Renate Stendhal
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| Born | Germany |
| Occupation | writer, writing coach, provost |
| Nationality | German |
| Genre | Fiction, non-fiction |
| Subject | Feminism, women, eroticism, children's literature |
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Renate Stendhal (born Renate Neumann, 1944) is a Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and writing coach. She serves as a provost for UIL (University for Integrative Learning) and is ordained by AIWP (Association for the Integration of the Whole Person). Born in Germany, she spent half of her adult life in Paris and the other half in California (first in Berkeley, now in Point Reyes). Her offices are in the San Francisco Bay Area.
During her school years in Berlin and Hamburg, Renate Stendhal pursued studies of music, singing, painting, and dancing. She majored in literature at Hamburg University, then moved to Paris in 1966 to focus on classical dance. After an engagement at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, she returned to Paris in 1970 and joined an experimental theater group. From 1975 to 1982, she worked in Paris as a cultural correspondent for German radio and press (Frankfurter Rundschau et al.) – an occupation she picked up again in 2005, writing cultural reviews for the international magazine Scene4. In Paris, she also worked for many years as a personal assistant for surrealist painter Meret Oppenheim.
With the beginning of the French and German feminist movements, Renate Stendhal became an activist and co-created (with Danish painter Maj Skadegaard) the first feminist multimedia show in Europe, “In the Beginning . . . of the End: A Voyage of Women Becoming” (1980). A year later, the show was recorded on film by Studio D of the National Film Board of Canada and shown at women's festivals and international film festivals. While touring with the film across Europe from 1980 to 1983, Renate Stendhal started giving workshops and lectures on women's creative and erotic empowerment. Her essays and articles appeared in major feminist magazines including Feministische Studien and EMMA.
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