Marita Keilson-Lauritz

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Marita Keilson-Lauritz (born March 28, 1935 as Marita Ingeborg Ellinor Lauritz in Tallinn / Estonia ) is a German literary scholar who has published on Stefan George and his circle as well as numerous articles on the subject of homosexuality . She was married to the German-Dutch psychoanalyst and writer Hans Keilson .

Life

Marita Keilson-Lauritz's father, Werner Lauritz, was a commercial clerk, and his mother, Mary Elfriede Giesecke, was an elementary school teacher. The father had the family name of Laurids changed to Lauritz. In 1939 the family and other Baltic Germans were relocated to the Posen Province as a result of the Hitler-Stalin Pact . During the Second World War , the father was drafted into the Wehrmacht . In 1945 mother and daughter fled to Mecklenburg to relatives. When the father returned from captivity and took up a job in Fürth , Keilson-Lauritz spent her last school years in Nuremberg from 1951 .

After graduating from high school in 1954, she was the only woman among future pastors to study theology at the Augustana University in Neuendettelsau . There she broke off her studies and married Johannes Koch in 1958. The marriage resulted in a daughter in 1960. After her divorce in 1961, she studied theater studies and German at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg , her academic teachers included Hans Schwerte and Hans-Joachim Schoeps . After a lecture on Ludwig Klages and Alfred Schuler in his seminar "Literature in the Wilhelmian Age", Schwerte invited Keilson-Lauritz to do his doctorate on Schuler with him.

This was the beginning of her engagement with the history of homosexuality and homoerotic literature. From 1966 she did research at Castrum Peregrini in Amsterdam on the history of Stefan George and his circle. Here she met Hans Keilson , whom she married in November 1970. In the Netherlands, Keilson-Lauritz taught German as a foreign language at the School voor de Journalistiek in Utrecht . In the 1980s she held courses on the history of homoerotic literature at the University of Amsterdam . In 1986 she passed the doctoral examination, in 1997 she received her doctorate on The History of Own History . Together with the Dutch writer Jos Versteegen she sifts through the estate of her husband Hans Keilson. Marita Keilson-Lauritz lives in Bussum in the Netherlands .

Publications (selection)

  • (Ed.): Hans Keilson: Sonnets for Hanna. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-10-490148-0 .
  • ( Ed.): Hans Keilson: Diary 1944 and 46 sonnets. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-10-002238-7 .
  • Centaur love. Sideways of love for men in the 20th century. Essays 1995-2010 . Männerschwarm Verlag, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86300-138-4 .
  • with Rolf F. Lang: Emancipation behind the cosmopolitan city. Adolf Brand and the community of one's own. Catalog for the exhibition from October 7th to November 17th, 2000 in Berlin-Friedrichshagen. Müggel-Verlag, Berlin 2000.
  • The story of your own story. Literature and literary criticism in the early days of the gay movement. Verlag Rosa Winkel, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 978-3-86149-063-0 .
  • Of the love that is called friendship. On homoeroticism in the work of Stefan Georges. Verlag Rosa Winkel, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 978-3-921495-56-8 .
  • with Wolfgang Frommel , Karl-Heinz Schuler (Ed.): Alfred Schuler, three approaches. Castrum Peregrini Presse, Amsterdam 1985, ISBN 978-3-8353-0417-8 .

Essays and articles (selection)

