Sonja Pape

Sonja Pape , also Pape-Siebert (born May 24, 1932 in Essen ) is a journalist and former member of the Hamburg Parliament for the SPD .

Life

Sonja Pape, daughter of an electrical welder, attended the reform high school for boys in Arolsen in the Waldeck district . She then did vocational training as a legal assistant and wrote her first texts for the Neue Ruhrzeitung (NRZ).

Without an internship, she slowly found her way into journalism. In 1963 she was employed as editor of the test magazine DM in Stuttgart . In 1966 she married the graphic artist Hans-Jochen Pape and had a son. The marriage ended in divorce in 1975.

Later she worked for various women's magazines: Constanze , Für Sie , Brigitte , Cosmopolitan . Above all, she wrote reports that were socially critical. When Cosmopolitan largely abandoned this topic in 1981, Sonja Pape took the plunge into freelance journalism. In 1982 she was one of the founders of the “left-wing” Hamburger Rundschau .

politics

As an SPD member, Pape became increasingly involved in the Working Group of Social Democratic Women (ASF), rose to its state board and was responsible for press policy. In January 1983 she became a member of the Hamburg Parliament. She mainly took care of the Committee on Gender Equality , the Health Committee and the Committee on the Rights of Foreigners . In September 1986, she resigned from her citizenship mandate for family reasons.

Works

• Enough complained. Or are women betraying feminism? A polemic. Dietz-Verlag, Bonn 1984. ISBN 3-8012-0091-4

literature

• Handbook of the Hamburg citizenship 11th electoral term . Editor: Hinnerk Fock .