Margarete Stokowski

Margarete Stokowski (born April 14, 1986[1] in Zabrze, Poland[2]) is a Polish-German writer and essayist. She is best known for her weekly essays for the magazine Spiegel Online where she writes about the current state of feminism in Germany.[3] The numbers of clicks on her essays reach up to 900,000.[4] The Süddeutsche Zeitung stated that she is the "loudest voice of German feminism" in 2019.[5]

Margarete Stokowski
Stokowski in 2018
Stokowski in 2018
Born (1986-04-14) April 14, 1986
Zabrze, Poland
OccupationWriter, essayist
Alma materHumboldt University of Berlin
GenresEssays, Novel

Stokowski advocates freedom for every gender and often criticizes the neo liberal economy for the oppression of women especially, but also men. According to her views, the modern German society often misleads women into buying goods they don't need or being unhappy with their own bodies by setting up impossible-to-reach beauty standards. She states that a non-patriarchal world would be better for everybody and sees the fear of losing power as the main motivation for some people to cling on to patriarchy. Stokowski is a sharp observer and critic of right-wing tendencies all over the world.[6]

As of July 2019, Stokowski has published two books off her own, namely Untenrum frei (Freedom "Down There") in 2016 and Die letzten Tage des Patriarchats (The last days of patriarchy) in 2018. Both works were very successful and reached high positions in the bestseller rankings.[7][8]

In September 2019, Stokowski was awarded the Kurt-Tucholsky-Preis for her critical analysis in her columns.[9]

Personal life

Stokowski was born in Poland but moved to Germany with her family at the age of two. She grew up in the Neukölln neighborhood of Berlin, attended a Catholic private school, and then studied philosophy and social sciences at Humboldt University. She lives in Berlin.[10] After contracting COVID-19 in early 2022, she was diagnosed with long COVID.[11]

References
  1. Stokowski, Margarete. "Simone, wo bist du?". taz.de (in German). Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  2. "Margarete Stokowski - Durch die Gegend. Ich bin stinkfaul. Aber auch hartnäckig" (Podcast). 13 November 2017. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  3. "Artikel von Margarete Stokowski". Spiegel.de (in German). Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  4. Stokowski, Margarete (2018). Die letzten Tage des Patriarchats [The last days of patriarchy] (in German). Hamburg: Rowohlt. p. 157. ISBN 978-3-498-06363-4.
  5. Haberl, Tobias (6 June 2019). "Die Deuterin" [The Interpreter]. Sueddeutsche Zeitung (in German). Munich.
  6. Stokowski, Margarete (2016). Untenrum frei [Freedom underneath] (in German). Hamburg: Rowohlt. ISBN 978-3-498-06439-6.
  7. "Buchreport: Untenrum frei". buchreport.de (in German). Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  8. "Buchreport: Die letzten Tage des Patriarchats". buchreport.de (in German). Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  9. "Kurt Tucholsky-Preis 2019 an Margarete Stokowski". tucholsky-gesellschaft.de (in German). 14 September 2019. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
  10. Die neue "SpOn"-Kolumnistin Margarete Stokowski: "Ich kann nur schreiben, wenn es dunkel ist"
  11. Margarete Stokowski: Long Covid ist ein ernstes Problem – Kolumne von Margarete Stokowski. In: Der Spiegel. 15. März 2022
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