Karin Kraus

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Karin Kraus (2019)

Karin Kraus (* 1956 in Bad Nauheim ) is a German social scientist, organizational developer and author.

education

Karin Kraus studied German and sociology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . Kraus received her doctorate in 1990 together with her sister, the psychoanalyst Helga Kraus, with an interdisciplinary work on the subject of sister relationships.

Professional background

Between 1979 and 1985 Kraus gained experience in the agricultural machinery and motorcycle industries. Afterwards she also worked as a documentary filmmaker and filmmaker . a. for the Hessischer Rundfunk . She became known with her documentary Das Weibernest - a village, women and the lust for the country about the women of a village in the Wetterau . She has been working as an organizational developer and consultant since the late 1980s .

Women's work and politics

Karin Kraus was on the board of the Feminist Women's Health Center FFGZ in Frankfurt am Main, which was founded in 1978. There, Kraus set up a consulting area for women in professional conflict situations. During this time she also advised women and women's representatives on sexual harassment in the workplace. Since 1990 Kraus has been working closely with the district women's secretariat of the ÖTV Hessen and the ÖTV district women's secretary Barbara Dürk . Kraus and Dürk concentrate on the issues of upgrading women's professions and making working hours more flexible . During this time, Kraus and Dürk developed and documented a series of seminars on upgrading women's professions, under the direction of the then ÖTV chairman Herbert Mai . In her work, Karin Kraus also dealt intensively with the question of women and power in a professional context.

In 2018 Karin Kraus launched the Women-Writing-Wiki (WWW) project together with Sonja Hintermeier . WWW says it has set itself the goal of increasing the presence of women and that of their achievements in Wikipedia.

Private life

Karin Kraus is married to the publisher Vittorio Klostermann . You have a daughter.

Publications

  • with Helga Kraus: Sisters on Sisters: The Art of Balance. Ulrike Helmer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 978-3-927164-13-0 .
  • with Gudrun Reinke: From puberty to menopause: experiences with menstruation. Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 978-3-596-12536-4 .
  • with Barbara Dürk (ed.): New time practice in the public service: a future-oriented and participation-oriented working time project. Practice reports, experiences, results, models. ÖTV head office, Stuttgart 1999.
  • with Barbara Dürk: Organization of working hours in the interests of women. In: The staff council. No. 10/2000, October 2000.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sisters on Sisters: The Art of Balance. Specimen copy DNB 911113053 at the German National Library .
  2. ↑ Sebastian Dickhaut: ... Sisters, on the other hand, are very much . In: Wetterauer Zeitung . 22nd August 1992.
  3. ↑ Corinna Willführ: On the "lust of balance" between sisters . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . August 27, 1992.
  4. ↑ Good and bad sisters: Lecture in the Frauenkulturhaus . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 30, 1992.
  5. ↑ Series title: Schauplatz Deutschland, broadcasting title: Das Weibernest a village, women and the lust for the country, author Karin Kraus and Hanns-Christoph Koch. First broadcast February 19, 1990, repetitions ARD 1plus 1991, HR Fernsehen 1992, Phönix, 1997 a. 1998.
  6. ↑ Jutta Frankenberger: Contact was made quickly and easily using the dialect . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . September 14, 1998.
  7. ↑ How do women live in the country today? . In: Wetterauer Zeitung . July 1, 1989.
  8. ↑ Nieder-Mockstadt is upside down: HR3 films the rural women . In: Kreis-Anzeiger . No. 148, June 30, 1989.
  9. ↑ The life of women in the country on television . In: Hessenbauer . No. 198, September 23, 1989.
  10. ↑ In the end hardly anyone wants to go back. Flexible working hours as a possible way out of the crisis . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . November 28, 2001.
  11. ↑ 10 Years of the Feminist Women's Health Center Frankfurt 1978-1988: Documentation. Feminist Women's Health Center Frankfurt, 1988, accessed June 27, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Jutta Frankenberger: Contact was made quickly and easily using the dialect . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . September 14, 1998.
  13. ↑ Gerlinde Maurer: Women's Health in Theory and Practice: Feminist Perspectives in Health Sciences. In: books.google.de. 2010, accessed June 27, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Südwestrundfunk and Saarländischer Rundfunk (ed.): Embarrassments in the office, HA information, documentation and archives. In: sr.de. Südwestrundfunk and Saarländischer Rundfunk, December 4, 1991, accessed on September 9, 2019 .
  15. ↑ "New Age practice" in the public sector: a forward-looking and participation-oriented working hours Project: Practice reports, experiences, results, Models / OTV. Barbara Dürk; Karin Kraus (ed.). In: portal.dnb.de. German National Library, accessed on June 27, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Barbara Dürk and Karin Kraus: The project Neue Zeitpraxis takes stock after two years, In Der Personalrat , No. 07/1999, July 1999. pp. 289–292.
  17. ↑ Barbara Dürk and Karin Kraus: Organization of working hours in the interest of women, In: Der Personalrat , No. 10/2000, October 2000.
  18. ↑ Barbara Dürk and Karin Kraus: Women want more. Appreciation of women's professions. ÖTV brochures. ÖTV Hessen, accessed on September 4, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Helga Kraus and Karin Kraus: Women and Power, In: Women and Men in Organizations and Management Functions: Unconscious Processes, the Dynamics of Power and Gender, Michael Wolf (Ed.), Frankfurt am Main 2002, pp. 37–54.
  20. ^ Nymphs and fighters. Feminism exhibition in the Heussenstamm gallery . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 12, 2020.
  21. ↑ This is what a feminist looks like - In Frankfurt. In: Women Power Politics. Frankfurt am Main women's department, accessed on April 3, 2020 .
  22. ↑ KDWolff: VE Klostermann (60). BuchMarkt Verlag K. Werner GmbH, February 13, 2010, accessed on September 4, 2019 .
  23. ↑ Barn evening . In: Börsenblatt - weekly magazine for the German book trade . No. 45/1999, June 1999.
  24. ↑ Specimen copy DNB 958418519 at the German National Library .
personal data
SURNAME Kraus, Karin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social scientist, organizational developer and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Nauheim