Sophie Behr

Sophie Behr ; , in Neubrandenburg – ) was a German feminist journalist and author of practical life books and novels that combine motherhood and feminist science fiction.

Biography Friedhof Hader (Ruhstorf an der Rott) Kinder von Barhof memorial. Sophie Behr was the daughter of Gertrude née von Rumohr (1908-1994) and Hans Jasper von Behr-Negendanck (1901-1944), a Mecklenburg landowner and retired reserve lieutenant. She grew up in her father's manor house in Neverin, near Neubrandenburg. Her family was expropriated in 1945 and fled to Schleswig-Holstein. After graduating from the Ostsee-Gymnasium Timmendorfer Strand, she studied English, Spanish, psychology and sociology.

She was a journalist for Der Spiegel for 16 years and chief correspondent for Munich and then Berlin, before working as a freelance journalist for Emma, radio and the feminist press[.

Behr was also co-founder of the Association of Single Mothers and Fathers (originally called the Association of Single Mothers (Verbandes alleinerziehender Mütter und Väter)), of which she was president from 1977 to 1981. From 1984 until her death, she lived in Ruhstorf an der Rott in Lower Bavaria, at the Barhof near Hader, which she also transformed into a memorial to the 90 children of forced labourers murdered there in 1944-1945.

Björn Engholm included him in his government team for the .

In 1997 she wrote Ida & Laura. Once more with feeling, a feminist science fiction novel.

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