Laura Halding-Hoppenheit

Laura Halding-Hoppenheit at the CSD 2009 in Stuttgart.

Laura Zorita Halding-Hoppenheit (* 1942 in Resita , Romania ) is a German landlady and LGBT - and AIDS - activist and local politician of the Left in Stuttgart .

Life

Laura Halding-Hoppenheit studied art history and archeology in Bucharest and came to Hamburg in the 1970s to do her doctorate there . Due to linguistic communication problems, she felt undesirable in Germany. However, it found acceptance among the gay community .

She entered into a marriage of convenience with a friend, but divorced after six weeks. Hiltram Roman F. Halding-Hoppenheit , a best man from her first marriage, her second husband and father of their two children, got a job as editor-in-chief of Burda Verlag in Stuttgart . She broke off her studies and went to Stuttgart with him in the mid-1970s.

Since the divorce, she has been involved in the gay scene in the state capital of Baden-Württemberg. Since 1977 she worked in the Stuttgart Kings Club in the Stuttgarter Calwer Straße , a gay bar. She fell in love with the operator, got married and fell out with him in 1988. In 1989, after working in another restaurant, she reopened the Kings Club in Stuttgart's Lautenschlager Strasse under the name Lauras Club . At times she ran four trendy bars in parallel.

From 1998 to 2002 the actor Helmut Berger lived with Halding-Hoppenheit. She got to know him at a Harald Glööckler fashion show in the New Palace . She brought the addict Berger several times to the clinic, from where he kept running away and returning. She came with his arrogant behavior is not clear, given to him in the Kings Club local ban and sent him last home to his mother in Salzburg .

In 2003 she ran on the citizens 'list of the Stuttgart voters' association Rosa Liste Stuttgart . Since May 2014 she has been a city councilor for the Left in Stuttgart. In the 2017 federal election she was a direct candidate for the Left in constituency 285 .

In 2019 she met the photographer and artist Peter Jacobi . She was divorced three times in total.

Sociopolitical engagement

She is involved (e), among others, the Association for assistance to drug-dependent women Lagaya and in mother-child projects and pay out of pocket a street social worker by the hour in the Women's Café La Strada to South-East European prostitutes cares in Stuttgart's Old Town.

Honors

In November 2011 she was awarded the “Rosa Detlef” prize by the Baden-Württemberg Minister of Social Affairs, Katrin Altpeter . The award recognizes the commitment to tolerance and against the exclusion of homosexuals, bisexuals and transsexuals. In 2013, the team from her club, Kings Club, received the “Posit HIV Prize”. She has been awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon (January 23, 2014). In 2014, the director Rosa von Praunheim set a cinematic monument for her (“Laura - The Jewel of Stuttgart”). The film premiered on December 1, 2014 on the occasion of World AIDS Day in the Cinemaxx cinema in Stuttgart . She is an honorary member of the German AIDS Aid . The Hohenloher Tagblatt ( Südwest Presse ) from Crailsheim even called it the " Stuttgart Original ". On October 17, 2016, she was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” by the business women of DEHOGA Baden-Württemberg for her entrepreneurial performance and her social commitment against discrimination and exclusion of minorities, especially homosexuals.

Filmography

• “Thekla Bihaç” in Happy Days , Part VI (2003) and Part VII (2005), film series by Jørn Precht .
• Laura - the jewel of Stuttgart. Documentary by Rosa von Praunheim , D 2014, 57 min., With Laura Halding-Hoppenheit, Lilo Wanders , Gabriele Müller-Trimbusch and Sabine Constabel .
• "Mrs. Devil ”in Zapping-Alien @ Mozart-Balls by Vitus Zeplichal , with Helmut Berger in the leading role.
• Laura - Stuttgart's gay mother. SWR Landesschau aktuell Baden-Württemberg , December 2014.

