Halina Bendkowski

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Halina Bendkowski (born July 28, 1949 in Gliwice , Poland ) is a German publicist , politician and activist of feminism and the lesbian movement .

Life

Halina Bendkowski was born in Poland as the fourth child to a single mother. In 1956 the family moved to Oberhausen , Ruhr area, North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). She lived for two years in a Catholic boarding school for girls, where she graduated from high school as an external student. In Münster she studied sociology, political science and philosophy. She completed her studies in 1978 with a master's degree.

In 1987 she and other women founded the FrauenfrAKTION as an umbrella organization in Berlin to network women who worked in government or administration and administration with autonomous feminists, regardless of their party affiliation. From 1990 to 1991 Halina Bendkowski was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives . As a non-party , she was elected from the Alliance 90 / The Greens list, but then resigned.

In connection with the international campaign for women's and human rights, she drafted the political-sociological approach of gender democracy in the early 1990s , which further developed the concept of gender mainstreaming by providing for the participation of all groups. The first publication to have this term in its title was a two-volume documentation by the Austrian Federal Chancellery from 1993, which was published on behalf of Johanna Dohnal : Test the West. Gender Democracy and Violence . The concept of gender democracy was adopted in a more general sense by the Heinrich Böll Foundation in the 1990s . The conception of this term has been controversially discussed in numerous feminist discourses.

In 1999 Halina Bendkowski was one of the founding women of the Lesbian and Gay Association in Germany (LSVD), for which she was national spokeswoman for four years. She is the initiator and theoretician of the Civil Partnership Act . In August 2001 she was one of the first Berlin women to enter into a civil partnership. With her long-time partner, the American playwright Lydia Stryk, she lives alternately in Berlin and New York.

Bibliography (selection)

  • Don't tell anyone that you are Jewish. In: Viola Roggenkamp : Do me a love. My mom. Jewish women and men in Germany speak of their mother. Mosse Verlag, Berlin 2002; Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, pp. 110–118.
  • The theatrically abandoned man. In: Sonja Düring, Margret Hauch (Ed.): Heterosexual Relationships (= contributions to sexual research. Volume 71). Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2000, ISBN 3-89806-051-9 .
  • Halina Bendkowski and others: How far did the tomato fly? A gala of reflection for women in 1968. Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-927760-32-3 .
  • With Agnes Büchele, Erica Fischer, Ilse König: Gender democracy and violence. In: Test the West. Gender Democracy and Violence. Campaign of the Federal Minister for Women's Affairs 1992–1993. Concept and organization: Halina Bendkowski, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-901192-09-3 .
  • with Irene Rotalsky (Ed.): Die everyday Wut. Violence, pornography, feminism (= Elefanten-Press 242 picture-reading-book ). Elefanten Press, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-88520-242-5 .
  • with Brigitte Weisshaupt (ed.): What philosophers think. Volume 1, Amann Verlag, Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-250-10012-9 .

literature

  • Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 86.

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References and comments

  1. ^ Heide Oestreich: The Freestyle Interventionist. In: TAZ. August 20, 2002.
  2. ^ Bendkowski, Halina, 1949- Library of Congress.
  3. ^ Myra Ferree: Varieties of Feminism. German Gender Politics in Global Perspective. Stanford University Press, 2012, ISBN 978-0-8047-5760-7 , p. 130.
  4. ↑ Like the gender mainstreaming contract and the gender contract, gender democracy is not a theoretical category, but one of the political slogans that marked a shift in politics against the subordination of women in the 1990s. In: Frigga Haug (Hrsg.): Historical-critical dictionary of feminism . Published on behalf of the Institute for Critical Theory . Volume 1, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-88619-295-4 , p. 436.
  5. ↑ Ilse Lenz : The new women's movement in Germany. 2nd updated edition. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-17436-5 , p. 874.
  6. ↑ Halina Bendkowski, Sabine Hark , Claudia Neusüß: Gender democracy - a debate: feminist awakening or institutional adjustment? In: Femina Politica . 11, No 2/2002, pp. 29-40.
  7. ↑ Feminist Halina Bendkowski got married. Women's day in the registry office of Schmargendorf. In: Berliner Zeitung. August 10, 2001.


personal data
SURNAME Bendkowski, Halina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, editor, politician (non-party, Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, until 1991), MdA
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Gliwice , Poland