Erlangen Women in Motion: Audio guide to the history and present of women in Erlangen

The social and political engagement of women has been indispensable in Erlangen's history: This must be honored! The digital audio tour* conveys fundamental and lesser-known women's history from the Huguenot city to the end of the 20th century.

Let this audio guide tour guide you through Erlangen's "women's history" and follow in the footsteps of geniuses such as the mathematician Emmy Noether or personalities such as Margravine Sophie Caroline of Brandenburg-Bayreuth.

All audio files can also be played via www.erlangen.tomis.mobi Download as MP3.

4. Highlight Tour

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01 The Equal Opportunities Officers in conversation
02 A meeting place for the Erlangen women's movement (Women's Center in Gerberei 4)
03 Refugees and religious freedom (Hugenottenplatz)
04 “The most significant genius”: Emmy Noether (Hauptstraße 23)
05 Women's suffrage and the first female city councillors (Old Town Hall in the Stutterheim Palace at Market Square 1)
06 A Turkish woman from Erlangen tells how she became a native (Markplatz)
07 “A highly witty lady”: Margravine Sophie Caroline (The Margrave’s Palace on the Schlossplatz)
08 French flair and learned governesses (Heuwaagstraße/Goethestraße)
09 Meeting place of the proletarian women's movement (Zum Goldenen Hecht, Glockenstraße 8)
10 The city’s first headmistress, Elise Spaeth, and the “Women’s Welfare” association (Loschgeschule, Turnstraße 8)
11 Men and fashion trends (Huguenot fountain in the palace gardens)
12 Female scientists at the Friedrich-Alexander University, FAU for short (Kollegienhaus im Schlossgarten)

 

5. Main tour

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01 The Equal Opportunities Officers in conversation
02
A meeting place for the Erlangen women's movement (Women's Center in Gerberei 4)
03
Refugees and religious freedom (Hugenottenplatz)
04
“The most significant genius”: Emmy Noether (Hauptstraße 23)
05
Women's suffrage and the first female city councillors (Old Town Hall in the Stutterheim Palace at Market Square 1)
06
A Turkish woman from Erlangen tells how she became a native (Markplatz)
07
“A highly witty lady”: Margravine Sophie Caroline (The Margrave’s Palace on the Schlossplatz)
08
French flair and learned governesses (Heuwaagstraße/Goethestraße)
09
Meeting place of the proletarian women's movement (Zum Goldenen Hecht, Glockenstraße 8)
10
The city’s first headmistress, Elise Spaeth, and the “Women’s Welfare” association (Loschgeschule, Turnstraße 8)
11
Men and fashion trends (Huguenot fountain in the palace gardens)
12
Female scientists at the Friedrich-Alexander University, FAU for short (Kollegienhaus im Schlossgarten)

13 Female students at FAU (Kollegienhaus at Universitätsstraße 15)
14 Margravine Wilhelmine of Bayreuth and her precious book donation (Old University Library at Universitätsstraße 15)
15 The professor's wife Luise Rückert (Egloffstein Palace, Friedrichstr. 17)
16 Higher education for girls (Lyncker Palace, Friedrichstrasse 35)
17 The working couple must stand together in the craft (small houses at Krankenhausstraße 5-7)
18 Gynaecology as an academic “male discipline” (Women’s Clinic, Universitätsstraße 21-23)
19 Women's work at Siemens (Reiniger, Gebbert and Schall)
20 Women with Disabilities and Feminism (Center for Independent Living, Luitpoldstraße 42/44)
21 Female forced laborers in Erlangen (memorial plaque at Luitpoldstr. 45)

 

*The audio tour was created by the Equal Opportunities Office in the Office for Equal Opportunities and Diversity of the City of Erlangen realized in cooperation with the Erlangen Tourism and Marketing Association eV

Erlangen Women in Motion - the audio guide tour of Erlangen women's history