Florence Hervé

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Florence Hervé at the Leipzig Book Fair 2010

Florence Hervé (born April 17, 1944 in Boulogne sur Seine ) is a Franco- German journalist and women's rights activist.

Life

Hervé was born in the Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt and grew up in Ville-d'Avray . After graduating from high school in 1961, she studied German in Bonn , Heidelberg and Paris , where she graduated with the state examination in 1976 and did her doctorate in German.

In 1963 she received the translator's diploma at the interpreting institute in Heidelberg and in 1972 the diploma Mémoire de Maitrise in Paris. Since 1969 she has been a freelance journalist ( Réforme , Deutsche Volkszeitung , Frankfurter Rundschau , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , Junge Welt, etc.) and active in women's political associations and initiatives. She was one of the founders of the Democratic Women's Initiative and is co-editor of the magazine and of the “women's calendar” ( We Women ), which has been published annually since 1979 . She has been involved in the European and international women's movement since 1975: from 1994 to 2002 in the leadership of the International Democratic Women's Federation and from 1996 to 2004 in the women's initiative "Freedom for Leyla Zana ".

Her main focus of work as an author and editor is dealing with fascism and colonialism, the history of anti-fascist resistance and the situation of women in the countries of the south and north.

In 2014 she was to be awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon . However, she refused to accept it. In their justification it says: An insufficient processing of the Nazi past, an inconsistent fight against open and latent neo-Nazism and racism and an insufficient recognition of the anti-fascist resistance - beyond July 20, 1944 and the White Rose - unfortunately continue to characterize politics and that Understanding of history of the Federal Republic. If I were to accept the award, I would also find myself in a row with such previous award winners who were Nazis or Nazi perpetrators. As far as I know, with one exception none of them was subsequently revoked the Cross of Merit. Incidentally, that would be an easy undertaking that also served to come to terms with history. She also points out that she does not want to give the impression that she has made her peace with the ruling system.

Hervé lives in Düsseldorf and in the Finistère department . She has two daughters.

Awards

Fonts

As an author

Monographs

Essays

  • The "Oradour Lie". Look ahead; Attempt to take stock. In: moment. Reports, information and documents from the Düsseldorf memorial site. Vol. 8/9, 1995, ISSN  1434-3606 , pp. 27-28.
  • Fore-words. In: Nikolaus Gatter (Ed.): When the story goes around the corner ( Almanach of the Varnhagen Society. Volume 1). Spitz, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-8305-0025-4 , pp. 105-108.
  • Louise Otto's “ Women's Newspaper ” from a historical and current perspective. What is of interest to us about the “Frauen-Zeitung”. In: Louise-Otto-Peters-Jahrbuch. Vol. 1, 2004, pp. 85-94.
  • The magazine “Wir Frauen” has been published for almost 25 years. In: Whoever writes stays. The new women's movement. Vol. 28, Issue 66/67, 2005, pp. 221-227.
  • Vilipendée à l'ouest, encensée à l'st? Autour de la reception de Clara Zetkin at the occasion of the 150th anniversaire. In: Allemagne d'aujourd'hui. 2007, ISSN  0002-5712 , pp. 148-152.
  • "At heart something is invulnerable and invulnerable". On the resistance of women in Germany and France, In: Spirale der Zeit 6/2009, pp. 58-61. Writings from the House of Women's History Bonn, ISSN  1864-5275 .

As editor

  • Bread & roses. History and perspective of the democratic women's movement. Marxist sheets, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-88012-570-8 .
  • Women's movement and revolutionary labor movement. Texts on the emancipation of women in Germany and in the FRG from 1848–1980. Marxist sheets, Frankfurt am Main 1981.
  • Frauenzimmer in Haus Europa. PapyRossa, Cologne 1991 (= New Small Library. Volume 19), ISBN 3-89438-025-X .
  • Namibia. Women get involved. Orlanda women's publisher. Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-922166-85-7 .
  • with Marieluise Christadler: Eventful years. France's women (Zebulon special). Zebulon, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-928679-21-X .
  • Basque Country. Women's stories, women's faces. Illustrated by Mundo Cal. Dietz, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-320-01985-6 .
  • History of the German women's movement. 7th edition. PapyRossa, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-89438-084-5 (EA Cologne 1982)
  • Simone de Beauvoir. Orange-Press, Freiburg i Br. 2003, ISBN 3-936086-09-5 .
  • Near the sea. Stories and Poems ( Blue Notes. Volume 18). Edition Ebersbach, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-934703-71-2 .
  • Longing for the mountains. Writers in the mountains. AvivA, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-932338-33-5 .
  • with Hermann Unterhinninghofen: Adélaïde Hautval : Medicine against humanity. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02154-2 .
    • Médicine et crimes contre l'humamnisme.
  • Through the sand. Writers in the desert. AvivA, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-932338-41-0 .
  • Flora Tristan or: The Dream of Feminist Socialism. Dietz, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-320-02293-8 .
  • with Martin Graf (photographer): Oradour - history of a massacre / Histoire d'un massacre , PapyRossa, Cologne 2014.
  • with Martin Graf (photographer): Natzweiler-Struthof. A German concentration camp in France - Un camp nazi en France , Cologne 2014.
  • With courage and cunning. European women in the resistance against fascism and war , Cologne 2020, PapyRossa, ISBN 978-3-89438-724-2 .

Translations from French

Web links

Commons : Florence Hervé  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c mm, authors against the zeitgeist: "No peace with this policy", in: Junge Welt, April 1, 2016.
  2. ↑ Florence Hervé: "I will not accept this award". In: young world . July 3, 2014, accessed March 15, 2020 .
  3. ↑ All information according to: Gerd Schumann: Uncovered traces. Author, researcher, narrator, activist: Florence Hervé on her 70th birthday , in: Junge Welt, April 17, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Hervé, Florence
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-German journalist and women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Boulogne-Billancourt