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Travel is in her blood, but by the time she is able to realize her dream, she is already 44 years old. »Even as a tender child, I had the greatest longing to get out into the world«, writes Ida Pfeiffer (* 1797 Vienna – † 1858 ibid.) in the book about her trip to the North in 1845. As far as is known, Ida Pfeiffer is the first woman to circumnavigate the world on her own. She became one of the most famous travel writers of her time. She also made a contribution to science and, at the instigation of Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Ritter, became the first woman to be made an honorary member of the Society for Geography in Berlin, as well as an honorary member of the Paris Geographical Society. Today, however, traveling has become a matter of course for many people. Destinations on distant continents are no longer unusual. Nevertheless, it is still worth mentioning when women travel alone.
In the third episode of »Beauty & Mind«, we welcome Dr. Gabriele Habinger from the Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Vienna. Among other things, she researches the anthropology of tourism and travel and is the author of the biography “Eine Wiener Biedermeierdame erobert die Welt – Die Lebensgeschichte der Ida Pfeiffer” as well as the editor of Ida Pfeiffer's travel letters entitled “Wir leben nach Matrosenweise”. We will also be talking to Dr. Allegra Bauman, urban sociologist at the Institute of Sociology at TU Darmstadt, who wrote her dissertation on the influence of cruise tourism on urban infrastructure and is currently researching tourism and quality of life in small towns. Together, we will shed light on Ida Pfeiffer's life and ask how tourist travel came about, what women's travel was like in Ida Pfeiffer's time, how tourism has developed and what opportunities and risks tourism offers under today's circumstances.
Further information:
- Website of the Department of Urban and Spatial Sociology at the TU Darmstadt
- Website of the Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Vienna
- Website of the publishing house with further information on the books by Dr. Gabriele Habinger
- BBC podcast on Ida Pfeiffer
Literature:
- Gabriele Habinger (2022): »Eine Wiener Biedermeierdame erobert die Welt. Die Lebensgeschichte der Ida Pfeiffer (1797 – 1858)« (208 pages, Promedia Verlag, ISBN 978-3-85371-508-6)
- Gabriele Habinger (2006): »Frauen reisen in die Fremde. Diskurse und Repräsentationen von reisenden Europäerinnen im 19. und beginnenden 20. Jahrhundert« (400 pages, Promedia Verlag, ISBN 978-3-85371-254-2)
- Gabriele Habinger (2023): »›Wir leben nach Matrosenweise‹. Briefe einer Weltreisenden des 19. Jahrhunderts« (264 pages, Promedia Verlag, ISBN 978-3-85371-524-6)
- Ida Pfeiffer (1991): »Nordlandfahrt. Reise nach Skandinavien und Island im Jahre 1845« (288 pages, Promedia Verlag, ISBN 978-3-90047-847-6)
