Karin King

Katharina "Karin" König , b. Straub , (born August 6, 1946 in Nörvenich ) is a German social scientist and author.

Life

König grew up in Düren (North Rhine-Westphalia). In 1957 she moved to Hamburg with her parents. She graduated from high school there. First she completed a musical year in 1963/64 at the gymnastics school of Hinrich and Senta Medau in Coburg. After her training as a physiotherapist from 1964 to 1967 at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, she worked in this profession in Wildbad, Munich, Frankfurt and Ahrensburg. After marrying the translator Traugott König (1934–1991), she moved to Frankfurt am Main in 1971. There she began studying social work at the technical college in 1974. From 1976 to 1979 she worked at the International Family Center. In 1981 she completed her degree in pedagogy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. This was followed by a professional activity as an author for various publishers and radio companies. In 1988 she received her doctorate with a dissertation on the cultural conflicts of Turkish women and girls in the Federal Republic. This was followed by teaching at the universities of applied sciences in Hamburg and Lüneburg and at the University of Frankfurt. 1988 move to Hamburg. From 1989 to 1995 she was a further education officer at the Hamburg school authority. Subsequently, collaboration in the framework of the projects led by Wolfgang Kraushaar at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research on protest movements in the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR as well as the 1968 movement and left-wing terrorism. From 2015 to 2018 this work continued at the Hamburg Foundation for Science and Culture. König has been married to the political scientist Wolfgang Kraushaar for the second time since 2003. She lives in Hamburg.

Awards

1982: Hans im Glück Prize

Publications

• (together with Hanne Straube and Kamil Taylan): Merhaba… good afternoon. A report on a Turkish family, Lamuv Verlag, Bornheim 1981, ISBN 3-921521-36-X .
• (together with Hanne Straube): At home I am “the one from Germany”. Foreign women tell, Otto Maier Verlag, Ravensburg 1982, ISBN 3-473-35225-X .
• (together with Hanne Straube): “You call us Kanaken”. Young workers in their second home, Network Medien Cooperative, Frankfurt 1983, ISBN 3-88641-030-7 .
• (together with Hanne Straube): Kalte Heimat. Young foreigners in the Federal Republic, Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 1984, ISBN 3-499-15189-8 .
• (together with Hanne Straube and Kamil Taylan): Oya. Fremde Heimat Turkey, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (dtv), Munich 1988: ISBN 3-423-07887-1 .
• Chador, honor and cultural conflict. Change processes of Turkish women and girls through emigration and their socio-cultural consequences, Verlag für Interkulturelle Kommunikation, Frankfurt 1989, ISBN 3-88939-208-3 .
• (together with Beate von Devivere) For example women's projects, Lamuv Verlag, Göttingen 1989, ISBN 3-88977-201-3 .
• I feel so fifty-fifty, Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag (dtv), Munich 1991, ISBN 3-423-78020-7 .
• Refuge with the Turks. Scientific German-speaking emigration to Turkey from 1935 to 1945, Mittelweg 36, journal of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, Hamburg October / November 1997, pp. 69–79.
• Paper kisses. A tragic east-west relationship Jena-West-Berlin (1962–1965), Format Publishing, Jena 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814352-0-7 .
• Two icons of armed struggle. Life and death of Georg von Rauchs and Thomas Weisbeckers, in Wolfgang Kraushaar (ed.), The RAF and left terrorism. Volume I / II. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2006 pp. 430–471, ISBN 3-936096-65-1 .
• I prefer freedom to my life. Hermann Flade - A Biography, Lukas Verlag for Art and Spiritual History, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-86732-325-3 .