Katharina Rutschky
Katharina Rutschky (born 25 January 1941, Berlin – died 14 January 2010, Berlin) was a left-wing German educationalist, award winning essayist and author. She became known in 1977 for editing a collection of sources on 18th and 19th century pedagogy, which she gave the succinct title Black Pedagogy (Schwarze Pädagogik). The book described the use of psychical violence in education. In relevance to MAPs, Rutschky was a prominent critic of leading anti-MAP feminist figure Alice Schwazer. Rutschky's 1992 book Erregte Aufklärung. Kindesmissbrauch: Fakten & Fiktionen (EN: Excited Enlightenment. Child Abuse: Facts & Fictions), opened a heated debate on the feminist approach to the issue of child sexual abuse. With mutual dislike between herself and Schwazer, Rutschky dedicated a 1999 book to criticizing the anti-porn and anti-MAP/AAM magazine Schwazer was known for: Emma.[1] Her book was titled Emma und ihre Schwestern. Ausflüge in den real existierenden Feminismus (EN: Emma and her sisters: Excursions into real feminism).
Biography
At the age of 15, Rutschky was a member of the Socialist Youth of Germany - Die Falken, and later studied German and history at the University of Göttingen and the Free University of Berlin. At the beginning of her studies in 1960, she became a member of the Berlin SDS. On May 30, 1999, Rutschky received the Heinrich Mann Prize for Essay Writing. Jan Feddersen called her "one of the most important post-war essayists".
Rutschky once described her relationship to feminism in two sentences: "Is a [i.e. "I am a feminist in"] feminist in Italy [...] Is an anti-feminist in Germany, because the level of feminism here has not risen politically or intellectually beyond Alice Schwarzer's private [i.e. personal] level."
Rutschky felt herself to be a staunch defender of the 1968 / '68 generation to which she belonged. She died of cancer in 2010.
Relevant Publications
- Excited Enlightenment. Child Abuse: Facts & Fictions. Klein: Hamburg, 1992. (Erregte Aufklärung. Kindesmissbrauch: Fakten & Fiktionen).
- Emma and her sisters. Excursions into real feminism. Hanser: Munich/Vienna, 1999. (Emma und ihre Schwestern. Ausflüge in den real existierenden Feminismus).
- With Reinhart Wolff. Handbook of Sexual Abuse. Klein: Hamburg, 1994. (Handbuch Sexueller Mißbrauch). [Note: This collection includes Rudiger Lautmann's chapter "The scenario of modeled pedophilia" (Das Szenario der modellierten Pädophilie).