Advancement award for women's research and women's culture

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The advancement award for women's research and women's culture is a Munich award to promote equal rights for women. The prize, endowed with DM 10,000, was awarded annually by the state capital of Munich between 1986 and 1993 and was replaced by the Anita Augspurg Prize in 1994 .

Framework

On the initiative of the SPD - faction of the Munich City Council set up the prize for women's studies and women's culture on April 15 1986th The prize was intended to honor Munich women's projects and women who either lived or worked in Munich or who lived outside and had dealt with a Munich topic in their work “in recognition of outstanding scientific, journalistic or cultural achievements”. All Munich citizens were entitled to make suggestions, and personal suggestions were also possible. The winner should be selected from the proposals by a majority vote of a jury , which should be independent in its decision. One representative of each of the parties represented in the city council, the head of the equal opportunities office and the head of the cultural department should sit on the jury as permanent members; The city council should appoint five further members from the fields of politics, science and culture for three years at the suggestion of the equality body. The preparation of the award ceremony was entrusted to the Equal Opportunities Office.

history

The establishment of the award was not without controversy in the city council. The FDP parliamentary group and three members of the CSU voted against this . The FDP did not want to accept that men could neither sit on the jury nor be awarded the prize. The restriction is a step backwards in the - in the opinion of the FDP long ago overcome - time "in which there were schools and swimming pools for women and girls".

The following year, the award became a political issue again: the jury had selected Lillemor's women's bookstore for the award. The city councilor Peter Kripp turned against this: The women's bookstore should not receive the award, since the prohibition of entry for men made it more difficult for people to get together there. When the assembly of the Munich city council was supposed to confirm the jury's decision, the award was temporarily revoked: “CSU, FDP and USD (a mini faction of two SPD dropouts) claim that the jury was not correctly composed. In addition, Lillemors is a commercial enterprise that is not entitled to a municipal price. ”The dispute lasted a year and was finally decided by a legal opinion in favor of Lillemors.

In the third award ceremony on November 9, 1989, the raised Munich Mayor Georg Kronawitter the role model out: A number of cities have requested documents relating to the price, in Nuremberg there was already a decision of the City Council to Auslobung of Women Prize of the city of Nuremberg .

Over time, the awkward name of the award aroused the desire to associate the award with the name of an important woman from Munich. At the first award ceremony in 1987, the name Anita Augspurg was mentioned as being particularly important for the Munich history of the “old women's movement”. In 1994, the advancement award for women's research and women's culture was finally replaced by the Anita Augspurg Award : "On the 75th anniversary of women's suffrage in Germany in 1994, this is intended to commemorate the many courageous and committed women who fought for women's suffrage", so the reason given by the then head of the equality body, Friedel Schreyögg.

Prize winners

Lillemor's women's bookstore received the award for women's research and women's culture in 1987
  • 1986: Association for the Promotion of the Women's Academy Munich FAM
  • 1987: Lillemor's women's bookstore for the cultural work of bookstore women
  • 1988: Erika Wisselinck , publicist
  • 1989: Erna Dinklage-Gilbert , painter
  • 1990: Gisela Kleine , author
  • 1991: Amélie Niermeyer , theater director
  • 1992: This year the prize was not awarded because at that time in the Croatian and Bosnian war girls and women were massively victims of acts of war and ethnic cleansing and, against this background, with the failure of the award ceremony, both participation in the fate of the girls and women also the rejection of the acts of violence should be expressed.
  • 1993: Video group of the girls' club Ragazza, IMMA eV

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ State capital Munich, Equal Opportunities Office for Women (ed.): Anita Augspurg Prize. Prize of the City of Munich for the promotion of equality for women and girls. Munich, updated edition 2015.
  2. ↑ a b c d Decision to establish the Munich Award for Women's Research and Women's Culture, in: Landeshauptstadt München, Equal Opportunities Office for Women in cooperation with the Press and Information Office: Awarding of the Munich Award for Women's Research and Women's Culture to the Association for the Promotion of a Women's Academy Munich FAM . Munich 1987, p. 5.
  3. ↑ Decision to establish the Munich Award for Women's Research and Women's Culture, in: Landeshauptstadt München, Equal Opportunities Office for Women in cooperation with the Press and Information Office: Awarding of the Munich Award for Women's Research and Women's Culture to the Association for the Promotion of a Women's Academy Munich FAM. , Munich 1987, p. 6.
  4. ↑ a b Decision to establish the Munich Award for Women's Research and Women's Culture, in: Landeshauptstadt München, Equal Opportunities Office for Women in cooperation with the Press and Information Office: Awarding of the Munich Award for Women's Research and Women's Culture to the Association for the Promotion of a Women's Academy Munich FAM. Munich 1987, p. 7.
  5. ^ Resolution on the establishment of the advancement award for women's research and women's culture of the Munich City Council on April 15, 1986 , accessed on February 13, 2015.
  6. ↑ Andrea Böhm: The reserve. In: Emma , March 1988 edition, p. 8.
  7. ↑ kicks: 15 years of Lillemor's women's bookstore. In: Münchner Lokalberichte , No. 24, of November 28, 1990, 8, accessed on December 13, 2014.
  8. ↑ Georg Kronawitter: Speech on the award of the Munich Prize for Women's Culture and Women's Research. In: Equal Opportunities Office for Women, City of Munich: Presentation of the Munich Prize for Women's Research and Women's Culture in 1988 to the publicist Erika Wisselinck. Munich approx. 1990, p. 13.
  9. ↑ Lerke Gravenhorst: Thanks for the award of the Munich Prize for Women's Research and Women's Culture on March 6, 1987 in the Old Town Hall. Lerke Gravenhorst for the FAM-Verein Initiativ-Gruppe. In: City of Munich, Equal Opportunities Office for Women in cooperation with the Press and Information Office: Awarding of the Munich Prize for Women's Research and Women's Culture to the Association for the Promotion of a Women's Academy Munich FAM. Munich 1987, page 29.
  10. ↑ Merit for equality. Munich donates the Augspurg Prize. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 6, 1994, page 32.
  11. ↑ Decision of the administrative committee of the Munich City Council of December 9, 1986 on the winner of the advancement award for women's research and women's culture 1986, in: Landeshauptstadt München, Equal Opportunities Office for Women in cooperation with the press and information office: Awarding of the Munich advancement award for women's research and women's culture to the association to support a women's academy in Munich FAM. , Munich 1987, pp. 10-12
  12. ↑ Award brochure in the catalog of the German National Library
  13. ↑ Cornelia Glees: Amelie Niermeyer receives award for women's research. Pieces against the blinders of men. Awarded 26-year-old director , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 1, 1992
  14. ↑ Personal communication from Gabriele Nuß, City of Munich, Equal Opportunities Office for Women at Reisen8 on February 10, 2015.