Renée Wagener
{{Short description|Luxembourgish politician and journalist}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Renée Wagener
| image = File:Renée Wagener, «D’Konsequenze vun Antisemitismus a Juddeverfolgung am politischen Discours zu Lëtzebuerg, 1945-2014».jpg
| caption = Renée Wagener in December 2014.
| alt = Renée Wagener
| office = Member of the Chamber of Deputies
| termend = 6 June 2004
| termstart = 18 July 1994
| constituency = Centre
| party = The Greens
| birth_date = 1962
| birth_place = Luxembourg City
| parliamentarygroup = GLEI-GAP (1994-1995)
Gréng (1995-2004)
| alma_mater = University of Hagen
| occupation = Journalist, sociologist, historian
}}
Renée Wagener (born 1962) is a Luxembourgish journalist, sociologist, historian, and former politician. She served for 10 years in the Chamber of Deputies as a member of The Greens.
Early life and education
Renée Wagener was born in 1962 in Luxembourg City, the capital of Luxembourg.{{Cite web|title=Renée Wagener|url=http://european-convention.europa.eu/pdf/cvs/WAGENER.pdf|website=Europa.eu|language=fr}}
Beginning in 1997, she pursued an advanced degree in sociology, taking correspondence courses at the University of Hagen in Germany. She wrote her master's thesis on "The History of Women's Right to Vote in Luxembourg" and her doctoral thesis on "The Jewish Community in Luxembourg, Between Recognition and Exclusion."{{Cite web|date=2016-06-07|title=Renée Wagener|url=https://www.ipw.lu/renee-wagener/|access-date=2021-03-01|website=Institut Pierre Werner|language=fr}}
Career
= Journalism and academia =
Wagener works as a journalist for the weekly newspaper Woxx,{{Cite web|last=Labro|first=Thierry|date=2019-11-28|title=Renée Wagener au conseil d'administration de 100,7|url=https://paperjam.lu/article/renee-wagener-au-conseil-admin|access-date=2021-03-01|website=Paperjam|language=fr}} as well as for various media outlets as a freelance writer and announcer. She has also worked on historical research at the University of Luxembourg.
She writes primarily on feminist topics, as well as sociology and history.{{Cite web|last=Gamelon|first=Hubert|date=2020-03-07|title=Femmes luxembourgeoises : entre envie d'émancipation et intérêts politiques|url=https://lequotidien.lu/politique-societe/femmes-luxembourgeoises-entre-envie-demancipation-et-interets-politiques/|access-date=2021-03-02|website=Le Quotidien|language=fr-FR}} In 1997, she co-edited the history of women's rights in Luxembourg "Wenn nun wir Frauen auch das Wort ergreifen…": Frauen in Luxemburg 1880-1950.{{Cite web|title="Wenn nun wir Frauen auch das Wort ergreifen…" : Frauen in Luxemburg 1880-1950|url=https://orbilu.uni.lu/handle/10993/4444|website=University of Luxembourg Library}} She published a biography of the politician Lydie Schmit, "Méi Sozialismus!" Lydie Schmit und die LSAP 1970-1988, in 2013.{{Cite web|last=Parachini|first=Alexandra|date=2016-07-08|title=[Luxemburgensia] Jean Gremling|url=https://lequotidien.lu/culture/luxemburgensia-jean-gremling/|access-date=2021-03-02|website=Le Quotidien|language=fr-FR}}{{Cite web|title="Méi Sozialismus!" Lydie Schmit und die LSAP 1970-1988|url=https://orbilu.uni.lu/handle/10993/4432|access-date=2021-03-01|website=University of Luxembourg Library}} In 2019, to mark 100 years of women's suffrage in Luxembourg, she co-curated an exhibit at the National Museum of History and Art about the history of voting rights in the country.{{Cite web|last=Gamelon|first=Hubert|date=2020-04-14|title=Luxembourg : l'expo sur les 100 ans du suffrage universel en visite virtuelle|url=https://lequotidien.lu/luxembourg/luxembourg-lexpo-sur-les-100-ans-du-suffrage-universel-en-visite-virtuelle/|access-date=2021-03-02|website=Le Quotidien|language=fr-FR}}{{Cite web|last=Frati|first=Camille|date=2019-05-07|title=Un siècle de vote féminin, et après?|url=https://paperjam.lu/article/siecle-vote-feminin-et-apres|access-date=2021-03-02|website=Paperjam|language=fr}}
In November 2019, after a meeting of the Council of Government of Luxembourg, she was appointed to the board of directors of the public radio station radio 100,7.
= Politics =
Wagener was a founding member of the Green Alternative Party, a precursor to the environmentalist party The Greens, in 1983.{{Cite web|last=Schock|first=Pol|date=2018-06-06|title=Grüne in Luxemburg: Gekommen, um zu bleiben|url=https://www.tageblatt.lu/politik/gruene-in-luxemburg-gekommen-um-zu-bleiben/|access-date=2021-03-02|website=Tageblatt|language=de}} She served on the Luxembourg communal council from 1991 to 1994.
In the 1994 Luxembourg general election, she was elected to the country's Chamber of Deputies, where she represented the Centre constituency as a member of The Greens. In May 1996, she introduced one of the country's earliest bills to legalize same-sex marriage, nearly two decades before the Chamber would go on to pass such a measure.{{Cite web|last=Wockner|first=Rex|date=June 1996|title=Gay Marriage Proposed in Luxembourg|url=http://www.france.qrd.org/assocs/ilga/euroletter/42.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160131115816/http://www.france.qrd.org/assocs/ilga/euroletter/42.html|archive-date=2016-01-31|website=ILGA Euroletter}}{{Cite web|last=Richard|first=Maximilian|date=2017-09-25|title=PACS und Ehe: Mehr als nur ein Bund fürs Leben|url=https://www.wort.lu/de/lokales/pacs-und-ehe-mehr-als-nur-ein-bund-fuers-leben-59c9167556202b51b13c3e06|access-date=2021-03-02|website=Luxemburger Wort|language=de}} She was reelected to the Chamber of Deputies in the 1999 Luxembourg general election, but declined to run again in 2004, stepping down after the election that year.
References
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Category:People from Luxembourg City
Category:Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Luxembourg) from Centre
Category:Councillors in Luxembourg City
Category:The Greens (Luxembourg) politicians
Category:Luxembourgian women writers
Category:Luxembourgian women journalists
Category:Luxembourgian feminists
Category:Academic staff of the University of Luxembourg
Category:20th-century Luxembourgian historians
Category:Luxembourgian women historians
Category:University of Hagen alumni
Category:21st-century Luxembourgian women politicians