Isabella Rüttenauer

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Isabella Rüttenauer around 1970

Isabella Rüttenauer (née Papmehl, born September 15, 1909 in St. Petersburg ; † August 21, 2007 in Neuhaus , Schliersee ) was a German specialist in German , writer and educationalist . Since the 1960s, Rüttenauer had a professorship for general and comparative pedagogy at the University of Education Münster I, later a department of the PH Westphalia-Lippe, headed the pedagogical section of the working group Science and the Present and published several books as an author.

Life

The parents Eduard and Martha (née von Veh) Papmehl belonged to the large German community in St. Petersburg . Both families - Papmehl and von Veh - have settled in the Baltic States and Russia for several generations. The great-grandfather Karl Papmehl owned a small sugar boiling plant in St. Petersburg that was still entirely manual. Here in 1837 Leopold Koenig , who later became the "Sugar King", joined as an apprentice. In 1846 he married Karoline Papmehl, the daughter of his teacher. Karoline's brother Eduard-Friedrich in turn married Leopold Koenig's sister Henriette. Eduard Papmehl, Isabella Rüttenauer's father, emerged from this marriage.

Decades later, his father, an engineer by profession, joined the now largest Russian sugar empire, which his sons continued to run after the death of Leopold Koenig in 1903. Until 1914 Eduard Papmehl was director of the ultra-modern sugar factory in Trostjanetz, Ukraine .

Isabella Rüttenauer spent her childhood there in the Ukraine. Their first language was Russian. 1914 the family moves to St. Petersburg. From the age of five she was taught German and other subjects by her mother - preferably using the Montessori method .

In the unrest of the October Revolution of 1917, the family fled - in the meantime their younger brother had also been born - to Riga , Latvia . After the "Reds" had taken Riga, the unified work school was introduced - the language of instruction was Russian. After the reconquest by the "Whites" it became the normal school again - German language. 1919 moved to Germany.

The family temporarily stayed with Eduard Papmehl's cousin Alexander Koenig at Blücherhof Palace in Mecklenburg - until the father found work and a modest apartment in Berlin in 1920.

The Second World War forced Isabella Rüttenauer to resettle and flee a second time: in 1936 she married Wolfgang Rüttenauer, the son of the writer Benno Rüttenauer, in Berlin . In 1943 they already had three small children when she and her children were evacuated to Landsberg an der Warthe at the behest of the National Socialist authorities . Here the fourth child (fourth son) was born. In January 1945 - as the Russian army drew closer - she managed to board one of the last trains heading west with her children. The destination was St. Quirin am Tegernsee . Her sister-in-law Irmingard, who had been "bombed out" from Munich, was quartered there - as part of the forced housing management.

Rüttenauer describes her own private life under the rule of the National Socialists in “The time of horror and small private happiness”.

The youngest son was born in St. Quirin in 1949. She lived here with her family until the death of her husband Wolfgang in 1957.

For financial reasons, she now had to look for permanent employment. On the recommendation of Erich Trunz , she received an offer from the Pedagogical Academy in Münster . She seizes the opportunity and dares to start over as a scientist. The two youngest sons move to Münster with them. The three older ones were already independent enough, but were all still in training.

After her retirement, she lived in Upper Bavaria again. In 2007 she died shortly before her 98th birthday.

Career

Your first German school is the Altstädter Higher Girls' School in Dresden. She stayed here - looked after by an aunt - until she graduated from secondary school in 1926. After that, she moved to Berlin with her parents and graduated from high school in 1929.

At the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin she studied German, philosophy and theology - doctorate in 1935. In seminars by Romano Guardini , she met Wolfgang Rüttenauer, her future husband. Wolfgang Rüttenauer was Guardini's private secretary. The encounter with Guardini strengthened her decision to convert to the Catholic faith. In addition to her studies, she works as an assistant at the Prussian Academy of Sciences. She continued this job until the birth of her third child in 1941. After that she was a freelance literary critic and writer. In 1958, as a career changer, she became an assistant at the Pädagogische Akademie Münster - from 1960 a lecturer. In the 1970s she received the professorship for general and comparative pedagogy there. He retired in 1975.

