Hedwig Stieve

Hedwig Stieve (born March 4, 1889 in Munich ; died November 3, 1979 in Berlin ) was a German social worker and writer.

Life

Stieve was Catholic, the daughter of the historian Felix Stieve and sister of Friedrich Stieve and Hermann Stieve . She was a kindergarten teacher and orphan carer in Nuremberg in the 1920s, later head of family welfare at the Berlin-Wedding district office.

The experiences of the Nuremberg time formed the background of her book “Diary of a Welfare Woman”, published in 1924, which not only depicts the contradiction between the idealistic self-image of the social worker and her actual options for action, but in particular the overwork, frustration and exhaustion resulting from this conflict Burned out . The book and the author were heavily criticized at the time, but the focus of the criticism was less the realistic portrayal of the circumstances than the implicit claim to individual fulfillment through success in situations that required selfless and rational action. Gertrud Bäumer accused her of portraying herself as being "unsympathetic and indiscreet" and Marie Baum missed objective values of social responsibility.

In the later reception, it is precisely the thematization of such conflicts in her work that is valued, which, unlike other contemporary texts, is characterized by the fact that she does not write pure “success stories”. In 1983 the book was reprinted with a comment by Norbert Preusser .

Works

Diary of a caregiver. 1925.
A day in the life of the welfare worker. 1926, with Margarethe Dyck .
As a family carer in office: Hedwig Stieve. In: Erich Blauert (ed.): Women in work. 1930.
Sound in everyday life. 1935.
Everyday light. 1947.

literature

Peter Reinicke : Stieve, Hedwig , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , p. 577f.

Web links

Literature by and about Hedwig Stieve in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Gudrun Wedel: Autobiographies of women: a lexicon. 2010, ISBN 3-412-20585-0 , p. 820.
↑ Stieve, Hedwig in der Deutschen Biographie , accessed on July 15, 2014.
↑ Saller, Karl in der Deutschen Biographie , accessed on July 15, 2014.
^ Young-Sun Hong: Welfare, Modernity, and the Weimar State, 1919–1933. Princeton University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-691-05793-1 , pp. 175-176.
↑ Sigrid Stöckel: Female health care between self-definition and institutionalization. In: Ulrike Lindner , Merith Niehuss (eds.): Doctors - patients: women in the German and British health care system in the 20th century. 2002, ISBN 3-412-15701-5 , pp. 64-65.
↑ Monika Bourmer : Professional Identity in Social Work: Educational Theoretical Interpretations of Autobiographical Sources. 2013, ISBN 3-7815-1901-5 , p. 60.

personal data
SURNAME	Stieve, Hedwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German social worker
DATE OF BIRTH	March 4, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH	Munich
DATE OF DEATH	3rd November 1979
Place of death	Berlin

[auto-1] Gudrun Wedel: Autobiographies of women: a lexicon. 2010, ISBN 3-412-20585-0 , p. 820.

[db1-2] Stieve, Hedwig in der Deutschen Biographie , accessed on July 15, 2014.

[db2-3] Saller, Karl in der Deutschen Biographie , accessed on July 15, 2014.

[young-4] Young-Sun Hong: Welfare, Modernity, and the Weimar State, 1919–1933. Princeton University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-691-05793-1 , pp. 175-176.

[sig-5] Sigrid Stöckel: Female health care between self-definition and institutionalization. In: Ulrike Lindner , Merith Niehuss (eds.): Doctors - patients: women in the German and British health care system in the 20th century. 2002, ISBN 3-412-15701-5 , pp. 64-65.

[bour-6] Monika Bourmer : Professional Identity in Social Work: Educational Theoretical Interpretations of Autobiographical Sources. 2013, ISBN 3-7815-1901-5 , p. 60.