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Marie Jahoda über ihre Pfadfinderinnenzeit Wien, 1923 bis 1924 When I was about 16, I became group leader in the girl scouts. It was all Edi [Jahoda]’s doing, who was my mental and moral guide all though my young years. He was a boy scout leader and he let me attend special festive occasions of his group. I liked it and he encouraged me. Also, my best friends at school […] were […] girl scouts under the leadership of a beautiful and charismatic young woman Margit Weiss. She was married, had a small son, but probably had strong lesbian inclinations. In any case, she aroused passionate devotion in all of us. She was attracted to Indian mysticism We performed a play by Tagore, I believe it was called the Postman.1 I played a little boy dying from illness or starvation and Margit, as the metaphorical postman to another world, came to comfort me on my deathbed. In ecstasy I was ready to go on dying for ever. Only years later did I realise that I had been sexually aroused. My innocence – or my repression? – was phenomenal. Margit made me a group leader of about a dozen girls, two or three years younger than me. On my first Sunday outing in the Wienerwald,2 I lost my way and we were two hours late coming home. The girls’ mothers were furious. In any case it lasted only for about a year. Both Edi and I resented the bourgeois attitude of the central scout organisation as much as the separation of the sexes. So we left the scouts […]. Marie Jahoda Albu: Reconstructions. [Keymer, Sussex: Published by the author] 1996, S. 32–33. 1 Rabindranath Tagore (d.i. Rabīndranāth Thākur; Calcutta [Kalkātā] 1861 – Calcutta [Kalkātā] 1941): Schriftsteller, Philosoph und Maler; erhielt 1913 den Nobelpreis für Literatur. Beim angesprochenen Stück handelt es sich um »Dāk-ghar« (deutsch: Das Postamt) aus dem Jahr 1912. Anmerkung Reinhard Müller. 2 Wienerwald: bewaldeter nordöstlicher Ausläufer der Alpen in Niederösterreich, beliebtes Naherholungsgebiet der Bewohnerschaft Wiens. Anmerkung Reinhard Müller. © Reinhard Müller -- Graz, im Oktober 2006 |
POLITISCHES ENGAGEMENT Eugenie Schwarzwald Pfadfinderinnen Vereinigung Sozialistischer Mittelschüler Rede zum 1. Mai 1926 Sommerkolonie Otto Bauer Austromarxismus |