Birgit Rommelspacher

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Birgit Rommelspacher (2012)

Birgit Rommelspacher (born July 3, 1945 in Rammingen near Ulm ; † April 16, 2015 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German psychologist and educator specializing in women's studies and right-wing extremism .

Life

Birgit Rommelspacher studied psychology in Bonn, Münster, Cincinnati / Ohio (USA) and Munich, as well as philosophy, social and economic history in Munich. In 1980 she received her doctorate in psychology and education from Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . She qualified as a professor at the Technical University of Berlin in 1991.

From 1972 to 1973 she was a research assistant at the State Institute for Early Education , Munich, in the pilot project "Comparison of the entrance level of reformed kindergarten", from 1974 to 1979 research assistant at the German Youth Institute in Munich in the model project "Day mothers" and between 1982 and 1986 research assistant in the model experiment "Skilled workers for psychosocial care ”( FHSS Berlin and Free University Berlin ).

From 1988 to 1990 he was a visiting professor at the Technical University of Berlin in the field of education and teaching. Since 1990 she has been a professor at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin , where she also held the office of Vice-Rector between 2000 and 2002 . She researched and taught with a focus on interculturality and gender studies and worked in the field of “Theory and Practice of Work with Girls and Women”. She worked on women's psychology, racism and anti-Semitism , women and right-wing extremism . Rommelspacher coined the term “ dominance culture” and developed theoretical foundations for researching structural discrimination and dominance-cultural aspects of whiteness . Together with Helma Lutz , Farideh Akashe-Böhme and Martha Mamozai , she analyzed the problem area “racism / nationalism / sexism” in its contexts, connections, overlays, reinforcements and contradictions .

Birgit Rommelspacher was chair of the selection committee "Equal Opportunities for Women in Research and Teaching" of the Berlin Senate.

In the 2015 summer semester she was appointed senior professor for social psychology at the Institute for Sociology at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , but died before she could start teaching.

Awards

In 2009 Rommelspacher received the Louise Schroeder Medal from the State of Berlin.

Fonts

  • 1989: Displeasure. The myth of female masochism . Orlanda, Berlin, ISBN 3-92216655-5 .
  • 1992: Humanity and submission. On the ambivalence of female morality . Campus, Frankfurt am Main, New York, NY, ISBN 3-593-34556-0 .
  • 1995: dominance culture. Texts on strangeness and power . Orlanda, Berlin ISBN 3-92982329-2 .
  • 1995: innocently guilty? How young women deal with anti-Semitism . Konkret, Hamburg, ISBN 3-89458-135-2 .
  • 1999: with Katja Dettmering : Disability hostility . Exclusion and appropriation. Lamuv TB 265, Göttingen, Lamuv, ISBN 3-88977-548-9 .
  • 2001: Recognition and Exclusion. Germany as a multicultural society . Campus, Frankfurt am Main ISBN 3-593-36863-3 .
  • 2006: "We are united by hatred". Young right-wing extremists and their exit from the scene . Campus, Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 3-593-38030-7 .
  • 2008: with Ingrid Kollak : Intercultural perspectives for the social and health sector. Mabuse, Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 978-3-938304-99-0 .
  • 2012: Ambivalent relationships: The 'middle' of society and the right-wing extremist 'edge' , in: Robertson von-Trotha, Caroline Y. (Ed.): Right-wing extremism in Germany and Europe. Right outside - right 'center'? Nomos, Baden-Baden, ISBN 978-3-8329-5817-6 , (= interdisciplinary cultural studies, volume 7).

Web links

Commons : Birgit Rommelspacher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. The family's obituary , the daily newspaper , April 22, 2015, p. 22; according to other information April 15.
  2. Goethe University - mourning senior professor Dr. Birgit Rommelspacher . April 20, 2015, accessed April 20, 2015.
  3. ^ Louise-Schroeder-Medaille - Berlin.de ( Memento from March 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed April 23, 2015