Helene Jarmer

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Helene Jarmer (Vienna 2009)

Helene Jarmer (born August 8, 1971 in Vienna ) is a deaf Austrian politician of the Greens . She was a member of the National Council from 2009 to 2017 .

Life

Helene Jarmer lost her hearing in a car accident when she was two years old. She was classified by doctors as hard of hearing and was able to attend a school for the hard of hearing because of the better education, because the deaf schools of the time were not the best prerequisite for education - sign language was not taught in any school at the time. She completed the integration class at the technical college (HTL) in the Ungargasse school center in Vienna.

Helene Jarmer completed a teaching degree for deaf and hard of hearing children in secondary and special schools . She then worked as a teacher at the Federal Institute for Deaf Education for eleven years. During this time she also taught a four-year bilingual double integration class that was scientifically accompanied. During this time she also completed a pedagogical degree. Since 1999 she has been teaching special and curative education at the University of Vienna, and from 2004 to 2007 she was also teaching at the then Pedagogical Academy Vienna. In the 1999 National Council elections , Helene Jarmer ran for the Liberal Forum .

In her commitment to deaf people, she is the head of the ÖGS.barrierefrei service center and has been president of the Austrian Association of the Deaf since 2001 . One of the greatest successes as President of the ÖGLB was the achievement of constitutional recognition of Austrian Sign Language in September 2005.

The linguistic situation of deaf people in Austria is difficult: On the one hand, the mother tongue of deaf people is Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS), on the other hand, deaf Austrians grow up with German as a second language. Since, however, only one of six schools for the deaf in Austria pursues a bilingual model (teaching languages ​​German and ÖGS), the German language skills of many deaf people are poor - the political and legal foundations in deaf education are lacking. That is why it has long been one of Helene Jarmer's political goals to legally establish bilingual teaching. Due to the poor educational situation for deaf Austrians to this day, there is a very high illiteracy rate among the 10,000 deaf people in Austria , well over 50%. Helene Jarmer had a guest appearance in the Austrian crime series Kommissar Rex , in which she played a deaf person who helps Kommissar Brandtner to solve the criminal case with the help of her lip reading skills .

houses of Parliament

Helene Jarmer succeeded Ulrike Lunacek in the National Council. On July 14, 2009, this moved to the European Parliament in Brussels and Strasbourg . In the National Council election in 2008 , Jarmer, who was planned to be the future disability spokeswoman before the election, did not make it into parliament again due to the poor performance of the Greens. In the course of the 1999 National Council elections , she ran unsuccessfully for the Liberal Forum . The former liberal member of the state parliament and municipal council of the city of Vienna, Marco Smoliner, pushed the candidacy of the deaf special and curative educator to be a candidate for the national council. Jarmer was sworn in on July 10, 2009 as the first deaf member of the National Council . A direct consequence of their entry into parliament was that since then all ORF television broadcasts from parliament have also been offered in sign language (via the satellite channel ORF 2 Europe ).

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ http://www.bmi.gv.at/cms/BMI_wahlen/nationalrat/1999/Vorzugstimmen.aspx
  3. ↑ http://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_19990510_OTS0039/erinnerung-lif-pressekonferenz-mit-marco-smoliner-und-helene-jarmer
  4. ↑ http://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_19990920_OTS0104/aviso-lif-veranstaltung-gehoerlose-zweisprachig-ins-21- Jahrhundert
  5. ↑ Inspector Rex; Terrible truth; Season 5; Episode 56
  6. ↑ Helene Jarmer is to succeed Lunacek in parliament , Der Standard from January 18, 2009.
  7. ^ 'Viennese liberals demand recognition of sign language' , bizeps.or.at of May 11, 1999.
  8. ↑ 'Deaf candidate for the National Council election'
  9. ↑ Valerie Clarke: The recognition of sign language in Austria Impact of a possible recognition on my work as a social worker , diploma thesis
  10. ↑ Deaf Green Jarmer Sworn , Der Standard, July 10, 2009.
  11. ^ Parliamentary TV for the Deaf , Parliamentary Correspondence No. 629 of July 8, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Jarmer, Helene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (Greens), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna