Hanna Beate Schöpp-Schilling

Hanna Beate Schöpp-Schilling (born August 19, 1940 as Hanna Beate Schilling in Wohltorf ; † July 20, 2009 in Berlin ) was a German Americanist and feminist who made outstanding contributions to the promotion and realization of women's rights on a national and international level .

Live and act

Hanna Beate Schilling studied English , German and American studies at the universities of Munich , FU Berlin and Yale . It was 1970 at the Free University of Berlin with a thesis entitled The importance of the brothers Schlegel for the American Literary Criticism, 1815-1833 to Dr. phil. PhD.

She then worked as a research assistant and from 1972 to 1976 as an assistant professor of American literature at the John F. Kennedy Institute . It was here that she introduced “ Women's Studies ” seminars for the first time and, together with other young women academics, organized the first summer university for women in what was then the Federal Republic at the Free University of Berlin in 1976.

From 1977 to 1987 she worked at the Aspen Institute Berlin in various functions, including assistant director and managing director. She was one of the West Berlin scientists who initiated the establishment of a women's research institute at the Free University of Berlin, which was anchored in 1981 as a central institution for the promotion of women's and gender research. From 1982 to 1984 she was co-editor of the series “Results of Women's Research”, in which the dissertations of young women scientists were published.

For five years she headed the women's policy department newly founded by the then Minister Rita Süssmuth in the Federal Ministry for Youth, Family, Women and Health (today: Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth ) with the rank of ministerial director .

In 1989 she was proposed by the then Federal Government of the States Parties to the United Nations as experts in the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women elected (CEDAW), to which she belonged by 2008. She played a decisive role in shaping the work of the committee and made a significant contribution to the recognition of international women's rights as inviolable and inalienable human rights . In 2007 she documented the committee's activities in the volume The Circle of Empowerment , which she edited with Cees Flinterman , the Dutch member of the committee. The volume sheds light on the background to the actual work of the treaty body, which otherwise remains closed. In an essay, Hanna Beate Schöpp-Schilling works out the special features of the CEDAW in comparison to other human rights instruments. In her review, Sarah Wittkopp draws the conclusion: “The anthology strikes a balance between legal information and personal reflection. […] The fight against discrimination against women is illustrated using the example of the committee's growing acceptance and self-confidence. A colorful carpet of convention and its history is woven from the many personal memories. "

In addition, Hanna Beate Schöpp-Schilling took on numerous teaching positions in the field of human rights of women, including at the Ruhr University Bochum , at the universities of Yekaterinburg (Russia) and Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and as a visiting professor at the Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto ( Japan).

Hanna Beate Schöpp-Schilling was awarded the Margherita von Brentano Prize in 2008 for her life's work and in particular for her 20 years of commitment to the implementation and implementation of women's and human rights and in 2009 she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class .

“I am a feminist. And feminism just means recognizing that the prevailing conditions are determined by patriarchal structures. "

- Hanna Beate Schöpp-Schilling on the occasion of the presentation of the Margherita-von-Brentano-Prize

Memberships (selection)

• Board of Trustees of the German Institute for Human Rights
• National Human Rights Institute of the Sverdlovsk Region in Yekaterinburg
• 2007 to 2008 "filia. The Women's Foundation "

Awards

• 2008: Margherita von Brentano Prize
• 2009: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Fonts (selection)

• A Bibliographic Guide to Women's Studies (Ed. With Dagmar Loytved). 2 volumes and 1 supplement volume. John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Berlin 1976–1980. OCLC 741490228 (Volume 1), OCLC 311407828 , (Volume 2) ISBN 3-88646-000-2 (Supplementary Volume).
• Women's Policy in the United Nations: New Challenges , in: Sabine von Schorlemer : Praxishandbuch Uno. The United Nations In the Light of Global Challenges , Springer, 2003 (first edition 2002), ISBN 978-3-540-43907-3
• The Role of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and its Monitoring Procedures for Achieving Gender Equality in Political Representation . Written version of a lecture to a conference of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance in Budapest, 22. – 23. October 2004.
• Proposals for reforming the UN treaty committees as part of efforts to reform the United Nations . In: Helmut Volger and Norman Weiß (eds.): The United Nations facing global challenges: Papers at the Potsdam UN Conferences 2000-2008 , Volume 3. Universitätsverlag Potsdam 2011, pp. 69–79, ISBN 3-86956-139-4 (Written version of a lecture given to the UN conference of the United Nations Research Group in Potsdam on May 24, 2005).
• The Circle of Empowerment. Twenty-five years of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (with C. Flinterman). Feminist Press at the City University of New York 2007, ISBN 978-1-55861-563-2
• Forced Marriage as a Human Rights Violation: The Importance of International Legal Instruments . In: Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth (Ed.): Forced marriage in Germany . Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 2007, pp. 200–214, ISBN 978-3-8329-2907-7 (= series of publications by the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth - Research Series , Volume 1).
• The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and its Treaty Committee after 25 years. Balance sheet and outlook , in: Andreas Zimmermann, Thomas Giegerich (Eds.): Gender und Internationales Recht , Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-12626-2 , pp. 137–169
• The Women's Rights Committee of the United Nations in interaction with Islamic countries , in: Hatem Elliesie (Ed.): Contributions to Islamic Law VII. Islam and Human Rights , Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt 2010, ISBN 978-3-631-57848-3 , Pp. 417-455

Web links

• Literature by and about Hanna Beate Schöpp-Schilling in the catalog of the German National Library
• Margherita von Brentano Prize: Schoepp-Schilling, FU Berlin
• Passionate advocate for women's rights, obituary of the German Women's Council

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hanna Beate Schöpp-Schilling (1940-2009), The Feminist Press at The City University of New York ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2014 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.  
2. ↑ Michael Dreyer, Markus Lang (ed.): Amerikaforschung in Deutschland , Franz Steiner Verlag 2004, ISBN 978-3-515-08466-6 , p. 58
3. ↑ 25 years of empowering women . Review by Sarah Wittkopp , in: querelles-net No. 25 (2008)
4. ↑ ... she lectured extensively throughout Europe, North and Central America, and Western and Eastern Asia . Hanna Beate Schöpp-Schilling (1940-2009), The Feminist Press at the University of New York ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2014 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.  
5. ^ Margherita von Brentano Prize for women's rights activist Hanna Beate Schöpp-Schilling, Campus online magazine January 29, 2009
6. ↑ On the death of Hanna Beate Schöpp-Schilling, German Institute for Human Rights ( Memento of the original from June 12, 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.  
7. ↑ Hanna-Beate Schöpp-Schilling receives Margherita-von-Brentano-Prize , MMfSFJ.de, January 29, 2009
8. ↑ Dr. Hanna Beate Schöpp-Schilling awarded the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany , State Government Schleswig-Holstein May 13, 2009 ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2014 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.  
9. ^ Walter Rösch : Review in the portal for political science