Gudrun Koch
Age-group 1945; Kolberg/Ostpommern (East-Pomerania)/Germany
Studies: German, History, DramaticsPrimary research: Tragedy of the classical world and the womenFoundress of Europäischen Frauen Aktion (EFA) e.V. Cooperative für Frauenkultur [European Women Action (EFA) e.V. Cooperative for Women’s Culture]Culture management since 1988Researcher in myths with main focus on European founding mythsNumerous editions, articles, plays, documentary films about the cultural heritage of women1st awardee as “Femme rebelle“ of the prize "Aufmüpfige Frau des Jahres" in 2006, awarded in the town hall of Dortmund / Germany in 2006
Subject of her lecture:“Worldwide, to search, to meet, to preserve, to link up and to make visible the heritage of women”
The European Women Action is involved in this task for many years. Gudrun Koch accumulated together with the foundation EFA a lot of experiences in France, North Africa, Poland, Czechia, and during the UN - World Conference on Women in Peking/Huairou 1995 [film report on: Die Welt zusammen weben (Together, weaving the world)]Gudrun Koch will take as examples congress, viz. seminar experiences, and documentaries on cultural heritage to point to the tracing of tracks, results, findings and myths as different ways of gaining knowledge.
Unfortunately, the lecturer Edith Schlaffer from „Women without Borders“ had to cancel her participation due to ill-health.
