Else Hoppe (literary scholar)
Else Hoppe (born as Else Meyer on December 1, 1897 in Bochum ; died on July 2, 1973 in Braunschweig ) was a German literary scholar.
Life
Else Meyer was the daughter of the lawyer Wilhelm Meyer . Since he had a job in Leipzig from 1910 , Else later studied German literature, philosophy and history there. She completed her studies in 1920 with a dissertation on the one-act act of German literature . The following year she married Karl Hoppe , also a literary scholar whom she had met in Leipzig. She had a daughter with him. The couple lived in Braunschweig from 1926, where Karl Hoppe received a professorship for German studies and served as dean from 1933 to 1936. According to a statement by Ernst-August Roloff , the son of a colleague, she was the more intelligent person of the couple: While he published little himself during this time, she did so much more extensively and probably also worked on his lectures.
Her own research focused on the women of poets, and she also analyzed women's literature with regard to the equality of men and women presented in it, as well as the image of men from the point of view of female writers. She published on this subject in 1930 (second version 1934) under the title Love and Shape. The type of man in woman's poetry . In 1936 she published a biography of Ricarda Huch , on whose person she had also written several essays. After Huch's death in 1947, a second, much more extensive version of the work followed in 1951. In 1955 she published the essay The Problem of the Creative Woman, demonstrated by the personality of the poet .
During the Second World War Hoppe was a German teacher at a grammar school. In 1944 she wrote the novel The Equals. Christine Engehausen's marriage to Friedrich Hebbel . After the war, she mainly worked as a translator.
She was close friends with, among others, Ina Seidel and Agnes Miegel .
In 1973 Hoppe committed suicide after her husband had died a few days earlier.
The Else-Hoppe-Strasse in the Braunschweig district of Stöckheim was named in her honor.
literature
- Gabriele Armenat (ed.): Women from Braunschweig. Stadtbibliothek, Braunschweig 1991, pp. 151–155 OCLC 64263113 .
- Stephanie Borrmann: Hoppe, Else. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 286-287 .
- Gertrud Gerber: Hoppe, Else. In: Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 110 .
- Kurt Hoffmeister : Else Hoppe. In: Braunschweigs literati. 140 author portraits. A slightly different history of literature. Self-published by Kurt Hoffmeister, Braunschweig 2003, p. 179 DNB 968395368 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Uwe Lammers: Seven Lives: Biographies of Scientists at the Cultural Studies Department of the Technical University of Braunschweig under National Socialism Braunschweig 2015. Biography of Karl Hoppes pp. 139–158. Digitized version ( memento from January 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Ursula Köhler-Lutterbeck; Monika Siedentopf: Lexicon of 1000 women , Bonn 2000, p. 156. ISBN 3-8012-0276-3
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoppe, Else |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meyer, Else (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 1, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bochum |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd July 1973 |
| Place of death | Braunschweig |