Christina von Braun

Christina von Braun (born 27 June 1944 in Rome) is a German sociologist, gender theorist, author and filmmaker.

Her grandmother, Hildegard Margis died in the Barnimstraße women's prison after being arrested for her resistance against National Socialism in connection with the group around Anton Saefkow and Franz Jacob.

She produced films about the bestseller Coincidence and Necessity by the molecular biologist Jacques Monod, the life story of the writer André Malraux (BR 1972), a conversation with Claude Lévi-Strauss (SR 1972), Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary (SR 1976), the Paris urban planning of the prefect Georges-Eugène Haussmann (WDR 1979), the artist Meret Oppenheim (NDR 1977) and the city of Bron (BR 1979).

Her main areas of research and teaching include: gender, media, religion and modernity, secularization, and the history of anti-Semitism .

[5][6] Christina von Braun has produced about fifty film documentaries and television plays on cultural and historical themes and has written numerous books and essays on the interrelationship between mental history and physical history