Caroline von Heydebrand

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Caroline Agathe Elisabeth Ferdinande von Heydebrand und der Lasa (* December 22, 1886 in Breslau ; † August 23, 1938 in Gerswalde ) was a German anthroposophical educator who had a decisive influence on Waldorf education in its early days.

Live and act

Caroline was the second of nine children of District Administrator Georg I von Heydebrand and Lasa and his wife Elise, geb. from Prittwitz and Gaffron . She spent her childhood and youth in Breslau, Oppeln , Liegnitz and for a year in Osnabrück , where her father was appointed to the government shortly before his death. In keeping with her noble origins, she received the usual training for girls of her class, partly from an educator and at private schools. In addition, she was prepared for a "befitting" marriage. But “the social life of the time in which Caroline grew up was absolutely not her nature. She avoided balls and similar events wherever possible, often to the pain of her parents; all of this was her bland and repugnant. She only lived her humanities interests. "

After intensive language studies in Geneva , she went to Berlin. There she attended the high school courses founded by Helene Lange from 1908 to 1909 . She passed her university entrance qualification as an extraneus at the Königstädtisches Realgymnasium in Berlin . From 1910 Heydebrand studied German, history and philosophy in Munich, Basel, Berlin and Greifswald. In Munich she met her brother Wilhelm Rudolf Steiner . Thereupon she dealt more and more with anthroposophy. It was probably Steiner who encouraged her to do a PhD on Novalis. The topic of her dissertation , which was supervised by Professors Max Herrmann , Berlin, and Gustav Ehrismann , Greifswald, was: The apprentices to Sais from Novalis . Ehrismann assessed her scientific performance with the following words:

“A very excellent piece of work ... due to a deep scientific education and the ability to understand the material in an analytical as well as a synthetic way ... The oral examination for Doctor of Philosophy, which she passed with an excellent result on July 29, 1919, gives her the same degree Would associated rights. "

When the first Waldorf school was founded in Stuttgart in 1919 , Heydebrand, the “born educator” (Steiner), took over the fifth grade with 47 children. From 1924 she edited the magazine Die Freie Waldorfschule , then from 1927 to 1932 the organ on Rudolf Steiner's pedagogy and from 1932 together with Friedrich Hiebel the successor organ of the Waldorf school movement Waldorf Education . After Steiner's death in 1925, there were divisions within the anthroposophical movement and the Anthroposophical Society . As a result, Heydebrand left school in 1934.

Caroline von Heydebrand gave many lectures on Waldorf education at home and abroad. After she left Stuttgart and due to her conflict with the Nazis, who banned her writings on April 6, 1938, she stayed mainly in Holland and England. The anthroposophist spent the last years of her life abroad. She was mainly active in Dutch and English Waldorf schools. Despite her poor physical condition, she still traveled to Gerswalde to meet friends. Shortly afterwards she became seriously ill and died in the castle there . Her urn was buried in the family cemetery in Klein-Tschunkawe ( Milicz municipality ).

A children's home founded in 1951 and a small class school in Berlin were named after her.

Another correction: Franz-Michael Konrad writes in his book Der Kindergarten. His story from the beginning to the present , that Caroline von Heydebrand was "the founder of the Stuttgart Waldorf kindergarten". It is not so. This first kindergarten based on the principles of Waldorf education was brought to life by Elisabeth von Grunelius .

Fonts (selection)

  • Against experimental psychology and pedagogy , Stuttgart 1921
  • From playing the child. The child while painting , Stuttgart 1927; 5. A. ibid. 1988, ISBN 3-88069-040-5
  • The light of the sun . Reader of the free Waldorf school for the second and third school year (publisher), Stuttgart 1928; 18. A. ibid. 2011, ISBN 978-3-88069-408-8
  • From the curriculum of the Free Waldorf School , Stuttgart 1931; 11. A. ibid. 2009, ISBN 978-3-7725-2520-9
  • From the soul life of the child . Edited by Maria Röschl, Stuttgart 1939
    • New edition as: From the soul being of the child , Stuttgart 1949; 12. A. ibid. 1997, ISBN 3-88069-192-4
  • "And God spoke ..." . Biblical reading book for the 3rd school year of the Free Waldorf School (edited with Ernst Uehli ), Stuttgart 1930; New edition ibid. 1987, ISBN 3-88069-039-1
  • Childhood and destiny. From the early years of the Free Waldorf School , Stuttgart 1958

literature

  • Ulrich von Heydebrand and the Lasa: Chronicle of the Silesian nobility v. Heydebrand u. der Lasa , Limburg an der Lahn 1964, p. 50.
  • Gisbert Husemann, Johannes Tautz (ed.): The circle of teachers around Rudolf Steiner in the first Waldorf school 1919–1925 . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-7725-0669-0 , pp. 27ff.
  • Ilse Brehmer, Karin Ehrich: Motherhood as a profession? Volume 2: Short Biographies. Centaurus, Pfaffenweiler 1993, ISBN 3-89085-259-9 , pp. 117f.
  • Maria Röschl: memorial for Caroline v. Heydebrand . In: Caroline von Heydebrand: From the soul being of the child , Stuttgart 1997, p. 182 ff.
  • Uwe Werner: Anthroposophists in the time of National Socialism (1933-1945) , Munich 1999
  • Manfred Berger : Leading women in social responsibility: Caroline von Heydebrand and the Lasa . In: Christ und Bildung 2001 / Heft 1, p. 35.
  • Inge Hansen-Schaberg , Bruno Schoning (ed.): Waldorf pedagogy . Schneider, Hohengehren 2006, ISBN 3-8340-0042-6 , p. 104 ff.
  • Margrit Jünemann: "Winter is giving way ...". Caroline von Heydebrand - pioneer of Waldorf education . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-7725-1886-9 .
  • Franz-Michael Konrad: The kindergarten. His story from the beginning to the present , Freiburg / Brsg. 2004

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heydebrand and the Lasa 1964, p. 50
  2. ↑ Quoted from Jünemann 2003, p. 36
  3. ↑ cf. Werner 1999, p. 249
  4. ^ Caroline-von-Heydebrand-Heim
  5. ↑ Konrad 2004, p. 145
personal data
SURNAME Heydebrand, Caroline von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heydebrand and the Lasa, Caroline Agathe Elisabeth Ferdinande von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anthroposophical educator
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH August 23, 1938
Place of death Gerswalde