Sibylle Plogstedt

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Sibylle Plogstedt (2011)

Sibylle Plogstedt (born November 2, 1945 in Berlin ) is a German journalist and publicist . She was a member of the Socialist German Student Union and was active in the opposition to the invasion of Warsaw Pact troops during the Prague Spring . In 1976 she was one of the founders of the feminist magazine Courage . Since 1990 she has been working as a book author, freelance filmmaker and radio writer with a focus on women's rights and family.

biography

Sibylle Plogstedt studied social sciences in Berlin and was a member of the Socialist German Student Union (SDS) from 1965 to 1969 . In 1968 Plogstedt was in Prague for a seminar paper when Warsaw Pact troops marched in. She sought contact with left-wing Prague students, found Petr Uhl , who was in the process of founding the opposition group Hnutí revoluční mládeže (Movement of Revolutionary Youth). Together with Petr Uhl she was active in the opposition to the invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops. Sibylle Plogstedt was 24 when she and the entire group were arrested in December 1969 by the State Security of Czechoslovakia. In 1971 she was sentenced to two and a half years in prison and after one and a half years expelled from the Czechoslovak Republic . Plogstedt wrote an autobiographical book in 2001 about her imprisonment in the ČSSR in 1969 and how she dealt with the trauma, her experiences from the Prague Spring , the actions of the West German left in 1968 and the current debate about how to deal with secret service files . Captured in Prague after 1968 , published by Christoph Links Verlag . The book was also published in the Czech Republic. 2001 has WDR the film alone in the cell broadcast to the Sibylle Plogstedt with Peter Sommer has turned.

After Plogstedt's return to West Berlin , she took part in the publication of the magazine Informační materiály , which was distributed underground in the ČSSR. She was active in student strikes and at times a member of the Trotskyist group International Marxists (GIM). Plogstedt was not allowed to enter the ČSSR for 20 years. In 1976, after two years of activity, she had to quit her work at the Eastern European Institute of the Free University of Berlin due to the radical decree. In Prague she was recognized as a political prisoner after the Velvet Revolution.

In 1976, Plogstedt founded the Berlin feminist women's magazine Courage together with Sabine Zurmühl and a group of women from the Berlin women's center. The newspaper, which became the mouthpiece of the autonomous women's movement, existed for eight years. After Courage went bankrupt in 1984, she went to Bonn to work for the SPD magazine Vorwärts in 1986 . She is one of the founders of the Association of Women Journalists and of Solwodi , the aid organization of Sr.  Lea Ackermann . In Bonn she was active on the board of the women's museum for many years.

When Vorwärts became a members' magazine in 1990 and almost the entire editorial staff was dismissed, she started her own business as a freelance journalist. Since then she has worked as a book author, freelance filmmaker and radio writer. Among other things, she published on the subject of sexual harassment at work (several books and guides from 1994) and on the history of women's projects and collectives: Women's businesses: From collective to individual entrepreneur (Ulrike Helmer Verlag).

As a filmmaker, she took up the subject of family . She wrote several long documentaries on the subject of child neglect. Other film topics: trafficking in women, child pornography, child abduction, an autobiographical film about imprisonment in Prague. The filmography can be found on their homepage.

Awards

On September 3, 2011 Sibylle Plogstedt was awarded the Hedwig Dohm Certificate of the Association of Journalists for her life's work . On October 2, 2011, she was honored with the "Unity Prize / Citizens' Prize for German Unity" from the Federal Agency for Political Education . The chairman of the jury was Joachim Gauck .

Works (selection)

