Elise Dosenheimer

Stumbling block for Elise Dosenheimer in Heidelberg

Elise Dosenheimer (born December 22, 1868 in Ungstein ; † April 11, 1959 in New York City ) was a German and later American German studies specialist , lecturer , publicist and women's rights activist .

Life

Elise's parents were Abraham Dosenheimer and his wife Helene (nee Adler). The lawyer Emil Dosenheimer was her brother.

She attended elementary school in Bad Dürkheim and then the secondary school for girls in Bad Dürkheim and Speyer . In 1904 she began her studies for women, initially as a guest lecturer in philosophy in Berlin and Jena and later matriculated in Heidelberg . In June 1908 she graduated from the secondary school in Mannheim and studied German philology, philosophy and history in Munich and Jena.

In 1912 she did her doctorate in Jena on " Friedrich Hebbel's view of the state and his tragedy 'Agnes Bernauer'" with Rudolf Eucken . She then worked as a journalist in Jena, Munich and Heidelberg and held lectures on literature at the University of Jena until 1933. In 1925 she published the book "The central problem in Friedrich Hebbel's tragedy". It was based on the thesis that the dualism of the sexes in Hebbel represented the dualism in world events. In 1949 her main work "The German social drama from Lessing to Sternheim" appeared, which was praised by the critics and reprinted. The work is not only a literary-critical, but also a socially critical analysis. She has published numerous articles, including Die Tat , Jüdisch-Liberale Zeitung, and Aufbau . Her focus was on Schiller, Hebbel and German drama.

Dosenheimer was well known to Anita Augspurg and Lida Gustava Heymann and, like them, was active in the women's movement. She published in "Die Frauenbewegung", "Zeitschrift für Frauenstimmrecht" and "Die Neue Generation". Among other things, she campaigned for women's access to universities, for career development for women and for women's suffrage. She was also a pacifist , at least until the outbreak of World War II , who believed that women could help pacify the world.

In 1929 she moved to Heidelberg. On October 22, 1940, as a Jew, she was deported from Heidelberg to the Gurs internment camp as part of the Wagner-Bürckel campaign . With the help of Paul Rehfeld, a son of her niece Sofie Rehfeld (née Lurch), she came to Pau on February 11, 1941, where she stayed with the Rehfeld family. She took the Colonial ship from Lisbon to New York, where she arrived on December 3, 1941. She became an American citizen on June 16, 1947. She died on April 11, 1959 in New York City.

Works

Independent publications

• Friedrich Hebbel's view of the state and his tragedy “Agnes Bernauer”. Leipzig, 1912.
• The central problem in Friedrich Hebbel's tragedy . M. Niemeyer, Halle / Saale 1925 (131 pages).
• The German social drama from Lessing to Sternheim . Südverlag, Konstanz 1949 (350 pages).

Articles (selection)

• Häckel's world riddle in the light of the pure layman's understanding . In: Report on the General Assembly of the Association for Women's Education, Women's Studies, 7 (1905)
• To the female student question . In: The women's movement. Revue for the Interests of Women , 12 (1906)
• Schiller on his 150th birthday . In: The women's movement. Revue for the Interests of Women, 12 (1906)
• Agnes Bernauer. For Friedrich Hebbel's 100th birthday . In: The woman. Monthly magazine for the entire women's life of our time , 20 (1912/13)
• Art and morality with Schiller . In: Die Tat , 8 (1916/17)
• Hauptmann's social dramas . In: Bayer. Teachers' newspaper, 23 (1932)

literature

• Robert Schmitt-Scheubel : Dosenheimer, Elise , in: Christoph König (Ed.), With the collaboration of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 1: A-G. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , pp. 400–401.
• Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .
• Norbert Giovannini; Claudia Rink; Frank Moraw: Remember, preserve, commemorate: the Jewish residents of Heidelberg and their relatives 1933-1945 . Das Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-88423-353-5 , p. 82 .
• Dosenheimer, Elise. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 6: Dore – Fein. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-598-22686-1 , pp. 7-9.

Web links

• Literature by and about Elise Dosenheimer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Heidelberg Stolpersteine ​​initiative - Dr. Elise Dosenheimer (1868–1959) (PDF)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Markus Behmer, Markus, Ursula E. Koch (Ed.): German Journalism in Exile 1933 to 1945 . People - Positions - Perspectives; Festschrift for Ursula E. Koch. Lit, Munster; Hamburg; London 2000, ISBN 3-8258-4615-6 , pp. 130 .
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Christoph König (Ed.), With the collaboration of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950. Volume 1: A-G. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , pp. 400–401.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Norbert Giovannini; Claudia Rink; Frank Moraw: Remember, preserve, commemorate: the Jewish residents of Heidelberg and their relatives 1933-1945 . Das Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-88423-353-5 , p. 82 .
4. ^ Paul Theobald: Jewish fellow citizens in Frankenthal with the districts of Eppstein and Flomersheim from 1800 to 1940, issue: August 2015