Herbert Giffei

Herbert Giffei (* 1908 in Hamburg ; † 1995 ) was a German pedagogue , theater pedagogue and publicist .

Education

Giffei studied at the Philipps University in Marburg for teaching the subjects German and history , as well as philosophy and art history . He received his doctorate in 1931 under Harry Maync (1874–1947) on Christian Morgenstern as a mystic . In his literary dissertation, Giffei sees mysticism as "the very special characteristic of this peculiar poet figure ", interprets Morgenstern as a representative of a " theomonistic pantheism " and recognizes a "relationship" between him and Meister Eckehart .

Professional development

From 1932 he introduced Martin Luserke's performing game as a movement game at reform-pedagogical school camps.

After the Second World War , Giffei first worked as a teacher at the Barsbüttel youth farm, which was founded in 1947, and then at a school in Oldenburg i. O. During this time he actively participated in a Bauhütte Luserkes at the Gelehrtenschule in Meldorf and took to 1952, an interview with the Norddeutscher Rundfunk part.

Giffei's stage play The Donkey Driver from Teramo was created in a building works cooperative with Group 55 at the youth farm in Barsbüttel.

Between 1954 and 1973 he worked as a teacher at the Walddörferschule in Hamburg- Volksdorf and, as before, adapted Luserke's amateur play , which he called the Meldorfer play style between 1947 and 1952 . He also wrote his own stage plays.

Giffei criticized approaches to pedagogy the performing game . Instead, he tried to show theater-specific educational approaches.

He characterized Luserke as a pioneer of modern experiential education . He said he was sailing at the school by the sea on the North Sea island of Juist ; B. with Eduard Zuckmayer , Kurt Sydow and Heinrich Lohse as well as the specific traits of school theater practice as forms of design and existence of "evident experiences". The adventurous-emotional essential forces of children and adolescents should be able to be realized in their external form through artistic and musical creation.

He was friends with Luserke, a reform educator , bard , theater worker and writer. In the post-war period, Giffei re -edited Luserke's works for the Martin Luserke Society headed by Hubert H. Kelter , the managing director of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce and head of the local Commerzbibliothek . In 1974 he posthumously published and commented on Luserke's unfinished late work Agitur ergo sum - an attempt at a morphological interpretation of the primal connection between theater and consciousness .

Works (excerpt)

The donkey driver from Teramo - A musical movement game in 3 rounds . Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel / Basel 1958.
as ed. with Gertrud Seydelmann and Rudolf Sieverts : Der Jugendhof Barsbüttel 1947–1958 . Hartung Verlag, Hamburg 1959.
with Hildegard Krützfeldt-Junker: Prince Piccolo or The Legend of the Very Big Empire and the Tiny Land (text book). Bärenreiter-Verlag , Kassel / Basel 1962.
with Hildegard Krützfeldt-Junker: Prince Piccolo or The legend of the very big empire and the tiny country (note part). Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel / Basel 1962.
as ed .: Sar Ubo and Siri - The 12 stories of Sar Ubo, who was ordered to do the unheard of , re-edited. on behalf of the Martin-Luserke-Gesellschaft e. V. , Hamburg. Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1962.
with Josef Elias and Rudi Müller: What is theater? Drama and theater - mimic-poetic theater - musical-choreographic theater - theater as montage - autonomous theater . Manz'sche publishing and university bookstore , Munich 1965.
with Olaf Klose , Ellen Redlefsen, Rudolf Zöllner, Ludwig Dettmann , Wolfgang Laur , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Detlev W. Schumann, Martin Luserke, Hans-Günther Andresen: Nordelbingen . (= Contributions to Art and Cultural History, Vol. 42). West Holstein Publishing House Boyens & Co., Heide 1973.
as editor: Agitur ergo sum? Attempt of a morphological interpretation of the original connection between theater and consciousness , ed. from the estate of Martin Luserke on behalf of the Martin-Luserke-Gesellschaft e. V., Hamburg. Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1974.
Christian Morgenstern as a mystic (reprint: Haupt Verlag, Bern 1931). Kraus Reprint, Nendeln / Liechtenstein 1975
as editor: At the edge of the habitable world - Six stories by Martin Luserke . Publishing house Die Brigantine Dulk, Hamburg 1976. ISBN 3-87100-028-0 .
Martin Luserke and the theater . Published by the State Working Group for Game and Amateur Theater North Rhine-Westphalia, Recklinghausen 1979.
Design and staging of movement games. Martin Luserke's theater model. Performing game. School theater. SEC II . Pedagogical Center, Berlin 1979.
as publisher: Make Theater - A Handbook for the Amateur and School Stage . Otto-Maier-Verlag , Ravensburg 1982. ISBN 978-3-473-42356-9 .
Contributions in: Martin Luserke - reform pedagogue, poet, theater man, founder of the school by the sea on the North Sea island of Juist , with contributions by Herbert Giffei, Hubert H. Kelter , Martin Kießig , Peter Lambrecht, Dieter Luserke and Jörg W. Ziegenspeck , ed. v. Jörg W. Ziegenspeck (= pioneer of modern experiential education , vol. 6). Neubauer Verlag, Lüneburg 1987. ISBN 978-3-88456-040-2 .
Musical dramaturgy in acting , in: Theater in der Schule, ed. by the Körber Foundation and the Federal Association of Performing Games e. V., Hamburg 2000, pp. 38-46.

Individual evidence

↑ Alfred Liede: Studies on nonsense poetry to the limits of language . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1963. ISBN 978-3111426068 , p. 274.
↑ Giffei, Herbert , on: datp.de, accessed on November 25, 2017.
↑ Radio interview on the Meldorfer way of playing with Martin Luserke, Priman Alice Witt (Meldorfer Gelehreenschule), OStD Dr. Kurt Reiche (Meldorfer School of Academics), Prof. Otto Haase (Schleswig-Holstein Ministry of Education), Dr. Herbert Giffei (Oldenburg i. O.), Norddeutscher Rundfunk 1952, 9:53 min.
↑ Jugendhof Barsbüttel , on: deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de, accessed on November 25, 2017.
↑ ^a ^b Herbert Giffei on: paed.com, accessed on November 25, 2017.
↑ Caroline Ritter: Performing Games and Aesthetic Education - An empirical study of theater work in primary schools . kassel university press, Kassel 2013. ISBN 978-3862195268 , p. 19.
^ Herbert Giffei: Martin Luserke - A trailblazer for modern experiential education? Foreword by Jörg W. Ziegenspeck. Neubauer, Lüneburg 1987. ISBN 978-3-88456-040-2 , p. 22.
↑ Torsten Fischer, Jörg W. Ziegenspeck: Adventure pedagogy - Basics of experiential learning - experiential learning in the continuity of the historical educational movement . Verlag Julius Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 2008. ISBN 978-3-7815-1582-6 , p. 19.

personal data
SURNAME	Giffei, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German theater pedagogue
DATE OF BIRTH	1908
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH	1995

[1] Alfred Liede: Studies on nonsense poetry to the limits of language . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1963. ISBN 978-3111426068 , p. 274.

[2] Giffei, Herbert , on: datp.de, accessed on November 25, 2017.

[3] Radio interview on the Meldorfer way of playing with Martin Luserke, Priman Alice Witt (Meldorfer Gelehreenschule), OStD Dr. Kurt Reiche (Meldorfer School of Academics), Prof. Otto Haase (Schleswig-Holstein Ministry of Education), Dr. Herbert Giffei (Oldenburg i. O.), Norddeutscher Rundfunk 1952, 9:53 min.

[4] Jugendhof Barsbüttel , on: deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de, accessed on November 25, 2017.

[paed.com-5] Herbert Giffei on: paed.com, accessed on November 25, 2017.

[6] Caroline Ritter: Performing Games and Aesthetic Education - An empirical study of theater work in primary schools . kassel university press, Kassel 2013. ISBN 978-3862195268 , p. 19.

[7] Herbert Giffei: Martin Luserke - A trailblazer for modern experiential education? Foreword by Jörg W. Ziegenspeck. Neubauer, Lüneburg 1987. ISBN 978-3-88456-040-2 , p. 22.

[8] Torsten Fischer, Jörg W. Ziegenspeck: Adventure pedagogy - Basics of experiential learning - experiential learning in the continuity of the historical educational movement . Verlag Julius Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 2008. ISBN 978-3-7815-1582-6 , p. 19.