Margarete Stokowski

Margarete Stokowski (2018)

Margarete Stokowski (born April 14, 1986 in Zabrze , Silesian Voivodeship ) is a Polish - German author and columnist .

Life

Margarete Stokowski was born in Poland in 1986. In 1988 her family moved with her to Berlin-Neukölln , where she grew up. Her father is a physicist , her mother a psychologist . She studied philosophy and social sciences at the Humboldt University in Berlin and graduated in 2014 with a thesis on Simone de Beauvoir .

Stokowski is in a relationship with the musician Jens Friebe . She lives in Berlin and temporarily lived in a municipality in Brandenburg .

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Since 2009 she has been writing for various newspapers and magazines. During her studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin , she gained her first journalistic experience at the student newspaper UnAufberford , where she also took on the post of editor-in-chief . From 2011 to 2015 she wrote columns for the taz . Since October 2015 she has been writing the online column above and below at Spiegel . In 2016 her non-fiction book Below was freely published by Rowohlt Verlag . Together with Sibylle Berg and others, she published the “female” educational canon on Spiegel Online and Watson.ch in August 2018 under the title “You must know these women”. At the end of September 2018, the text collection The Last Days of the Patriarchate came out, a selection of columns and essays about which Angela Gutzeit wrote in SWR2's “Readable Criticism” : “Stokowski loves open words and confrontational arguments, which sometimes she may find something too rowdy. But as a rule she shines with clever argumentative moves. ”Both Bottom Free and The Last Days of Patriarchy made it onto the Spiegel bestseller list .

In 2018 she sparked controversy when she canceled a reading in a Munich bookstore that was already sold out because it also had primary texts by right-wing authors. The magazine of the Süddeutsche Zeitung described her in 2019 as the "loudest voice of German feminism " and dedicated a cover story to her. In 2019 she was awarded the Kurt Tucholsky Prize for her work as a columnist for Spiegel Online and the Luise Büchner Prize for Journalism for her analysis of the “contradictions in the relationships between women and men that still exist in our supposedly egalitarian society available".

In her speech on the award of the Tucholsky Prize, which was published in excerpts in the taz , Stokowski spoke about "death threats and the inaction of the state". You want "not find death threats normal". Her criminal charges, which she had filed not because of insults but because of threats to life and limb, had been discontinued because there was a lack of public interest :

“I would like to believe that there is a public interest in women writers being able to write texts without being told that they should be beaten, shot and burned. That doesn't seem to be asking too much. "

- Margarete Stokowski : taz (2019)

Reception in popular culture

The weekly newspaper der Freitag asks in its questionnaire Communism is ...? regularly the question "Jan Fleischhauer or Margarete Stokowski?" She alludes to the fact that Stokowski's columns and those of the conservative journalist Jan Fleischhauer (both formerly at Spiegel Online) are seen as politically opposed. Arno Frank wrote in 2020 in an article for taz.FUTURZWEI with the headline “ Butcher or Stokowski?” That the two faced each other “like warlords of opinion at one another ”. For International Women's Day 2020, the online flower delivery company Colvin offered a bouquet called "Margarete Stokowski". A Facebook group is called “Margarete Stokowski Ultras ”.

Awards

• 2019: Luise Büchner Prize for Journalism
• 2019: Kurt Tucholsky Prize

Trivia

In their ID card, instead of Zabrze, the place of birth is the place name Hindenburg, which was used from 1915 until it was renamed in 1946 . The cause is apparently a schematic use of German place names for foreign places, if such German place names are registered.

Works

Books

• Free below. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 2016, ISBN 978-3-498-06439-6 .
• The last days of patriarchy. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 2018, ISBN 978-3-498-06363-4 .

Book chapters (selection)

• every day…. In: Christiane Frohmann (Ed.): Writing a thousand deaths. Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-944195-55-1
• She said 'fuck'. In: Volker Surmann , Heiko Werning (Ed.): Is that now satire or what? Contributions to the humorous state of the nation. Satyr, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-944035-62-8
• Mrs K. In: Christoph Buchwald , Ulrike Almut Sandig (Ed.): Yearbook of Poetry 2017. Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-89561-680-8
• Foreword to: Charles Fourier : Freedom in love. An essay. Edition Nautilus , Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-96054-055-7
• City, country, river during sex. In: Peter Felixberger , Armin Nassehi (Hrsg.): Kursbuch 192. Frauen II. Kursbuch Kulturstiftung, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-96196-000-2 .
• Epilogue, in: Olympe de Gouges : The rights of women and other texts. Reclam-Verlag, Ditzingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-15-019527-7
• Back. In: Lina Muzur (ed.): She said. 17 stories about sex and power. Hanser Berlin, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-446-26074-0
• Language. In: Fatma Aydemir , Hengameh Yaghoobifarah (ed.): Your home is our nightmare. Ullstein five, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-96101-036-3
• Preface to: Virginia Woolf : A Room of Your Own . Fischer Taschenbuch, Berlin 2019, ISBN 9783596522354

