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Margarete Stokowski

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Margarete Stokowski
Stokowski in 2018
Stokowski in 2018
Born (1986-04-14) April 14, 1986 (age 38)
Zabrze, Poland
OccupationWriter, essayist
Alma materHumboldt University of Berlin
GenresEssays, Novel

Margarete Stokowski (born April 14, 1986[1] in Zabrze, Poland[2]) is a Polish-German writer and essayist. She is best known for her weekly essays for the magazine Spiegel Online where she writes about the current state of feminism in Germany.[3] The numbers of clicks on her essays reach up to 900,000.[4] The Süddeutsche Zeitung stated that she is the "loudest voice of German feminism" in 2019.[5]

Stokowski advocates freedom for every gender and often criticizes neoliberalism for the oppression of women especially, but also men. According to her views, the modern German society often misleads women into buying goods they don't need or being unhappy with their own bodies by setting up impossible-to-reach beauty standards. She states that a non-patriarchal world would be better for everybody and sees the fear of losing power as the main motivation for some people to cling on to patriarchy. Stokowski is a sharp observer and critic of right-wing tendencies all over the world.[6]

As of July 2019, Stokowski has published two books off her own, namely Untenrum frei (Freedom "Down There") in 2016 and Die letzten Tage des Patriarchats (The last days of patriarchy) in 2018. Both works were very successful and reached high positions in the bestseller rankings.[7][8]

In September 2019, Stokowski was awarded the Kurt-Tucholsky-Preis for her critical analysis in her columns.[9]

Personal life

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Stokowski was born in Poland in 1986. Her parents named her after the female protagonist of the novel The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.[10] On her German identity card, Hindenberg (the name of Zabrze from 1915 – 1946) is listed as her birthplace instead of Zabrze.[11]

In 1988, her family moved to West Berlin to live with her grandparents in Gropiusstadt.[12] She grew up in Neukölln.[13] She attended a Catholic private school, and then studied philosophy and social sciences at Humboldt University.[14]

Stokowski says she suffers from depression.[15] After contracting COVID-19 in early 2022, she was diagnosed with long COVID.[16]

Stokowski is in a relationship with the musician Jens Friebe [de].[17] She used to live in a commune in Brandenburg and now lives in Berlin.[14]

Reception

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In 2018, Stokowski cancelled an already sold-out reading at the Lehmkuhl bookstore in Munich because it also carried right-wing primary texts from Verlag Antaios.[18] In a 2019 article, Stokowski criticized the German cult of asparagus, which she called "the old White man of cuisine."[19] The Free Democratic Party chairman Christian Lindner quoted the article during a party conference while claiming that German asparagus production is under attack.[20][21]

Awards

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Works

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Books

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  • Untenrum frei. Rowohlt Verlag. 2016. ISBN 978-3-498-06439-6.
  • Die letzten Tage des Patriarchats. Rowohlt Verlag. 2018. ISBN 978-3-498-06363-4.

Book contributions (a selection)

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  • jeder tag …. In: Christiane Frohmann (Ed.): Tausend Tode schreiben. Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-944195-55-1.
  • Sie hat ‚ficken‘ gesagt. In: Volker Surmann, Heiko Werning (Ed.): Ist das jetzt Satire oder was? Beiträge zur humoristischen Lage der Nation. Satyr, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-944035-62-8.
  • frau k. In: Christoph Buchwald, Ulrike Almut Sandig (Ed.): Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2017. Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 20, ISBN 978-3-89561-680-8.
  • Forward to: Charles Fourier: Die Freiheit in der Liebe. Ein Essay. Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-96054-055-7.
  • Stadt, Land, Fluss beim Sex – Mein Leben als feministische Kolumnistin. In: Peter Felixberger, Armin Nassehi (Ed.): Kursbuch 192. Frauen II. Kursbuch Kulturstiftung, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-96196-000-2.
  • Afterword, in: Olympe de Gouges: Die Rechte der Frau und andere Texte. Reclam-Verlag, Ditzingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-15-019527-7.
  • Zurück. In: Lina Muzur (Ed.): Sagte sie. 17 Erzählungen über Sex und Macht. Hanser Berlin, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-446-26074-0.
  • Sprache. In: Fatma Aydemir, Hengameh Yaghoobifarah (Ed.): Eure Heimat ist unser Albtraum. Ullstein fünf, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-96101-036-3
  • Forward to: Virginia Woolf: Ein eigenes Zimmer. Fischer Taschenbuch, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-596-52235-4.

