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Hildegard Feidel-Mertz (born 19 May 1930 – 23 October 2013) was a German educational researcher.


Life

Born in Frankfurt, Mertz was born in a working class household. She studied at the
Goethe University Frankfurt Goethe University (german: link=no, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) is a university located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was founded in 1914 as a citizens' university, which means it was founded and funded by the wealt ...
and was promoted her
doctorate A doctorate (from Latin ''docere'', "to teach"), doctor's degree (from Latin ''doctor'', "teacher"), or doctoral degree is an academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism ''l ...
in 1963 with
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and . From 1967 to 1972, she was employed at the Institute for Social Pedagogy and Adult Education at the University of Frankfurt, after which she became Professor for Youth and Adult Education in the Department of Social Work at the
Gesamthochschule Kassel The University of Kassel (german: link=no, Universität Kassel) is a university founded in 1971 located in Kassel, Hessen, in central Germany. As of February 2022 it had about 25,000 students and about 3300 staff, including more than 300 profe ...
. Her main areas of work were the history of adult education, the history of workers' education, women's education and , especially Jewish exile. She also had a major influence on research into the existing in Germany between 1933 and 1938. Together with Hermann Schnorbach, Feidel-Mertz built up the "Sammlung Pädagogisch- Politische Emigration 1933-1945 (PPE)", which is now housed in the "Deutsches Exilarchiv" (German Exile Archive) of the
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in Frankfurt. She was the editor of several publications on the history of the educational exile. In 1977, Feidel-Mertz acquired the house where
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was born in
Frankenau Frankenau () is a small town in Waldeck-Frankenberg district in Hesse, Germany. Geography Location Frankenau lies in the Kellerwald range southwest of the Talgang (566 m-high mountain). It is found on the southern edge of the Kellerwald-Eder ...
for her mother, a native of Frankenau, and also set up a small exhibition on the
DADA movement Dada () or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centres in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire (Zurich), Cabaret Voltaire (in 1916). New York Dada began c. 1915, and after 192 ...
there.


Publications

* Zur Ideologie der Arbeiterbildung Frankfurt, 1964 second edition, 1967. * Feidel-Mertz,
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(ed.): Hilde Jarecki: ''Spielgruppen – Ein praxisbezogener Zugang.'' Klinkhardt Verlag, Bad Heilbrunn, Reihe Reformpädagogik im Exil, Neue Folge, vol. 12. * (ed.): Otto Friedrich: ''Der Zaun ums Wissen. Eine Geschichte des Bildungsmonopols.'' Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt among others 2003, . * ''Partnerschaften von Frauen als Überlebensstrategien im Exil'', in Inge Hansen-Schaberg (ed.): ''„etwas erzählen“. Die lebensgeschichtliche Dimension in der Pädagogik. Bruno Schonig zum 60. Geburtstag'', Schneider Verlag, Hohengehren, 1997, , . * Hildegard Feidel-Mertz, Andreas Paetz: ''Ein verlorenes Paradies: das Jüdische Kinder- und Landschulheim Caputh (1931–1938).''.''Ein verlorenes Paradies : das Jüdische Kinder- und Landschulheim Caputh ; (1931-1938)''
on WorldCat dipa Verlag, Frankfurt, 1994, . (3rd edition. Klinkhardt Verlag, Bad Heilbrunn 2009) * Carl Mennicke Schriften new publication by Hildegard Feidel-Mertz. 5 volumes. Weinheim 1995 ff. * Schulen im Exil. Die verdrängte Pädsgogik. 933–1945 * Schwierige Rückkehr aus dem Exil. In Eierdanz Kremer (ed.): weder erwartet noch gewollt . Kritische Erziehungswissenschaft im. Kalten Krieg SchneiderVerlag Hohengehren 200 * (ed.): ''Der junge Huelsenbeck – Entwicklungsjahre eines Dadaisten.'' Anabas Verlag, Gießen 1992, . * Hildegard Feidel-Mertz, Jürgen P. Krause: ''Der andere Hermann Lietz. Theo Zollmann und das Landwaisenheim Veckenstedt''. dipa Verlag, Frankfurt, 1990, . * (Ed.): ''Schulen im Exil. Die Verdrängte Pädagogik 1933 bis 1945 Rororo'' * Reinbek 1983, . * ''Erziehung zum Überleben Pädagogik im Exil nach 1933.'' Frankfurt, 1990, . * Hildegard Feidel-Mertz, Hermann Schnorbach: ''Lehrer in der Emigration. Der (1933-39) im Traditionszusammenhang der demokratischen Lehrerbewegung.'' Beltz Verlag, Weinheim und Basel, 1981, . Dazu: ** Verband Deutscher Lehreremigranten: ''Informationsblätter und Programme, 1934-1939'', edited by Hildegard Feidel-Mertz and Hermann Schnorbach, Beltz Verlag, Weinheim and Basel, 1981, . * ''Erwachsenenbildung seit 1945.'' Ausgangsbedingungen, Entwicklungstendenzen, Ergebnisse. Kiepenheuer und Witsch, Köln 1975, . * ''Ideologie der Arbeiterbildung.'' Europäische Verlags-Anstalt, Frankfurt, 1964. Second edition 1967


Further reading

* Monika Lehmann und Hermann Schnorbach (ed.): ''Aufklärung als Lernprozeß: Festschrift für Hildegard Feidel-Mertz''. dipa, Frankfurt, 1992.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Feidel-Mertz, Hildegard German women educators Academic staff of the University of Kassel 1930 births 2013 deaths Writers from Frankfurt