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The Week in Germany: Culture October 6, 2006 Teacher, Writer, Soldier, Doctor: More Than a Few Good Women in Germany
Many of the up-and-coming authors worth watching for in Germany are women. The first army general from Eastern Germany is a woman. And women fill two-thirds of all teaching positions in the country. Clearly, Germany's women are lacking in neither creativity nor ambition.
According to the Essen-based magazine "bücher" (books), seven women are among the "ten most important authors of tomorrow", its editor-in-chief Konrad Lischka said on Monday as reported by dpa. Among the rising literary stars cited, who were all featured in the latest edition of "bücher" issued on Wednesday, were Terézia Mora ("Alle Tage", or "All Days"), Zsusza Bánk ("Der Schwimmer", or "The Swimmer") and poet Uljana Wolf. A jury of editors and literary experts moreover nominated the 150 "most important books of the German language," said Liscka. Top male writers are to be found more among the classics and "underappreciated masters", he added.
Teachers galore ... At the same time, dpa also reported on Monday that a majority of teachers in Germany are women - nearly two-thirds, in fact. During the 2005/2006 school year some 64 percent of 790,000 teachers at schools and vocational colleges in Germany were women, an increase of 9 percent over ten years, according to the Federal Statistics Office. In the so-called 'old' western German federal states, the number of female teachers climbed six percentage points over the past decade to 61 percent. Yet at 75 percent there were far more female teachers in the five 'new' eastern federal states that joined a newly unified Germany in 1990. In all 16 German states the ratio ranged from 57 percent in tiny western Saarland state along the French border to 79 percent in the northeastern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania along the Baltic Sea coast. ... and the first eastern German Bundeswehr general Meanwhile, Erika Franke was sworn in as the first eastern German Bundeswehr general. She joined the German Armed Forces on Sunday as a general practitioner medical doctor, regional public radio broadcaster MDR (Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk) reported in a Sunday evening broadcast. Dr. Franke will be directing a Bundeswehr hospital in the southern German city of Ulm. Sixteen years after German unity, she is the first easterner to be promoted
to the rank of general in the German Armed Forces. A mother of two who
originally hails from what used to be known as East Berlin in the former
German Democratic Republic (GDR), she has already had a distinguished
medical and military career in the police and army. Links:
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