  • Hans Dietrich Hellbach and love for friends in the 18th century. In: Rüdiger Lautmann: Caprices. Moments of gay history. Männerschwarm Verlag, Hamburg 2014, pp. 254–266.
  • Hössli's “Voices and Witnesses” and the gay canon. In: Rolf Thalmann (ed.): No love is in itself virtue or vice. Heinrich Hössli (1784–1864) and his struggle for love for men ( writings of the Heinrich Hössli Foundation, 1). Chronos Verlag, Zurich 2014, pp. 151–172.
  • A hundred years of immortality. For a preliminary inspection of Hans Keilson's estate. In: Simone Schröder, Ulrike Weymann, Andreas M. Widman: “The past time remains the time suffered.” Investigations into the work of Hans Keilson. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2013, pp. 279–288.
  • On the fate of pedagogical eros, or: the dilemma of emancipation. [Lecture INA conference, Berlin, Sept. 25, 2010]. In: Capri, 47/2013, pp. 28-31.
  • The love life in nature and the Venus Urania. Wilhelm Bölsche as the secret inspirer of Benedict Friedlaender's concept of sociability. In: Gerd-Hermann Susen, Edith Wack: “What we weed out in our minds comes back in dreams.” Wilhelm Bölsche 1861–1939. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2012, pp. 159–171.
  • Is it all gay trips? An attempt at a theory of homotextuality using the example of Richard Kandt, Wolfgang Cordan and Hubert Fichte. In: arcadia, 46, 12/2011, pp. 378-395.
  • Reminder points. Considerations for the work on Magnus Hirschfeld's exile guest book . In: Helene Belndorfer; Siglinde Bolcher; Peter Roessler; Herbert Staud: Subject of Remembering? Drava Verlag, Klagenfurt 2011, pp. 59–70.
  • with Ralf Dose : Thank you, Erich Kästner! The Berlin book burning - the morning after the crime. In: Julius H. Schoeps, Werner Treß (eds.): Ostracized and prohibited. Requirements and consequences of the book burnings in 1933. Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2010, pp. 169–176.
  • with Ralf Dose: “I vouch for the authenticity of the handwriting.” A fragment of Magnus Hirschfeld's diary in the estate of Erich Kästner. In: Mitteilungen der Magnus-Hirschfeld-Gesellschaft, 2009 43-44, pp. 9-20.
  • A remnant will remain ... Hirschfeld's guest book as a biographical source. In: Mitteilungen der Magnus-Hirschfeld-Gesellschaft, 2008, pp. 36–49.
  • Eros meets Thanatos. Thoughts on macabre homoeroticism using the example of Hans Henny Jahnn's New Lübeck Dance of Death. In: Forum Homosexuality and Literature, 48/2006, pp. 39–50.
  • Hirschfeld's guests. An exhibition on an exile guest book. In: Behind the cosmopolitan city. Announcements from the Kulturhistorisches Verein Friedrichshagen e. V., 14/2006, pp. 13-16.
  • Benedict Friedlaender and the Beginnings of Sexology. In: Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung, 18, 4/2005, pp. 311–331.
  • Magnus Hirschfeld and his guests. The exile guest book 1933–1935. In: Elke-Vera Kotowski ; Julius H. Schoeps (Ed.): Magnus Hirschfeld. A life in the field of tension between science, politics and society. be.bra Wissenschaft, Berlin 2004, pp. 71–92.
  • International Hirschfeld Conference in the Moses Mendelssohn Center in Potsdam. A thoughtful report. In: Forum Homosexuality and Literature, 42/2003, pp. 113–118.
  • Stefan George's secret. Critical remarks on the first George biography. In: Forum Homosexuality and Literature, 43/2003, pp. 57–85.
  • with Dirk Ruder: A bad derailment. In: Gigi, 27/2003, Sept./Oct., Pp. 22-23.
  • with Friedemann Pfäfflin : 100 Years of the Gay Movement on the Isar I: The Reports of the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee Munich 1902–1908. Forum Homosexuality and History, Munich 2002.
  • with Friedemann Pfäfflin: The meeting reports of the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee Munich 1902–1908. In: Capri, 28/2000, pp. 2-33.
  • Adolf Brand and his own. On the history of a 'moving' magazine . In: Mark Lehmstedt ; Andreas Herzog: The book in motion. Books and social, national and cultural movements around 1900. Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 1999, pp. 327–348.
  • Pretty sad. On the death of Detlev Meyer. In: Forum Homosexuality and Literature, 35/1999, pp. 143–148.
  • with Friedemann Pfäfflin: Fornicating within the meaning of Section 184 of the Criminal Code. Three verdicts and a decision to hire. In: Forum Homosexualität und Literatur, 34/1999, pp. 33–98.
  • Literature as an alternative. In: Ursula Ferdinand; Andreas Pretzel ; Andreas Seeck: Verqueere science? On the relationship between sexology and the sex reform movement, past and present. LIT, Münster 1998, pp. 77-82.
  • The story of your own story. Literature and literary criticism in the beginnings of the gay movement using the example of the “ Yearbook for Sexual Intermediate Levels ” and the magazine “Der Eigen”. Verlag Rosa Winkel, Berlin 1997.
  • The need for gay researchers. An answer. In: Forum Homosexualität und Literatur, 21/1994, pp. 89–92.
  • Masks and signals - textual strategies of homoeroticism. In: Literature & Art, 1/1987, pp. 168–180.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see: Among men. Gift of friendship for Marita Keilson-Lauritz , ed. by Florian Mildenberger , Männerschwarm Verlag , Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-86300-247-3 , p. 11.
  2. ↑ see: Among men. Gift of friendship for Marita Keilson-Lauritz. Edited by Florian Mildenberger . Männerschwarm Verlag, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-86300-247-3 , p. 7.
  3. ↑ see: Among men. Gift of friendship for Marita Keilson-Lauritz. Edited by Florian Mildenberger. Männerschwarm Verlag, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-86300-247-3 , p. 9.
  4. ↑ Short biography of Jos Versteegen on the S. Fischer Verlag website , accessed on February 8, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Keilson-Lauritz, Marita
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lauritz, Marita Ingeborg Ellinor (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Tallinn