Annette Kuhn

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Annette Kuhn (born May 22, 1934 in Berlin ; † November 27, 2019 in Bonn ) was a German historian and peace and women researcher . From 1966 to 1999 she was professor for history didactics and later also for women's studies at the Pädagogische Hochschule Rheinland (Bonn Department) and after its dissolution in 1980 at the University of Bonn .

Life

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Annette Kuhn was the daughter of the philosopher Helmut Kuhn . Father and mother Käthe, née Lewy, were Protestant converts of Jewish origin. Kuhn was baptized Christian by Martin Niemöller in 1934 , her godmother was Antonie Meinecke , married to Friedrich Meinecke . Kuhn only found out about her Jewish origins after her mother's death.

She had formative childhood experiences in the English and US emigration , into which National Socialism drove her family from Berlin in 1937. Back in Germany in 1948, she went to the Elisabeth von Thadden School in Heidelberg from 1951 , where she graduated from high school in the spring of 1954. In the summer semester of 1954, she began to study history, German, English and philosophy in Munich. After a stay at Connecticut College , at that time still for Women ("for women"), she completed her studies in Munich in 1959 with a doctorate under Franz Schnabel on Friedrich Schlegel's Theory of State and Society . Then she went to the completion of the state examination and habilitation at the University of Heidelberg , where they materially from Werner Conze was coined. From there, accompanied by Romano Guardini , she converted to Catholicism, just like her parents had before.

Even before completing her habilitation, in 1966 she became the youngest professor in the Federal Republic of Germany to be professor of “Medieval and Modern History and its Didactics” at the University of Education in Bonn (responsible for teacher training and diploma education ). Her predecessor in the chair was Professor Klara Marie Faßbinder, who was hostile to her commitment to the peace movement . Until then, Kuhn had not given any didactic publications or lessons. In the 1960s and 1970s she took up the criticism and demands of extra-parliamentary and student opposition in her work on critical communicative history didactics and peace education . She dealt with Wolfgang Hilligen's political didactic approach, Jürgen Habermas ' critical theory and Johan Galt's peace research.

The emancipatory awakening of women shaped her scientific work since the 1980s. In 1986 she received the first professorship for historical women's studies . It contributed to the fact that a new, critically remembered view, including the recent German past, was possible and included in the guidelines for history and political education . This point of view represented a provocation. From 1992 to 1996 it was excluded from the Academic Teachers' Examination Office in Bonn because of the subjects that did not match the study regulations.

In scientific publications and as an editor of historical didactic and women's history periodicals, she worked on overcoming the traditional separation of science and femininity and founded a critical feminist epistemology (comparative feminist philosophy of science ). It was based on Christine de Pizan and the Italian philosopher Luisa Muraro (The symbolic order of the mother) .

As a scientific mentor, she initiated important projects to make women's achievements in history visible, including the source series “Women in History”, the comprehensive “Chronicle of Women” and several large exhibitions on the history of women’s culture. Kuhn was the scientific director of the Politeia project on gender mainstreaming .

In 1999 she retired .

In 2006, Kuhn was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st Class .

In 2009 she founded the Annette Kuhn Foundation to promote research and education in women's history. In order to implement the objectives of the foundation practical, the Foundation sought the realization of a house for women's history to that 2012 as the home of women's history in Bonn was established Old Town. Kuhn campaigned for such a project before, she was chairwoman of the association founded in 2000 to promote gender-democratic historical awareness as the sponsoring association for the Bonn Women's Museum .

Works (selection)

Monographs

  • Friedrich Schlegel's political and social theory. LMU, Munich 1959 (= dissertation)
  • The Church wrestling with socialism 1803–1848. A historical study. Pustet, Munich a. a. 1965
  • Theory and Practice of Historical Peace Research. Klett, Stuttgart 1971 ISBN 3-466-42107-1 .
  • Introduction to the didactics of history. Kösel, Munich 1974 ISBN 3-466-35022-0 .
  • with Gerhard Schneider : History lessons 5–10. Urban and Schwarzenberg, Munich a. a. 1981 ISBN 3-541-41041-8 .
  • with Valentine Rothe : Women's politics in the Nazi state. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1982 ISBN 3-590-18013-7 .
  • with Valentine Rothe: Women's work and women's resistance in the Nazi state. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1982 ISBN 3-590-18014-5 .
  • Historia. Women's history in the spiral of time. Barbara Budrich, Leverkusen / Farmington Hills 2010 ISBN 978-3-86649-261-5 .

Essays

  • What does "Christian-Social" mean? On the genesis of a political term. In: Journal of Politics. Volume 10, 1963, pp. 102-122.
  • The power of society and the church. In: Historical magazine. Volume 201, 1965, pp. 334-358.
  • Church and Social Issue. In: Journal of Politics. Volume 13, 1969, pp. 421-428.
  • Gender - a historical category? . In this. u. a. (Ed.): Women in History , Vol. 4. Düsseldorf 1985.

as co-editor

  • Journal: History Didactics . 1976-1987.
  • with Jörn Rüsen : Women in History. 5 volumes. Schwann, Düsseldorf (2nd volume 1982, 3rd volume 1983)
  • with Johanna Geyer-Kordesch: women's bodies, medicine, sexuality. Düsseldorf 1986.
  • The Chronicle of Women. Harenberg, Dortmund 1992, ISBN 3-611-00195-3 .
  • with Valentine Rothe and Brigitte Mühlenbruch : 100 years of women's studies. Women of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , Dortmund 1996, ISBN 3-931782-11-5 .
  • "Since we are all citizens ..." Women's and gender history in historical museums. In: Writings from the House of Women's History. Volume 2, Barbara Budrich, Opladen / Farmington Hills 2008, ISBN 978-3-86649-129-8 .

Autobiography

  • I wear a gold star. A woman's life in Germany. Structure, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-351-02556-4 .

literature

  • Tina Berntsen: Annette Kuhn-an obituary. In: We Women - The Feminist Journal. Volume 39, No. 1, spring 2020, ISSN  0178-6083 .
  • Barbara Degen: Annette Kuhn: historian, peace and women's history researcher (= Jewish miniatures. Volume 191). Hentrich, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-95565-172-5 .
  • Uta C. Schmidt: intervening thinking - the historian Annette Kuhn in the history discourse of the Federal Republic since 1964. In: Gender - magazine for gender, culture and society. Volume 7, Number 3, 2015, pp. 44–60, ISSN  1868-7245 ( PDF: 2.4 MB, 160 pages on budrich-academic.de).
  • A. Gabriele Gehlen: Miszelle on the 80th birthday of Prof. Dr. Annette Kuhn on March 22, 2014. In: Konsens. Published by the German Association of Women Academics . No. 3/4, 2014, p. ??.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary: In memory of Annette Kuhn - trailblazer for historical women's studies. In: House of Women's History. Bonn November 2019, accessed on March 3, 2020.
  2. ↑ Compare Annette Kuhn: I wear a gold star: A woman's life in Germany. Structure, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-351-02556-4 , p. ??.
  3. ^ House of Women's History, Bonn: Official website.
personal data
SURNAME Kuhn, Annette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kuhn, Anette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and history teacher
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 2019
Place of death Bonn