Christine Finke

Christine Finke , born Ehler (* 22. June 1966 in Hamburg ) is a German Anglistin , journalist , blogger and children's book - author . Her blog “Mama works” made her known throughout Germany.

Life

Christine Finke was born in Hamburg in 1966 and grew up with her family in Kirchzarten near Freiburg im Breisgau. After completing her school education, she studied English, Romance studies and phonetics at the Universities of Freiburg and Canterbury . She then did her doctorate at the Humboldt University in Berlin and worked as a journalist. Finke lived in Lübeck and Hamburg before moving to Konstanz in 2002 .

From 2007 to 2011 she worked as an editor in a Swiss subsidiary of the Norwegian children's book publisher Sandviks , for which she set up a parents' website. Since separating from her husband in 2009, she has been a single mother of three children. When she became unemployed in 2011, her youngest child was two years old. In order not to have to apply for Hartz IV , she became self-employed and has since worked from home as a children's book writer and as a freelance journalist for various media, including Friday , Brigitte MOM , Baby & Co and Die Zeit . During this time she started blogging.

According to the Süddeutsche Zeitung , “Mama works” is one of the most influential parenting blogs in Germany with a reach of more than 100,000 visits per month. The topics are upbringing, the compatibility of work and family and the special situation of single parents, for whom Finke wants to be a mouthpiece. Her first contribution was with women who regret becoming mothers; in others she called for the abolition of the Federal Youth Games and under the hashtag # systemkrank she collected government problems from single parents on Twitter. Men’s and father’s rights activists repeatedly attack them online with hate attacks. Her blog was hacked when she filed a criminal complaint on a grave libel case .

In 2016, she published her book “Alone, alone, single-parent” at Bastei Lübbe . How society betrays us and abandons our children ”, in which, analogous to her blog, she describes the difficulties of single parents in Germany. She was interviewed by regional and national media on the subject of single parents and child justice and was a blogger on the TV show Maybrit in 2017 Illner .

In the course of the municipal elections in Baden-Württemberg in 2014, she was elected to the Konstanz municipal council, where she is an honorary councilor of the Young Forum Constance voter community. In the city council she advocates child and family friendliness. In 2020 she was awarded the Helene Weber Prize along with 14 other local politicians .

Works

• Edited (under the name Christine Ehler) together with Ursula Schaefer: Verschriftung und Verschriftisierung. Aspects of media change in different cultures and epochs (conference paper), Gunter Narr Verlag, Tübingen 1998, ISBN 978-3-8233-5404-8
• Writing and writing of Old English. A methodological and exemplary study (= New Studies in English and American Studies, Volume. 76), Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 978-3-631-34281-7 (also dissertation Humboldt University 1998)
• Alone, alone, single parent. How society betrays us and lets our children down , Lübbe-Verlag 2016, ISBN 3-7857-2559-0 .
• Financial Planner Single Parents - Money and Law: This is yours, Stiftung Warentest, April 2019, ISBN 978-3-7471-0048-6 .

Texts for children's books

• Sandman. Bedtime Stories, Friendz, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86318-271-7
• Care bears . My Advent Calendar Book, Friendz, 2016, ISBN 978-3-86318-462-9
• Care bears. Bedtime Stories, Friendz, 2016, ISBN 978-3-86318-379-0
• Care bears. Minute stories to read and listen to, Friendz, 2017, ISBN 978-3-86318-447-6

Web links

• Literature by and about Christine Finke in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Mama works , Christine Finke's blog
• Julia Nehmiz: Constance blogger politicizes against hatred and for women , St. Galler Tagblatt , May 22, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Susanne Ackstaller: Women over 40: Monday interview with Dr. Christine Finke. | Texterella. In: Texterella. January 26, 2015, accessed May 21, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Poverty - With the daughter in a room. Retrieved May 21, 2019 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Silke Fokken: Single parents on Mother's Day: Protest instead of chocolates . In: Spiegel Online . May 12, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed May 21, 2019]).
4. ↑ Christine Finke: Kassensturz - New shoes are a luxury. In: Friday. 2015, accessed May 21, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Barbara Vorsamer: Christine Finke. I blog, so I am , Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 9, 2017
6. ↑ Joachim Scholl: Christine Finke: "Alone, Alone, Alone Parent" - lone parents reap reproaches instead of help. In: reading. Deutschlandfunk Kultur, July 13, 2016, accessed on May 21, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Jury names 15 committed local politicians. Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth, May 28, 2020, accessed on July 3, 2020 .