Katja Leyrer

Katja Leyrer (* 1949 ) is a German social scientist , non-fiction author and journalist .

Career

Leyrer was born as one of six siblings in the GDR and grew up in Kassel between the ages of ten and nineteen . Then she moved to Hamburg . Professionally, according to her own information in her book “Weiberkram”, published in 1992, things were initially bumpy: After a discontinued training as a nurse , jobs as an office worker , saleswoman , cleaning lady and childminder followed . After marrying a prospective teacher, she witnessed the foothills of the student movement and was at times involved in the KPD / ML . With her second husband, a dock worker , she ended up first in the squatter milieu and then as a housewife with two children in the old country . When she was in her early thirties, she divorced again, went back to Hamburg and began studying political science , which she completed in 1987 with a thesis on "Problems of gender-specific socialization with an intended gender-neutral upbringing". She then worked as a consultant for the GAL Hamburg , which at that time represented exclusively female members of the Hamburg parliament . As a freelance journalist, she wrote a. a. for Emma , taz , Junge Welt , specifically and from its foundation on for Jungle World , in addition she published several non-fiction books on topics such as emancipation and motherhood , on which she was quoted by leading German media . From a temporary great love she had a third child.

Books

• Sexuality . Rotbuch Verlag 2000 ISBN 978-3-434-53501-0
• Myth of the nuclear family: poetry and truth about living with children; an exchange of letters from January 1994 to June 1995 . Fischer Taschenbuchverlag 1998 ISBN 978-3-596-13530-1
• Mama Papa Super Child? Poetry and Truth about Living with Children . Konkret-Literatur-Verlag Hamburg 1995 ISBN 978-3-89458-138-1
• Help! My son is going to be a bastard . Fischer Taschenbuchverlag 1992 ISBN 978-3-596-24748-6
• Women stuff . Fischer Taschenbuchverlag 1992 ISBN 978-3-596-10872-5
• Raven mother, so what? Rowohlt Verlag 1990 ISBN 978-3-499-18469-7

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Katja Leyrer, Gunhild Schöller: Bittersweet greetings to Emmanzen . In: taz . January 26, 1987.
2. ↑ Katja Leyrer: To the minute . In: Emma . Pp. 28-30, issue 3/1987.
3. ↑ Katja Leyrer: ... and even the cat hits the hangover . In: taz . October 1, 1988.
4. ^ "Young World": Modrow becomes a mediator . In: taz . May 24, 1997.
5. ↑ from concrete . In: concrete . Issue 3/2009.
6. ↑ Katja Leyrer: It remains complicated . In: Jungle World . June 8, 2017.
7. ↑ Power of the cult . In: Der Spiegel . No. 18 , 1987, pp. 31-32 ( Online - Apr. 27, 1987 ).
8. ↑ Silke Burmester : Adieu, hairy beast! In: Spiegel Online . January 22, 2012.
9. ↑ Martin Merz: Look it up in the Bible! In: The time . April 17, 1992.