Charlotte Kohn

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Charlotte Kohn , also Charlotte Kohn-Ley (born 1948 in Vienna ) is an Austrian painter. She became known as an author and editor focusing on the Holocaust and anti-Semitism .

Life

After completing her training at the Vocational School for Fashion Design in Vienna, Charlotte Kohn began to paint. She was particularly concerned with the representation of the human body. As a freelance artist, she exhibited regularly from 1975 onwards. Painting is an existential necessity for her, she wrote in a text entitled Kaddish from 1996: “Perhaps it is presumptuous, but I have succumbed to the idea that I have as many people as I can to paint to make up for the pointless killing. I am addicted to multiplying life. With my work I want to counterbalance the murder and the many deaths in my family. "

Since 1984 she has published articles in anthologies and also worked as an editor.

From 1994 to 1996 she was director of the Jewish Institute for Adult Education in Vienna. She organized interdisciplinary lecture series on aspects and manifestations of anti-Semitism, to which she invited well-known scientists such as Susanne Heine , Julius H. Schoeps and writers such as Andrzej Szczypiorski , and published the contributions in anthologies. She is one of the first in the German-speaking discourse to deal with anti-Semitic and anti-Judaic argumentation patterns in feminist publications at the end of the 1980s that updated “clichés of Judaism as the epitome of patriarchal religion and culture”. Your volume, published with Ilse Korotin , The Feminist "Fall of Sins"? goes back to lectures given in 1993 at the Jewish Institute for Adult Education. In her review , Marie-Theres Wacker wrote that it was “the first feminist book on the anti-Judaism debate in Austria” . In particular, the contribution by Charlotte Kohn, in which she criticized the entanglement of parts of the Western European women's movement in anti-Semitisms, projected onto the State of Israel, which makes it impossible for Jewish feminists "to join feminist groups in Germany and Austria without self-denial", is up to received today in the contexts of feminist research and anti-Semitism after 1945.

From the series of events Science in the Third Reich - The Discourse on the Jewish Body , which Charlotte Kohn and Kirstin Breitenfellner conceived at the Jewish Institute for Adult Education, the volume How a Monster Is Made was released in 1996 . To construct the other in racism and anti-Semitism emerge.

For her book Luftfrauen , published in 2006. The Myth of a Jewish Woman 's Identity interviewed 18 women. In juxtaposing “the generation of women born before the Holocaust with those born after it”, she asked about the importance of the Shoah for her life.

Fonts

Editorships

  • With Ilse Korotin : The feminist "fall into sin"? Anti-Semitic prejudices in the women's movement (= documentation of a symposium of the Jewish Institute for Adult Education in Vienna), Picus Verlag , Vienna 1994
  • With Kirstin Breitenfellner : How a monster is created. On the construction of the other in racism and anti-Semitism (= contributions to the series of events Science in the Third Reich - The Discourse on the Jewish Body in the Jewish Institute for Adult Education, spring 1996), Philo Verlagsgesellschaft, Bodenheim 1998, ISBN 3-8257-0084-4
  • With Michael Ley : Auschwitz. Attempts at approximation (= Austrian texts on social criticism; Volume 63), Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85115-226-3
  • Air women. The myth of a Jewish women's identity (= vol. 2. biografiA  : new results of women's biography research), Praesens Verlag , Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-7069-0300-4 .

Book chapters and articles

  • Anti-Semitic Mothers - Anti-Zionist Daughters ?. In: Samuel Salzborn (Ed.): Antisemitism - Past and Present , Network for Political Education, Culture and Communication eV, Gießen 2004, ISBN 978-3-00-028584-4 , pp. 103–127 ( pdf , first published in 1994 in: The feminist "fall into sin"? )
  • With Ilse Korotin: gaps and distortions in public memory and in history. A conversation with Claudia Koonz . In: L'Homme . Volume 3, Issue 2 / December 1992, pp. 105-113, doi : 10.7767 / lhomme.1992.3.2.105
  • I decided to get an idea. In: The Palette. Journal of literature by marginalized groups . 9th year: Issue 18. Special issue: 50 years later - Jewish authors write . Bamberg 1993

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kohn-Ley, Charlotte . In: Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 2: J-R. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , pp. 714-715.
  2. ↑ Charlotte Kohn-Ley: Kaddisch. In: dies./Ley (ed.): Auschwitz. Attempts to get closer . (1996), p. 14. Quoted in: Nicolas Berg: The Holocaust and the West German Historians. Research and memory , Wallstein Verlag, 2003, ISBN 978-3-89244-610-1 , p. 640
  3. ↑ Charlotte Kohn-Ley, Ilse Korotin: Foreword to: The Feminist "Fall of Man"? (ibid.), p. 9
  4. ↑ Review by Marie-Theres Wacker , in: L'Homme . Volume 6, 1995, issue 2, pages 151-155, doi : 10.7767 / lhomme.1995.6.2.151
  5. ^ Marie-Theres Wacker, review in: L'Homme, ibid. P. 153
  6. ↑ Charlotte Kohn-Ley, in: The feminist "Fall of Man"? , ibid. p. 229
  7. ↑ Ljiljana Radonić : From the peaceful anti-Semite to the queer-theoretical post-Zionist. In: Charlotte Busch et al .: Misalignment. Contemporary reflections on anti-Semitism , Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-10409-2 , pp. 208/9. doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-658-10410-8_10
  8. ↑ Birge Krondorfer: Against forgetting the other. Memory as a place of (feminist) difference . In: Jacob Guggenheimer et al. (Ed.): When we were gender ... - Gender remember and forget , Transcript Verlag , Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-8376-2397-0 , pp. 227/228
  9. ^ Portal for the social sciences
  10. ↑ Michael Dreyer, review of: Kirstin Breitenfellner / Charlotte Kohn-Ley (eds.): How a monster is created. Bodenheim: 1998, in: Portal für Politikwissenschaft, published on January 1, 2006
  11. ↑ Zizek, Boris: Historical biography research as contact research : collective review. In: Journal for Qualitative Research (ZQF) 8 (2007), 2, p. 334f, URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-269994
  12. ^ Review in Hagalil
  13. ↑ Natalie Wohlleben, review of: Samuel Salzborn (Ed.): Antisemitism - history and present. Giessen: 2004, in: Portal for Political Science , published on January 1, 2006.
personal data
SURNAME Kohn, Charlotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kohn-Ley, Charlotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna