Christa Slezak-Schindler

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Christa Slezak-Schindler (born September 10, 1926 in Kassel ) is a German speech artist , reciter and speech therapist. She founded the linguistic therapy, in which she developed Rudolf Steiner's research in the humanities and the artistic linguistic activities of Marie Steiner-von Sivers into a general educational path. She is the author of fundamental publications on speech formation and its application in language education and speech therapy.

Life

Christa Slezak, nee Schindler, was born on September 10, 1926 as the fourth and youngest daughter of the German-Czech civil engineer of Jewish descent Jakob Schindler (* May 6, 1884, † August 25, 1949) and his German wife Hermine, nee Zocher (* July 26, 1893, † July 7, 1984) born in Kassel. The father saw Rudolf Steiner at the Congress of Vienna in 1922 and was a co-founder of the Kassel Waldorf School in 1928, at times the first lessons took place in the rooms of the parents' house. The family doctor was the anthroposophist Ludwig Noll , later the anthroposophist Otto Eisenberg.

In 1933/34 Christa Slezak-Schindler attended the first class of the Waldorf School on Ulmenstrasse in Kassel. Her favorite subject was eurythmy , which she had already got to know as a toddler. Her testimony, “As pure as the finest gold ...” from Angelus Silesius , which she had received from her teacher, helped her to endure the following years. In 1934 the family had to leave Germany because the father, as the Jewish owner of a well-known construction company, was soon exposed to persecution. The family emigrated to Brno in what was then Czechoslovakia, where the father came from. There Christa Slezak-Schindler first attended the German five-class Masaryk elementary school, then the municipal reform school for girls. The parents, friends with Hannah Krämer-Steiner, a personal student of Rudolf Steiner, and Franz Krause, the head of the Brno branch of the Anthroposophical Society (and author of the book about the Czech Goetheanist Jan Evangelista Purkyně ), were still involved in the anthroposophical movement . Wilma Schreiber, who dedicated the slogan "From the heart rushes courage ..." to Rudolf Steiner, a pupil of Marie Steiner, gave courses in speech formation at home. Christa Schindler heard the language exercise "Abracadabra" sound through the closed doors when she was ten, which made a deep impression on her.

In 1939 Hitler also occupied Brno. Due to the Nuremberg Laws , Christa Schindler had to leave school in 1942. She was also prohibited from attending any private school. She found work as a German-Czech correspondent in a freight forwarding company. The protection provided by the director of the forwarding company prevented her from being transported to Dresden for factory work in 1944, to which all Czech girls born in 1926 who were members of the Protectorate were assigned in 1944. At the beginning of 1945 she was registered for a concentration camp by the Gestapo . The end of the war saved them from deportation. - The father was separated from the family, had to do street work, was then sent to the [Hagibor] labor camp in Prague. In 1944 he was interned in the Theresienstadt concentration camp , from which he was able to return after the war ended in spring 1945. Twenty-eight closest relatives and many close friends of the family lost their lives in the concentration camps, as did the father's siblings and their families and the beloved grandmother Rosalie Schindler, who was deported at the age of 86. The Jewish writer and musician Herbert Thomas Mandl was one of the Brno children's friendships.

In 1946 the family returned to the bombed Kassel, and their parents' house was also destroyed. As a result of her experiences, Christa Slezak-Schindler took over the care of the people who had returned from the concentration camps within the Jewish community in Kassel . Until 1949 she worked as an executive assistant in the Jewish community and learned in many conversations the fate of mainly Polish and Russian Jews who either needed papers to emigrate to Israel or had to be referred to hospitals and sanatoriums. In August 1949 his father had a fatal accident on the construction site of the Kassel-Möncheberg Municipal Hospital, for the reconstruction of which he had received the contract. In addition to managing his re-established construction company, he was a very active member of the board of the Kassel Waldorf School Association. After the sudden death of his father and leaving the Jewish community in 1949, he stayed at the Dr. Hessenbruch in Bad Liebenzell and first visit from Unterlengenhardt.

From 1950 to 1956 Christa Slezak-Schindler was employed at the Kassel Waldorf School. She helped set up and set up the bookkeeping and library, and did correspondence work. The language, including Czech, had become a vital force for her. In 1951 she took a first course in speech formation with the speech artist Ingeborg Kleinsorge and got to know the hexameter . Many anthroposophists, the Goetheanum actress Gertrud Redlich, the painter Bernhard Eyb or the engineer Paul Regenstreif were friends of the family. In 1951 she saw the performance of Rudolf Steiner's Mystery Dramas for the first time at the Goetheanum stage. In the same year she entered the General Anthroposophical Society, and in 1979 she entered the first class of the School of Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum. From 1956 to 1957 she worked as an educator and assistant teacher at the Rudolf Steiner home school Montolieu in Bussigny near Lausanne, where she was given the opportunity to familiarize herself with pedagogy. There she made the acquaintance of the painter Julius Hebing and his wife, the speech artist Eva Hebing. The school was directed by Rudolf Kutzli, the founder of dynamic form drawing.

