Anna-Katharina Meßmer (born 1983) is a German activist and sociologist. Her work focuses on digitization, politics, social media, hate in the net, biopolitics, feminism and social politics. She became known for her contribution to the #about action and the open letter to the Federal President

Joachim Gauck Joachim Wilhelm Gauck (; born 24 January 1940) is a German politician who served as President of Germany from 2012 to 2017. A former Lutheran pastor, he came to prominence as an anti-communist civil rights activist in East Germany. During the P ...

Life

In 2008–2009, she advised the SPD party executive and

Gesine Schwan Gesine Schwan (née ''Schneider'', 22 May 1943) is a German political science professor and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. The party has nominated her twice as a candidate for the federal presidential elections. On 23 May 2004, ...

. In early 2013, she was a co-initiator of the #about Action, in which many people shared sexist experiences on Twitter. The hashtag was also honored as the first hashtag in 2013 with the

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. On March 3, 2013, Messmer published with six other women an open letter to German President Joachim Gauck, in which they criticized Gauck's reaction to #aufschrei. He was accused, among others, of "lack of sensitivity to women who have experienced sexism". In 2017, she completed her doctorate at the

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich, LMU or LMU Munich; ) is a public university, public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Originally established as the University of Ingolstadt in 1472 by Duke ...

. Today, Messmer is head of the office of the Research Institute for Social Development (FGW), and Visiting Fellow in the Democracy Lab of The Progressive Center.

Works

* ''Überschüssiges Gewebe. Intimchirurgie zwischen Ästhetisierung und Medikalisierung''. 2017, . *
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, ''Wanderungen: Migrationen und Transformationen aus geschlechterwissenschaftlichen Perspektiven'',. Verlag, 2014.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Messmer, Anna-Katharina 1983 births Living people German sociologists German women sociologists Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni 21st-century German non-fiction writers 21st-century German women writers