Radio tracks

• The largest pack in the world. Some thoughts on sexual harassment. SWR2 radio essay 2018.

literature

• Tobias Haberl: The * interpreter. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin . Issue 23, June 6, 2019 ( online )

Web links

Commons : Margarete Stokowski  - Collection of Images

• Short biography and reviews of works by Margarete Stokowski at perlentaucher.de
• Margarete Stokowski in the Munzinger archive , accessed on August 23, 2020 ( beginning of article freely available)
• Profile of Margarete-Stokowski on spiegel.de
• Profile of Margarete-Stokowski on taz.de
• Nobody would say Powermann. Margarete Stokowski in an interview about career paths of women, October 25, 2016 on Zeit Online
• Women have developed an enormous degree of professionalism to ignore things ... Margarete Stokowski in an interview about #MeToo , November 3, 2017 in aspects
• Videos by and about Margarete Stokowski in the AV portal of the Technical Information Library
• Deutschlandfunk nuances. Music and personal questions from December 16, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Margarete Stokowski: Simone, where are you? taz.de, December 31, 2013, accessed on December 30, 2017 (self-disclosure): "Actually, I only read it because I discovered that Beauvoir died on my birthday exactly." 
2. ^ Christian Möller: Margarete Stokowski - Through the area . Ed .: viertausendhertz.de. ( Online [OGG; 52.4 MB ; accessed on December 30, 2017] Interview as audio podcast , 2017).
3. ↑ Margarete Stokowski: Simone, where are you? taz.de, December 31, 2013, accessed on December 30, 2017 (self-disclosure): "For a year I read texts by and about Beauvoir and wrote my master's thesis on" The opposite sex "." 
4. ↑ Jens Friebe and the last man. Retrieved June 8, 2019 . 
5. ↑ "I can only write when it's dark". Accessed July 3, 2020 (German). 
6. ↑ Issue No. 180 of Unrequested. (PDF) unauf.de, accessed on June 10, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Bülend Ürük: Loss for the “taz”: Columnist Margarete Stokowski switches to “Spiegel Online”. kress.de , September 23, 2015, accessed on March 6, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Margarete Stokowski - Free below. rowohlt.de, accessed on March 6, 2017 . 
9. ^ Sibylle Berg and Team: General Knowledge. You must know these women. In: Spiegel Online , 23 August 2018.
10. ^ Angela Gutzeit: Margarete Stokowski: The last days of the patriarchy. SWR2 , broadcast on February 11, 2019.
11. ↑ book report. Retrieved November 24, 2018 . 
12. ↑ book report. Retrieved November 24, 2018 . 
13. ↑ Margarete Stokowski cancels reading at Lehmkuhl , boersenblatt.net , November 5, 2018.
14. ↑ heartthrob. Where does German feminism stand? A portrait of his loudest voice: Margarete Stokowski. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin . June 7, 2019, p. 1.
15. ^ Kurt Tucholsky Society: Kurt Tucholsky Prize 2019 to Margarete Stokowski. In: Website of the Kurt Tucholsky Society. Kurt Tucholsky-Gesellschaft, September 14, 2019, accessed on September 19, 2019 . 
16. ^ Luise Büchner Prize for Journalism - Current Prize Winner. Luise Büchner-Gesellschaft, accessed on November 28, 2019 . 
17. ↑ Margarete Stokowski: "I then briefly think: Yes, normal". In: taz. November 7, 2019, accessed January 8, 2020 . 
18. ↑ Questionnaire with Igor Levit. Retrieved March 10, 2019 . 
19. ↑ ^{a b} Arno Frank: War of Opinions: Butcher or Stokowski? In: The daily newspaper: taz . March 26, 2020, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed March 31, 2020]).
20. ↑ Bouquet with eucalyptus and lavender - Margarete. Retrieved March 10, 2020 . 
21. ↑ Margarete Stokowski, DER SPIEGEL: A little something for the ladies on Women's Day, then everything back to normal, please - DER SPIEGEL - culture. Retrieved March 10, 2020 . 
22. ↑ Margarete Stokowski: Bureaucracy: How I involuntarily became a citizen of the Reich . In: Spiegel Online . December 10, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed December 11, 2019]).