Ursula Scheu

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Ursula Scheu (born February 11, 1943 in Darmstadt ; † September 3, 2019 in Berlin ) was a German psychologist and author . She became known in the 1970s for her work We are not born girls - we are made to be. For early childhood education in our society . The longseller had a circulation of 188,000 copies by 1995 and was a bestseller in the second half of the 1970s .

Life

Ursula Scheu graduated from high school in 1962 and studied philosophy , sociology and German at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main until 1965 . She completed a psychology degree at the Free University (FU) Berlin with a diploma in 1971. She has been involved in the women's movement since the 1970s .

Ursula Scheu worked as a research assistant at the FU until 1976, where she led the first women's seminar and received her doctorate in 1976 with the thesis Theoretical reasons for the causes and consequences of gender differences . Her work was published under the title We Are Not Born As Girls - We Are Made To Do It For The First Time In 1977 as a Fischer paperback. In 1979 it was published in a translation into Swedish by Margareta Edgardh under the title Vi föds inte till flickor - vi görs till det by Bokförlaget Prisma in Stockholm.

In 1976, together with other women in Berlin, she initiated a group to found the first autonomous women's shelter in the city and in Germany, where she worked until 1982 and accompanied the project scientifically. In addition, from 1980 she completed a conversation psychotherapy training with recognition as a clinical psychologist.

In 1988 she was elected to the board of the Archive and Documentation Center (now FrauenMediaTurm ) in Cologne and has been its scientific advisor since 1992. With Alice Schwarzer , she has been editing the Feminist Thesaurus since 1994 . In 2002 she published her double biography with Anna Dünnebier about Anita Augspurg and Lida Gustava Heymann . She conducted research on female homosexuality and prepared the publication of the history of female homosexuality and its persecution . She could not finish her research.

On September 3, 2019, Scheu died in Berlin after a long illness.

Works

Editorships
  • Women calendar . Years 1974–2000 (with Alice Schwarzer )
  • Lexicon of women's quotations. Clever thoughts, cheeky bon mots, timeless wisdom . Hugendubel, Munich 2002 ISBN 3-7205-2348-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.emma.de/artikel/ursula-scheu-ist-tot-337119
  2. ↑ Specimen copy for the 186,000. until 188,000. Edition DNB 944743978 at the German National Library .
  3. ↑ Barbara Bierach and Martin Greive: How stupid men overtake smarter women . In: Hamburger Abendblatt online from January 20, 2011
  4. ↑ Sample copy DNB 369066715 in Swedish at the German National Library .
personal data
SURNAME Shy, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH 3rd September 2019
Place of death Berlin