Sibylle Plogstedt (2013)
  • The struggle of the Vietnamese people and the global strategy of imperialism . International Vietnam Congress, 17./18. February 1968, West Berlin. Edited by SDS Westberlin and the International News and Research Institute (INFI). Editor: Sibylle Plogstedt. Berlin 1968.
  • Max Borin, Vera Plogen [pseudonyms for Richard Sklorz and Sibylle Plogstedt]: Management and self-administration in the CSSR . Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin 1970.
  • The International . Theoretical journal of the GIM group Internationale Marxisten . No. 1, 1973, No. 16/1981, Hamburg / Frankfurt: ISP, approx. 150 pages per issue
  • Sibylle Plogstedt: Using the example of the CSSR . In: Hans Magnus Enzensberger , Karl Markus Michel (ed.): Socialism as state power: a dilemma and five reports . Course book No. 30. Wagenbach publishing house, Berlin 1972.
  • Klaus Eschen , Sibylle Plogstedt, Renate Sami, Victor Serge : How to keep your nerve against the police and the judiciary . Rotbuch-Verlag, Berlin 1973.
  • Sibylle Plogstedt: Labor disputes in the Soviet industry (1917-1933) . At the same time: Dissertation, Free University of Berlin, Faculty 11 - Philosophy a. Social science. 1979, Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, New York 1980, ISBN 3-593-32687-6 .
  • Sexuality . With contributions by Sarah Schumann, Ginka Steinwachs, Karin Reschke, Peggy Parnass, Anna Rheinsberg, Elisabeth Lenk, Sibylle Plogstedt, and others. a. Courage special issue 5. Courage, Berlin 1981.
  • Ruth-Esther Geiger, Anna Johannesson (Ed.): Not peaceful and not quiet. Polemic pamphlets from women on war and violence . With contributions by Peggy Parnass / Luc Jochimsen , Ulrike Marie Meinhof , Helke Sander , Sibylle Plogstedt, Helga Braun, Anna Dorothea Brockmann, Lottemi Doormann, Hanne-Margret Birckenbach , Eva-Maria Epple, Herrad Schenk, Elke Leuschner and Petra Kelly . Frauenbuchverlag, Munich 1982.
  • Sibylle Plogstedt, Kathleen Bode: Assaults. Sexual harassment in offices and factories. A documentation of the green women in the Bundestag . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1984, ISBN 3-499-15353-X .
  • Sibylle Plogstedt, Klaus Bertelsmann: Sexual harassment in the workplace . DGB federal executive committee, Düsseldorf 1988.
  • Monika Holzbecher, Anne Braszeit, Ursula Müller, Sibylle Plogstedt: Sexual harassment in the workplace . Series of publications by the Federal Minister for Youth, Family, Women and Health. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, Berlin, Cologne 1991.
  • Sibylle Plogstedt, Barbara Degen: No means no! DGB guide against sexual harassment in the workplace . Piper, Munich / Zurich 1992, ISBN 3-492-11696-5 (Piper series; Volume 1696: Women).
  • Rita Russia, Sibylle Plogstedt: Addiction, alcohol and drugs in the world of work . Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-596-23368-2 .
  • Sibylle Plogstedt: Nobody's daughter. Looking for the father . Piper, Munich / Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-492-11330-3 (Piper series; Volume 1330: Women).
  • Sibylle Plogstedt: In the network of poems. Captured in Prague after 1968 . Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-86153-237-9 .
  • Sibylle Plogstedtová: V síti dejin. Zatcena v Praze po roce 1968 . [Z nemeckého orig. prel. Josef Solar and Zbynek Fiser]. Doplnek, Brno 2002, ISBN 80-7239-127-5 (Edice osudêu; sv. 14) Uniform title: In the network of poems <tschechisch>
  • Sibylle Plogstedt: Women's businesses. From collective to individual entrepreneur . Helmer, Königstein / Taunus 2006, ISBN 3-89741-196-2 .
  • Sibylle Plogstedt: Heir dispute and mediation. 21 family conflicts . Ulrike Helmer Verlag, Königstein / Taunus 2008, ISBN 978-3-89741-266-8 .
  • Sibylle Plogstedt: Knastmauke. The fate of political prisoners in the GDR after German reunification . Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8379-2094-9 .
  • Sibylle Plogstedt: "The adventure of inheriting. 25 family conflicts". Reclam-Verlag, Ditzingen 2011.
  • Sibylle Plogstedt: "We have made history. On the work of the DGB women 1945-1990." Psychosozial Verlag, Giessen 2013. ISBN 978-3-8379-2318-6
  • Sibylle Plogstedt: "With united forces. The equality work of the DGB women in East and West. 1990-2010." Psychosozialverlag, Giessen 2015.
  • Sibylle Plogstedt: "In the net of poems - Trapped in Prague after 1968". Ulrike Helmer Verlag 2018.
  • Sibylle Plogstedt: "Heir dispute. 25 family cases". U.Helmer 2018

Web links

Commons : Sibylle Plogstedt  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reason for the award, laudation for the Hedwig Dohm Prize and reply to journalistinnen.de.
  2. ↑ Unit price - 2011 winners (web archive).
personal data
SURNAME Plogstedt, Sibylle
SHORT DESCRIPTION German author, journalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin