Hannelore Mabry

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Hannelore Mabry (born August 27, 1930 in Chemnitz ; † March 20, 2013 in Munich ; born Hannelore Katz ) was a German suffragette , author , sociologist, actress , voice actor and journalist . She is considered a co-founder of the New Women's Movement in Germany. As an actress and speaker, she is also known under the stage name Lorley Katz .

family

Hannelore Mabry's father Alfred Katz (* March 30, 1882 ; † 1943 ) was the technical director of Siemens-Schuckertwerke , the mother Johanne nee Fromme (* July 30, 1902 , † September 1986 ) was not allowed to study, unlike her brothers, but wanted to according to her daughter Hannelore Mabry, she is not just a housewife and mother. After 1945 Johanne Katz settled in Bielefeld and was involved in women's and peace politics in the FDP .

Acting career

Hannelore Mabry made early Abitur in Chemnitz in 1947 and then switched to the municipal drama school in Bonn as a scholarship holder . In 1950 she passed the stage maturity test with Gustaf Gründgens in Düsseldorf and performed under the name Lorley Katz in Pforzheim , Karlsruhe , Rheydt , Essen and Nuremberg in the following years .

In April 1953 Mabry married the technician Dieter Kretz. The marriage ended in divorce in 1955. Their daughter now lives in the south of France. In July 1956 she married the American Paul Michael Mabry and lived with her daughter from December 1956 to June 1958 in Boston , where Hannelore Mabry u. a. worked as a speaker for the German-language radio show German Radio Hour . The man's hopes for an acting career were not fulfilled. Financial bottlenecks and deteriorating personal relationships led Hannelore Mabry to return to Germany in the summer of 1958. The marriage was also divorced in July 1968.

Hannelore Mabry tried again in 1958 to gain a foothold as an actress in Germany; individual engagements, for example at the Ruhr Festival in Recklinghausen in 1959, did not bring the hoped-for success. Her rare film appearances include the operetta Die Dubarry with Willy Fritsch and the drama Michael Kramer with Martin Held . In addition, she also acted as a voice actress and lent her voice a. a. of the teacher Miss Kassandra in the cartoon series Maya the Bee .

Commitment to women's rights

After moving to Munich and still lacking regular income, she decided to start over: in the winter semester of 1966/1967, she began studying sociology , economics , political science and psychology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Parliamentarism and Marxism were major subjects of study, and Mabry also took a few seminars on the so-called women's question . However, nothing is known of participation in protest events and the 'student revolt'. In documents from the sociology student body, Mabry is only mentioned as the contact person for the operating group for Agfa in Munich.

In 1971 Hannelore Mabry wrote her diploma thesis in the main subject sociology with the study The Relevance of Female Parliamentary Work for the Emancipation of Women. Attempt of a political-sociological study on the female members of the Bavarian State Parliament from 1946-1970 . She published the work under the title Weeds in Parliament in 1972 (2nd edition 1974). In doing so, she referred to a saying by the CSU co-founder and former Bavarian state parliament president Michael Horlacher (“As an individual woman looks like a flower in parliament, but in bulk like a weed”, undated, probably between 1946 and 1950).

Frauenforum eV

The topic of women in political offices / mandates was timely. In the late 1960s, emancipation as a popular term soon acquired a predominantly women-specific meaning. 1971 saw the start of Mabry's organized commitment to the women's movement : In December she founded the Frauenforum München eV (FFM); from 1972 with the first magazine of the second women's movement information of the women's forum Munich eV , from No. 1/1974 women's forum - voice of the feminists . The women's forum, which was primarily initiated for better information, coordination and integration of national and international women's groups, was also devoted to local political processes (e.g. Munich city council election 1972) and literary criticism . Hannelore Mabry was responsible for press law and was also the author of almost all of the articles. From 1974 the tone and character of the magazine changed with the inclusion of the term feminist in club names and magazine titles, and probably also in the club itself . Combative terms and articles against patriarchs and partiarchals replaced the previously largely integrative collection of date announcements, reporting and event- oriented club work. The mixed-gender approach of the association from the beginning has met with rejection in the autonomous women's movement to this day. Mabry's political style challenged both internal and public criticism. The break occurred in the winter of 1975. After the board was not discharged, Mabry and a few others separated from the women's forum and founded the support group for the development of the feminist party in 1976 (from 1990 support group Der Feminist ), whose organ appeared in Munich as Der Feminist from 1976 . The women's forum existed without Hannelore Mabry until 1996.

