Susan Taubes

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Susan Judith Taubes b. Feldmann (* 1928 in Budapest ; † November 6, 1969 in East Hampton ) was an American scholar of religion , cultural studies and writer.

Life

Susan Taubes came from a Jewish Hungarian family: her grandfather Mózes Feldmann was a Grand Rabbi in Budapest and her father Sándor Feldmann (1889 / 90–1973) was a psychoanalyst at the Ferenczi School , with whom he had fallen out in 1923. Without his wife, Feldmann and his daughter emigrated to the USA in 1939. Taubes studied philosophy at Harvard University and received his doctorate in 1956 under Paul Tillich . Her dissertation is titled The Absent God. A Study of Simone Weil . She later taught the history of religion at Columbia University in New York. In the last few years before her death, she was more involved in theater and literature. She worked in the Open Theater and was also a member of a group of writers around Susan Sontag .

From 1949 to 1961 the Judaist Jacob Taubes was married to Susan Taubes in his first marriage. The marriage resulted in the son Ethan (* 1953) and the daughter Tania (* 1956). In November 1969, her novel Divorcing was published (German title Scheiden tut weh ). The story of the protagonist Sophie Blind shows numerous similarities to the life story of the author Susan Taubes. A few days after the novel was published, Susan Taubes committed suicide on November 6, 1969 at the age of 41.

estate

The extensive written estate of Susan Taubes is in the Berlin Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL). The Susan Taubes Edition has been archived and researched since 2003 under the direction of Sigrid Weigel and Christina Pareigis. The literary scholar Pareigis published and commented on the first volume (1.1) of the edition in 2011. This volume contains 128 letters in the respective original language, English and German. The correspondence arose within six months during a spatial separation: At that time the philosophy student Susan Taubes was living in New York and the prospective research fellow Jacob Taubes in Jerusalem . In 2014 the second volume of the edition was published, edited by Christina Pareigis. It contains 141 letters from 1952, printed in their original languages ​​English and German. In 1952, Susan and Jacob Taubes also lived separately from one another: Susan spends a semester at the Sorbonne in Paris , while Jacob teaches at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem . If the first volume is about the cultural and intellectual scenes in New York and Jerusalem, the letters gathered in volume 1.2 tell of the intellectual and artistic avant-garde in Paris. They report on personal encounters with Emmanuel Lévinas , Hannah Arendt , Albert Camus and Marc Chagall . At the same time, they testify to the radicalization of the arguments between the couple. In 2015, the ZfL also published a series of previously unpublished stories by Susan Taubes under the title prose writings.

Publications

novel

  • Taubes, Susan: Divorcing , New York 1969, [ Divorce hurts , from the Americas. trans. v. Nadine Miller, Munich 1995; Divorce , from the Americas. v. Nadine Miller, Munich 1997].

Short stories

  • Taubes, Susan: The Sharks, in: The Virginia Quarterly Review 41 (1965), pp. 102-107.
  • Taubes, Susan: The Patient, in: Transatlantic Review 23 (1966/67), pp. 101-108.

Anthology in German translation

  • Taubes, Susan: Prosaschriften , Paderborn 2015 (annotated edition of 10 short stories and a novella, from the American trans. By Werner Richter, edited and commented by Christina Pareigis), ISBN 978-3-7705-5900-8

Editorships

  • Feldmann, Susan: African Myths and Tales , New York 1963 [new edition. 1970; 1971; 1972; 4th edition 1973; 1975].
  • Feldmann, Susan: The Storytelling Stone. Myths and Tales of the American Indians , New York 1965 [new edition. 1972; 1975; 1991 with subtitle Traditional Native American Myths and Tales; 1999].

Articles and reviews

  • Taubes, Shoshana: Albert Camus : L'Homme Révolté. Paris, Gallimard 1951 [review, Heb.], In: Iyyun. A Hebrew Philosophical Quarterly 3 (July 1952), pp. 173-175.
  • Taubes, Susan A. [the abbreviation "B." erroneously on the cover page]: The Nature of Tragedy, in: The Review of Metaphysics 26 (1953), pp. 193-206.
  • Taubes, Susan: The Gnostic Foundation of Heidegger ’s Nihilism, in: The Journal of Religion 34 (1954), pp. 155-172.
  • Taubes, Susan: Herbert Weisinger. Tragedy and the Paradox of the Fortunate Fall [review], in: Ethics 64 (1954), pp. 321-325.
  • Taubes, Susan Anima: The Absent God, in: The Journal of Religion 35 (1955), Chicago, pp. 6-16 [Reprinted in: Thomas JJ Altizer (ed.): Toward a New Christianity. Readings in the Death of God Theology , New York 1967, pp. 107-119].
  • Taubes, Susan: The Riddle of Simone Weil , in: Exodus 1 (Spring 1959), New York, pp. 55-71 [The riddle about Simone Weil, from the American. v. Birgit Leib, in: The stake. Yearbook from the no man's land between art and science , 9 (1995), pp. 205–220].
  • Taubes, Susan: The White Mask Falls [to Jean Genet , The Blacks], in: Tulane Drama Review 7 (Spring 1963), pp. 85-92 [revised. Version of the article On Going to One's Own Funeral, in: The Supplement, Columbia Daily Spectator, Oct. 27, 1961, p. 1 and 5.].

