GLOBAL FEMINISMS COMPARATIVE CASE STUDIES OF WOMEN’S ACTIVISM AND SCHOLARSHIP SITE: Germany Transcript of Gudrun KocH Interviewer: Sławomira WaLczewska Location: Berlin, Germany Date: Dec 2, 2017 University of MicHigan Institute for ResearcH on Women and Gender 1136 Lane HaLL Ann Arbor, MI 48109- 1290 Tel: (734) 764-9537 E-mail:
[email protected] Website:http://www.umich.edu/~glblfem © Regents of tHe University of MicHigan, 2017 1 Gudrun KocH was born in Kolberg in East Pomerania in 1945. She studied education in Dortmund and Berlin 1964-1970, and became a secondary school teacher of German and history, after passing the state exams. She taught from 1967-73, and in 1974 began postgraduate studies in social sciences and adult education, taught adult education, and during that same period was co-founder of the Women’s Action Dortmund (FAD). She engaged in practical theater training in the late 1970s in Berlin, and in the 1980s pursued both theater studies and experimental theater work in Paris. Beginning in 1990 (and continuing through 2006) she worked on the establishment of a European women’s cultural association, which was the external link of European Women’s Action (EFA) eV Berlin. She planned and implemented eVents in Europe and North Africa, and also worked on documentaries. Sławomira WaLczewska, born 1960, feminist actiVist and philosopher (PhD). In 1999, Walczewska published Ladies, Knights and Feminists: Feminist Discourse in Poland, the first Polish book about the history of women’s emancipation in Poland from a cultural perspective. That book was nominated, as one of 20 books, for the most prestigious book award in Poland at that time, NIKE, in 2000.