Conradine Lück

Conradine Lück (born May 6, 1885 in Berlin-Steglitz , † August 24, 1959 in Berlin ) was a German educator , writer , poet and author .

Live and act

She was the eldest child of a high school professor. After attending secondary school for girls, she completed a teacher training course for middle and high schools. Afterwards Conradine Lück taught at higher girls’s schools in England and Berlin. In the 1920s she researched and published on Froebel's pedagogy . In 1929 she moved to Hamburg and studied philosophy of language with Heinz Werner and psychology with Martha Muchow . Through the latter, she came into contact with the Hamburg Froebel movement, for which Conradine Lück became increasingly involved. From 1930 to 1933 she headed the renowned Froebel seminar in Hamburg , a facility for the training of kindergarten teachers, after-school care workers and youth leaders. It has not yet been possible to determine whether she resigned the school administration voluntarily or by order of the authorities. During National Socialism, Conradine Lück adapted her publications to the prescribed ideology, as the following lines about the Führer as a model and symbol of the German people exemplify:

Who thinks z. For example, think about the fact that the possibility of being a role model, of having a role model, is ultimately also rooted in the ability to experience and create symbolically, in the possibility of experiencing this role model as a symbol at the same time? And yet all the hundreds of thousands cheer for the Führer, cheering him not only as their leader, but also as their role model! And yet he can only be a role model for them in the deepest sense if he is at the same time a symbol of the German people, a symbol of everything that is alive in them as the noblest and best of German kind, as longing and task! Or - to name something very external: If the Propaganda Ministry, in order to integrate the whole people internally into the Third Reich, - predominantly uses the 'magic of the word', then largely also the magic of the symbol! Wherever we look - we are surrounded by symbols of the new Germany .

Shortly after the collapse of the Nazi dictatorship, she took over the management of the Hamburg Froebel seminar again, which she handed over to Luise Besser after three years. In March 1948, Conradine Lück, together with Luise Besser , Herman Nohl and Eduard Spranger, re-founded the Pestalozzi-Froebel Association, which was dissolved during the Nazi era, and was responsible as editor of the association's journal Die Menschen-Erziehung . Conradine Lück was on the advisory board of the Pestalozzi-Froebel Association until 1952 , after which it was an honorary member. In the 1950s she lived as a retired director in Hamburg .

Conradine Lück wrote many poems that were only sparsely published. Walter Thorun has published some in an anthology. Here's an example:

Social work

Not that you've filled a hundred hands

And a thousand candles lit -

Not that you are dressed, fed and watered,

Condemned to the bitterest misery -

No! That you loved from the bottom of your soul

And that you gave your heart -

And goodness increased in the hating world -

That - that was the most helpful life! .

Works (selection)

• Friedrich Froebel and the aunt Schmidt. An exchange of letters from the middle of the last century , (work on Friedrich Fröbel ), Quelle & Meyer, 1929
• Helene Luise Klostermann . A picture of life , in: Kindergarten 1935, pp. 141–157
• The meaning of the symbolic for human development , in: Kindergarten 1935, pp. 74–82, pp. 93–99 and 1936, pp. 27–35
• Women. 8 Fates of Life , Enßlin & Laiblin, Reutlingen 1936
• Men. Fighters and Winners , Enßlin & Laiblin, Reutlingen 1939
• Live, live long , (together with Lottelise Künemund)
• Stöffele Pantöffele - old and new nursery rhymes , (together with Lottelise Künemund), Thienmans, Stuttgart 1957

literature

• Heimatbuch Oberbarnim-Eberswalde , Detmold 1972
• Kürschner's German Literature Calendar , Nekrolog 1936–1970
• Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon , Wilhelm Kosch, Stuttgart 1947–1958, has been published in continuous editions since 1968
• Sheets of the Pestalozzi-Froebel Association 7 , workshop of the mothers' school, 1956
• Manfred Berger : Women in the history of kindergarten. Ein Handbuch, Frankfurt / Main 1995, pp. 117–121
• Walter Thorun (Ed.): The Froebel movement in Hamburg, Hamburg 1997
• Pestalozzi-Froebel Association (ed.): The history of the Pestalozzi-Froebel Association. A contribution to the development of infant and social education in Germany, Freiburg / Brsg. 1998, p. 130
• Walter Thorun: German social pedagogues. She also wrote poetry. Eine Anthologie, Hamburg 2001, pp. 63–72 u. P. 143

Web links

• Literature by and about Conradine Lück in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and information on the work of Conradine Lück at Literaturport
• Conradine Lück and the German Froebel Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berger 1995, p. 118 u. Pestalozzi-Froebel Association 1998, p. 130
2. ↑ cf. Walter Thorun 1997
3. ↑ Lück 1935, p. 74 f
4. ↑ see kindergarten
5. ↑ Thorun 2001, p. 67