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 [de].^[2]

Schmeichel-Falkenberg worked for some time at Westdeutscher Rundfunk as a presenter in the programme Hier und heute [de] and at the University of Münster at the Institutum Judaicum.

She was co-founder of the Else-Lasker-Schüler-Gesellschaft [de] and the Kurt Tucholsky-Gesellschaft [de]. 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 [de]: 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 [de]
^ "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. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

External links

Obituary, in the Schwäbisches Tagblatt, 23 September 2017
Obituary, exilforschung.de

[1] Harald Vogel: Abschied von Beate Schmeichel-Falkenberg, Kurt Tucholsky-Gesellschaft [de]

[2] "I like to start something new." Beate Schmeichel-Falkenberg. In TAZ, 16 June 2012

[3] "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.

[4] Todesanzeige Beate Schmeichel-Falkenberg. Retrieved 8 July 2021. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

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