Sappho Women's Housing Foundation

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SAPPhO women's housing foundation
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legal form Non-profit foundation
founding August 1997
Seat Wuppertal
motto Female inheritance
main emphasis Elderly care for lesbians
Action space Germany
people Management: Mubina Ahnert; Board of Directors: Sibylle Naß, Ruth Balden, Renate Pahnke, Ute Greiling, Ruth Eschmann, Gisela from Isseborsch
Employees 2
Volunteers 10
Website sappho-stiftung.de

The Sappho Women's Housing Foundation (spelling: SAPPhO) was founded with the aim of creating affordable housing and an independent lesbian living and living culture, "in which you can grow old well". The foundation , based in Wuppertal , was recognized as a non-profit foundation under civil law by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in August 1997, making it the first non-profit foundation by and for lesbians in Europe. The foundation was named after the Greek poet Sappho .

history

For four years - from 1993 to 1997 - a group of six women worked to establish the SAPPhO Frauenwohnstift foundation. Some came from the Safia - Lesbians shape their age association , which brought in the "Hofgut Wüstenbirkach" lesbian housing project in Lower Franconia . After the establishment, two apartments from the SAFIA-Alten-Wohngemeinschaft “Villa Charlotta” were added. Over the years, numerous donations have been made, so that the foundation's assets have grown steadily and the foundation now has some properties in Hanover , Lüneburg and Charlottenberg ( Rhineland-Palatinate ), including a multi-storey town house and a seminar and conference center. In 2009 the foundation was one of the founding members of the national umbrella organization "Lesbians & Age" based in Hamburg.

Foundation purpose

The aim and purpose of the foundation is to create the prerequisites for lesbians in old age to be able to develop new ways of living and living and ways of living together. This includes creating affordable housing for lesbians. In addition, the foundation supports the establishment of residential and house communities for self-help in old age and the establishment of meeting places for old and young lesbians to establish and maintain social and cultural lesbian networks. The purpose of this work is to break the possible isolation of lesbians in old age.

In an interview at the symposium Be different and grow older. Lesbians and gays in 2002 in Berlin said one of the founders of the foundation, the publisher Anke Schäfer (1938–2013): “We were very proud when we achieved this. The sole purpose of the foundation is to create living space for older lesbians. "The form of the foundation was chosen because foundations are" not as vulnerable "as associations. "All foundations somehow survived the Third Reich."

Barbara Gissrau Fund

The psychoanalyst Barbara Gissrau (born 1943), who died in 2008, bequeathed not only real estate to the foundation, but also securities and capital assets. This brought the fund into being, which is financed today from donations. The fund supports older lesbians who have little money with up to 500 euros a year.

organization

As a rule, women on the board of directors commit themselves to volunteer work for at least six years and meet with each other and with the managing director at least four times a year. They are supported by advisory women who are also volunteers, including psychologists and doctors. As long as they live, the first generation of fellow women decides who is allowed to use the foundation's objects; the foundation only decides after their death.

reception

The development of new forms of living for women was a central concern of the first women's movement in Germany. For the second women's movement since the 1970s, the creation of autonomous women's spaces was a key focus of their activities. Spatial planner Ruth Becker counts Sappho's lesbian housing project among the autonomous women's housing projects, which she uses to describe projects “that were initiated and implemented by women that explicitly relate to the autonomous women's movement and / or where the“ concept of autonomy ”, i.e. the goal Creating living space "in the hands of women" or for life in women ' s terms is in the foreground and its objectives relate to women of different ages and in different life situations. " SAPPhO is an" impressive example "of this, as for women with only small fortunes have to inherit, the establishment of a foundation can be interesting when they join forces. A foundation is particularly suitable for women's housing projects, as SAPPhO successfully shows.

For the 10th anniversary of the foundation in 2007, the then Minister for Labor, Social Affairs, Health, Family and Women of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, Malu Dreyer, praised the founders for “their perseverance and foresight. They laid the foundation for the foundation's idea of ​​keeping assets in the hands of lesbians or women and thus financing housing projects for lesbians. "

literature

  • Ruth Becker: women's housing projects - not a utopia! A guideline for the development of autonomous women (living) spaces with a documentation of realized projects in Germany . Studies Network Women's Research NRW , No. 3, Dortmund 2009, ISBN 978-3-936199-02-4 (Lesbian Housing Project of the SAPPhO Foundation: p. 302f.)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of foundations of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
  2. ↑ Sappho Residential Pen. Umbrella Association Women and Lesbians ( Memento of the original from July 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lesbenundalter.de
  3. ↑ Sappho Foundation ( Memento of March 8, 2005 in the Internet Archive ), March 8, 2005
  4. ↑ Anke Schäfer: SAFIA. Stormy old people always find alternatives, in: Gabriele Dennert, Christiane Leidinger, Franziska Rauchut (Eds.): 100 Years of Politics, Culture and History of Lesbians , Querverlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89656-148-0 , p. 363f .
  5. ↑ Women's housing projects: Land project Wüstenbirkach, Network Women's Research NRW, c / o FG Women's Research and Housing in Spatial Planning (FWR) University of Dortmund
  6. ↑ Anke Schäfer: Stormy old people always find alternatives, in: Contributions to feminist theory and practice , Lesbian life read across, 22nd year 1999, issue 52, page 71, publisher of the association contributions to feminist theory and practice eV, Cologne
  7. ↑ Brief portrait of the SAPPhO Foundation ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF), accessed January 5, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sappho-stiftung.de
  8. ↑ Portrait: SAPPho Frauenwohnstiftung, in: Foundations and Politics: "Women's Foundations - How Little Money Turns into Success Stories", zwd -Stiftungsreport 2011 (Zukunftswerkstatt Düsseldorf)
  9. ↑ Groups for older lesbians and gays in Lower Saxony: Sappho Frauenwohnstiftung, website Always with you
  10. ↑ Chantal Louis: The Golden Girls , Emma July / August 2003
  11. ↑ Brochure on the founding of the umbrella association for lesbians and old people ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lesbenundalter.de
  12. ↑ Aims and tasks of the foundation ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 5, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sappho-stiftung.de
  13. ↑ Articles of Association of the SAPPhO Foundation ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 5, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sappho-stiftung.de
  14. ↑ Women NRW: Sappho - Frauenwohnstiftung eV ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the Ministry for Health, Emancipation, Care and Age of North Rhine-Westphalia @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.frauennrw.de
  15. ↑ Be different and get older. Lesbians and gays in old age , documentation of the symposium 22./23. November 2002, Berlin, p. 22f. (pdf) ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlin.de
  16. ↑ Barbara Gissrau Fonds website , accessed on January 6, 2014
  17. ↑ Articles of Association of the SAPPhO Foundation ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF), accessed January 5, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sappho-stiftung.de
  18. ↑ Organization chart of the foundation ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 5, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sappho-stiftung.de
  19. ↑ Ruth Becker: Lebens- und Wohnformen, in: Becker / Kortendiek (ed.): Handbook women and gender research , VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften; 3rd edition 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-17170-8 , p. 468
  20. ↑ Ruth Becker: Women's housing projects - no utopia! A guideline for the development of autonomous women (living) spaces with a documentation of realized projects in Germany . Studies Network Women's Research NRW , No. 3, Dortmund 2009, p. 255 (excerpt online PDF )
  21. ↑ Becker, ibid., Pp. 107–113 ( pdf )
  22. ↑ Festschrift 10 Years SAPPhO Foundation ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 5, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sappho-stiftung.de
  23. ^ Book review in: Austrian Journal for Political Science (ÖZP) 2010/1