Heide Göttner-Abendroth

"Goddess-Heros-Structure" according to Heide Göttner-Abendroth

Heide Göttner-Abendroth (born February 8, 1941 in Langewiesen ) is a German matriarchy researcher .

life and work

In 1973 she received her doctorate from the University of Munich in philosophy and philosophy of science on the "logic of interpretation ". According to her own statements, she taught philosophy there as a lecturer for ten years and published another scientific-theoretical work. In 1980 she was visiting professor in Montreal and in 1992 in Innsbruck .

After her first books The Goddess and Her Heros and The Dancing Goddess and the main work The Matriarchy , she describes herself as the founder of “modern matriarchy research”, which she represents on a national and international level.

In 1986, Göttner-Abendroth founded the private educational institution HAGIA - International Academy for Modern Matriarchal Research and Matriarchal Spirituality and has been leading it ever since.

According to her own statements, she organized and led the first “World Congress for Matriarchy Research” in Luxembourg in 2003 , the second in San Marcos (Texas) in autumn 2005 and the third “Congress for Matriarchy Research and Matriarchy Politics” in St. Gallen (Switzerland) in May 2011.

reception

Both the scientific nature of Göttner-Abendroth's work and the structures within HAGIA are questioned. Göttner-Abendroth's ideas are based on views of prehistoric conditions that have long been obsolete in science. The statements made by her about the matriarchy are also not falsifiable and thus withdrawn from scientific access. According to the Swiss religious scholar Christoph Uehlinger, they are "in a way comparable with the positions of anthropo - and theosophy and other new religious movements that combine neo-mythology with a scientific claim".

See also : History of matriarchal theories: Heide Göttner-Abendroth

Fonts

Monographs

• Logic of interpretation. Analysis of a literary method with a critical view of hermeneutics . Fink, Munich 1973, OCLC 735501
• The logical construction of literary theories (with Joachim Jacobs ). Fink, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-7705-1339-8
• The goddess and her hero. The matriarchal religions in myths, fairy tales, poetry . Women's offensive, Munich 1980; exp. New edition: Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-17-021732-4
• The dancing goddess. Principles of a matriarchal aesthetic . Women's offensive, Munich 1982; 6. completely revised A. ibid. 2001, ISBN 3-88104-344-6
• The matriarchy I. History of its exploration . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1988; 4. A. ibid. 2010, ISBN 978-3-17-021522-1
• For the muses. Nine essays . Two thousand and one, Frankfurt am Main 1988, OCLC 24823975
• Matriarchy in South China. A research trip to the Mosuo . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-17-014006-X
• The matriarchy II / 1. Tribal societies in East Asia, Indonesia, Oceania . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1991; 2nd supplement A. ibid. 1999, ISBN 3-17-014995-4
• For Brigida, goddess of inspiration. Nine essays and theses on matriarchy critical of patriarchy . Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-86150-263-1
• The matriarchy II / 2. Tribal societies in America, India, Africa . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-17-010568-X
• Inanna, Gilgamesh, Isis, Rhea. The great goddess myths of Sumer, Egypt and Greece . Helmer, Königstein im Taunus 2004, ISBN 3-89741-158-X
• Fairy Morgane - the Holy Grail. The great goddess myths of the Celtic region . Helmer, Königstein im Taunus 2005, ISBN 3-89741-166-0
• Frau Holle - the fairy people of the Dolomites. The great goddess myths of Central Europe and the Alps . Helmer, Königstein im Taunus 2005, ISBN 3-89741-167-9
• The way to an egalitarian society. Principles and practice of matriarchal politics . Drachen, Klein Jasedow 2008, ISBN 978-3-927369-33-7
• Matriarchal landscape mythology . Stuttgart 2014. Kohlhammer. ISBN 978-3-17-022336-3
• History of matriarchal societies and the emergence of patriarchy: Volume III: West Asia and Europe (The Matriarchy) . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2019, ISBN 978-3170296305

As editor and essay

• Women futures. Holistic feminist approaches, experiences and life concepts (with Rüdiger Lutz). Beltz, Weinheim 1984, ISBN 3-407-85045-X
• Matriarchy as domination-free societies (with Kurt Derungs). Edition Amalia, Bern 1997, ISBN 3-905581-01-9
• Mythological landscape Germany (with Kurt Derungs). Edition Amalia, Bern 1999, ISBN 3-905581-04-3
• The discrimination of matriarchy research: A modern witch hunt (with C. v. Werlhof, C. Meier-Seethaler, Christa Mulack and others), Edition Amalia, Bern 2003, ISBN 978-3-905581-21-8
• Society in balance. Gender, equality, consensus, culture in matrilineal, matrifocal, matriarchal societies . Documentation of the 1st World Congress for Matriarchy Research 2003 in Luxembourg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-17-018603-5
• What philosophers think about the goddess (with Marit Rullmann, Annegret Stopczyk). Göttert, Rüsselsheim 2007, ISBN 978-3-939623-00-7
• Societies of Peace. Matriarchies Past Present and Future . Inanna, Toronto 2009, ISBN 978-0-9782233-5-9

Poetry

• Landscapes from the opposite world . Poems 1976–1982. Edition Hagia, Winzer 1982, ISBN 3-9802898-1-8
• Magician woman . Poems 1977–1989. Edition Hagia, Winzer 1992, ISBN 3-9802898-2-6

literature

• Stefanie Knauß: Heide Göttner-Abendroth (born 1941). A critical presentation of the classic matriarchy research. In: Anna-Katharina Höpflinger u. a. (Ed.): Handbook Gender and Religion. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-525-03623-5 , pp. 95-106 ( reading sample on libreka.de).

Web links

• Literature by and about Heide Göttner-Abendroth in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of Heide Göttner-Abendroth
• Website of the International Academy for Modern Matriarchy Research (HAGIA)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.thueringer-literaturrat.de/index.php?pageid=14&unitid=4325&PHPSESSID=r2vh4l91modvftavm8390f73h2
2. ↑ http://www.goettner-abendroth.de/biographie/biographie-lang.htm  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ HAGIA ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Heider Göttner-Abendroth: Matriarchy. In: Handbook women and gender research , edited by Ruth Becker, Beate Kortendiek, VS Verlag, 3rd expanded edition 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-17170-8 , p. 27
6. ^ Katharina Bracher: Tax money for the good of the matriarchy , NZZ, May 8, 2011
7. ↑ Stefanie Knauß: Heide Göttner-Abendroth (born 1941). A critical presentation of the classic matriarchy research. In: A.-K. Höpflinger, A. Jeffers, D. Pezzoli-Olgiati (eds.): Handbook Gender and Religion. UTB / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8252-3062-3 , pp. 99/100.
8. ↑ Meret Fehlmann: The speech of matriarchy. To the history of use of an argument. Chronos, Zurich 2011, pp. 131–133.
9. ↑ Helmut Birkhan : Nachantike Keltenrezeption. Praesens, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-7069-0541-1 , pp. 590/591.
10. ↑ Rolf App: ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Lost Paradise. ) In: St. Galler Tagblatt . May 12, 2011, accessed on April 22, 2019 (Christoph Uehlinger is Full Professor of General History of Religions and Religious Studies at the University of Zurich, see Religious Studies Seminar, University of Zurich ).