A reparation that she received because of her proven forced dropout made it possible for Christa Slezak-Schindler to study intensively at the School of Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum (Dornach / Switzerland). From January 1958 to June 1961 she was trained as a speech artist, and she also did telephone service at the Ita Wegman Clinic in Arlesheim. Her teachers included Gertrud Redlich and Kurt Hendewerk, as well as Else Klevers and Dora Gutbrod. All of her teachers were students of Marie Steiner and worked as actors on the Goetheanum stage for decades. Paul Theodor Baravalle was also one of her speech creation teachers. She received private lessons in eurythmy from Isabell de Jaager. Encounters with Albert Steffen and many conversations with Edwin Froböse took place. In 1959 the pedagogical seminar (teacher seminar) at the Goetheanum was completed. She received the license to teach in Rudolf Steiner schools and the license to teach speech formation. From 1965 numerous recitations, lectures and seminars on speech formation in Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic and Switzerland.

In 1966 she married Ernst Slezak, with whom she attended the first class (which had to be repeated due to the change of school and the lack of language skills) of the Masaryk elementary school in Brno in 1934 and has been friends since then. He worked as a technician and engineer with Walter Wolman and Wolfgang Kaiser at the Institute for Communications at the University of Stuttgart. He died in 1995.

After completing her studies in Dornach, Christa Slezak-Schindler worked as a speech artist at the Free Waldorf School at the Kräherwald in Stuttgart from November 1961 to July 1984 . Her area of ​​responsibility included teacher training, language art teaching, individual speech therapy for students of all ages and the rehearsal of many class games and recitations. She received great support from Ernst Weißert , who encouraged her to write her book “Artistic Spoken Language in School Age”, and she gave major courses at many teachers' conferences under his leadership in Stuttgart. She also worked actively with Helmut von Kügelgen in the Waldorf kindergarten movement, and at the same time advised Paul von der Heide on the establishment of speech therapy work in the psychosomatic department of the newly founded Filder Clinic.

Sh -!
Very softly, very softly
we go on a journey
the giant sleeps in the forest,
the morning is still cold
the bird sits in the nest,
the nest holds it tight
the bird flies in the grass,
that's wet with dew,
the sun rises
and seems warm on it.
Very softly, very softly
we come from the trip
home, home -
the song is over!
Christa Slezak-Schindler
Calendar sheet

Since 1978 she has been working at the training center for speech formation and speech art therapy in Stuttgart, which she co-founded. In 1985 she moved to Bad Liebenzell-Unterlengenhardt. There she continued the School for Speech Formation and Speech Artistic Therapy and supplemented her training activities with advanced training courses for speech artists, doctors and teachers. Joint courses with the author Jakob Streit , the pedagogue Rudolf Kutzli, the aircraft manufacturer and Egyptologist Frank Teichmann, the astronomer Werner Perrey, the priest of the Christian community Harald Falck-Ytter or the doctor Walther Bühler in the free study site in Unterlengenhardt. In the annual advanced training weeks for speech artists and speech therapists, in numerous weekend courses and seminars for pedagogues and curative pedagogues, in medical courses and introductory events for those interested, Christa Slezak-Schindler presented the development of a methodology of linguistic therapy that today forms an independent direction within anthroposophically shaped speech therapy .

Christa Slezak-Schindler in the recording studio, December 6, 2012

In addition to Dora Gutbrod, Christa Slezak-Schindler is considered a pioneer of therapeutic speech and worked together with her colleagues from 1989 to 1998 in the art therapeutic research group of the Medical Section of the School of Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum in Dornach. The result of this work is the book “Therapeutic Speech Formation”, in which Barbara Denjean-von Stryk summarized the contributions of the school of Christa Slezak-Schindler, Dietrich von Bonin the contributions of the Dora-Gutbrod-School. While Christa Slezak-Schindler prevented a split in the research group during this time, later, for reasons of quality and identity assurance of her work, especially in the area of ​​training and further education, she returned to what she originally called linguistic artistic therapy, which differs in essential points from the Therapeutic speech formation is different, but it is still integrated. In addition to the established one, Christa Slezak-Schindler represents a second, non-medical healing stream within the anthroposophical movement, which has its origins in the collaboration between Rudolf Steiner and Marie Steiner-von Sivers and leads to a healing art that ultimately means an extension of anthroposophic medicine cannot be prescribed by a doctor. Marie Steiner: "We have the healing breath."

House of Language, Unterlengenhardt 2011

The priority striving for state recognition of the language formation training, the increasing preponderance of conventional, scientifically shaped worldview and the associated suppression of (healing) artistic knowledge, the general decline of language formation in favor of the likewise conventionally oriented acting, but above all the extensive lack of understanding on the part the leadership of the Medical Section at the Goetheanum and individual anthroposophic doctors as well as the lack of support for their work by the Section for Speaking and Music-Making Arts at the Goetheanum under the direction of eurythmist Werner Barfod led to years of but fruitless efforts to achieve understanding, awareness and ideal support in May 2005 to leave the section for the speaking and music-making arts and in January 2009 to leave the General Anthroposophical Society.

