Marie-Luise Gansberg

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Marie-Luise Gansberg in 1960 on the Berlin radio tower

Marie-Luise Gansberg (born May 4, 1933 in Bremen ; † February 3, 2003 in Marburg ) was a German literary scholar . From 1972 she was the first professor at the Institute for Modern German Literature at the University of Marburg . In the second half of the 1970s, along with Silvia Bovenschen and Renate Möhrmann, she was one of the founders of feminist literary studies in German-speaking countries. She was related to the reform pedagogue Fritz Gansberg , who died in 1950 .

Life

After a year of training in commercial school in Bremen, Gansberg studied German, English and social sciences at the universities of Göttingen, Hamburg, Marburg and Heidelberg from the 1954 summer semester. In 1962 she did her doctorate under Friedrich Sengle , who made her his scientific assistant. In the winter semester 1962/63 she started teaching at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. In 1965, she moved to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in the same position. As a result of negative reactions, especially after the assistant leaflet campaign in January 1969, she did not have her habilitation in 1970 and was transferred to the Philipps University of Marburg, where she was appointed academic counselor in 1971 and professor in 1972. Her premature retirement (July 1993) was related to the high number of absenteeism due to illness.

First contacts between Gansberg and the Socialist German Student Union can be proven for the winter semester 1964/65. In Munich she and her colleague friend, the Germanistic Medievalist and Marxist Paul Gerhard Völker (1939–2011) were invited to participate in the "Social Science Series of the SDS ★ WS 66/67": Gansberg spoke about "German exile literature - a taboo subject", Völker on "How reactionary is German studies?". The three essays unifying methodological criticism of German studies . Materialistic literary theory and bourgeois practice, published in the series “ Texte Metzler ”, suddenly made the rebellious duo known to the intellectual public of the old Federal Republic.

From a three-day interview marathon with Christa Reinig (1926-2008) came the book Recognize what is salvation. Christa Reinig in conversation with Marie Luise Gansberg and Mechthild Beerlage (1986). The volume fundamentally changed the image of the German-German writer in the then scarce research on Reinig. As the only professor, Gansberg took part on “3. Siegener Colloquium Homosexuality and Literature ”(October 12-15, 1990) and held a lecture on April 3 in Zurich on“ Useless women? 'Old maid', 'old woman', 'lesbian' in literature and what else can become of them. "

On June 20, 2018, as part of the web project “1968 in German Literature”, Marie Luise Gansberg, a 68 woman from the field of German studies, was presented to a broader public for the first time.

Fonts

  • On the language in Hebbel's dramas , in: Helmut Kreuzer (ed.), Hebbel in a new view (language and literature; 9), Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1963, pp. 59–79. 2., through 1969 edition.
  • The prose vocabulary of German realism. With special consideration of the previous language change 1835–1855 (= treatises on art, music and literary studies; 27), Bonn: Bouvier 1964. 2nd edition 1966.
  • Mass emigration of German writers 1933-47 , in: Contributions to the advanced training courses of the Goethe Institute for foreign German teachers at schools and universities 2, 1966, pp. 24-29.
  • Stories for young women and poets [ed. by Wilhelm Heinse]. Facsimile print based on the edition Lemgo, Meyer, 1775. With an afterword by Marie Luise Gansberg (Deutsche Neudrucke. Series texts of the 18th century), Stuttgart: Metzler 1967.
  • World ridicule and "the right country". A contribution to the sociology of literature on Jean Paul’s Flegeljahren , in: Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte 42 (1968), pp. 373–398; Reprinted in: Uwe Schweikert (Ed.), Jean Paul (= ways of research; 336), Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 1974, pp. 353-388.
  • On some popular prejudices against materialistic literary studies, in: Marie Luise Gansberg u. Paul Gerhard Völker, methodological criticism of German studies. Materialistic literary theory and bourgeois practice , Stuttgart: Metzler 1970, pp. 7–39, 133–139. 4., partially revised. 1973 edition.
  • Marie-Luise Gansberg, Paul-Gerhard Völker: [Review by] Jost Hermand: Synthetisches Interpretieren. On the methodology of literary studies, Munich: Nymphenburger 1968, in: The argument. Journal of Philosophy and Social Sciences 14, 1972, No. 72, pp. 350‒352.
  • Realize what salvation is. Christa Reinig in conversation with Marie Luise Gansberg and Mechthild Beerlage , Munich: Verlag Frauenoffensive 1986.
  • University of Marburg, Women's Studies & Teaching at the Institute for Modern German Literature, in: Rundbrief Frauen in der Literaturwissenschaft 5, 1987, 13, p. 8.
  • Christa Reinig Idleness is the beginning (1979). Aesthetic tactlessness as a female writing strategy, in: Inge Stephan, Sigrid Weigel u. Kerstin Wilhelms (Ed.), Who cares who speaks. On the literature and cultural history of women from East and West , Cologne a. Vienna: Böhlau 1991, pp. 185–194.
  • Erotic love and maternal care: Charlotte Wolff's late conception of lesbian love / sexuality , in: Gerhard Härle, Maria Kalveram u. Wolfgang Popp (Ed.), Desire for Knowledge and Discretion. Eroticism in biographical and autobiographical literature . 3rd Siegener Colloquium Homosexuality and Literature, Berlin: Verlag rosa Winkel 1992, pp. 167–178.
  • D I always ate a stranger was and will be. Outsiders as an interpretation model in Charlotte Wolff's sexual science and literary production , in: Inge Stephan, Sabine Maja Schilling u. Sigrid Weigel (Ed.), Jewish Culture and Femininity in Modernity , Cologne, Weimar a. Vienna: Böhlau 1994 (literature, culture, gender. Large series; 2), pp. 159–172.
  • Irmtraud Morgner, in: Neue Deutsche Biographie , Vol. 18, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 1997, pp. 121–123.

literature

  • Sabine Koloch: Science, Sex, Gender, Terminology Work - Die deutsche Literaturwissenschaft, Munich: Epodium 2017 [1] , pp. 41–42 (Gansberg's inventory work at the library of the German institutes of the University of Marburg), pp. 89–90, annot 253 (examples of women's cultures, including Gansberg).
  • Sabine Koloch: Marie Luise Gansberg: the successful, the taboo-breaker, the traumatized. Biographical approaches to a sixty-eight woman and a pioneer of "feminist literary studies" [2] .
  • Sabine Koloch: Marie Luise Gansberg's path to feminism. A depressing later attempt at enlightenment [3] .
  • Hartmut Rosshoff: Mobbing, rope teams and group dynamics. Commentary and an appeal [4] .
  • Hans Peter Herrmann: Supplementary to Marie Luise Gansberg, the situation in Marburg and the problem of institutional damage to difficult talents in the university [5] .
  • Sabine Koloch: The Munich Assistant Leaflet 1968/69. A document on the history of discrimination and emancipation [6] .
  • Sabine Koloch: The assistant leaflet group - fields of action, places, communication channels [7] .
  • Sabine Koloch, Madeleine Marti: The lectures of Marie Luise Gansberg at the universities of Heidelberg, Munich and Marburg [8] .
  • Sabine Koloch: Encounters by letters. Marie Luise Gansberg and Friedrich Sengle [9] .
  • Peter Strotmann: Graf-Moltke-Strasse 7 in the eastern suburb of Bremen. Domicile of the reform pedagogue Fritz Gansberg and his great-niece Marie Luise Gansberg [10] .

Web links

Commons : Marie-Luise Gansberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The hyphen spelling of the two first names is official.
  2. ↑ Thanks to the Hessian personnel structure reform, Monika Rössing-Hager (* 1933) was also appointed professor in 1972 (her place of work was the Institute for Germanic Languages ​​and Literatures at Philipps University). She and Gansberg were the only professors with permanent positions at their respective institutes for a very long period of time. The first professor at Philipps University ever to become a civil servant, the linguist Luise Berthold (1891–1983), left the faculty in 1957 (cf. Luise Berthold: Erlebtes und Erkendetes. Ein Rückblick, Marburg: Selbstverlag 1969), who was appointed in 1952 Educational scientist Elisabeth Blochmann (1892–1972) 1960.
  3. ^ Marie Luise Gansberg: The prose vocabulary of German realism. With special consideration of the previous language change 1835–1855, Heidelberg, Philosophical Faculty, dissertation of June 22, 1962, countless page after p. 313 (curriculum vitae). German National Library Frankfurt am Main, call number: U 64.6186.
  4. ↑ The co-authors of the three-page handout were Hans-Wolf Jäger, Werner Weiland and Paul-Gerhard Völker.
  5. ↑ At that time Völker was a lecturer for language and interpretation exercises on German literature of the Middle Ages at the LMU Munich.
  6. ↑ Stuttgart: Metzler 1970, 4th, partly revised. Ed. [10. ‒ 13. Th.] 1973.
  7. ↑ Fotis Jannidis: Marxist literary studies, in: Reallexikon der Deutschen Literaturwissenschaft. Revised version of the Real Lexicon of German Literary History, Vol. 2: H – O, Berlin a. New York / NY: De Gruyter 2000, pp. 541-546, here p. 545; see. ibid. in vol. 1 the article "Emancipatory" by Karl-Heinz Hucke u. Olaf Kutzmutz, pp. 434–443, here p. 434: "This change of concept [of emancipation] became decisive for the talk of an emancipatory literature in the 1970s, for which the methodological criticism of German studies by Gansberg / Völker was trend-setting."
  8. ^ Presentation by Marie Luise Gansberg, Giessen. Event at the Paulus Academy Zurich, call for applications for the Paulus Academy.
personal data
SURNAME Gansberg, Marie-Luise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 2003
Place of death Marburg