Else Klink

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Else Klink (born October 23, 1907 in Kabakada , Bismarck Archipelago ; † October 18, 1994 in Köngen ) was director of the Eurythmeum Stuttgart from 1935 to 1991 , the first training center for eurythmy founded by Marie Steiner in 1923 . In 1945 she was the founder and until 1991 director of the Eurythmeum stage ensemble. Because of her work, eurythmy made the step into public cultural life.

Life

As the eldest daughter of the North German colonial office manager Hans August Lorenz Klink , and Nawiamba Ambo, a native of New Guinea, Else Klink grew up on Kabakada, a New Guinea island, until she was six ; her father had emigrated there during the colonial period. So that Else Klink could attend the German secondary school for girls, she was housed with a family friend in Freiburg im Breisgau in June 1913 . When the foster parents died in 1917, Anna Wolffhügel (eurythmy teacher) took her in. After Max Wolffhügel (painter and Waldorf teacher in Stuttgart from 1920 to 1955) returned home from the war in 1918 and became branch manager, he invited Rudolf Steiner and Marie Steiner to a lecture in Freiburg on August 19, 1919. Rudolf Steiner recommended eurythmy lessons for the children with Alice Fels, who gave courses in Freiburg.

From 1921 Else Klink attended the first Waldorf School on the Uhlandshöhe in Stuttgart , where her talents in eurythmy immediately stood out. From 1924 onwards, eurythmy lessons were intensified for her, but freed from other subjects, school from eight to ten o'clock every day, from ten o'clock onwards, eurythmy training with Alice Fels (the then headmistress) in the eurythmy next to the school. In 1926 she decided to leave school in order to begin full eurythmy studies in the eurythmyum.

On October 23, 1929, she went to Holland to help build up eurythmy work until she fell ill in 1934 and was forced to quit. In 1935 she began studying eurythmy again in Stuttgart, which had been inactive since 1930. In 1935, Marie Steiner handed over the management of the Eurythmeum in Stuttgart to Else Klink.

In 1936, during the Third Reich, eurythmy was restricted. Klink tried to save her school and went to Berlin to negotiate with the Reichstheaterkammer. She managed to set up a sub-department “Eurythmy” under the department “Dance” and she could continue to hold her courses. Performances of eurythmy remained forbidden and diplomas should be confirmed by the Reich Theater Chamber. The students successfully completed their studies on July 8, 1941, but when the diplomas came back from Berlin by post on August 2, 1941, they were worthless, because in the meantime eurythmy was banned and school was banned .

A little later she was forced to do a “war effort of women” in a parachute factory for three years. After Stuttgart and the Eurythmeum building were destroyed by a bomb attack on September 12, 1944, she left the city and found refuge in the village of Gundelfingen on the Swabian Alb and was able to practice in an empty barn, studied with her tried and tested pianist, Gertrud Födisch and Otto Wiemer performed sound and speech eurythmy every day and worked out a large stage repertoire. After the end of the war, in 1945, Klink returned to Stuttgart and gave eurythmy lessons in the “Säulensaal” of the Waldorf School on August 23, 1945, which marked the beginning of her career. Its first performance took place in a factory hall on November 8, 1945, after which it received requests for training.

Thereupon she built a stage and the training in Köngen in 1946 and received support from Martha and Emil Kühn and in 1948 the foundation of the association “Verein zur Förder der Eurythmie eV” followed. V. “to support the eurythmy school. Since the Eurythmeum in Stuttgart had been destroyed during the World War, Else Klink continued the eurythmy training in Köngen in barracks, which Emil Kühn was able to acquire, together with Otto Wiemer. The provisional arrangement was called the “Private Eurythmy Conservatory in Köngen am Neckar”. In 1947 Marie Steiner granted her unrestricted power of attorney for all future eurythmy activities. In the same year, 17 performances followed in Württemberg and eight in the Ruhr area with a very varied program. From 1950 on, the number of performances taking place across Europe grew rapidly, and soon there were more than 50 per year.

In 1959 Theodor Beltle and his wife took over the administration of the stage and training, they founded the association "Eurythmeum eV", built the new building with a stage next to the Rudolf Steiner House in Stuttgart in 1964, thus securing the basis for a larger stage group and its use of orchestral music. The construction of the new building has been delayed more and more, because first a suitable building plot had to be found and donations had to be collected. Else Klink taught the eurythmists-to-be daily and took part in the stage. In the following period from 1961 numerous other tours and guest performances followed, from 1974 onwards there were major international tours.

In 1964 the training was extended to four years. Only in 1991 did she hand over the artistic and educational management of the Eurythmeum to a group of her proven stage artists and lecturers. Until her death in 1994 she lived in the Villa Kühn in Köngen , Esslingen district.

The ensemble was named the Else Klink Ensemble in honor of its founder from 1992 and is now the largest German eurythmy stage.

Honors

literature

  • Wolfgang Veit: Eurythmy, Else Klink - her work in a new stage art Urachhaus (Stuttgart), 1985, ISBN 3-87838-440-8
  • I. Rüchardt: Else Klink. About her 40 years of teaching . In: MaD 1969, No. 90
  • Erika Beltle (editor): Shape and movement . Festschrift for Else Klink, Stuttgart, Verlag Freies Geistesleben, 1977, ISBN 3-7725-0683-6 .
  • H. Gundelach: Else Klink and the Eurythmeum Stuttgart . In: Eurythmeum Stuttgart, Stuttgart [1987]
  • Hans Reipert: Eurythmical Correspondence , Otanes Verlag, ISBN 3-931370-70-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Else Klink at the Kulturimpuls research center , accessed on September 4, 2009
  2. ↑ The Else-Klink-Ensemble Stuttgart ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 4, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.symphonie-eurythmie-2008.de
  3. ↑ Eurythmy Paths of Life - 16 biographies tell ed. by Christine Lubczyk Otanes Verlag Berlin (2007) ISBN 393137081X
  4. ↑ Entry "Else Klink" at the Kulturimpuls research center, accessed on November 24, 2019
  5. ^ Anthroposophists oppose the sale of Villa Kühn , accessed September 4, 2009
  6. ↑ Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Klink, Else
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German performing artist, director of the Eurythmeum Stuttgart (1935 to 1991)
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Kabakada , Bismarck Archipelago
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1994
Place of death Köngen am Neckar