Ulrike Prokop

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Ulrike Prokop (* 1945 in Kiel ) is a professor emeritus for educational sciences at the Philipps University of Marburg . Her focus is on socialization theory , psychoanalytic cultural theory, gender relations, history of mentality, media theory , patriarchal structures and the female context, as well as critical theory .

Life

Ulrike Prokop studied social sciences (sociology and history) in Frankfurt am Main with Theodor W. Adorno , Jürgen Habermas and Alexander Mitscherlich and was active in the new women's movement as well as in the SDS . After working in directing and dramaturgy at the Freie Volksbühne Berlin, the Schauspiel Frankfurt and the Bremen Shakespeare Company, she was a university assistant in the social sciences department at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt from 1978 to 1988 . During these years she worked as an employee of Alfred Lorenzer and deepened her interest in psychoanalytical and deep hermeneutic procedures. In 1988 she was appointed professor in the Faculty of Education in Marburg.

Services

Prokop was best known for publishing her critical studies on the sociology of the Olympic Games and the context of female life . Prokop was the first female professor in the Faculty of Education in Marburg. Until she took up her professorship, the department was dominated exclusively by men. In Marburg, Prokop showed outstanding achievements, especially in her lectures on the subjects of "Socialization and Individuation". She usually kept the 60-minute lectures free without reading and refined the whole thing with quotes from literary and scientific classics, whereby representatives of critical theory and psychoanalysis also played a not unimportant role. Since 2005 Ulrike Prokop has been the editor of the cultural studies series Kulturanalysen , which emerged from the journal of the same name of the Alfred Lorenzer Society Marburg.

Feminine life plans

In the German educated middle class

Using the example of the siblings Cornelia and Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Ulrike Prokop subjected the mechanisms of marginalization of the “feminine” and the heroization of the “masculine” to a psychoanalytical and historical investigation. In contrast to her brother, Cornelia is "completely the object of male education - without having the chance to be like a son." Horkheimer, Marcuse and Habermas had overlooked in their analyzes that "that in the 18th and 19th centuries of one Worsening of the situation of women in work and in culture is to be assumed. ”In The Myth of the Feminine and the Idea of ​​Equality in Literary Drafts of the Early Bourgeoisie Prokop interprets the early bourgeois literature of the Enlightenment and the Sturm und Drang as an attempt to“ open To reconcile the dominant character of the male norm with the idea of ​​human equality and personal responsibility. "

In fascism

Furthermore, Ulrike Prokop examined the role of women in National Socialism as follows: The relationship between women and the authority of the Führer can be interpreted as an eroticized relationship that combines general subordination with emancipation from male dominance. Prokop speaks of “active authoritarianism ” as opposed to passive authoritarianism, where women leave it to men to act for them.

In contrast to Margarete Mitscherlich , who portrayed women as victims of male violence and National Socialism in her classic The Peaceful Woman , Prokop does not see women as victims of National Socialism per se. Already in her early analyzes she pointed out the contribution of women to the fascist ruling apparatus. According to this, groups of the bourgeois women's movement also opposed National Socialism benevolently. Prokop analyzed essential texts of verbal women of the moderate-conservative wing of the bourgeois women's movement. In the texts of Gertrud Bäumer and Marianne Weber , according to Prokop, a longing is expressed which “comes to fruition in the fascist staging of politics.” Gertrud Bäumer and Marianne Weber are not “identical with the fascists”, but they “do something Awareness of the phenomenon that drives fascism - and that was decisive for the bourgeois women's movement before 1933. "

In the spectrum of the authoritarian today

Ulrike Prokop continued these investigations on the basis of an analysis of conversations with right-wing radical young women, published by Franziska Tenner . One of them shows the way to increasing passivity and the delegation of female activity to men. This form of female authoritarianism can be understood as “delegating female authoritarianism”. It works through the narcissistic transmission of female activity to a male proxy. The inhibition to act is characteristic on the woman's side. Prokop concludes: “The concept of the authoritarian personality is suitable for understanding the relationship between personality structure and political action. From the perspective of the individual, the transition from individual dispositions to political action in groups amounts to overcoming the loneliness of the neurotic conflict - through group formation. At the same time, solutions are offered that are not available to the individual as isolated or only available to a limited extent (for the isolated there is only the social role of the troublemaker or the weirdo; in the cases given here, the failure and outsider). The end of loneliness in group formation is a relief. "

