Margarete Stokowski

Stokowski was born in Poland in 1986. Her parents named her after the female protagonist of the novel The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. On her German identity card, Hindenberg (the name of Zabrze from 19151946) is listed as her birthplace instead of Zabrze. In 1988, her family moved to West Berlin to live with her grandparents in Gropiusstadt. She grew up in Neukölln. She attended a Catholic private school, and then studied philosophy and social sciences at Humboldt University. Stokowski says she has depression. After contracting COVID-19 in early 2022, she was diagnosed with long COVID. Stokowski is in a relationship with the musician . She used to live in a commune in Brandenburg and now lives in Berlin. == Reception ==

In 2018, Stokowski cancelled an already sold-out reading at the Lehmkuhl bookstore in Munich because it also carried right-wing primary texts from Verlag Antaios. In a 2019 article, Stokowski criticized the German cult of asparagus, which she called "the old White man of cuisine." The Free Democratic Party chairman Christian Lindner quoted the article during a party conference while claiming that German asparagus production is under attack. The described her as the "loudest voice in German feminism", and dedicated a cover story to her. She received the Kurt-Tucholsky-Preis in 2019 for her work as a columnist for Spiegel Online. She also received the in 2019 for her analysis of the "contradictions in relationships between women and men that still exist in our supposedly egalitarian society." == Awards ==

• (2019) • Kurt-Tucholsky-Preis (2019) == Works ==

Books • • Book contributions (a selection) • jeder tag …. In: Christiane Frohmann (Ed.): Tausend Tode schreiben. Berlin 2015, . • Sie hat ‚ficken‘ gesagt. In: Volker Surmann, Heiko Werning (Ed.): Ist das jetzt Satire oder was? Beiträge zur humoristischen Lage der Nation. Satyr, Berlin 2015, . • frau k. In: Christoph Buchwald, Ulrike Almut Sandig (Ed.): Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2017. Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 20, . • Forward to: Charles Fourier: Die Freiheit in der Liebe. Ein Essay. Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2017, . • Stadt, Land, Fluss beim Sex – Mein Leben als feministische Kolumnistin. In: Peter Felixberger, Armin Nassehi (Ed.): Kursbuch 192. Frauen II. Kursbuch Kulturstiftung, Hamburg 2017, . • Afterword, in: Olympe de Gouges: Die Rechte der Frau und andere Texte. Reclam-Verlag, Ditzingen 2018, . • Zurück. In: Lina Muzur (Ed.): Sagte sie. 17 Erzählungen über Sex und Macht. Hanser Berlin, Berlin 2018, . • Sprache. In: Fatma Aydemir, Hengameh Yaghoobifarah (Ed.): Eure Heimat ist unser Albtraum. Ullstein fünf, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-96101-036-3 • Forward to: Virginia Woolf: Ein eigenes Zimmer. Fischer Taschenbuch, Berlin 2019, . Radio • Das größte Rudel der Welt. Einige Gedanken über sexuelle Belästigung. Südwestrundfunk 2018. ==References==