Elisabeth Noack

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Elisabeth Noack (born July 29, 1895 in Mainz ; † April 20, 1974 in Darmstadt ) was a German musicologist , music teacher , cantor , editor , publisher .

Life

Elisabeth Noack grew up in Mainz as the daughter of the architect and politician August Noack . Her brother is the musicologist and composer Friedrich Noack.

Elisabeth Noack graduated from the Viktoriaschule in Darmstadt in 1915 . At the same time as her, Elisabeth Selver , the daughter of the same age of the former Darmstadt rabbi Dr. David Selver, the Victoria School. Possibly a lifelong friendship had linked the two of them since then, because when the contract for the sale of Elisabeth Selver's parents' house was concluded in 1958, which had been expropriated by the Nazis and transferred back after the Second World War , Elisabeth Selver had Elisabeth contact the notary Noack represented.

After attending the Viktoriaschule, Elisabeth Noack studied philosophy , art and cultural history at the TH Darmstadt . In October 1917 she moved to the former Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, today's Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin , where she studied musicology and on March 21, 1921, with a dissertation on Georg Christoph Strattner, she was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . She was the first Hessian woman to take the exam to become a school music teacher. She then worked at two schools, then switched to the Hochwaldhausen mountain school in 1923 , where she taught together with her friend Elisabeth Selver. In 1924 she became a student teacher and music teacher at the Helene Lange School in Schneidemühl .

On April 1, 1929, she was sent to the PH Kiel appointed , teaching music. During this time she published the multi-part series My First Singing Book , which was designed for elementary school students and based on the Tonika-Do teaching . In 1933 she returned to school, but continued to have close contacts with Elisabeth Selver and the private forest school Heinz Paul, which she co-founded in Berlin : “I was a frequent guest and interested observer at the forest school in Berlin-Ruhleben, and finally in 1934 I spent longer weeks myself as head instead of Dr. Paul-Selver worked to help maintain the school, which was made impossible by the Nazi measures. "

From 1941 to 1957 Elisabeth Noack headed the Tonika-Do-Verlag for music education in Kiel. She inherited this post from Maria Leo , who was dismissed from service as a Jew. As a university lecturer through the compulsory membership of all teachers in the National Socialist Teachers' Association NSLB also NSDAP member, she secured the tonic-do teaching in the time of National Socialism. She later visited Maria Leo on her deathbed and dedicated several essays to her.

After she retired and moved back to Darmstadt, she began to be more scientifically active and published some works on the musical education of children and young people as well as on the music history of Darmstadt. On July 29, 1970, she received the Johann Heinrich Merck Honor . In 1974 she died after a long illness. Your estate is archived in the University Library of the TU Darmstadt .

The city of Darmstadt later dedicated a space in the composer's quarter to her.

Fonts

  • Georg Christoph Strattner. His life and works . Dissertation . Berlin 1921.
  • My first song book: Introducing our little ones to music according to the Tonika-Do teaching. Using simple calls and folk songs for children. Chr. Fr. Vieweg, Berlin-Lichterfelde. (Multi-volume work)
  • Secular and sacred choir songs from the 16th to 18th centuries for 3 mixed voices . Vieweg Verlag, Berlin-Lichterfelde 1931.
  • Choir education . Tonika Do-Bund, Dresden. around 1938. (leaflet)
  • Praise God in All Realms: A Christmas Play . Bärenreiter-Verlag, Basel 1955.
  • We make music with children . Luther-Verlag, Witten 1964.
  • Wolfgang Carl Briegel: a baroque composer in his time . Merseburger Verlag, Berlin 1963.
  • Music history of Darmstadt from the Middle Ages to the time of Goethe. Series: Contributions to the music history of the Middle Rhine. Volume 8, Schott, Mainz 1967.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Noack, Friedrich. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ^ Friedrich Noack in the Stadtlexikon Darmstadt
  3. ↑ Brief portrait of Elisabeth Noack
  4. ↑ Purchase contract certified by the Darmstadt notary Hans Kling on April 22, 1958, in: Amtsgericht Darmstadt. Land register file for Volume 26, Sheet 1251 of the Land Register of Darmstadt, District III (House Landwehrstrasse 12 in Darmstadt).
  5. ↑ a b Letter from Elisabeth Noack dated December 27, 1959 in: State Office for Citizens and Regulatory Affairs (LABO), Section I - Compensation Authority Victims of National Socialism, Fehrbelliner Platz 1, 10707 Berlin - Compensation File Elisabeth Paul - Reg.No. 173.318.
  6. ↑ Peter Dudek: We want to be warriors in the army of light . Julius Klinkhardt, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7815-1804-9 , pp. 178 .
  7. ↑ a b Barbara Obermüller: Elisabeth Noack (1895–1974). Mathilde Frauenzeitung, accessed on February 23, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Thomas Phleps : The correct method or what music educators argue about. Notes on the function and functioning of solmization syllables and their producers in the first half of the 20th century . In: Mechthild von Schoenebeck (Hrsg.): On dealing with the subject of music education with its history (=  music education research ). tape 22 . Verlag Die Blaue Eule, Essen 2001, p. 93–139 ( online at: staff.uni-giessen.de ).
  9. ↑ Maria Leo - Music became her life. Integrationsverein Berlin, accessed on February 24, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Music bequests. TU Darmstadt , accessed on February 24, 2015 .
  11. ^ Sigrid Arras: Unusual women in Darmstadt or: strong women in the Heinerstadt. Hypatia Darmstadt, accessed on February 24, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Noack, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist, music teacher, cantor, music publisher
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1974
Place of death Darmstadt