIDS patients. Their concern was not only to care for the sick, but also to free AIDS from the stigma and isolation. She not only appeared as a speaker at the first benefit event in 1985 at the San Francisco Opera. A large number of appearances followed in the USA and Europe, in which she provided information about how to deal with people with AIDS and conveyed experiences from the American centers. In the 80s she discussed living and dying with AIDS in workshops and supported local AIDS organizations in Germany to organize themselves. In the 1990s she appeared on talk shows and films to further promote a humane approach to the disease and its patients.

Kiu Eckstein , who shot the report “Living with Aids in San Francisco” through her work for the ZDF foreign journal and who was in an email exchange with Annemarie Madison, suspects that Madison went through a Kundalini trial.

In 1994 she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class. Madison is the namesake of the Annemarie Madison Prize. This was established by the KIS Research Board of Trustees for Immunodeficiency and has been awarded since 1995 at the Munich AIDS Days and recognizes merits for a human approach to AIDS.

Web links

Annemarie Madison Papers (PDF file; 70 kB) San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library

Individual evidence

↑ Klaus Eckstein: Living with AIDS in San Francisco. 9 '52, ZDF Auslandsjournal December 2nd, 1998
↑ Kiu Eckstein: One Life - Two Worlds. Biographical Notes in Times of Change. Hamburg 2017, p. 167 u. 257 f .; ISBN 978-3-7439-3297-5 ; the following biographical information refers to this source.

personal data
SURNAME	Madison, Annemarie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Zimmermann, Annemarie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Indonesian carer for AIDS sufferers
DATE OF BIRTH	November 21, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH	Jakarta , Indonesia
DATE OF DEATH	January 30, 2010
Place of death	San Francisco , USA

[1] Klaus Eckstein: Living with AIDS in San Francisco. 9 '52, ZDF Auslandsjournal December 2nd, 1998

[2] Kiu Eckstein: One Life - Two Worlds. Biographical Notes in Times of Change. Hamburg 2017, p. 167 u. 257 f .; ISBN 978-3-7439-3297-5 ; the following biographical information refers to this source.