Joana Breidenbach

Joana Breidenbach (2017)

Joana Breidenbach (born May 16, 1965 in Hamburg ) is a German cultural scientist , author and internet entrepreneur. She is a member of the supervisory board of gut.org gAG, co-founder of the donation platform betterplace.org and founder of the think tank betterplace lab.

Life

After attending Kelly College in Devon, Great Britain, Joana Breidenbach studied Social Anthropology at the University of California in Berkeley, California, and at University College in London. At the same time, she studied ethnology , art history and the history of Eastern Europe at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, where she earned her doctorate in 1993 with the thesis "Germans and the world of things: The commodification of national characteristics and the nationalization of German culture". phil. received his doctorate.

Joana Breidenbach initially worked as an author and later as a lecturer ( Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance , Berlin and Macquarie University , Sydney) before she co-founded the online donation platform betterplace.org in 2007. Three years later, in 2010, she founded the betterplace lab as a research department of betterplace.org. In the betterplace lab, Breidenbach dealt with the question of how digital innovations can be used for civil society and has been publishing the betterplace lab trend report every year since 2012, which has been called trendradar since 2016. Since 2015 Joana Breidenbach has been less active for betterplace.org and the betterplace lab. In 2015, she moved from the board of directors to the supervisory board of gut.org gAG, the parent company of betterplace.org and betterplace lab. Joana Breidenbach is an investor in App Clue, the translation website linguee.com , next door.de and the Refugee School for Digital Inclusion involved.

In the political field, Joana Breidenbach also has a say: Her presentations and contributions were heard at the 2nd International Germany Forum in the Chancellery in 2015 , during a dialogue with Minister Gerd Müller on digitization and development cooperation ( Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development ) Civic engagement with Thomas de Maizière (Federal Ministry of the Interior) or on a panel with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the German Church Congress in Stuttgart.

In 2014, the Edition F website voted Joana Breidenbach one of the “25 women for the digital future”. She is one of the supporters of the Charter of Fundamental Digital Rights of the European Union , which was published at the end of November 2016.

Joana Breidenbach is married to the legal scholar and mediator Stephan Breidenbach and has two children.

Fonts (selection)

Deutsche und Dingwelt: The Commodification of National Properties and the Nationalization of German Culture, Lit Verlag , Berlin 1993
Dance of Cultures: Cultural Identity in a Globalized World, with Ina Zukrigl, Rowohlt , Reinbek 2000
Maxikulti: The clash of cultures is the problem - does the economy show us the solution ?, with Pál Nyíri, Campus-Verlag , Frankfurt / M. 2008
Seeing Culture Everywhere - From Genocide to Consumer Habits with Pál Nyíri, University of Washington Press, Seattle and London 2009
Ethnography of Cyberspace, Virtual Worlds? The Reality of the Internet, University of Bern, Lectures on Cultural History, Peter Lang, Bern 2008
Edwina investigates in Berlin - The Treasure of Priam, with Judith Homoki, Die Gestalten Verlag , Berlin 2014
Online fundraising and CSR of the future, In: Praxishandbuch Online Fundraising, Lampe, B., Ullrich, A., Ziemann, K., transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2015

Web links

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Breidenbach, Joana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German cultural scientist, author and internet entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH	May 16, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg

[1] Program of the Germany Forum

[2] Dialogue round civic engagement

[3] German Kirchentag Stuttgart

[4] 25 women for the digital future