Frank Bennedik

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Frank Karl Bennedik (born May 23, 1890 in Hamburg ; † November 22, 1939 in Ricklingen near Hanover ) was a German music teacher .

Life

Frank Karl Bennedik was born in Hamburg in 1890 as the son of the businessman Bernhard Bennedik (born 1856) and his wife Wilhelmine Peters (born 1859). His brother was the future singing teacher and university director Bernhard Bennedik (1892–1972).

When the Bennedik family moved to Cologne, he attended the municipal high school there from 1901 to 1910 with a reform high school. After graduation in 1910, he studied mathematics and physics in Bonn from 1910/11 and mathematics, physics, education and English philology in Jena from 1911 to 1913 . Study visits took him to England in 1910 and 1912 . In 1914 he was at Wilhelm Rein at the Faculty of Arts of University of Jena with the music didactic thesis The psychological foundations of musical ear training with reference to the educational importance of Tonwortmethode of Eitz to Dr. phil. PhD. He passed the Rigorosum in 1913. He also passed the examination for the higher teaching post in Jena .

By 1925 he was teacher at the Protestant teachers' college in Halberstadt . In 1926 he became a lecturer and in 1928 professor for mathematics at the Pedagogical Academy in Kiel. In 1929 he received a professorship for mathematics and practical pedagogy at the Pedagogical Academy in Hanover and was a school councilor at the training schools there. In the course of the Prussian austerity policy, the academy was closed and in April 1932 Bennedik was transferred as rector to the Protestant school 27 in Hanover. After the " seizure " of the Nazis, he was under § 3 ( Aryan paragraph ) of the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil October 1, 1933, the retirement offset by which he beside Otto Janssen to those teachers to the Prussian teacher training colleges was one that particularly hard by this legislation were affected. From 1937 to 1939 he was chairman of the 1937 Association in Hanover, which, according to the Nuremberg Laws, campaigned for the interests of so-called " Jewish mixed race ". Although he died in November 1939, his name appeared in 1940 in the Machwerk Lexikon der Juden in the music of Herbert Gerigk and Theophil Stengel .

Bennedik was considered a representative of Carl Eitz's tone word method and, together with Adolf Strube , published the magazine Das Tonwort from 1927 . Communications based on theory and practice of the tone word . He also worked as a songbook author.

He was married to Hedwig Stein (sister of Fritz Stein ) and the father of three sons.

Fonts (selection)

  • Historical and psychological-musical investigations into Eitz's tone word method . 2nd revised edition, J. Beltz, Langensalza 1925.
  • Tonwort songbook . Carl Merseburger, Leipzig 1925/26. (with Adolf Strube)
  • Come on, sing happy! Songbook for elementary schools . Parts 1–3, Carl Merseburger, Leipzig 1927/29. (Ed. with Adolf Strube)
  • Fe-Pa-To . Singing primer based on the theory of Carl Eitz. 3rd revised edition, Carl Merseburger, Leipzig 1929. (with Adolf Strube)
  • Handbook for Toneword Lessons . 5th revised edition, C. Merseburger, Leipzig 1932. (with Adolf Strube)

literature

  • Wilhelm Altmann (arrangement): Concise Tonkünstlerlexikon. For musicians and friends of music . Founded by Paul Frank. 12th very expanded edition, Carl Merseburger, Leipzig 1926.
  • Alexander Hesse: The professors and lecturers of the Prussian educational academies (1926-1933) and colleges for teacher training (1933-1941) . Deutscher Studienverlag, Weinheim 1995, ISBN 3-89271-588-2 , p. 166.
  • Renate Heuer (arrangement): Bibliographia Judaica. Directory of Jewish authors in the German language . Volume 1: A-K . Kraus International Publications, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-601-00347-3 .
  • Erich H. Müller (Ed.): German Musicians Lexicon . W. Limpert-Verlag, Dresden 1929.
  • Thomas Phleps : The right method or what music educators argue about . In: Mechthild von Schoenebeck (ed.): On dealing with the subject of music education with its history (= music education research . Vol. 22). Die Blaue Eule, Essen 2001, ISBN 3-89206-046-0 , p. 93ff., Especially p. 118f.
  • Gerhard Lüdtke (ed.): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . 4th edition, de Gruyter, Berlin 1931.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Petersen : Jews in the musical life of Hamburg . In: Arno Herzig (ed.): The Jews in Hamburg 1590 to 1990. Scientific contributions from the University of Hamburg to the exhibition “Four Hundred Years of Jews in Hamburg” (= The History of the Jews in Hamburg 1590–1990 . Vol. 2). Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-926174-25-0 , pp. 299-309, here: p. 309.
  2. ↑ Uta Schäfer-Richter: In no man's land. Christians of Jewish origin under National Socialism - the example of the Hanover regional church . Wallstein, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8353-0469-7 , p. 196.
  3. ↑ Thomas Phleps : The correct method or what music educators argue about . In: Mechthild von Schoenebeck (ed.): On dealing with the subject of music education with its history (= music education research . Vol. 22). Die Blaue Eule, Essen 2001, ISBN 3-89206-046-0 , pp. 93–140, here: p. 95 / fn. 1.
personal data
SURNAME Bennedik, Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bennedik, Frank Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1939
Place of death Ricklingen near Hanover