Christina Thürmer-Rohr

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Christina Thürmer-Rohr (born Christina Rohr, born November 17, 1936 in Arnswalde ) is a German social scientist, feminist theorist and musician. She is one of the pioneers in women's and gender studies at German-speaking universities. Until her retirement in 2005, she taught and researched as a professor of educational sciences at the Technical University of Berlin , where she founded the first major in women's studies in 1976 . She taught feminist theory , human rights and the culture of remembrance.

She became known in particular through the term “ complicity ”, with which she describes the participation or complicity of women in the institutionalized rule of the patriarchate .

life and work

Thürmer-Rohr was born in Arnswalde in 1936 as the daughter of the evangelical pastor . Her father was a staunch National Socialist who had volunteered for service in the Wehrmacht and died in Russia in 1941 . She has a sister. Your childhood shows the influences of many German war children . Her mother and her daughters first moved to Oetinghausen in 1943 and then to Bielefeld ( Evangelical Hospital Bethel, Bielefeld ) in 1945 , where Thürmer-Rohr graduated from high school. From 1956 she first studied German and Romance languages and from 1957 psychology and philosophy (diploma). From 1961 to 1964 she did her doctorate as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation on the subject of “contact concept and contact diagnosis” and worked in the psychological counseling center of the city of Ludwigshafen . From 1964 to 1969 she worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Psychology at the Technical University of Berlin and from 1966 took over the management of the affiliated psychological counseling center.

In 1969 she became an assistant professor at the Psychological Institute of the Technical University of Berlin and participated as a lecturer in the department of architecture and urban planning in numerous urban planning and renovation projects. In 1972 she became a professor at the Berlin University of Education at the Institute for Social Education. She married, was now called Christina Thürmer-Rohr and had a son. In 1976 she founded the specialization in women's studies at the PH Berlin and was also co-founder and board member of the association "Social Science Research and Practice for Women eV" in Cologne. From 1979 to 1983 she was a member of the rock band "Outside" (experimental rock). From 1979 she was involved in non-university feminist and political education work as well as in the Association for the Promotion of the Protection of Abused Women

In 1980 she became a professor at the Technical University of Berlin in the Faculty of Education. Her main study and research areas were feminist theory, human rights and the culture of remembrance. Musically, joint projects and performances with the pianist and later partner Laura Gallati (classical and experimental music for two pianos) followed from 1983 , with whom she founded the Akazie 3 association from 2003 as a “forum for political and musical thinking”.

She was visiting professor at the University of Friborg in 1986 (subject of political theory by Hannah Arendt), and in 2001 at the University of Salzburg (subject of gender research ). From 2010 to 2016 she was a member of the jury for the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought .

The film begin (2014) by Gerd Conradt describes moments from the life of Christina Thürmer-Rohr.

Quote on complicity of women

“Women are not only oppressed, abused and entangled in a damaging system, but also get involved on their own, gain privileges, gain questionable recognition and benefit from their roles, provided they fulfill them. Women are not only shaped by shared unfortunate experiences, but also by direct and indirect approval of the appreciation of men and the relief of social perpetrators. This willingness to tolerate, support or not be responsible is the triumph that the patriarchates can celebrate. "

- Christina Thürmer-Rohr : Handbook Women and Gender Studies (2010)

Fonts (selection)

  • "Strangers and friendships". Bielefeld 2019. ISBN 978-3-8376-4826-3
  • Faces of Silence: Feminism and Kassandra Syndrome. In: Jacob Guggenheimer, Utta Isop, Doris Leibetseder, Kirstin Mertrisch (ed.): "When we were gender ...." - Remembering and forgetting genders. Bielefeld 2013, pp. 171–189. ISBN 978-3-8376-2397-0
  • The evil; Public, private; Understand. In: Wolfgang Heuer / Bernd Heiter / Stefanie Rosenmüller (eds.): Arendt manual. Life - work - effect. Stuttgart 2011, pp. 270-271, 303-304, 328-330. ISBN 978-3-476-05319-0
  • On the complicity of women: women in violent relationships. In: Ilse Lenz (Ed.): The New Women's Movement in Germany - Selected Sources. Wiesbaden 2009, pp. 77-83 ISBN 978-3-531-16764-0
  • Complicity of Women: Complicity in Oppression. In: Ruth Becker / Beate Kortendiek (eds.): Handbook women and gender research. Wiesbaden 2004, pp. 85-90 ISBN 978-3-531-14278-4
  • Changes in the feminist debate over the past 30 years. In: Antje Hilbig / Claudia Kajatin / Ingrid Miethe (eds.): Women and violence - interdisciplinary studies on gender-based violence in theory and practice. Würzburg 2003, pp. 17-29 ISBN 978-3-8260-2362-0
  • Gender democracy. In: Heinrich Böll Foundation (Ed.): Gender democracy - variety of visions - visions of diversity. Berlin 2001, pp. 21-33 ISBN 978-3-927760-39-4
  • Every thing has as many sides as people are involved in it - On the importance of dialogue in political thinking by Hannah Arendt. In: Elisabeth Conradi / Sabine Plonz (ed.): Active life - plurality and work in political thinking by Hannah Arendt. Bochum 2000, pp. 45-66, ISBN 978-3-925895-69-2
  • Complicity and thirst for discovery . Specialization in women's studies at the Institute for Social Pedagogy of the TU Berlin (Ed.), Berlin 1989, ISBN 978-3-922166-48-1
  • Vagabonds. Feminist essays. Berlin 1987 ISBN 978-3-922166-28-3
  • The habit of the false echo. In: Contributions to feminist theory and practice . New Home Therapy, Vol. 7, 1986.
  • From delusion into disappointment. In: Contributions to Feminist Theory and Practice , Vol. 8, 1983
  • Behavior change. Psychological theories of changing human behavior. Munich 1972, ISBN 978-3-485-03206-3

Literature and Sources

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christina Thürmer-Rohr: From deception to disappointment . In: Contributions to feminist theory and practice . tape 8 , 1983, p. 11-25 .
  2. ↑ Christina Thürmer-Rohr: Complicity and thirst for discovery. Major in women's studies at the Institute for Social Pedagogy at TU Berlin . Berlin 1989, ISBN 978-3-922166-48-1 .
  3. ↑ Christina Thürmer-Rohr: complicity of women: the complicity with the oppression . In: Ruth Becker, Beate Kortendiek (Hrsg.): Handbook women and gender research: theory, methods, empiricism . 3rd, exp. and through Wiesbaden 2010, p. 88-93 .
  4. ↑ Christa Rohr: Concept of Contact and Contact Diagnosis - A concept-analytical and experimental-diagnostic contribution to the psychological problem of "contact" . Berlin 1966.
  5. ↑ The film "begin" by Gerd Conradt
  6. ↑ Christina Thürmer-Rohr: complicity of women: the complicity with the oppression. In: Ruth Becker / Beate Kortendiek (eds.): Handbook women and gender research. 3rd edition Wiesbaden 2010, p. 89 ISBN 978-3-531-17170-8
personal data
SURNAME Thürmer-Rohr, Christina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rohr, Christa (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social scientist, feminist theorist and musician
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Arnswalde