Gabriele Kämper

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Gabriele Kämper (born March 30, 1960 in Cape Town ) is a German literary scholar and head of the gender equality office of the Berlin Senate.

Life

Kämper studied Latin American studies , German literature and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin and at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. In 1988 she received her master's degree from the Free University of Berlin in Latin American Studies and Modern German Literature with a thesis on the novel Paradiso by the Cuban author José Lezama Lima . In 2003, she was at the Technical University of Berlin with a thesis on gender in the rhetoric of the new intellectual rights to Dr. phil. PhD.

At the Senate of the State of Berlin , Kämper was initially the press spokesperson for women’s politics from 1989 and, from 1991, a public relations officer for women’s politics. She has headed the Equal Opportunities Office since 2008 and is responsible for coordinating and supporting the equality processes in all administrative offices in the State of Berlin. In this capacity, she has edited several publications, including materials on trafficking in women (1999), the conference volume Rainbow Families - When Parents Are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgender (2001), in which she argues that this form of family management can enrich society , and the book Spreeperlen. Berlin - City of Women (2012). For the State of Berlin, she developed, among other things, the gender equality framework program and the campaign to think further about equality .

In her literary publications, Kämper dealt with the topics of rhetoric as a gender discourse, intellectual new rights and their masterminds of the Conservative Revolution , especially Ernst Jünger , and the repositioning of the national in German literature after German reunification .

In 1998 she published an essay in which she examined the obituaries of Ernst Jünger . With one exception, these were written by men. In her analysis, she started from the fact that the male authors from different political camps and generations were fascinated by Jünger's work and by his person. As the center of this fascination, Kämper worked out a specific masculinity construct that she described as the cult of cold .

For the title of her dissertation, Kämper chose a quote from Jünger's 1922 essay The Struggle as an Inner Experience , in which Jünger glorified war as a mythical natural event: "Erecting shimmering temples for the phallus ..." . Her work was published as a book in 2005 under the title The Male Nation . In it, Kämper analyzed the anthology published in 1994 by Heimo Schwilk and Ulrich Schacht The self-confident nation as a manifesto of an intellectual right that has been reorganizing itself in Germany since the fall of the Wall , a publication that, according to Barbara Sichtermann, had the intention of "Germany out of penitence - two world wars instigated, Responsible for Auschwitz - to help out. ”Kämper examined the authors' texts for images and metaphors beyond the actual statements and in doing so drew on the analyzes of the fantasies of soldier men, as they were worked out by the cultural scientist Klaus Theweleit in his book Men's Fantasies . The cultural sociologist Thomas Kleinspehn drew the conclusion in his review for Deutschlandfunk : "After reading it, it will be difficult to continue to cover the neo-conservative idyll with cuddly units and to play it down."

In her essay Journalism and Science in the Service of New Right Politics , which appeared in the Schweizer Medienheft in 2005 , Kämper showed "how the gender - political discourse of self-confident masculinity goes hand in hand with the rhetoric of social de-solidarization ."

Gabriele Kämper is a member of the scientific advisory board of the journal Feminist Studies .

Publications (selection)

Independent monograph

  • The male nation. Political rhetoric of the new intellectual right (=  literature, culture, gender, large series , volume 36). Böhlau Verlag , Cologne u. a. 2005, ISBN 3-412-13805-3 (also dissertation , Technical University Berlin 2003).

Book contributions

  • Silent post. Reformulations of radicalized masculinity in right-wing discourses . In: Andreas Hechler, Olaf Stuve (Hrsg.): In: Gender-reflective pedagogy against law , Budrich Verlag, Opladen u. a. 2015, ISBN 978-3-8474-0695-2 , pp. 240-263
  • Introduction: imaginations, rhetoric, images of power: national discourses and talk of gender. In: Sabine Berghahn , Frieder Otto Wolf (ed.): Rule of law instead of revolution, juridification instead of democracy? (=  Part 1: The historical requirements ). Westfälisches Dampfboot Verlag , Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-89691-672-3 , pp. 255-270.
  • The gender appeal - rhetorics of collective self-empowerment in national discourses. In: Carola Sachse , Edgar Wolfrum , Regina Fritz (eds.): Nations and their self-images. Post-dictatorial societies in Europe (=  dictatorships and their overcoming in the 20th and 21st centuries , Volume 1). Wallstein Verlag , Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8353-0212-9 , pp. 342-362 ( review by Kerstin von Lingen at H-Soz-u-Kult ).
  • with Carola Sachse : Who will be a professor? A game guide for orientation between telegenic educational renaissance and the scrapping of educational resources. In: Barbara Duden u. a. (Ed.): History in stories. A historical reader. Campus-Verlag , Frankfurt am Main u. a. 2003, ISBN 3-593-37252-5 , pp. 43-51.