See also

• Lauramedia

Web links

• Laura Halding-Hoppenheit in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Kings Club Stuttgart
• Laura Halding-Hoppenheit , City of Stuttgart
• Laura Halding-Hoppenheit , SÖS-Linke-PluS Stuttgart parliamentary group

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Election to the 19th German Bundestag on September 24, 2017: special issue Wahlbewerber , Federal Returning Officer , August 2017, PDF pp. 106, 245
2. ↑ Axel Krämer: Limits of longing: a gay local history. Querverlag , 2005, p. 270.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Laura Halding-Hoppenheit, restaurateur. SWR1 , May 30, 2014 ( podcast recording ).
4. ↑ ^{a b} Laura - Das Juwel von Stuttgart & Mario Wirz ( Memento of the original from September 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at missingfilms.de 
5. ↑ Renate Härtl: Laura - A woman fights against the grain. , SWR2 Tandem, March 17th, 2014.
6. ↑ Erik Raidt, Ingmar Volkmann: "The broom has a lot of fuel" Stuttgarter Zeitung , December 1, 2014.
7. ↑ ^{a b} Michaela Buchholz: Pots and Kehrwoche are not their world. , AGHZ, September 3, 2005.
8. ↑ Portrait of the week: The operator of the Kings Club is not only committed to gays - Laura Halding-Hoppenheit: Mother Teresa of Stuttgart. Stuttgarter Wochenblatt , January 8, 2013.
9. ↑ Uwe Bogen: The beautiful things in life? They lead to ruin. December 14, 2012.
10. ^ Heinz H. Poker: Chronicle of the City of Stuttgart. E. Klett Verlag , Stuttgart, 2003.
11. ↑ Thomas Schwarz: Historical election results in the Stuttgart districts 1946 to 1999. Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart, Statistisches Amt, 2003, p. 319.
12. ^ The direct candidates in constituency 285. In: WeltN24. September 4, 2017. Retrieved September 15, 2017 . 
13. ↑ Uwe Bogen: Dino of the Stuttgart night life: After 43 years, the Kings Club moves into "exile". Stuttgarter Zeitung , January 13, 2020, accessed on January 13, 2020 . 
14. ^ Federal Cross of Merit for Laura Halding-Hoppenheit.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   Letter to the editor from German AIDS Help, Pforzheimer Rundschau, January 23, 2014.
15. ^ Speech by Minister of Social Affairs Katrin Altpeter. MCC municipality Stuttgart , 2011.
16. ↑ Saskia Drechsel: Minister Stoch honored with Rosa Detlef. , Stuttgarter Nachrichten, October 20, 2014.
17. ↑ Awarding of the PositHIV Prize 2013. ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Network of Relatives and Relatives of People with HIV and AIDS, 2013.
18. ^ Cross of Merit on Ribbon for Laura Halding-Hoppenheit , State of Baden-Württemberg, January 23, 2014.
19. ↑ Uwe Bogen: Premiere of “Laura - The Jewel of Stuttgart.” Stuttgarter Nachrichten, December 2, 2014.
20. ↑ Laura - The Jewel of Stuttgart ( Memento of the original from May 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , uebermorgenmagazin.de, 2014.
21. ^ Conference on Living with HIV / AIDS "Positive Encounters." German AIDS Help, February 2, 2009.
22. ↑ Wenke Böhm: "The mother of all gays." ( Memento from May 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Hohenloher Tagblatt, April 10, 2010.
23. ↑ Powertag - DEHOGA Baden-Württemberg. In: www.dehogabw.de. Retrieved October 18, 2016 . 
24. ↑ Thekla Bihac, born king. ( Memento of the original from April 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Happy Days.
25. ↑ Laura Halding-Hoppenheit at filmportal.de
26. ↑ Robert Niedermeier: The red diva: Laura Halding-Hoppenheit , queer.de, November 30, 2014
27. ↑ Zapping-Alien @ Mozart-Balls in the Internet Movie Database (English)