Claudia Schoppmann

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Claudia Schoppmann on Lake Zurich, 2014

Claudia Schoppmann (born February 17, 1958 in Stuttgart ) is a German historian , academic writer and publicist . She became known for her contributions to German-language lesbian research .

Life

After graduating from high school in Detmold, Claudia Schoppmann studied German , history and journalism , first at the University of Münster and since 1979 at the Free University of Berlin .

Her master's thesis on the writer Anna Elisabet Weirauch (1887–1970) and her novel The Scorpion was published in 1985 at Spring Awakening under the title “The Scorpion” - Women's Love in the Weimar Republic .

Following her studies, she received a grant from the Hamburg Institute for Social Research to research female homosexuality during the Nazi era. In 1990 Claudia Schoppmann received her doctorate in modern history from Reinhard Rürup and Karin Hausen at the Technical University of Berlin . Her dissertation was published in 1991 by Centaurus under the title National Socialist Sexual Policy and Female Homosexuality , and a revised new edition was published in 1997. Since then she has published numerous important essays and books on the subject, such as Zeit der Maskierung (1993); the book with ten life stories of lesbian women in the “ Third Reich ” has also been translated into Dutch and English.

With her publications and as a speaker at home and abroad, she made a contribution to coming to terms with the history of lesbian women under National Socialism. She was also involved in the first exhibition on homosexual life in Germany, which was shown in the Berlin Museum in 1984 ( Eldorado. Homosexual women and men in Berlin 1850–1950 ). In addition, she worked on the Swiss exhibition Outrageous - Lesbians and Gay Yesterday and Today , which was shown in the Stadthaus Zurich in 2002 and in Basel (2004) and Bern (2006).

Claudia Schoppmann is involved “to this day in political initiatives against the hiding and forgetting of lesbian women during the Nazi era, for example in the debate about the memorial for homosexuals persecuted under National Socialism in the Berlin zoo”. Claudia Schoppmann's academic interests continue to focus on the Nazi era , albeit with a broader range of topics: in the area of ​​exile research, she published portraits of German-speaking women who have emigrated ( Im Fluchtgepäck die Sprach , 1991). Since 1999 she has been investigating a long-ignored form of resistance against the Nazi persecution of Jews: helping those women and men who hid Jews in hiding and thus tried to save them from deportation and murder. From 1999 to 2002 she was a research assistant at the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University of Berlin in the project Rescuing Jews in National Socialist Germany . In the fall of 2003, she was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. As a freelancer, she helped to design and set up the permanent exhibition Stille Heroes at the German Resistance Memorial Center in Berlin, which opened in 2008, and continues to work on expanding and expanding it. Claudia Schoppmann lives as a freelance historian in Berlin .

Awards

  • “Rosa Courage” award for her contribution to coming to terms with the history of lesbian women under National Socialism; Osnabrück (1997)
  • “Civil courage” award for her contribution to coming to terms with the history of lesbian women under National Socialism; Berlin CSD eV (2012)

Works

Monographs
  • Prohibited conditions. Woman's love 1938–1945. Querverlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89656-038-7 .
  • Time of masking. Life stories of lesbian women in the “Third Reich”. Orlanda Frauenverlag, Berlin 1993. 2nd edition Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-596-13573-7 . Translations: Dutch edition Amsterdam 1995, English edition New York 1996. Review of the English edition
  • National Socialist Sexual Policy and Female Homosexuality. Centaurus, Pfaffenweiler 1991. 2nd, revised edition 1997, ISBN 3-89085-538-5 .
  • The scorpion. Love of women in the Weimar Republic. FrühlingsErwachsen, Hamburg 1985. 2nd edition 1991, ISBN 3-89656-038-7 .
(Co-) editorships and co-author
  • Forced to live a double life - avoidance and survival strategy of lesbian women in the “Third Reich” . In: Federal Foundation , Magnus Hirschfeld (Ed.): Research in Queer Format. Current articles in LGBTI, queer and gender research , Transcript Verlag, Bielfeld 2014
  • Exhibition catalog of the Silent Heroes Memorial Center. Berlin 2009, 2nd edition, engl. Edition Berlin 2010 (co-author).
  • They stayed invisible. Certificates from the years 1941–1945. Berlin 2006 (co-author, co-editor, with Beate Kosmala).
  • Survive underground. Help for Jews in Germany 1941–1945. Berlin 2002 (co-author, co-editor, with Beate Kosmala).
  • Between rebellion and reform. Women in the west of Berlin. Ed. Heimatmuseum Charlottenburg. Berlin 1999 (co-author).
  • Ruth Landshoff-Yorck: Gossip, Fame and Small Fires. Biographical impressions. Ed. And preface Claudia Schoppmann, Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1997.
  • “I fear people more than bombs”. From the diaries of three Berlin women 1938–1946. Metropol, Berlin 1996 (co-author, co-editor, with Angela Martin).
  • Born after the Shoah. Jewish women in Germany. Orlanda, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-88520-529-7 (co-editor, with Jessica Jacoby and Wendy Henry).
  • The language in flight luggage. German-speaking women writers in exile. Orlanda, Berlin 1991. 2nd edition Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-596-12318-6 (author, editor).

literature

  • Jan Feddersen : Be touchable. Berlin's gay memorial, says Claudia Schoppmann, is perplexing. In: taz. July 16, 2011 ( online ).
  • Karen-Susan Fessel , Axel Schock : Out! 500 famous lesbian, gay & bisexuals. Querverlag, Berlin 1997, p. 270 f.
  • Gudrun Hauer: Claudia Schoppmann - big birthday. In: Lamda News. 2/2008, p. 30.
  • Ilse Kokula : Congratulations. Claudia Schoppmann turned 50 !. In: quer_Format. Union magazine for lesbians and gays, bisexuals and transgender people. Edited by ver.di. 21/2008, p. 18.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gudrun Hauer: Claudia Schoppmann - big birthday. In: Lamda Nachrichten 2, 2008, p. 30
  2. ↑ Jan Feddersen : Be touchable. Berlin's gay memorial, says Claudia Schoppmann, is perplexing. In: taz July 16, 2011 ( online )
  3. ↑ Ilse Kokula : Congratulations. Claudia Schoppmann turned 50! In: quer_Format. 21/2008. Union magazine for lesbians and gays, bisexuals and transgender people. Edited by ver.di, p. 18.
  4. ↑ Karen-Susan Fessel , Axel Schock : Out! 500 famous lesbian, gay & bisexuals. Querverlag, Berlin 1997, p. 270f. lesbengeschichte.de
  5. ↑ Silent Heroes Memorial Center www.gedenkstaette-stille-helden.de
  6. ↑ csd-berlin.de: The Prize Winners 2012.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 16, 2012.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.csd-berlin.de  
personal data
SURNAME Schoppmann, Claudia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 17th February 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart