Editha Koffer-Ullrich

Editha Koffer-Ullrich (* 1904 ; † 1990 ) was an Austrian violinist and music therapist .

Life

Suitcase Ulrich is considered to be the first clinical music therapist in Vienna . She received her doctorate in medicine and became a psychiatrist . In her and the President of the Vienna Music Academy, Hans Sittner , "the interest in American experiences in M., which was applied there to war veterans and also in the civilian sector" aroused. In 1956 she trained as a music therapist in the United States , "in Boston and at several clinics". She returned to Austria, where she worked as a music therapist at a pedriatic clinic under the direction of Andreas Rett and at a psychiatric clinic headed by Hans Hoff .

"Editha Koffer-Ullrich, who is at the very beginning, holds her violin in everyday hospital life - and still has one hand free for the myth that sounds can restore the balance of people who have become disharmonious."

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In 1958, Koffer-Ullrich founded the Austrian Society for the Promotion of Music Medicine ; In 1959 a music therapy training program was organized in cooperation with the Vienna Music Academy under the direction of Hans Sittner , and Koffer-Ullrich became the director of the new course that formed a generation of Viennese music therapists: the "Vienna School of Music Therapy"

In the 1960s, two concepts of music therapy emerged internationally: a more humanities, less practice-oriented school on the one hand, and another more natural-scientific, "clinical" tradition to which Koffer-Ullrich belonged.

Fonts (selection)

• Music therapy in Austria. In: Wiener Ärztezeitung , 20 (6), 1965, pp. 547-550.

literature

• Karin Mössler: Vienna School of Music Therapy. From the pioneers to the third generation (1957 until today). Volume 8 of the Vienna Contributions to Music Therapy. 2008.
• Elena Fitzthum: "Vienna School of Music Therapy". In: Hans-Helmut Decker-Voigt , Eckhard Weymann (Ed.): Lexicon Music Therapy. Hogrefe Verlag , 2009, pp. 558-561. ISBN 978-3-8409-2162-9

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Cured with music: a young austrian psychiatrist, Dr. Editha Koffer-Ullrich, believes that music heals illness better than any 'medicine' “In: The Age , June 6, 1958, p. 12.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Entry "Music therapy" in the music dictionary .
3. ↑ ^{a b} Music Therapy In Austria - EMTC. ( Memento from June 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ ^{a b} Katharina Fuchs: Page no longer available , search in web archives: Book presentation Dr. Karin Mössler.
5. ↑ Elena Fitzthum: "Vienna School of Music Therapy". In: Hans-Helmut Decker-Voigt , Eckhard Weymann (Ed.): Lexicon Music Therapy. Hogrefe Verlag , 2009, pp. 558-561. ISBN 978-3-8409-2162-9
6. ↑ Suitcase-Ullrich saw, like Karl-Friedrich Blanke , Christa Kohler-Hoppe , Hans-Georg Jaedicke , Christoph Schwabe , Berthold Stokvis , Martin Sutermeister, Hildebrand Richard Teirich and Harro Wendt , music therapy as a “method of clinically oriented psychotherapy”. Source: Journal of Psychotherapy and Medical Psychology . 1967, Volume 17, p. 81.