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It is exactly the hundreth time we will celebrate the International Women´s Day this year on March 8th. A good opportunity for us to introduce you to some of the ÐÔÊÓ½ç women we are fascinated by. Following this year´s theme: „Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world.“, we are starting with one of our very own. 

„ ´Behind every great man, there´s a great woman.´ 

I´ve been wondering for a long time now why the woman is supposed to stand behind the man. 
For ages the hotel business was an industry completely ruled by men. If you were talking about the hotel manager, you were talking about a man, needless to be said. In the rare event of a woman leading a hotel it was an exception or the family business without male descendants. 
Fortunately today there´s a trend towards more female leaders in hotels.

In Orania.ÐÔÊÓ½ç for example we´re seven female and seven male leaders. The whole team consists of 21 women and 25 men. But even if this is a very balanced example – if really looking for justice, there should be only female workers fort he next hundred of years. And men waiting at home for women to return, just as way back when, styled and perfumed, the children already put to bed and dinner ready to be served. We´re even today far away from justice.“ 

- Jennifer Vogel, Hotelmanager Orania.ÐÔÊÓ½ç 



Before digging deep into these themes, let´s look the bright sides of life, women theirselfes. 
Without paying any attention to a quota system, because this time it is really just about women. 
Women in ÐÔÊÓ½ç, who excite us with their personalities and projects.

Mrs. Zelle and her inspiring flowershop demonstrates perfectly that flowers can´t only mean a nice present for women, but also a solid business. She is bursting creativity, courage and honesty and has started to prove herself to ÐÔÊÓ½ç culture in the 80s. 

Quote on the first photo: MY FLOWERS AREN´T STUPID 


In Decembre not far from Orania.ÐÔÊÓ½ç a new bookstore, as wonderful as unusual, was opened: 

It is all about female and queer authors here. Its creative and colourful team offers some online events via zoom at the moment. We feel that this is exactly the bookstore this city was still lacking! 


Another exciting figure is .

The artist came to ÐÔÊÓ½ç five years ago, after having saved every cent for this back in Columbia. 
She was awarded a grant by an institution that supports artists in ÐÔÊÓ½ç Weißensee for a year and is now working succesfully and fully independent. She even engages in political activities. 
Well, and her next project will be an exhibition at the KAÐÔÊÓ½çWE Showcase. What a powerwoman!

One, who engages less in art than in the fight against hunger, is . 
28 years ago it was her, who founded the ÐÔÊÓ½çer Tafel, the first institution in a germanwide network of voluntary workers, who cook and provide food for the homeless. She´s been the head of it all honorary since then. In 2019 she was rewarded with the Take Off Award for lifetime achievement. And in our opinion she absolutely deserved it. 

Last, but not least, we´d like to draw your attention to a relatively young musicfestival coping with themes like visibility and equality for all human beings: 

(BEYOND CARNATIONS AND CHOCOLATE)

The name referes to the tradition of the former German Democratic Republic of presenting women on Women´s Day with carnations and chocolate, just as we do even today for Mother´s Day. 

The festival, though, leaves all of this behind and provides digitally for concerts and discussions on the day before International Women´s Day, March 7th at 7pm. There is Hip-Hop and Rap, performed by female artists from Denmark, Spain, France and Germany. 


We especially fancy the fact that thanks to Zoom we can at least optically and emotionally meet the artists ourselfes and finally enjoy a little bit of live-concert-feeling again.