Jutta Sundermann

Jutta Sundermann (* 1971 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe ) is a German globalization critic , activist and journalist . She has participated in numerous initiatives and was involved in the founding of Attac Germany . Her main focus is on the topics of financial markets , globalization and ecology , agricultural and development policy and intellectual property . Since 2014 she worked as a founding member for the association Aktion Agrar - Landwende now . Since March 2019 she has been working as a campaigner for the non-governmental organization Campact .

Life

Jutta Sundermann showed her first ecological and political commitment in the nature conservation youth ( NABU - State Youth Spokesperson Hessen), later in environmental and project workshops. After graduating from high school and doing an internship at the Hessischer Rundfunk , she worked as a freelance radio journalist . Due to lack of time, the mother of two children, born in 1992 and 1995, decided not to go to university. From 1997 to 2003 she helped set up the Verden Ecological Center in Verden (Aller), which was founded in 1996 and is home to the Movement Foundation established in 2002 . Then she lived in Wolfenbüttel for ten years .

In 2000 Sundermann was one of the founders of Attac Germany . She was active in the first coordination group in 2000 and from 2007 to 2014 in the nationwide ATTAC coordination group. Between 2001 and 2005 she did voluntary work for Medico international . From 2008 to May 2014 she was a “movement worker” of the movement foundation, that is, the foundation recognized the burden of the “full-time activist” and supported her with donations.

In 2014 she returned to the eco center in Verden. There, together with other women, she founded the Aktion Agrar - Landwende now association , which is committed to animal-friendly and socially acceptable ecological agriculture , and is a member of the association's board of directors. In April 2015, the North German Center for Sustainable Building was opened on the site of the Ökozentrum , for which Sundermann also works, among other things as a copywriter. In 2019 she joined the non-governmental organization Campact.

Sundermann lives with around 20 people in a self-managed farm project in Dörverden-Stedorf , about ten kilometers south of Verden. As a board member of the AllerWohnen eG cooperative, she also takes care of other self-determined house communities that implement ecological and social living.

Actions

From 2002 she was involved in the BUKO campaign against biopiracy and from 2005 in the Gendreck away initiative - voluntary field clearings . 2005–2006 she accompanied the Attac Lidl campaign. Sundermann was in charge of the production of the Attac forgery of the newspaper Die Zeit , which was distributed in March 2009 and won the media project prize at the Otto Brenner Prize in 2009 . Sundermann was also the editor of the Financial Times fake “Financial Crimes Germany”, which was distributed on September 29, 2010.

Sundermann coordinated the editing of the indictment and partly took over the moderation of the "banking tribunal" of Attac. Sundermann initiated the bank exchange campaign “Toad migration now!”.

In spring 2012 she was one of the initiators of the “UmfairShare - Taxing Wealth” alliance, which she presented together with Frank Bsirske and Ulrich Schneider on August 3, 2012 at the federal press conference.

TV appearances (selection)

Maybrit Illner : The blocked republic - what progress do we want? (December 2, 2010)
Maybrit Illner: Trapped Europe - Does Democracy Endanger Our Prosperity? (November 3, 2011)
Roche & Böhmermann , episode from April 1, 2012

bibliography

Angela Hübsch, Timo Schadt, Jutta Sundermann: black and white: make newspapers and brochures yourself. The workshop, Göttingen 1995, ISBN 3-89533-121-X .
Buko campaign against biopiracy (ed.): Green prey - biopiracy and resistance. Nevertheless publishing house, Frankfurt 2006, ISBN 3-931786-40-4 .
Thomas Löding, Kay Oliver Schulze, Jutta Sundermann: Group, criticism, campaign! Ideas and Practice for Social Movements. VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-89965-199-7 .
Chris Methmann, Hendrik Sander, Jutta Sundermann: Power to the people! The power companies pull the plug. VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89965-308-3 .