Renate Möhrmann

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Renate Möhrmann (born August 26, 1934 in Hamburg ) is a German theater , film and television scholar and former member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia ( CDU ). The emeritus professor at the University of Cologne is considered representative of Feminist Literature and Media Studies . Since 2006 she has also emerged as a novelist .

Life

Renate Möhrmann studied German , Romance studies , philosophy and media studies at the universities in Hamburg and Lyon , as well as at the City University of New York . Her doctorate took place in 1972 and her habilitation five years later . From 1973 to 1977 she was an academic councilor at the University of Duisburg . She was then appointed professor for theater, film and television studies at the University of Cologne, where she taught until her retirement in 1999, with interruptions due to a leave of absence during her political mandate from 1990 to 1995. She was visiting professor at the University of Toronto (Canada) and at Middlebury College in the US state of Vermont .

In 1990 Möhrmann belonged to a group of political "lateral entrants" - including the dressage rider Reiner Klimke - who, on the initiative of the then chairman of the CDU North Rhine-Westphalia , Norbert Blüm , received secure places on the CDU's list for the state elections in 1990 and entered the state parliament. Möhrmann only joined the CDU in November 1989, after she had received the offer for the mandate. Subsequently, she was also deputy chairwoman of the CDU city association in Cologne and a member of the CDU state executive in North Rhine-Westphalia. Furthermore, she was a member of the WDR Broadcasting Council until 1993 as a representative of the North Rhine-Westphalia State Parliament , and a member of the Supervisory Board of Bavaria Film GmbH until 1994 as a representative of the WDR mediagroup .

Act

Möhrmann's habilitation thesis , which dealt with female writers in Vormärz , is described by her book publisher as the “first feminist habilitation thesis in the Federal Republic”. Since then, dealing with the role of women in society, art and the media has been a major focus of her academic and journalistic work. Within the spectrum of feminist science, Möhrmann represents the standpoint of “classic” women's studies , in contrast to postmodern gender theory , such as that represented by Judith Butler , for example .

After her retirement, Möhrmann began to work as a novelist. Here, too, she devoted herself to the topic of the fate of women.

Works (selection)

Scientific writings

Monographs

  • The other women. Approaches to Emancipation by German Women Writers in the Run-Up to the Forty-Eight Revolution . Metzler, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-476-00353-1 (book edition of the habilitation thesis).
  • The woman with the camera. Filmmakers in the Federal Republic of Germany. Situation, perspectives, 10 exemplary CVs. Hanser, Munich / Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-446-13160-4 .

As editor

  • With Norbert Jaron and Hedwig Müller : Berlin - theater at the turn of the century. The stage history of the capital in the mirror of criticism (1889-1914). Niemeyer, Tübingen 1986, ISBN 3-484-10493-7 .
  • With the help of Barbara Mrytz: Transfigured, kitsched up, forgotten. The mother as an aesthetic figure. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 1996, ISBN 3-476-01302-2 .
  • With the assistance of Nadja Urbani: rebellious - desperate - infamous. The bad girl as an aesthetic figure. Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-89528-875-3 ( table of contents ).

Novels

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Renate Möhrmann at the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament
  2. ↑ WDR press release , accessed on September 12, 2008
  3. ^ Announcement from WDR , accessed on September 12, 2008
  4. ↑ Information page about Renate Möhrmann at Schenkbuchverlag , accessed on December 12, 2014.

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personal data
SURNAME Möhrmann, Renate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater, film and television scholar and politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg