Elisabeth Gerdts-Rupp

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Elisabeth Gerdts-Rupp , b. Elisabeth Rupp , (born November 23, 1888 in Ravensburg , † March 18, 1972 in Radolfzell ) was a German lawyer , poet and ethnologist .

Life

Elisabeth Gerdts-Rupp's father was the attorney general and ministerial director Erwin von Rupp (1855–1916), her mother Marie, b. Volz (1866-1945). She had two siblings: the sculptor Maria (1891–1956) and the judge of the Federal Constitutional Court Hans Georg (1907–1989). Elisabeth Rupp did her Abitur in 1906 at the private girls 'high school in Stuttgart, the second girls' high school in Germany, where girls could do their Abitur from 1904. She then studied at the request of the parents at the universities of Strasbourg , Leipzig and Berlin Jura . She did her doctorate in Strasbourg in 1913 on “The Right to Death”, inspired by the announced suicide of a friend. In addition to studying law, Elisabeth Rupp was interested in art, music and literature.

After a stay in Berlin, where she worked in an association for social work, she moved to her grandparents' house in Reutlingen in 1916 and published her first volume of poems "Wiesenlieder", followed by the second "Wolke, Wiese, Welt" in 1918. She met Hermann Hesse , with whom she had a brief affair. Both were interested in Indian philosophy . In 1921 she published her autobiographical development novel "In the branches - novel of my youth".

In 1922 she went to Argentina for a year as a private tutor with a German upper-class family . She made the crossing with the luxury steamer Cap Polonio . She processed the impressions of this stay abroad in “Mariquina - Notes from the Green Desert”. On the return voyage in 1923, she met the naval officer Johannes Gerdts (1885–1945), whom she married after the ship's arrival in Hamburg. Gerdts took over command of the Cap Arcona (ship, 1927) in October 1943 . He committed suicide on board the Cap Arcona in April 1945.

In 1925 she began a second degree in ethnology and geography , which she completed in 1934 at the Tübingen Eberhard Karls University with a second doctorate. She then went on study trips to North Africa, South America and the Middle East . From 1939 she initially worked as a volunteer assistant at the Ethnological Institute of the University of Tübingen, where she continued teaching from 1943 and in the immediate post-war period. She is jointly responsible for the geographic orientation of ethnology in Tübingen and the preservation of the ethnographic collection.

Elisabeth Gerdts-Rupp spent her twilight years from 1960 onwards at Lake Constance, where she was involved in nature conservation . In 1968 she published the volume of poetry "Tier und Landschaft".

Works

  • The right to death. Stuttgart 1913
  • Cloud, meadow, world. New poems. Stuttgart 1918
  • Magical ideas and customs of the Araucans as reflected in Spanish sources since the Conquista. Hamburg 1937
  • Mariquina - records from the green desert. Tubingen 1950
  • Animal and landscape. Poems from five decades. Tubingen 1968
  • In the branches. Experience of a youth (edited by Hermann Bausinger ), Eggingen 2005, ISBN 3-86142-318-9

literature

  • Hermann Bausinger: Elisabeth Gerdts-Rupp in memory. In: Attempto , booklet. 43/44, 1972, pp. 86-88.
  • Hermann Bausinger: As the only woman among a hundred men - Elisabeth Rupp - a student in Strasbourg at the turn of the century . In: Allmende 28/29, 1990, pp. 19–24 ( full text )
  • Hermann Bausinger: Elisabeth Gerdts-Rupp (1888–1972) - I wanted to live, to live furiously. In: Birgit Knorr / Rosemarie Wehling (ed.): Women in the German Southwest. Stuttgart 1993, pp. 263-268, ISBN 3-17-012089-1 .
  • Bettina Beer : Women in German-speaking Ethnology. A manual. Cologne 2007, pp. 59-66, ISBN 978-3-412-11206-6 .
  • Rosemarie Kullik: Women “cheat”. A history of science by the pioneers of German ethnology. Bonn 1990, ISBN 3-926216-39-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Bausinger: Elisabeth Gerdts-Rupp. I wanted to live, to live madly. In: Birgit Knorr and Rosemarie Wehling (eds.): Women in the German Southwest. Stuttgart 1993, pp. 263-268
personal data
SURNAME Gerdts-Rupp, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rupp, Elisabeth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, poet and ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Ravensburg
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1972
Place of death Radolfzell