Fallen girl

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In mostly bourgeois circles into the 20th century a young woman who had lost her virginity without being married and thus deviated from the prevailing moral concepts was called a fallen girl . In a broader sense, it also referred to women who otherwise moved outside the values ​​of bourgeois society.

In the middle of the 19th century, Anton Birlinger describes the wedding customs in Tuttlingen in manners and customs :

“If the bride was a virgin, she wore a white apron and a white scarf; the hair was twisted and powdered on the top of the head, and around it she wore a wreath. [...] A fallen girl was not allowed to wear a white apron or a white scarf; the hair could only be plaited and not powdered. The wreath was also missing, of course. She had to go about with her bare head; [...]. "

In other areas, a pregnant bride usually had to get married in a black wedding dress .

At the end of the 19th century, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wander mentions the German proverb lexicon in connection with rose and "in relation to a fallen girl" the proverb:

"The rose was picked too early."

Homes and institutions for fallen girls existed in earlier centuries and beyond the middle of the 20th . Sometimes these were quasi penal institutions for women who did not correspond to the moral or legal ideas of the churches or their families or society, but sometimes also contact points for women in need. So there was in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century about 40, led by Deaconess standing Magdalene pins , institutions where "fallen women long-time recording and preparing for a new, orderly life" found. Such institutions also served to prevent prostitution .

Little or no wages were paid for the work done in these homes. This complained z. B. the SPD 1928. Pension entitlements were usually not acquired.

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  1. ↑ Quote from Anton Birlinger: Sitten and Customs . Freiburg im Breisgau 1862, pp. 378-383, ISBN 978-3-8430-0098-7 ; Wedding manners in Tuttlingen zeno.org
  2. ↑ Quotation from Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wander (ed.): Deutsches Sprich emphasis-Lexikon , Volume 5. Leipzig 1880, Sp. 1686, [1]
  3. ↑ Quote and number from Magdalenenstifter . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 13, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1908, p.  57 .
  4. ↑ Eva Gehltomholt, Sabine Hering: The neglected girl . Diagnostics and care in youth welfare between the end of the war and the reform (1945–1965). Budrich, Opladen 2006, ISBN 978-3-86649-037-6 (= women and gender studies in educational science , volume 4).
  5. ↑ Accommodation instead of remuneration ( Memento of the original from February 28, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.commonwood.de
  6. ↑ about home states. Mirror online