Lenore Ripke-Kühn

Lenore Ripke-Kühn (born Eleonore Helene Kühn ; after remarrying Kühn-Frobenius ; born January 31, 1878 in Riga , † October 21, 1955 in Tutzing ) was a German philosopher , pianist and travel writer .

Life

Lenore Kühn was the daughter of a high school teacher and a music teacher in Riga. After attending school there, she went to the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin in 1896 and to Paris, where she studied with Raoul Pugno , with whom she also fell in love. Then she attended the high school for girls with Helene Lange in Berlin and passed her Abitur in Hanau in 1903 . In Berlin, Erlangen and Freiburg i. Br. She studied philosophy a. a. with Heinrich Rickert . She also worked as a piano teacher and pianist. In 1907 the doctorate to Dr. phil. in Freiburg on an aesthetic topic. In 1908 she married the journalist Axel Ripke and lived with him in Frankfurt am Main, and from 1910 in Berlin. Both wrote and worked as editors for the pan-German magazine Der Panther . In 1915 she published an essay on Nietzsche there , in which she introduced his ethnic interpretation by National Socialist interpreters. She soon came to appreciate Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche , with whom she remained connected for over 20 years. In 1917, after an appeal to academics, she worked in a munitions factory in Bavaria. In 1917 she was involved in the founding of the anti-Semitic Fichte Society from 1914 and became a founding member of the German Philosophical Society , which was founded against the alleged Jewish influence in the Kant Society ( Paul Cassirer was meant). In the fight for the cession of Danzig in 1918/19, she and Käthe Schirmacher, who was born in Danzig, campaigned for the German National People's Party , for which she worked full-time on women's policy from 1919 to 1923 . She also worked on the first party program, trying to anchor the professional activity of women.

In 1919 she was divorced and in 1922 married the painter Hermann Frobenius . This marriage also failed in 1926. With the physicist Ernst Gehrcke , she fought Einstein's theory of relativity on a philosophical basis in 1920 . In the DNVP she published a political women's magazine from 1921 , dealt with the matriarchy of Johann Jakob Bachofen and also worked professionally in the Nietzsche archive . With Walter Schotte , she founded the magazine Frau und Nation in 1924 , which was financed by right-wing circles but soon went under. The commissioned work by Eugen Diederich's School of Love (1930) to educate women about female sexuality appeared in many editions up to 1965. In 1926 she converted to the German belief in God and took anti-Christian positions, there are also clear anti-Semitic statements from her. She belonged to the national women's movement , which, however, met with little approval from Hitler and other National Socialists. Religious she became involved in the German Faith Movement of Jakob Wilhelm Hauer . Only a few papers could be published. As a versatile author, she wrote travel reports and essays on art history. She later lived in Weilheim in Upper Bavaria and Murnau am Staffelsee . It was not until 1948 that she got to know the still ethnically anti-Semitic Mathilde Ludendorff personally. In 1951 she tried unsuccessfully to mobilize the Academic Women's Association in Munich against the outcome of the arbitration chamber proceedings . Some works have now been published by Ludendorff's son-in-law Franz Karg von Bebenburg in Pähl .

Fonts

• pseud. Diotima : School of Love , Eugen Diederichs, Jena 1930 (many editions and translations)
  • Diotíma: School of Love , Leipzig 2009 (abridged and commented new edition) ISBN 978-3-923211-34-0 pdf
• The German National Woman , magazine of the DNVP 1921–1923, 1931–1933
• Employee in: Sophie Rogge-Börner (ed.): The German fighter , magazine 1933–1937 (ban)
• The book Eros: Studies on the love story of soul, world, God , Diederichs, Jena 1920
• Kant versus Einstein , Erfurt 1920 online
• We women , Langensalza 1923
• Magna Mater , Diederichs, Jena 1928
• The autonomy of values , 2nd vol., Berlin 1926–1931
• Natural aristocratism , in: Irmgard Reichenau (ed.): German women to Adolf Hitler , exp. Edition, Leipzig 1934
• Dr. med. Mathilde Ludendorff - an upright God fighter , [estate] 1952
• Asia above you. A sociological cultural study on the European and Asian mentality , Verlag Hohe Warte, Franz Karg von Bebenburg , Pähl 1953
• Memories of Livonian Country Life , ed. v. Detlef Kühn, Nordostdeutsches Kulturwerk, Lüneburg 1983

literature

• Carola Gottzmann / Petra Hörner: Lexicon of German-Language Literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg , Vol. 2, de Gruyter, Berlin 2007, pp. 794f
• Christiane Streubel: Lenore Kühn (1878-1955): new nationalist and late educated citizen , Trafo, Berlin 2007
• This: Radical nationalists: agitation and programs of right-wing women in the Weimar Republic , Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2006
• Thomas Mittmann: From the "favorite" to the "original enemy" of the Jews: the anti-Semitic Nietzsche reception in Germany until the end of National Socialism , Würzburg 2006 ISBN 3-82603273-X
• Annika Spilker: Gender, religion and ethnic nationalism: the doctor and anti-Semite Mathilde von Kemnitz-Ludendorff (1877-1966) , Campus, Frankfurt a. M. 2013 ISBN 978-3-593-39987-4
• Detlef Kühn : Author portrait in the magazine Sezession 17, 2007
• ders .: Lenore Kühn: a national supporter of the women's movement , cardamina Verlag, 2010 ISBN 978-3-938-64984-8
• Peter Davies: Myth, Matriarchy and Modernity: Johann Jakob Bachofen in German Culture , de Gruyter, Berlin-New York 2010

Web links

• Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Lenore Ripke-Kühn. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Der Spiegel 1951