The support groups

With the support groups (and the feminist), Mabry had now created a forum in which she could publish her now sophisticated pacifist, feminist theories, apparently without great resistance. In so-called street actions (weekly sales and information stands of the support group in downtown Munich), at various discussion events of the association and Mabry itself, but also in international correspondence, Mabry essentially referred to her feminist criticism of Marx and the greeting she developed, “ Heil Child! ”As a symbol of their child-centered theses. Hannelore Mabry worked and lived for her goals: dissemination of her political positions, association work, publications, fundraising and new subscribers; this ensured their maintenance over long stretches.

In the 1980s, Mabry gained national fame with a number of high-profile campaigns: In the winter of 1983, she started chain fasting for mothers with a number of female comrades-in- arms. Help mothers fight violence! in the Munich Liebfrauenkirche . This unannounced " occupation of the Munich Liebfrauendom and trespassing by Hannelore Mabry " (according to the archbishop's office in the following criminal complaint) had the office evacuated by the police. Hannelore Mabry sued successfully in several courts and a. against the fee notices for the police operation. When Pope John Paul II came to Munich on May 3, 1987 , Mabry wanted to protest against him with the support group. Despite the registration of the demonstration and the public assembly of the banners, the protest action was prematurely broken up by the police, they were taken into police custody before they even reached the demonstration site and held for seven hours. Until 1991 Hannelore Mabry successfully sued a. a. against the detention or the implementation of the amended Police Task Act (Bavaria) .

In 1986 Emilie Schurig , a long-time supporter and peace activist, left extensive books and magazines to the support group, and Petra Kelly, a member of the Green Parliament, left two small apartments in Munich's Au to be used for educational work relevant to women. Mabry and Kelly had known each other since the early 1970s; Kelly signed the apartments to Mabry as the club's property and financial support for the Bavarian Archive of the Women's Movement, a new project from 1988 . Mabry organized additional weekly history workshops in the rented archive rooms at Lilienstraße 4, Munich; Until 2002, the extremely frequent association and board meetings took place here.

Due to illness, Hannelore Mabry had to limit her activities from 2001 on. The archive is closed, the association's work has since been limited to the necessary administrative files, the magazine Der Feminist was published in 1999 with number 26 for the last time with Mabry's core theses (reprint of the article from 1977: With or without Marx on feminism? ).

Her papers are now at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich, in particular the files of the associations and the holdings of the former Bavarian Archives of the Women's Movement, but also private files. The donations and bequests acquired by Hannelore Mabry for the association are now used to promote scientific work on the topic of women's movement.

Hannelore Mabry last lived in a senior citizens' home in Munich.

Works (selection)

  • Weeds in Parliament , Munich: Birds, 1971; 2nd updated edition, Lollar: Achenbach, 1974.

literature

Filmography (selection)

  • 1951: The Dubarry
  • 1959: account balanced
  • 1960: dear love
  • 1960: It happened on the border
  • 1961: When the veil fell ...
  • 1962: Lunch (short film)
  • 1962: The television tribunal meets - bigamy
  • 1962: winter quarters
  • 1964: Lydia has to die
  • 1964: Alarm in the Mountains (TV series) - Episode 11: The Rape of Saint Florian
  • 1965: Michael Kramer
  • 1964: Maibritt, the girl from the islands
  • 1966: The stronger one
  • 1970: A short trip to the Rococo
  • 1976: Cash!

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Isabella Lechner: Hannelore Mabry: A life against the "shit of the patriarchy" portrait in the standard of May 12, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Mabry, Hannelore
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Katz, Hannelore (maiden name); Katz, Lorley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German, author, journalist, women's rights activist, sociologist, voice actress
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 2013
Place of death Munich