Women's offensive

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Frauenoffensive Verlagsgesellschaft mbH

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legal form GmbH
founding 1974
resolution January 25, 2016
Reason for dissolution liquidation
Seat Munich- Haidhausen , Germany
management Gerlinde Kowitzke
Branch Book publisher

The Verlag Frauenoffensive was an autonomous feminist book publisher based in Munich and the first women's book publisher in German-speaking countries. The central themes of the publishing program were feminist philosophy , spirituality and matriarchy research .

The publishing house was created in the course of the new women's movement in West Germany from the series Frauenoffensive in Trikont-Verlag , under which a group of 18 Munich feminists published texts from 1974. Established media initially received the foundation with suspicion. The FAZ z. B. denied the publisher any prospect of greater influence at its first appearance at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 1975 and wrote: Due to the “ hostility and rejection of everything masculine ”, the initiative was tantamount to a “ sect ” “that collects and collects a bunch of like-minded people comforts ". The mirror began its article with the words "No man should be allowed to enter the room ...". In 1975, the publisher added a treatise by Françoise d'Eaubonne , "Feminism or Death" , in which she made " male rule " responsible for the destruction of nature, in its program and subsequently published it several times. With the publication of Verena Stefan's book Skins , which became a bestseller or, according to the words of Bayern 2 , “a bible of the still new movement”, the publisher achieved financial independence in 1975. Just six months later, Der Spiegel wrote of "a remarkable gain in land". Since it was founded, Frauenoffensive has published over 350 titles by German and international authors. A magazine called "Journal Frauenoffensive" and first published in 1974 (still at Trikont ), which was supposed to bring texts from the women's movement from home and abroad to readers, was discontinued in 1978 after the twelfth edition.

Well-known authors published in Frauenoffensive were Luisa Francia , Mary Daly , Monique Wittig , Angelika Aliti , Erika Wisselinck , Senta Trömel-Plötz , Anja Meulenbelt and Christa Reinig .

In 1989 the publishing collective was reorganized, reduced to five partners. Gerlinde Kowitzke took over the management, Hilke Schläger the editing and Sylvia Kohlstadt the sales. During the fall of the Berlin Wall , the publisher and the Independent Women's Association of the GDR organized the first all-German “East-West Women's Congress” from 27.-29. April 1990, attended by around 2,000 women.

In 1996, Frauenoffensive was awarded the Anita Augspurg Prize of the City of Munich. At the 2003 Frankfurt Book Fair , the publisher received the Book Woman of the Year award from BücherFrauen eV

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  1. ↑ Brigitta Galtier et al .: Women on the offensive. Wages for housework or: Even work does not make you free . Trikont-Verlag Munich 1974, ISBN 978-3-920-38559-4 .
    Women's offensive - from today on there is my program! at Discogs
  2. ^ All kinds of offensive, in the middle confidence . In: FAZ . October 11, 1975.
  3. ↑ Women's offensive in the publishing business . In: Der Spiegel . 41/1975 p. 200.
  4. ^ Françoise d'Eaubonne : Feminism or Death . 4th edition, Frauenoffensive, Munich 1981, ISBN 978-3-881-04003-7 .
  5. ^ Martin Zeyn: Munich and feminism . In: Bayern 2 . April 26, 2014.
  6. ↑ Publishers: Breakthrough of the “women's offensive” . In: Der Spiegel . 16/1976 p. 198.
  7. ↑ Elisabeth Zellmer: Daughters of the Revolt? Women's movement and feminism in the 1970s in Munich . R. Oldenbourg Verlag 2011, p. 193, ISBN 978-3-486-70254-5 ( limited preview ).
  8. ↑ The woman as a woman . In: The time . 45/1979. 2nd November 1979.
  9. ↑ Edda Ziegler: book Women: Women in the history of the German book trade . Wallstein Verlag 2014, pp. 216f + 184, ISBN 978-3-835-32648-4 ( limited preview ).
  10. ^ Verlag Frauenoffensive: "BücherFrau des Jahres 2003" . In: Book Market . June 11, 2003.