Johannes Georg Pahn

Johannes Georg Pahn (born December 30, 1931 in Dresden ; † December 1, 2015 ) was a German doctor , speech teacher and music teacher . He was a co-founder of phoniatrics in Germany.

Life

Johannes Georg Pahn, Roman Catholic , was born in 1931 as the son of the teacher Max Paul Pahn and the master furrier Erna Maria Pahn in the Saxon capital Dresden. From 1942 he attended secondary school in Pirna and made his first experiences as a choir director and organist in Heidenau, southeast of Dresden, where the family lived.

After graduating from high school in Pirna in 1950, he studied music education , German studies and speech training at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg until 1953 . 1954/55 he worked as a music teacher in Halle (Saale). From 1954 to 1959 he held lectureships for speech training at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig and for singing and voice physiology at the Halle University of Music (Saale) and the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. In 1955/56 he was a group leader at the Volksmusikschule Halle ( Saalkreis ). From 1956 to 1958 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Speech Studies at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg. He was finally fired and had no permanent job in 1958/59 due to lack of party membership. Until 1959 he worked as a concert singer , singing teacher , organist and choir director. From 1959 to 1961 he worked as a lecturer for speech training at the Pedagogical Institute in Erfurt . In 1960 he was with the music pedagogue Fritz Reuter at the pedagogical faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin with the dissertation vocal physiological investigations of the tension phenomena during singing. A contribution to the basic research of the methodology of singing lessons for Dr. paed. PhD.

From 1960 to 1968 he was a linguistic assistant at the Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic of the Medical Academy in Erfurt . There he founded a phoniatric department. In 1967 he passed an external state examination in speech training at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. In parallel to his professional activity, he studied medicine at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and the University of Erfurt from 1962 to 1968 . In 1968 the state examination in medicine followed.

From 1968 to 1988 he was an assistant at the ENT clinic of the Wilhelm Pieck University in Rostock . There he was trained as a specialist and founded the Phoniatrics-Pedaudiology Department. In 1974 he submitted his PhD B (Dr. sc. Med.) To the University's Scientific Council on the subject of phoniatric medical examination for educational professions. Basics, current status, social significance and further development . In 1977 he became a senior physician . From 1988 he worked as an associate lecturer at the University of Rostock. In 1992 he became a lecturer in oto-rhino-laryngology . In 1994/95 he was a private lecturer and from 1995 until his retirement in 1999 he was an adjunct professor for phoniatry / pediatric audiology at the medical faculty . From 1991 to 1994 he acted as the deputy director of the Rostock ENT clinic.

Based on his preoccupation with music and medicine, he developed voice therapy methods from the nasalization method and electrical stimulation of the larynx . He gave lectures and workshops in numerous European countries and Canada. In 1999 he founded a higher vocational school for speech therapy at the European Business and Language Academy in Rostock. This was under his medical directorate and developed in 2003 in cooperation with the University of Applied Sciences for Speech Therapy in Eindhoven (Netherlands) into a university of applied sciences. He was a member of the interdisciplinary German Society for Speech and Voice Medicine (DGSS; President from 1995 to 2003, later Honorary President) and the German Society for Phoniatry and Pedaudiology .

Awards

In 1985 he was awarded the Hermann Gutzmann Medal of the German Society for Phoniatry and Pediatric Audiology.

Fonts (selection)

• Voice exercises for speaking and singing . Verlag Volk und Gesundheit VEB, Berlin 1968 (translation into Dutch 1987).
• With Elke Pahn : The nasalization method. Practice of speaking and singing voice for therapy and prophylaxis of disorders and diseases. Using neuromuscular electrophonic simulation (NMEPS) methods of laryngeal paresis . Oehmke, Roggentin / Rostock 2000, ISBN 978-3-9806763-1-1 (translation into Dutch 2000).
• With Antoinette Lamprecht-Dinnesen, Annergse Keilmann, Kurt Bielfeld and Eberhard Seifert (eds.): Language and Music. Contributions to the 71st annual conference of the German Society for Speech and Voice Medicine eV, Berlin, March 12-13, 1999 (= contributions to the annual conference of the German Society for Speech and Voice Medicine eV . Vol. 71). Steiner, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 978-3-515-07544-2 .

literature

• Gabriele Witt: Obituary for Prof. Dr. med. habil. Dr. paed. Johannes Pahn . In: Ärzteblatt Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 26 (2016) 2, p. 71.

Web links

• Literature by and about Johannes Georg Pahn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Johannes Georg Pahn in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
• Johannes Georg Pahn at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ History , dgss-ev.org, access. 18th March 2019.
2. ↑ Hermann-Gutzmann-Medaille , dgpp.de, accessed: March 18, 2020.