Hannah Fischer

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Hannah Fischer (left) with Elizabeth T. Spira (right), 2009 at the Hietzing Adult Education Center

Hannah Fischer (born September 27, 1925 in Vienna ; † September 28, 2016 there ) was an Austrian pedagogue from early childhood .

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Hannah and her twin brother Rafael Erwin were born into a middle-class Jewish family. The father, Béla Fischer, was a rabbi , the mother, Luise Fischer (née Treu), who came from the Rhineland, was an active communist and worked as a journalist. In mid-September 1938, a few months after the “Anschluss” of Austria , the twins were sent to England to emigrate without any adult accompaniment. After stays in children's homes, private accommodation and a good school leaving certificate, Hannah Fischer worked for two years as a trainee with Anna Freud in the Hampstead children's home, an institution for war children and orphans. Many years later she referred to this time with Sigmund Freud's daughter as "my university" (quoted in Wiesinger-Stock 2016, p. 110).

In 1946 Hanna Fischer returned to Vienna. She made up the supplementary examination for training as a kindergarten teacher and worked for several years (until 1957) in a kindergarten in the city of Vienna. She also studied education, psychology and philosophy at the University of Vienna. In 1952 she received her doctorate. Her dissertation was published in 1960 under the title The one and two year old child in the day care center. A contribution to the pedagogy of the nursery has been published. With her psychoanalytically oriented work, the doctoral candidate wanted to give a first insight into the pedagogical work area of ​​the crèche and serve as a basis for discussion in the constant effort to improve our work ... If we can never reproduce the family situation that corresponds to the children in the crèche, we have to But have the courage to use our psychological and pedagogical knowledge to shape the unnatural educational situation of the crèche in such a way that its healthy development is nevertheless guaranteed. Our efforts are directed towards one major goal: to create the best possible living environment for the children who lack a normal, functioning family at such a young age, to offer them the conditions for their healthy and as comprehensive development as possible.

In 1958 she moved to the central children's home of the City of Vienna as a child psychologist and educational advisor . From 1967 Hannah Fischer taught at the educational institution for kindergarten teachers in Vienna, of which she was director from 1984. In 1990 she retired.

On her initiative, the Anna Freud Kindergarten was set up in Vienna in 1980 . In addition, Hannah Fischer u. a. in an aid project for the training of kindergarten teachers for the Western Sahara, gave tutoring for children with a migration background and was an honorary member of the Austrian Society for Exile Research . And again and again she published educational articles and book reviews in OUR CHILDREN .

Works

  • The one and two year old child in the day care center. A contribution to the pedagogy of the crèche, Vienna 1960
  • 10 Years Anna Freud Kindergarten, in: Office for Youth and Family of the City of Vienna (Ed.): 10 Years Anna Freud Kindergarten, Vienna 1991, pp. 43–50

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  • Office for Youth and Family of the City of Vienna (Ed.): 10 Years Anna Freud Kindergarten, Vienna 1991, pp. 43–50
  • Martin Kranzl-Greinecker: Hannah Fischer is 90, in: Our children 2015, p. 43
  • Sandra Wiesinger-Stock: Hannah Fischer - "Exile was my university", Vienna 2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.centropa.org/de/photo/hannah-fischer-und-ihre-mutter-luise-fischer
  2. ↑ Fischer 1960, p. 13
  3. ↑ cf. Office for Youth and Family of the City of Vienna, p. 43 ff.
  4. ↑ Kranzl-Greinecker 2015, p. 43
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Hannah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian pedagogue in early childhood
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 2016
Place of death Vienna