Luise Schottroff

Luise Schottroff (born April 11, 1934 in Berlin as Luise Klein ; † February 8, 2015 in Kassel ) was a German Protestant feminist theologian who worked as an editor and translator on the Bible in Just Language project .

biography

Schottroff received his doctorate in 1960 at the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen under Otto Weber and Ernst Wolf with the thesis The Preparation to Die: Studies on the early Reformation death books . She then became an assistant in Mainz, where in 1969 with the work of the believer and the hostile world: Observations on the Gnostic dualism and its significance for Paul and the Gospel of John habilitated .

In 1971, after Herbert Braun's retirement, she was appointed adjunct professor, and in 1973 professor at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . Her calling was very controversial. The professors used their veto. Thereupon those students with whom she was very popular occupied the deanery. The Rhenish President Joachim Beckmann described Mainz theology as anti-Christian. The highlight was Helmut Kohl's request in the state parliament as to whether the theological faculty was a red cell. Schottroff taught and researched in Mainz as an adjunct professor until 1986. It was a time "which she experienced as a de facto publication ban, massive discrimination and marginalization".

From 1986 to 1999 she held a chair for the New Testament at the University of Kassel .

From 2001 she taught at the School of Religion at the University of California, Berkeley , near San Francisco in California. Her main areas of work were the social history of early Christianity, feminist theology and feminist liberation theology in Western Europe, and Judeo-Christian dialogue.

During her time at the University of Kassel (until 1999), Luise Schottroff and Christine Schaumberger, as one of the co-initiators, shaped the feminist-liberation-theological summer universities in Hofgeismar (see her articles in the readers on the feminist-liberation-theological summer university 1987, 1988, 1989 and 1990 : Guilt and power , patriarchal analysis I + II and money rules the world ). She founded the "Feminist Liberation Theology Archive" in Kassel and supported women in research and women's studies at many universities considerably, as can be seen from the large number of dissertations she supervises. She wrote many articles with a socio-historical-feminist focus and, as a speaker at many universities, was a pioneer of feminist-theological research.

Luise Schottroff became known to a larger audience because she conducted Bible studies and discussions with Dorothee Sölle at the German Evangelical Church Convention , with whom she also published several books. After her death, she worked with Claudia Janssen .

Luise Schottroff was married to Willy Schottroff (1931–1997), Professor of Biblical Studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, since 1961 . His research on social history and his interest in archeology had a strong influence on Luise Schottroff's work.

Luise Schottroff died after a long illness on February 8, 2015 in a hospice in Kassel.

Honors

Luise Schottroff was awarded the Sexau Community Prize for Theology in 1990 . In 2007 Luise Schottroff received an honorary doctorate from the Philipps University of Marburg in the department of Protestant theology. She was awarded this for her services to socio-historical exegesis, Christian-Jewish dialogue and above all feminist theology. She worked as an editor and translator on the Bible in Just Language project . In 2013 she received the special prize of the Leonore Siegele Wenschkewitz Prize for her life's work.

Fonts (selection)

• with Wolfgang Stegemann : Jesus of Nazareth: Hope of the Poor . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1978; 3rd edition 1990.
• with Christine Schaumberger: Guilt and Power: Studies on a Feminist Liberation Theology . Chr. Kaiser Verlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-459-01758-9 .
• Liberation experiences : Studies on the social history of the New Testament (= ThB 82). Chr. Kaiser Verlag, Munich 1990.
• with Herlinde Pissarek-Hudelist : Believe with all your senses. Feminist theology on the move (= Festschrift for the 65th birthday of Elisabeth Moltmann-Wendel ). Gütersloh publishing house, Gütersloh 1991.
• Lydia's impatient sisters. Feminist Social History of Early Christianity . Gütersloher Publishing House, Gütersloh 1994; 2nd edition 1996.
• with Marie-Theres Wacker (Ed.): Compendium Feminist Biblical Interpretation . Gütersloher Publishing House, Gütersloh 1998; 3rd edition 2007.
• with Dorothee Sölle : Jesus of Nazareth . dtv, Munich 2000; 4th edition 2002.
• The parables of Jesus . Gütersloher Verlag-Haus, Gütersloh 2005, ISBN 978-3-579-05200-7 .
• Luise Schottroff et al. (Ed.): Bible in just language . Gütersloher Verlag-Haus, Gütersloh 2006, ISBN 3-579-05500-3 .
• with Andrea Bieler: The Last Supper. Eat to Live . Gütersloher Verlag-Haus, Gütersloh 2007, ISBN 978-3-579-08017-8 .
• The first letter to the church in Corinth (= Theological Commentary on the New Testament (ThKNT), Volume 7). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2013.

literature

• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , 2007, ISBN 3-598-23616-6 , p. 3311.
• Marlene Crüsemann , Claudia Janssen, Ulrike Metternich: God is different. Parables reread based on Luise Schottroff's interpretation. Gütersloher Verl.-Haus, Gütersloh 2014.

Web links

• Literature by and about Luise Schottroff in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Luise Schottroff  in the German Digital Library
• Entry on Schottroff in the directory of professors at the University of Mainz 1946–1973
• Marie-Theres Wacker : “Not a slave, but a free one”: stations of feminist theology 1934 - 1999 . Speech for Luise Schottroff's 65th birthday in Kassel on July 14, 1999
• University of Marburg for the award of an honorary doctorate
• Ulrike Scherf: Laudation for the awarding of the special prize of the Leonore Siegele Wenschkewitz Prize on November 10, 2013 .
• Books on theology of liberation in the Bochum University Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christian Johnsen: Pouring out the Christ child with the bathwater . ( Memento from February 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung 22/2007 from June 3, 2007, p. 22. On the website of: Community network - A work area of ​​the community aid association; Retrieved February 9, 2015.
2. ↑ Feminist Liberation Theological Archive ( Memento from September 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
3. ↑ Claudia Janssen: "My inner addressees do not sit on chairs". Luise Schottroff in conversation . ( Memento of the original from February 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Cross-border commuter. Association for the Promotion of Feminist Theology eV (pdf; 672 kB) 
4. ↑ Claudia Janssen: Life for a just theology. Obituary in the taz on February 9, 2015 (accessed February 9, 2015).
5. ↑ Honorary doctorate for Luise Schottroff