Silke Helfrich

Silke Helfrich (* 1967) is a German author , editor , researcher and activist on the common goods and commons .

Life

She studied philology / Romance studies , social sciences with a focus on economics and education at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . From 1996 to 1998 she worked for the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Thuringia and from 1999 to 2007 headed the foundation's own regional office for Central America , Cuba and Mexico .

Helfrich is co-founder of the German-speaking Commons Institute and runs the CommonsBlog. She is part of the Commons Strategies Group. In 2018 and 2019, Helfrich was a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam .

Helfrich speaks German , English , Spanish , French , Italian and Portuguese .

Commitment to the commons

Silke Helfrich published several non-fiction books and anthologies on material and intellectual commons, as well as peer-to-peer networks (P2P) and production . They have been translated into several languages. Her special focus is on the social processes and patterns in which common goods arise and are preserved (commoning), as well as the terms that can describe them. Previous expressions often do not correspond to the necessary condition to imply sustainable and open use. In the best case, free licenses should help to keep the commons accessible in the long term and to exclude structural advantages such as those of large companies in advance ( peer openness ).

"You shouldn't imagine the commons world like a land of milk and honey, but like a picnic to which everyone contributes."

- Silke Helfrich : Die Tageszeitung , 2019

In Fair, Frei und Lebendig , Helfrich promotes Ward Cunningham's Federated Wiki concept . As the presenter of a donation gala for the Berliner Gazette, she promoted self-organized citizen clinics in Greece in 2015 .

Publications

Edited volumes and monographs

• Silke Helfrich and David Bollier: Free, fair and lively. The power of the commons. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2019, ISBN 978-3-8376-4530-9 ( available online ).
• Silke Helfrich, David Bollier and Heinrich Böll Foundation (ed.): The world of the Commons. Pattern of joint action. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-8376-3245-3 ( available online ).
• Silke Helfrich and Heinrich Böll Foundation (ed.): Commons. For a new policy beyond market and state. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-8376-2835-7 ( available online ).
• Elinor Ostrom and Silke Helfrich (eds.): What becomes more when we share. On the social value of the commons. oekom Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-86581-251-3 .
• Silke Helfrich, Rainer Kuhlen , Wolfgang Sachs and Christian Siefkes : The Common Goods Report. Prosperity through sharing . Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin 2009 ( available online ).
• Silke Helfrich: Who owns the world. To rediscover the commons. oekom Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-86581-133-2 .

Individual contributions (selection)

• Silke Helfrich and Johannes Euler: From with and for to through. On the relationship between researching and being researched and the exploration of the commons. In: Brigitte Aulenbacher et al. (Ed.): Public Sociology. Science in dialogue with society. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 2017, ISBN 978-3-593-50635-7 .
• Silke Helfrich: Commoning as a strategy to fight poverty. In: The poverty conference (ed.): What belongs to all. Commons. New perspectives in the fight against poverty . Publishing house of the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-7035-1609-2 . ( available online )

See also

• Commons

Web links

• Literature by and about Silke Helfrich in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Silke Helfrich. Female author profile. In: Perlentaucher.de - Das Kulturmagazin. Perlentaucher Medien GmbH, accessed on May 25, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Home. In: The Commons Institute. Commons arise through commoning. Commons-Institut eV, accessed on May 13, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Home. In: CommonsBlog. Lost property from the Allmendewiese. Silke Helfrich, accessed on May 13, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Our team. Who's who in the Commons Strategies Group. In: Commons Strategies Group CSG. Retrieved May 13, 2019 . 
5. ↑ people. Silke Helfrich. In: Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies IASS Potsdam. Retrieved May 13, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Silke Helfrich. In: Speakerinnen.org. Retrieved May 13, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Silke Helfrich. In: transcript. Independent Academic Publishing. transcript publishing house. Roswitha Gost & Dr. Karin Werner GbR, accessed on May 13, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Silke Helfrich, Commons. In: Exploring Economics. Network Plurale Ökonomik e. V., accessed on May 20, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Silke Helfrich: Take care. Commons and Gender. In: Gunda Werner Institute. Heinrich Böll Foundation, March 28, 2012, accessed on May 25, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Silke Helfrich, Lilli Iliev: Allmende instead of Open Everything. A guest contribution by Silke Helfrich. In: Wikimedia Germany. Blog. Wikimedia Germany - Society for the Promotion of Free Knowledge e. V., April 24, 2020, accessed on May 1, 2020 . 
11. ^ Hanna Voss and Stefan Reinecke : Socialism without class struggle. The daily newspaper, July 27, 2019, accessed on July 28, 2019 . 
12. ↑ Silke Helfrich and David Bollier: Free, fair and lively. The power of the commons . transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2019, ISBN 978-3-8394-4530-3 , p. 231-235 , doi : 10.14361 / 9783839445303 .
13. ↑ Silke Helfrich: The new game. There is nothing in this world that cannot be our commons. In: Berliner Gazette. Berliner Gazette eV, October 6, 2015, accessed on September 13, 2019 . 
14. ↑ UN | COMMONS. Struggle for common property. In: Berliner Gazette. Berliner Gazette eV, October 2015, accessed on September 13, 2019 .