Eva Quistorp

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Eva-Maria Quistorp (born August 27, 1945 in Detmold ) is a German co-founder and activist of the German peace , women's and environmental movement and is also a founding member of the Greens , which she represented in the European Parliament .

Life

Eva Quistorp comes from the since the 17th century. Quistorp family, shaped by theologians . She is the daughter of the Protestant pastor Heinrich Quistorp (1911–1987) and his (first) wife Elfriede, geb. Thilo (1916-2007). After graduating from high school in Minden in 1965 , she studied German , political science and evangelical theology at the Free University of Berlin , with Helmut Gollwitzer among others , and became a trainee teacher and high school teacher.

Eva Quistorp at the federal election party of the Greens in 1987

Quistorp temporarily looked after a girl from Afghanistan named Modina, who now lives with her father in Berlin, and wrote about it regularly.

Political functions and activities

With Petra Kelly , Roland Vogt and Joseph Beuys , Eva Quistorp was one of the founders of the Greens in 1979/80. She was a member of the federal executive committee from 1986 to 1988. In 1980/1981 she was a member of the federal board of the Federal Association of Citizens' Initiatives Environmental Protection (BBU). From 1981 to 1986 she was a member of the management of the coordination committee of the peace movement of the Federal Republic of Germany.

She was a member of the European Parliament for The Greens from 1989 to 1994, and the executive committee of the European Group from 1992/1993. Since then she has been a member of the Association of Former MEPs.

Eva Quistorp is a guest author at Perlentaucher and the Axis of Good .

Honors

  • Honorary member of the Society for Threatened Peoples on November 3, 2012
  • Federal Cross of Merit for her "intensive personal commitment to women's rights, nonviolence, peace and international understanding" as well as "as co-founder and initiator in many local and global networks for a fairer and more solidary world", on December 7, 2017 by the Senator for Health, Care and Equality , Dilek Kolat presented,

Publications

  • Manual life. Women fight against environmental degradation . Burckhardthaus-Laetare-Verlag, Gelnhausen 1981, ISBN 3-7664-0104-1 .
  • Women for peace. Analyzes, documents and actions from the women's peace movement . Päd-Extra-Buchverlag, Frankfurt / M., 1982, ISBN 3-88704-101-1 .
  • Withdraw admiration from power. In: Futures. 1984.
  • The cross with peace. Christians in the peace movement. New Society for Fine Arts, Berlin 1982.
  • Women for Peace in East and West. In: Peace in Germany. Goldmann Verlag, 1983.
  • Songs for peace . Burckhardthaus-Laetare-Verlag, Gelnhausen 1985, ISBN 3-7664-7036-1 (with Eckart Bücken and Mo Klicker-Dittmann )
  • The Greens and Religion. With Petra Kelly , Rainer Langhans , Christa Nickels , Rolf Schwendter and Gunter Hesse (eds.). Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-610-08480-4 .
  • Scheherazade. Voices of women against the logic of war . Luchterhand, Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-630-71027-1
  • The Bosnian tragedy. Violence, displacement, genocide . Verlag Traum Taum, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-929346-02-8 .
  • Women, the environment, development. 1001 women's projects . Grüner Versand, Bonn 1993, Grünes Gedächtnis archive
  • Water and water policy in Europe , Berlin 1993, Grünes Gedächtnis archive
  • Environmental standards in Eastern and Central Europe before the Rio Agenda , Berlin 1991, Grünes Gedächtnis archive
  • Herrenhaus Europa-zu Women's Policy in the EU , Berlin 1993, Grünes Gedächtnis archive
  • Culture and media landscapes in Europe , Berlin 1994, Grünes Gedächtnis archive
  • What holds the world together: love , in: Zukunfts - magazine for future design and networked thinking, Berlin 1999
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literature

  • Ilse Lenz : The New Women's Movement in Germany. Farewell to the small difference . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-14729-1 , pp. 851-853
  • The soul of the greens . Interview with Eva Quistorp. In: Heinrich Böll Foundation (ed.): The founding generation of the Greens: Eight interviews . Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-86928-172-8 , p. 55-77 .

Movies

  • Ruth Zylberman : 1968. Documentary, Paris 2008 (broadcast on Arte on April 30, 2008), with an interview with Eva Quistorp
  • Dorian Raßloff: With Jesus on the barricades - Christians in the 1968 revolt , with interviews with Gretchen Dutschke-Klotz, Katja Ebstein, Eva Quistorp, Konstantin Wecker, Pastor Manfred Engelbrecht, Hans-Christian Ströbele and others. a., Germany 2017 (75 min.)

Web links

Commons : Eva Quistorp  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Interviews

Individual evidence

  1. Quistorp family: Ducherower Zweig , accessed on April 25, 2012
  2. Refugees: How an Afghan Girl Experiences Germany - WELT. Retrieved September 1, 2017 .
  3. Integration of a refugee child as a Whitsun miracle - WELT. Retrieved September 1, 2017 .
  4. Refugees: Modina girl goes to school - WELT. Retrieved September 1, 2017 .
  5. ^ European Parliament Former Members Association: FMA Members List , accessed on August 16, 2012.
  6. Short profile and contributions by Eva Quistorp on the axis of the good .
  7. Dilek Kolat hands over the Federal Cross of Merit to Eva Quistorp , press release of the Senate Department for Health, Care and Equality, December 7, 2017