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Ilse Erika Korotin (born 1957 in Horn , Lower Austria ) is an Austrian philosopher and sociologist . She researched and published on the history of ideas of National Socialism . At the Institute for Science and Art in Vienna, she heads the women's research documentation center. Her work focuses on feminist biography research and the history of science .

life and work

Ilse Korotin completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller . After several years of professional activity, she studied philosophy and sociology at the University of Vienna from 1983 . In 1990 she became Dr. phil. doctorate and since then has worked at the Vienna Institute for Science and Art, since 1991 as head of the documentation center for women's studies.

Since 1998, the documentation, research and networking project biografiA has been under her leadership . biographical database and lexicon of austrian women carried out. It is devoted to the historical and biographical processing of Austrian women's personalities from the period from the first mention of Austria to the present with the aim of providing a sound basis for further research in the field of feminist historical research , the history of science as well as women's and gender research . The four-volume lexicon biographiA, edited by Korotin, was published in 2016 . Lexicon of Austrian Women . It contains around 6,500 biographies of Austrian women and references to traces of women's biographies.

As part of the project, Ilse Korotin and Brigitta Keintzel from the University of Vienna published the lexical reference work for women scientists in and from Austria in 2002 . Life - work - work out. It includes the life stories of 342 women working in science from all areas of the cultural and natural sciences from the turn of the century to the post-war period, including several women scientists who were murdered in German concentration camps. The lexicon also shows “that until well into the second half of the 20th century, only very few women succeeded in the institutionalized scientific business. Habilitations and appointments to professorships remained exceptions ”. The large number of biographies speak for a broad emancipation movement, write the editors in the foreword and call for a "fundamental revision of the previous perspective on the history of Austrian science".

Award

In 2017 Korotin was awarded the City of Vienna Prize for Popular Education .

Publications (selection)

monograph

  • "The world should recover with the mother spirit". Philosophical dispositions on the image of women under National Socialism , Böhlau Verlag , Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 1992, ISBN 3-205-05476-8

Editorships and contributions

  • The best spirits in the nation. Philosophy and National Socialism , Picus Verlag, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-85452-257-6
  • With Charlotte Kohn-Ley : The feminist "fall into sin"? Anti-Semitic prejudices in the women's movement (= documentation of a symposium of the Jewish Institute for Adult Education in Vienna), Picus Verlag, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-85452-261-4
    • therein: "The mythical femininity of a people". JJ Bachofen, Mother Law and National Socialism , pp. 84–130
  • With Volker Eickhoff: Longing for fate and depth. The spirit of the conservative revolution , Picus Verlag , Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85452-406-4
    • therein: The political radicalization of the gender difference in the context of "conservative revolution" and National Socialism. Mathilde Ludendorff and the "Völkische Feminismus" , pp. 105–127
  • Broken continuities? On the role and significance of gender relations in the development of National Socialism , Studienverlag, Innsbruck / Vienna / Munich 2000, ISBN 3-7065-1398-6
  • With Brigitta Keintzel: female scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - work , Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , Open Access
  • Austrian librarians on the run. Persecuted, suppressed, forgotten? , Praesens Verlag , Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-7069-0408-7
  • "Civilization is just a very thin blanket ..." Ella Lingens (1908–2002), doctor - resistance fighter - witness for the prosecution , Praesens Verlag , Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-7069-0646-3
  • With Susanne Blumesberger: Women's Biography Research . Theoretical discourses and methodological concepts , Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2012, ISBN
  • With Christine Kanzler and Karin Nusko: "... to have stopped the advance of this regime a millimeter ...": Austrian women in the resistance against National Socialism , Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-7069-0434-6
  • biography. Lexicon of Austrian Women , Volume 1 to 4, Böhlau Verlag, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2

Book contributions

1994 and 1995: doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-322-99766-1_16 ;
1997/98: doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-322-99644-2_14

literature

  • Susanne Blumesberger et al. (Ed.): More than just life stories. 15 years of biography. A commemorative publication for Ilse Korotin , Prasens Verlag, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-7069-0765-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ female authors, in: The feminist "Fall of Man"? (see publications), p. 262
  2. ^ Biography research on feminist , derstandard.at of May 26, 2016, accessed on May 29, 2016.
  3. ↑ Review note at Perlentaucher
  4. ↑ Review in: in Sehepunkte , Issue 5 (2005), No. 9
  5. ↑ A rocky road: Researchers from yesterday to today , Science.ORF.at
  6. ^ Review by Johanna Gehmacher in: L'Homme . Volume 4, Issue 2, Pages 129-133, ISSN (Online) 2194-5071, ISSN (Print) 1016-362X, doi: 10.7767 / lhomme.1993.4.2.129 , December 1993
personal data
SURNAME Korotin, Ilse
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Korotin, Ilse Erika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian philosopher and sociologist (women's biography research, history of science, National Socialism)
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Horn (Lower Austria)