Helmut Friedmann

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Helmut Friedmann , even Fred Helmut Friedmann, (born on 28. May 1918 in Cologne , died on 6. January 2012 in London ) was a from Germany originating, Jewish linguists , university professors and writers . Friedmann is considered the pioneer of audiovisual language teaching in the UK and was the founder of the Audio-Visual Language Association.

Life

Helmut Friedmann was born on May 28, 1918, the son of the Cologne textile merchant Nathan Friedmann. Helmut Friedmann attended the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium and the rabbinical school in Cologne. Even as a teenager he devoted himself to studying ancient languages and wrote his first poems and short stories. After the National Socialists came to power , 16-year-old Helmut Friedmann fled to Palestine via Italy in November 1934 . Here he lived in the kibbutz En Schemer. In the kibbutz he worked, among other things, as a farm worker and gardener. After the end of the Second World War Friedmann went to France and studied philology in Montpellier and Paris .

After working in various professions in France and Switzerland to make a living, he went to London in the late 1950s and devoted himself increasingly to the use of audiovisual methods in the learning of languages . In 1962 he founded the Audio-Visual Language Association (AVLA), a specialist section of the British Association for Language Teaching . He was co-founder and editor of the Audio-visual Language Journal (now the Journal of Language Teaching Technology and Applied Linguistics ), for which he wrote numerous articles on modern language learning methods and the use of audio-visual aids in language teaching.

Since the mid-1960s he has taught in the Department of Modern Languages ​​at the Holborn College of Law, Languages ​​and Commerce in London. He continued to give lectures and teachings well into old age as a senior lecturer and director of a research program for modern languages ​​and methodology in London. In addition to his professional activities to Friedmann committed in France and the UK in the trade union work .

Friedmann was a member of several advisory public committees, the PEN Club and a member of the Royal Society of Arts , the Institute of Linguists and a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute . Numerous poems and literary works have been published in various languages. Parts of his literary legacy were shown in the 1997 exhibition Unter Vorbehalt. Return from emigration shown in Cologne, curated by the EL-DE-Haus association of the NS Documentation Center . As part of this exhibition Friedmann visited his hometown Cologne and made it clear how he personally classifies his emigration as a youth from Germany in retrospect.

“I don't want to be described as a refugee or an emigrant or a displaced person. I never was and still am. I would rather call myself someone who was temporarily expelled from home, which was neither good for home nor for me. "

- Fred Helmut Friedland : Interview 2002
Stumbling block for Helmut Friedmann in front of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Cologne

Helmut Friedmann was married and the father of five children.

Honor and commemoration

For his services in the field of Anglo-French cultural cooperation, Friedmann was awarded the Chevalier dans l 'Ordre des Palmes Académiques in 1975 .

In April 2018, a stumbling block was laid in front of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Cologne as part of the art and memory project by the Cologne artist Gunter Demnig to commemorate Helmut Friedmann.

Fonts (selection)

Poems
  • You know what?
  • I was wrong
  • The drunken lover
  • exam
  • where the colorful coal blooms
  • Theodicy
  • Eau de Cologne
  • Cologne counting rhyme
  • Marlene Dietrich
  • Big laundry
Essays
  • Language laboratory teaching , In: The Vocational Aspect of Secondary and Further Education 16, 1964, pp. 209-221.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Friedmann. Retrieved May 17, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Poems that (more than) write history: classification. Retrieved May 17, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c Poems that (more than) write history: Vita Fred Helmuth Friedmann. Retrieved May 18, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Entry documents Helmut Friedmann | Israel State Archives . In: Israel State Archives . November 3, 1937 ( gov.il [accessed May 18, 2018]).
  5. ↑ PEN Center Germany: PEN The Author's Lexicon 2015/16 . Klöpfer & Meyer Verlag, Tübingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-86351-254-5 , p. 2498 .
  6. ↑ Poems that (more than) write history. Origin. Retrieved May 18, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Poems that (more than) write history. Retrieved May 17, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Brief messages in The Incorporated Linguist . In: The Journal of the Institute of Linguists . tape 14-17 , 1975, pp. 75 .
  9. ↑ Heribert Rösgen: Remembrance: In memory of former students . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . April 26, 2018 ( ksta.de [accessed May 14, 2018]).
  10. ^ Memories of former pupils: Stumbling blocks at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium . In: rheinische-verbindungenblaetter.de . April 30, 2018 ( rheinische-angeboteblaetter.de [accessed on May 14, 2018]).

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personal data
SURNAME Friedmann, Helmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friedmann, Helmuth; Friedmann, Fred (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist, writer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 2012
Place of death London