Dagmar Schultz (born 1941 in Berlin) is a German sociologist, filmmaker, publisher and professor.
Schultz grew up in a female household; her father committed suicide in World War II.
However, her dream of working as a documentary filmmaker on television proved to be unrealizable: "My job interview at CBS or NBC was such that the gentlemen asked me, 'What do you mean, why we hire women here?'
In 1984, she helped civil rights activist and poet Audre Lorde, whom she got to know at the 1980 UN World Conference on Women in Copenhagen, to become a visiting professor at FU Berlin.
[4] Since 2004, Dagmar Schultz has been involved in writing and organising reading tours in the United States for her partner Ika Hügel-Marshall (author of Invisible Woman.
[6][7] The same year, Schultz became dignified the "Magnus-Hirschfeld-Award" for her life's work as one of the first activists of the lesbian and women's movement since the 1970s, an award donated by the gay section of SPD to honor outstanding achievements for the emancipation of lesbians, gays and transgender people.