Gerda Bächli

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Gerda Bächli (born 4. June 1921 as Gerda Frey in Zurich ; died 14. March 2013 in Winterthur ) was a Swiss composer , music educator and music therapist . She is considered a pioneer of elementary music education and music therapy in Switzerland .

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Gerda Bächli grew up in a family of musicians in Zollikon . Her mother was the singer Alice Frey, her father the pianist and music teacher Walter Frey . She received lessons in rhythm from Mimi Scheiblauer as well as in singing and piano. After graduating from high school , she worked as an actress from 1941 to 1945, initially at the Stadttheater Luzern , later also at the Schauspielhaus Zürich , while taking acting lessons with Ellen Widmann and Ernst Ginsberg . In 1945 she went to Radio Zurich, where she worked as an announcer as well as with her own series and as a radio play writer. In 1950 she met her future husband, Samuel Bächli, whom she followed to Sweden. There she worked from 1952 to 1955 as a permanent employee at Radio Stockholm and produced school radio programs as well as series and reports for adults, which she continued until 1970, even after the family had moved back to Zurich in 1955. The marriage resulted in two sons, the conductor Samuel Bächli, named after their father, and the pianist Tomas Bächli.

Parallel to her work on the radio , Bächli began to work in the field of elementary music education and children's theater . In 1966 she completed her training as a specialist teacher for elementary music education and recorder with a diploma. She got to know the epilepsy clinic in Zurich through a performance and began a musical work with people with intellectual disabilities there , which she continued until 1976. She completed further training courses for curative educational work and began writing and editing children's songs for educational and therapeutic work.

From this point onwards, curative education and music therapy work with the disabled became her focus. From 1976 to 1983 she worked as a music therapist at the “Wagererhof Uster”, a home for people with intellectual disabilities. She passed on her experiences as a lecturer in Switzerland, Austria and Germany, such as at the Salzburg summer courses, the international "Sonnenberg Conference" in Sankt Andreasberg , at the rhythm seminar in Remscheid and the special education training at the University of Dortmund . She gave courses in the GDR and worked with the dance therapist Trudi Schoop . She continued teaching after her retirement until her death. It was documented in numerous film recordings.

She also became known for her songs, which often emerged from specific work and play situations and whose high musical quality is valued as much as their suitability for working with children and disabled people.

Honor

  • 2004: Individual prize for her life's work from the Miriam Foundation

Movie

  • Coloman Kallós, Sandra Lutz Hochreutener: Liveliness with music. Especially Bächli. Pioneer of elementary music education and music therapy. DVD. Reichert-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2019. Trailer on YouTube

Publications (selection)

Books

  • On the wings of the song. German poems as songs. Sveriges Radio, Stockholm 1962.
  • The flashback. A German cultural history 1750–1950. Sveriges Radio in collaboration with Stockholm University, Stockholm 1969.
  • It spyl from the boat. After woodcuts by Heinz Keller . Schweizerisches Jugendschriftenwerk, Küssnacht 1970.
  • Pöpper. Making music with a disabled friend. MusicVision, Küssnacht 2005.

music

  • The centipede. Pan music store, Zurich 1982.
  • Circus shaggy bear. Music store Pan, Zurich 1985.
  • Every year again. Music store Pan, Zurich 1985.
  • Once upon a time ... Musikhaus Pan, Zurich 1988.
  • Plipf, Plopf and Plum. Pan music store, Zurich 1997.
  • Dream boat: 21 children's songs. Music Vision, Küsnacht 2002.
  • Hands and feet: 27 new simple movement and play songs by Gerda Bächli in High German and Swiss German. Music Vision, Küsnacht 2008.
  • Dumpa you. 27 High German children's songs, particularly suitable for DAZ, German as a second language Music Vision, Küssnacht 2010.
  • OOPS. German for multilingual groups of children. CD with 67 songs. Textbook publisher, Bern 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tomas Bächli: Sounds without disabilities. Republic of May 10, 2019. Retrieved June 22, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b Coloman Kallós, Sandra Lutz Hochreutener: Gerda Bächli: lively music. Reichert-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2019, supplement.
  3. ↑ Tomas Bächli website. Retrieved July 7, 2019.
  4. ↑ Interview by Renata Bodor January 2009 . Retrieved July 7, 2019.
  5. ↑ Coloman Kallós, Sandra Lutz Hochreutener: Liveliness with music. Especially Bächli. Pioneer of elementary music education and music therapy. DVD. Reichert-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2019.
  6. ↑ a b Irmgard Merkt: 2004 single price for Gerda Bächli. A new song, a better song: On Gerda Bächli's work. Foundation website, accessed July 7, 2019
  7. ↑ Barbara von Selve: Gerda Bächli 1921–2013 An appreciation. Association of Kindergarten Teachers Zurich ZLV-Magazin 4/2013. Retrieved July 7, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Bächli, Gerda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frey, Gerda (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss composer, music teacher and music therapist
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 2013
Place of death Winterthur