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On the occasion of Luise Büchner’s 200th birthday, the Luise Büchner Society in Darmstadt has published a commemorative publication with portraits of fellow campaigners and contemporaries of the writer and essays by winners of the Luise Büchner Prize for Journalism.
The Darmstadt Luise Büchner Society has not only used Luise Büchner’s 200th birthday as an opportunity to commemorate the women’s rights activist with a ceremony and a small festival in June. It was also the intention to use the anniversary to present Büchner’s closest colleagues and some of her contemporaries in a commemorative publication. On the other hand, four winners of the Luise Büchner Prize for Journalism made contemporary contributions on the subject of “Women yesterday, today and tomorrow”.
“The woman has the longest time of her tolerance period behind her” – Festschrift for the 200th birthday of Luise Büchner, 194 pages, price: 10 euros. Order by email at [email protected]
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In the publication, Jenny Hirsch and Marie Calm are presented as “pioneers of the organized women’s movement”. Both women, reports Agnes Schmidt, the 1st chairwoman of the Luise Büchner Society, have so far received little attention from research on women’s history. This also applies to Emilie Wüstenfeld, who was involved in poor relief in Hamburg and campaigned for women and girls with a better school education to achieve financial independence.
Schmidt, who is also the publisher of the Festschrift, wrote an article about “the extraordinary princess” Alice von Hessen-Darmstadt, who was a friend of Luise Büchner. Both women founded several women’s associations that became known beyond the borders of Hessen-Darmstadt.
The Büchner advisor Florence Nightingale, a pioneer in professional nursing, and Franziska Tiburtius and Emilie Lehmus, who were the first women doctors in the German Empire, are also portrayed. Furthermore, further contributions are devoted to the Swiss doctor Marie Heim-Vögtlin, the journalist and philosopher Louise Dittmar and the women’s rights activists Louise Aston and Fanny Lewald.
The former FR editor-in-chief Bascha Mika dedicates her text to the “male superiority” in the media. Luise Pusch wrote a “short history of feminist language criticism” and Julia Korbik wrote an article on equality in France and Germany.
www.luise-buechner-gesellschaft.de
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