Beate Schmeichel-Falkenberg

Beate Schmeichel-Falkenberg (born June 20, 1926 in Hamm ; died September 17, 2017 in Belsen ) was a German teacher and author .

Life

Beate Schmeichel-Falkenberg studied German and English at the University of Göttingen and then worked as a journalist for the BBC in England. She later returned to Münster and worked as a teacher. With Manfred Schmeichel, she founded a school for the physically handicapped in Mössingen , which is part of today's KBF Foundation .

Schmeichel-Falkenberg worked for a time at WDR as a presenter in the program Hier und heute and at the University of Münster at the Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum .

She was a co-founder of the Else Lasker Student Society and the Kurt Tucholsky Society . In the Society for Exile Research she headed the working group “Women in Exile”.

with Siglinde Bolbecher and the Theodor Kramer Society : Women in Exile , conference proceedings, Klagenfurt: Drava, 2007
with Ursula Wiedenmann: Crossing Borders: Women, Art and Exile , Proceedings, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2005
with Simone Barck and Anneke de Rudder: Fates of the Century. Women in exile in the Soviet Union. Lukas, Berlin 2003.
with Inge Hansen-Schaberg : Remembering Women: Resistance, Persecution, Exile, 1933-1945 , proceedings, Berlin: Weidler, 2000
with Manfred Schmeichel: Help for physically handicapped children , Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta 1978

↑ Beate Schmeichel-Falkenberg obituary . In: Schwäbisches Tagblatt online . ( tagblatt.de [accessed on September 23, 2017]).

personal data
SURNAME	Schmeichel-Falkenberg, Beate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German teacher and author
DATE OF BIRTH	June 20, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamm
DATE OF DEATH	17th September 2017
Place of death	Belsen