Helene Goldbaum

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Helene Goldbaum , married Helene Goldbaum-Plohn , it could also be a pseudonym for Helene Plohr (née Helen Goldstein ), (born June 7, 1883 in Trautenau , Bohemia ; † after 1939) was an Austrian writer , translator and representative of individual psychology .

Life

Helene Goldbaum grew up in the Bohemian town of Trautenau, today Trutnov / Czech Republic. Trautenau was then part of Austria-Hungary and had a predominantly German-speaking population. Her parents were of Jewish descent. Her husband's name was Plohn.

She translated the book Moral Education by the French educator Jules Gabriel Compayré , published in 1910. In 1911 her first work, The Mother's Book , was published. Goldbaum dealt with child welfare, youth protection and child labor early on, as her publications Two Events in the Interest of Child Protection from 1912 and the activity report of the Reich German Central Office for Youth Welfare from 1916 testify. In Vienna she got to know Alfred Adler's individual psychology . At the time of the Viennese school reform , in the 1920s, she worked for the Association of Working Women as a teacher for child psychology and child employment and trained educators. From 1937 until it was forced to close in 1939, she worked in the Club of Friends of Individual Psychology . The last report about Helene Goldbaum in 1939 was “moved unknown”, which at the time indicated a deportation from Vienna. There are indications that Helene Goldbaum emigrated to the Jewish refugee colony in Shanghai around 1939 and came back to Europe (Switzerland or Austria?) In 1947. After the Second World War , she published new books.

plant

Helene Goldbaum-Plohn wrote numerous books for children, parents and teachers. With a series of educational works, she tried to bring the educators closer to the world of the child with its possibilities and developmental steps and the feeling for its special situation. A concern that was entirely in line with individual psychology. She created many play and handicraft books that were intended to guide the educators to meaningful employment and to the social and cognitive development of the children. After the Second World War, her books were also published in the well-known Perlen series , a guidebook for applied life support by the Viennese publisher Adalbert Pechan .

“ Our school system has been on a steady upswing for several years. It is well known that the former learning school has now given way to the work school. (...) As a teacher of child psychology and child employment for courses for the training of educators of the »Association of Working Women«, I have been striving for years to make the reform ideas of the kindergarten accessible to all those girls who should work as future educators in the nursery. (...) Again and again I show that childlike self-activity can only develop where the creative urge has the appropriate material available. In this way the young girls soon realize that encouraging children's creativity is the basis of modern education. My young students learn from themselves early on that self-employment leads to independence, they learn in order to be able to teach themselves. (Helene Goldbaum, Festschrift 25 Years of the Association of Working Women Vienna - 1927) "

literature

Primary literature by Helene Goldbaum, Helene Goldbaum-Plohn, Helene Plohn

  • EDUCATIONAL MONOGRAPHIES, Vol. 8: Compayré, G. Moral Education . Translation by Helene Goldbaum , Nemnich, Leipzig 1910
  • Mother's book . Berlin 1911
  • The further training of the educator (9th year, No. 91, November 1911) in communications of the Association of Working Women ", Vienna
  • Two events in the interest of child protection in 1912, in Der Bund : Zentralblatt des Bundes Österreichischer Frauenvereine
  • Child labor , Der Bund 1913
  • Activity report of the Reich German Central Office for Youth Welfare , Der Bund 1916
  • How do I keep my child busy? II. Cardboard work . Hachmeister & Thal, Leipzig 1916
  • How do I keep my child busy? III. All sorts of matchboxes . Teacher Library, Hachmeister & Thal, Leipzig 1921
  • How do I keep my child busy? What should our little ones give . Hachmeister and Thal, Leipzig 1921
  • Child employment. A guide for parents, teachers and educators, Austrian School Books Publishers, Vienna 1923.
  • For free hours . Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1924
  • Who is playing! A selection of the most popular board and movement games . Vienna 1927.
  • Kindergarten then and now . Festschrift Vereinigung der Arbeitenden Frauen, Vienna 1927
  • All kinds of wool work. Instructions for the processing of wool scraps , leisure books for young people, Volume XVI. Haupt Verlag, Bern 1930
  • Happy hours. All kinds of games and puzzles for children , Schwarz-Verlag, Vienna 1932.
  • Playbook for children , Lebendiges Wissen, Frankfurt 1954
  • Handicrafts and games for children throughout the year , Philler Verlag 1956.
  • Serve and help. NFH 13. Your child's sensory life , Antonius-Verlag, Solothurn / Switzerland 1957
  • Serve and help. NFH 17. Your child and its language , Antonius-Verlag 1958
  • Serving and helping, NFH 19. Emotions and social behavior in childhood , Antonius-Verlag, 1959
  • Mom, a story please , Pechan Verlag 1959
  • Mother's Day. Rhymes, poems, scenes from children, handicrafts, letters, sentences , etc., etc. Vlg. (Approx. 1960)
  • Games and activities in the nursery , Pechan Verlag 1961
  • Who is playing? Pechan Verlag, 1962
  • Serve and help. NFH 21. The Small Child's Memory , Antonius-Verlag, 1962
  • Pipe work and basket weaving , Philler Verlag 1962
  • Serve and help. NFH 25. The Imagination of the Toddler , Antonius-Verlag 1963
  • Serve and help. NFH 27. Scribbling, drawing, painting in childhood , Antonius-Verlag 1964
  • Advice for children's games , Humboldt-Taschenbuchverlag, Munich 1971, ISBN 3-581-66047-4

Secondary literature

  • Edith Schwab, Contributions to the History of Children's and Youth Literature in Austria , 1949, p. 363, Vienna.
  • Bernhard Handlbauer, The history of the development of the individual psychology of Alfred Adlers , Geyer Edition, Vienna-Salzburg, 1984, ISBN 3-85090-108-4
  • Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 1: A-I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 .
  • Rudolf M.Wlaschek, Biographia Judaica Bohemiae . Research Center East Central Europe, Dortmund 1995 a. 1997
  • Rudolf M.Wlaschek, Jewish life in Trautenau / Northeast Bohemia. A historical review , ISBN 3-923293-35-6

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Plohn, Helene (née Goldbaum) - Vienna. My experiences in Vienna and Shanghai 1938-1947 . January 1960 Eyewitness Accounts: Doc. No. P.II.b. No. 1165: 8 pages. Testaments to the Holocaust: Series One: Archives of the Wiener Library, London, Reel Listing
personal data
SURNAME Goldbaum, Helene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goldbaum-Plohn, Helene (full name); Plohr, Helene; Goldstein, Helen (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer, translator and representative of individual psychology
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Trautenau , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH 20th century