Barbara Streidl

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Barbara Streidl (2017)

Barbara Streidl (* 1972 in Munich ) is a German author , journalist and musician . In her journalistic work, she deals a lot with women and family issues.

Live and act

Barbara Streidl studied Medieval Studies , Modern German Literature and Comparative Literature at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . After graduating, she worked for Bayerischer Rundfunk / Zündfunk as an author, presenter and radio producer as well as for Süddeutscher Verlag / Jetzt.de and other media companies. Since 2013 she has been on the board of Frauenstudien München e. V. From 2015 to 2017 she was part of the Family Policy Commission of the Heinrich Böll Foundation .

Along with Susanne Klinger and Meredith Haaf, Streidl is one of the three authors of the feminist work We Alpha Girls. Why feminism makes life more beautiful . Together with her co-authors, in October 2007 she started the feminist “blog” girls' team , which was awarded the Deutsche Welle blog award The BOBs as the best German-language weblog (2008) and was nominated for the Grimme Online Award and the Alternative Media Prize, parallel to the creation of the book she left in 2011.

Streidl's music projects include bands such as Die Moulinettes , which attracted international attention with a cover version of the TV theme song Herr Rossi sucht das Glück , and the band The TriSonics . Streidl plays the double bass and electric bass .

Together with Susanne Klingner and Katrin Rönicke , Streidl is committed to increasing the visibility of women on the Internet. To this end, they launched the blogger magazine Featurette . In addition, she records a regular podcast with Klingner and Rönicke, the Lila Podcast . Since 2014, Streidl has also been on the board of the Women's Studies Association in Munich , which holds regular events as a “thinking space for women” and celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2018.

Streidl lives with her family in Munich .

Book publications

  • We alpha girls. Why feminism makes life more beautiful , Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-45-550075-2 .
  • Can I call you back right away? The everyday madness of a working mother. Blanvalet, Munich 2012
  • Let fathers be father. A polemic. Beltz, Weinheim 2015.
  • 100 pages: boredom . Reclam, Ditzingen 2018.
  • 100 pages: Feminism. Reclam, Ditzingen 2019.

Music projects (selection)

  • The moulinettes
  • The TriSonics
  • Poncho ponies
  • Slim jazz

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presentation of the Family Policy Commission | Heinrich Böll Foundation . In: Heinrich Böll Foundation . ( boell.de [accessed October 19, 2017]).
  2. ↑ PresseBox (c) 2002-2017: The BOBs: "This award gives us new courage and vigor". Retrieved October 19, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Antje Schrupp: Everyday madness: The life of a working mother. In: antjeschrupp.com. Retrieved October 11, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Friday: Book of the Week: Let Fathers Be Father. Retrieved October 19, 2017 (German).
  5. ↑ Barbara Streidl: "Langeweile" - The gray veil of standstill . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed on September 6, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Antje Schrupp: Feminism on 100 pages. In: For the love of freedom. October 18, 2019, accessed on February 18, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Streidl, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, journalist and musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich