Gertrud Orff

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Gertrud Orff (born August 9, 1914 in Munich ; † May 1, 2000 in Munich; née Willert ) was a German music therapist .

Career

Little is known about Gertrud Willert's career prior to her marriage to Carl Orff (1895–1982). After graduating from high school, she attended a private commercial school. Contrary to her father's wish to study medicine, she devoted herself to music and got to know Carl Orff. She was initially his student and from 1939 to 1953 his second wife. She was involved in the development of the Orff Schulwerk and tested it in public schools in the USA, among other places. In doing so, she also made her first experiences working with handicapped and developmentally disabled children. The first independent works appeared from 1954 to 1959 under the name Gertrud Willert-Orff, four volumes with the title Small Piano Pieces with her as the composer. Her main works as a music therapy specialist author Die Orff music therapy. Active promotion of child development (1974) and key terms in Orff music therapy (1984) then appeared under the name Gertrud Orff. They have also been published in English , French , Spanish and Japanese . From 1970 until her retirement in 1984 she worked as a music therapist at the social pediatric children's center in Munich with Theodor Hellbrügge , who supported her work and promoted her publications.

Act

Gertrud Orff is one of the first German-speaking music therapists and developed the Orff music therapy named after her, which can be assigned to a curative educational direction of music therapy or is also referred to as development-oriented or child-centered, development-promoting music therapy. It was primarily aimed at children with impaired senses, developmental disorders , other disabilities or with an autism spectrum disorder . Her work took up the ideas of elementary music education , a playful and multi-sensory approach and developed them further into a methodology that is individually tailored to the needs of children with disabilities.

She was committed to the development of the emerging profession of music therapy in the forerunner form of the German Music Therapy Society . From 1980 she passed on her knowledge first in courses, from which a further education was developed from 1986, which is continued by the German Academy for Development Promotion and Health of Children and Adolescents eV. A year before her death, she was involved in founding the Society for Orff Music Therapy.

Her students include music therapists Christine Plahl and Susanna Filesch ( Catholic Foundation University Munich ), Karin Schumacher ( University of the Arts Berlin ), Ursula Stiff (new music forum) and Melanie Voigt ( Munich Children's Center ).

Honors

literature

  • Simone Neuwirth: Orff music therapy for mental disorders in childhood and adolescence: A music therapy-social work synthesis 2008 Tectum Verlag Marburg ISBN 978-3-8288-9776-2
  • Gertrud Orff: The Orff music therapy. Active promotion of child development. Kindler Munich 1974 (Kindler paperback edition 1978 ISBN 3-4630-2193-5 )
  • Gertrud Orff: Key terms in Orff music therapy. Psychologie-Verlags-Union Weinheim 1984 (2nd revised edition 2010 Beltz / PVU ISBN 978-3621271103 )
  • Melanie Voigt (2001): Music therapy according to Gertrud Orff - a development-oriented music therapy. In: Hans-Helmut Decker-Voigt (Hrsg.): Schools of music therapy. Ernst Reinhardt Verlag Munich, Basel, 2001, pp. 244-261 ISBN 978-3-4970-1574-0
  • Melanie Voigt and Christine Plahl: Orff music therapy as child-centered and development-promoting music therapy. In: Ursula Stiff and Rosemarie Tüpker (eds.) Children's music therapy. Directions and methods. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Göttingen, 2007, pp. 197-230 ISBN 978-3-5254-9105-8
  • Sibylle Köllinger: Gertrud Orff-Willert. The music pedagogical and music therapeutic work. Dissertation LMU Munich, Schott, Mainz 2018 ISBN 978-3-95983-132-1 Online version Schott Campus

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl Orff: Foreword in Gertrud Orff: The Orff Music Therapy. Active promotion of child development . Kindler Taschenbücher 1974, p. 7
  2. ↑ Melanie Voigt: In memoniam Gertrud Orff . In: Musiktherapeutische Umschau 1/2001
  3. ^ History of music therapy at the German Music Therapy Society . Retrieved September 12, 2019
  4. ↑ Voigt, Melanie (2001): Music therapy according to Gertrud Orff - a development-oriented music therapy. In: Hans-Helmut Decker-Voigt (Hrsg.): Schools of music therapy. Ernst Reinhardt Verlag, Munich, Basel. S- 244
  5. ↑ Melanie Voigt and Christine Plahl: Di e Orff music therapy as child-centered and development-promoting music therapy. In: Ursula Stiff and Rosemarie Tüpker (eds.) Children's music therapy. Directions and methods pp. 197–230
  6. ↑ Music therapy according to G. Orff at the German Academy for Development Promotion and Health of Children and Adolescents . Retrieved June 26, 2017
  7. ^ Society for Orff Music Therapy
personal data
SURNAME Orff, Gertrud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Willert, Gertrud (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music therapist
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 2000
Place of death Munich