Conversion analysis

Based on deep hermeneutics , in particular the psychoanalytic method of qualitative cultural research according to Alfred Lorenzer , Ulrike Prokop developed an investigation method for researching affect shows such as Germany's Next Top Model or Super Nanny . With the help of the conversion analysis, not only the purely content-related offers of these new media formats are determined, but also the reactions of the audience and the researching subjects. The point is to convey the latent messages that the creators of the shows give the viewers through skilful media staging, i. H. via dramaturgically sophisticated arrangements, offering them to make them transparent and dealing with them.

“It is programs, mostly from private providers, that break taboos and thus emotionalise them. As exciting programs, they always move in the border area of ​​what is still allowed or already to be rejected. That is precisely what constitutes the subject of discussion for young people. In contrast to approaches that want to understand media reception solely from the context of use and therefore approach the meaning solely from the side of the audience and the exclusionary communication, the research projects in Marburg and Kassel are based on a two-pole structure: Here, as much attention is paid to the offer as the use and the meanings given to the offers by different audiences. ”About the program“ Germany's Next Top Model ”, Prokop writes:“ Since it is about careers in an authoritarian team, women working in flexible capitalism can also be seen in action . These two modern aspects really make up the fascination of the show. "

Fonts

  • (1971): Sociology of the Olympic Games. Sport and Capitalism. Carl Hanser, Munich, ISBN 3-446-11503-X .
  • (1976): Female life context. The limitations of strategies and the inappropriateness of desires (= Edition Suhrkamp , Volume 808). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 3-518-00808-0 (Dissertation Frankfurt am Main, Faculty 03 - Social Science, 1975 245 pages, under the title: Contradictions and Ambivalences of Femininity ).
  • (1991): The Illusion of the Great Couple. Volume 1: female life plans in the German educated middle class 1750–1770. Fischer, Frankfurt / Main
  • (1991): The Illusion of the Great Couple. Volume 2: The diary of Cornelia Goethe . Fischer, Frankfurt / Main
  • (2006, ed.): Alfred Lorenzer . Scenic understanding. To the knowledge of the unconscious. Tectum, Marburg
  • (2008, ed.): Education as entertainment in the popular TV guides “ Super Nanny ” and “ SOS School ”. Tectum, Marburg
  • (2009, ed.): Great life, wrong glamor. Descriptions, analyzes, reviews of Germany's Next Top Model . Tectum, Marburg

Essays

  • (1979): The Longing for National Unity. On the conservatism of the bourgeois women's movement before 1933. In: Overcoming speechlessness. Texts from the new women's movement. Luchterhand, Darmstadt
  • (1984): The Myth of the Feminine and the Idea of ​​Equality in the Literary Drafts of the Early Bourgeoisie. In: Feminist Literary Studies. Documentation of the conference in Hamburg from May 1983. Argument Verlag , Berlin
  • (1986): Emilia Galotti . A drama about the destruction of desires. In: Culture Analyzes. Psychoanalytic Studies on Culture. Fischer, Frankfurt / Main
  • (1987): Love and Reading or: What do the tears of the reader mean? From the correspondence between Flachsland and Herder . In: On the idea of ​​a psychoanalytic social research. Fischer, Frankfurt / Main
  • (1987): The friendship between Katharina Elisabeth Goethe and Bettina Brentano - aspects of female tradition. In: Lectures from the Frankfurt women's school. Facets of feminist theory building. Material volume 2. Self-published, Frankfurt / Main
  • (1988): The loneliness of the imagination. Gender conflict and literary production around 1770. In: German literature by women. First volume. From the Middle Ages to the end of the 18th century. CH Beck, Munich
  • (1989): The Construction of the Ideal Woman. About some scenes from the “Confessions” by Jean-Jacques Rousseau . In: Culture and Society: Negotiations of the 24th German Sociological Conference, the 11th Austrian Sociological Conference and the 8th Congress of the Swiss Society for Sociology in Zurich. Campus, Frankfurt / New York
  • (1989): Motherhood and the Myth of Motherhood in the 18th Century. In: slave or citizen? French Revolution and New Femininity 1760–1830. Jonas Verlag, Frankfurt / Main
  • (1989): Elements of Modernity. Images of the feminine in Strindberg and Wedekind . In: Pharus 1. No more spark, no star from the ancient world. Frank Wedekind. Texts, interviews, studies. Publishing house Jürgen Häusser, Darmstadt
  • (1992): What is the subject of a “story of female writing”? In: Feminist Critique of Reason. Approaches and Traditions. Campus, Frankfurt / New York
  • (1994): Some reflections on the development tendencies of female identity. In: The visible woman. The appropriation of social spaces. Kore Verlag, Freiburg i.Br.
  • (1995): Elements of female authoritarianism. The longing for the “national community” in the bourgeois women's movement before 1933. In: Dead ends of self-assertion. Feminist analyzes of right-wing extremism and violence. Jenior & Pressler, Kassel
  • (1998): How Many Stories in One? About the story “The Maid's Hour” by Marieluise Fleißer . In: Freiburg literary psychological discussions. Volume 17. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg
  • (2001): Standards of Equality. On the current discussion of equality in gender relations. In: More inequality for everyone. Facts, analyzes, and reports on the social situation in the republic at the beginning of the 21st century. University Press Winter
  • (2001): Stigma and Violence. To some scenes from Houellebecq's expansion of the combat zone . Book essay. In: Psyche. 55th year - issue 9/10. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart
  • (2002): Experiments with Modernity. Discourses of the German women's movement on motherhood and work 1860–1933. In: Autonomy and Critical Ability. Social change through education. Wochenschau Verlag, Schwalbach / Ts.
  • (2004): Trauma and memory in Günter Grass ' Im Krebsgang. In: Freiburg literary psychological discussions. Volume 23. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg
  • (2007): Mistrust and proof of truth in the tragedy 'Die Familie Schroffenstein'. In: Freiburg literary psychological discussions. Volume 27. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg
  • (2007): Right-wing radicalism as political fundamentalism . In: The halved emancipation. Fundamentalism and gender. Ulrike Helmer Verlag, Königstein / Taunus 2007
  • (2008): Practical Wisdom, Grace, and Wit. Civil education for girls around 1750. In: Catharina Elisabeth Goethe. Free German Hochstift, Frankfurt / Main

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brigit Dahlke: Literature and Gender. From women's literature and writing to canon correction and science criticism. In: Ruth Becker, Beate Kortendieck (ed.): Handbook Women and Gender Studies: Theory, Methods, Empiricism, 2008, p. 759.
  2. ↑ Ulrike Prokop: The illusion of the great couple. Volume 2: The diary of Cornelia Goethe. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1991 p. 104
  3. ↑ Ulrike Prokop: The illusion of the great couple. Volume 2: The diary of Cornelia Goethe. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1991 p. 123
  4. ↑ Ulrike Prokop: "The myth of the feminine and the idea of ​​equality in literary drafts of the early middle class." In: Feministische Literaturwissenschaft, Argument Verlag Berlin, 1984 p. 15
  5. ↑ Prokop 1995, cf. Birgit Rommelspacher: Right-wing extremism feminism - and us? Source: Feminism (PDF; 71 kB)
  6. ↑ Ulrike Prokop: The longing for national unity. On the conservatism of the bourgeois women's movement before 1933. In: Gabriele Dietze (ed.): Overcoming speechlessness. Texts from the new women's movement. Leuchterhand, Darmstadt 1979
  7. ↑ Ulrike Prokop: “Myths of the Right. Your fascination for young women in adolescence. Depicted in a conversation with Franziska Tenner. " (PDF file; 857 kB)
  8. ↑ Ulrike Prokop (ed.): “Great life, wrong glamor. Descriptions, analyzes, reviews of Germany's Next Top Model. ”Tectum Verlag, Marburg p. 9
  9. ↑ Ulrike Prokop (ed.): “Great life, wrong glamor. Descriptions, analyzes, reviews of Germany's Next Top Model. ”Tectum Verlag, Marburg p. 16

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personal data
SURNAME Prokop, Ulrike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German emer. researcher (cultural theory of women)
DATE OF BIRTH 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel