Carla Stümpel-Schlichthaar

Carla Stümpel-Schlichthaar (born on November 25, 1901 in Alpen ; died on November 26, 1977 in Erlangen ) was a German dance teacher .

Life

Carla Schlichthaar was the daughter of a doctor. Started at school in the Lower Rhine area, after the family moved to Bingen and Frankfurt am Main , she attended secondary schools and obtained a secondary school leaving certificate . She then attended a business school and was a bank clerk for some time. At the beginning of the 1920s she moved in with her uncle Hermann Königer, professor of internal medicine in Erlangen, whom she was supposed to help with the household. In his circle of friends she met the Germanist Franz Saran and the musicologist Gustav Becking .

She then attended the Folkwang Music School in Essen , where she completed training as a dance teacher; Rudolf Laban was one of her most important influences . Back in Erlangen, she opened her own dance and gymnastics school, which she continued into old age. In doing so, she resorted to the theory of body types and posture according to Joseph and Ottmar Rutz . She also married the photographer Rudi Stümpel.

During the Nazi era, she was one of 1,000 amateur dancers who performed under Laban's leadership at the opening of the 1936 Olympic Games . She was later obliged to work at the front theater. After the war she concentrated again on dance education, which she only gave up in 1972; She also taught gymnastics when she was in her mid-seventies.

literature

• Eleonore Schmidt-Herrling: Carla Stümpel-Schlichthaar , 6-page biography 1985
• Agnes Stählin: Carla Stümpel-Schlichthaar In: Frauengestalten in Franken , ed. by Inge Meidinger-Geise. Verlag Weidlich, Würzburg 1985. pp. 254-257. ISBN 3-8035-1242-5 .