Emilie Kiep-Altenloh Explained

Emilie Kiep-Altenloh (1888–1985) was a German sociologist and politician.

Life

Kiep-Altenloh's doctorate, published as a book in 1914, was "the first scholarly publication on cinema in Germany".^[1]

Kiep-Altenloh was politically active in the German Democratic Party, advocating equality between men and women. The Nazis prohibited her involvement in politics, promoting a turn to biology and zoology in 1934. She joined Jakob Johann von Uexküll's Institut für Umweltforschung,^[2] later taking charge of the Institute and its work training guide dogs for the blind.^[3]

From 1961 to 1965 Kiep-Altenloh was a member of the Bundestag.^[2]

Works

• Zur Soziologie des Kino: Die Kino-Unternehmung und die Sozialen Schichten Ihrer Besucher, 1914
• (with Ernst Kantorowicz) Leitfaden für Jugendämter und Jugendschöffen in der Jugendgerichtshilfe, 1923

Notes and References

1. Book: Veronika Rall. Annette Kuhn. The Women's Companion to International Film. https://books.google.com/books?id=pjqOM04aGJ8C&pg=PA11. 1990. University of California Press. 978-0-520-08879-5. 11–12. Altenloh, Emilie (1888-1985).
2. Book: Carlo Brentari. Jakob von Uexküll: The Discovery of the Umwelt between Biosemiotics and Theoretical Biology. 2015. Springer. 978-94-017-9688-0. 35.
3. Book: Anne Harrington. Reenchanted Science: Holism in German Culture from Wilhelm II to Hitler. 1999. Princeton University Press. 0-691-05050-3. 44.