Heinrich Berl, Die Männerbewegung : ein
antifeministisches Manifest (The
Men’s Movement: An Anti-Feminist Manifesto), 1931, Kairos verlag, Karlsruhe, Germany, 59 pages.
Contents:
I. Einleitung:
Feminismus und Antifeminismus --
II. Familie und Männerbund --
III. Materialismus und Paterialismus:
II. Familie und Männerbund --
III. Materialismus und Paterialismus:
A. Matriarchat --
Materialismus. Die Frauenbewegung.
B. Patriarchat --
Patrialismus. Die Männerbewegung –
IV. Anarchie und
Panarchie
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EXCERPT: In 1931,
Heinrich Berl published the anti-feminist manifesto "The Men's
Movement" (see Kemper 2010). His key message was that a male movement had
to be constituted because "general feminism" would lead to the
"decadence of culture" (see Berl 1931, Kemper 2010). During the
Austro-fascist state in the mid-1930s, the anti-feminist men's rights activists
were no longer active (see Malleier 2003, Wrussnig 2009). [Source:
Kerstin Christin Wrussnig, „Wollen Sie ein Mann sein oder ein Weiberknecht?“
Zur Männerrechtsbewegung in Wien der Zwischenkriegszeit Verfasserin, 2009, p.
77]
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Biography - Heinrich Berl
Wikipedia: Heinrich Berl (from 1919 the pseudonym of Heinrich Lott
[1]
) (born September 2, 1896 in Baden-Baden, † April 3, 1953 ) was a German
writer, musicologist and journalist.
His mother was Josefine (born 1875
in Marlen , † 1935 in Offenburg) and his sister Irmgard Lott (born 1905 in
Offenburg, ∞ shepherd). As a child, the toes of
his left foot were cut off. 1907-1911 he
attended the Realschule Offenburg and 1911-1914 the local Municipal School of
Commerce, while he also completed a commercial apprenticeship in a factory for
cooker and cash cabinets. After the war, he
attended lectures at the University of Munich until a disease forced him to
return to Offenburg. He sought rest with
relatives in Basel, where he studied anthroposophy at the Goetheanum. In 1921
he married Frieda (also called Friedel, née Kassewitz (1896-1950)), with whom
he had the daughter Ruth (* 1923 Karlsruhe, † 1975 Atlanta, Ga / USA, ∞
Prudhomme). The family spent a lot of time with
Alfred Döblin.
Although not a Jew, he was close to
Zionism and enjoyed the appreciation of Martin Buber. In the 1920s, he published some articles on Judaism and music
in The Jew (1916-1928) and the Vienna Zionist journal Menorah [6]
. When his book was published in 1926, borrowing
his title from the Wagnerian polemical The Judaism in Music, Berl continued the
magazine debate, referred to Zionist position against Wagner and tried to
re-establish a Jewish music tradition by the "Orientalism" emphasized
Jewish music as its special quality, as it was especially to be found in Gustav
Mahler . He is also a key representative of the
current "Asian crisis of music". The
irritating writing found great attention and approval among Jewish discussants.
Arno Nadel, Paul Nettl and Max Brod participated in the discussion.
Berl became managing director of the
society for mental construction , which was founded 1924 in Karlsruhe,
which carried out lectures, meetings and in July 1930 the Baden Heimattage.
1931-1933 he led the Kairos publishing house.
He learned with concern about
organized crime in America and Russia (possibly the state apparatus there,
according to Ivan Alexandrovich Ilyin). In 1931
he published The Fifth Coming to the Sociology of Criminals , and as a
positive complement The Men's
Movement: an anti-feminist manifesto [Die
Männerbewegung : ein antifeministisches Manifest], as a fight against the dehumanized man, as he had previously
reported to Leopold Ziegler. 1932 followed the
fight against the red Berlin or Berlin an underworld residence. In 1933,
after the seizure of power by the National Socialists, the Society for
Intellectual Construction was banned and he also had to give up his music
lecturer in Karlsruhe, he retired to Baden-Baden. In 1938/39 the Reichsschrifttumskammer removed him from their
lists for his Jewish wife.
In the summer of 1945, he converted
the commission, which was to clean Baden-Baden's bookstores and libraries, into
a cultural council with Otto Flake. At the age
of nine, he published the biography of Napoleon III in 1948 .
Democracy and dictatorship . He was a founding member of the German Academy of Language
and Literature.
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The booklet is widely referenced in recent German
scholarship.
[Johannes Meiners & Christine Bauer-Jelinek, Die Teilhabe von Frauen und Männern am
Geschlechterdiskurs und an der Neugestaltung der Geschlechterrollen Entstehung
und Einfluss von Feminismus und Maskulismus, Studie Gefördert von Wien
Kultur, 2014]
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NOTES on a German men's rights organization:
NOTES on a German men's rights organization:
Here:
in "An American in Hitler's Berlin: Abraham Plotkin's Diary 1932-33"
(published 2009
by University of Illinois) page 31: (original
diary December 1932)
- The League for Men's Rights, to which Plettl, the President of the German Needle Trades Alliance, sent me an invitation, turned out to be a forum somewhat on the American order. The League itself is liberal and pacifist in its tendency, but is willing to give anyone who has a message a hearing - provided he is willing at the same time to listen to such criticism as the audience or members of the audience may want to express.
- The Deutsche Liga fur Menschenrechte had been formed out of the Bund Neues Vaterland, a pacifist organization founded in November 1914. It was forced to dissolve in 1933 because of persecution by the Nazis.
- Walter A. Berendsohn was a professor of Scandinavian literature at the University of Hamburg and active member of the League for Men's Rights. He emigrated to Sweden in 1933.
[4143-1/29/21]
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