Hans Müller-Wiedemann

Hans Müller-Wiedemann (born November 11, 1924 in Karlsruhe , † December 12, 1997 in Filderstadt ) was a German doctor and curative educator .

Live and act

He completed his medical studies, which he began after graduating from high school, and which was interrupted by his service as a medic in World War II, in Tübingen after the war . In 1953 he became a member of the Camphill community in Aberdeen, founded by the doctor and remedial pedagogue Karl König . Together with his wife, the curative teacher and eurythmist Susanne Müller-Wiedemann, he moved to South Africa in 1959 in order to set up curative educational work there as part of the Camphill movement. During this time he obtained his Ph.D. in Cape Town. in psychology. In 1966 he returned to Germany and set up a curative education work on Lake Constance, first in Bruckfelden, then from 1969 in the Camphill school community Brachenreuthe (near Überlingen), which he headed until the early 1990s.

In parallel to his practical work, he wrote a wealth of smaller articles on curative education and other topics. At special educational congresses, he spoke primarily on questions of accompanying children with autism, one of his research and work focuses. He also published two extensive monographs: "Middle of Childhood" (1980) and "Karl König. A Central European Biography ”(1992) and two volumes of poetry. Hans Müller-Wiedemann is regarded as a pioneer of an exchange of experience between representatives of anthroposophical curative education and academic curative and special education. The contributions to the conference series “Healing and Education”, which took place in Brachenreuthe from 1994 to 2014, are documented in several volumes.

Works

• Middle of childhood. Between the ages of nine and twelve. A Biographical Phenomenology of Child Development. Stuttgart 1980.
• Karl King. A Central European biography. Stuttgart 1992.
• Human image and human education. Essays and lectures on curative education, anthropology and social life. Stuttgart 1994.
• Near the angel. Poems. Stuttgart 1987.
• On road. Poems. Stuttgart 1997.

Web links

• "Hans-Müller-Wiedemann" Research Center for Culture Impulse

Individual evidence

1. ↑ from Plato, Bodo (ed.): Anthroposophy in the 20th century. A cultural impulse in biographical portraits . Dornach 2003, ISBN 3-7235-1199-6 , p. 553-554 .
2. ↑ Klaus Dumke in: People image and people education . Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3--7725-1469-3, p. 344.
3. ^ V. Frielingsdorf, R. Grimm, B. Kaldenberg,: History of anthroposophical curative education and social therapy . Dornach 2013, ISBN 978-3-7235-1478-8 , pp. 489 .
4. ↑ R. Grimm, G. Kaschubowski, (Ed.): Healing and educating. Discussion of special education and anthroposophic curative education. Edition SZH, Dornacher series, vol. 1 . Lucerne 1998, ISBN 3-908263-71-9 .