Ilse Middendorf

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Ilse Middendorf (1996)

Ilse Middendorf (born September 21, 1910 in Frankenberg / Sa .; † May 2, 2009 in Berlin ) was a German respiratory therapist and founder of a breathing theory that she herself described as experienceable breath .

life and work

Ilse Middendorf was born as Ilse Kullrich, her father was a textile manufacturer, her mother a fashion designer. At the age of 18 she trained as a gymnastics teacher against her parents' wishes. She attended the breathing school of Clara Schlaffhorst and Hedwig Andersen and completed an apprenticeship with the breathing teacher Emil Aurelius-Baeuerle at the "Institute for Breathing and Nerve Care" in Baden-Baden, which was one of the yoga schools. In her mid-twenties she opened her own practice in Berlin-Lichterfelde . Ilse Middendorf wrote about her first teacher, the dancer Ewe Waren, that she had “made the unity of our human existence clear to her through movement, breathing and meditation”. The Jungian depth psychologist and respiratory therapist Cornelius Veening , himself a student of Schlaffhorst / Andersen, also had a formative influence and encouraged her to establish her own breathing theory.

In 1940 she married the organist Jost Langguth, who in World War II fell . Their son Helge Langguth was born in 1941 and is still head of an Ilse Middendorf Institute in Beerfelden . In 1950 she married the photographer Erich T. Middendorf (1903–1985), whose photographic legacy she donated to the Berlin State Archives .

In 1965, Ilse Middendorf founded the Institute for Breathing Therapy and Breathing Instruction in Berlin , which is now called the Ilse Middendorf Institute for Experiencing Breath . She moved into the lordly former living quarters of Princess Viktoria-Luise on Viktoria-Luise-Platz in Berlin-Schöneberg, where the school is still located today. Ilse Middendorf describes the core principle of her breathing theory as follows: Every person is an individuality and the breath is just as individual as a face or limbs. Some breathing therapies use the breath in a targeted manner to achieve certain healing effects on the body; the breath that can be experienced takes a different route. Breathing should be experienced consciously, but without it being controlled by will or thinking. "I let my breath come in, I let it go and wait until it comes back by itself."

In 1971 Middendorf was appointed professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Berlin , where she taught breathing and body training as well as tone theory for actors and singers. Her students included the Berlin director Walter Felsenstein , the songwriter Klaus Hoffmann and the actress Gaby Dohm . Until 2004 she gave numerous advanced training seminars at home and abroad.

Ilse Middendorf is considered the grande dame of respiratory therapy. She is buried in the Parkfriedhof Lichterfelde .

Fonts

literature

  • Hadassa K. Moscovici: The breath that can be experienced. Ilse Middendorf , in this: to dance for joy, to go half to pieces for sorrow. Pioneers of body therapy , Luchterhand-Literaturverlag, Hamburg / Zurich 1991 (second edition), ISBN 3-630-71019-0 , s. 139-156
  • Lisa Malin: The influence of respiratory therapy on the human voice , Lit Verlag 2009, ISBN 978-3-643-50005-2 , about Ilse Middendorf p. 9f.
  • The experience of breath according to Ilse Middendorf , in: Rega Rutte, Sabine Sturm: Respiratory therapy , 2nd edition, Springer-Medizin-Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-11315-4 , pp. 33f.
  • Dagmar Borowsky, Nora Lachmann: Rest and movement - breathing theory in primary school: experiences with breathing therapy according to Ilse Middendorf , Schneider Verlag Hohengehren 2007, ISBN 978-3-8340-0185-6

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ See: Margarete Saatweber: Introduction to the method of working Schlaffhorst-Andersen: Breathing, voice, language, posture and movement in their interactions , Schulz-Kirchner Verlag, 6th edition 2007, ISBN 978-3-8248-0019-3
  2. ↑ Bernd Wedemeyer-Kolwe: "The new man": Physical culture in the Empire and in the Weimar Republic , Königshausen & Neumann 2004, ISBN 978-3-8260-2772-7 , p. 92f.
  3. ↑ a b Jürgen Bräunlein: Berliner Luft , Berliner Zeitung of September 20, 2005
  4. ↑ Ilse Middendorf: Der erfahrbaren Atem , 1990, p. 14/15
  5. ↑ EM Rosenmayr-Khemiri: Middendorf's breathing therapy for voice disorders , in: Gerhard Böhme: Complementary procedures for communication disorders , Thieme, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-13-149691-1 , p. 94f.
  6. ↑ Internet site: Landesarchiv Berlin ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.landesarchiv-berlin.de
  7. ↑ Website www.krankenkassen.de
  8. ↑ Jürgen Bräunlein: Grand Dame of Respiratory Therapy - Ilse Middendorf from Berlin turns 95 , on dradio on May 21, 2005
  9. ↑ Fried Park Park Cemetery Lichterfelde
personal data
SURNAME Middendorf, Ilse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German breathing teacher, founder of a breathing theory
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankenberg / Sa.
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 2009
Place of death Berlin