Elisabeth Schraut

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Elisabeth Schraut (* 1955 ) is a German historian, cultural manager and curator.

biography

Elisabeth Schraut studied history, German and art history at the Universities of Konstanz and Vienna. She then worked as a research assistant in various museums, including at the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum , head of international cultural relations in Karlsruhe and at the same time director of the Frauenperspektiven festival from 1995 to 2009. She internationalized the festival and linked it to the Karlsruhe technology region. Topics were u. a. At home in a strange world? (2001), Orient - Occident (2003), New World - New Worlds? Women from Latin America (2007), A thousand and one Iranians (2009). In 2003/04 she was also the spokesperson for the project team for Karlsruhe's application as European Capital of Culture 2010.

In 2009 she was awarded the Order Chevalier National de Mérite by the Republic of France for her services to Franco-German relations.

From 2009 to 2014, Schraut was director of the Goethe-Institut Nancy (France) and thus responsible for the whole of eastern France. From 2014 to 2019 she was the overall director of the cultural institutions of the Jakob and Emma Windler Foundation in Stein am Rhein (Switzerland). She was the director of the Lindwurm Museum and curator of the Chretzeturm artist residence . Since then she has been working as a freelance curator and author.

She designed cultural-historical exhibitions and published on women's, urban and cultural history. Another focus is contemporary art. She initiated and organized international congresses and conferences, including International Conference on Culture and Economy, Karlsruhe 2000, specialist conference on cultural sponsoring 2002 and establishment of a sponsorship exchange on the Internet, Women and Culture in Europe, Caddenabbia / Italy 2002, European City Letter Southeast Europe, Timisoara 2005, Femmes et strategies de pouvoir ENA Strasbourg, 2006, co-organized specialist conferences on "Urban History in Museums" and "Exhibitions in Museums", international conferences for culture and museum directors, etc. a. Liège 2008. She conceived the Krasnodar Culture Week in 1994, Nancy Culture Week in 1995 and the 2008 Finnish Culture Week. She undertook exhibitions and projects with the artists Mona Breede, Barbara Denzler, Simone Demandt, Sinje Dillenkofer, Dao Droste, Margret Eicher, Parastou Forouhar , Edgar Gutbub , Christina Kubisch , Susan Hefuna , Denise Ritter, Bernhard Schmitt, Sana Tamzini, Barbara Yelin and others

