User:Leserättin
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Hi there, usually I'm editing and creating articles in the German Wikipedia (since 2005). My areas of interest are women in general, specifically women's movement, feminism. On de.wikipedia, I'm a member of the sysop and bureaucrat groups.
My community activities are:
- Organisation of Online workshop series 60 Minuten – Gender & Diversity in der Wikipedia
- Organisation of Clio-a-thons, a series of edit-a-thons on women's and gender history
- Research on Herstory of (German-speaking) Wikipedia, see work in progress
- Editor group wiki:wo:men in Stuttgart
- FemNetz
About my user name:
Leseratte is a colloquial (joking) German term for a person who reads a lot. Literally it means reading rat. But there is a twist.
In the early modern period it was usual to feminize the last name of women by adding "in" at the end. For example Maria Sibylla Merian was actually called Merianin. The author Günter Grass used this to alter the name of the protagonist of one of his novels which was a female rat. Thus, in the novel “Ratte” became “Rättin”.
This inspired me to alter "Leseratte" in the same way. And voilà my user name Leserättin was born.
Here's my profile in German Wikipedia: Leserättin.