In 2000 Christa Slezak-Schindler founded the Institute for Speech Formation as a continuation of her artistic research work, which is intended to maintain and further develop speech formation and its curative artistic possibilities. Of central importance here is the further development of Rudolf Steiner's language exercises, searching for the power centers of sounds and the effects of rhythms, empathizing and settling in with the breath, vocal work and the treatment of movement in speech gestures. The movement accompanying speech, especially the movement accompanying speech, has been developed and taught since 1956.

On January 1st, 2002, her student and colleague Otto Ph. Sponsel-Slezak, who founded Marie Steiner Verlag on September 10th, 2001, was adopted. The anthroposophic ophthalmologist Elfriede Lötterle (born September 30, 1915, † December 14, 2009) made it possible to set up the House of Language in Bad Liebenzell-Unterlengenhardt, which also houses the Marie Steiner Verlag, the practice for artistic speaking and the Institute for Speech Formation are located.

Fonts

  • Language initiation - enjoyment of speaking. Advice for speech-makers, educators, teachers and parents. Marie-Steiner-Verlag, Bad Liebenzell 2009, ISBN 978-3-9808022-8-4 .
  • Artistic speech creation. Marie-Steiner-Verlag, Bad Liebenzell 2005, ISBN 3-9808022-9-9 .
  • The art of speech formation in the breathing space of time. Marie-Steiner-Verlag, Bad Liebenzell 2011, ISBN 978-3-9813255-7-7 .
  • with Otto Ph. Sponsel-Slezak: Speech formation in the upper level. Advice for parents, teachers, educators and speech artists. Marie-Steiner-Verlag, Bad Liebenzell 2009, ISBN 978-3-9808022-6-0 .
  • What is linguistic therapy? Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 2002, ISBN 3-7235-1142-2 .
  • Of living with the word. Five healing powers of language and speaking. Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 1992, ISBN 3-7235-0668-2 .
  • The training path in speech formation and practical suggestions for speech art therapy. A way to the healing word. Philosophisch-Anthroposophischer Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 1985, ISBN 3-7235-0413-2 .
  • Artistic speaking in school age. Fundamentals for teachers and educators who work in the sense of Rudolf Steiner's art of education. 8th, significantly enlarged and improved edition. Pedagogical Research Center, Stuttgart in collaboration with Marie-Steiner-Verlag, Bad Liebenzell, 2007, ISBN 978-3-927286-74-0 .
  • Sayings and sound games for children. A perpetual weekly calendar with exercise instructions and tips on language maintenance, illustrated by Christiane Lesch. Marie-Steiner-Verlag, Bad Liebenzell 2012, ISBN 978-3-9813255-3-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ As pure as the finest gold, as solid as a rock, your mind should be as pure as crystal.
  2. ↑ [1]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.tschechien-portal.info  
  3. ^ Herbert Thomas Mandl , member of the prisoners' orchestra and later Heinrich Böll's private secretary .
  4. ^ Journal: Messages from the anthroposophical work in Germany, vol. 39, No. 154, Christmas 1985: Slezak-Schindler, C .: Totengedenken: Redlich, Gertrud
  5. ^ Jörg von Kralik: Kurt Hendewerk. Research Center for Culture Impulse, accessed on November 9, 2012 .
  6. ^ Magda Maier: Dora Gutbrod. Research Center for Culture Impulse, accessed on November 9, 2012 .
  7. ^ Institute for News Transmission, celebration of the 100th birthday of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Walter Wolman on January 20, 2001.
  8. ↑ Calendar sheet (week number 32, front side) from: Christa Slezak-Schindler: Proverbs and sound games for children. A perpetual weekly calendar with exercise instructions and tips on language maintenance , illustrated by Christiane Lesch. Marie Steiner Verlag, 2012
  9. ^ DPMA register: Artistic speech therapy according to Christa Slezak-Schindler. German Patent and Trademark Office, accessed on November 9, 2012 .
  10. ↑ professional association for anthroposophic art therapy BVAKT
  11. ^ Dietrich von Bonin, Barbara Denjean-von Stryk, Therapeutische Sprachgestaltung , Stuttgart, 2002, ISBN 978-3-926444-47-9
  12. ↑ Christa Slezak-Schindler: Heilkünstlerisches Sprachgestalten. Marie-Steiner-Verlag, Bad Liebenzell 2005, ISBN 3-9808022-9-9 .
  13. ↑ Christa Slezak-Schindler, Otto Ph. Sponsel-Slezak: House of Language. (No longer available online.) House of Language, archived from the original on January 31, 2011 ; Retrieved November 9, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.haus-der-sprache.org

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SURNAME Slezak-Schindler, Christa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German speech artist, reciter and speech therapist
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel