Hildegard Tauscher

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Hildegard Tauscher (born July 25, 1898 in Leutenberg , † June 11, 1971 in Berlin ) was a German rhythmist .

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Her father, Traugott Johannes Anselmus Tauscher, was mayor in Leutenberg. The mother, Magda Franziska Anna Henriette Auguste Pauline Frieda Tauscher, b. Berend took care of the housekeeping and the upbringing of the children. Hildegard exchanger completed by the Higher School for Girls , the Berlin School of Economics while studying philosophy and German at the University of Jena . In Jena she got to know rhythmics and decided to become a rhythm teacher. She attended the Blensdorf School there for two semesters and then went to Berlin to the Dalcroze School . In 1929 she passed the music teacher examination in Berlin and then worked as a teacher for the subjectGymnastics for children at the social pedagogical seminar of the youth home association. In addition, she worked as a rhythmist with mentally ill children in the Association for Psychopathic Care , where she developed her first approaches to curative educational rhythm . From 1934 to 1937 Hildegard Tauscher was a rhythmist at the seminar of the Reich Association of German Sound Artists and Musicians and had a teaching position at the University of Music in Weimar and at the social women's school there . Because of Jewish ancestors (maternal grandfather) she had to give up her office in 1937. She earned her living with private lessons in rhythm, recorder playing and improvisation. Through their mediation, a German rhythmic group was invited to a Nordic gymnastics festival in Helsinki in June 1938 .

After the collapse of the Nazi dictatorship, Hildegard Tauscher worked as a rhythmist at a primary school until 1964 and as a lecturer for music and music methodology at the Berlin Pedagogical University from 1948 to 1954 . In addition, she was actively involved in further training for teachers and educators. In this context, she worked closely with Elfriede Feudel . From 1948 to 1959 Hildegard Tauscher was the editor of the communications of the working group for rhythmic education .

Theoretical foundations

For Hildegard Tauscher, movement and music are the elements of rhythm,

Both are pleasurable and like nothing else created to elevate people and beyond themselves to inner freedom .

And a. O. remarked on the purpose of the rhythm:

In rhythmic-musical education, human movement is directly related to movement in music; Music that is heard has an effect on people who are moving, and conversely, people are stimulated to feel musical through movement .

Works (selection)

  • Music and movement as a means of education, in: Die Musik 1931 / H. 10, pp. 741-743
  • Rhythm in kindergarten and after-school care center. Practical music in kindergarten and after-school care, Dresden 1932
  • Rhythmic education in kindergarten, in: Kindergarten 1939, pp. 119–122
  • Practice of rhythmic-musical education, Darmstadt 1952
  • The Berlin musician, Berlin 1961
  • The rhythmic-musical education in curative education, Berlin 1964
  • Song and movement - elementary music theory, Bad Godesberg 1968

literature

  • Tanja Hohmann: Hildegard Tauscher - A life for rhythm, Würzburg 2004 (unpublished diploma thesis)
  • Reinhard Ring / Brigitte Steinmann: Lexikon der Rhythmik, Kassel 1997, pp. 303-304
  • Hildegard and Alfred Zuckrigl / Hans Helbling: Rhythmics help disabled children, Munich / Basel 1980

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Hohmann 2004, p. 8
  2. ↑ cf. Hohmann 2004, p. 13
  3. ↑ Tauscher 1932, p. 4
  4. ↑ Tauscher, cit. n. Zuckrigl / Helbling 1980, p. 9
personal data
SURNAME Tauscher, Hildegard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rhythmist
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH People Mountain
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1971
Place of death Berlin