Kate Friedemann

Käthe Auguste "Käte" Friedemann (born November 1, 1874 in Berlin , † after 1949) was a German literary scholar . She was the author of the work The Role of the Narrator in Epic (1910), much cited in the field of narrative theory and narratology . A preprint under the title Investigations on the Position of the Narrator in Epic Poetry was published in 1908 in the Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft by Max Dessoir .

Life

Käte Friedemann's father was the lawyer and notary Edmund Friedemann (1847–1921), who was also active as a writer and as a member of the German Freedom Party . Among other things, he was with Heinrich Rickert initiator of the association for the defense of anti-Semitism and from 1886 to 1914 Berlin city councilor. Her mother Auguste geb. Szkolny (1849–1903) was one of the co-founders of the Pestalozzi Froebel House . Her younger brothers Ulrich (1877–1949) and Max (1881–1978) were physicians and later emigrated to the USA; Ulrich was a professor of bacteriology and head of the infection department at the Rudolf Virchow Hospital, Max was a psychotherapist and senior doctor in Oskar Kohnstamm's sanatorium . Her sister Eva (1880–1942), a soprano, stayed in Berlin and was murdered in Auschwitz.

From 1891 Käte Friedemann attended the private school for girls "Neu-Watzum" in Wolfenbüttel, which was directed by Arnold Breymann , and studied from May 1905 to November 1907 at the University of Bern . There she received her doctorate on November 15, 1907 under Oskar Walzel with her work Investigations on the Position of the Narrator in Epic Poetry .

Then she lived again in Berlin. Like several other family members, she converted to the Roman Catholic faith. In the mid-1930s she emigrated to Palestine. She lived in Jerusalem and wrote novels but never published them. She may have moved to the United States in the late 1940s.

Friedemann's scientific publications are above all in the context of the particularly lively romantic research that was reoriented around 1910.

Works

Monographs

• Investigations into the position of the narrator in epic poetry . Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1908 ( digitized version )
• The role of the narrator in the epic . H. Haessel, Leipzig 1910 (= Studies on the Modern History of Language and Literature, NF Issue 7)

Editing

• Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen: The adventurous Simplicissimus . With an introduction by Käte Friedemann. Propylaea Publishing House, Berlin [1922]
• Louisa Staehelin: Gone by the storm. Impressions and fates of a Swiss woman in Russia 1914–1920 . German edition with co. Dr. Kate Friedemann. EH Mayer, Leipzig 1924

Essays

• Investigations into the position of the narrator in epic poetry . In: Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft, 3 (1908), pp. 512–561 ( digitized version )
• Otto Ludwig during his time . In: Journal for German Education, 27 (1913), pp. 119 ff.
• Ethics and worldview . In: Journal for German Education, 27 (1913), p. 561 ff.
• The narrator in epic poetry . In: Journal for German Education, 27 (1913), p. 833 ff.
• The state in the romantic worldview . In: Nord und Süd, 153 (1915), pp. 293–297 ( PDF )
• The problem of knowledge in German romanticism . In: Archive for systematic philosophy, 1916, pp. 258–274 ( digitized version ), 291–310 ( digitized version ), 1917, p. 23–48 ( digitized version )
• The romantic longing . In: Journal for German Education, 30 (1916), pp. 353–362
• Death in the romantic worldview . In: Nord und Süd, 160 (1917), pp. 191–198 ( PDF )
• The romantic irony . In: Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft, 13 (1919), pp. 270–282 ( digitized version )
• Of the three degrees of the moral . In: Nord und Süd, 174 (1920), pp. 305–313 ( PDF )
• The romantic view of art . In: Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft, 18 (1925), pp. 487-525 ( digitized version )
• The religion of romance . In: Philosophisches Jahrbuch der Görres-Gesellschaft, 38 (1925), pp. 118–140, 249–276, 345–373
• Of the essence of the romantic mind . In: The Christian Woman, June 1926, p. 176 f.
• Heinrich v. Kleists . In: Die Christian Frau, October 1926, pp. 299–309
• The concept of sin . In: Philosophisches Jahrbuch der Görres-Gesellschaft, 39 (1926), pp. 253–262
• Henrik Ibsen and Christianity . In: Philosophisches Jahrbuch der Görres-Gesellschaft, 41 (1928), pp. 133–154
• The symbolic in Henrik Ibsen's work . In: Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft, 23 (1929), pp. 43–53 ( digitized version )
• Two poles of the human . In: Archive for Systematic Philosophy and Sociology, 1929, pp. 263–268 ( digitized version )
• Antiquity and the Middle Ages in the light of romanticism . In: Philosophisches Jahrbuch der Görres-Gesellschaft, (44) 1931, pp. 93-105, 227-239
• The specter of relativism . In: Philosophisches Jahrbuch der Görres-Gesellschaft, (45) 1932, pp. 18–34
• The ethical views of German romanticism . In: Philosophisches Jahrbuch der Görres-Gesellschaft, 45 (1932), pp. 347-360, 468-482
• The essence of love in the world view of romanticism . In: Philosophisches Jahrbuch der Görres-Gesellschaft, 48 (1935), pp. 342–355
• On the psychology of nationalism . In: Orient [Haifa], 3 (1942) 17, July 24, 1942, pp. 13-15

Reviews

• to Hermann Friedmann: The world of forms . In: Philosophisches Jahrbuch der Görres-Gesellschaft, (40) 1927, pp. 460–463
• to Émile Baumann: Saint Paul . In: Philosophisches Jahrbuch der Görres-Gesellschaft, 41 (1928), pp. 377–379
• to Eva Fiesel: The language philosophy of the German romanticism . In: Philosophisches Jahrbuch der Görres-Gesellschaft, 41 (1928), pp. 498–502
• to Karl Löwith: Kierkegaard and Nietzsche or philosophical and theological overcoming of nihilism. In: Philosophisches Jahrbuch der Görres-Gesellschaft, (47) 1934, pp. 519-521
• to Hans Eibl: On the meaning of the present . In: Philosophisches Jahrbuch der Görres-Gesellschaft, (47) 1934, pp. 521-523

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Birth register, StA Berlin III, No. 163/1874
2. ↑ Auguste Zeiß-Horbach: The association for the defense of anti-Semitism. On the relationship between Protestantism and Judaism in the German Empire and in the Weimar Republic . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-374-02604-3 .
3. ↑ http://www.stolpersteine-koenigstein.de/index.php/friedemann-bertha-und-max
4. ^ Arnold Breymann: Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the Breymann Institute. Heckners Verlag, Wolfenbüttel 1906, p. 140 ( digitized version )
5. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated February 22, 2016 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. 
6. ↑ For example her cousin, the theater director and writer Walter Friedemann (1872–1947) and the stepson of her brother Ulrich, Father Anton Morgenroth (1912–2004).
7. ^ Letter from Käte Friedemann to Julius Held , Jerusalem November 17, 1941 ( digitized version )
8. ↑ When her cousin Walter died in January 1947, she was still living in Jerusalem. In the November 1949 obituaries of her brother Ulrich, she was referred to as "Miss Kate Friedemann, of New Jersey".