Beate Schmeichel-Falkenberg

Beate Schmeichel-Falkenberg, real name Beate Hartung was a German teacher and author.

Life

Born in Hamm, Schmeichel-Falkenberg studied German and English at the University of Göttingen and then worked as a journalist for the BBC in England. Later she returned to Münster and worked as a teacher. With her second husband Manfred Schmeichel, she founded a special education school in Mössingen, which is part of today's.
Schmeichel-Falkenberg worked for some time at Westdeutscher Rundfunk as a presenter in the programme and at the University of Münster at the Institutum Judaicum.
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 Mössingen where she died at the age of 91 and
was buried in the local cemetery.

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 and Anneke de Rudder: Jahrhundertschicksale. Frauen im sowjetischen Exil.Lukas, Berlin 2003.
with Inge Hansen-Schaberg: Frauen erinnern : Widerstand, Verfolgung, Exil, 1933-1945, Tagungsband, Berlin : Weidler, 2000
with Manfred Schmeichel: Hilfe für körperbehinderte Kinder, Stuttgart : Klett-Cotta 1978