Isabel Rohner

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Isabel Rohner (2011)

Isabel Rohner (* 1979 in St. Gallen ) is a Swiss-German literary scholar and journalist .

Life

Isabel Rohner studied German , philosophy and Romance languages at the Universities of Zurich and Cologne and received her doctorate from the University of Giessen . There she worked as a research assistant at the chair for comparative literature of Prof. Dr. Annette Simonis as well as a lecturer. She was also the latter at the University of Koblenz for several years .

Since 2006, together with the historian Nikola Müller, she has published Edition Hedwig Dohm , the first annotated complete edition of the works of the writer and feminist pioneer Hedwig Dohm (1831-1919). In 2010 she also published the biography traces into the present on Hedwig Dohm . Together with the actor Gerd Buurmann , Isabel Rohner and Nikola Müller bring Dohm's life and work to the stages throughout German-speaking countries under the name "Hedwig Dohm Trio".

Rohner is married and lives in Berlin.

Activities and research on women's suffrage

Rohner grew up in St. Gallen and from 1989, as a 10-year-old, witnessed the debate in the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden about the introduction of women's suffrage at cantonal level. At the federal level, women in Switzerland had had the right to vote and stand for election since 1971, but Appenzell Innerrhoden refused to implement this right at the cantonal level. Rohner calls this experience one of her “earliest political memories”. The debates were misogynistic, they were already politicized and sensitized for women's rights. However, she is not related to Theresia Rohner, who sued at cantonal level in 1989 and then filed the first lawsuit at federal level.

Her anthology 100 Years of Women's Suffrage was published in 2017 . Goal achieved! … and further? , which she edited together with the journalist Rebecca Beerheide. The occasion was the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage, which will be celebrated in Germany in 2018 (introduction of the right to vote) and 2019 (first nationwide election in Germany). The volume contains texts and interviews by and with prominent women from politics, business, science and the public. a. Rita Süssmuth , Gesine Schwan , Ulrike Guérot , Sabine Lautenschläger , Sigrid Nikutta , Zana Ramadani , Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger , the Association of German Women Entrepreneurs and the Association of Women Lawyers . Rohner himself writes an article in the book about fighting for women's suffrage in Appenzell. She lectures across Germany on the history of women's movements.

Publications (selection)

Editorships
  • with Nikola Müller: Hedwig Dohm - Selected Texts. Trafo Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89626-559-8 .
  • with Nikola Müller: Hedwig Dohm - Sibilla Dalmar. Trafo Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89626-560-1 .
  • with Nikola Müller: Hedwig Dohm - Fates of a Soul. Trafo Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89626-561-6 .
  • with Nikola Müller: Hedwig Dohm - Christa Ruland. Trafo Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89626-562-3 .
  • with Nikola Müller: Hedwig Dohm - letters from the crow's corner. Trafo Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-89626-563-0 .
  • Traces into the now. Hedwig Dohm, a biography. Ulrike Helmer, Sulzbach 2010, ISBN 978-3-89741-299-6 .
  • with Nikola Müller: Hedwig Dohm - Feuilletons 1877–1903. Trafo Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86464-137-4 .
  • with Rebecca Beerheide: 100 years of women's suffrage. Goal achieved! … and further? Ulrike Helmer, Sulzbach 2017, ISBN 978-3-89741-398-6 .
Author

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Planet knowledge. Retrieved February 1, 2018 .
  2. ^ Lectures by Rohner. Accessed December 1, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Rohner, Isabel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss-German literary scholar and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen