Gunild Feigenwinter

Gunild Feigenwinter born Gunild Schimmel , (born May 12, 1940 in Krefeld ) pseudonyms : Gunild Regine Winter , Gudrun S. Krayfuss is a German writer , freelance journalist and publisher's editor . She lives in Switzerland.

Life

Feigenwinter spent her childhood in Hörnsheim in Hesse and her school days in Duisburg-Hamborn . Later studied them German , philosophy and psychology at the Universities of Freiburg , Vienna and Basel . In her dissertation she dealt with the Austrian writer Karl Kraus .

From 1972 to 1976 she published the magazine Die Hexenpresse - magazine for feminist agitation in Basel , which is considered the first German-language magazine of the new women's movement . In the context of the last edition of the witch press in 1976 she published her “Manifesto of Mothers”, in which she distanced herself from what she understood as the mainstream of the women's movement and leftist equality ideology.

As a writer, she published various volumes of short stories and poems from 1978 onwards . Her poetry also reflects memories of a war childhood in Germany as well as images of a pre-patriarchal mythology . A monograph followed in 1998 with reflections on the life and work of Adelheid Duvanel .

Later she dealt critically with Islam from a feminist point of view and has since published her texts on the Internet. She sees herself as a maternal feminist.

Publications

• Karl Kraus. Method of polemics. University thesis, Basel 1972 (dissertation, University of Basel)
• Die Hexenpresse - magazine for feminist agitation , Basel, 1972–1976
• Manifesto of the mothers. Basel 1976 (last edition of the witch press )
• (under Gunild Regine Winter ) Germany, I dread you. Feminist sneers and lamentations. Mond-Buch Verlag, Basel 1978
• (under Gunild Regine Winter , with Adelheid Duvanel and Felix Feigenwinter) Strange stories from Basel , Mond-Buch Verlag, Basel 1978
• (under Gunild Regine Winter ) The siren calls me , Mond-Buch Verlag, Basel 1981
• Arachne (feminist magazine), Basel 1982
• Kore in the Underworld , Mond-Buch Verlag, Basel 1986
• (as Gudrun S. Krayfuss ) Scheherezadel. A Basel author is discovered. Reflections on the life and work of Adelheid Duvanel. Isishaus Publishing House, Basel 1998

literature

• Anke Hees: Feigenwinter, Gunild In: Konrad Feilchenfeldt (Hrsg.): Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon . The 20th century. Biographical and bibliographical manual. Volume 8. Erni - Fischer K. G. Saur Verlag , Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-908255-08-6 , p. 330 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Gunild Feigenwinter in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry about Gunild Feigenwinter in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
• Gunild Feigenwinter at Renata Rollfinke Verlag
• Preface to the "Manifesto of the Mothers"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Anke Hees: Feigenwinter, Gunild. In: Konrad Feilchenfeldt (Ed.): German Literature Lexicon. The 20th century. Biographical and bibliographical manual. Volume 8. Erni - Fischer. KG Saur Verlag , Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-908255-08-6 , p. 330 .
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} renatarollfinkeverlag.eu: Author Gunild Feigenwinter. Retrieved on October 31, 2012. ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Frauenmediaturm.de: Chronicle of the New Women's Movement. October 1972. Retrieved on October 30, 2012. ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.