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Event on Feminist Archival History in Dortmund

Two students stand between two bookshelves with books in hands in the library. © Aliona Kardash​/​TU Dortmund
The former Archive on the New Women's Movement at TU Dortmund University—now part of the University Library's collection—and other women's archives in Dortmund have been collecting documents from a feminist perspective on society for decades and making them available for research and study.

Preserving women’s* history, collecting documents from a feminist perspective on society, and making them available for research and study – this often invisible but irreplaceable work is carried out by feminist archives. In Dortmund, a total of four such institutions have been active over the past few decades, and two of them are still in operation today. In July, they will introduce themselves at the "Langer August" center in Dortmund’s Nordstadt district.

  • When: Saturday, July 11, 2026, 3:00–5:00 p.m.
  • Where: Café at Langer August, Braunschweiger Str. 22, 44145 Dortmund

On the panel: Dr. Stephanie Marra, Head of the Section Archives and Collections at the University Library, representing the former Archive on the New Women’s Movement at TU Dortmund University (now part of the University Library’s collection), as well as other contemporary witnesses* and activists from the archive of the Rhine-Ruhr Institute for Women’s Studies, the “Frauen Planen Bauen” archive of FOPA e. V., and (last but not least) the Women’s* Internationalism Archive.

The focus is on beginnings, developments, content, and political work. Cultural memory requires the perspectives of social movements to provide impetus for necessary social change.

The project is funded by the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL).

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