Doris Lütkens

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Doris Lütkens , actually Dorothea Elisabeth born. von Cossel (born December 25, 1793 on his father's manor in Jersbek / Holstein ; † May 10, 1858 in Hamburg ) was a German painter, school principal and kindergarten teacher.

Live and act

Dorothea Elisabeth, called Doris from early childhood, was the eldest of six children of the royal Danish budget Eberhard Christopher von Cossel (1753–1832) and his wife Friederike Louise, nee. from Stemann. The girl received an excellent education, "which promoted her intellectual and artistic development".

At the age of 41 Doris von Cossel married Hermann Siegmund Lütkens. He was the only son of Moorfleeter pastor and poet Johann Heinrich Lütkens and head of a Hamburg private school for boys. The school founded by her husband in 1813 had to be closed in 1838 due to a lack of demand. Subsequently, Doris Lütkens contributed significantly to the livelihood; the "trained painter and draftsman, one of her teachers was u. a. Carl Julius Milde , made portraits, gave painting and drawing lessons and worked as a writer in the artistic and religious fields ”.

In 1841 Doris Lütkens founded a "teaching and pension institution for higher daughters" in what was then the Hamburg suburb of Sankt Georg . She headed the facility for over 17 years. From 1846 she published the magazine “Pedagogical Communications for Parents and Teachers from Literature and Life”, which was published two years later in “Our Children. Club publication or literary lecture hall for parents, teachers, etc. "was renamed:

With the help of several professional colleagues, the editor brought excellent treatises on theoretical and practical questions of education ... Following the example of Jean Paul's 'Levana', there was a collection of thoughts that not only made claims from the above-mentioned 'doctrine of education', as well as from others brought educational writings, but also thoughts in aphoristic form by teachers and laypeople .

In 1846 she advocated installing a seminar for teachers in Hamburg:

Massive reservations about a systematic-pedagogical training of women for the education and teaching subject did not allow a realization of this plan in the Hanseatic city.

In 1847 Doris Lütkens met Friedrich Fröbel , who had founded the first kindergarten in Blankenburg in 1840 , during a large children's party in Ouetz near Magdeburg. From then on she campaigned practically and theoretically for the concerns of Friedrich Froebel as well as for the spread of the idea of ​​the kindergarten. In the revolutionary year of 1848, at the pedagogical assembly in Rudolstadt , she campaigned for the Frankfurt National Assembly to recognize the kindergarten as an important part of popular education and in May of the same year added a kindergarten to her private school, the first in Hamburg. Alwina Middendorff, the daughter of Wilhelm Middendorff and later wife of Wichard Lange , ran the kindergarten. Doris Lütkens wrote about the importance of the kindergarten:

The kindergarten is an intermediary between home and school; a gradual transition between the two. Just as the spirit of love, sensuality and friendly approach prevails in the community of a happy family life, so also in every kindergarten that is properly managed in the spirit of the founder. Through what the child experiences, what it learns, plays, and sees, it always receives new material for lively intercourse with the home.

When kindergartens were banned in the Kingdom of Prussia in 1851, Doris Lütkens fought against this ban in word and in writing. In one article she meticulously worked out the positive aspects of the kindergarten and countered the prejudice that Froebel was an atheist: “Furthermore, one will recognize that the religious element should completely permeate Froebel’s kindergarten, as it were supposed to nourish it: that it is completely it depends on the 'individual guidance' of how this request is met, and that consequently every religious party can have its kindergarten and let its spirit rule as it lives in its families ”.

Works (selection)

literature

  • Doris Lütkens, b. von Cossel , in: Allgemeine Schulzeitung 1860 ( digitized version  in the German Digital Library )
  • Manfred Berger (Ed.): Women in the history of the kindergarten. Ein Handbuch, Frankfurt 1995, pp. 122-126
  • Roswitha von Kleedorf: Doris Lütkens, b. von Cossel (1793-1858). A woman in the service of Friedrich Froebel and the kindergarten, Ingolstadt 2001 (unpublished diploma thesis)
  • Franklin Kopitzsch / Dirk Brietzke (eds.): Hamburg biography . Lexicon of persons. Volume 2, Hamburg 2003, pp. 265-266.
  • Martina Löw (Ed.): Gender and Power, Wiesbaden 2009, pp. 201–203

Web links

  • Manfred Berger: Women in the history of kindergarten: Doris Lütkens ( online )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kopitzsch / Brietzke 2003, p. 265
  2. ↑ Kleedorf 2001, p. 12
  3. ↑ cit. n. Kleedorf 2001, p. 54
  4. ↑ Kopitzsch / Brietzke 2003, p. 266
  5. ↑ Lütkens 1852, p. 12
  6. ↑ Lütkens 1852, p. 32
personal data
SURNAME Lütkens, Doris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, head of school and kindergarten teacher
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Jersbek , Holstein
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1858
Place of death Hamburg