Horst Müller (pedagogue)

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Horst Müller (2016)

Horst Müller (born February 21, 1929 in Kassel , Hesse ; † April 15, 2020 there ) was a German pedagogue, amateur play director , theater director and author .

Life

Müller grew up in Kassel until the city was largely destroyed in the bombing war in 1943. His father died as a soldier during World War II ; his sister was bombed in an air raid shelter. When bombed out, he and his mother found shelter in makeshift quarters.

In the post-war period, he and his classmates dealt intensively with the anti - Semitism shaped by Christianity , which was elevated to state doctrine during the National Socialist era. In the young people and the Hitler Youth , in schools and in society, the children were indoctrinated with it almost every day. This is a long-lasting fact that he also deals with in his late work published in 2016.

During his school days he made his first experiences with the school amateur play . Despite the exam preparations, his Abitur class rehearsed and performed the play Blut und Liebe by Martin Luserke for the graduation ceremony.

In 1948 he finished his school days with the school leaving certificate that he acquired in Hofgeismar . With regard to a career choice, he had initially considered studying chemistry because of his passionate school interest in chemical experiments . Instead, he opted for the departments of German , history and philosophy , which he studied at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and the Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg . In 1956 he graduated with the state examination and his doctorate, initiated by Ernst Jahn and Walter Rehm, on the subject of time criticism in the work of Rilke with Klaus Ziegler .

In France he completed a year of editing and after his legal traineeship he was at the Heinrich Schütz School in Kassel , 1959-1960 at the König Heinrich School in Fritzlar and finally at the Herderschule in Kassel . He then taught for five years at the German School in Istanbul and, on his return to Germany, worked as a teacher at the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Kassel until his retirement. During his traineeship, he met his future wife Sigrid at school, with whom he had two sons.

In Turkey as well as in Kassel he founded school theater and in 1991 the Kassel amateur and student theater . For around five decades he occupied himself with amateur play for schoolchildren, students and older adults, for which he wrote eleven plays.

Müller had retired in 1991.

He died on April 15, 2020 at the age of 91 in Kassel.

Works (selection)

  • Time criticism in the work of Rilke . Phil. Diss., 1956
  • Philosophy of life and religion with Georg Simmel . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1960. ISBN 978-3-428-01063-9
  • Students + Theater, 1999, ISBN 3-88122-986-8
  • Theater, hands-free . Kassel 2011
  • The war, it's dragging on a bit . Five texts. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2016. ISBN 978-3-7392-4154-8

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituaries of Horst Müller | Trauer.HNA.de. Retrieved on April 18, 2020 (German).
  2. Verena Joos: teacher, theater maker, author with passion . In: Kulturmagazin 228, February 17, 2017, p. 24. At: verlagfeste.de, accessed on April 21, 2017 (PDF file; 128 KB)
  3. Horst Müller: The war, it's dragging on a bit . Five texts. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2016. ISBN 978-3-7392-4154-8 , pp. 200f.
  4. Horst Müller: The war, it's dragging on a bit . Five texts. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2016. ISBN 978-3-7392-4154-8 , p. 203
  5. Verena Joos: A brilliant look at 50 years of theater . In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine, May 17, 2011. From: hna.de, accessed on April 21, 2017
  6. Horst Müller: The war, it's dragging on a bit . Five texts. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2016. ISBN 978-3-7392-4154-8 , p. 27
  7. Horst Müller: The war, it's dragging on a bit . Five texts. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2016. ISBN 978-3-7392-4154-8 , p. 220
  8. Horst Müller: Turkey - city and school, country and people . In: Norbert Reitz / Dietrich Schlegel (ed.): Festschrift 60 years of the German-Turkish Society eV Bonn . Books on Demand, Bonn 2014, ISBN 978-3-7322-4756-1 , pp. 215 ff .
  9. Chronology - Student Theater of the University of Kassel ( Memento of the original from April 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . From: uni-kassel.de, accessed on April 21, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-kassel.de