Lyceum Club Berlin

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The Lyceum-Club Berlin is a socially committed association by and for women.

Founding years

"The woman at home and at work", catalog for the exhibition in the Berlin Zoological Garden in 1912

The Lyceum Club was founded on November 4, 1905 in Berlin by Marie von Bunsen . Constance Smedley came from London that day for the constituent meeting . Through their participation, this association shaped itself after the English model. The first clubhouse had spacious rooms and an elaborately designed garden at Potsdamer Strasse 118b.

The founding committee elected the politician Hedwig Heyl as the first president of the Lyceum Club. The Queen of Romania, Princess Elisabeth zu Wied , could be won as patron .

The Lyceum Club set itself the task of offering artists and scientists a forum and supporting them with exhibitions and publications. In 1908 Hedwig Heyl staged the extremely successful International Folk Art Exhibition in the Wertheim department store (on Leipziger Platz ) . In addition to Hedwig Heyl, Gertrud Bäumer was also responsible for the exhibition The Woman in Home and Work , which was shown at the Berlin Zoo in 1912 .

From 1906 on, the Lyceum Club also regularly informed its members through a club newspaper. From 1912 the Lyceum Club supported the Berlin Association of Hospital Women Doctors, and at the beginning of the First World War the association introduced a “medium-sized kitchen” to cater to needy Berliners.

The era of National Socialism 1933–1945

In contrast to many women's clubs, the Lyceum Club Berlin did not break up in 1933 in protest against the "Gleichschaltung". In 1938 the Reichsfrauenführung declared the club as the "top club" of all German women's clubs. New research results by Silke Helling sum up: "The history of the women's association under National Socialism is a multi-faceted mirror of social history and a complex mosaic. [...] The actors showed a broad spectrum of action between constant or new participation and distancing . It was also briefly outlined that the term 'synchronization' in this specific case corresponds to a long-term process with a procedural character. " (P. 36)

Start-up

On January 1, 1956, the Lyceum Club Berlin was re-established by Ingeborg Brücker and Johanna von Siemens . Monthly club meetings have also been held since 1963.

Under the patronage of Eva Luise Köhler , a celebration of the centenary was held in 2005 with great participation.

Known members (selection)

literature

  • Dorothea Schuppert, International Lyceum Club: Quo vadis, mater? Artists of the Berlin Lyceum Club 1905–1933. On the occasion of the exhibition from April 23 to July 26, 2015, Das Verborgene Museum , Berlin , Berlin, 2015, ISBN 9783000490156 .
  • Silke Helling: The German Lyceum Club Berlin under National Socialism. A women's association in the mirror of their places and spatial constructions. In: Ariadne. Forum for women's and gender history. No. 61, May 2012, pp. 30-37.
  • Luise Marelle, Hedwig Heyl: The history of the German Lyceum Club and its tasks in the present and future . Berlin 1933.
  • 100 years of the Internationaler Lyceum-Club Berlin eV Commemorative publication for the anniversary events on May 26th and 28th, 2005 . Berlin 2005.
  • Breakthrough women . Berlin 1912 (accompanying volume to the exhibition “The woman in home and work”).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Angelika Schaser: Helene Lange and Gertrud Bäumer. A political community. Cologne: Böhlau, 2010, p. 150 f.