Uta Monique Behrens

Background

Behrens, Uta Monique was born on August 6, 1941 in Solingen, Germany. Came to the United States, 1965. Daughter of Alfred and Margarete Scharlotte (Muhs) Melsbach.

Education

Student, University Cambridge, England, 1960-1961;

student, Alliance Francaise, Paris, 1963;

student, Berlitz School of Language, Munich, 1965;

Associate of Arts in German, Phoenix College, 1971;

Bachelor in German magna cum laude, Arizona State University, 1985.

Career

Executive secretary foreign affairs NORAFILM GmbH, Munich, 1963-1965. Flight attendant American Airlines, Los Angeles, 1966-1967. Real estate management/acquisitions Behrens Properties, Phoenix, 1970-1992.

Director Home Owners' Association, Phoenix, 1995. Hostess television shows Educational Management Group, Scottsdale, Arizona, 1994-1995.

Achievements

• In 1996 Uta was a finalist at the Int’l Poets Symposium in Wash. DC. The award was a book for my poem ‘Reconciliation’ (The Jew and the German), which received rave reviews. It was my first book, and I titled it “The Truth Seeker”.
  
  Uta was honored in 2004 as a ‘Woman of Success’ by IMPACT for Enterprising Women (on whose Board I have been serving), and I founded ‘International Friends of Germany’. In 2004, followed by the ‘AZ Consular Women’s Auxiliary’ in 2007, after my husband retired as Hon. German Consul for AZ in 2002. She felt honored - when as the first foreigner – named an ‘Outstanding Young Woman of America’.
  
  

Works

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  • Journeys in the Lifeboat: Life Stories That Touch the Heart

    (Journeys in the Lifeboat is a touching collection of life...)

Membership

Uta is a president of the Phoenix Writers Club (the oldest writers’ club in Arizona). President Kiwis (American Airlines F/A), Phoenix, 1969-1970. Charity chairman Maricopa County Bar Auxiliary, Phoenix, 1970-1971, volunteer, 1968-1994. Docent, interpreter, volunteer Arizona History League, Phoenix, 1993-1996.

Member dean's council Arizona State University, 1995-1997. Director European department Phoenix Art Museum, 1997l board directors Justice for Children, 2002-2003. Court mediator, Maricopa County Justice.

Member Jaguar Club Central Arizona (vice president, secretary 1993-1996), Kiwi Club (president, parliamentarian, charity chair, Kiwi with Heart 1994), International Women's Club of Phoenix (president 2001-2002), Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi.

Interests

• Avocations: traveling, writing, volunteering, philanthropy. Fax: (602) 840-1625.

Connections

Married William Frederick Behrens, December 16, 1966. Children: Nicole-Margarete, William Fredrick Junior, Simone-Monique.

Father:

Alfred Melsbach

Mother:

Margarete Scharlotte (Muhs) Melsbach

Spouse:

William Frederick Behrens

child:

Nicole-Margarete Behrens

child:

Simone-Monique Behrens

child:

William Fredrick Junior Behrens