Letters

  • Susan Taubes. The correspondence with Jacob Taubes 1950-1951 , ed. u. commented v. Christina Pareigis, Munich / Paderborn 2011 (= vol. 1,1, the writings of Susan Taubes , ed. By Sigrid Weigel ).

literature

  • Thomas Macho : Modern Gnosis? On the influence of Simone Weil on Jacob and Susan Taubes , in: Richard Faber , Eveline Goodman-Thau u. Thomas Macho (ed.), Occidental eschatology. Ad Jacob Taubes . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2001, pp. 545-560.
  • Christina Pareigis: "Creation is always violent". Susan Taubes to Jacob Taubes, Zurich, April 4, 1952, in: Trajekte 8 (Oct. 2007), pp. 6–15.
  • Christina Pareigis: When an Exile Celebrates her Fate. On the 40th anniversary of Susan Taubes' death, in: Dan Diner (ed.): Jahrbuch des Simon-Dubnow-Institut / Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook VIII, Göttingen 2009, pp. 397-417.
  • Christina Pareigis: Letter from Susan Taubes to Jacob Taubes April 4, 1952, in: Telos 150 (Spring 2010), pp. 111-114.
  • Christina Pareigis: Searching for the Absent God. Susan Taubes's Negative Theology, in: Telos 150 (Spring 2010), pp. 97-110.
  • Christina Pareigis: Susan Taubes. Pictures from the archive, in: Trajekte 10 (April 2010), pp. 22–29.
  • Christina Pareigis: Salome and the Head of the Prophet. For Susan Taubes' 90th birthday . In: Yalta. Positions on the Jewish Present, Issue 04, 2018, No. 2, pp. 12-20.
  • Thein, Helen: The riddle about Susan Taubes. A search for traces, in: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte 59 (2007), pp. 371-380.
  • Thein, Helen: Messages. Susan Sontag's arguments with Simone Weil and the traces of her friendship with Susan Taubes, in: Jan Engelmann, Christine Holste u. Richard Faber (ed.): Passion of reason. The public intellectual Susan Sontag , Würzburg 2010, pp. 29–48.
  • Sigrid Weigel : The philosopher of religion Susan Taubes. “Negative theology” as a cultural theory of modernity, in: B. Greiner u. Ch.Schmidt (ed.): Noah's Ark. The idea of ​​'culture' in the German-Jewish discourse , Freiburg / Br. 2002, pp. 383-401.
  • Sigrid Weigel: Susan Taubes and Hannah Arendt . Two Jewish intellectuals between literature and philosophy, between Europe and the USA, in: Ariane Huml u. Monika Rappenecker (ed.): Jewish intellectuals in the 20th century. Literature and cultural history studies , Würzburg 2003, pp. 133–149.
  • Sigrid Weigel: Between the philosophy of religion and the cultural history of Susan Taubes on the birth of tragedy and the negative theology of modernity, in: this: literature as a prerequisite for cultural history. Scenes from Shakespeare to Benjamin , Munich 2004, pp. 127–145.
  • Sigrid Weigel: Legacies, Archives, Biography. Using Susan Taubes as an example. In: Bernhard Fetz u. Hannes Schweiger (Ed.): Mirror and Mask. Constructions of Biographical Truth. Vienna 2006, pp. 33–48.
  • Sigrid Weigel: Between the Philosophy of Religion and Cultural History. Susan Taubes on the Birth of Tragedy and the Negative Theology of Modernity, in: Telos 150 (Spring 2010), pp. 115-136.

swell

  • Susan Taubes: The correspondence with Jacob Taubes 1950-1951 , ed. v. Christina Pareigis, Munich / Paderborn 2011 (writings by Susan Taubes vol. 1.1)
  • Susan Taubes: The correspondence with Jacob Taubes 1952 , ed. v. Christina Pareigis, Munich / Paderborn 2014 (writings by Susan Taubes, Vol. 1.2)
  • Hellish togetherness . In: Der Spiegel . No. 21 , 1995, p. 203-204 ( Online - May 22, 1995 ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ György Haraszti: Két világ határán (History of the Rumbach Synagogue), from: Múlt és Jövő , bilingual journal of Hungarian-Jewish culture, p. 23
  2. ↑ Entry of the Hungarian professional association ( memento of the original from March 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aktiv-analizis.hu
  3. ↑ Thalassa , journal of the Sándor Ferenczi Society, Budapest, (18) 2007, 2-3: p. 204
  4. ↑ a b Infernal togetherness . In: Der Spiegel, No. 21/1995, p. 203.
  5. ↑ a b Lene Zade: Yes, I am dead . In: Jüdische Zeitung 11/2009.
personal data
SURNAME Deaf, Susan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Taubes, Susan Judith (full name); Feldmann, Susan Judith (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American scholar of religion and culture, writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1969
Place of death East Hampton