Kim Schicklang

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Kim Anja Schicklang (born July 11, 1972 in Ulm ) is a German film producer and director and speaker. As a transsexual activist, she is co-founder and chairwoman of the association Aktion Transsexualität und Menschenrecht eV She is one of the representatives of the German transsexual movement.

Life

Career and occupation

Schicklang, who claims to be a working-class child, completed a traineeship as an editor in the Göppingen regional studio of the antenna 1 radio station (Filstalwelle) between 1995 and 1999 and in 2000 worked as a copywriter in an advertising agency in Ulm. From 2000 to 2009 she worked as an on-air producer / designer and author at Radio Fantasy in Augsburg . From 2010 to 2017 she worked as an audio engineer at a Stuttgart film and sound production company. Part-time, she studied from 2010 with a grant from the Hans Böckler Foundation at the Hochschule der Medien in Stuttgart audiovisual media. In 2013 she graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) with the final film Der Spalt - Mind Control and in 2016 with a Master of Arts (MA). Since 2018 she has been employed as a technician and engineer at SWR in Stuttgart.

Schicklang lives in Ludwigsburg today .

Transsexual activist

After Schicklang came out as a transsexual woman in 2005 , she co-founded the Transsexuality and Human Rights initiative in 2007, from which the Association Action Transsexuality and Human Rights eV (ATME) emerged in April 2008 , of which she is chairwoman. In 2012, Schicklang was one of three initiators of the state network LSBTTIQ in Baden-Württemberg. In March 2013, as the 1st chairwoman of ATME eV , she declared the association's withdrawal from the network, because "it is not possible to work with people who are not interested in the topic of transsexuality and because of them the visibility of this would fail". In 2015 she was the source of ideas for the so-called Stuttgart Declaration of her association ATME. In Berlin she organized a demonstration against the invisibility of gender diversity, which she criticized, by the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency and the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, and produced the short film Panel 5.

Other engagements

Since 2014 Schicklang has been involved in the peaceful protests against the opponents of the educational plan in Stuttgart and in 2015 was an activist in opposition to the Demo for All in the controversy over the educational plan . She is also a member of the LGBTTIQ working group of the ver.di district of Stuttgart.

Discography

  • 1995: autumn time
  • 2000: KOT 1991-1998 (double vinyl)
  • 2004: KOT Z (vinyl)

Filmography

  • 2014: The gap - mind control (final film of the bachelor's degree, 2013)
  • 2014: Images of women (X)
  • 2015: Panel 5

Awards

  • 2004: BLM Radio Prize

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Guest: Kim Schicklang from the "Action Transsexuality and Human Rights". In the radio show SWR2 Tandem on June 18, 2014, moderated by Bernd Lechler ( clip online in the SWR media library, accessed on August 8, 2019): "Kim Schicklang is currently doing a master's degree at the Stuttgart Media University. She has just presented her graduation film "The Gap", which shows what happens when people are no longer noticed due to gender norms. "
  2. ↑ Project “The Gap - Mind Control. Imagine that people claim that you do not exist ... “ Schöne-neue-medien ( project folder, 2013/2014 (PDF)) on the website of Kim Schicklang, accessed on August 8, 2019.
  3. ↑ Free and alone - it doesn't have to be: on the work situation of media creatives. In conversation with guests from the industry, including Kim Schicklang. Event on May 2, 2019, description on the ver.di district of Stuttgart website , Media Department, accessed on August 8, 2019.
  4. ↑ Vita + Philosophy on Kim Schicklang's personal website - media production in the 2017 version, accessed on August 8, 2019.
  5. ↑ Kim Schicklang's entry on LinkedIn , accessed August 8, 2019.
  6. ↑ a b c There is another way. Church on the way to equality for people of different sexual orientation and identity. Conference of the Evangelical University of Freiburg on April 17, 2015 ( Flyer of the conference (PDF) ( Memento of March 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive )). In it: Statements: Different perspectives on the path to equality. Among others: "Transsexuality - Recommendations and wishes for a church process in the context of gender diversity". Kim Schicklang, spokeswoman and moderator, chairwoman of the association Action Transsexuality and Human Rights - ATME eV: Statement by Kim Schicklang ( memento from August 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), April 17, 2015. (Therein: "Kim Schicklang: ... 2005 she had her Coming out as a transsexual woman and co-founded the "Aktion Transsexualität und Menschenrecht eV" (ATME) in 2007. [...] Schicklang is one of three initiators of the state network LSBTTIQ (association of lesbian-gay-bisexual-transsexual-transgender-intersexual and queer groups ) and member of the LSBTTIQ working group of the ver.di district of Stuttgart. ")
  7. ↑ ATME eV leaves the network. (PDF) Letter to the state network LSBTQ from Kim Anja Schicklang as 1st chairwoman of the association Aktion Transsexualität und Menschenrechte eV, March 20, 2019, accessed on August 8, 2019.
  8. ↑ Panel 5. Video on Youtube , accessed on May 23, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Schicklang, Kim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schicklang, Kim Anja (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film producer, film director, speaker and transsexual activist
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm