Hedda Korsch

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Hedda Korsch (born as Hedwig Franceska Luisa "Hedda" Gagliardi ; born August 20, 1890 , † July 11, 1982 in Fort Lee , Bergen County , New Jersey , United States ) was a teacher and university professor.

family

She was the eldest daughter of the journalist and translator Ernesto Gagliardi (April 14, 1854– July 9, 1933) and Marie Pauline Adelheid Gagliardi (born April 3, 1858– August 10, 1928), née Dohm, called "Miz" or " Mieze ”, later“ Maria ”Her younger sister was Luigia Gagliardi (September 25, 1892–1974), known as“ Lieschen ”. Her maternal grandmother was the writer and women's rights activist Hedwig Dohm , whose granddaughters also included Katia Mann  . Her aunt was Hedwig Pringsheim .

In August 1913, Hedda Gagliardi married the Marxist Karl Korsch , whom she had met in Jena. The marriage resulted in two daughters, Sybille (1915–1996), called "Billchen", and Barbara Maria (* 1921). Sybille fled from Germany to Great Britain and from there emigrated to the USA as Kurt Lewin's housemaid . She later worked as a child psychologist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and, after marriage, bore the family name Escalona.

School and study

Hedda Gagliardi passed her matriculation examination at the Auguste-Viktoria-Realgymnasium (lyceum and college) in the city of Charlottenburg . She then studied at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin and at the Alma Mater Jenensis in Jena . In a student group she met Kurt Tsadek Lewin, among others . On September 16, 1916 , she did her doctorate in Berlin on Geoffrey Chaucer on the subject of Chaucer as a critic .

Professional development

Marxist working week 1923 - sitting v. left right: Karl August Wittfogel , Rose Wittfogel (1889–), unknown, Christiane Sorge , Karl Korsch , Hedda Korsch, Käthe Weil , Margarete Lissauer (1876–1932), Béla Fogarasi , Gertrud Alexander - standing from left n. right: Hede Massing , Friedrich Pollock , Eduard Ludwig Alexander , Konstantin Zetkin , Georg Lukács , Julian Gumperz , Richard Sorge , Karl Alexander (child), Felix Weil , unknown

Between 1916 and 1921 she worked as a teacher of German and English at school principal Martin Luserke to that of Gustav Wyneken founded educational reform outdoor school community Wickersdorf at Saalfeld in the Thuringian Forest , with an interruption from October 1919 to October 1920, during which they politically for the USPD active in which she became a member. In Wickersdorf she headed one of the comradeships, which each consisted of about ten students and one teacher. From May 1922 to March 1923 she worked as a teacher for English and French at the free school and work community Sinntalhof near Brückenau , founded by the former Wickersdorf scholarship holder Ernst Putz and the reform pedagogue Max Bondy , before she was there by her colleague Gertrud Kraker (* 1888), who then taught at Luserkes School by the Sea on Juist .

In 1923 she and her husband took part in the Marxist Work Week . In 1924 she worked in the Soviet trade mission in Berlin's Lietzenburger Strasse, but was dismissed there because of her marital connection with Karl Korsch. She worked as a teacher at the Karl Marx School in Berlin-Neukölln , founded by Fritz Karsen, from 1926 to 1933, until she was dismissed after the cession of power to the National Socialists because there were doubts about her political reliability. She was therefore no longer allowed to practice her profession in Germany.

emigration

In autumn 1933 she emigrated with her husband first to Denmark , then to Sweden and via Great Britain in 1936 with daughter Barbara Maria to the USA.

In Sweden she taught at the sv: Viggbyholmsskolan near Täby near Stockholm , a reform school home of the Quakers , where, among others, the student Wolfgang Leonhard had found refuge. In the United States, she then worked at Wheaton College in Norton , Massachusetts , as a professor and full professor at the Institute for German Studies. In 1940 she lived on Norton's Main Street.

From 1944 Hedda Korsch was co-author of a project by German emigrants in the United States who wanted to develop school books for Germany's schools and adult education in cooperation with Bermann Fischer Verlag in the post-war period . The initiator of this project was Fritz Karsen, who was teaching at the City College of New York at the time. Hedda Korsch was involved in the German school books and reading books, together with Susanne Engelmann, Herbert Liedke, Joachim Maass and Detlev S. Schumann.

Hedda Korsch collected her husband's writings, made them bibliographically accessible and in 1963 concluded a general contract with Giangiacomo Feltrinelli in Milan with an option for all works, initially limited to the intention, within 30 months, of a selection of the most important writings, among others. a. To publish Marxism and Philosophy in German, French and Italian.

Fonts

literature

  • Gabriele Kreis: Women in Exile - Poetry and Reality , Claassen, Düsseldorf 1984. ISBN 3-630-61812-X .
  • William David Jones: The Lost Debate: German Socialist Intellectuals and Totalitarianism . University of Illinois Press, Champaign, Illinois, 1999
  • Gudrun Fiedler , Susanne Rappe-Weber, Detlef Siegfried : Collect - develop - network. Youth culture and social movements in the archive . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2014. ISBN 978-3-8470-0340-3 .
  • Anne E. Dünzelmann: Walks in Stockholm - In the footsteps of German exiles 1933–1945 . Books on Demand, Berlin 2017. ISBN 978-3744883993 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Korsch, Hedda in der Deutschen Biographie , accessed on December 16, 2017.
  2. ↑ Hedwig Pringsheim: Diaries 1885–1891 , Vol. 1. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2013. ISBN 9783835309951 , p. 524.
  3. ↑ Martina Löw, Bettina Mathes (ed.): Key works of gender research . Springer-Verlag, Berlin 2012. ISBN 978-3-531-13886-2 , p. 15 ff.
  4. ↑ a b c d e Gudrun Fiedler, Susanne Rappe-Weber, Detlef Siegfried: Collecting - opening up - networking. Youth culture and social movements in the archive . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2014. ISBN 978-3-8470-0340-3 , p. 169.
  5. ^ Karl Korsch: Revolutionary Theory . Douglas Kellner (Ed.), University of Texas Press 1977. ISBN 978-0-292-75739-4 , pp. 5-6, 24-25, 27, 31-32, 47, 64, 69-71, 102, 112, 170, 291, 295.
  6. ↑ Ph. Bourrinet: Karl Korsch (PDF file; 401 kB), on: left-dis.nl, accessed on December 16, 2017.
  7. ↑ a b c Cristina Herbst: Hedwig Pringsheim. Diaries, Vol. 5, 1911-1916 . Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2016. ISBN 978-3835318045 , p. 760.
  8. ↑ Peter Dudek : We want to be warriors in the army of light - reform pedagogical rural education homes in Hochwaldhausen in Hesse 1912–1927 . Julius Klinkhardt Verlag, Bad Heilbrunn 2013. ISBN 978-3-7815-1804-9 , p. 176.
  9. ^ Kraker, Gertrud, August 9, 1888 . In: BBF / DIPF / Archiv, BIL expert body - personal sheets for teachers of secondary schools in Prussia. From: bbf-dipf.de, accessed on December 16, 2017.
  10. ↑ RB: No Soviet House for West Berlin , in: Die Zeit, 38 (1963), September 20, 1963, on: zeit.de, accessed on December 16, 2017.
  11. ^ House of the Future , in: Der Spiegel 39 (1971), September 20, 1971, from: spiegel.de, accessed on December 16, 2017.
  12. ^ A b Anne E. Dünzelmann: Walks in Stockholm - In the footsteps of German exiles 1933–1945 . Books on Demand, Berlin 2017. ISBN 978-3744883993 , p. 104.
  13. ^ William David Jones: The Lost Debate: German Socialist Intellectuals and Totalitarianism . University of Illinois Press, Champaign, Illinois, 1999. p. 37.
  14. ^ Gabriele Kreis: Women in Exile - Poetry and Reality , Claassen, Düsseldorf 1984. ISBN 3-630-61812-X , p. 160.
  15. ↑ Korsch, Karl , on: bundesstiftung-aufverarbeitung.de, accessed on December 16, 2017.
  16. ↑ Korsch, Karl , on: uni-osnabrueck.de, accessed on December 16, 2017.
  17. ^ Gerd Radde (ed.): School reform - continuities and breaks. The Berlin-Neukölln Trial Field, Volume I, 1912 to 1945 . Springer-Verlag, Berlin 2013. ISBN 978-3-322-96020-7 , p. 137.
  18. ^ Paul C. Helmreich: Wheaton College 1834-1957. A Massachusetts Family Affair . Cornwall Books, New York 2002. p. 303.
  19. ↑ 1940 Census: Hedda Korsch , at: ancestry.com, accessed December 16, 2017.
  20. ↑ Monika Estermann et al. (Ed.): Archives for the history of the book industry . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2000. ISBN 978-3110942965 , p. 162.
  21. ↑ Michael Buckmiller: "You are a lifelong teacher ..." - Explanations of the edition of the Karl Korsch Complete Edition , in: Carsten Klingemann , Michael Neumann , Karl-Siegbert Rehberg , Ilja Srubar , Erhard Stölting : Yearbook for the history of sociology 1993 . Springer-Verlag, Berlin. ISBN 978-3-322-97304-7 , pp. 345-346.
  22. ↑ Memories of Karl Korsch ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2017 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. , at: marxists.org, accessed December 16, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.marxistsfr.org
personal data
SURNAME Korsch, Hedda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gagliardi, Hedwig Franceska Luisa (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue and professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1890
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1982
Place of death Fort Lee, New Jersey