{"id":247,"date":"2012-10-04T12:28:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T12:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=247"},"modified":"2017-08-29T16:17:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T15:17:33","slug":"new-biography-of-eugenie-schwarzwald-by-deborah-holmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2012\/10\/04\/new-biography-of-eugenie-schwarzwald-by-deborah-holmes\/","title":{"rendered":"Deborah Holmes publishes on Eugenie Schwarzwald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Deborah Holmes, Head of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/german\/index.html\">Department of German<\/a>, has recently published a new book on the education reformer and social activist Eugenie Schwarzwald.<\/p>\n<p>Entitled <em>Langeweile ist Gift <\/em>[<em>Boredom is Poison<\/em>], the book was published by Residenz Verlag in 2012. Deborah was\u00a0 interviewed on Austrian state radio on 4 October 2012. To listen to the interview click <a href=\"http:\/\/oe1.orf.at\/programm\/316324\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Eugenie Schwarzwald (1872-1940) has become an icon in the German-speaking world; her name became in its time a label. Her creation of &#8216;Black Forest&#8217; schools in Vienna of the turn of the century promoted a curriculum of creativity and imagination, and an ethos of non-violence.<\/p>\n<p>In these secondary schools, girls were given the opportunity to graduate with practical skills and gain modern languages. In her kindergarten and elementary schools, there was even a novelty &#8211; coeducation.<\/p>\n<p>Until forced to emigrate in 1928, her home was a kind of salon: a meeting place for writers and intellectuals of the Viennese turn-of-the-century.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the book, please see the publisher&#8217;s webpage here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.residenzverlag.at\/?m=30&amp;o=2&amp;id_title=1548\">www.residenzverlag.at<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Deborah Holmes, Head of the Department of German, has recently published a new book on the education reformer and social activist Eugenie Schwarzwald. Entitled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2012\/10\/04\/new-biography-of-eugenie-schwarzwald-by-deborah-holmes\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2878,"featured_media":249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2878"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7816,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/7816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}