FFBIZ

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The FFBIZ (Women's Research, Education and Information Center) is a Berlin archive that collects materials on women's and gender history . The focus of the collection is the history of the women's movement from the 1970s onwards. There are also archival material from the early 20th century in the archive. The FFBIZ also documents current campaigns, such as B. Campaigns like “ One-billion-Rising ”, “ Outcry ” or the “ Slutwalks ” and the related discussions in queer / feminist online media.

In addition to classic files, the FFBIZ also contains the documents typical of movement archives that are essential for research - especially the earlier - women's movement of the second wave : working papers, minutes, leaflets, posters, photos, records, buttons and stickers and gray materials .

history

In 1978, after an appeal in the women's magazine “Courage”, women formed the “Initiative group for a women's research, education and information center (FFBIZ)” around the library of the Helene Lange Foundation, which was faced with financial and housing problems , to obtain.

The founders of the center include Ursula Nienhaus (1946–2020), Ursula Westphal-Georgi , Gisela Vollradt , Ursula Wahl-Terlinden , Lilli Gast , Barbara Martin, Hildegard Radusch , Käthe Kuse , Irene Stoehr , Sabine Spiesmacher , Cornelia Engel , Angela Martin , Sigrid Fronius , Gisela Bernadoni and Ulla Terlinden , Marga Duran and Ilse Lenz . On March 16, 1979 the statutes of the FFBIZ were signed.

On February 16, 1980, the FFBIZ opened its premises at Danckelmannstrasse 13 in Berlin-Charlottenburg . 500 visitors came on the opening day.

In 1995, archive work was made the focus of the FFBIZ.

At the end of 2003, the FFBIZ moved from Danckelmannstrasse to Eldenaer Strasse 35 to the premises of the Grünes Gedächtnis archive in Berlin-Friedrichshain . There, all materials are placed in a cooled and oxygen-reduced magazine in acid-free folders and cardboard boxes for long-term storage.

On December 10, 2014, the Senator for Labor, Integration and Women, Dilek Kolat , presented Ursula Nienhaus with the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her decades of commitment to women's research and her work in the FFBIZ.

Offers and activities of the FFBIZ

Archival material

The FFBIZ has more than 900 titles in German and international feminist magazines and periodicals. It archives the bequests and autographs of women involved in the women's movement, e. B. Elisabeth Rothschuh (1893–1987), Margarethe Rudorff (1898–1988), Hildegard Radusch (1904–1994), Gudula Lorez (1944–1987) and Suzanne Seeland (1943–2009). The archive also stores files from women's initiatives, associations and associations (e.g. Action Council for the Liberation of Women , Socialist Women's Association Berlin , Democratic Women's Association Berlin , Hydra , Women's Offensive , numerous women's shelters, women's center Berlin, network Berlin lesbian / women's archives, etc. ), around 5,000 posters, stickers, buttons and postcards, around a million individual documents and newspaper clippings from the 1960s to the present day, around 5,000 photographs and historical photo albums as well as films and audio documents. The archive also provides databases on materials, bibliographies and women's organizations from all over the world.

Library

The FFBIZ's special library comprises around 11,500 volumes. This includes non-fiction, reference works and fiction. The library also contains feminist literature for children and young people and women's travel guides. It also includes numerous publications from small publishers and the “Nozizwe” and “Gudula Lorez” libraries.

Research

  • Order research
  • Information, documentation, publications
  • Thematic reading lists
  • Advising individuals and women's organizations on securing cultural assets
  • Mediation of scientific and feminist contacts

additional offers

  • Internship training
  • Archive tours
  • Events

Cooperations

further reading

Web links

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  1. ↑ Ilse Lenz (ed.): The new women's movement in Germany: Farewell to the small difference. Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2008, p. 19.
  2. ^ Frauenarchiv eV in the Berlin women's center. In: Courage. 4 (1978), p. 55.
  3. ↑ We mourn Prof. Dr. Ursula Nienhaus (December 21, 1946 - April 17 , 2020 ) , accessed on April 25, 2020
  4. ^ The FFBIZ: A women's project - an alternative institution. The first twenty years (1978-1998). From the series Documentations on New Women's History. No. 5 (1998), p. 19.
  5. ↑ Frames on Gender , formerly Questions.nu (Eng.)
  6. ↑ FFBIZ women's shop: 500 came on the first day . New Charlottenburger Rundschau (March 1980)
  7. ↑ Women's party in the FFBIZ store . Der Tagesspiegel (January 27, 1980)
  8. ↑ http://www.berlin.de/sen/aif/ueber-uns/presse/2014/pressemitteilung.240462.php
  9. ^ A b Hüttner, Bernd: Archives from below: Libraries and archives of the new social movements and their holdings. AG SPAK books (2003). Pages 44-45.