Reminiscences of Gisela Pieper Konopka : oral history, 1980.

Biographical Note

Social worker, educator; interviewee married Erhardt Paul Konopka.

Scope and Contents

Berlin childhood, radical politics in Germany, 1918-33, activist; introduction to psychoanalysis; student and researcher, University of Hamburg, 1923-33: education, history and philosophy; participation in underground resistance 1933-36: arrest, torture and imprisonment; concentration camps, 1936-41; arrival in United States 1941: impressions of immigrant life in New York, N.Y.; social work student, University of Pittsburg, MS 1943: debates on casework vs. groupwork, Freudian vs. Rankian analyses; professor, University of Minnesota School of Social Work, 1947-73: development of new approaches to groupwork, research in human relations, race relations, adolescent delinquency and unemployment; Doctor of Social Work, (cont.) Columbia University 1957; publications; coordinator Center for Regional and Urban Affairs, University of Minnesota 1968-70 and Special Assistant to Vice President for Student Affairs, 1969-79: racial inequality, student unrest, needed reforms in social work education; impressions of Gertrude Wilson, Edward Lindeman, John Kidneigh and others.

Subjects

• Emigration and immigration.
• Germany--History--20th century.
• Grayson, Vida S., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Konopka, Gisela.
• Oral histories.
• Social work education.
• Social workers--Interviews.
• Students--Political activity.
• United States--Race relations.
• University of Minnesota.

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