Radio program, 1959
In August 1930, Hannelore Mabry (née Katz) was born in Chemnitz. After graduating from high school in 1947, she studied at the municipal acting school in Bonn as a scholarship student. This was followed by various artistic activities and acting engagements. In 1956, she married the American Paul Mabry. At the end of 1956, Hannelore Mabry decided to emigrate to Boston. She and her daughter Cosima from her first marriage set off together. In the USA, Hannelore Mabry worked under her stage name Loreley Katz as a speaker for the radio show ‘German Radio Hour.’ According to her daughter, Hannelore Mabry was ‘not happy’ in the USA and decided to return to Germany in 1958. After some time, Hannelore Mabry reoriented herself and began studying at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich in 1966. In 1971, she published her thesis titled ‘Weeds in Parliament’ on the importance of women’s parliamentary work. She founded the Women’s Forum Munich e.V. and became the editor of the magazine Frauenforum – Voice of the Feminists, later called The Feminist. This is considered the first supraregional feminist magazine in the Federal Republic. Later, she organized and supported various public actions, such as the Munich Cathedral occupation calling against violence. In 1988, Hannelore Mabry, along with nine other people, founded the association for the promotion of the Bavarian Archive of the Women’s Movement. The goal of the association is to promote scholarly work on the women’s movement. Hannelore Mabry passed away in 2013 in Munich. She was a feminist, pacifist, and single mother. Her daughter Cosima Wolter bequeathed parts of her mother Hannelore Mabry’s estate to the German Emigration Center.
