Luise Haarer

Luise Haarer (* 1892 on the Härtsfeld , † 1976 in Herrenberg ) was a German home economics teacher and cookbook author.

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Luise Haarer came from a Swabian pastor's family. After attending the women's labor school in Urach , she became a house daughter in an English household. Her fiance was killed in the First World War . She remained single and later lived with the handicraft teacher Helene Rösch. After her return home in 1917, she passed the home economics teacher exam in the home economics seminar of the Swabian women's association . From 1923 she was the head of the domestic vocational school in Eßlingen am Neckar . In 1932 her cookbook "Cooking and Baking According to Basic Recipes" was published for the first time. Over a million copies of this cookbook have been printed since then.

Luise Haarer's life was closely interwoven with the success of her cookbook. In 1935 she was appointed full-time specialist advisor for housekeeping lessons. She later became a councilor in the Württemberg Ministry of Culture. She designed curricula for domestic schools and worked in teacher education and training. In 1957 she was adopted into retirement. She died in 1976 in the "Abendruhe" home in Herrenberg.

At the end of the 1930s, Luise Haarer had an originator dispute with Cornelia Kopp over the idea of ​​the “basic recipes”. Cornelia Kopp had published a work entitled “Basic recipes as a key to the art of cooking”.

After Luise Haarer, the "Luise-Haarer-Schule" became a school center for housewives. Berufe (Stuttgart) ”in Stuttgart .

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Luise Haarer's cookbook is based on the idea of ​​the basic recipe, which is then varied according to skill and economic possibilities. The cookbook became the "Swabian national cookbook". The cookbook, with its varied advice, is not just a collection of recipes, but a kind of book of manners and decency, which conveys the virtues of usefulness, cleanliness, modesty, diligence and thrift in the art of cooking. There are tips for saving (“practical tips for saving”), recipes for using leftovers and regional Swabian dishes. The cookbook represents the Swabian social character and was as good as not for sale outside of Württemberg . A so-called “southeast German edition” for Austria in 1940 remained a slow seller.

The book is still widely used as a school cookbook and cookbook for agricultural schools, vocational schools and seminars.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Friedemann Schmoll "Eat slowly and chew proficiently - On the history of Luise Haarer's Swabian national cookbook, which was actually never supposed to be one", pp. 149 to 154 in: "Schwabenbilder - To the construction of a regional character", Ludwig-Uhland-Institut für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft of the University of Tübingen, "Schwabenbilder" project group , ISBN 3-925340-97-1 (PDF file; 9.10 MB)

Web links

• Literature by and about Luise Haarer in the catalog of the German National Library