Katharina Lindner
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 3 September 1979 | ||
Place of birth | Munich, West Germany | ||
Date of death | 9 February 2019 | (aged 39)||
Height | 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) | ||
Position(s) |
Striker | ||
Youth career | |||
1999–2002 | Hartford Hawks[1] | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1996–1999 |
1. FFC Frankfurt | ||
2004 | Western Mass Lady Pioneers | ||
2005–2011 |
Glasgow City | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Katharina Lindner (3 September 1979 – 9 February 2019) was a German academic and footballer who played as a
Sports career
Lindner grew up in
Lindner joined
When Lindner announced plans to retire from football ahead of the 2011
Academic career
Lindner was a lecturer in the Communication, Media & Culture of University of Stirling, focusing on gender, sports and queer theory.[7][9] She wrote several articles published in academic journals such as Sex Roles and Feminist Media Studies.[10] In her most-cited work, "Images of Women in General Interest and Fashion Magazine Advertisements from 1955 to 2002", Lindner "adapted a set of qualitative criteria from Erving Goffman’s classic work on the subtle cues contained within advertising"[11] to analyse how women are objectified in advertisements in women's fashion magazines compared to general interest magazines.[12] In 2016, she also wrote an op-ed for The Conversation (reprinted in The Independent) in support of boycotting the Oscars.[13] In October 2017, Lindner published Film Bodies: Queer Feminist Encounters with Gender and Sexuality in Cinema via I.B. Tauris.[14]
Personal life
Lindner died on 9 February 2019. Glasgow City announced that the team would postpone their season opening game while they mourned her death. Lindner's partner, Scottish footballer Laura Montgomery, is a co-founder of the club.[7]
Death
Lindner took her own life in hospital, having been admitted following a previous suicide attempt the preceding week. She had depression.[15]
References
- ^ "Individual career records". University of Hartford. Retrieved 2 January 2011.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Glasgow City's Katharina Lindner hits double milestone". BBC Sport. 7 October 2010. Retrieved 9 October 2010.
- ^ Bernhard Kux (29 July 2009). "Katharina Lindner: "Münchner Kindl" trifft Bayern-Frauen" (in German). Womensoccer.de. Archived from the original on 12 March 2012. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
- ^ Dave Litterer (31 January 2010). "The Year in American Soccer, 2000". American Soccer History Archives. Archived from the original on 14 December 2017. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
- ^ Fraser Wilson (6 January 2009). "Bundesliga star Kat leads Glasgow City title defence". Daily Record. Archived from the original on 11 September 2010. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
- ^ "SWF Statement - Katharina Lindner". Scottish Women's Football. 11 February 2019. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
- ^ a b c "Kat Lindner: Former Glasgow City player dies aged 39". BBC Sport. 10 February 2019. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
- She Kicks. 11 November 2011. Archived from the originalon 27 May 2012. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
- ^ "Ex-Glasgow City forward Kat Lindner dies at 39". The Times. 11 February 2019. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
- ^ "Katharina Lindner - Google Scholar Citations". Google Scholar. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
- S2CID 21643571. Archived from the original(PDF) on 12 February 2019.
- S2CID 143452062.
- ^ Lindner, Katharina (25 January 2016). "Why a boycott of the Oscars might just start to change the film industry". The Independent. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
- ^ Quinlivan, Davina (18 January 2018). "Film Bodies: Queer Feminist Encounters with Gender and Sexuality in Cinema, by Katharina Lindner". Times Higher Education (THE). Retrieved 11 February 2019.
- ^ "Laura Montgomery: Kat was my everything and I miss her terribly". Glasgow Times. 27 October 2019. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
External links
- Katharina Lindner publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Official website of Glasgow City F.C.