Katja Urbatsch

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Katja Urbatsch (* 1979 in East Westphalia ) is co-founder and managing director of the non-profit organization Arbeiterkind.de with its headquarters in Berlin . She is also a non-fiction author and writes on educational issues.

Educational history

Katja Urbatsch and her brother Marc Urbatsch were the first in their family to obtain the general university entrance qualification and then start studying. She studied American studies , business administration and communication science at the Free University of Berlin . Thanks to a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service , Katja Urbatsch was able to study abroad at Boston University for one year . In 2020 she worked on her dissertation in American studies at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen .

Founding of Arbeiterkind.de

According to her own statement, Katja Urbatsch noticed an information deficit on her part towards students from academic families early on in her studies . She lacked insight into grants , for example , which led to a feeling of ignorance. These experiences motivated her to found the exchange platform Arbeiterkind.de together with her partner Wolf Dermann and her brother Marc Urbatsch. Since then she has been leading and coordinating the non-profit organization, which in 2019 had 6,000 volunteers in 80 local groups.

Awards

Urbatsch has been an Ashoka Fellow since 2009 . In 2018 she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon for her commitment to Arbeiterkind.de .

The Justus Liebig University of Gießen awarded her the honorary senator title in 2018. She was also honored with the HAWK Prize from the Hildesheim / Holzminden / Göttingen University of Applied Sciences.

Fonts

  • As a working-class child at the university, practical things for everyone who is the first to study in their family. Springer Spectrum, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 978-3-453-60214-4
  • Slowed down Why the right to education doesn't apply to everyone. Heyne, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-453-60214-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ann-Kathrin Hipp, Susanne Kippenberger: Then you'll only be a taxi driver anyway. In: Der Tagesspiegel . October 10, 2018, accessed December 3, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Christina Pfänder: Commitment to the “First Generation”. In: German Academic Exchange Service . November 26, 2018, accessed December 3, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Thomas Hauser: If young people cannot pay for their studies, Katja Urbatsch will find a solution. In: Focus Online . December 1, 2019, accessed March 6, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Dieter Kassel: Fears of debt and the foreign milieu. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . May 3, 2018, accessed March 6, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Katja Urbatsch - Ashoka profile. In: Ashoka . June 25, 2018, accessed May 6, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Awarding of the medal on the Day of German Unity. In: bundespraesident.de. October 2, 2018, accessed November 2, 2019 .
  7. ↑ JLU appoints former GCSC member Katja Urbatsch as honorary senator. In: Justus Liebig University Giessen. 2018, accessed December 3, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Impressions and voices from the ceremony in the HAWK auditorium. In: University of Applied Science and Art Hildesheim / Holzminden / Göttingen. November 7, 2018, accessed March 6, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Urbatsch, Katja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German founder and chairwoman of Arbeiterkind.de, non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH East Westphalia