Leopoldine Kulka

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Kulka, 1915
International Congress of Women 1915 in The Hague. 2nd from left Leopoldine Kulka

Leopoldine Kulka (born March 31, 1872 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † January 2, 1920 in Vienna) was an Austrian publicist and writer .

Live and act

Leopoldine Kulka, daughter of the writer, journalist and editor Adolf Kulka and Marianne Brandeis, joined the General Austrian Women's Association at an early age and from 1899 to 1902 represented the “extreme left wing of the liberal bourgeois women's movement” in treatises and reports by Auguste Fickert and Rosa Mayreder published association organ documents of the woman .

In 1902, the association took over the publication Frauenleben from H. Littmann and continued it as Neues Frauenleben .

After Auguste Fickert's death, follow-up discussions took place in 1910 in which Kulka's Jewish faith played a role. Despite these anti-Semitic tendencies, Kulka became editor of the paper in 1911 together with Christine Touaillon and Emil Fickert.

From 1911 Kulka was the first vice-president of the association, worked in its legal protection office, founded the "Peace Party" as a section of the association in 1917 with Else Beer-Angerer and finally in 1918 led the General Austrian Women's Association back to the Federation of Austrian Women's Associations , from which it became in 1906 had left under Fickert.

Kulka fought, also in her own peace notebooks and as a speaker, for international understanding and peace and the “cause of the progressive women's movement”.

Publications

  • Numerous essays in New Women's Life
  • The municipal council elections and women . In: Zeitschrift für Frauenstimmrecht , 2nd year, No. 4, 1912
  • Protect our working women and children ! In: Zeitschrift für Frauenstimmrecht , 7th year, No. 2 and 3, 1917

literature

  • Hilgedard Meißner:  Kulka Leopoldine. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 342.
  • Bruno Jahn (adaptation): The German-language press. A biographical-bibliographical handbook. Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-11710-8 .
  • Elisabeth Malleier: Jewish women in the Viennese bourgeois women's movement 1890–1938. Research report, 2001, pp. 48–59.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hilgedard Meissner: Kulka, Leopoldine . in Austrian biographical lexicon 1815-1950 . Graz, Cologne, 1957 ff, Vol. 4 1969 p. 342
  2. ↑ Elisabeth Malleier: Jewish women in the Viennese bourgeois women's movement 1890–1938. Research report, 2001, SS 48–59.
personal data
SURNAME Kulka, Leopoldine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1920
Place of death Vienna