Kirsten Plötz

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Kirsten Plötz spoke in 2012 at the opening of the Andersraum meeting place in the northern part of Hanover

Kirsten Plötz (* 1964 ) is a German historian and non-fiction author .

Life

Kirsten Plötz was born out of wedlock in 1964 and grew up in Limmer . Her paternal grandparents were staunch National Socialists , while her maternal grandfather, as a Social Democrat, was marked by imprisonment in a concentration camp . The family had a lot to do with music: The paternal grandfather initially played as a professional musician in the Wehrmacht, later also in the theater and in the opera, but decidedly rejected the “jungle music” of these “negroes” preferred by his son. But even as a child, Kirsten Plötz experienced black blues musicians in her parents' house, including the English-speaking "champion" Jack Dupree , who let the children watch the cooking of "soul food". Last but not least, the hostility of the neighbors due to such visitors brought Kirsten Plötz into contact with exclusion and politics in everyday life in her early years.

After graduating from high school, Plötz studied history and politics at the University of Hanover , where she wrote her “everyday and gender history dissertation on 'single' women between social norms and independence in the first two decades of the Federal Republic”: for this she was sponsored by her doctoral supervisor Alf Lüdtke In 2002, Plötz was awarded the grade magna cum laude .

In addition to various publications on gender history, such as lesbian life in the Weimar Republic , Kirsten Plötz worked on several film productions and worked temporarily in Göttingen at the Max Planck Institute for History .

Plötz lives in Hanover and does research as a freelance historian on lesbian topics and biographies. She is a lecturer at the Academy Waldschlösschen near Göttingen and managing director of the Queeres Netzwerk Niedersachsen eV (QNN) association based in Hanover. She also works as a research assistant for “Public History” in the Modern History Department at the Historical Institute of the University of Stuttgart . She is involved in the LSBTTIQ project in Baden and Württemberg to deal with the history of lesbian, gay , bisexual , transgender , trans and intersexual as well as queer people in Baden and Württemberg.

Together with Günter Grau , Kirsten Plötz prepared the study of the criminal law study published by the Ministry for Family, Women, Youth, Integration and Consumer Protection of Rhineland-Palatinate at the end of 2016 on behalf of the Institute for Contemporary History Munich - Berlin (IfZ) and the Federal Magnus Hirschfeld Foundation (BMH) Persecution and rehabilitation of homosexual people , who investigated the history of repression of gays and lesbians in Rhineland-Palatinate in the post-war period.

Fonts (selection)

  • As if the better half was missing. “Single” women in the early FRG 1949–1969 , at the same time dissertation in 2002 at the University of Hanover under the title “Single” women between social standardization and independence , Königstein / Taunus: Ulrike Helmer Verlag, 2005, ISBN 978-3-89741-053 -4 and ISBN 3-89741-053-2 ; contents
  • Lonely girlfriends? Lesbian life during the twenties in the provinces (= gay / lesbian studies: WerkstattTexte , Vol. 4), 1st edition, Hamburg: MännerschwarmSkript-Verlag, 1999, ISBN 978-3-928983-64-8 and ISBN 3-928983-64 -4 ,
  • Lesbian alternatives. Everyday life, expectations, wishes , Königstein / Taunus: Helmer, 2006, ISBN 978-3-89741-191-3 and ISBN 3-89741-191-1 ; Table of contents and content text
  • How is it with them? A few pages for everyone who wants to know more about lesbian life , Hanover: Lower Saxony Ministry for Social Affairs, Women, Family, Health and Integration, 2013; Table of contents ; also as a full version (PDF document) from the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library
  • Günter Grau, Kirsten Plötz: Processing of the criminal prosecution and rehabilitation of homosexual people , in: Report of the state government on the decision of the state parliament of December 13, 2012 on printed matter 16/1849 , ed. on behalf of the Institute for Contemporary History Munich - Berlin and the Federal Magnus Hirschfeld Foundation by the Ministry for Family, Women, Youth, Integration and Consumer Protection Rhineland-Palatinate, 2016; as a PDF document in a short version or as a long version

Web links

Commons : Kirsten Plötz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Compare the information and cross-references from the German National Library
  2. ↑ a b Kirsten Plötz: From my story ... on her page die-andere-biografie.de [ undated ], last accessed on September 17, 2017
  3. ↑ above: Kirsten Plötz , in Stefan Micheler (Red.): Denounced, persecuted, murdered. Homosexual men and women in the Nazi era (= Invertito - Yearbook for the History of Homosexualities , Vol. 4., 2002), ed. from Fachverband Homosexualität und Geschichte eV, 1st edition, Hamburg: MännerschwarmSkript-Verlag, 2002, ISBN 978-3-935596-14-5 and ISBN 3-935596-14-6 , p. 213
  4. ↑ a b c .V .: Kisten Plötz on the Ulrike Helmer Verlag website [undated], last accessed on September 17, 2017
  5. ↑ Text on the back cover of Kirsten Plötz: Lesbian alternatives. Everyday life, expectations, wishes , Königstein / Taunus: Helmer, 2006, ISBN 978-3-89741-191-3 and ISBN 3-89741-191-1
  6. ↑ n.v .: Dr. Kirsten Plötz on the Waldschlösschen website [undated], last accessed on September 17, 2017
  7. ↑ n.v .: Dr. Kirsten Plötz on the lsbttiq-bw.de page [ undated ], last accessed on September 17, 2017
  8. ↑ Felicitas Grabow: New study: Rhineland-Palatinate works on the criminal prosecution and social repression of gays and lesbians in the post-war period on the website of the Federal Magnus Hirschfeld Foundation from January 24, 2017, last accessed on September 17, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Suddenly, Kirsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1964