Five for Munich: a queerfeminister bookstore opens & Senta Berger reads – Munich

Scenes with armchairs

“Just sit there,” the man in the armchair wishes, while his wife shouts to him from the kitchen suggestions for leisure activities. An unforgettable scene from Loriot’s everyday married life, which would have been 100 years old this year. As a tribute to the great observer of people, there will be a concert on November 29th in Grünwald’s August Everding Hall Senta Berger and Friedrich von Thun for a benefit reading. You are reading “Scenes from a Marriage” from Loriot’s “Library for Life Artists”. The proceeds from the event go to the palliative care unit the Munich Clinic Harlaching.

Malfunction in the system

Andrea Gollbach and Ursula Neubauer ran the feminist bookstore Lillemors in Maxvorstadt for more than 40 years. It was the first women’s bookstore in Germany. A focal point of the lesbian movement in Munich. An institution, as such places with key functions often call themselves. But when they wanted to close, they couldn’t find anyone who wanted to follow in their footsteps. “When we found out about it, they had been looking for a year,” says Anne Kristin Kristiansenwhich together with Johanna Hopp, Nadine Osbild and Sebastian Pfotenhauer founded the follow-up project.

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“Glitch” is the name of the queer feminist bookstore, which celebrated its opening last Saturday with face painting and prosecco and whose financing is still dependent on a crowdfunding campaign that runs until the end of November. Lillemors primarily represented the values ​​of the first wave of feminism. “Times are changing,” says Kristiansen. She studied fine art and philosophy, her colleagues, aged 30 to 43, met at the Technical University of Munich and all four of them were Lillemors customers. “Men used to not be allowed into the store,” says Kristiansen. Now it should be an opportunity for everyone to meet – regardless of gender, sexual orientation and free of racism. At mutual request, the name Lillemors was not adopted. “Glitch” is a digital term. “For example, when generating images with AI. Errors arise, like six fingers on one hand. That’s a glitch,” says Kristiansen. “A glitch in the system, so to speak.”

software

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In no other sector of the economy are so few women employed as in construction. According to figures from the Construction Industry Association, the proportion of women in the main construction industry is ten percent, and in the finishing industry it is an average of 13 percent. Around 28 percent of civil engineers in construction companies are now female and around 30 percent of civil engineering students are female. Ascending trend. In order to further promote women in engineering, the Bavarian Ministry of Science awards five prizes for outstanding achievements to female students every year, each with prize money of 2,000 euros. This November is one of the winners Franziska Albrecht from Munich University of Applied Sciences. In her thesis, she developed and programmed software that can be used to calculate rising construction costs. The high costs are currently the main problem in the construction industry. In this way, both resources and costs can be saved. Albrecht’s program is already being used by a construction company.

Protection and urban planning

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Whether it was about the protection of the Isar, the preservation of the financial garden, the design of the open spaces around the Pinakotheken into an “art area”, or the plan to set up a meeting point for thousands of fans in, of all places, the Old Botanical Garden for the 2020 World Cup: A voice could certainly be heard, that of Klaus Baumler. Born in 1941, Bäumler – trademark: beret – has been head of the “Public Green” working group in the Munich Forum for many years. The association, founded 50 years ago, sees itself as a discussion platform on urban planning and is constantly and clearly involved in debates.

The German Society for Garden Art and Landscape Culture (DGGL) has now honored Bäumler’s “great” voluntary work “for the preservation of urban greenery in Munich against many, including powerful, resistances” with its cultural prize, the “Golden Linden Leaf”, at a ceremony in the Cologne Flora “. Over many years, Bäumler “with great commitment and expertise protected numerous public green spaces in the city of Munich from planned development, from the cutting of traffic axes and profit-oriented uses,” says the Berlin-based company’s tribute.

The former judge at the Munich Administrative Court and the Bavarian Administrative Court also headed the Maxvorstadt District Committee for 30 years; In 2011 he received the Federal Cross of Merit. Klaus Bäumler once quoted a sentence from the Roman philosopher Seneca as one of his mottos in an interview: “The actions of a righteous citizen are never completely wrong.”

supervision

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Waltraud Lučić was awarded the Kerschenstein Medal for her services to the Bavarian school system. Equal educational opportunities for all children, regardless of their social and cultural background, that is their credo, says city school councilor Florian Kraus appreciatively. Lučić started as a specialist teacher for home economics and handicrafts in 1984 and taught at the Cincinnatistrasse middle school for 30 years. She was chairwoman of the Munich Teachers’ Association for 16 years and got involved during the refugee situation around 2015 by advocating for supervision of teachers as well as sponsorship programs.