Hans-Helmut Decker-Voigt

Hans-Helmut Decker-Voigt

Hans-Helmut Decker-Voigt (born March 17, 1945 in Celle ) is a German expression therapist , music therapist , hypnosis therapist, supervisor , writer and publicist .

Life

Hans-Helmut Decker-Voigt grew up in a rectory in Celle . After studying music in Germany and then educational sciences up to the intermediate diploma, followed in the United States a master’s degree in expression and music therapy at Lesley College / today Lesley University Cambridge, exchange university of the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD. In 1985 he wrote a dissertation in psychology (German translation by Goldmann, Munich, “Aus der Seele played”), not validated in the FRG, so he wrote a second doctorate in musicology on the subject of music in developmental psychology “With music into life - music in pregnancy and early childhood ”.

In 1969, Decker-Voigt took over the management of the regional association of music schools in Baden-Württemberg and in 1970/71 the office of director of the music school for the district and city of Uelzen . Until 1975 he worked as a college teacher for music at the Protestant college for social education in Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth . In 1978 he took over the position of a lecturer in music therapy at the Hamburg University of Music and a works and research officer for music therapy at the Hannover Medical School.

From 1985 to 1989 he held a C3 professorship in Hamburg. Decker-Voigt was a co-founder of the Institute for Music Therapy at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama , and its director from 1990 to 2010. He received a C4 professorship and is a senior professor there after his retirement . In 1996 he was President of the 8th World Congress of the World Federation of Music Therapy in the Congress Centrum Hamburg .

Decker-Voigt has been honorary professor (together with the cellist Mistlav Rostropovich) of the L.-u. M. Rostropovich-Hochschule Orenburg / Rus, since 2009 honorary doctor of art studies there, since 2016 honorary doctor of medicine from the Staatl. Orenburg Medical University. Other honors: Honorary President of the Hungarian Music Therapy Association, Medal of Honor from the ELTE University Budapest. Further honors from Tallinn University, Estonia, Women University Japan etc. v. a.

Publications

Technical literature (selection)

• Played from the soul - introduction to music therapy. Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-442-13561-3 .
• With music into life. Ernst Reinhardt Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-497-01928-1 .
• Music therapy (with T. Timmermann and D. Oberegelsbacher). UTB Reinhardt, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-497-01974-8 .
• Lexicon music therapy. Hogrefe Verlag 1996. New edition: Hogrefe Verlag, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8017-2162-6 .
• Book series "Praxis der Musiktherapie" (Ed. In conjunction with HU Schmidt and T. Timmermann). Hogrefe Verlag, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8017-2198-5 .
• Music Therapy Schools. Ernst Reinhardt Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-497-01574-1 .
• Music therapeutic deep relaxation (MTE). Eres Edition Lilienthal, 2008, ISBN 978-3-87204-358-0 .
• Book series "Therapy and Education through Music". Eres Edition Lilienthal, since 1975, ISSN  0172-8636 .
• Book series "Therapy and Education through Music". Eres Edition Lilienthal, since 1975.
• Half-yearly magazine "Musik und Gesundsein" (together with R. Spintge, HUSchmidt .. E. Weymann). Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden (taken over from Eres 2010), ISSN  1617-1756 .

Fiction publications (selection)

• Romantic trilogy "The Rectory." Shaker Media. Part 1 with 2 volumes, 2014. Volume 1: Whom God loves, he gives an office , ISBN 978-395631-172-7 . Volume 2: Your body also belongs to love, child , ISBN 978-3-95631-189-5 . Part 2, 2016. Where, please, are you going to the puppet theater with Hern Hitler? , ISBN 978-3-95631-397-4 .
• One-sided love stories. Drachenverlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-927369-41-2 .
• From landscape children and bon vivants. Becker-Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-920079-55-8 .
• You have to step back, boy! Drachenverlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-927369-36-8 .
• About the suicide of the character assassin. Drachenverlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-927369-35-1 .
• When Aunt Thea cried once. Drachenverlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-927369-32-0 .
• Chubby's first love. Eres-Verlag, Bremen 2004, ISBN 3-934933-09-2 .
• Pummel - developmental psychology using the example of a hippopotamus childhood. eres 1993, 2nd edition. 1998, Eres Edition 2407, ISBN 3-87204-407-9 . As an e-book: Goloseo-Verlag, 2015.

CD publications / audio books

• Old stories. Three (radio) listening stories from 1976/1977. Eres Edition Lilienthal.
• Do not unpack in front of the children! ... and other stories about Advent and Christmas. Eres Edition Lilienthal.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans-Helmut Decker-Voigt in the catalog of the German National Library
• official homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://normt.uib.no/index.php/voices/article/view/591/462 8th World Congress of Music Therapy, 2nd International Congress of the World Federation of Music Therapy, Hamburg, Germany, July 14-20 , 1996 - Interview with Prof. Dr. Hans-Helmut Decker-Voigt