Carolina Brauckmann

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Carolina Brauckmann

Carolina Brauckmann (born June 26, 1954 ) is a German songwriter and historian . She has produced more than 100 German-language pieces since the beginning of the 1980s and is considered the most famous lesbian songwriter in Germany or the “grande dame of lesbian chansons”.

Career

Brauckmann grew up as the youngest of six children in Lüdenscheid . After graduating from high school, she studied German , history and English at the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg im Breisgau . During this time she was u. a. Member of the editorial team of the Freiburger Frauenzeitung for six years. and got involved in the women's rights scene. Together with Sully Roecken, she conducted research in the Freiburg City Archives ; in 1989 the two scientists published the work Margaretha Jedefrau , which deals with women's history and received national attention. She then worked for seven years in the Feminist Archive in Cologne and was a. a. Co-owner of an internet agency.

In 1982 she released her first album Satirische Lesbengesänge around the world of lesbian women and made her stage debut as a singer in 1983. In retrospect, the combination of lesbian life and humor is highlighted as a specialty of her style. The second album followed on LP in 1986 and, after a break of ten years, four CDs. In the course of her more than thirty-year career as a composer and musician, she gave numerous concerts in Germany, Austria and Switzerland both in alternative or subcultural spaces - such as in occupied houses in the 80s - as well as nationwide in established houses such as the Jazzhaus Freiburg or the cultural center Schlachthof in Kassel.

In 2003 she received the Osnabrück Rosa Courage Prize of the oldest continuously running gay and lesbian cultural festival in Germany. She performed at the opening of the Gay Games in Cologne, and she also gave  a concert at the opening of Women Pride as part of Cologne Pride 2012.

More recently, Brauckmann has also been working as a freelance communication trainer and moderator; Her political commitment developed from feminist women's politics to the lesbian-gay emancipation movement, for example as a state coordinator for older gays and lesbians in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Carolina Brauckmann lives and works in Cologne.

Discography

  • Satirical Lesbian Songs Vol. 1. On feminist utopias and everyday lesbian life, LP, 1982
  • Satirical Lesbian Chants Vol. 2nd LP, 1982
  • Lesbian makes the world go round. CD, 1994
  • Lesbians like you and you. CD, 1995
  • Because I love women ... CD, 2003
  • The Best Of - 25 Years of Satirical Lesbian Chants.
  • The L - Sound. New songs. with Nicole Sperrmann (double bass). CD, 2013

Publications

  • Margaretha Jedefrau (with Sully Roecken); Kore-Verlag, 490 p., Freiburg / Breisgau 1989, ISBN 3-926023-15-5

Web links

Commons : Carolina Brauckmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monika Mengel: Frau Brauckmann leads through the Veedel. ksta.de, May 6, 2013, accessed March 8, 2014
  2. ↑ When ladies rock on stage. ksta.de, November 15, 2010, accessed on March 8, 2014
  3. ↑ Grande Dame of lesbian chansons. jungewelt.de, October 1, 2010, accessed on March 8, 2014
  4. ↑ a b Everyday heroes! Interview with Carolina Brauckmann “Staying Visible in Old Age”. querverlag.de, September 2013
  5. ↑ Stations of pleasure. Der Spiegel, No. 45/1989, p. 67,70
  6. ↑ Meike Böschemeyer: "Hard facial expressions were obligatory for 20 years as a lesbian." Carolina Brauckmann shows her new program for the Europride. Queer, June 2002, via carolinabrauckmann.de, accessed on March 8, 2014
  7. ↑ "and with its combination of 'lesbians and humor' was considered revolutionary at the time." Karin Jahn in the Kieler Nachrichten, September 18, 2006, via carolinabrauckmann.de, accessed on March 8, 2014
  8. ↑ Prize winners on gayinmay.de ( Memento of the original from March 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gayinmay.de
  9. ↑ Gay in May on osnabrueck.de
  10. ^ Daniela Zysk: Carolina Brauckmann opens WomenPride 2012. May 24, 2012, accessed on March 8, 2014
  11. ↑ Interview Carolina Brauckmann ( Memento of the original from March 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in weird.de -  Weird The city magazine for lesbian women in Bielefeld. Issue 40, February 2011, accessed March 8, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.weird-bielefeld.de
  12. ↑ Coming out in old age: there is no need to justify. nwzonline.de, January 15, 2014, accessed March 8, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Brauckmann, Carolina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German songwriter and historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1954