Katharina Rutschky was a German

Germany

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 educationalist

Pedagogy

Pedagogy is the study of being a teacher or the process of teaching. The term generally refers to strategies of instruction, or a style of instruction....

 and author. She coined the term "Schwarze Pädagogik" (literally black pedagogy) in her eponymous book from 1977. The term was later translated to poisonous pedagogy

Poisonous pedagogy

Poisonous pedagogy, also called black pedagogy, from the original German name Schwarze Pädagogik, is a term used by some present-day psychologists and sociologists to describe a subset of traditional child-raising methods which they regard as repressive and harmful...

 by Alice Miller

Alice Miller (psychologist)

Alice Miller née Rostovski was a psychologist and world renowned author, who is noted for her books on child abuse by their own parents, translated in several languages...

. Until her death, Rutschky lived in Berlin

Berlin

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 with her husband Michael Rutschky

Michael Rutschky

-Life:Michael Rutschky grew up in Spangenberg, Hesse. From 1963 to 1971, he studied Sociology, Literary Science and Philosophy at the Universities Frankfurt am Main , Göttingen and FU Berlin...

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Publications

• Schwarze Pädagogik, originally published in 1977.
• Deutsche Kinder-Chronik: Wunsch- und Schreckensbilder aus vier Jahrhunderten, originally published in 1983.
• Deutsche Schul-Chronik: Lernen und Erziehen in vier Jahrhunderten, originally published in 1991.
• Erregte Aufklärung: Kindesmissbrauch: Fakten & Fiktionen, originally published in 1992.
• Handbuch sexueller Missbrauch, originally published in 1994.
• Emma and her Sisters, originally published in 1999.
• Der Stadthund: von Menschen an der Leine, originally published in 2001.

External links

Jaja, sie hat ihre Verdienste - aber welche?. Katharina Rutschky reviewing a book by Alice Schwarzer

Alice Schwarzer

Alice Schwarzer is the most prominent contemporary German feminist. She is founder and publisher of the German feminist journal EMMA.-Biography and positions:...

 in Berliner Zeitung

Berliner Zeitung

The Berliner Zeitung, founded in 1945, is a German center-left daily newspaper based in Berlin, published by Berliner Verlag. It is the only East German paper to achieve national prominence since unification. In 2003, the Berliner was Berlin's largest subscription newspaper—the weekend...

. June 16, 2007. Résumé, in Berliner Morgenpost

Berliner Morgenpost

Berliner Morgenpost is a German newspaper, based and mainly read in Berlin, where it is the second most read daily newspaper. Founded in 1898 by Leopold Ullstein, it was taken over by Axel Springer AG in 1959. The paper had a circulation of 145,556 issues in 2009, with an estimated 322,000 readers...

. single-generation.de: Commented list of works Ulla Hanselmann and Ariane Heimbach: Interview with Katharina Rutschky about her book Emma and her sisters. Deutsches Allgemeines Sonntagsblatt. August 4, 2000.