Radio

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References

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  1. ^ Stokowski, Margarete. "Simone, wo bist du?". taz.de (in German). Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  2. ^ "Margarete Stokowski - Durch die Gegend. Ich bin stinkfaul. Aber auch hartnäckig" (Podcast). 13 November 2017. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  3. ^ "Artikel von Margarete Stokowski". Spiegel.de (in German). Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  4. ^ Stokowski, Margarete (2018). Die letzten Tage des Patriarchats [The last days of patriarchy] (in German). Hamburg: Rowohlt. p. 157. ISBN 978-3-498-06363-4.
  5. ^ Haberl, Tobias (6 June 2019). "Die Deuterin" [The Interpreter]. Sueddeutsche Zeitung (in German). Munich.
  6. ^ Stokowski, Margarete (2016). Untenrum frei [Freedom underneath] (in German). Hamburg: Rowohlt. ISBN 978-3-498-06439-6.
  7. ^ "Buchreport: Untenrum frei". buchreport.de (in German). Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  8. ^ "Buchreport: Die letzten Tage des Patriarchats". buchreport.de (in German). Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  9. ^ "Kurt Tucholsky-Preis 2019 an Margarete Stokowski". tucholsky-gesellschaft.de (in German). 14 September 2019. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
  10. ^ "#11 Margarete Stokowski und der Filzhut von Simone de Beauvoir". Das Lesen der Anderen (in German). 2 June 2021. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  11. ^ Stokowski, Margarete (10 December 2019). "Wie ich unfreiwillig Reichsbürgerin wurde". Der Spiegel (in German). Retrieved 11 December 2019.
  12. ^ Stokowski, Margarete (5 November 2015). "Flüchtlinge: Eine andere Art von Notwendigkeit". Der Spiegel (in German). Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  13. ^ Stokowski, Margarete; Litschko, Konrad; Alberti, Stefan; Pudritzki, Fiarra; Prößer, Claudius; Rada, Uwe; Sarovic, Aleksandar (27 January 2012). "Glückwunsch, Neukölln! Ich geb dir hundert, Alter!". Die Tageszeitung (in German). Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  14. ^ a b ""Ich kann nur schreiben, wenn es dunkel ist"". Kress (in German). 2 October 2015.
  15. ^ Stokowski, Margarete (15 December 2020). "Corona-Pandemie: Was wir von Depressiven lernen können". Der Spiegel. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
  16. ^ Stokowski, Margarete (15 March 2022). "Coronavirus: Freedom Day oder nicht, Long Covid ist ein ernstes Problem". Der Spiegel (in German).
  17. ^ "Jens Friebe und der letzte Mann". Mittelbayerische Zeitung (in German). 5 November 2018. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  18. ^ "Lemling: "Wer sich gegen Rechts engagiert, sollte wissen, was Rechte denken"". Börsenblatt (in German). 5 November 2018.
  19. ^ Stokowski, Margarete (22 April 2019). "Der Spargelkult muss enden". Der Spiegel (in German). Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  20. ^ "Christian Lindner hält flammende Rede auf deutschen Spargel". Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). 29 April 2019. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  21. ^ "Debatte um Spargelkult: Nach Kritik an Spargel: Politiker lädt Feministin Stokowski nach Burgdorf ein". Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). 5 May 2019. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  22. ^ Dreyer, Ellen (22 February 2022). "Margarete Stokowski: Stimme des deutschen Feminismus". Sonntagsblatt (in German). Retrieved 22 December 2024.
  23. ^ "Margarete Stokowski gewinnt Kurt-Tucholsky-Preis". Der Spiegel (in German). 14 September 2019. Retrieved 22 December 2024.
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