Leonie Schöler - Beklaute Frauen

In the organizer's words:

Female thinkers, researchers, pioneers: The invisible heroines of history

How women made history - and men got the credit for it
Muse, secretary, wife - there are many names for women whose influence has been erased from history. Men received the honors and acclaim for their achievements. Men like Karl Marx, Berthold Brecht or Albert Einstein, whose colleagues, daughters or mistresses contributed to their works - and whose names hardly anyone knows then or now.

Historian Leonie Schöler, who dusts off history in an understandable and entertaining way on her TikTok and Instagram channels @heyleonie (> 230 thousand followers), reports on female scientists such as Rosalind Franklin and Lise Meitner, whose achievements, unlike those of their male colleagues, were not recognized. Or women artists, such as Dora Maar and Baya, who were not recognized for their own work but were remembered as Picasso's muses.
Leonie Schöler tells their stories. She shows who the women are who have really advanced our society to this day and illustrates how important the discussion about participation and visibility still is today. It becomes clear that behind every successful man is a system that encourages him; in front of everyone else is a system that holds them back.

Leonie Schöler is a historian, journalist and presenter. Her articles have been published in the taz and on ZEIT ONLINE. As an editor and filmmaker, her research has been used in various funk productions. In summer 2021, her documentary about the Tönnies system was released for ZDFinfo, in January 2022 her eight-part web video series on the Wannsee Conference for ZDF. From November 2022, Schöler also hosted the ZDFinfo format "Heureka" on YouTube in her role as a historian. On her popular TikTok and Instagram channels (@heeyleonie), Leonie Schöler shares entertaining historical knowledge with her more than 230,000 followers. Her first non-fiction book "Beklaute Frauen" was published by Penguin Verlag in spring 2024.

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