Five Publications about Ida Friederike Görres and Her Work
Where to find recent publications about Ida Friederike Görres and her work.
As interest in Ida Friederike Görres begins to reemerge, there are new publications about her and her work. Here are five.
WHO WAS IDA GÖRRES? WHAT WAS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF HER WORK?
“Ida Friederike Görres: A Forgotten Catholic Rediscovered” (2023) by yours truly. This is a short article offering an overview of her life and work. It is available for free online.
“Only the Lover Discerns”: A Brief Introduction to Ida Friederike Görres” (2012 and 2003) by Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz. This translation contains excerpts from introductions Gerl-Falkovitz wrote to two books in German by Görres.
Good news: two of my forthcoming translations of works by Ida Friederike Görres into English also contain the scholarship of Gerl-Falkovitz on Görres. My translation of the complete introduction by Gerl-Falkovitz to John Henry Newman: A Life Sacrificed will be available when this is published in a few weeks by Ignatius Press. My translation of the complete introduction by Gerl-Falkovitz to On Marriage and on Being Single will be available in the future when this is published by Ignatius Press.
“A Panoramic View of Ida Friederike Görres” (1961) by her friend Alfons Rosenberg. This is a biographical essay about Ida Görres. I added a translation of this to the new English edition of The Church in the Flesh (Cluny Media, 2023; see pp. xiii–xxv) to introduce readers to the author.
The opening of Alfons Rosenberg’s essay from 1961, written for a festschrift to honor the sixtieth birthday of Görres. For the full essay, see The Church in the Flesh (Cluny Media, 2023). This essay is a translation of:
Rosenberg, Alfons. “Panoramische Betrachtung.” In Wanderwege. Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag von Ida Friederike Görres, edited by Alfons Rosenberg, 25–33. Zürich: Thomas Verlag, 1961.
Uwe Wolff’s work Walter Nigg und sein Weg zur Hagiographie (University of Freiburg, Switzerland, 2007) has a section about how Ida Görres, herself a renowned hagiographer, viewed the hagiography of her friend Walter Nigg. Available at academia.edu. See pages 6-7.
Glut und Schmerz des Glaubens: Ein neuer Blick auf Ida Friederike Görres (1901-1971), edited by Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz and Sigmund Bonk (Pustet, 2023). This book contains ten chapters by multiple authors about various aspects of the life and work lda Görres. For readers outside of Europe, there is a Kindle edition. (If you know of a bookseller offering this in the US, please let me know.)
Click below to view the Table of Contents for Glut und Schmerz des Glaubens:
There was a review of Glut und Schmerz des Glaubens at the Tagespost on June 19, 2024. (Subscription required.)
Insider tip for Substack readers: The book Glut und Schmerz des Glaubens contains a chapter by me (in English) on “The Reception of Ida Friederike Görres in English from 1932 to 2022.” If you are interested in this topic, I recommend you wait until the revised version of this essay comes out in the US. I recently got access to the archives of an additional important Catholic magazine—with quite a bit of interesting content about Ida Görres spanning decades—and, in addition, since publishing this I have found other material while digging around (such as a quote about Ida Görres by Dorothy Day!). I plan to publish the expanded, revised version in the US in 2025. Please stay tuned.
But on the whole, the book Glut und Schmerz des Glaubens contains many other chapters worth reading! Also, I hope the bibliography I published in this book will be helpful to others (more about this multi-lingual bibliography and bibliographies in German will be the topic of a post here at Exploring Ida Görres soon).
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