Alice Rühle-Gerstel

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Alice Rühle-Gerstel (around 1929)

Alice Rühle-Gerstel (born March 24, 1894 in Prague , † June 24, 1943 in Mexico City ) was a German-speaking writer , individual psychologist and women's rights activist of Jewish origin.

Life

Alice Gerstel attended the girls' college and a boarding school in Dresden , then the lyceum and the German teacher training college in Prague .

During the First World War she worked as a nurse. From 1917 to 1921 she studied literature and philosophy in Prague and Munich . In 1921 she received her doctorate on Friedrich Schlegel . In the same year Alfred Adler's student married the councilor communist Otto Rühle , whose second wife she was, (and together with Grete Fantl founded the Marxist-Individual Psychological Working Group Dresden ).

In 1924 she founded the publishing house Am andern Ufer - Dresden- Buchholz -Friedewald and published the monthly papers for socialist education .

Alice Rühle-Gerstel was friends with Milena Jesenská . As a supporter of socialism , she was no longer safe in Germany before the start of the fascist Nazi rule , so she returned to her hometown of Prague in 1932. From 1933 she worked as an employee of the Prager Tagblatt to take care of the children's supplement. This time of the search for identity in her native city is described in the autobiographical novel Der Umbruch or Hanna und die Freiheit . But she also left Prague after a few years and followed her husband to Mexico in 1936 , who had a family there. In Mexico she worked as a translator in a government office and as a trade journalist. Despite existing friendships with Trotsky , Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera , she never felt at home in Mexico and committed suicide in exile in Mexico on the day of her husband Otto Rühle's death in June 1943.

Major works

  • Freud and Adler. Elementary introduction to psychoanalysis and individual psychology . Dresden 1924
  • The way to us. Attempt to combine Marxism and individual psychology . Dresden 1927, reprint Munich 1980.
  • The contemporary women's problem - a psychological balance sheet . Leipzig 1932, reprinted under the title Die Frau und der Kapitalismus . Frankfurt / Main 1973 (in it the quote: "The whole world as it is today is a man's world")
  • The upheaval or Hanna and freedom . Roman, published posthumously in 1984

Other texts (selection)

  • The proletarian child . Review of the book by Otto Rühle. In: Die Frau im Staat , Munich, 4th year / 05.1922 / issue V / S. 3
  • The witch craze . In: Frauenstimme. Supplement for the women of proletarian free thinkers . In: Atheist. Illustrated weekly for people's enlightenment , Nuremberg / Leipzig, 22nd year (2nd year) / February 1925 / No. 2 / S. 7-8
  • About jealousy as a female security . In: International Journal for Individual Psychology, Vienna, 3rd year / December 1925 / issue 6 / p. 314-320
  • About prostitution . In: Series of publications by Freidenkerverlag , Leipzig, 1st year / approx. 1927 / issue 5 / p. 82-84
  • The autonomous person . In: Series of publications by Freidenkerverlag , Leipzig, 1st year / approx. 1927 / issue 8 / p. 132-136
  • Profession and Society. Presentation at the conference of the resolute school reformers and guiding principles . September 29 to October 2, 1928 in Dresden. In: Profession, Person, School. Conference book of the decided school reformers , Ed. Paul Oestreich and Erich Viehweg, Frankfurt am Main 1929, pp. 21–31; 181-183
  • The new question of women . In: The literary world , Berlin: 5. Jg./1929/Nr. 11 / p. 1-2
  • Hartwig, Mela: Woman is nothing . Review. In: The Literary World , Berlin: 5. Jg./1929/Nr. 38 / p. 5
  • To the apolitical women . Contribution to the generic article: Germany as you wish . In: The literary world , Berlin: 6. Jg./1930/Nr. 13 / p. 6th
  • The dethroned libido . Comments on Freud's "The Uneasiness in Culture" . In: International Journal for Individual Psychology, Vienna: 8th year / December 1930 / issue 6 / p. 558-566
  • Downfall of marriage . In: The literary world , Berlin: 6. Jg./1930/Nr. 24 / S. 1-2
  • Women and love stories. A little report . In: The literary world , Berlin: 7. Jg./1931/Nr. 12 / S. 9-10
  • Rules of life for people today. What to do with disappointments and unhappiness . In: The literary world, Berlin: 7. Jg./1931/Nr. 38 / p. 3-4
  • Women everywhere . In: Prager Tagblatt , Prague / 57. Jg./9. August 1932 / No. 187 / S. 4th
  • Abolition of sexual intercourse . Review of the book New Birth of Marriage by Hans Sterneder . In: Prager Tagblatt , Prague / 57. Jg./31. December 1932 / No. 308 / S. 3
  • Contribution to the survey: Balance sheet of the women's movement . In: The literary world , Berlin: 8th Jg./1932/Nr. 10 / S. 3-4
  • Today's man and woman. I. The woman is released . In: The literary world , Berlin: 8th Jg./1932/Nr. 41/42 / S. 7 (copy FSA / BS)
  • The literary world of women. Back to the good old days? . In: The literary world , Berlin: 9. Jg./1933/Nr. 4 / S. 5-6
  • Memories of my future . In: Prager Tagblatt , 60th year / 15th year. December 1935 / No. 292 / anniversary number - enclosure no. 6 / p. 3 (copy FSA / BS)
  • Under the pseudonym "Lizzi Kritzel": An afternoon with starving children (in the Ore Mountains) . In: Prager Tagblatt , vol. 61/29. March 1936 / No. 76 / S. 4-5
  • At what age does the woman get old? In: Prager Tagblatt , undated, p. 29. Institute for Contemporary History Munich - Archive, Sign. EO 227/5
  • Not a poem for Trotsky. Diary entries from Mexico . New Critique, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-8015-0163-9 .

estate

  • Alice Rühle-Gerstel's estate, Institute for Contemporary History, Munich (holdings: ED 227)

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Rühle-Gerstel, Alice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kritzel, Lizzi (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1943
Place of death Mexico city