Barbara Wackernagel-Jacobs

Barbara Wackernagel-Jacobs (born June 5, 1950 in Homburg ) is a German politician ( SPD ) and film producer .

Profession and Politics

Wackernagel-Jacobs studied social sciences at the University of Mannheim and the University of Saarland . Subsequently, she was project manager at the German Research Foundation and at the Diakonisches Werk an der Saar.

From 1990 the SPD politician headed the departments for family and youth as well as women and equality in the Saarland Ministry of Health and Social Affairs. In 1991 she became State Secretary to Christiane Krajewski . On September 18, 1996, she took over the office of Minister for Women, Labor, Health and Social Affairs in the Lafontaine III cabinet , which she also retained in the Klektiven cabinet (1998–1999).

After leaving the government in 1999, Barbara Wackernagel-Jacobs took over the Saarbrücken film production company carpe diem . Since then she has been producing documentaries on political and cultural topics.

Productions

• Re: Jean-Claude Juncker - Europe, do it well! , 2019 - Broadcast on ARTE on October 30, 2019, available in the media library until January 27, 2020
• For Europe - Rediscover Robert Schumann, 2019
• “To become what it is” - years of renovation in the modern gallery of the Saarland Museum, 2018
• Two Lebensborn fates - The slow discovery of one's own biography, 2017
• Wendelin worldwide - In the footsteps of a saint, 2017
• Law - What We All Should Know, 2016
• Edith Aron - "The paper says nothing, listens", 2015
• “They call me a maker” - The sports official Hermann Neuberger , 2014
• Documentation: "Sputnik Moment" - 30 years won , 2015
• Documentation: The Palais Beauharnais, 2014
• “I always got involved” - The film producer Günther Rohrbach, 2013
• Europe's new beginning - Johannes Hoffmann and the Saarland , 2013
• Intelligent Living - Technical Assistance in Old Age, 2013
• Visitor film: The Saarland State Parliament, 2012ff.
• “I paint like a wild man” - the painter Albert Weisgerber , 2012
• Documentation: Europakomplex - On crises, diversity and the future , 2011
• “Searching for heaven on earth” - Gustav Regler's second home in Mexico, 2011
• Well accompanied - the Merzig model of integrated care, 2010
• Saint Wendelin - In the footsteps of a popular saint, 2010
• Willi Graf - Civil courage and resistance , 2010
• Documentation: “Not alone. A law and its opportunities ”- Care support points in everyday life, 2009
• Documentation: The Boys of Kloster Indersdorf, 2008
• The Image of Politics and Politicians, 2006ff.
• The Children of Mingun - A Journey through Myanmar, 2005
• Children's feature film: Half an Angel, 2004
• TV-Feature Film: Amundsen the Penguin , 2003
• Movie: Dirty Sky, 2003
• Image film: "Culture and sights in Saarland", 2001

Web links

• Barbara Wackernagel-Jacobs in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• carpe diem Film & TV Produktion GmbH, Saarbrücken

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Jungmann: From Politics to Film. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung . November 13, 1999.
2. ↑ Cathrin Elss-Seringhaus: Against the myth of the picture-perfect retirement. The former Saarland minister and filmmaker Barbara Wackernagel-Jacobs advocates a new image of old age. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung , April 23, 2019.