Neue Geschichtserzählungen von und über Frauen im Zeitalter der Reformation und in der Epoche der deutschen Romantik
New Stories by and about Women in the Age of the Reformation and in the Epoch of German Romanticism

Summary/Abstract: The article tries to illustrate how changed the view on history and the understanding of history using the example of Reformation in the 16th century and Romanticism in the 19th century in Middle and Western Europe. The new perspectives are on the one hand a result of research projects about the gender role in history and historiography, on the other hand, a result of women’s emancipation in the early modern times and later. We learn to understand the Reformation also as a spiritual process with great influence on daily life and as an important step for the history of women’s emancipation. A new view on history during the epoch of Romanticism is not at least a result of Schleiermachers theology and is a strong connection with the so-called „Historism”. A great influence had the new culture of „Salons” in the urban society, also an example for women’s emancipation and at the same time for the emancipation of Jews. In an attachment is a focus of Johanna Schopenhauer and her significance for the new view a history and for new historical narratives in a „gendering historiography”.

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