Philosophical Faculty of Humboldt University
[Center for interdisciplinary women's studies]
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| August 4, 1922 | born in Vienna, Austria | |
| 1938–1946 | Refugee in France and Britain | |
| December 1946 | moved to East Berlin | |
| 1947–1948 | Railway Staff Office in Berlin | |
| 1948–1952 | prep course at workers and farmers faculty of Humboldt University; followed by course of studies in History and English at Philosophical Faculty of Humboldt University |
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| 1952–1955 | Assistant at Museum for German History in Berlin | |
| 1953 | State examination in History | |
| 1955 | Son Hansjuergen born | |
| 1955–1958 | post-grad. course at Humboldt University | |
| 1958–1962 | Reader at Rütten & Loening, publishers | |
| 1959 | Dr. phil., with a dissertation on “Resistance movements in Mühlhausen in Thuringia from 1523 to 1573” | |
| 1962 | Divorced from Hugo Koeditz; custody of son Hansjuergen | |
| 1962 | Married to Manfred Behrend | |
| 1962–1964 | editorial and translating work for Intertext [translation service] | |
| March 22, 1963 | Daughter Christina born | |
| March 26, 1964 | Daughter Susanna born | |
| 1964–1967 | freelance translating, interpreting and language teaching | |
| 1967–1969 | Lecturer at College of Economics in Berlin | |
| 1969–1994 | teaching at English Department of Humboldt University | |
| 1969–1972 | in charge of working-class literature in Britain and Ireland project | |
| 1972–1978 | head of English language and literature Department | |
| 1975–1987 | on ministerial committee for teaching English in higher education | |
| 1976–1977 | Supervisor for English and American studies | |
| 1978 | English literature and literary theory department | |
| 1979–1987 | assistant head of department | |
| 1975–1983 | in charge of Advanced Course project | |
| 1981/82 | Facultas docendi, Presentation of senior dissertation (Habilitation) | |
| Dec. 1981–1987 | in charge of working-class literature project | |
| 1982 | Assistant Professor for English literature | |
| 1987 | Retired; teaching assignments until 1994 | |
| 1987–1992 | in charge of working-class and feminist literature project | |
| 1990–2005 | serving on women's editorial board of “Das Argument” | |
| 1992 | founding and committee member Gesellschaftswissenschaftliches Forum (Social Science Studies) | |
| 1992–1994 | in charge of center for assistance to foreign citizens in Berlin Friedrichshain | |
| 1992–1995 | in charge of race-class-gender project and continued teaching, research and political activities | |
| 1993–2000 | founding and committee member of INKRIT (Institute for critical theory) | |
| since 1994 | in charge of a seminar on literature | |
| 1995–2005 | editor of series “Auf der Suche nach der
verlorenen Zukunft” [searching for the lost future], founding member of ZiF [Center for interdisciplinary women's studies] |
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| January 14, 2006 | Manfred Behrend dies of a heart infarction | |
| 2004–2008 | Autobiography “Die Überleberin. Jahrzehnte in Atlantis”. [The Survivor. Decades in Atlantis] | |
| widowed, 3 children, 4 grandchildren, 1 great-grandchild, 1 tomcat | ||
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