Gunda Werner

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Gunda Werner (born July 8, 1951 in Hamburg ; † January 22, 2000 there ) was an activist of the Second Women's Movement with a focus on women's education . She is considered to be one of the masterminds behind the concept of gender democracy .

life and work

Gunda Werner grew up in Hamburg-Langenhorn . After high-school diploma , she completed 1967-1969 training as advertising management , fetched subsequently at Hamburg Hansa College of the High School on the second-chance education and studied philosophy and theology at the University of Hamburg . After completing her studies, she initially worked for two years as a research assistant for Herbert Schnädelbach , her later doctoral supervisor , before moving to the Hamburg Senate Office for Equal Opportunities as a consultant at the end of the 1980s .

With her partner at the time, Helga Braun, Gunda Werner took part in the development of the Hamburg women's library Denk (t) räume and organized several Hamburg women's weeks based on the model of the women's summer university in Berlin. In 1988 Werner became a member of the cabaret group "Women laugh together eV", where she met Annette-Susanne Hecker, who would eventually become her lifelong partner.

In 1987 Werner founded together with women from the party Die Grünen and non-party women the association " Frauen-Anstiftung eV ", for which Die Grünen took over the sponsorship and which was finally converted into a foundation, whose management Werner took over. In 1988 the women's foundation merged with the Göttingen Buntstift Foundation and the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Cologne to form the umbrella organization Stiftungsverband Regenbogen eV , from which in 1997 the Berlin-based Heinrich Böll Foundation of the Greens emerged.

Inspired by the political scientist Barbara Holland-Cunz , she developed and concretized the concept of gender democracy designed by Halina Bendkowski . In 1996, as part of the merger of women incitement with the Heinrich Böll Foundation, she advocated the concept of women's politics through "gender democracy " To replace the foundation's mission statement. The concept was taken up in the context of gender mainstreaming and "turned out to be a useful basis for women and men for equality in organizations."

Honor

Memorial stone for Gunda Werner and Emily Ruete

Gunda Werner is buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery and received a memorial stone in the memorial for important women in Hamburg's history, the Women's Garden .

She is the namesake of the Gunda Werner Institute for Feminism and Gender Democracy of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, founded in 2007 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Gunda Werner , portrait of Annette Hecker, State Center for Civic Education Hamburg
  2. ↑ Werner, Gunda , in: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (eds.): Hamburgische Biografie 5 Personenlexikon, Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0640-0 , p. 378
  3. ^ History of the Heinrich Böll Foundation eV on their website.
  4. ↑ Ilse Lenz: The New Women's Movement in Germany , Springer VS, 2nd, updated edition 2011, p. 1077. Therein: Gunda Werner: Geschlechtdemokratie , pp. 903–906
personal data
SURNAME Werner, Gunda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German activist of the Second Women's Movement
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 2000
Place of death Hamburg