Ella Mensch

Ella Mensch (5 March 1859 – 5 May 1935) was a German writer, journalist, teacher, feminist and editor.[1] In 1886 she became one of the first German women to earn a doctorate in German Literature from the University of Zurich along with Marie Nowack.[2][3] She was associated with the German Female Teacher's Association.[4] She also served as the editor of a women's magazine, Frauen-Rundschau.[5][3]

Ella Mensch

Biography

Born on 5 March 1859 in Lübben (Spreewald), Brandenburg, Kingdom of Prussia, Ella Mensch was the daughter of Hermann Mensch and Fanny Stantien. In Berlin she studied at the teachers' college where she graduated with a teacher's certificate in 1879.[6]

In 1880 she moved to Zurich and enrolled at the faculty of philosophy of the University of Zurich where she obtained a doctorate in German Literature before pursuing a long career in journalism and writing.[7] She started her professional career as a news reporter at the Darmstädter Tageblatt, a German daily newspaper, covering opera and drama. She briefly taught at the higher educational institutions for girls in Darmstadt and Frankfurt am Main.[6]

Since 1893 she was writing series of articles on women's issues. She was also associated with the Deutscher Frauenverein Reform, a German Women's association for reform, established by a group of women including Hedwig Kettler. Her first novel, Der Geopfert, was published in 1902.

She was 76 years old when she died in Berlin, Germany on 5 May 1935.

References
  1. Colvin, Sarah (2003). Women and German Drama: Playwrights and Their Texts, 1860–1945. London: Camden House. p. 51. ISBN 978-1-571-13274-1. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
  2. Albisetti, James C. (14 July 2014). Schooling German Girls and Women. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 137. ISBN 978-1-400-85979-5. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
  3. Stratigakos, Despina (2008). A Women's Berlin: Building the Modern City. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-816-65322-5. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
  4. Korte, Barbara (31 March 2014). Popular History Now and Then: International Perspectives. Bielefeld, Germany: transcript Verlag. p. 159. ISBN 978-3-839-42007-2. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
  5. Brown, Lori A. (15 April 2016). Feminist Practices: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Women in Architecture. Oxon: Routledge. p. 70. ISBN 978-1-317-13564-7. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
  6. Mazón, Patricia M. (2003). Gender and the Modern Research University: The Admission of Women to German Higher Education, 1865–1914. Redwood City, California: Stanford University Press. p. 188. ISBN 978-0-804-74641-0. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
  7. Albisetti 2014, p. 73.
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