Beate Schmeichel-Falkenberg, real name Beate Hartung (20 June 1926 – 17 September 2017) was a German teacher and author.

Life

Born in

Hamm Hamm (, Latin: ''Hammona'') is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the northeastern part of the Ruhr area. As of 2016 its population was 179,397. The city is situated between the A1 motorway and A2 motorway. Hamm railwa ...

, Schmeichel-Falkenberg studied German and English at the

University of Göttingen The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen, (german: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, known informally as Georgia Augusta) is a public research university in the city of Göttingen, Germany. Founded ...

and then worked as a journalist for the

BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC Here i going to introduce about the best teacher of my life b BALAJI sir. He is the precious gift that I got befor 2yrs . How has helped and thought all the concept and made my success in the 10th board ex ...

in England. Later she returned to

Münster Münster (; nds, Mönster) is an independent city (''Kreisfreie Stadt'') in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. It is also a state distr ...

and worked as a teacher. With her second husband Manfred Schmeichel, she founded a

special education Special education (known as special-needs education, aided education, exceptional education, alternative provision, exceptional student education, special ed., SDC, or SPED) is the practice of educating students in a way that accommodates th ...

school in

Mössingen Mössingen is a town in the district of Tübingen, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated north of the Swabian Jura, about 13 km south of Tübingen. Geography Mössingen is located on the northern edge of the Swabian Jura in the ...

, which is part of today's . Schmeichel-Falkenberg worked for some time at

Westdeutscher Rundfunk Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln (''West German Broadcasting Cologne''; WDR, ) is a German public-broadcasting institution based in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia with its main office in Cologne. WDR is a constituent member of the conso ...

as a presenter in the programme and at the

University of Münster The University of Münster (german: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, WWU) is a public university, public research university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. With more than 43,000 students and over ...

at the

Institutum Judaicum The Institutum Judaicum was a special academic course for Protestant theologians who desired to prepare themselves for missionary work among the Jews. The first of its kind was founded at the University of Halle, by Professor Callenberg in 1724 ...

. She was co-founder of the and the . In the "Society for Exile Research" she headed the working group "Women in Exile". Schmeickel-Falkenberg lived in

where she died at the age of 91 and was buried in the local cemetery.

Publications

* with Siglinde Bolbecher and the : ''Frauen im Exil'', Tagungsband, Klagenfurt : Drava, 2007 * with Ursula Wiedenmann: ''Grenzen überschreiten : Frauen, Kunst und Exil'', Tagungsband, Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann, 2005 * with

Simone Barck Simone Barck (July 1944 – 16 July 2007) was a German contemporary historian and literary scholar. A principal focus of her research was on Literature and the Publishing Sector in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany 1949-1990). Lif ...

and Anneke de Rudder: ''Jahrhundertschicksale. Frauen im sowjetischen Exil.''Lukas, Berlin 2003. * with

Inge Hansen-Schaberg Inge Hansen-Schaberg (born 11 March 1954) is a German educational researcher. Life Born in Flensburg, Hansen-Schaberg studied German and biology at the from 1974 and passed the state examinations in 1980 and 1983. She then worked at a West Ber ...

: ''Frauen erinnern : Widerstand, Verfolgung, Exil, 1933-1945'', Tagungsband, Berlin : Weidler, 2000 * with Manfred Schmeichel: ''Hilfe für körperbehinderte Kinder'', Stuttgart : Klett-Cotta 1978

References

External links

Obituary
in the ''

Schwäbisches Tagblatt The ''Schwäbisches Tagblatt'' is a daily newspaper for Tübingen, in print since 1945, as well as the publishing house that prints it. With 40,820 paid subscriptions in 2012, it is the newspaper with the highest circulation in the district of Tü ...

'', 23 September 2017
Obituary
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