Monika Plessner

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Monika Plessner , b. Atzert, formerly Tintelnot (born May 18, 1913 in Osnabrück , † July 19, 2008 in Göttingen) was a German art historian and translator .

Life

Monika Hedwig Flora Theresia Atzert was a daughter of the Cicero researcher and senior director Carl Atzert and a granddaughter of the historian Adolf Gottlob . According to her autobiography , she broke away from this educated bourgeois background towards the end of school and initially came under socialist influence. She was also a member of the George circle around Renata von Scheliha .

From 1932 Monika Atzert studied art history, archeology and German literary history at the Universities of Breslau , Paris, Munich and Leipzig . Her most important professor was the Breslau art historian Dagobert Frey . She submitted - because of the war only in 1948 - a dissertation on the topic of the German style of the landscapes of Altdorfer , Dürer and Grünewald at the University of Göttingen .

In 1936 she married the art historian Hans Tintelnot , with whom she had two daughters who were housed on the Thuringian estate by Hans Urban von Hirschfeld during the war. The Tintelnot couple initially lived in Breslau , where Monika Tintelnot worked as a scientific assistant to Günther Grundmann in the office of the Provincial Curator for Lower Silesia .

In January 1945 Tintelnot fled with his family from Breslau and settled in his parents' house in Lemgo . When he left Lemgo in 1946 to take up a position at the University of Göttingen, Monika Tintelnot, meanwhile a member of the SPD, stayed in Lemgo. The couple separated in the first few years after the war. Monika Tintelnot built up the adult education center in Lemgo , and she was appointed its first full-time director. She met her second husband, Helmuth Plessner , in October 1951. At the time, she asked him for an opinion on her concept for setting up the adult education centers. Monika Tintelnot and Helmuth Plessner married as early as 1952, after which Monika Plessner gave up the management of the Lippisches Volksbildungswerk. From 1963 the couple lived alternately in Göttingen and Erlenbach .

Monika Plessner worked temporarily - as successor to Gretel Adornos - as a research assistant at the Institute for Social Research  (IfS) at the  Johann Wolfgang Goethe University  in  Frankfurt am Main . She was a lecturer in American literature at the University of Zurich and the University of California .

Works

  • Monika Tintelnot: The Lippische Volksbildungswerk. A cultural-political planning based on the former state of Lippe. Concept for the establishment of a popular education center in Lippe. Manuscript, Lemgo 1950.
  • Monika Plessner: Uncle Tom burns his hut. The literary revolution of the black Americans. Frankfurt a. M., Insel, 1973.
  • Monika Plessner: The Argonauts on Long Island. Encounters with Hannah Arendt , Theodor W. Adorno , Gershom Scholem a . a. Berlin 1995.
  • Monika Plessner: Memoirs , unpublished manuscript (→ German Literature Archive Marbach )

literature

  • Peter Biresch, Jürgen Scheffler: The beginnings of the Volkshochschule Lemgo and the Lippischen Volksbildungswerk after 1945 , Volkshochschule Lemgo, Städtisches Museum Lemgo, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-89534-954-6 , pp. 26–39.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Biresch, Jürgen Scheffler: The Beginnings of the Lemgo Adult Education Center and the Lippisches Volksbildungswerk after 1945 , Lemgo Adult Education Center , Städtisches Museum Lemgo, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-89534-954-6 , p. 26.
  2. ^ Hans Urban von Hirschfeld was a victim of the National Socialist regime. The officer was arrested in 1939 and sentenced to prison in 1944. As a result of the abuse he suffered there, he died after his release in January 1945. See www.argus.bstu.bundesarchiv.de
  3. ↑ a b c d e Carola Dietze: Nachgeholtes Leben. Wallstein Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8353-2014-7 , p. 363 ff. ( Limited preview in the Google book search)
  4. ↑ Jürgen Scheffler, Hans Tintelnot. Exhibition in the witch mayor's house in Lemgo on www.regionalgeschichte.de
  5. ↑ Gerhard Danzer: Who are we? In search of the human formula , Springer-Verlag 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-16993-9 , p. 118 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  6. ↑ About Monika Plessner at www.fischerverlage.de
personal data
SURNAME Plessner, Monika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Atzert, Monika; Tintelnot, Monika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, translator and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 2008
Place of death Goettingen