Dr. Beatrice Wagner has set a goal: she wants to conquer the Ickingen town hall for the SPD.
Icking - The original meeting place, the burnt down riding hall, cancels Dr. Beatrice Wagner a good hour before the interview. It is too cold outside, she says, and she thinks it is better to meet her in practice. The replica of the reporter, the SPD must have been used to frosty times for a long time, the mayor candidate smiles charmingly. The 56-year-old is relaxed and unpretentious ("Please leave the doctor away") - and confidently: Although social democracy in Germany, even in Bavaria, has seen better days, she says: "If I don't have a chance would have calculated to become mayor if I hadn't started. "
Local election 2020: Beatrice Wagner initially worked in journalism
First, we chat a little bit about journalism. She loves to write herself, says Wagner, who was born in Allgäu and grew up near Düsseldorf. Therefore, after training as a physiotherapist and studying German in Freiburg and Munich, she soon switched to journalism, initially in the local area. "But then it turned out that I slipped into medical journalism." The job was fun (she later did her doctorate in theoretical medicine), but she couldn't live as a freelancer from him in the long run. Wagner finds the financial framework, from which many journalists suffer today, “questionable - also from a democratic perspective. Our basic principles of freedom are also based on journalists looking closely and having enough time to research and write. ”
Icking: SPD mayor candidate Beatrice Wagner is a sex therapist today
She found her current job via the medical topics: The 56-year-old works in her own practice as a couple and sex therapist. The area of sexuality from a scientific point of view had already fascinated Wagner while she was a journalist. "I have worked my way into this field for 15, 20 years," she says. Wagner got to know the legendary enlightener Oswalt Kolle, wrote several popular science books - and finally saddled an alternative practitioner training for psychotherapy and numerous further training courses on top of that to be able to treat. In her job she finds fulfillment: "With my work I help and it is personally enriching." It took a little while before she got used to the closer village life in 2010, coming from the anonymity of the big city. "People started talking about me," she says. "A sex therapist? What is she doing in her practice? ”In Munich, people didn't care about her job. In the meantime, Ickinger has also become one of her clients, she says and smiles. In rural life, Wagner appreciates the possibility of being able to cycle in nature and hike "in the mountains" in a proper manner. She also goes to the gym three times a week. Her job and politics leave no time for more hobbies.
Beatrice Wagner: "Ecological, social, together - these are my three principles"
There is a reason why Wagner's heart beats more for red than green - she is also the chairperson of the federal government for nature conservation - when she left Munich, there were no organized greens in Icking. The traditional SPD local club, founded in 1970, but welcomed it "with open arms". Wagner feels in good hands with the comrades. "I've always been more left-wing," says the mother of a 21-year-old daughter. "Ecological, social, common - these are my three principles." Beatrice Wagner is already a candidate for mayor of the Ickinger SPD. Now, after the annual meeting, she is also the new local chairwoman.
If Wagner moves into the town hall in Ickingen, she wants to ensure more transparency. You have live logs of the council meetings in mind "so that everyone can follow the decisions unfiltered and understand them". Another matter close to her heart is to create affordable housing. It is very much in line with Hans-Jochen Vogel, who at 93 years of age has been tirelessly fighting against speculation and for new land management. She is in contact with him, the SPD honorary chairman. "We want to meet soon and consider what approaches there are for Icking in this regard."
Beatrice Wagner wants to provide more transparency in the Ickingen town hall
She has an idea, hence the original meeting point at the riding hall: "The municipality could get a lot more out of this area," Wagner believes. Land cannot be multiplied, "therefore we need other laws for this". Under UBI Mayor Margit Menrad, parcel lots were sold on the open market at the Fuchsbichl. Wagner: "That should not be the case."
There are three other applicants for the executive chair in Ickingen City Hall: Verena Reithmann (UBI), Cornelia Zechmeister (PWG) and Laura Beckerath-Leismüller (Greens).
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