Alwine von Keller

Alwine von Keller , also Allie von Keller, Alwina von Keller, Alwine Horneffer (born June 10, 1878 in New York , † December 31, 1965 in Interlaken ), was a German educator and psychoanalyst.

Life

In 1890 Alwine von Keller's family moved from New York to Germany, first to Wiesbaden, then to Munich. She first met the reform pedagogue Paul Geheeb around 1897 . From spring 1916 she was a teacher at the Odenwald School and soon became a close confidante of Geheeb.

In 1912 she was involved in founding the St. Georgs Association around the artist Fidus .

Alwine von Keller was first married to Hans Teichmüller, who died in 1898 after about a year of marriage. Her second marriage was to Franz Horneffer, who died of typhus after a short marriage . A third marriage followed with Winfried Köhler, which was divorced again during the First World War .

From 1934 she worked in Germany, England and Switzerland, after the outbreak of war as a student of Carl Gustav Jung in Switzerland. The people she analyzed included Paul Geheeb and Edith Geheeb . She also translated works by Indian masters.

Publications

• A dialogue , St. Georgs-Bund, Woltersdorf bei Erkner 1918. With illustrations by Fidus.
• Preparation. Twenty-eight poems , St. Georgs-Bund, Woltersdorf bei Erkner, 1912. With book decorations by Fidus.
• Saul and David , Leipzig undated

Translations

• Shri Aurobindo , The Mother. Second volume. Indian wisdom. Shri Aurobindo. Complete works , Zurich 1945.
• Swami Vivekananda , Conversations on the Thousand Islands , Zurich 1944.
• Shri Aurobindo, Thoughts and Insights. Study on the Yoga of Shri Aurobindo by NK Gupta , preface by J. Herbert and translation from the original edition in Arya Pondichery by Alwina von Keller, Zurich 1943.

literature

• Riccardo Bernardini, Gian Piero Quaglino and Augusto Romano: A visit paid to Jung by Alwine von Keller . In: Journal of Analytical Psychology , 56, 2011, 2, pp. 232-254.
• Dorit Elija Horn: German Reform Education, Youth Movement and “India” in the Weimar Republic: A Critical Analysis of Perspectives on India , 2011.
• Meike Baader: Reform pedagogy, religiosity and women's movement as ways of self-realization. Alwine von Keller . In: Reformed Education. New approaches - findings - controversies . Bad Heilbrunn 2004, pp. 35–59.
• Ellen Schwitalski: "Become who you are". Pioneers of reform pedagogy. The Odenwald School in the German Empire and in the Weimar Republic . Bielefeld 2004.

Web links

• Geheeb archive , alphabetical overview of the private and business correspondence of Paul and Edith Geheeb-Cassirer, letters I – K.
• Interviews, speeches, talks , interview with Alwine von Keller about Paul Geheeb.