Hanna Rheinz

Hanna Rheinz (* 1950 in Cologne ) is a German publicist, psychologist and animal rights ethicist.

life and work

Hanna Rheinz studied Japanese Studies, Sinology , Philosophy and Sociology (Frankfurt, Munich, Tokyo) and Psychology (Munich, Salzburg) with the degrees Magister Artium , Diploma and PhD. She worked as a clinical psychologist at various clinics and as a resident psychological psychotherapist. She was the director of the Jewish Culture Museum Augsburg-Swabia . As a freelance writer and journalist, she worked for print media, public television and radio.

She gained fame with her study of the human-animal relationship, published in 1994 in "An animal love - on the psychology of the relationship between human and animal" and "Women, animals, soul images" (2000). In numerous essays , articles, television appearances and documentaries, she made public appearances on the subject of human-animal interaction and animal rights. As a Jew, she dealt with the importance of animals for Holocaust survivors and their descendants, the position of the Jewish woman, and the collective social defense of the animal protection tradition developed by Judaism. The focus of her work is the Jewish tradition of animal protection, the importance of which she demonstrates as the world's first animal rights movement. She laid the foundation for a " Kabbalah of the Animals" . This was accompanied by evidence that anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism also emerged as a result of the collective defense against these biblical notions of animal rights and continue to have an effect to this day.

She is the founder of the Jewish Animal Welfare Initiative and the interreligious and intercultural association Trialog 4 Animals (TriAni) eV, whose aim is to promote dialogues related to animal welfare in society and among followers of the three Abrahamic religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

In her artistic work, Hanna Rheinz also deals with the encounter between humans and animals (“Schemesch Chai”, exhibitions of the international project “Flying Carpet”).

Hanna Rheinz received the Hans Henny Jahnn Prize for essay writing and was a literary scholarship holder from Schleswig-Holstein.

bibliography

Books

• Oedipus, or the tortuous path of psychoanalysis. Frankfurt 1988.
• An Animal Love - On the psychology of the relationship between humans and animals. Munich 1994.
• The manipulated soul - At the limits of consciousness. Stuttgart 1995.
• You can recognize me by this sign - life with scars on body and soul. Frankfurt 1997.
• The Jewish Woman - In Search of a Modern Identity. Gütersloh 1998.
• Animals, women, images of the soul - the new animal psychology. Munich 2000.
• Between petting zoo and slaughterhouse: About the ambivalent relationship between humans and animals. Munich 2011

Audio books

• Weird birds and kosher cats - animal protection in Judaism. 2008.

More texts

• Little psychodynamics of the hunt
• Plea against the ease of killing
• Zoophilia - the abusive, misunderstood love of animals
• Kabbalah of the animals: animal rights in Judaism and why they trigger collective defenses to this day
• Beloved and other animals in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In: W.-R. Schmidt: And protects the animal's soul - animal and animal welfare in Judaism. Gütersloh 1996.
• God's unworthy creatures? Religions and Animal Welfare. In: Deutsches Tierärzteblatt. 8/2009.
• The meat of tortured animals is never kosher
• Kosher vegetarianism

Web links

• Literature by and about Hanna Rheinz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of Hanna Rheinz
• Animal in Judaism