Karl Schubert (curative teacher)

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Karl Schubert (born November 25, 1889 in Vienna , † February 3, 1949 in Stuttgart ) was an Austrian curative teacher and Waldorf teacher .

He was a confidante of Rudolf Steiner and a close colleague of Ita Wegman in the Medical Section at the Goetheanum in the field of curative education.

Life

Karl Schubert was born in Vienna as the third of five children. His mother was of Jewish descent and he was baptized a Catholic . He attended elementary school in his hometown. Later his family moved to Klagenfurt , where he attended high school. In 1907 he became a member of the Theosophical Society . In 1908 Schubert began studying linguistics and philosophy in Vienna. In the same year he first met Rudolf Steiner. In 1915 he did his doctorate on Friedrich Rückert and married Helene Nierl a year later.

As a participant in the First World War , he was taken prisoner by Russia, from which he returned to Vienna in 1918. There he worked as a teacher. In 1919 his son Michael was born. In 1920 he became a teacher of English, French, Latin and Greek at the first free Waldorf school in Stuttgart, which had opened a year earlier. At this he founded a curative education class, which he also taught. Steiner had entrusted him with this “auxiliary class for the very untalented”.

In May 1934, Schubert had to leave school because of his Jewish origins. However, he received permission for private auxiliary class lessons, in which he worked as a teacher until the end of the war, under sometimes adventurous conditions. He managed to escape his deportation to the Bietigheim labor camp .

The Karl Schubert House in Breitenstein

After the war he resumed teaching at the Stuttgart Waldorf School in the subject of religion. However, his special education students should no longer be fully integrated into the school.

Schubert died in Stuttgart in 1949 as a result of pancreatitis . Despite his attachment to anthroposophy, he was a lifelong professed Catholic.

literature

  • Hans-Jürgen Hanke: Karl Schubert: Life pictures and notes. Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 2004, ISBN 3-7235-1214-3 .

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personal data
SURNAME Schubert, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian curative and Waldorf educator
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 1949
Place of death Stuttgart