Klara Marie Faßbinder

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Klara Marie Faßbinder (born February 15, 1890 in Trier , † June 3, 1974 in Berkum near Bonn) was an important activist of the German women's and peace movement .

Family life and work

She was born as the daughter of the elementary school teacher Peter Fassbinder and his wife Anna Maria Schütz. Her brother Franz Jakob Faßbinder was the grandfather of the filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder . At first she was an ardent supporter of the monarchy, who rejected the right to vote for women and, in 1918 , gave patriotic instruction as an officer on the Western Front . Influenced by the social development processes that began with the November Revolution of 1918, their political views began to change. Above all, she became an advocate of German-French understanding, which she advocated as a journalist in the 1920s. At the same time she worked in and for the international women's and peace movement. She was also involved in the then emerging student associations , she became a member of the Hochwacht association in Bonn and a former member of the board of the Association of Catholic German Student Associations.

The Friedensbund Deutscher Katholiken elected her 2nd chairperson (1932/33). After the integration of the Saar area , where she worked as a teacher, in National Socialist Germany , she was released from school service and gained recognition as a translator from Paul Claudel . She has published in Hochland magazine since the 1920s . From 1940 to 1944 she was the director of a private Catholic girls' school in Horrem (Kerpen) .

After the end of the Nazi dictatorship, she was appointed professor of history education at the Pedagogical Academy in Bonn (responsible for training primary and secondary school teachers ). With the onset of the Cold War , she advocated an understanding with the East, as evidenced by her first trip to the Soviet Union (1952), which she talked about enthusiastically.

She was one of the co-founders of the West German women's peace movement , became a member of the International Union of Reconciliation, rejected the rearmament of the Federal Republic of Germany and saw NATO membership as an obstacle to the reunification of the two German states. In 1952 she participated in the founding of the Christian-pacifist-oriented All-German People's Party by Gustav Heinemann and Helene Wessel , for which she ran unsuccessfully on their Hessian state list in the 1953 federal election.

Faßbinder's involvement in the women's peace movement led to her suspension from the PH Bonn in 1953. A case brought against her had to be closed under public pressure, but in 1955 she was given early retirement. In contrast to Heinemann and Wessel, however, after the failure of the GVP, she did not join the SPD, but became involved in the Bund der Deutschen of ex-Reich Chancellor Joseph Wirth , but the candidacy for the BdD in the federal election in 1957 was not crowned with success either. That didn't stop her from founding the German Peace Union (DFU) in 1960 , of which she was a member of the Presidium until she died. In 1966, the Federal President Heinrich Lübke refused to accept the French Ordre des Palmes Académiques , which she was to receive as Claudel's translator. This political scandal attracted worldwide attention. Faßbinder was only awarded this award in 1969 under Federal President Gustav Heinemann .

Her worldwide popular peace activities earned her the name Friedensklärchen . A monthly newspaper of the Bonn citizens' movement and the later peace plenum, the Friedensklärchen-Nachrichten, was named after her in the 1980s and 90s .

Works

  • Women's life through the centuries. Volume 1. From the Germanic prehistory to the end of the 18th century. Munster i. W. 1928, Aschendorffsche Verlh.
  • Women's life through the centuries. Volume 2. Münster i. W. 1930, Aschendorffsche Verlh.
  • The city on the mountain. 52 Chapter Church History. Waldsassen 1939, Angerer Verlag, 2nd edition, 334 pp.
  • The sacred mirror. Figures of mothers through the centuries. Paderborn 1941, Bonifacius printing house
  • Blessed Agnes of Prague. A royal clarissess . Leipzig 1960, St. Benno Verlag, 137 pp.
  • The emerging age. Part of the Uncomfortable Past / No. 2. Poland. Report on a trip, notes on a country. With a foreword by Leo Weismantel . Jugenheim ad Bergstrasse 1960, Weltkreis-Verlag
  • Encounters and decisions. Sheets from a book of life. Darmstadt 1961, Progress-Verlag , Fladung, 248 p. Autobiography of the author
  • Volga, Volga. Experienced Soviet Union , Gundernhausen, Darmstadt 1976, Progress-Verlag, Fladung

