Elfriede Hengstenberg

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Elfriede Hengstenberg (born December 22, 1892 in Meran , † 1992 in Berlin ) was a German educator .

Life

Elfriede Hengstenberg was born as the fifth child. Her father, the engineer Rudolph Hengstenberg, came from a Westphalian family of theologians, and her mother, Mathilde Hengstenberg née Weißenborn, was the daughter of a Gotha construction company. Her younger brother Rudolf Hengstenberg followed as the sixth child in 1894 .

After the handover of the Merano gas and water works, which the father had bought in bankruptcy proceedings in 1877, the family moved to Berlin in 1899. Rudolph Hengstenberg senior supported his eldest son Alfried in his supply company in Birkenwerder , and the family built a villa in Wannsee at Friedrich-Carl-Strasse 8 (today Am Sandwerder 30).

Already during her school days Elfriede Hengstenberg took courses in gymnastic rhythm according to Émile Jaques-Dalcroze . Immediately after graduating from high school, she went to Hellerau and took gymnastics lessons with Rudolf Bode . She obtained her diploma as a gymnastics teacher at the Munich School for Plastic Gymnastics, which was newly founded by Bode . In 1915 - during the First World War - Elfriede Hengstenberg returned to Berlin.

On the basis of a recommendation from Carl Ludwig Schleich , Hengstenberg got to know Elsa Gindler's working method in 1917 , where she took private lessons. Since then, Hengstenberg has been one of Gindler's closest friends, including Charlotte Selver . From 1924 Elfriede Hengstenberg also attended the courses of the music teacher Heinrich Jacoby , who developed a special adult education together with Elsa Gindler. She began by applying both approaches to her own work with children. These influences of a holistic view of movement education and music education prompted Elfriede Hengstenberg to develop a new concept of education and development through movement.

According to her concept, she taught at the Montessori School in Berlin-Dahlem from 1928 to 1933 . At the invitation of the pediatrician Emmi Pikler , she was able to give summer courses for adults in Budapest in 1935, 1936 and 1937. Previously, both had noted the similarity of their approaches:

“ They saw the need for independence as an essential characteristic of child development. Pikler and Hengstenberg saw this independent development of movement as the basis for a healthy development of personality. Therefore, Elfriede Hengstenberg's highest maxim in her work with children was: Respect for the child's initiative . "

After the Second World War , Elfriede Hengstenberg worked in West Berlin on behalf of the Senate between 1950 and 1960 in teacher training and gave courses for school children and private lessons for adults.

literature

  • Manfred Berger : Leading women in social responsibility, in: Christ and Education 1993 / H. 9, p. 261
  • Unfolding. Pictures and descriptions from my work with children . Arbor, Freiamt 2002 ISBN 3-924195-07-2
  • Fuchs, Michael Peter: Hengstenberg play and movement education . Herder Verlag 2017. ISBN 978-3-451-37709-9

Web links

source

  • Kim Traxler: Elfriede Hengstenberg's movement concept . ( PDF , 222 kB)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kim Traxler: Elfriede Hengstenberg's movement concept . P. 20
personal data
SURNAME Hengstenberg, Elfriede
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Meran
DATE OF DEATH 1992
Place of death Berlin