Marlies Hesse

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Marlies Hesse (2010)

Marlies Hesse (* 1935 in Peine ) is a German librarian , journalist and feminist. She has been particularly involved in the field of journalistic training and further education as well as for equal rights for women and has been honored with the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany . She is the founder of the Marlies Hesse Young Talent Award of the Association of Journalists.

Life

Marlies Hesse grew up in the Lüneburg Heath. Her father accompanied her to school, after which mother and daughter took her father to the railway together - he was in the Wehrmacht and had to go to the front. He never came back from the battle of Stalingrad .

As a teenager she decided to become a bookseller and graduated with honors in 1957. From 1958 to 1961 he studied to become a qualified librarian. After graduating, she became head of the library at the Hans Bredow Institute at the University of Hamburg that same year .

When they reached attempts to poach them from Cologne , they refused, even after repeated attempts on the same matter. It wasn't until 1965 that she followed Dr. Kurt Wagenführ , press officer of the then only three years old Deutschlandfunk (DLF), and became its deputy. When he retired in 1968, he wanted to make her his successor. Hesse refused and said he should find a husband for it. She revealed a few years ago that she still regrets this today. After all, she temporarily took over the position for a year and a half until the man she was looking for was found. Then she moved back to the second row, but was sensitized to a managerial position.

In 1974 she became the personal assistant to the artistic director Reinhard Appell and stayed with Richard Becker from 1976-79 . In 1979 she was appointed head of the Training and Advanced Training Unit. In this role she played a leading role in the development of a concept for journalistic training at the public broadcasters ARD and ZDF . Through her work she now had to state that women are not employed. These volunteers were often very successful, perhaps even completing a doctorate, but then simply got stuck in their professional development. This was not compatible with her own personal experiences, she was "always promoted" by men. You were very lucky. She could no longer uphold her original opinion that if you could do something, you would become something. It took her a long, long time to understand that.

Marlies Hesse at the 2010 annual conference of the Association of Women Journalists

This realization led to an ongoing commitment to women to this day.

Despite an increasing number of other tasks in the DLF, she focused on the framework concept that she helped to develop for journalistic training and the establishment of the Central Office for Further Education Program (ZFP) as a joint institution of ARD and ZDF. She stayed at the DLF until she retired in 1994. Since then she has been active as a freelance journalist and in many honorary positions.

Throughout her career, she has stood behind men in management positions and contributed to their careers - from countless speeches to complete books that she wrote for them as a ghostwriter.

After her retirement in 1994, she took over the management of the Association of Journalists , which she held until 2010. In 2003 she was awarded the Hedwig Dohm Certificate by the Association of Women Journalists . In July of the same year she received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany from the hands of the then Mayor of Cologne, Fritz Schramma, for her commitment to equality between men and women .

Voluntary engagement

Marlies Hesse is the donor of the Young Talent Award Other Words - New Tones of the Association of Journalists. As of 2013, this award was renamed in honor of its founder and has been awarded as the Marlies Hesse Young Talent Award since then .

  • 1977 to 2002 - Chair of the selection committee for the award of scholarships for journalists in Europe (dissolved for financial reasons). In this activity she was able to suggest far more women than men for scholarships.
  • 1988 to 2000 - Co-editor at the Initiative Frauen-Presse-Agentur (IFPA)
  • 1994 to 2010 - Managing Director of the Association of Women Journalists
  • As part of the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP), which is carried out every five years, she was involved in carrying out the annual research into the image of women in the media.

Honors

Works

  • German Adult Education Association, Television Unit (Hrsg.), Marlies Hesse: Literature on television - a bibliography . Wulff. Dortmund 1963
  • German Adult Education Association, Television Unit / Hans Bredow Institute (Ed.), Marlies Hesse: Education and television - a bibliography . Marl and Hamburg
  • Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (Ed.), Red. Carolin Callenius u. Marlies Hesse: Beijing + 5 - Progress, Setbacks, Standstill? Bonn and Stuttgart 2000.
  • Review of the book Käthe, my mother by Marianne Krüll
  • Journalists' Association (Ed.), Responsible. Red. Marlies Hesse: Presence of women in the news - media observations 2005 . Bonn 2006. ISBN 3000169040
  • Review, letters and diaries of Hedwig Pringsheim in Virginia women's book criticism
  • A life shaped by feminist engagement in: Book women magazine 2011/12

Web links

Commons : Marlies Hesse  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Laudation for Marlies Hesse ( memento of November 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on: journalistinnen.de
  2. a b c Simone Schmollack: "I was an alibi woman." In: taz. March 9, 2019, accessed March 24, 2019 .
  3. Tina Groll: Working in retirement: "Those who have made a career feel lonely in old age". Die Zeit, September 14, 2010, accessed on May 6, 2019 .
  4. Women in the media at: focus.de
  5. Can, head or body? to: journalistik-journal.lookingintomedia.com
  6. Journalists in Europe - through the glass ceiling with their heads? on: misstilly.de
  7. medium magazine: Promotion through other words - new tones. Retrieved on October 3, 2018 (German).
  8. Hedwig Dohm Certificate 2003 ( memento from June 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on: journalistinnen.de
  9. Virginia Women's Book Review Fall 2013 Edition
  10. Bookwomen's magazine 2011/12 (PDF; 1.1 MB)