Katharina Rutschky

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Katharina Rutschky (born January 25, 1941 in Berlin ; † January 14, 2010 there ) was a German publicist .

Rutschky emerged as an essayist and by coining the term black pedagogy .

Life

Katharina Rutschky was born in Berlin in 1941 as the daughter of a locksmith and a housewife. Her family was shaped by social democrats . However, Rutschky only became a member of the SPD in 2009. She spent her first school days in Kniebis near Freudenstadt. At the age of ten she moved to Kassel with her family in 1951 , where she became a member of the Socialist Youth of Germany - Die Falken at the age of 15 and graduated from high school in 1960.

At the University of Göttingen and at the Free University of Berlin she studied German and history, after the state examination in sociology and education. At the beginning of her studies in 1960 she became a member of the Berlin SDS. Her most important teachers were Eberhard Lämmert , Klaus Mollenhauer , Herwig Blankertz , Dieter Claessens and the psychoanalyst Gerhard Maetze .

She became known in 1977 through her editing of a collection of sources on the pedagogy of the 18th and 19th centuries, which she gave the concise title Black Pedagogy . The book was a “waste product” of her doctoral project, The Construction of the Bourgeois Social Character, which Jean-Jacques Rousseau had started in the 1960s but never completed . In 1986 she re-edited the doctoral thesis of the sociologist Margarete Freudenthal .

Your polemics excited enlightenment. Child Abuse: Facts and Fictions (1992) opened a heated argument about how the women's movement was dealing with the issue of child sexual abuse , a controversy known under the label of " abuse with abuse ".

In 2001 she published a book about keeping dogs in the city (Der Stadthund. Von Menschen an der Leine) .

Since 1971 she was married to the writer Michael Rutschky . The childless couple had lived in Berlin-Kreuzberg since 1984 . It was the center of a circle of intellectuals that the writer Stephan Wackwitz compared in 2019 to the circle around Stefan George due to its supposedly authoritarian structures .

Ruschky suffered from severe depression . Her estate is in the literary archive of the Akademie der Künste .

effect

On May 30, 1999, Rutschky received the Heinrich Mann Prize for essay writing . She was "one of the most important post-war essayists", judged Jan Feddersen . She once described her relationship to feminism with the following two sentences: “Is a feminist in Italy, where she has been traveling for ten years in order to receive further training and inspiration from the philosophers of the Diotima group in Verona. Is an anti-feminist in Germany because here the level of feminism politically and intellectually did not go beyond Alice Schwarzer's private level . ”She described herself as an agnostic who was of the opinion“ that the monotheistic religions with a sophisticated and demanding tradition are more religiously talented have to offer than all ethnokitsch ”.

Rutschky was a staunch defender of the 1968 generation to which she belonged. She distinguished herself from the interpretation of the 1968 movement by Wolfgang Kraushaar and Götz Aly .

Ina Hartwig described Rutschky in her obituary as a “classic intellectual […]. As a woman, she was an intelligent being, committed to enlightenment and therefore above all: a person. ” In his obituary in the world , Alan Posener quoted, among other things, her criticism of Schwarzer-style feminism:“ The women's movement was and is in its remnants as' politics for women '(vulgo state feminism) a matter of the academically qualified middle class. Their awareness of the problem was only sufficient to establish a culture of complaints, with men as addressees and Papa Staat as medicine man. […] Even the female students of 1968 were not disadvantaged, but required a freedom for which there is no example in history. Instead of starting here, the outdated model of the eternally nagging wife has been blown into political format. "

Publications (selection)

Works
  • Black pedagogy. Sources on the natural history of civic education. Edited and introduced by Katharina Rutschky. Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Vienna 1977, ISBN 978-3-548-03318-1 (8th edition Ullstein, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-548-35670-2 ).
  • Excited enlightenment. Child Abuse: Facts & Fictions. Klein, Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-922930-05-0 .
  • Emma and her sisters. Excursions into the real existing feminism . Hanser, Munich / Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-446-18766-9 .
  • The city dog: from people on a leash. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2001, ISBN 3-498-05758-8 .
  • German children's chronicle: wishful and terrifying images from four centuries. Parkland, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-89340-042-7 .
  • On the contrary. Politically incorrect views about women. With a foreword by Ina Hartwig . Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-8031-2675-7 .
Editor
  • Margarete Freudenthal: Change of shape of the urban, middle class and proletarian housekeeping between 1760 and 1910. With a foreword by Katharina Rutschky. Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin 1986, ISBN 978-3-548-35246-6 .
  • With Reinhart Wolff : Handbook on Sexual Abuse. Klein, Hamburg 1994 (Rowohlt Taschenbuch 1999, ISBN 978-3-89521-021-1 ).

literature

  • Iris Hanika : Call me mother, sisters. For the sixtieth birthday of Katharina Rutschky, the discoverer of “black pedagogy”. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , January 25, 2001, No. 21, p. 53.
  • Ina Hartwig: Feminine, so what? About Katharina Rutschky. In: Katharina Rutschky: On the contrary. Politically incorrect views about women. Wagenbach, Berlin 2011, ISBN 3-8031-2675-4 , pp. 7-10.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ironic, intellectual and cheerful. - Obituaries in the taz from January 15, 2010.
  2. ^ Obituary by Thomas Schmid
  3. ↑ a b c http://debatte.welt.de/lösungen/2451/Katharina+Rutschky ( Memento from December 22, 2007 in the web archive archive.today )
  4. ↑ a b c d Self-portrait on the homepage of the Berliner Morgenpost . Quote from http://leserattenforum.leserattenbuecher.de/thread.php?threadid=5302&sid=a8e7c1bca2ce97a32e23534e4fadb25b  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / leserattenforum.leserattenbuecher.de  
  5. ↑ Why do you publish something like that? Retrieved April 2, 2020 .
  6. ^ Stephan Wackwitz: The Rutschky circle . In: The time . August 8, 2019, p. 35 ( zeit.de ).
  7. ↑ Michael Rutschky: Towards the end. Diary entries 1996–2009. Berlin 2019. pp. 154, 255.
  8. ↑ See https://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/katharina-und-michael-rutschky-akademie-der-kuenste-erwirbt-nachlaesse-des-berliner-essayisten-ehepaars/23204664.html
  9. ↑ http://www.freitag.de/autoren/der-freitag/sie-glaubte-an-das-zivilisiert
  10. ↑ Paths to Faith . The Catholic Christian Heidrich writes about conversions. Does he also want to convert the reader? In: Berliner Zeitung, March 25, 2002.
  11. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of January 15, 2010: “And she could cook too. On the death of the publicist Katharina Rutschky "
  12. ↑ See https://www.welt.de/print-welt/article555663/Es-ging-um-die-Kuehltruhe.html
  13. ↑ See http://www.taz.de/1/archiv/dossiers/dossier-revolte-und-liebe-die-68er/artikel/1/in-welcher-k-gruppe-waren-sie-denn/
  14. ^ Fearless and independent: Katharina Rutschky
personal data
SURNAME Rutschky, Katharina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 2010
Place of death Berlin