Tami Oelfken

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Tami Oelfken , actually Maria Wilhelmine Oelfken , (born June 25, 1888 in Blumenthal , † April 7, 1957 in Munich ) was a German writer and reform pedagogue.

biography

Oelfken was the daughter of a businessman who worked for the Bremen wool combing company in Blumenthal. She graduated from the secondary girls 'school in Vegesack and then the teachers' seminar from Kippenberg in Bremen . In 1908 she passed her state examination. She worked as a teacher in Ohrwege and Grohn . In 1917 she was transferred to Tarmstedt as a headstrong teacher . She joined a working group for young teachers in Gotha and fought against the Kapp putschists in 1920/21.

In Worpswede she met Heinrich Vogeler and became a radical school reformer. She resigned from the civil service and worked in the Association of Resolute School Reformers . In 1922 she was engaged again as a teacher in Berlin-Spandau in the Spandau school fight; again she resigned from the civil service and went to Hellerau , where she worked with Alexander Sutherland Neill in the experimental school. At the same time she published several reform pedagogical articles. In 1925 she taught at the private Benario school, then at the school of the Russian trade agency, until in 1928 she founded the Tami-Oelfken community school in the Berlin villa district of Lichterfelde . Here she pursued the concept of overcoming the division of subjects and practicing a strong involvement of the parents in order to reduce the discrepancy between school and home. In this Tami Oelfken parents' school there were two semester lectures for the parents about educational goals and working groups on in-depth theoretical and practical questions of everyday parenting.

In 1931 Tami Oelfken published the book Nickelmann Experiences Berlin , her first children's book.

In 1934 Tami Oelfken's school was closed because of “communist and Jewish-friendly tendencies” and she was banned from teaching for life. Tami Oelfken emigrated to France and rented a room in Paris. She had all her belongings brought in from Berlin, including the establishment of her closed school, and again planned to found a school. This attempt failed and in 1935 Tami Oelfken was deported to Germany with the loss of her belongings. After stays in England and Italy and returned to Berlin in 1939. After she was expelled from the Reichsschrifttumskammer , she lived in seclusion in Überlingen . She became known through the autobiographical novel Tine , written in 1940 . The first version was banned. In 1947 the novel was published under the name Maddo Clüver .

After 1947, Oelfken worked for Südwestfunk and from 1950 wrote memory books and novellas. The logbook with memories from 1939 to 1945 became famous. She had already tried to make amends for victims of National Socialism since 1945. The proceedings dragged on for years and ended with a settlement in February 1955. Tami Oelfken received compensation of DM 13,200.00, "whereby health damage and the loss of her property in Paris were not taken into account".

Because of her advocacy of cooperation with GDR authors who were loyal to the line, Tami Oelfken was heavily criticized during the time of the block confrontation and subsequently ostracized by some German publishers. Her work was only increasingly rediscovered after her death.

Her grave can still be found today in the cemetery at the Evangelical Reformed Church in Bremen-Blumenthal .

Honors

  • The Tami-Oelfken Street in Bremen- Kattenturm was named after her 1968th
  • In 2004 a school at her birthplace was named after her.
  • In Oldenburg iO there is a Tami-Oelfken-Straße .

Works

  • Nickelmann experiences Berlin , 1931
  • Peter can do magic , 1932
  • Tine , Kiepenheuer, Berlin 1940, prohibited; 1947 as Maddo Clüver. The contours of a children's landscape appeared (Curt Brauns, Wedel).
  • The Persian hat , 1942 (banned shortly after publication)
  • The sundial , Wulff-Verlag, 1946
  • Drive through the chaos , 1946, new edition 2003 (Libelle Verlag)
  • The Magic of Artemis , Alster Verlag, Wedel 1947
  • Maddo Clüver , Alster Verlag, Wedel 1947
  • Logbook , Alster Verlag, Wedel 1948
  • The Cuckoo Spit , Nationwide Publishing House, 1954
  • Stine vom Löh - Novelle, Bertelsmann Verlag, Gütersloh 1953
  • Texts in Bremen then and now. A chronicle , Eilers & Schünemann Verlag, 1955
  • Dream in the morning , Bertelsmann Verlag Gütersloh 1950
  • The Penates , 1957

Educational contributions

  • Gymnastics as the basis of education . In The New Education , 7th year 1925, pp. 402–411

literature

  • Ulf Fiedler: From red plush to the Soviet republic: The adventurous life of the Tami Oelfken. In: ders. (Ed.): Poets on the river and the dike. Bremen 1995, pp. 41-49.
  • Ursel Habermann: Tami Oelfken. Life story - contemporary history. In: Series of publications of the scientific unit. Women's studies and women's research at the University of Bremen. Volume 3, 1991, pp. 141-162.
  • Ursel Habermann: "I want to leave the familiar and the solid ..." Approaching a forgotten poet: Tami Oelfken (1888-1957). In: Commons . No. 28/29, 1991, ISBN 3-89151-106-X , pp. 166-188.
  • Helga Karrenbrock:  Oelfken, Tami. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 436 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Jens Pollem: Tami Oelfken - educator and writer. In: Labor Movement and Social History. Journal for the regional history of Bremen in the 19th and 20th centuries. No. 20, 2008, pp. 63-69.
  • Brigitte Röttges: Tami Oelfken. In: VS - Association of German Writers (Hrsg.): Burned. To forget? Berlin 2007, pp. 42-44.
  • Kurd Schulz : Oelfken, Maria Wilhelmine b. Tami. In: The historical society Bremen and the state archive Bremen (ed.): Bremische Biographie 1912-1962. Bremen 1969, pp. 356 (Col.1) -357 (Col.1).
  • Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
  • Helga Fuhrmann: Oelfken, Maria Wilhelmine, called Tami . In: Frauen Geschichte (n) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .
  • Inge Hansen-Schaberg: Tami Oelfken (1888-1957) , in: Inge Hansen-Schaberg (ed.): “Tell something”. The biographical dimension in pedagogy , Schneider Verlag, Hohengehren, 1997, ISBN 3-87116-898-X , pp. 132-141.

See also

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Inge Hansen-Schaberg: Tami Oelfken (1888-1957) , pp. 138-139
  2. ↑ Inge Hansen-Schaberg: Tami Oelfken (1888-1957) , pp. 139-140
personal data
SURNAME Oelfken, Tami
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oelfken, Maria Wilhelmine (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and reform pedagogue
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen-Blumenthal
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1957
Place of death Munich