Verena Krieger

Verena Krieger (born October 18, 1961 in Erlangen ) is a German art historian and former politician ( Die Grünen ).

Life

After graduating from the Oberstufenkolleg in Bielefeld , she studied art history, history and philosophy at the University of Bochum . As a student she was already active in the women's and peace movement, in 1980 she was one of the founding members of the Greens. From 1980 to 1982 she was a member of the party's North Rhine-Westphalian state executive committee.

In 1987 it moved into the Bundestag via the state list . She was the youngest MP in the 11th parliamentary term and was a full member of the Committee on Youth, Family, Women and Health. On April 4, 1989, she resigned her mandate after she had been elected as party spokeswoman (chairwoman) alongside Ralf Fücks and Ruth Hammerbacher shortly before (party congress in Duisburg on March 3 to 5, 1989) . She belonged to the left wing of the party (so-called eco-socialists ) and left the party in 1990 together with large parts of this wing.

She received her doctorate in 1996 and qualified as a professor in 2006 in the subject of art history. She taught at the University of Stuttgart as a private lecturer, she also held several visiting and substitute professorships. From 2008 to 2011 she was a university professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna . Since 2011 she has been a university professor at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena .

Works

• Decide. What women (and men) should know about Section 218 . 1987, ISBN 3-922144-68-3
• What is left of the Greens? 1991, ISBN 978-3-922144-96-0
• From icon to utopia. Russian avant-garde art concepts . 1998, ISBN 3-412-07197-8 , also dissertation Univ. Bochum 1996
• Art as a new creation of reality. The anti-aesthetics of Russian modernism . 2006, ISBN 978-3-412-33605-9 , plus habilitation thesis Univ. Bochum
• What is an artist? Genius - savior - anti-artist; a history of ideas and art of the creative . 2007, ISBN 978-3-937111-13-1
• Art history and contemporary art. On the benefits and disadvantages of contemporary society (ed.), Cologne a. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20256-9

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 .
• Parliamentarians in the German Bundestag . Volume 122 of the materials , Scientific Services of the German Bundestag, ISSN  0344-9130 , 1993, p. 251
• Irene Mayer-List: Verena Krieger. Four years is enough. Member of the Bundestag at the age of 25: What women can learn in Bonn . In: Die Zeit , No. 18/1987, p. 87

Web links

• Literature by and about Verena Krieger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Verena Krieger at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and homepage at her institute (with picture)
• Homepage of Verena Krieger at the University of Stuttgart with curriculum vitae and list of publications
• Homepage of Verena Krieger at the University of Jena