Michaela Karl

Michaela Karl, 2009

Michaela Karl (* 1971 in Straubing ) is a German political scientist and writer .

Life

Karl grew up in the Lower Bavarian market town of Hengersberg . She attended the St. Gotthard Gymnasium (Absolvia 1991) in the neighboring community of Niederalteich. After finishing school, she began to study political science, history and psychology at the University of Passau . She later moved to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Free University of Berlin , where she finally received her doctorate in 2001. With her dissertation , she presented the first scientific work on Rudi Dutschke , which focuses on the theoretical and political positions he propagated. She is a lecturer for political theory at the University of Politics in Munich.

In addition to her academic work, she has produced other books in which - based on extensive sources - she devotes herself to the biographies of rebels and pioneers in Bavarian history . In Social Rebels in Bavaria , she describes the lives of the three robbers and folk heroes Matthias Klostermayr , Michael Heigl and Mathias Kneißl . In Bavarian Amazons she created short portraits of Carry Brachvogel , Emerenz Meier , Mechtilde Lichnowsky , Lena Christ , Emmy Noether , Zenzl Mühsam , Claire Goll , Liesl Karlstadt , Therese Giehse , Carola Neher , Gret Palucca and Olga Benario , all of whom are emancipated and radically for them Achievement of their goals have occurred. In her book Die Münchner Räterepublik - Portraits of a Revolution (2008) she devoted herself to a forgotten chapter in Bavarian history, the Munich Räterepublik in the revolution of 1918/19.

In 2005 her first novel was published with Höllische Grüße , which was continued in 2008 with greetings from the single front .

In further books she dealt again with political opposition movements and their protagonists: Long live the world revolution. German CVs (2007), How half the world demands. The Struggle of the Suffragettes for Women's Suffrage (2009), Arguable Women. Portraits from three centuries (2009).

Michaela Karl was appointed to the Munich tower clerk in 2009.

In July 2010, her play Bavarian Amazons was premiered as part of the European Weeks .

Works

• Social rebels in Bavaria: Matthäus Klostermair, Michael Heigl, Mathias Kneißl . Pustet, Regensburg, 2003, 207 pp., ISBN 3-7917-1827-4
• Rudi Dutschke: Revolutionary without revolution. New Critique Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2003, ISBN 3-8015-0364-X At the same time: Berlin, Freie Univ., Diss., 2001
• Bavarian Amazons. Pustet Regensburg 2004 ISBN 3-7917-1868-1
• Hellish greetings. Asaro-Verlag, Ottersberg 2005, ISBN 978-3-934625-68-6
• Long live the world revolution! German CVs . Morsak, Grafenau, 2007, ISBN 978-3-86512-019-9 . To: Felix Fechenbach , Rosa Luxemburg , Ernst Toller , Eugen Leviné , Olga Benario , Tamara Bunke , Rudi Dutschke , Ulrike Marie Meinhof
• Bavarian Amazons , Piper Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-492-25035-1
• The Munich Soviet Republic. Portraits of a Revolution Patmos, Düsseldorf 2008, ISBN 978-3-491-35017-5
• Greetings from the single front! Letters from everyday madness , Asaro, Sprakensehl 2008, ISBN 978-3-939698-70-8
• We claim half the world! The struggle of the suffragettes for women's suffrage , Fischer, Frankfurt a. M. 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-18355-5
• Arguable women. Portraits from three centuries , Residenz, St. Pölten, 2009 ISBN 978-3-7017-3150-3 .
• Another martini and I'll lie under the host: Dorothy Parker . A biography , residence, St. Pölten 2011 ISBN 978-3-7017-3190-9 .
• Liesl Karlstadt. Faces of a woman and artist , Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2011 ISBN 978-3-7917-2358-7 .
• "We break the 10 commandments and break our necks." Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald. A biography , residence, St. Pölten, 2011 ISBN 978-3-7017-3257-9 .
• The history of the women's movement , Reclam, Stuttgart 2011 ISBN 978-3-15-018788-3 ( online )
• "Ladies and Gentlemen, this is an attack!". The story of Bonnie and Clyde , Residenz, St. Pölten, 2013 ISBN 978-3-7017-3282-1 .
• "I was flipping through Vogue when the Führer spoke to me." Unity Mitford. A biography. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-455-50409-5 .
• "I would never read something like this without lipstick." Maeve Brennan. A biography. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-455-50414-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Review by Eva Schäfers in the Süddeutsche Zeitung of August 16, 2011, p. 14: the bumpy translation of the many quotations is "the only downer in this well-read and thoroughly researched biography"
2. ↑ From the cultivation of drinking joke in: FAZ from August 12, 2011, page 30
3. ↑ Review by Thorsten Gränke in the FAZ on May 7, 2012, who found that Michaela Karl made it too easy for herself as a biographer and did not do justice to either the literary achievement or the life of the two portrayed.

Web links

• Literature by and about Michaela Karl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Michaela Karl's website in the version of March 5, 2016, archived by Internet Archive