Herbert Lager
Herbert Lager (born June 20, 1907 in Vienna ; † August 31, 1992 ibid) was an Austrian high school teacher and folk dance researcher .
Life
His father's family, an official, came from the Waldviertel , his mother's from Austrian Silesia . After attending elementary school, Herbert Lager graduated from secondary school in Vienna, where he graduated from high school in 1924 and then passed the teaching examination for natural history and gymnastics at the University of Vienna in 1930. In 1940 he married Gerda Liemberger; from this marriage there were 3 children.
Herbert Lager started teaching in Vienna immediately after completing his studies, where he first taught at a grammar school and later (until 1940) at a teacher training institute. 1940–45 Herbert Lager served in the German Wehrmacht (wounded in 1942) and was taken prisoner by the Americans at the end of the war.
After his release he served as a trainer at the mountain training school of the British Army in Mallnitz and later in the area of the Zirbitzkogel (Styria). In 1949 he returned to the Austrian school service, where he taught until 1969. He combined this activity with extensive sporting activities, especially in the area of skiing, white water sports and mountaineering.
Folk dance care
Folk dance and its neighboring areas attracted Herbert Lager at an early stage and increasingly became a central area of responsibility in his life. The then 15-year-old first came into contact with the Austrian Wandervogel, and when he was 18 he attended the first “Zoder course”. At the age of 22 - in 1929 - he was already one of Raimund Zoder's inner circle of employees . In addition, Herbert Lager began teaching folk dance courses at the University of Vienna and in 1935 and 1939 acted as a dance director on promotional trips of several months for the then “Office for Student Migration” to England and South Africa. After the war, Herbert Lager resumed folk dance care work in Vienna in 1949 when he took over the folk dance course at the “Office for Student Migration”. The “Academic Folk Dance Circle” emerged from these courses, which he led until his death. (His successor is Helmut Kurth). In 1952 Herbert Lager also took over the dance management of the “Kathrein dances” of the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Wiener Volksgruppen” (Wandervogel folk dance festival in Carnival and folk dance festivals in Schönbrunn, later at the Belvedere). In addition, he acted as dance director for the office for student hikes to South Africa (1959 and 1973 ), Sweden (1965) and Norway (1968).
Journalism and teaching
In 1930 Herbert Lager's first contribution to folk dance research, “A Boarischer from the Gesäuse”, appeared in the magazine “Das Deutsche Volkslied”, which was followed in 1940 by the folk dance book “Our Dances”. After the Second World War he resumed his journalistic activities. In total he published about 200 scientific papers, 70 of which were dance records. In 1953 he was given a teaching position at the Academy for Music and Performing Arts on "Customs and Folk Song Studies ", and in 1954 he was commissioned by the State Youth Department for Vienna in agreement with the City School Board to conduct folk dance courses. An essential contribution to the maintenance of folk dance consisted in the management of annual work weeks of the Federal Association of Austrian Folk Dance , which served the training and further education of dance leaders.
Lager was a founding member and long-time head of the Federal Working Group on Austrian Folk Dance and the Working Group of the Vienna Folk Dance Groups , long-time head of the Academic Folk Dance Circle and the Vienna Kathrein Dance , member of the Scientific Commission of the Austrian Folk Song Works and employee of the Raimund Zoder folk dance archive.
honors and awards
- Cross of Honor for Science and Art 1st Class
- Gold medal for services to the State of Vienna
- Raimund Zoder Medal
literature
- Maria Walcher (ed.): Dance and tradition as a way of life. A selection from the writings of Herbert Lager. Festschrift for the 80th birthday . Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-215-07707-8 .
- Austrian music lexicon . Volume 3. Verlag of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2004, ISBN 978-3-7001-3045-1 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Herbert Lager in the catalog of the German National Library
- Austrian Folk Music Archive: http://www.dabis.org:53086/PSI/redirect.psi
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lager, Herbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian high school teacher and folk dance researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 20, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 31, 1992 |
| Place of death | Vienna |