Maria von Welser (born 26 June 1946 in Munich) is a German TV journalist and the President of UNICEF Germany. [1]
She is by marriage a member of the preeminent banking and merchant family Welser. She is also the daughter of Margarete Schüssel, German fashion journalist.
Reinhard Mohn was a German billionaire businessman and philanthropist. Under his leadership, Bertelsmann, once a medium-sized printing and publishing house, established in 1835, developed into a global media conglomerate. In 1977, he founded the non-profit Bertelsmann Stiftung, which is today one of the largest foundations in Germany, with worldwide reach.
Rita Süssmuth is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). She served as the tenth president of the Bundestag.
Brigitte Hamann was a German-Austrian author and historian based in Vienna.
Luise Rinser was a German writer, best known for her novels and short stories.
Wolfgang Benz is a German historian and anti-semitism researcher from Ellwangen. He was the director of the Center for Research on Antisemitism of the Technische Universität Berlin between 1990 and 2011, and is also a member of the advisory board for the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and was involved in the memorial's design. He has written or published over 200 works. He is considered to be one of the most renowned and well-known historians in modern Germany, and one of the foremost scholars on anti-semitism studies. He has been referred to as the "doyen" of anti-semitism research.
Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste in München is an association of renowned personalities in Munich, Bavaria. It was founded by the Free State of Bavaria in 1948, continuing a tradition established in 1808 by the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich.
Reinhard Jirgl is a German writer.
Ruth Hagengruber is a German philosopher, currently professor and head of philosophy at the University of Paderborn. She specialises in the history of women philosophers as well as philosophy of economics and computer science and is a specialist on Émilie Du Châtelet. Hagengruber is the director of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists and founder of the research area EcoTechGender. She invented the Libori Summer School and is the creator of the Encyclopedia of Concise Concepts by Women Philosophers, for which she holds the position of editor in chief together with Mary Ellen Waithe.
Verena Reichel was a German literary translator.
Rita Maria Walburga Grosse-Ruyken is a contemporary German artist, sculptor, multimedia installation art, artfilm and performance, producer artist and member of the Association of German Artists Deutscher Kuenstlerbund. The core of her light – sound – space – form installations comprise sculptures in motion made from pure gold and silver. She became internationally known through her exhibition Rays of Light.
Ulrike Draesner is a German author. She was awarded the 2016 Nicolas Born Prize.
Düzen Tekkal is a German author, television journalist, filmmaker, war correspondent, political scientist, and social entrepreneur of Kurdish descent. She is Yazidi.
Ursula Männle is a German Social sciences academic and politician (CSU). She served between 1983 and 1994 as a member of the Bundestag. More recently, between 2000 and 2013, she was a member of the Bavarian Landtag, chairing an important parliamentary committee and, till 2009, chairing the women's working group in the Landtag.
Zoë Beck is a German writer, publisher, translator, dialogue book author and dubbing director. She has won multiple awards for her books and translations.
Inge Hansen-Schaberg is a German educational researcher.
Nina Grunenberg was a German author and prize-winning journalist. Beginning her career in West Germany at a time when political journalism was largely a male preserve, she wrote carefully researched reports on life in that country, and its political, social and economic topics, and focusing frequently on science or education She wrote about leaders in industry, unions and politics.
Irene Stoehr was a German feminist historical social scientist and journalist. Her main research interests were the feminist movement and gender history in the 20th century.
Hadumod Bußmann is a German linguist.
Pieke Biermann is a German crime writer, literary translator and journalist. She is the winner of the 2020 Leipzig Book Fair Translator's Prize. In the 1970s and '80s, she was an activist in the Berlin women's movement.
Maria Elisabeth Gössmann née Placke was a German Roman Catholic theologian and prominent representative of feminist theology within the Roman Catholic Church. She saw herself as a representative of "historical women's studies in theology".