Rita Bake

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Rita Bake (born January 16, 1952 in Bremerhaven ) is an economic and social historian, qualified librarian, author and founder of the women's garden at the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg.

Life

Rita Bake studied at the University of Applied Sciences Hamburg , Department of Library and Information Library Science with a degree in librarianship. She then studied social and economic history, ethnology and prehistory and early history at the University of Hamburg and completed her studies with a doctorate. phil. from. Among other things, she was a lecturer (women's history) at the women's studies / women's studies course at the University of Hamburg, lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Hamburg, department of library and information and at the history seminar at the University of Hamburg.

In 1990 she began her work as a research assistant at the State Center for Civic Education in Hamburg , where she was deputy director from 2004 to the end of July 2017.

She publishes on Hamburg's political institutional studies and on social and regional history, especially on women's history, conceives and conducts historical city tours and scenic performances.

Women's garden

In 2000, Rita Bake, with the help of Silke Urbanski and Helga Diercks-Norden, founded the world's only women's garden on the Ohlsdorf cemetery. Since then, Rita Bake has also been the chairwoman of the women's garden, which works exclusively on a voluntary basis . The women's garden is a place of remembrance with historical tombstones of graves of important women and a final resting place for women.

Since 2007, Rita Bake and Beate Meyer from the Institute for the History of German Jews in Hamburg have been responsible for the project management and editing of the series of publications: Stumbling blocks in Hamburg's districts. Biographical search for traces. 19 volumes had been published by 2017. In April 2010 this project received the Lappenberg Medal of the Association for Hamburg History.

In 2012, Rita Bake developed the first women's biography database for Hamburg. The database is continuously updated by her. In 2015, Rita Bake initiated a database for Hamburg entitled “Die Dabeigewesenen. A Hamburg topography of Nazi perpetrators, followers, denunciators, profiteers, careerists ”.

Rita Bake has been a board member of the Hamburg Women's Council since 2017. In 2019 she developed an interactive city map for Hamburg with 300 "women places", i. H. Memorial sites of the Hamburg women's movements from the middle of the 19th century to the end of the 1990s ( Frauenorte-hamburg.de ).

Awards

In 2009, Rita Bake was awarded the "Hammonia 2009" by the State Women's Council of Hamburg for her commitment to women's politics.

In 2018 she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit with ribbon.

Works (selection)

Monographs

Essays

  • Rita Bake: Manufactory workers in the 18th century. In: History Didactics. Vol. 10, H. 2. Düsseldorf 1985, pp. 157-172.
  • Rita Bake: Messy Desires. Love and sexuality in bourgeois women's life. In: Exhibition catalog: 1789 - save and donate. News from everyday life in Hamburg. Published by the Museum Education Service Hamburg. Hamburg 1989, pp. 68-78. ISBN 3-87975-501-9

Audio CDs and DVDs

  • Rita Bake (Ed. And Ed.): “Here speaks Hamburg” . Hamburg in the post-war period. Radio reports, news programs, radio plays and reports from the North West German Broadcasting Corporation (NWDR) 1945–1949. 6 audio CDs. Hamburg 2007. ISBN 978-3-929728-46-0

Scenic tours as downloads for listening and viewing

  • Rita Bake: Hamburg's history staged. Scenic tours and performances to listen to and watch. Audio and video recordings for download at: www.politische-bildung.hamburg.de

Broadcasts

  • October 1987: NDR III family editorial team, with Birgit Kiupel: “Mothers of famous sons”. Portrait of Emmy Biermann, the mother of Wolf Biermann.

Exhibitions

  • Scientific collaboration on the exhibition "Hammonia's daughters - women's life and women's movement in Hamburg's history". Museum of Hamburg History. 1985.
  • Scientific collaboration / partial conception of the exhibition of the Museum Pedagogical Service Hamburg on the topic: “1789 save and donate. Living and Working in Hamburg 1789 ”. 1989.

Press reports about Rita Bake

Web links

Commons : Women's Garden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Women's Garden
  2. ↑ a b c Landesfrauenrat Hamburg eV: Hammonia 2009: Dr. Rita Bake. (PDF) 2009, accessed on August 7, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b Rita Bake, Birgit Kiupel (ed.): Margarethe E. Milow: But I don't want to grumble. Hamburg 1993, p. 478. ISBN 3-926174-62-5
  4. ↑ a b Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke: Hamburgische Biographie: Personenlexikon. Vol. 6. Göttingen, 2012, p. 396. ISBN 978-3-8353-1025-4
  5. ↑ Rita Bake, Helga Kutz-Bauer, Dirk Jörke: Half as old as the Basic Law. 25 years of the State Center for Political Education - a chronicle. Hamburg 1999, p. 79, ISBN 3-929728-41-9
  6. ↑ Rita Bake: The garden of women. A place of remembrance with historical tombstones of the graves of important women and a final resting place for women. Hamburg 2013. ISBN 978-3-00-042176-1
  7. ^ Stumbling blocks in Hamburg: Project biographical search for traces. Retrieved August 7, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt: Medal for the Hamburg Stumbling Stone Project. March 30, 2010, accessed on August 7, 2017 (only online readable for registered users).
  9. ↑ Hamburg women biographies. hamburg.de, accessed on August 7, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Those who were there. hamburg.de, accessed on August 7, 2017 .
  11. ↑ http://www.bundespraesident.de/SharedDocs/Berichte/DE/Frank-Walter-Steinmeier/2018/12/181204-Verdienstorden-Ehrenamt.html?nn=2236336
personal data
SURNAME Bake, Rita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economic and social historian, librarian, author
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremerhaven