Dinah Radtke

Dinah Christine Radtke (born September 10, 1947 in Bamberg ) is a German translator . She is co-founder of the Center for Self-Determined Life for the Disabled (ZSL) in Erlangen .

Live and act

Dinah Radtke is a state-approved translator for English and French and runs a translation agency in Erlangen. Due to her own illness from spinal muscular atrophy , which made her a wheelchair user , she began to campaign for the rights and needs of disabled people in 1976. As an advocate of the independent living movement, she co-founded the Center for Self-Determined Living eV in Erlangen in 1987 and became head of the division in 1997.

In 1990 she was a co-founder of the nationwide umbrella organization Self-Determined Life eV (ISL). In autumn 1991 the association became a member of the international disability rights organization Disabled Peoples International (DPI), of which Radtke was for many years Vice-President. In this capacity she took part in the negotiations on the UN Convention on the Rights of Disabled People .

Honors

2000: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
2009: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
2016: Honorary citizen of the city of Erlangen
2019: District medal of the Middle Franconia district
2019: Bavarian Constitutional Medal in Silver

literature

Georg Pöhlein: Dinah Radtke . In: City of Erlangen, Sozialreferat (Ed.): People in Erlangen . Erlangen 2019, p. 38-49 .

Web links

Literature by and about Dinah Radtke in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Dinah Radtke is an honorary citizen ( memento from July 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Werner Falk: district medal for four. In: Falk Report. November 19, 2019, accessed on January 20, 2020 (German).
↑ Appointment: Bavarian State Parliament honors 43 personalities with the Constitutional Medal 2019 | Bavarian State Parliament. Retrieved February 7, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Radtke, Dinah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Radtke, Dinah Christine (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German translator
DATE OF BIRTH	September 10, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bamberg

[1] Dinah Radtke is an honorary citizen ( memento from July 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

[2] Werner Falk: district medal for four. In: Falk Report. November 19, 2019, accessed on January 20, 2020 (German).

[3] Appointment: Bavarian State Parliament honors 43 personalities with the Constitutional Medal 2019 | Bavarian State Parliament. Retrieved February 7, 2020 .