Launching today, Friday, November 29, 2024, at www.slpb.de and wherever podcasts are available.

The new podcast from the Saxon State Agency for Civic Education (SLpB) FRAUEN MACHT GESCHICHTE is about women who fought for their rights: in the 1920s and today, in Poland and in Germany, in the 19th century and after the Second World War. In seven episodes, the podcast sheds light on topics that are still politically controversial today – and that move women in Germany and Europe. FRAUEN MACHT GESCHICHTE is a cooperation between the Saxon State Agency for Civic Education and TU Dresden.

"My body, my choice" is a topic that concerns us – and it is political. This was the starting point for the young authors. They wanted to know: How was §218 debated in the Weimar Republic? And since when has the paragraph even existed? In their research, they came across Anna Margarete Stegmann, a doctor living in Dresden. She was elected to the German Reichstag in 1924 and her speeches on §218 and the social question have survived. The podcast also looks at the situation of women in Poland: from the Second Polish Republic to the present day. In 2023, the debate about abortion played an important role in the Polish election campaign.

The political participation of women is a central theme of the series: the first Polish First Lady fought as an armed smuggler against Russia. Is she rightly regarded as an icon of the Polish women's movement? Two podcast episodes are dedicated to the female members of parliament who entered the first post-war Saxon state parliament in 1946. Margarete Groh-Kummerlöw is one of the protagonists. She had been persecuted as a communist during National Socialism and imprisoned several times, but after 1945 she helped to shape the new society. What did the women in this state parliament, which was constituted on November 22, 1946, actually achieve? What laws did they initiate? Did they have as much power as the men? And what did the 1946 election campaign sound like?

Who made history, who will be remembered? The final episode, which looks back to the 19th century, is dedicated to these questions: What does the initiator of the German women's movement, Louise Otto-Peters, have in common with August Bebel? The co-founder of German social democracy and member of the Reichstag has a much larger place in the collective German memory than she does. Yet the writings and thoughts of the two show astonishing parallels ...

The seven episodes impart historical knowledge on defined topics. The podcast does not claim to be exhaustive. Anyone interested is invited to go on a journey through time in the up to 15-minute episodes, immerse themselves in historical debates and exciting biographies, engage with controversial topics, share the podcast and discuss it.

Launch on Friday, November 29, 2024, at www.slpb.de and wherever podcasts are available. New episodes on Tuesdays and Fridays.

About the creation of the podcast:
Content based on the TU reading course "Knowledge – Practices – Visions. The German and Polish Women's Movement from its Beginnings to 1933" (Chair of Social and Economic History at the Institute of History) and the SLpB publication "Women in Saxony", seven episodes were created on exciting personalities and topics relevant to women's history.

Project manager at the SLpB:
Silke Nora Kehl: responsible for concept, organization, editing and dramaturgy. Development of the concept together with Susanne Salzmann (until 2024 at TU Dresden).
Contact:
www.slpb.de

Project manager at the TU Dresden:
Prof. Susanne Schötz, Chair of Social and Economic History at the Institute of History.
https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/phil/ige/wsge/die-professur/inhaber-in
She led the reading course in the winter semester 2023/24 together with
Dr. Angelique Leszczawski-Schwerk.

Both are also authors of the podcast (episode 4 and episode 7).

Production in the studio: Bony Stoev.
https://bony-stoev.de/

Interview in episode 1
Private lecturer Dr. Silke Fehlemann. She is a historian and researches women's and family history in the field of modern and contemporary history at TU Dresden.
https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/phil/ige/nnge/die-professur/beschaeftigte/silke-fehlemann

Press contact:
Silke Nora Kehl, SLpB, 0351 85318-51,
Betty Baumann, TU Dresden, 0173 351-9533,