Doris Reichmann
Doris Reichmann (born October 22, 1891 in Cologne , † October 17, 1973 in Hanover ) was a German gymnastics teacher . In 1924 she founded a private school for the training of gymnastics teachers in Hanover , which existed until 2015.
life and work
Doris Reichmann studied static gymnastics in Berlin and Norway with Bess Mensendieck and worked as their assistant. In 1913 she moved from Duisburg to Hanover as a graduate student at the Mensendieck.
After giving private gymnastics courses for several years, she finally founded the Doris Reichmann Mensendiek School, Gymnastics and Breathing in 1924 and offered dance gymnastics and ballet training based on Mary Wigman . Before 1924 she taught at Meterstrasse 45, later at Eichstrasse 10 (Hanover-Oststadt). She developed new and own methods in rhythmic, movement-building and dance fields. Her textbook gymnastics with the smallest , first published in 1930, is considered the standard work for infant gymnastics . It was published for the eighth time in 1961, translated into French (La gymnastique des tout petits) in 1950 and into Japanese (Nyūji no taisō) in 1963 .
In the 1920s Doris Reichmann was an active member of the Volksbühne and acted in the politically left-wing environment. In June 1933 she was denounced by a letter from Frau Daube . Among other things, she was accused of "female lovers, earlier membership of the KPD and unfair party membership in the NSDAP ". Doris Reichmann was also supposed to have close contacts with Ada Lessing . Denunciations, for example due to business competition, were not uncommon during the Nazi era.
In 1936, Reichmann joined the Reich Association of German Gymnastics, Sport and Gymnastics Teachers in the Nazi teachers' association . Your school became an offer of the BDM- Werk Glaube und Schönheit, founded in 1938 . A student who had attended the Lichtwark School , which was closed in 1937 , was in the Reichmann School for almost a year in 1940. She remembers that Doris Reichmann was an emancipated woman: “She had been running the school for many years, and it wasn't small. She was a very energetic independent lady who used the organization of the BDM plant, but pursued her own concept. “Not a word was spoken politically. "The school was for people who thought like us, but there weren't many."
After the Reichmann School building was destroyed in 1944, Doris Reichmann moved to Hammersteinstrasse 3 in List . Together with Tilla Grabbe, she took care of the administration and theoretical lessons until the early 1970s. After Doris Reichmann's death in 1973, Margret Gerdes-Ahrens, Jutta Welge and Susanna Witte took over the school. Jutta Welge continued to run the school on her own until 2015. The Doris-Reichmann-Schule was a state-recognized vocational school for gymnastics and dance until 2015 and was located in the listed building of the Turn-Klubb in Hanover at Maschstraße 16. Well-known students were, for example, Gudrun-Axeli Knapp and Magdalena Ritter .
Publications
- Gymnastics with the little ones - a textbook for infant gymnastics , 1930 published by Adolf Sponholtz with a foreword by Bruno Valentin . New edition by Limpert Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 1961, with photos by Edmund Lill and Reinhold Lessmann.
- Healthy and elastic through gymnastics. Cultural educational film in accordance with the decree of the Prussian Minister for Science, Art and Education , recognized by the Central Institute for Education; First performed in 1928 with the support of the City Office for Physical Exercise Hanover from the Association for Sport and Gymnastics Culture Film.
- Guidelines for physical training measures within the province of Hanover . 1933/1934.
swell
- Games of Harmony in Herrenhausen , Lower Saxony daily newspaper No. 139, June 17, 1939
- BDM work “Faith and Beauty” in Göttingen , Hannoverscher Anzeiger , October 26, 1940
- Graceful Reigen , Hannoverscher Kurier , February 7, 1949
- Dream picture on the Maschsee , Norddeutsche Zeitung. Hanover July 23, 1951
- Danced serenade , Hanoverian press . August 14, 1951.
- Guests of honor, girls, cameras , Ruhr news , February 20, 1967.
- The Reichmann School , Neue Hannoversche Zeitung , October 22, 1971, is appreciated even abroad
- Her heart belonged to gymnastics with children , obituary for Doris Reichmann, Neue Hannoversche Zeitung, October 25, 1973
- Reichmann School celebrates its anniversary , Hannoversche Allgemeine , February 9, 1999.
- In 1930 girls turned in a round dance - it is the last of its kind: The Doris Reichmann School , Hannoversche Allgemeine, February 8, 1999
Web links
- Literature by and about Doris Reichmann in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ Her heart belonged to gymnastics with children, obituary for Doris Reichmann, Neue Hannoversche Zeitung, October 25, 1973
- ↑ Kirsten Plötz : “To completely expose your perverse inclinations.” The political and sexual denunciation of a National Socialist 1933 , in: Invertito / Yearbook for the History of Homosexualities, 4/2002, pp. 92–110. Primary source: Hannover City Archives: Letter from Ms. Daube dated June 9, 1933 to an unnamed addressee. NHStAH: Hann 310 IC 31, sheet 42
- ↑ Sabine Hering, Kurt Schilde: The BDM work 'Faith and Beauty'. The organization of young women under National Socialism , Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 978-3-932482-37-3 , p. 168
- ↑ 1930 girls turned in a round dance - it is the last of its kind: The Doris Reichmann School, Hannoversche Allgemeine, February 8, 1999
- ↑ Gero Gandert (Ed.): The film in the Weimar Republic 1929. A manual of contemporary criticism , de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1993, ISBN 978-3-11-011183-5 , p. 763
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reichmann, Doris |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German gymnastics teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 22, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th October 1973 |
| Place of death | Hanover |