Alena Fürnberg

Alena Jana Fürnberg (born October 14, 1947 in Prague ) is a German speech scholar and speech teacher .

Alena Fürnberg is the daughter of the poet Louis Fürnberg and his wife Lotte Fürnberg. Her parents were German-speaking Jews and Communists from Czechoslovakia . The family moved to the GDR in 1954 , where Fürnberg attended school in Weimar. She completed an acting degree at the Leipzig Theater School and was engaged at the Quedlinburg Municipal Theaters . She then studied speech and German at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg . From 1976 she worked as an assistant and teacher in the university department at the Institute for Speech Science and German Studies at the University of Halle.

In 1983 she moved to the Liszt School of Music in Weimar as a lecturer in speaking . From 1990 to 2004 she had a teaching position for speaking at the Studio Weimar ( German National Theater ) of the University of Music and Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig . In 2004 she was appointed professor at the Leipzig University of Music and Theater, where until 2014 she was in charge of speaking at the “Hans Otto” drama institute. In the 2014 summer semester, Fürnberg held a guest professorship for speaking at the Drama Institute of the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz. In the 2016/17 academic year she taught speech training at the Thomas Bernhard Institute of the Mozarteum University in Salzburg.

Individual evidence

↑ Alena Fürnberg: That's how I came under the Germans. In: Cilly Kugelmann, Hanno Loewy: It was that simple. Jewish childhood and youth in Germany since 1945. DuMont, Berlin / Köln 2002, p. 50.
↑ Rosemarie Poschmann: An Emigrant Fate. Lotte Fürnberg, the wife of the Weimar poet, was born 100 years ago. In: Thüringische Landeszeitung , January 26, 2011.
↑ ^a ^b Univ. Prof. Alena Fürnberg , Mozarteum University Salzburg, The Thomas Bernhard Institute.
↑ Gilda Abbey: Elegance and grace in speaking. Interview with Prof. Alena Fürnberg on the occasion of her 65th birthday. In: MT Journal , No. 34, January 2013, pp. 98-99.

personal data
SURNAME	Fürnberg, Alena
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fürnberg, Alena Jana (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German speech scholar and speech teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	October 14, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH	Prague

[1] Alena Fürnberg: That's how I came under the Germans. In: Cilly Kugelmann, Hanno Loewy: It was that simple. Jewish childhood and youth in Germany since 1945. DuMont, Berlin / Köln 2002, p. 50.

[2] Rosemarie Poschmann: An Emigrant Fate. Lotte Fürnberg, the wife of the Weimar poet, was born 100 years ago. In: Thüringische Landeszeitung , January 26, 2011.

[Mozarteum-3] Univ. Prof. Alena Fürnberg , Mozarteum University Salzburg, The Thomas Bernhard Institute.

[4] Gilda Abbey: Elegance and grace in speaking. Interview with Prof. Alena Fürnberg on the occasion of her 65th birthday. In: MT Journal , No. 34, January 2013, pp. 98-99.