Julius Knierim

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Julius Knierim (born September 3, 1919 in Kassel ; † January 1, 1999 in Niefern-Öschelbronn ) was a German curative educator , musicologist and composer .

Life

From 1939 to 1943 he studied musicology in Berlin , which he completed with a dissertation on the composer Johann Heugel . In 1943 he married the musician Maja Krückeberg. After military service and returning from captivity , he began studying Waldorf education at the Waldorf teacher training college in Stuttgart . In 1947 he became an employee at the Michaelshof Hepsisau , a remedial home school, and developed a diverse musical life there over five decades.

Act

Knierim's range of work includes improvisation forms newly developed by him for the pupils ( free tone conversation , flowing design ) as well as the performance of operas with the whole community. At the center of his music pedagogical and therapeutic work is the modern lyre, built by Edmund Pracht and Lothar Gärtner since 1926 . Knierim has made significant contributions to the methodology of the lyre game. He is also closely connected with the creation of the "Choroi" instruments, which have been made since 1964, and in 1968 played a key role in the development of the seven-string children's harp , a pentatonic stringed instrument designed for making music with younger children . In 1970/1971 he co-founded the "Free Music School", a training course for art, pedagogy and therapy organized throughout Europe as a "traveling course". Through his many years of work in various training centers, he had a formative influence on the musical work in Waldorf kindergartens and schools as well as within anthroposophical curative education.

meaning

In addition to articles on music pedagogical and therapeutic topics in magazines and compilations, Knierim has mainly published song and choral compositions and edited literature for lyre. His collection of essays Between Hearing and Moving , published in 1988, is evidence of his diverse activities . As one of the leading representatives of anthroposophic therapy, he was a sought-after speaker and cooperation partner within the music therapy that had been establishing itself in Germany since the 1970s with academic training courses and regular conferences. From 1985 to 1990 he was a member of the board of the German Society for Music Therapy. He wrote the first review article on music therapy in the lexicon of music in the past and present .

Works

  • Fifths. Bingenheim 1970.
  • Songs and choirs. Bingenheim 1981.
  • Between hearing and moving. About the healing powers of music. Wuppertal 1988.
  • Music for the Oberuferer Dreikönigsspiel. Stuttgart 1993.
As editor
  • Playbook 1 to 4 for lyre. Bingenheim 1961, 1967, 1970, 1978.
  • Annual songs. Bingenheim 1981.

literature

  • Gerhard Beilharz, Julius Knierim - The source must always be art , Edition Zwischenentöne, Weilheim, 2019, ISBN 978-3-937518-34-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ from Plato, Bodo (ed.): Anthroposophy in the 20th century. A cultural impulse in biographical portraits . Dornach 2003, ISBN 3-7235-1199-6 , p. 384-385 .
  2. ↑ Martin Tobiassen: The free sound conversation. Music education in adolescence . In: Gerhard Beilharz (Hrsg.): Music in education and therapy . Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-7725-2237-8 , pp. 463-474 .
  3. ↑ Gerhard Beilharz: Flowing design. In: Gerhard Beilharz (Hrsg.): Education and healing through music . Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-7725-0915-0 , pp. 236-241 .
  4. ^ V. Frielingsdorf, R. Grimm, B. Kaldenberg,: History of anthroposophical curative education and social therapy . Dornach 2013, ISBN 978-3-7235-1478-8 , pp. 296 .
  5. ↑ Gerhard Beilharz: The lyre . In: Gerhard Beilharz (Hrsg.): Music in education and therapy . Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-7725-2237-8 , pp. 179-189 .
  6. ↑ Gerhard Beilharz: Describing the indescribable. On Julius Knierim's elaboration of a lyre technique. In: North German working group for Leierspiel (ed.): Lyre circular No. 18 (cf. web link leier-forum.com) . 2002.
  7. ↑ Gerhard Beilharz, Albert Böse, Albert: The children's harp . In: Gerhard Beilharz (Hrsg.): Music in education and therapy . Stuttgart 2004, p. 209-214 .
  8. ↑ Gerhard Beilharz in: Between hearing and moving. Edition Bingenheim, Wuppertal 1988, ISBN 3-89138-077-1 , p. 8.
  9. ↑ Hans-Helmut Decker-Voigt: Lexicon music therapy. Hogrefe Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8409-2162-9 , p. 230 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  10. ^ Obituary by Wolfgang Mahns in Musiktherapeutische Umschau. 20/3, 1999, p. 293
personal data
SURNAME Knierim, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German curative teacher, musicologist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1999
Place of death Niefern-Öschelbronn