Meta Corssen

Meta Corssen (1930)

Meta Corssen , also: Corßen (* March 14, 1894 in Lüneburg , † June 3, 1957 in Hamburg ) was a German Germanist and librarian .

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Meta Corssen was the daughter of the editor Dr. Friedrich Corssen (* 1852) and his wife Dora, b. Fold. She attended secondary school in Lüneburg, received private lessons and put 1913 on Ratsgymnasium Hannover the High School from. She studied German and history at the Universities of Freiburg im Breisgau and Berlin . In 1919 she was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. She started a legal clerkship at the Victoria-Luise-Schule in Berlin-Wilmersdorf , but soon moved to the Free School Community of Wickersdorf . In 1921 she decided to change her job and began training as a librarian. In 1923 she became a qualified librarian.

On May 17, 1923, Bennata Otten's successor was the head of the public library in Lübeck, which had just become a department of the city ​​library . She published numerous collective reviews and references in the Lübeckische Blätter . In the commemorative publication for the new building of the city library, she described the tasks of the public library.

She had been a member of the SPD since 1919 and from 1921 to 1932 she worked for the Socialist Monthly , responsible for the women's movement.

After the National Socialists came to power , she was given leave of absence by Ulrich Burgstaller on April 4, 1933 and soon afterwards dismissed on June 30, 1933 against her resolute protest under Section 4 of the Law on Restoring the Civil Service .

She emigrated to Italy and worked as a teacher in Florence . In 1943 she returned to Germany and gave private lessons until the end of the war. She turned down a reinstatement in Lübeck, which was offered to her in October 1945. She moved to live with her widowed mother in Lüneburg and worked in the Lüneburg council library until she retired in 1953.

Works

• Kleist and Shakespeare's Dramatic Language. Dissertation Berlin 1919.
• Adele Gerhard. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1922. (Rhenish collection; No. 4)
• Fates of women: From the memoir literature of the public library. [Lübeck]: [s. n] [1924]
• Stories from the mountains, from the heath and from the sea: From the narrative literature of the public library. Lübeck: [sn] [1925]
• Kleist and Shakespeare. A. Duncker, Weimar 1930. (Research on the recent history of literature; 61; reprint: Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1978)

literature

• Dagmar Jank: The Lübeck librarian Meta Corssen (1894–1957). In: Information. Bulletin of Hamburg Libraries. 12 (1992), No. 2/3, pp. 178-185.