Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana

Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana (2019)

Herzberger-Fofana together with Malin Björk and other MEPs at a rally in front of the European Parliament (2019)

Pierrette Gabrielle Herzberger-Fofana (born March 20, 1949 in Bamako , Mali ) is a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) and an EU member of the parliamentary group of the Greens / European Free Alliance (Greens / EFA).

Life

Herzberger-Fofana grew up in Senegal . She completed a degree in German sociolinguistics in Paris and another degree from the University of Trier . She received her doctorate from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg with a dissertation on women's literature in francophone sub-Saharan Africa.

In 2005 Herzberger-Fofana was elected to the city council of Erlangen for the first time . She received the Helene Weber Prize in 2009 . While working as a teacher at the Ohm-Gymnasium Erlangen , she initiated the school's inclusion in the School Without Racism - School with Courage network . She is a board member at DaMigra, the umbrella organization for migrant women’s organizations. # 21 of the European list of Alliance 90 / The Greens Herzberger-Fofana moved in the European elections in Germany in 2019 in the European Parliament one. For the parliamentary group, she is a member of the Development Committee , of which she was also elected vice-chair. She is also an alternate member of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality .

She has three children.

Fonts

• Écrivains africains et identités culturelles: entretiens , Stauffenburg, 1989, ISBN 3-923721-92-7 .
• Litterature feminine francophone d'afrique noire , Editions L'Harmattan, 2001, ISBN 978-2738499059 .
• The night of the baobab. On the situation of foreign women using the example of African women in Germany In: Afro-Look: a newspaper from black Germans , Volume 8, 1992/93, pp. 14–15. (1992 speech on International Women's Day ).
• Berlin 125 years later: An almost forgotten German-African story , aa-infohaus, 2010, ISBN 978-3200020122 .

Web links

Commons : Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website by Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana
• Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana on wahl.tagesspiegel.de
• Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana on Abhabenwatch.de
• Entry on Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana in the Members' database of the European Parliament

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Post by Robert Fikes about Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana on blackpast.org
2. ^ ^{A b} Stanislaus Kossakowski: Two women from Middle Franconia hope to jump into the EU Parliament. In: BR24. Bayerischer Rundfunk, May 24, 2019, accessed on May 28, 2019 . 
3. ^ Kick against racism. In: nordbayern.de. March 22, 2013, accessed June 30, 2020 . 
4. ↑ DaMigra: Board of Directors. Umbrella association of migrant women organizations, accessed on May 29, 2019 (German). 
5. ↑ Alphabetical list of all elected - The Federal Returning Officer. Retrieved May 27, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Home | Pierrette HERZBERGER-FOFANA | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved July 12, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Johann Osel, Wolfgang Wittl, Lisa Schnell, Clara Lipkowski: After the election is before the election. In: Sueddeutsche Zeitung. May 27, 2019, accessed May 28, 2019 .