Fe Reichelt

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Fe Reichelt (2007)

Fe Reichelt (born June 1925 in Beijing as Friederun Grimm ) is a German dancer, choreographer and dance therapist . She was a master student of Mary Wigman and made a decisive contribution to shaping the dance scene in Germany after the Second World War. She is the mother of the musician and painter Moritz Reichelt ( Der Plan ).

Life

Fe Reichelt's father, a specialist in ophthalmology and ENT medicine, got to know China as a young ship's doctor. He later moved with his family to Beijing, where Fe was born as Friederun Grimm in 1925, the second of three children. A close friend of the parents became Richard Wilhelm , theologian, missionary and one of the most important German-speaking sinologists , who had translated and commented on the I Ching , the book of changes and the oldest of the classical Chinese texts. Through him, who became Fez's godfather, the family got to know life "from within". In a Chinese house in the Chinese district of Beijing, she involuntarily grew up bilingual because, in addition to her parents, Chinese staff lovingly took care of Fe.

In 1936 the family returned to Halle (Saale) out of concern for their eldest son, who was alone in an old-language boarding school when it was called the National Political Educational Institution . The movement-gifted child came into contact with music and dance through a neighbor who practiced dance gymnastics. From 1945 to 1949 she completed professional dance studies. She then moved to West Berlin to Mary Wigman , where she was trained as a master class student from 1949 to 1952 and completed her teacher examination. From 1952 to 1953 she was a dancer and trainer at the Swiss National Circus Knie ; In 1954 she assisted Wieland Wagner as a dancer at the Bayreuth Festival at the Tannhäuser performance.

While Fe, now Fe Reichelt, first moved with her husband to Halle (Saale) in what was then the GDR and made some short films there with him, they were able to move to Celle in West Germany in 1957, where Reichelt was able to raise their three children was able to concentrate fully on dance and founding a dance school again. After her divorce, she was busy for a while and founded further dance schools in Düsseldorf and Munich: working with children and adults in ballet , expressive dance , pantomime . First encounters with addicts already indicated their way into dance therapy . In 1977 Reichelt moved to Frankfurt am Main, where she studied special and curative education with a focus on "behavioral disorders, movement and psychology". In 1978 she founded the "Fe Reichelt dance and theater workshop" and began the systematic development of dance therapeutic methods based on German expressive dance in conjunction with Chinese breathing techniques and research into movement impulses. Reichelt has been active since 1978 with various training offers, his own solo work, the establishment of various dance theater and expressive dance groups as well as worldwide workshops.

Reichelt has been living in Berlin again since 1997, where she offers individual consultations and, in addition to performing and various workshops, she also created training in dance therapy.

Act

Fe Reichelt's way of working was strongly influenced by the experiences of her childhood in the context of the Chinese way of life, philosophy and tradition. In later studies it was primarily the work of Erik H. Erikson , CG Jung , Sigmund Freud and Rudolf von Laban that flowed into their specific approach to dance therapy.

The discovery of breath as the key to knowledge and change plays a particularly important role in her work . With its help it should succeed in uncovering the meaning of unconscious movements as well as positive or negative emotional sides and in this way "out of diffuse feelings to find structured dance expression and at the same time to find oneself".

Publications

  • "Expressive Dance and Dance Therapy" (1987, Brandes & Apsel Frankfurt / M., ISBN 978-3-86099-153-4 )
  • "Breath, Dance and Therapy" (1990, Brandes & Apsel Frankfurt / M., ISBN 978-3-925798-97-9 )
  • "Breathing Exercises - Ways to Move" (1993, Brandes & Apsel Frankfurt / M., ISBN 978-3-86099-107-7 )
  • "Dance of Changes" (2005, Brandes & Apsel Frankfurt / M., ISBN 978-3-86099-809-0 )
  • "Improvisation, expressive dance and dream events" (2014, Brandes & Apsel Frankfurt / M., ISBN 978-3-95558-045-2 )
  • Series on dance therapy in "tanz aktuell": "Design and Imagination with the Breath" (6-10 1988)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b "I always have to brake myself" radio feature on WDR 5 from December 25, 2009 (accessed on January 29, 2019)
  2. ^ "Always in motion" , dancer Fe Reichelt on her 80th birthday, Welt Online from May 28, 2005 (accessed on March 5, 2012)
  3. ↑ a b "Fe Reichelt: She lives in Berlin again - Even at 75 she continues to dance" Der Tagesspiegel from June 15, 2000 (accessed on March 2, 2012)
  4. ↑ a b c Homepage Fe Reichelt (accessed on March 2, 2012)
  5. ↑ a b Personal communication Fe Reichelt
  6. ↑ a b dance and theater workshop Frankfurt, biography Fe Reichelt
  7. ^ Institute at the lake for dance therapy, Kesswil (Switzerland) (accessed on March 5, 2012)
  8. ^ "Breath, Dance and Therapy" (1990, Brandes & Apsel Frankfurt / M., ISBN 978-3-925798-97-9 )

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personal data
SURNAME Reichelt, Fe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grimm, Friederun (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dancer, choreographer and dance therapist
DATE OF BIRTH June 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Beijing