Agnes Larcher

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Agnes Larcher (born August 25, 1937 as Agnes Hinterlechner in Mühlbach , South Tyrol ; † September 21, 2012 in Vienna ) was an Austrian pedagogue and German scholar who worked as a teacher and was also involved in historical research. She became known in 1973 in connection with a scandal that led to her temporary dismissal from school. The trigger was that she wanted to deal with the play Stallerhof by Franz Xaver Kroetz in her class with 14-year-old students .

Life

Agnes Hinterlechner was born as the fourth of her parents' thirteen children in Mühlbach in South Tyrol. She grew up in Meransen , where her father leased a small mountain farm. Due to favorable circumstances - girls of her origin could usually only become maids - she was able to attend secondary school and then the teacher training college in Merano . In Innsbruck she studied German and history and achieved a doctorate in philosophy. In 1963 she started her first job as a teacher in Bruneck in South Tyrol.

She married the Austrian educationalist Dietmar Larcher , with whom she later had two children, and became a secondary school teacher in Stams in Tyrol. The Larcher couple went to America for a year, where Agnes Larcher taught at Stetson University . She later took on research and teaching assignments in Italy, the USA, Iran and the former Yugoslavia, partly together with her husband. In Tyrol she continued to work at schools, where she particularly instructed the students to work and think independently. She received recognition for her project teaching , which was new at the time, which was also reflected in a financial award from the state for her teaching project about the activity of a resistance movement at the school.

Agnes Larcher last lived with her husband in Vienna at Ybbsstraße 6. They wrote a book together about the history of this house and its previous residents. As a result, on May 8, 2012, a memorial plaque was attached to the house for the residents murdered by the Nazis. At this point, Agnes Larcher was already ill. She died on September 21, 2012. Her body was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery .

The "Larcher case"

From 1971 on, Agnes Larcher taught at the secondary school in Absam . This position was terminated without notice on June 6, 1973, because she and her parents agreed to use a play about sexuality, sexual abuse and disability for her lessons. The school authorities found the material to be “not in line with development” and determined a “particularly serious violation of official duties”.

There were controversial and heatedly debated opinions in the public about the case. While on the one hand the action of the authority was seen as justified and the play was described as a "mess", in connection with which even Bishop Paulus Rusch preached against the devil and had pastoral letters read out, on the other hand the repression against the teacher met with complete incomprehension. Larcher received support from well-known educationalists and writers as well as the theologians Adolf Exeler and Karl Rahner . Rahner wrote: "If the plays by Kroetz [...] are placed in an educational context, [...] then such plays are definitely 'reasonable' for girls who are supposed to be released into today's life." But also from the population and the teacher received support from the pupils and their parents, but not from the professional and staff representatives of the Tyrolean compulsory school teachers .

Since the dismissal was not withdrawn, the matter went to the labor court. The content was not clarified there because Agnes Larcher entered into a court settlement. This stipulated that she must not suffer any further disadvantages and he made it possible for her to be employed again in school service.

After she had subsequently acquired missing qualifications, an immediate pragmatization took place and she got a new job at the BHS in Hall in Tirol . Subsequently, the book with the title The Myth of the School Space was created, in which she processed what happened.

Publications

  • Agnes Larcher, Dietmar Larcher: The myth of the school space . Verlag Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7141-5362-4
  • Agnes Larcher and others: Strickleiter - Reading book for the secondary schools and the lower grades of the general secondary schools, Volume 3. Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1991
  • Agnes Larcher and others: Strickleiter - Reading book for the secondary schools and the lower grades of the general secondary schools, Volume 2. Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1992
  • Agnes Larcher, Dietmar Larcher: intercultural curiosity - or: narrative empiricism as opera buffa . Alpha-Beta-Verlag, Meran 2006, ISBN 88-7223-080-2
  • Agnes Larcher, Dietmar Larcher: Ybbsstraße 6 - A house and its quarter . 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c The devil in the holy land ff - South Tyrolean weekly magazine , issue 40/2012
  2. ↑ a b c When reading still caused a stir (PDF; 2.0 MB) ils Mail, University of Innsbruck , issue 1/07, page 7
  3. ↑ a b Agnes Larcher - The Inconvenient ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) ff - Südtiroler Wochenmagazin, issue 39/2012
  4. ↑ Ybbsstraße 6: The Sorrowful History of a House derStandard.at , May 13, 2012
  5. ↑ Sin and Shame Der Spiegel, edition 27/1973
  6. ↑ scandal in the province echoonline.at 12 May, 2010.
  7. ↑ "And suddenly she was in the middle of a hurricane" ( Memento from April 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Tiroler Tageszeitung
personal data
SURNAME Larcher, Agnes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hinterlechner, Agnes (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Germanist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Mühlbach (South Tyrol)
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 2012
Place of death Vienna