Emilie Kiep-Altenloh
Emilie Kiep-Altenloh (1888–1985) was a German sociologist and politician.
Life
[edit]Kiep-Altenloh's doctorate, published as a book in 1914, was "the first scholarly publication on cinema in Germany".[1]
Kiep-Altenloh was politically active in the German Democratic Party, advocating equality between men and women. The Nazis prohibited her involvement in politics, promoting a turn to biology and zoology in 1934. She joined Jakob Johann von Uexküll's Institut für Umweltforschung,[2] later taking charge of the Institute and its work training guide dogs for the blind.[3]
From 1961 to 1965 Kiep-Altenloh was a member of the Bundestag.[2]
Works
[edit]- Zur Soziologie des Kino: Die Kino-Unternehmung und die Sozialen Schichten Ihrer Besucher, 1914
- (with Ernst Kantorowicz) Leitfaden für Jugendämter und Jugendschöffen in der Jugendgerichtshilfe, 1923
References
[edit]- ^ Veronika Rall (1990). "Altenloh, Emilie (1888-1985)". In Annette Kuhn (ed.). The Women's Companion to International Film. University of California Press. pp. 11–12. ISBN 978-0-520-08879-5.
- ^ a b Carlo Brentari (2015). Jakob von Uexküll: The Discovery of the Umwelt between Biosemiotics and Theoretical Biology. Springer. p. 35. ISBN 978-94-017-9688-0.
- ^ Anne Harrington (1999). Reenchanted Science: Holism in German Culture from Wilhelm II to Hitler. Princeton University Press. p. 44. ISBN 0-691-05050-3.
