Claudia Gehrke

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Claudia Gehrke (right) at a reading at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2009

Claudia Gehrke (born June 1, 1953 in Berlin ) is a German publisher and publicist .

Life

Gehrke grew up in Frankfurt am Main and studied German, mathematics and philosophy in Tübingen . From the 1970s to the early 1980s she organized a salon in Tübingen, from which she founded the bankruptcy book publishing house in 1978 together with the Japanese specialist Peter Pörtner . The publishing house focuses on literature, queer culture, eroticism, photography and travel books, including on Japan and the Canary Islands . Gehrke publishes in art catalogs, anthologies and magazines.

Publications (selection)

  • I have a body , Matthes & Seitz 1982.
  • Purpurmund and Honiglippen , Ullstein-Taschenbuch 1991 (Erotic texts by women from the Middle Ages)
  • Articles in art catalogs, magazines (among others):
    • The importance of the small movements . In: Der Spiegel . No. 44 , 1988, pp. 273 f . ( online - on the pornography debate). ;
    • Magic of the Imaginary , in: Spiegel -Spezial, 12.1996;
    • Plea for sharp labia and looking or looking away (pamphlet against making the female sex invisible), in: Sondeur. Monthly Boulevard for Culture and Politics No. 1 and 2, 1990;
    • Notes on sexuality (excursion through the history of erotic cultures of women), in: FreiburgerFrauenStudien 15, 2004 (Unleashing the imaginary);
  • Articles in daily newspapers and about exhibition openings, etc. a. to Elvira Bach , Doris Schöttler-Boll, Rinaldo Hopf, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec ( Sleep ); to Anja Müller's exhibitions 60+ and right in the middle .
  • Women & Pornography , Bankruptcy Book Ld. Gehrke 1988, ISBN 3-88769-034-6 .

literature

  • Claudia Steinsberger: Claudia Gehrke. Publisher in Tübingen . In: Lots of women. Detected in Baden-Württemberg. 47 portraits, Stuttgart: Theiss 2000, ISBN 3-8062-1525-1 , pp. 38–40.

Web links

Commons : Claudia Gehrke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Short biography of the publisher , Konkursbuch Verlag
  2. ↑ According to Perlentaucher born in Berlin, according to other publications in Frankfurt am Main
personal data
SURNAME Gehrke, Claudia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin