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, Germany, 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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