August Glucker

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August "Ago" Glucker (born August 2, 1895 in Osterholz near Kirchheim am Ries , † 1975 in Stuttgart ) was a German gymnastics and sports teacher.

A. Glucker (portrait)
August Glucker - picture card (lost property from the archive of the Gluckerschule)

Life

Glucker graduated from high school in Aalen, today's Schubartgymnasium , in 1914 . In 1922 he founded a school in Stuttgart in which he wanted to “grasp people as a whole” and “lead them to physical and emotional harmony” through “all-round harmonious physical education” and “naturally extensive breathing”. He was influenced by the numerous currents at the beginning of the 20th century, which propagated a change in exercise behavior, a new physical culture, which, however, partially led to an irrational idolization of the body and ultimately also influenced the racist ideology of the National Socialists . Glucker advertises his ideas in a large number of publications: "Jump rope gymnastics", "Humans breathe!", "The health-artistic jump", "Swimming and jumping in the water", "Your morning gymnastics" are the titles of some of his books .

In 1931 he developed the so-called “Kino-Sportbuch”, which he had patented. The scrolling of a large number of phase photos creates a film-like movement in the style of flip books. He describes it as follows: “In the present“ Kino-Sportbuch ”(cinema sports book ), the exercise can be seen in lively motion, as on the film screen , due to the peculiar arrangement of the images ( protected by the Reich patent office ) when leafing through. It is a completely natural and fluid rendering of the exercises. In this way, even the most difficult movements can be shown so clearly that every layperson can understand them. "

Selected bibliography

  • August Glucker, Skipping rope gymnastics and breathing, Stuttgart: Mähler, 1923.
  • August Glucker, breathe! - Your daily gymnastics, Oldenburg: Stalling, 1925.
  • August Glucker, The flying person: gymnastic jumping exercises, Oldenburg: Stalling, 1926.
  • August Glucker, My teaching method - gymnastics, air baths and public health - psycho-physiological breathing exercises - the breath - the health-artistic leap - Waldes rhythm - rhythm and dance - new beauty - light, air, life, in: Beauty - year XXII (1926), booklet 9. Dresden: Verlag der Schönheit, 1926.
  • August Glucker, your gymnastics when you get older: for men from 45 to old age; Breathing and gymnastics exercises; lots of advice on personal hygiene and a smart lifestyle, Stuttgart: Süddeutsches Verlagshaus [1930]
  • August Glucker, body beauty through body training: functional interlocking body formation and body care, not one-sided muscle training, Stuttgart: Süddeutsches Verlagshaus [1930]
  • August Glucker, your morning gymnastics; the daily exercises for maintaining health and increasing the joy of life for men and women, Stuttgart: Süddeutsches Verlagshaus [1930]
  • August Glucker, 5 minutes daily skipping rope: a versatile physical school to increase mobility, to strengthen the heart and lungs, Stuttgart: Süddeutsches Verlagshaus, [approx. 1930].
  • August Glucker, daily gymnastics. The living school for all exercises with 187 photos and film images, Ravensburg: Otto Maier, 1931 (cinema sports books, vol. 1)
  • August Glucker, swimming and diving; a living school, Ravensburg: Otto Maier [1936] (cinema sports books, vol. 3)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Glucker, August Artist name: "Ago" (index of the Stuttgart passport files)  in the German Digital Library , accessed on December 29, 2015
  2. ↑ quoted from: August Glucker, Meine Lehrweise, Dresden 1926.
  3. ↑ quoted from: August Glucker: Daily Gymnastics, Ravensburg 1931, p. 3.
personal data
SURNAME Glucker, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Glucker, Ago (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gymnastics and sports educator
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Osterholz near Kirchheim am Ries
DATE OF DEATH 1975
Place of death Stuttgart