Editor and author

items

  • On the disappearance of feminist theory and its subject matter , in: Feministische Studien Heft 1/2013 (on the 30th anniversary of its existence).
  • The Silence of the Muses , in: Journal for the History of Ideas, Volume IV / 3 Autumn 2010, pp. 34–46.
  • Utopias of radicalized masculinity. White Terror in Uwe Tellkamp's Der Eisvogel , Feminist Studies Issue 2 / November 2009.
  • Sex work. Art Myth Reality - an exhibition. Word creation and value creation. On the value of work and work as the value of a globalized sex service society , in: Feministische Studien 1/2007, pp. 105–117.
  • From Self-Confident Nation to National Self-Confidence. , in: Werkstatt Geschichte 37, Klartext Verlag , Essen 2004, pp. 64–79 ( pdf ).
  • »Cult of Cold«: Figurations of fascination and masculinity in retrospect on Ernst Jünger. An obituary for the obituaries , in: Feministische Studien 2/2000, pp. 20–34.
  • "New rights" and gender , in: Information and documentation center against violence, right-wing extremism and xenophobia in North Rhine-Westphalia (ed.): "New rights". What's behind it? Materials on right-wing extremism Vol. 1, Düsseldorf 1998, 2nd edition 2000 ( pdf ).
  • Does remembering only know one gender? Report from the international conference "Memory and the Second World War in International Comparative Perspectives" (with Ulrike Gleixner ), Amsterdam in April 1995, in: WerkstattGeschichte Heft 13, 5th year 1996 ( pdf ).
  • Facets and contradictions. The end of the war in the experience of women (with Carola Sachse ), a report on the conference "The unfinished past - perpetration, persecution and survival of women under National Socialism and at the end of the war" in Berlin in May 1995, in: Feministische Studien, issue 2 / 1995.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Regina Fritz et al. (Ed.): Nations and their self-images , authors, p. 365, s. Publications
  2. ↑ Quoted in: Gisela Beutler : "See the river of stars flowing". Contemporary Hispanic American Poetry. Interpretations , Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1990, ISBN 3-534-03267-5 , p. 265
  3. ↑ Gabriele Kämper, literary scholar, history in stories. A historical reading book , ed. Barbara Duden , Campus, Frankfurt a. M./New York 2003, p. 363
  4. ↑ Equal Opportunities Office, berlin.de
  5. ↑ On the occasion of the International Conference on European Strategies for Preventing and Combating Trafficking in Women 25. – 26. November 1998 in Berlin
  6. ↑ Wiebke Krohn: The problem of church official acts on same-sex couples , V&R unipress 2011, ISBN 978-3-89971-851-5 , p. 193f.
  7. ↑ Short review in DIE ZEIT Nº 50/2012, online December 6, 2012
  8. ↑ Think further about equality
  9. ↑ For the first time under the title The “Cult of Cold”: Masculinity and Fascination in Ernst Jünger's Work. A critical obituary for the obituaries as a contribution to the First International Erlangen Graduate Conference “PostModern Discourses between Language and Power”. Erlangen 20. – 22. November 1998 ( online on gradnet )
  10. ↑ Thomas Goetz: Poetics of the Obituary. On the culture of necrology and the obituary scene at the theater , Böhlau, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-205-77734-2 , pp. 89–91f.
  11. ↑ Barbara Sichtermann: When wimps cook hard , Cicero, October 21, 2009 ( Memento from December 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ "The central concern is to relativize the German responsibility for the Holocaust and National Socialism." In. Gabriele Kämper: The male nation , ibid. P. 11. Quoted in: Walter Schmitz (Hrsg.): Deutsch-deutsches Literaturexil. Exile and emigration of writers from the GDR , web Universitätsverlag- und Buchhandel, Dresden 2009, ISBN 978-3-935712-03-3 , footnote p. 299
  13. ↑ Review by Thomas Kleinspehn: Longing for masculinity. Gabriele Kämper on intellectual rights , Deutschlandfunk, June 13, 2005
  14. ↑ More reviews:
  15. ^ Thomas Gesterkamp : Gender struggle from the right , expertise published by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bonn 2010, pdf p.7
  16. ↑ Gabriele Kämper: The Male Man - Media Propaganda of Inequality , media issue, September 9, 2005, online archive
  17. ↑ Advisory Board Feminist Studies ( Memento from September 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  18. ↑ Review of Anja Kühne's booklet: Feminism and Gender. “Become a feminist!” Der Tagesspiegel, July 10, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Kämper, Gabriele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Cape Town