Franz Palm (dance teacher)

Franz Palm (born March 8, 1907 , † January 24, 1981 ) was a German dance teacher.

biography

In 1926 Palm was the founder of the Frankfurter Tanzkreis as a “dance, singing and play group”, which he directed until 1970. Between 1950 and 1970 he was deputy head of the working group for dance in Germany. In his main job, head of department of the youth welfare office of the city of Frankfurt am Main, Franz Palm was a dance teacher and an expert on the folk dance scene .

He made a particular contribution to the introduction of square dance in Germany. He translated dance descriptions from English into German. He was also significantly involved in setting up / founding the “ House of Youth ” in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen and a youth choir.

Fonts

• with Horst Schernus, Herbert Langhans and others as editors (1958; 1961): Dances in a bundle: 1. Dances from the Wild West; 2. Dances from America; 3. European Dances, Volume 1: France; 4. European Dances, Volume 4: Yugoslavia . Creative youth, Frankfurt a. M .; Regensburg: bosses; Möseler Vlg., Wolfenbüttel,
• with Helmut Segler as editor (1960): Tanzblätter , Fidula-Verlag.
• As editor (1961): Dances from America: Play parties, mixer, couples, contra dances, square dances , on behalf of the Working Group for Dance in the Federal Territory, Regensburg: Bosse. 2nd edition 1964
• as editor (1964): Dances from America: Mixer, Round Dances, Contra Dances, Square Dances , on behalf of the Working Group for Dance in Germany, Volume 2, Regensburg: Bosse
• with Hilda Lander (1976): The pseudo-drama of the identity crisis in the learning objective: Change of attitude in the area of ​​professional training, supervision. In: The social worker. Journal of the German Professional Association of Social Workers and Social Pedagogues (3), pp. 7-10.
• with Hilda Lander: Sensual-humane communication through changing dominant dance values , in: Jugendwohl 1977, pp. 107–111