Anna Rüling

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Theodora "Theo" Anna Sprüngli , better known by her pseudonym Anna Rüling , (born August 15, 1880 in Hamburg , † May 8, 1953 in Düsseldorf ) was a German author and journalist .

Life

Rüling's parents were Adolf Sprüngli, a businessman, and Caroline Sprüngli, née Dangers. Rüling spent her childhood with her sister in Hamburg and attended a school for daughters from the upper middle class. She finished her school education at a grammar school in Stuttgart . At the age of 17 she started working as a journalist for the newspaper Hamburger Fremdblatt . She moved to Berlin for professional reasons, where she worked as a journalist for the newspapers of the publicist August Scherl, particularly on music and theater.

On October 9, 1904, as a women's rights activist, she gave the first political speech that addressed the problems of lesbian women. The speech entitled Homosexuality and the Women's Movement took place in the Prinz-Albrecht Hotel in Berlin at a meeting of the Scientific and Humanitarian Committee (WhK). Her speech was published in an edition of the Yearbook for Sexual Intermediate Levels under the heading “What is the interest of the women's movement in solving the homosexual problem?”. On October 27, 1904, she gave another speech on this subject at the Bund für Menschenrechte by Johannes Holzmann in Berlin.

As an author she wrote various short stories under her pseudonym "Anna Rüling" and published a collection of short stories with lesbian topics in Berlin in 1906. Rüling left Berlin for professional reasons and moved to Düsseldorf , where she lived for another 30 years. From 1914 to the mid-1920s she published articles as an author in the Neue Deutsche Frauenzeitung . In 1953 she died in Düsseldorf.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rowold, Katharina (2011). The Educated Woman: Minds, Bodies, and Women's Higher Education in Britain, Germany, and Spain, 1865–1914. Routledge. 146. ISBN 1134625847 .
  2. ↑ Lesbengeschichte.org: The journalist Theo Anna Sprüngli (1880–1953) - better known under the name Anna Rüling
  3. ↑ Christiane Leidinger, October 2004, “Anna Rüling”: A Problematic Foremother of Lesbian Herstory , Journal of the History of Sexuality. 13 (4): 477-499. doi: 10.1353 / sex.2005.0030. ISSN 1043-4070. JSTOR 3704535.
  4. ↑ Lesbengeschichte.org: The journalist Theo Anna Sprüngli (1880-1953) - better known under the name Anna Rüling
  5. ↑ Angelfire: Original text of Rüling's speech
  6. ↑ Katharina Rowold, 2011, The Educated Woman: Minds, Bodies, and Women's Higher Education in Britain, Germany, and Spain , 1865–1914. Routledge. 146. ISBN 1134625847
personal data
SURNAME Rüling, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sprüngli, Theo Anna (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1953
Place of death Berlin