Dora Menzler

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Dora Menzler (born October 19, 1874 in Jever , † September 10, 1951 in Wustrow ) was a German gymnastics teacher .

biography

In 1906 she passed the Prussian gymnastics teacher exam in Kiel. In 1908 she founded a school for the training of gymnastics teachers in Leipzig. In 1919 she bought a house with a large garden in the Baltic resort of Wustrow, where the summer semesters were held from 1920. With her nude gymnastics and nude dance, she set herself apart from nudism. In 1931 the company moved from Leipzig to Hellerau. Her school for gymnastics, designed movement and music education was in the Hellerau Festival Hall, her apartment on the Anstaltsplatz.

In 1933 she handed over the school management to Hildegard Marsmann, because as a “ half-Jew ” she had to fear closure; Menzler moved to Wustrow and then to Dresden. It is described that she was in Hellerau towards the end of the war and that she was hidden in a special cellar in the event of an air raid alarm after the students had gathered in the cellar.

After the war the school was reopened for a short time under the name “Menzler-Marsmann-Schule”. It survived the final closure in July 1951 by only two months. Dora Menzler died on September 10, 1951 in Wustrow and was buried there.

Works

  • The beauty of your body. The goal of our health and artistic body training . Stuttgart 1924
  • Body training of women in pictures and words . Dieck & Co, Stuttgart 1924

literature

  • Lexicon of women. Zurich: Encyclios, 1953–1954

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arnd Krüger : There Goes This Art of Manliness: Naturism and Racial Hygiene in Germany, in: Journal of Sport History 18 (Spring, 1991), 1, 135 - 158. Nude picture of her on p. 150. http: // library .la84.org / SportsLibrary / JSH / JSH1991 / JSH1801 / jsh1801i.pdf
  2. ↑ cf. Lobeck, Christine: Who was Dora Menzler? In: Mitteilungen für Hellerau, June 1997
personal data
SURNAME Menzler, Dora
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gymnastics teacher
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Jever
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1951
Place of death Wustrow (Fischland)