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Sophie Behr née  Sophie Elisabeth von Behr-Negendanck; (1935-01-07)January 7, 1935 in Neubrandenburg – (2015-02-21)February 21, 2015) was a German feminist journalist and author of practical life books and novels that combine motherhood and feminist science fiction.

Biography

Sophie Behr was the daughter of Gertrude née von Rumohr (1908-1994) and Hans Jasper von Behr-Negendanck (1901-1944), a Mecklenburg landowner and retired reserve lieutenant. She grew up in her father's manor house in Neverin, near Neubrandenburg. Her family was expropriated in 1945 and fled to Schleswig-Holstein. After graduating from the Ostsee-Gymnasium Timmendorfer Strand, she studied English, Spanish, psychology and sociology.

She was a journalist for Der Spiegel for 16 years and chief correspondent for Munich and then Berlin, before working as a freelance journalist for Emma, radio and the feminist press[.

Behr was also co-founder of the Association of Single Mothers and Fathers (originally called the Association of Single Mothers (Verbandes alleinerziehender Mütter und Väter)), of which she was president from 1977 to 1981. From 1984 until her death, she lived in Ruhstorf an der Rott in Lower Bavaria, at the Barhof near Hader, which she also transformed into a memorial to the 90 children of forced labourers murdered there in 1944-1945.

Björn Engholm included him in his government team for the 1983 regional elections in Schleswig-Holstein [de; es; fr].

In 1997 she wrote Ida & Laura. Once more with feeling, a feminist science fiction novel.

Works

• Behr, Sophie (1997). Ida & Laura: once more with feeling; Roman. Clelia (in German). Königstein/Taunus: Helmer. ISBN 978-3-927164-57-4.
• Riecher Innerunge (in German). Passau: Eigenverlag. 1991. ISBN 3-499-17373-5.
• Barhof. Ruhstorf: Eigenverlag. 2007. ISBN 978-3-940445-09-4.
• Reisen, speisen, grausam sein (in German). Koenigstein/Taunus: Helmer. 2007. ISBN 978-3-89741-232-3.
• Barhof (in German). Ruhstorf: self published. 2007. ISBN 978-3-940445-09-4.
• Inselgeschichten (in German). Ruhstor: self published. 2009. ISBN 978-3-940445-76-6.

References

1. "Todesanzeige" (in German). 2015-04-15. Archived from the original on 2015-04-15. Retrieved 2024-07-22.
2. "Sophie Behr - Deutsche Literatur Archiv". www.dla-marbach.de. Retrieved 2024-07-22.
3. "Gaby präsentiert: Interview mit Sophie Behr". Archived from the original on 2004-12-23. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
4. Hangel, Magdalena (2013). "Weibliche Geschlechterrollen in der Science-Fiction-Literatur deutschsprachiger Autorinnen" (pdf) (in German). p. 41..
5. Borcher, Friedrich-Wilhelm; Steinhäuser, Udo; Schulz, Werner; de Veer, Renate (2011). Ziegeleigeschichte(n): ehemalige Ziegeleien an der Lehm- und Backsteinstraße (in German). Buchberg Verlag. p. 92. ISBN 978-3980745918.
6. "Behr, Sophie (1935-2015)". Kalliope Verbund (in German)..
7. "Suche - Der Spiegel". Der Spiegel (in German).
8. "Wenn Frauen gegen Frauen schreiben". EMMA (in German). August 1978..
9. von Behr, Sophie (July 1978). "Die betrogenen Witwen". EMMA (in German)..
10. "Berlin goes feminist". feministberlin1968ff.de..
11. "Geschichte - Verband alleinerziehender Mütter und Väter (VAMV)". Verband alleinerziehender Mütter und Väter (VAMV) (in German).
12. "Quer zum Kurs". Der Spiegel (in German). 1983-03-06. ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 2024-07-22.
13. Mäurer, Markus (26 March 2019). "Wiki und die "starken" Männer: Von der Löschung der Liste deutschsprachiger Science-Fiction-Autorinnen". TOR Online (in German). Retrieved 2024-07-22.
14. Mäurer, Marcus (11 June 2020). "Die wichtigsten deutschsprachigen Science-Fiction-Autorinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Ein Überblick". TOR Online (in German). Retrieved 2024-07-22.
15. Rzeszotnik, Jacek, ed. (2002). Zwischen Flucht und Herrschaft: phantastische Frauenliteratur. Fantasia. Passau: EDFC. ISBN 978-3-932621-53-6.

External links

• German science fiction writers
• Feminist science fiction
• 1935 births
• German women novelists
• 20th-century German novelists
• 2015 deaths