Publications

  • with Cord Meckseper (ed.): The city in literature. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1983, ISBN 3-525-33491-5 .
  • with Claudia Opitz: Women and Art in the Middle Ages. Braunschweig 1983.
    • French: La femme et l'art au Moyen Age. Lausanne 1984.
  • with Cord Meckseper (ed.): Mentality and everyday life in the late Middle Ages. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1985, ISBN 3-525-33511-3 . Japanese translation 1995.
  • Donors and artists in medieval Nuremberg. Nuremberg 1987
  • On the educational level of the Franconian Cistercian convents. In: Württembergisch Franken, 71 (1988), pp. 43-67.
  • Cistercian women in Franconia. Aspects of the Nuns' Life. In: Wolfgang Brückner, Jürgen Lenssen (eds.): Cistercians in Franconia. The old diocese of Würzburg and its cisterns. Würzburg 1991, pp. 29-36.
  • The cemetery of the Royal Württenberg Honorary Disabled Corps. Schwäbisch Hall 1990.
  • Dorothea von Montau: De Min is al. 19 portraits from vrouwelijke Mystiken uit de middeleeuwen. Edited by J. Thiele. s'Gravenhage 1990, pp. 236-244.
  • Comments on Leonhard Kern's sculpture “Scene from the Thirty Years War”. In: Harald Siebenmorgen (Ed.): Leonhard Kern. New research contributions. Sigmaringen 1990, pp. 30-37.
  • with Manfred Akermann, Harald Siebenmorgen as editors: Hall in the 19th century, an upper administrative town in Württemberg between March and the turn of the century. Sigmaringen 1991.
  • as publisher: Die Comburg. From the Middle Ages to the 20th century. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1989, ISBN 3-7995-3303-6 .
    • therein: The Heimvolkshochschule Comburg (1926–1933). Workers' education in the Weimar Republic. Pp. 81-95.
    • therein: The Comburg 1933–1945: A fortress of the new state? Pp. 95-103.
  • as editor: The renaissance family Borgia. History and legend. Sigmaringen 1992.
  • Alexander Winn, "Resettlement". In: Exhibition catalog Alexander Winn. o. O. (Berlin), 1993.
  • Witch persecution in the imperial city of Schwäbisch Hall. In: Witches and witch hunts in the German southwest. Stuttgart 1994, pp. 395-401.
  • Hunts of witches in the Principality of Hohenlohe. In: Witches ... s. supra, pp. 275-280.
  • Culture and economy. Two worlds or partners in terms of creativity and innovation? Edited by the city of Karlsruhe. Karlsruhe 2002, pp. 21-25.
  • The "art enemy Mars". Or: The horrors of war, in: With 100 things through the country's history, ed. from the Baden State Museum, the House of History Baden-Württemberg and the Württemberg State Museum, Karlsruhe 2002, p. 78f.
  • with Manfred Koch as publisher: Karlsruhe - Nancy. A Franco-German city partnership. Un Jumelage Franco-Allemand. A publication by the cities of Karlsruhe and Nancy. Karlsruhe 2005.
  • New World - New Worlds? Latin American women. In: Gun Stecker, Bernhard Schmitt: New rhythms on the Rhine. Karlsruhe 2007, pp. 9-11.
  • with Andree Kempf as editor on behalf of the Fondation Entente Franco-Allemande: Femmes et Strategies de pouvoir - Women and strategies of power. Strasbourg 2008.
  • Miriam Schahabian, Spaces In Between. In: Catalog for the exhibition in the Azad Gallery, Tehran. Karlsruhe 2008.
  • Asoo Khan Mohammadi, interview. In: Asoo Khan Mohammadi. Free spaces. Photographs from Iran. Exhibition catalog. Karlsruhe 2009.
  • as editor: Parastou Forouhar. "The grass is green, the sky is blue and she is black ...". Jakob and Emma Windler Foundation, Stein am Rhein 2017, ISBN 978-3-033-06379-2 .
    • In it: The foreign in paradise. (Digitized version)
  • Lake Constance and the Rhine. Tourism advertising across borders 1890–1950. Jakob and Emma Windler Foundation, Stein am Rhein 2019
  • The emblematic Lake Constance and Rhine poster www.nationalmuseum.ch/blog from April 19, 2019 in German and English (Digisalisat)
  • Nadja Kirschgarten, Noah's Ark II, 2019, www.chretzeturm.ch
  • Johann Rudolf Schmid von Schwarzenhorn. Slave of the Ottomans - interpreter at the court of the sultan - envoy of the emperor, in: Kaiser und Sultan. Neighbors in Central Europe 1600 - 1700, published by the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, Munich 2019, pp. 378–383 and cat. 204 The personal career as a picture program, ibid, pp. 386f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gun Strecker: At home in foreign countries - women introduce themselves. Kulturamt Karlsruhe, 2001, ISBN 978-3-88190-271-7 , p. 48.
  2. ↑ Bernhard Schmitt: Elisabeth Schraut in conversation: View on non-European cultures . In: Diary of the fan-shaped city . 29th year 2005/2006, p. 135-138 .
  3. ^ Badische Latest News from June 26, 2009
  4. ↑ About us. Accessed on September 2, 2018 at Windler Foundation - Cultural Institutions .
  5. ^ Topic: Elisabeth Schraut. In: Frauenfelder Nachrichten, December 9, 2015, accessed on September 2, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Schraut, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, cultural manager and curator
DATE OF BIRTH 1955