Cornelia Scheel

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Cornelia Scheel (2010)

Cornelia Maria Barbara Eleonore Scheel (* 28. March 1963 in Munich ; native Cornelia Maria Barbara Eleonore Wirtz ) is a German LGBT - activist and author . In 2017 she took over the chairmanship of the “Mildred-Scheel-Kreis” association of the German Cancer Aid Foundation from Dagmar Schipanski .

Life

Cornelia Scheel (1972)

Cornelia Scheel is the daughter of the doctor and later founder of the German Cancer Aid Mildred Scheel nee. Wirtz and the film director Robert Adolf Stemmle . She spent the first two years of her life in a children's home. After that, Mildred raised her daughter alone. After her mother's marriage to the future Federal President Walter Scheel in 1969, she was adopted by him and thus given his family name. She attended the Nicolaus-Cusanus-Gymnasium in Bonn . In the mid-1970s, she worked for the benefit of the German Cancer Aid, founded by her mother in 1974, as a child spokeswoman for the radio play Michael and the Tredizianer . Scheel graduated from high school and studied medicine in Innsbruck for five semesters .

After completing her studies, she worked for three years for the German Cancer Aid, of which her mother was president from 1979 until her death in 1985. Here Cornelia Scheel took care of the concerns of the children's cancer aid with a focus on public relations. After she and Hella von Sinnen appeared at the Federal Press Ball in Bonn in January 1991 and thus made their relationship known, the management of Deutsche Krebshilfe released her from public relations work, as the organization feared the loss of donations. Scheel then ended her employment with the German Cancer Aid, but remained connected to her mother's life's work. Since 2009 Cornelia Scheel has been involved again in the work of the German Cancer Aid in the fight against the widespread disease cancer. In September 2015, together with its president Fritz Pleitgen and her sister , she asked the audience at the Carmen Nebel donation gala for the benefit of the German Cancer Aid to donate. In 2016, Scheel publicly affirmed her solidarity with her mother's life's work by participating with the top management of the German Cancer Aid in the ZDF charity gala Welcome to Carmen Nebel .

In 1998, Scheel and Hella von Sinnen founded the Komikzentrum GmbH company, which, among other things, produces texts by Sinnens. The couple was separated for a few months in 2002, but had been living together again in Cologne since August of the same year . In November 2015, Scheel announced that the relationship had ceased to exist in 2014. At the end of October 2015, her book Mildred Scheel - Memories of my mother was published , in which she wrote down her memories of her mother 30 years after Mildred Scheel's death.

In December 2017, the German Cancer Aid named Cornelia Scheel as the new chairwoman of its friends' association, the Mildred-Scheel-Kreis.

Social policy activities

Together with von Sinnen, Scheel took part in the registry office campaign of the then gay association in Germany (SVD; today the Lesbian and Gay Association in Germany , LSVD). On 26 May 1992, she ordered the Cologne squad . Both announced that if they were not recognized, they would go to the Federal Constitutional Court . As a result, both the SVD and the initially skeptical gay lawyers , who actually considered the time not yet ripe for same-sex marriage and therefore would have preferred to wait to get a larger number to file a lawsuit, launched a Germany-wide action Action called the registry office . On August 19, 1992, Scheel and von Sinnen and 250 other homosexual couples applied for a wedding in more than 50 German cities at the same time. This was rejected according to the legal situation, the complaints before the constitutional court were not accepted. Out of this commitment, the song Ja, ich will , produced together with the German band Rosenstolz , arose , in whose video von Sinnen and Scheel contributed.

Publications

  • together with Hella von Sinnen: The fat booty of madness . Rowohlt, 2011, ISBN 978-3-499-62763-7 .
  • Mildred Scheel: Memories of my mother . Rowohlt Reinbek, 2015, ISBN 978-3-498-06087-9 .
  • Translation with Hella von Sinnen and Monika Salchert: Simpsons dialect: Vol. 5: The Simpsons in Kölsch . Panini Verlags GmbH, 2016, ISBN 978-3-957-98611-5 .
  • "How about cancer", Cornelia Scheel's introduction to the children's non-fiction book by doctor Sarah Roxana Herlofsen . Illustration by Dagmar Geisler. Gabriel Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3-522-30504-4 .
  • Translation with Hella von Sinnen and Vera Kettenbach: Asterix dialect Kölsch IV: Asterix kütt nohm Kommiss . Egmont Comic Collection, 2020, ISBN 978-3-770-44115-0 .

Awards (selection)

  • Rosa Courage Prize, Osnabrück (together with Hella von Sinnen)

Web links

Commons : Cornelia Scheel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cornelia Scheel is a future collaborator on krebshilfe.de
  2. ↑ Dr. Mildred Scheel. In: krebshilfe.de. Retrieved March 22, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Petra Pluwatsch: Cornelia Scheel puts a monument to her mother. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from October 26, 2015 (accessed October 28, 2015).
  4. ↑ Ariola: Michael and the Tredizians. (No longer available online.) Radio play lobby, formerly the original ; Retrieved July 3, 2010 .  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.hoerspiellobby.de  
  5. ↑ Cornelia Scheel . In: Der Spiegel . No. 25 , 1983 ( online ).
  6. ↑ Viola Roggenkamp: That mustn't be . In: Die Zeit , No. 7/1991.
  7. ↑ Archive messages single view. In: www.krebshilfe.de. Retrieved March 22, 2016 .
  8. ↑ A great evening with Carmen Nebel & Show Legends - Schlager.de. In: Schlager.de. Retrieved March 22, 2016 .
  9. ↑ 3,095,000 euros for the good cause ( Memento of the original dated December 3, 2016 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. on zdf.de, accessed on October 7, 2016  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zdf.de
  10. ↑ Komikzentrum at comcologne.de
  11. ↑ Von Scheel parted ways with Morgenpost.de
  12. ↑ 18th anniversary report on express.de
  13. ↑ spiegel.de November 11, 2015: Relationship end after 25 years on spiegel.de
  14. ↑ Mildred Scheel - Memories of my mother , Rowohlt
  15. ↑ Bad luck and sulfur . In: Der Spiegel . No. 23 , 1992 ( online ).
  16. ↑ Hella out of her senses . In: Der Spiegel . No. 42 , 1993 ( online ).
  17. ↑ Rosa Courage Prize for Hella von Sinnen and Cornelia Scheel . Queer.de
personal data
SURNAME Scheel, Cornelia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wirtz, Cornelia (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and LGBT activist
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich