Inge von Bönninghausen

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Inge von Bönninghausen (born September 20, 1938 in Uerdingen , Niederrhein ) is a German journalist and feminist . She headed the television program Frauen -fragen (later Frau-TV) of the WDR television and was co-founder of the journalists' union in 1988 .

Life

Inge von Bönninghausen was the oldest of four children of Rolf Freiherr von Bönninghausen, who had a doctorate in economics, and his wife Renate, née Laux. Her childhood was emotional, because due to the war and the post-war period, the parents and their children moved six times in three years. As the oldest, Inge von Bönninghausen had duties and privileges. In 1958 she graduated from the municipal high school for girls in Wesel. At the age of 17, she was the first exchange student to go to the twin town in Hagerstown (Maryland) in 1956 . She returned with the resolve to become a journalist after graduation. She then studied German and history in Göttingen until she got a place at the Free University of Berlin . During this time she experienced the construction of the Berlin Wall , the Cuban Missile Crisis and the confrontation between East and West in the 1960s. In 1968 she did her doctorate under Eberhard Lämmert with a thesis on "Satire in Jean Paul's early work".

An important personal step was the lesbian coming-out in 1991 in the series of women she moderated . Von Bönninghausen lives in Cologne .

Journalistic activity

After internships with the Düsseldorfer Nachrichten , a television year followed in 1969/1970 as assistant to the program director at Saarländischer Rundfunk . She then worked as a freelance journalist and published a. a. the series “Experiment Erziehungs” (WDR), “Elternschule” ( ZDF) and “Schulsorgen” (WDR).

From 1974 until her retirement in 1999 she was TV editor at WDR . There she won a monthly feminist TV show, which was broadcast in 1980 initially under the title Women Studies , later Women Questions and from 1997 onwards weekly under the title Women TV . The aim was to focus on the realities of life for women and report on the topics of work, health, sport, sexuality, violence, culture, political parties, Europe and international women's politics. It was the first women's political TV program on German television.

In addition to the regular broadcasts, the twelve-part series Unerhört - The History of the German Women's Movement from 1830 to the Present , which was broadcast in 1987 and is considered an "exceptional case in television history ", was created together with editors from NDR and HR .

As the only representative of a public broadcaster from Germany, she reported on the 3rd UN World Conference on Women in Nairobi in 1985 on population and health and in 1995 from the NGO forum of the 4th UN World Conference on Women in Beijing .

Von Bönninghausen was a co-author of the study on the situation of employees at WDR , co-founder of the station 's women's group and WDR's representative in the Steering Committee on Equal Opportunities at the European Commission .

Between 1986 and 2007 Inge von Bönninghausen was a speaker and moderator at women's media conferences in Africa , Asia and South America .

Honorary positions

In 1988 von Bönninghausen co-founded the Association of Women Journalists and was its chairman from 1991 to 1999. Since 2001, she has accompanied young colleagues on their way to journalism several times within the jb mentor program. As a member of the “International Association of Women in Radio and Television”, she is also active internationally.

From 2000 to 2004 she was chairwoman of the German Women's Council and board member of the European Women's Lobby .

She is an honorary member of the NRW regional group of business women , was on the board of the foundation archive of the German women's movement in Kassel (ADDF) and on the board of the “lobby for girls” in Cologne.

Honors

Inge von Bönninghausen (right) at the grave of Hedwig Dohm in 2016
Inge von Bönninghausen and Maren Kroymann at the Grimme Prize 2018

In honor of Inge von Bönninghausen, eleven women's initiatives in North Rhine-Westphalia awarded the "Shooting Star - the Inge von Bönninghausen Prize", a chain designed by an artist. The prize was awarded every two years from 1998 to 2012. She herself was the first winner in 1998.

For her merits in making the competence of women working in journalism publicly visible, Inge von Bönninghausen was awarded the Hedwig Dohm Certificate of the Association of Women Journalists in 1999.

In 2012 she was awarded the Augspurg Heymann Prize for her commitment to lesbian politics by the LAG Lesbians in North Rhine-Westphalia.

The special honor of the Grimme Prize in 2018 went to Inge von Bönninghausen. The jury called her a "pioneer in the German television landscape who thematized, challenged and lived the work, action and influence of women in the media".

Quotes

On the occasion of the awarding of the Grimme Prize 2018, which she received together with Armin Wolf and Gert Scobel , the then Saarland Prime Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said:

"The German Adult Education Association is sending a clear signal for quality journalism - each award winner embodies one of his facets."

In the eulogy for the Hedwig Dohm certificate in 1999, Sabine Zurmühl said :

“Thanks to your feminist commitment, we owe issues that had been largely ignored by the media until then. Not only as chairwoman, but also as a member of other international associations, she has made a significant contribution to making the competence of women working in journalism publicly visible. "

Awards

Publications

  • with Ernst Stobberg: School worries - those who know the causes can help. Publishing company Rudolf Müller, Cologne-Braunsfeld 1971, ISBN 3-481-21001-9 .
  • Play with me - Learn with me: The advancement of preschool children. After the ZDF parent school. Verlagsgesellschaft Rudolf Müller, Cologne-Braunsfeld 1972, ISBN 3-481-21011-6 .
  • with Jutta Dreisbach-Olsen: Education experiment: anti-authoritarian education - and what now? Verlagsgesellschaft Rudolf Müller, Cologne-Braunsfeld 1973, ISBN 3-481-40461-1 .
  • with Paul Bielicki, Jutta Dreisbach-Olsen, Hannelore Meyer: ZDF parent school 1974: The big problems of the little ones. Publishing company Rudolf Müller, Cologne-Braunsfeld 1974.
  • with Ernst Stobberg: School worries? Humboldt-Taschenbuchverlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-581-66239-6 .
  • with Gisela Helwig, Freya Klier : Unequal sisters? Women in East Germany and West Germany. Nicolai, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-87584-713-X

Movie

  • WDR story (s) - Inge von Bönninghausen. Script and direction: Klaus Michael Heinz , 60 min., WDR television 2020, WDR media library unlimited.

Web links

Commons : Inge von Bönninghausen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c WDR 5: Voice of Women - Inge von Bönnighausen. In: Curiosity is enough. September 6, 2018, accessed April 6, 2019 .
  2. ↑ derwesten.de: Creative women from Wesel. August 27, 2008. Retrieved April 6, 2019.
  3. ^ The precise TV journalist - five questions for Inge von Bönninghausen. In: Watch Salon. May 31, 2017, accessed April 6, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Satire in Jean Paul's early work. Dissertation by Inge von Bönninghausen, entry in the DNB catalog. Retrieved April 6, 2019.
  5. ↑ hr2 culture: The journalist Inge von Bönninghausen also talks about the new women's movement of the 1970s. September 20, 2018, accessed April 2, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Karen Hagemann: Show women as acting objects of history. Wrap-up of the television series “Unheard” . In: Further education and media . tape 12 , no. 2 , 1989, pp. 46-48 .
  7. ↑ Journalistinnenbund (ed.): Constantly changing . Ulrike Helmer Verlag, Roßdorf 2017, ISBN 978-3-89741-407-5 .
  8. ^ German Women's Council: German Women's Council | History. Retrieved April 6, 2019 .
  9. ^ Honorary member Inge von Bönninghausen celebrates her birthday. Wirtschaftsweiber NRW, September 20, 2018, accessed on April 6, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Hedwig-Dohm-Urkunde - Journalistinnenbund. Retrieved April 6, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Voice of women - Inge von Bönnighausen. September 6, 2018, accessed June 16, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Information from the Office of the Federal President
  13. ^ Inge von Bönninghausen, Gert Scobel and Armin Wolf . ( grimme-preis.de [accessed on April 14, 2018]).
  14. ↑ Klaus Michael Heinz: A journey through time in interviews | Dr. Inge von Bönninghausen. March 5, 2020, accessed July 10, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Bönninghausen, Inge von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and feminist
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Uerdingen