Anna Ettlinger

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Anna Ettlinger, around 1860/65

Anna Ettlinger (born November 16, 1841 in Karlsruhe ; † February 13, 1934 there ) was a German literary professor, critic and writer. She stood up for the family and social emancipation of women . Their approach was to improve educational opportunities for women. B. in lectures and "literature courses for women" at an academic level. As a model, this resulted in the option of self-determined gainful employment .

Life

Anna Elka Ettlinger grew up in a wealthy house as the sixth child of twelve siblings in Karlsruhe. Her father Veit Ettlinger , attorney ("Obergerichtsadvokat"), temporarily city councilor and member of the Baden Superior Council of Israelites , came from a family that has been traceable there almost since the city was founded; her mother Sara T. Kaulla (1808–1889), (granddaughter of court factor Karoline Kaulla ), his second wife, came from Augsburg. The family lived at Zähringerstrasse 42. The Enlightenment context of the Haskala and the incipient civil equality of the Jews after 1809 were just as formative as an atmosphere of humanistic education, an artistic sense, musicality and love for the theater. Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms were guests of the Ettlinger family; Anna sang in the Philharmonic Choir with her sisters.

The sisters attended the Donack Institute , a private secondary school for girls in Karlsruhe. In addition, Anna received private tuition from a grammar school teacher and for a few months took part in lectures on literature, art and music history for women at the Viktoria Lyceum in Berlin, before completing the teachers' seminar in Karlsruhe in 1872.

Against the wishes of her parents, Anna Ettlinger remained unmarried and demanded for women the then almost unheard-of right to an independent life. The equality of women, first in family and at work, later also politically, represented Anna Ettlinger in journalistic texts and lectures; "What women need, women must know best themselves," she described her attitude. She earned her own living with private tuition, literary courses for women and lectures. Her subjects ranged from Shakespeare and Goethe to Grillparzer , Ibsen and Shaw . A lecture title was e.g. B. “The reflection of the women's question in modern literature” (1905). Anna Ettlinger was also one of the supporters of the first German girls' high school in Karlsruhe (1893).

The social reformer Bertha Pappenheim was her cousin, and she was close friends with the conductor Hermann Levi . Anna Ettlinger died in Karlsruhe at the age of 92. Her grave is in the New Cemetery of the Israelite Congregation on Haid-und-Neu-Strasse.

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As early as 1870, Anna Ettlinger published a “Conversation on the Question of Women” in the Badische Landeszeitung . Your published work is scattered and not extensive. In 1882 she wrote a widely acclaimed review of Wagner's Parsifal . While she admired this music, she also distanced herself from Wagner's anti-Semitism and condemned his son-in-law HS Chamberlain as a pioneer of “intellectual pogroms”. Her study Leo Tolstoj came in Berlin in 1899 . A sketch of his life and work . Her memoirs were published in 1915 and in later excerpts : written for her family .

Anna's younger sisters Emma and Rudolfine translated contemporary novels under the common pseudonym E. Rudolfi. B. Clarissa by Samuel Richardson (1890) and Without Dogma by Henryk Sienkiewicz (1892).

literature

  • Robert Bender: Anna Ettlinger . In: Heinz Schmitt (Ed.): Jews in Karlsruhe. Contributions to their history up to the Nazi seizure of power . Publications of the Karlsruhe City Archives Vol. 8, Badenia Verlag, Karlsruhe 1988, ISBN 3-7617-0268-X , pp. 481–492.
  • Ettlinger, Miss Anna . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 200 ( digitized version ).
  • Ettlinger, Anna. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 6: Dore – Fein. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-598-22686-1 , pp. 420-422.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source of the General State Archives Karlsruhe, Israelite Register. Municipality 1810–1842, inventory 390 No. 2008
  2. ↑ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Department Main State Archive Stuttgart - Holdings J 386: Films from civil status registers of Jewish communities in Württemberg, Baden and Hohenzollern Bü 310, p. 163
  3. ↑ cf. Bender (1988), pp. 482-4.
  4. ^ Marianne Brentzel: Anna O. - Bertha Pappenheim . Wallstein, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-89244-445-5 , p. 295 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed October 14, 2010]).
  5. ↑ cit. according to Bender (1988): 490.
  6. ↑ cf. Bender (1988), p. 490
  7. ↑ cf. Susanne Asche: The Jewish community as an integral part of Karlsruhe's history. Lecture on the 30th anniversary of the community center. (PDF; 46 kB) ( Memento from January 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ cf. Life memories, p. 123, quoted according to Bender (1988), p. 489
  9. ↑ Ettlinger, R. and E. . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 200 f. ( Digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Ettlinger, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary professor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1934
Place of death Karlsruhe