Christine Uhl

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Christine Uhl (born February 18, 1906 in Cobbel , † February 18, 1976 in Bremen ) was a German educator and inventor of the so-called Uhl construction vehicle .

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Christine Hanna Theodora was the second youngest of seven children of Pastor Ernst Uhl and his wife Mathilde Uhl (née Gericke). After attending the Lyceum , she completed the after-school careers training in Bremen, then the nurse training in Hamburg and the youth leader training in Halle. After running the household for her brother, she worked for two years as a home manager in a reformatory on the "Sophienhöhe" near Jena. From 1934 to 1945 Uhl headed the seminar kindergarten of the women's college for socio-educational professions in Weimar , as well as the after- school care center in Falkheim , which belongs to the above-mentioned training center . From 1945 Uhl was in the Thuringian Ministry officer working for the kindergarten system. Four years later she fled the GDR and moved to Bremen . Until she retired in 1966, Uhl first ran a children's home and then two school kindergartens.

In Bremen the teacher developed her Uhl construction trailer , which had already appeared on the market in a simplified form in the eastern zone under the name Eule . It is a further development of the 3rd and 4th Froebel game, intended for children from the age of 3:

Christine Uhl… saw Froebel's toys as a task for our time to realize his ideas in a more child-friendly and well-thought-out way than he himself had succeeded in doing. She took up his approach: the child's confrontation with his (spatial) environment leads best to the goal when very simple forms are available as play equipment whose regular structures are clearly recognizable. Even if the shapes appear all too simple and undemanding to the superficial observer, they correspond to the mental powers of the toddler, for whom the complexity of our world must first be made transparent and who needs basic preparation for this .

The building blocks are length to width to thickness in a ratio of 4 to 2 to 1, corresponding to the dimensions of the Froebel cuboids. An additional construction kit is added to the construction trailer, the long timbers in different lengths for bridging z. B. Contains vacant lots and windows. Each of the 6 brick building sets contains: 96 beech wood blocks 66.6 × 33.3 × 16.7 mm, 1 beech wood set 30 × 23 × 8.5 cm, the additional building set 64 half cuboids 33.3 × 33.3 × 16.7 mm 48 long timbers of 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 times the cuboid length, also 1 beech wood box 30 × 47 × 8.5 cm and 1 chassis dimensions: 47 × 30 × 47 cm. Uhl wrote about the importance of building:

Building is a special form of childlike space exploration, in that the child not only measures the space with his limbs or with things, but by creating space himself. Building is a playful interior design in which the interaction between child and environment becomes particularly fruitful and clear. The child absorbs its environment, space and things by transforming them, transforming them, making them out of themselves .

Uhl was not only the inventor of a construction trailer, she developed a system of display boards, devised thread games and other play and activity material, suggested a number of practical game books and collections of popular games (jumping games, matchstick games, puzzles, etc.), designed and non-fictional picture books In particular, he advocated child-friendly “play care” that involved more than giving the child enough time and space to play.

In 1969 Uhl moved to Todtmoos- Rütte to actively participate in Count Dürckheim's educational and meeting center there. When she became seriously ill, she was transferred to a hospital in Bremen at her own request, where she died on her birthday in 1976.

Works (selection)

  • The building. A way of developing a child's spatial experience. Weimar 1948.
  • Law and order at play. In: E. Psczolla (Ed.): The seminar. Book 1, Witten n.d., pp. 3-6.
  • New placement boards. In: E. Psczolla (Ed.): The seminar. Book 1, Witten n.d., pp. 7-20.
  • Law and order at play. In: Sheets of the Pestalozzi-Froebel Association. 1950, pp. 39-43.
  • with Klara Stoevesandt : Building with and cuboids. Witten 1961.
  • Learn from Froebel: building with cubes and cuboids. Bielefeld 1991.

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  • Klara Stoevesandt: Build and Lay. Playful design for all ages. Bielefeld 1979.
  • Manfred Berger : About the creation of the Uhl construction trailer. In: Spielmittel. No. 3, 1994, pp. 56-57.
  • OV: Christine Uhl † February 18, 1976. In: Sozialpädagogische Blätter. 1976, pp. 157-158. (Obituary)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stoevesandt 1979, pp. 28f.
  2. ↑ spielundlern.de
  3. ↑ Uhl 1948, p. 11.
personal data
SURNAME Uhl, Christine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Uhl-Bauwagens, Christine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and inventor of the so-called Uhl construction trailer
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Cobbel
DATE OF DEATH 18th February 1976
Place of death Bremen