Marie Lang (women's rights activist)

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Marie Lang (around 1875)

Marie Lang (born March 8, 1858 in Vienna ; † October 14, 1934 in Altmünster , Upper Austria ; born Marie Wissgrill ) was an Austrian theosophist and women's rights activist .

life and work

Marie Lang (around 1880)

Marie Wisgrill was born as the daughter of master carpenter Karl Wissgrill and actress Emilie Scholz ( Hoftheater Hannover , last until 1858 kk Hof-Burgtheater ), niece of Wenzel Scholz .

Raised in a middle-class family, her first marriage was Theodor Köchert (1859–1937), a member of the AE Köchert family of jewelry . The marriage resulted in a son, Erich Köchert (1882–1949). After the divorce, she married the lawyer Edmund Lang (1860-1918). From this marriage, Heinz Lang (1885–1904), the painter Erwin Lang (1886–1962) and Lilith Lang (1891–1952), the future mother of Heinz von Foerster, emerged.

Through Rosa Mayreder and Auguste Fickert , she came into contact with the women's movement at the end of the 1880s , in which she was now involved and, thanks to her ability to speak and her energetic demeanor, soon found herself in a leading position. On January 28, 1893, she was a co-founder of the General Austrian Women's Association . Together with Mayreder and Fickert, she acted from 1899 to 1903 as editor of the journal Documents of Women .

After 1898 in London by John Passmore Edwards (1823-1911) launched Passmore Edwards Settlements had met, she founded, with decisive participation of Else springs (1873-1946), who would lead the club for decades, on the 8th February 1901 (constituent meeting) in Vienna the “Settlement” (Volksheim) modeled on this. On October 15, 1901, the first Vienna Settlement was opened with the help of Karl Renner in the Vienna- Ottakring house , Friedrich-Kaiser-Gasse 51 .

After her son Heinz shot himself in 1904, she withdrew from child welfare , presumably with the statement: “How should I advise other mothers who could not look after their own child?” Lang advocated maternity protection and the rights of illegitimate children a. She opposed the regulation of prostitution and fought for the abolition of celibacy among teachers .

Lang and her husband belonged to the center of an enlightened and free-thinking group in which the socially and artistically interested society of Vienna met. She was a member of the Viennese Lodge of the Theosophical Society founded by Friedrich Eckstein , in which she socialized with Franz Hartmann , Hugo Wolf and the young Rudolf Steiner , among others .

2016 was the 21st district of Vienna Floridsdorf of Marie-long path named after her.

Fonts (selection)

literature

  • Lang, Marie, writer (ellerin) . In: Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? Contemporary Lexicon . IV. Edition, completely revised and considerably expanded. Degener, Leipzig 1908, p. 793 f. - text online .
  • Marie Lang. Settlement memorial sheet for its members and friends . Settlement publishing house, Vienna 1935.
  • Fichna:  Lang Marie. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1969, p. 443 f. (Direct links on p. 443 , p. 444 ).
  • Elisabeth Malleier: The Ottakringer Settlement. On the history of an early international social project . Association of Wiener Volksbildung / Edition Volkshochschule, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-900799-64-4 . - Table of contents online (PDF; 76 kB).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Baptism book entry. In: www.data.matricula.info. March 8, 1858, Retrieved October 18, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Else Federn (1873-1946) . In: Rosita Anna Ernst: The Federn family through the ages. A biographical and industrial history analysis of a psychoanalytically oriented family. With special consideration of the life and work of Ernst Federn . Grin, Norderstedt 2002, ISBN 978-3-640-24767-7 , p. 32 f. (At the same time: Diploma thesis. University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt 2002). - text online .
  3. ↑ Call . In: Documents of Women . Volume IV, No. 4/1901, February 15, 1901, pp. 707 f. (Online at ALO ).
  4. ^ Statutes of the "Settlement" association (Volksheim) . Self-published, Vienna 1910. - Full text online ,
    annual report of the “Settlement” association for 1906 . Self-published, Vienna 1907. - Full text online .
  5. ↑ Grete Meisel-Hess :  "Settlement". In:  Wiener Bilder , No. 44/1901 (Volume VI), October 30, 1901, p. 10, center left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrb.
  6. ↑ Find yourself a simply rich man
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Peter: Anthroposophy. (...) Vienna. The theosophical circle around Marie Lang . In: anthroposophie.net , accessed on May 7, 2013.
  8. ^ Mailath: Maria-Lassnig-Straße decided . City hall correspondence of April 8, 2016, accessed April 8, 2016.

Web links

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

Remarks

  1. ↑ Else Federn named in a lecture on March 21, 1901 as well as in a previous essay as the model (s) of the movement (not the Passmore Edwards Settlement , but) the social settlement initiatives of Edward Denison (1840-1870), Arnold Toynbee (1852–1883) and Samuel Augustus Barnett (1844–1913). - See: Notes. Lecture on settlement . In: Documents of Women . Volume V, No. 1/1901, April 1, 1901, p. 31 f. (Online at ALO ) and Else Federn: Settlement in Austria (…) . In: Documents of Women . Volume IV, No. 19/1901, January 1, 1901, pp. 596-605. (Online at ALO ).
    The purpose of the association "Settlement" (Volksheim) was to     bring the English and American institution of social settlement into being in Austria . - See: Notes. Association "Settlement" . In: Documents of Women . Volume IV, No. 4/1901, February 15, 1901, p. 708. (Online at ALO ).
personal data
SURNAME Long, Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wisgrill, Marie; Quiver, Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian women's rights activist and theosophist
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1934
Place of death Altmünster , Upper Austria