Romance studies and translations

  • Life and work of the troubadour Raimbaut de Vaqueiras . Diss. Phil. University of Bonn 1920, in press: Raimbaut von Vaqueiras. Poetry and life . Halle an der Saale 1929 (reprinted in Geneva 1977)
  • Romain Rolland. The man and his work. Dortmund 1925, Wolfram-Verlag
  • Scream from below. A selection from Paul Claudel's early poems . The poems were transcribed by Franz Fassbinder , the prose pieces by Klara Fassbinder. Text drawing by Kurt Pohle. Paderborn 1948, Schöningh-Verlag
  • Paul Claudel's Mass . Transferred and introduced by Klara Maria Faßbinder. Leipzig 1956, St. Benno publishing house
  • The seven psalms of repentance with an examination of conscience. Transferred freely from Paul Claudel. Translated into German by Klara Marie Fassbinder and Robert Kohlstadt . Paderborn 1956, Schöningh-Verlag
  • The Way of the Cross, by Paul Claudel. Transl. And notes KM Faßbinder. Thomas-Verlag, Zurich and Schöningh , Paderborn, 14th edition 1960 (imprimatur 1938)
  • Paul Claudel. Life and Work, by Louis Chaigne . Translated from French into German by Klara Marie Fassbinder. Foreword by Robert Grosche. Heidelberg 1963, Kerle-Verlag, 299 pp.
  • The sunken garden. Encounters with the intellectual France des Entre-deux-guerres 1919 - 1939. Re-encounters after World War II . Heidelberg 1968

Alternative names and spellings in publications and catalogs

The German National Library also lists the following name variants and abbreviations for Klara Marie Faßbinder: Fassbinder, Klara Maria; Faßbinder, Klara-Maria; Fassbinder, Klara-Marie; Faßbinder, Klara M .; Fassbinder, Klara; Friedensklärchen (nickname); Donna Clara (nickname); Fassbinder, Klara Marie; Fassbinder, Klara-Marie; Fassbinder, Klara M., Fassbinder, Klara; Fassbinder, KM

literature

  • Hannecläre Baur, Günter Fölsing (editor): The political commitment of Christians today. On the 80th birthday of Klara Marie Fassbinder. Bonn 1970, Bouvier-Verlag; With the bibliography by Klara Marie Fassbinder (pp. 169 - 170)
  • Uta Apel in: Lendemains 22, 1997, pp. 76-92.
  • Vera Bücker: Klara Maria Faßbinder (1890–1974). Tireless fighter for peace . In: Alfred Pothmann, Reimund Haas (Hrsg.): Christians on the Ruhr . Peter Pomp, Bottrop 2002, ISBN 3-89355-231-6 , Vol. 2, pp. 92-105.
  • Antje Dertinger : women from the very beginning. From the founding years of the Federal Republic , J. Latka Verlag, Bonn 1989, ISBN 3-925-06811-2 . (Pp. 34–46)

Web links

Honors

In Saarbrücken a street was named after Klara Marie Faßbinder.

Honored by the Klara Marie Faßbinder professorship

The state of Rhineland-Palatinate honored and honors Klara Marie Faßbinder by naming an international, interdisciplinary guest professorship for women and gender studies that it has set up at the state universities since 2001. With this rotating guest professorship, the offer in feminist science is to be accelerated and the internationalization of the courses and interdisciplinary cooperation improved.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klara Marie Faßbinder: From the generation of combatants in France. in: Hochland 24 (1926/1927) 10 pp. 385–397
  2. ^ Birgit Sack: Between religious ties and modern society. Waxmann Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3893255931 , Appendix p. 450.
  3. ↑ Klara Marie Faßbinder: On the last works of Gertrud Bäumer In: Hochland Jg. 34 (1936/37) Heft 12, p. 494
  4. ↑ See itemization 1.
  5. ^ Konrad Breitenborn, Der Friedensbund Deutscher Katholiken, 1918 / 19-1951, 1981, p. 149
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  17. ↑ further Claudel translations by KMF in these publishers: Die Messe; Selection from the early poems; The seven penitential psalms . Morceaux choisis.
  18. ↑ http://d-nb.info/450766969
  19. ↑ http://d-nb.info/gnd/118686186
  20. ↑ http://d-nb.info/457828285
  21. ↑ https://www.uni-kl.de/zfl/home/einzeldarstellung-neuigkeit/news/detail/News/klara-marie-fassbinder-gastprofessur-fuer-frauen-und-geschlechtforschung-rheinland-pfalz/ accessed on 5 June 2019
  22. ↑ http://lakof-rlp.de/themen/klara%20marie%20faßbinder-gastprofessur.html accessed on June 5, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Cooper, Klara Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fassbinder, Klara Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Activist of the German women's and peace movement
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH trier
DATE OF DEATH 3rd June 1974
Place of death Berkum