Helene Fernau-Horn

Helene Fernau-Horn (born August 7, 1892 in Berlin as Helene Fernau; died January 2, 1975 in Ruhpolding ) was a German speech therapist and philologist . She developed her own therapy concepts for the treatment of voice disorders and stuttering .

Life

Helene Fernau attended the Lyceum and Oberlyzeum in Stettin and passed the teaching examination in 1913 and the handicraft teacher examination in 1914. In autumn 1915 she began studying philology at the University of Berlin , which she finished in Greifswald . There she was with her dissertation The monologue at Hans Sachs doctorate .

After completing her studies, she traveled to many countries as far as Norway and South America , and taught German culture and literature as a reciter. On one of her trips she met her husband, a doctor from Stuttgart. From 1925, Helene Fernau-Horn lived in Stuttgart for almost 40 years .

In Stuttgart she taught singing and recitation . She began to grapple with stuttering when doctors sent her patients with this speech disorder. Since there were hardly any therapeutic approaches for stuttering up until then, she developed her own therapeutic concepts for the treatment of voice disorders and stuttering in collaboration with doctors. Their practice ceased during World War II . From 1947 to 1958 she trained the first speech therapists in southern Germany in her own practice and headed an outpatient clinic at the Katharinenhospital in Stuttgart . She also did practical speaker training, for which she could draw on her experience as a reciter.

In 1956 she published her concept for the breath throw method, which is based on the breath function and articulation. She wrote a total of 26 papers, 17 of which deal with stuttering, including her monograph The Speech Neuroses , which was used in many language schools . Their approach was based on the establishment of a rest and process circle and the change from pathological high breathing to physiological diaphragmatic flank breathing. Speech exercises in a nuanced “formula training” were characteristic of their methodology. She could not finish another work on the disturbance of the voice. Fernau-Horn's commitment to phoniatrics and speech therapy was honored with numerous official recognitions in the mid-1970s.

In 1969, after the death of her husband, Fernau-Horn moved the center of her life to Munich. She died in Ruhpolding in 1975.

Ruth Dinkelacker, one of Fernau-Horn's students, expanded the approach of the breath-throw method into her own voice therapy.

Honors

Honorary membership of the "German Society for Speech and Voice Medicine" (today the German-speaking Society for Speech and Voice Medicine (DGSS) )
1974 Federal Cross of Merit for her tireless work with disabled people
In 1987, the then nameless speech therapy school in the Freiberg district of Stuttgart was named after Helene Fernau-Horn. This also applies to the branch in Stuttgart-Vaihingen .

Publications (selection)

The monologue with Hans Sachs . Frommannsche Buchhandlung, Jena 1922.
German poet's book: A selection from old and new German poetry. Frommannsche Buchhandlung, Jena 1928.
Inhibition circles and process circles in the pathogenesis and therapy of stuttering . In: Medical Monthly Journal 8, 1952.
For exercise treatment of functional voice disorders . In: Folio Phoniatrica 6, 1954, pp. 239-245.
About the traumatic symptoms of stuttering . In: Die Sprachheilarbeit 7, 1962, pp. 200–203.
The speech neuroses: structures: nature, principle and method of treatment . Hippokrates-Verlag, Stuttgart 1969, ISBN 9783777300276 .

literature

Thomas Brauer, Anne Aumüller, Jennifer Schwarz: Speech therapy - who is who? People with special / formative importance for speech therapy. Schulz-Kirchner Verlag, Idstein 2004.
Günter Habermann: In Memoriam Helene Fernau-Horn. In: Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica. Volume 28, No. 3. 1976.

Web links

Helene Fernau Horn School

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Helene Fernau: The monologue with Hans Sachs . Frommansche Buchhandlung, Jena 1922, p. 76 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Günter Habermann: In memoriam Helene Fernau-Horn . In: Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica . tape 28 , no. 3 , 1976, ISSN 1021-7762 , pp. 188–189 , doi : 10.1159 / 000264047 ( karger.com [accessed July 3, 2020]).
^ ^A ^b Thomas Brauer, Anne Aumüller, Jennifer Schwarz: Speech therapy - who is who? People with special / formative importance for speech therapy . 1st edition. Schulz-Kirchner Verlag, Idstein 2004, ISBN 3-8248-0469-7 , p. 45 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c Dr. Helene Fernau-Horn. Helene Fernau Horn School, accessed on July 17, 2020 .
↑ Sabine S. Hammer: Voice Therapy with Adults: What Voice Therapists Should Know . Springer-Verlag, 2006, p. 160 .
↑ Marianne Spieker-Hencke: Guidelines for Voice Therapy . Georg Thieme Verlag, 2014, p. 128 .
↑ Cannstatter Zeitung: Helene-Fernau-Horn-Schule celebrates the 90th anniversary of the facility with a Play City Week: Help with language problems - Cannstatter Zeitung. Retrieved July 12, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Fernau-Horn, Helene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fernau, Helene (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German speech therapist and philologist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 7, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	2nd January 1975
Place of death	Ruhpolding

[:0-1] Helene Fernau: The monologue with Hans Sachs . Frommansche Buchhandlung, Jena 1922, p. 76 .

[:1-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Günter Habermann: In memoriam Helene Fernau-Horn . In: Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica . tape 28 , no. 3 , 1976, ISSN 1021-7762 , pp. 188–189 , doi : 10.1159 / 000264047 ( karger.com [accessed July 3, 2020]).

[:2-3] A ^b Thomas Brauer, Anne Aumüller, Jennifer Schwarz: Speech therapy - who is who? People with special / formative importance for speech therapy . 1st edition. Schulz-Kirchner Verlag, Idstein 2004, ISBN 3-8248-0469-7 , p. 45 .

[:3-4] Dr. Helene Fernau-Horn. Helene Fernau Horn School, accessed on July 17, 2020 .

[5] Sabine S. Hammer: Voice Therapy with Adults: What Voice Therapists Should Know . Springer-Verlag, 2006, p. 160 .

[6] Marianne Spieker-Hencke: Guidelines for Voice Therapy . Georg Thieme Verlag, 2014, p. 128 .

[7] Cannstatter Zeitung: Helene-Fernau-Horn-Schule celebrates the 90th anniversary of the facility with a Play City Week: Help with language problems - Cannstatter Zeitung. Retrieved July 12, 2020 .