Act

On the basis of her publications, in which she demonstrated that future teachers as well as people who want to become educationally active in extracurricular fields of activity need basic knowledge of educational thinking and acting in the past and present, she will be transferred to a newly established professorship for general and comparative education called. With a monograph on the Soviet writer and educator Anton S. Makarenko , which was published by Herder Verlag Freiburg in 1965, she gained international attention and recognition. While studying Russian specialist literature, she benefited from the fact that, thanks to her résumé, she could easily read the texts in the original.

One of her primary concerns as a university professor is the promotion of young scientists. Many of her doctoral and post-doctoral candidates, who were gathered in a colloquium on questions of international comparative educational research, which was rare in the 1960s, were later appointed professors at German universities.

With the publications

  • Comparative Education. Texts for the methodology discussion , Munich 1974
  • Steps. Contributions to and studies on comparative education and teacher training , Oldenburg 1979
  • Search for identity. Isabella Rüttenauer on her 75th birthday , Oldenburg 1984

their services to teacher training and training for extracurricular fields of activity, which were completed with the diploma, were recognized.

Another field of her scientific activities is connected with the working group Science and the Present. This working group, which was founded in the 1960s by Catholic laypeople and existed until the unification of the two German states, tried to keep the idea of ​​reunification alive through interdisciplinary sections in annual meetings. Isabella Rüttenauer headed the pedagogical section of the working group for many years.

Works (selection)

From Isabella Rüttenauer

  • The word holy in the German poetic language from Pyra to the young Herder - Weimar: Böhlau, 1937
  • On the hidden faith in Eduard Mörike's poems - Würzburg: Werkbund-Verl., Abt. Die Burg, 1940
  • A Christian householder - Würzburg: Werkbund-Verl., 1949, Neudr.
  • God's story with people - Berlin: More-Verl., 1951
  • The Lord works miracles on you! - Berlin: More-Verl., 1951
  • Friedrich von Spee, 1591 - 1635 - Freiburg: Herder, 1950
  • Matthias Claudius - Freiburg: Alber, 1952, 2nd edition.
  • AS Makarenko: An educator u. Writer in d. Soviet Society - Freiburg i. Br .: Herder, 1965

About Isabella Rüttenauer

  • Steps ...: Contribution and Studies on the comparative educational science. u. for teacher training; Isabella Rüttenauer on the 70th birthday of friends a. Colleagues / ed. by Friedrich W. Busch
  • From Exclusion to Graduation, Berlin Germanists from 1900 to 1945 - Everyday Student Life and Paths of Life Edited by Levke Harders, Berlin: ZwiebelFisch Verlag 2004
  • Female working environments in science - women at the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin 1890-1945 by Petra Hoffmann (eBook), Transcript Verlag 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hertha Koenig in Der Fährenschreiber von Libau 1964 - republished in 2012 as Der Zuckerkönig
  2. ↑ The unified work school - child labor ?: an educational question mark! ; a subject-theoretical approach
  3. ↑ Literature by and about Wolfgang Rüttenauer in the catalog of the German National Library
  4. ↑ Rüttenauer, Isabella (1983): The time of horror and small private happiness - a review of university education and everyday family life in the Third Reich , in: Frauenforschung. Information service of the research institute Frau und Gesellschaft vol. 1, no. 2 (1983) pp. 23–29
  5. ↑ Harders, Levke: Studied, PhD: Arriviert? Doctoral candidates at the Berlin Germanic Seminar (1919-1945) . Peter Land, Frankfurt am Main 2004, p. 124-131 .
  6. ↑ Publication on the working group Science and the Present
personal data
SURNAME Rüttenauer, Isabella
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Papmehl, Isabella (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist, writer and educationalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 2007
Place of death Neuhaus , Schliersee