Tine Plesch

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Tine Plesch at Radio Z 1998

Bettina "Tine" Plesch (* 1959 in Nuremberg ; † November 4, 2004 there ) was a German music journalist and feminist author .

Her main focus was on gender in pop culture . Tine Plesch was co-editor of Testcard magazine - contributions to pop culture and radio journalist at the free Radio Z in Nuremberg .

Life

Tine Plesch studied American and English studies and received her doctorate in these subjects with the work The heroine as crazy - women and madness in the English-language novel from the Gothic novel to the present (Centaurus Verlag, Pfaffenweiler, 1995). As a job she worked as a pharmacy clerk. Since 1989 she has worked on a voluntary basis at the free Radio Z, Nuremberg, in the women's magazine Perm (until 1993) and in the music department. She initiated her own series on women in music: ZFNS, XX files as well as Neuland, Zores (avant-garde, pop, literature and everything). Since 1999 she has been co-editor of “testcard - Contributions to Pop History”. Over the years various freelance journalistic activities, she works for the evening newspaper Nürnberg, Melodiva, Superstar, Jazzthetik , Junge Welt , Raumzeit, Yot-Infozine, Intro , among others .

She was a popular speaker at specialist events on women and music. Among other things, she was with her lectures at the female musician symposium of the Women's Music Center Hamburg, the Evangelical Academy Tutzing, the women's department of the Asta Münster, the Radiocamp Bodensee (annual meeting of the free radios from the FRG), with Christiane Erharter at the R4 Zoom series, the gallery in the Taxispalais Innsbruck: “Electronic Music and Female Representation”, invited to lead the discussion in the round table “Utopias / Dystopias in Electronic Music” at Musik Didactique, Zurich.

She died of complications from septic shock .

In August 2013 the book "Rebel Girl - Popkultur und Feminismus" with selected texts by Tine Plesch was published posthumously by the Mainz-based Ventil Verlag.

Fonts

  • "Snow White versus Solex - Pop Texts by Women", in testcard # 6, 1998
  • "Rebel knowledge and journalistic agenda - dealing with female musicians in the alternative press", in testcard # 8, 2000
  • "Interfaces - Pop and War in the Soundcheck", in testcard # 9, 2000
  • "Feminisms and Pop Culture" - in testcard # 10, 2001
  • "Women in Rock Music - Times, The Are A-Changing?", In: Heinz Geuen u. Michael Rappe (eds.), "Pop und Mythos", Edition Argus, Schliengen, 2001
  • "Women? Humor? Pop Music?" In testcard # 11, 2002
  • "Do you dig it? Pop and left-wing myths in conversation with Michaela Meliàn and Thomas Meinecke ”in testcard # 12, 2003
  • “The Myth of Free Radio - an interview with Andreas Stuhlmann from the free radio FSK ( Free Sender Kombinat ) Hamburg. "In testcard # 12, 2003
  • "Queens and Divas - Rhythm´n´Blues between, collective traditions, myths of individuality and gender politics" in testcard # 13, 2004
  • "Breasts and Bra" in Getting Breasts, Sarah Diehl (Ed.), 2004
  • "Drinking, but not always writing about drinking" in the book of drinking, Jörg Sundermeier (ed.), 2004. This text was published after her death, the book is dedicated to her.

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personal data
SURNAME Plesch, Tine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Plesch, Bettina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music journalist and feminist author
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 2004
Place of death Nuremberg