Helga Pankratz

Helga Pankratz (born February 6, 1959 in Wiener Neustadt ; † January 27, 2014 in Vienna ) was an Austrian freelance writer in the alternative and feminist publishing and magazine industry as well as a cabaret artist and activist of the lesbian and gay movement .

Life

Helga Pankratz mainly wrote poems , short prose and essays , which were published in numerous literary magazines and anthologies throughout the German-speaking area and in four of her own books. A book and poems by her have been translated into Slovenian . She also wrote song lyrics as well as comments and reviews and was an editor for the magazines an.schlag , LAMBDA-Nachrichten and Morgenschtean . In the 1990s she wrote and played women's cabaret. She has received several literary prizes for her work.

She was a member of the International Dialect Institute (IDI) , Secretary General of the Association of Austrian Dialect Authors and Archives (Ö.DA) and a board member of the ARGE Region Culture and the Minorities Initiative .

In 1981 she co-founded the lesbian group and in 1983 the gay and lesbian youth group in the Association Homosexual Initiative ( HOSI ) Vienna , in 2001 she launched the school attendance project “Peerconnexion”. From March 2001 to March 2004 she was also the chairwoman of the association. In 1995 she took part in the EuroGames in Frankfurt as a tournament dancer for the lesbian women's dance club Resis.danse , and in 1998 she got to know a few Austrian athletes at the Gay Games in Amsterdam. She took the initiative, started the networking of homosexual athletes, reported repeatedly in the LAMBDA news and was thus a pioneer of homosexual sports in Austria.

In the last years of her life, Helga Pankratz contracted lung cancer and died on January 27, 2014 at the age of 54 from the consequences of the disease.

Awards

• 2000 Gay And Lesbian Award (GALA) from HOSI Linz for special services to the legal and social equality of lesbians and gays in Austria.
• 2011 Culture Prize of the City of Wiener Neustadt for Literature

Web links

• Literature by and about Helga Pankratz in the catalog of the German National Library
• wolfsmutter.com : Helga Pankratz: HOSI Vienna (not) a place for lesbians? - Or: is the women's movement the only correct homeland for lesbians? , October 24, 2005, published in an.schlag 11/2004
• kpoe.at : Helga Pankratz: Dare ! , February 28, 2002 - in the series Volksstimme-Debate on PartnerInnenschaften
• Stonewall in Vienna - the 1970s: Helga Pankratz , QWIEN .at , November 26, 2012
• Women activist Helga Pankratz has died. Obituary on diestandard.at of January 27, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Helga Pankratz. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2014/2015: Volume I: AO. Volume II: PZ. , Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2014, p. 768, ISBN 978-3-11-033720-4 .
2. ↑ milena-verlag.at ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2005 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. : Biography at the publication of her book Amore, as of August 24, 2004  
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Helga Pankratz - biography. In: gav.at. Retrieved May 26, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Helga Pankratz: The Silence of the Lesbians . In: sic! No. 50 , October 28, 2004 ( sic.feminismus.at ( memento of July 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed on September 26, 2018]). The Silence of the Lesbians ( Memento of the original from July 26, 2007 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. ↑ Dedication. In: austrogames.gay.or.at. Archived from the original on July 20, 2006 ; accessed on April 18, 2019 .