Antonia Meiners

Antonia Meiners (* 1943 in Bamberg ) is a German cultural scientist , author and editor with a focus on historical and cultural-political topics.

Life

Meiners spent most of her childhood together with her older brother in Schulzendorf and Eichwalde . After completion of the tenth grade at the middle school in Eichwalde she completed and a lesson for the industrial business in the VEB heavy machinery Wildau . Because her job didn't appeal to her, she did her A-levels at night school and then worked until 1975, initially through the agency of her father, the cartoonist Gottfried Spachholz, as a "graphic assistant", later as a picture editor at Neue Berliner Illustrierte and studied in East Berlin at the Humboldt University of Cultural Studies.

Growing up in a communist family home, her parents forbade her as a teenager to go on excursions to the western part of Berlin. She herself initially took her father's view “that it was normal and right to build socialism .” Her brother had already stayed in West Berlin when the Wall was built in August 1961. In 1975 she submitted an application to leave the country , which was granted a year and a half later. In 1978 she was able to study German and theater studies in West Berlin at the Free University of Berlin .

Since the 1980s she has worked as a freelance editor, editor and author for various book publishers, mainly on historical and cultural-political topics. In Elisabeth Sandmann Verlag she published, among other books on women's movement and women's history. Her book Die Suffragetten gives “first insights into the history of the suffragette movement and the development of the struggle for women's rights”. Meiners presents about “25 women's rights activists who have campaigned for women's suffrage since the late 18th century ” and explains “the differences and controversies between the radical, moderate and socialist women's movement”. The work The Hour of Women is “a historically well-founded introduction to the history of the women's movement ... between the beginning of the war and the first post-war period”. Using photos, eyewitness reports, documents, diary entries, letters and magazines, the book We have rebuilt the situation of women from 1945 and Kluge Mädchen illuminates the cultural history of female childhood and the change in the image of girls over the course of the 20th century. In addition, several books on the history of Berlin have been published by Nicolai Verlag , such as “Berlin and Potsdam at the time of Frederick the Great”, “Berlin 1945”, “Berlin in the 1950s” and “Berlin 1989”. Edition Braus published “Berlin 1933–1945” in 2017.

Publications (selection)

• Long love - the happiness of staying together. Elisabeth Sandmann Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-945543-45-0
• The suffragettes. Elisabeth Sandmann Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-945543-13-9
• The hour of women: between monarchy, world war and the right to vote 1913–1919. Elisabeth Sandmann Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-938045-81-7
• Tempelhof: Yesterday, today, tomorrow . Nicolai Publishing & Intelligence, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-89479-653-2
• Antonia Meiners (eds.), Hildegard Hamm-Brücher , Gisela Lange, Elfriede Brüning , Hella Maron: We have rebuilt: women tell the story of the hour. Elisabeth Sandmann Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-938045-54-1
• Claudia Lanfranconi, Antonia Meiners: Kluge business women - Maria Bogner, Aenne Burda , Coco Chanel , Florence w, Estée Lauder , Miuccia Prada, Margarete Steiff , Marie Tussaud and many others Elisabeth Sandmann Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-938045-22-0
• Old Berlin: photographs from the early days . Nicolai Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89479-590-0
• 100 years of KaDeWe . Nicolai Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89479-386-9
• Smart girls: Or how we became what we shouldn't be. Girl years in transition . Elisabeth Sandmann Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-938045-20-6
• Berlin 1945 - a chronicle in pictures . Nicolai Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3894792046
• Berlin 1933–1945 - A Chronicle in Pictures. Edition Braus 2017, ISBN 978-3-86228-159-6

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Tanja Kasischke: Kennedy came before . In: Märkische Allgemeine of July 26, 2013. Retrieved on January 6, 2018
2. ^ ^{A b} Elisabeth Sandmann Publisher: Authors: Antonia Meiners . Retrieved January 6, 2018
3. ^ ^{A b} Kulturverein Zeuthen eV: Antonia Meiners . Retrieved January 6, 2018
4. ^ Suhrkamp: Antonia Meiners . Retrieved January 6, 2018
5. ^ Rolf Löchel: Suffrage for hyenas . In: literaturkritik.de from September 30, 2017. Accessed January 6, 2018
6. ↑ Reading sample: The hour of women , pp. 1 to 39. Retrieved on January 7, 2018
7. ↑ Bernd Ulrich: Collective review: War and society in the First World War . In: Clio-online - Historisches Fachinformationssystem eV - Communication and specialist information for the historical sciences from July 16, 2015. Accessed on January 6, 2018
8. ↑ stern.de: The best books of autumn . dated October 16, 2006. Retrieved January 7, 2018