Beate Schmeichel-Falkenberg
Beate Schmeichel-Falkenberg, real name Beate Hartung (20 June 1926 – 17 September 2017[1]) was a German teacher and author.
Life
Born in Hamm, Schmeichel-Falkenberg studied German and English at the University of Göttingen and then worked as a journalist for the BBC in England. Later she returned to Münster and worked as a teacher. With her second husband Manfred Schmeichel, she founded a special education school in Mössingen, which is part of today's Stiftung KBF.[2]
Schmeichel-Falkenberg worked for some time at Westdeutscher Rundfunk as a presenter in the programme Hier und heute and at the University of Münster at the Institutum Judaicum.
She was co-founder of the Else-Lasker-Schüler-Gesellschaft and the Kurt Tucholsky-Gesellschaft. In the "Society for Exile Research" she headed the working group "Women in Exile".
Schmeickel-Falkenberg lived in Mössingen where she died at the age of 91 and [3] was buried in the local cemetery.[4]
Publications
- with Siglinde Bolbecher and the Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft: Frauen im Exil, Tagungsband, Klagenfurt : Drava, 2007
- with Ursula Wiedenmann: Grenzen überschreiten : Frauen, Kunst und Exil, Tagungsband, Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann, 2005
- with Simone Barck and Anneke de Rudder: Jahrhundertschicksale. Frauen im sowjetischen Exil.Lukas, Berlin 2003.
- with Inge Hansen-Schaberg: Frauen erinnern : Widerstand, Verfolgung, Exil, 1933-1945, Tagungsband, Berlin : Weidler, 2000
- with Manfred Schmeichel: Hilfe für körperbehinderte Kinder, Stuttgart : Klett-Cotta 1978
References
- ^ Harald Vogel: Abschied von Beate Schmeichel-Falkenberg, Kurt Tucholsky-Gesellschaft
- ^ "I like to start something new." Beate Schmeichel-Falkenberg. In TAZ, 16 June 2012
- ^ "Zeit vergeht, das Herz vergisst; Hausbesuch Beate Schmeichel-Falkenberg ist 90 Jahre alt und lebt in Mössingen-Belsen bei Tübingen. Wenn sie von ihren vielen Leben erzählt, rutschen Jahre zusammen. Eine Konstante: die Poesie". 20 August 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
- ^ Todesanzeige Beate Schmeichel-Falkenberg. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
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External links
- Obituary, in the Schwäbisches Tagblatt, 23 September 2017
- Obituary, exilforschung.de
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