Klara Hattermann

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Klara Hattermann (born May 21, 1909 in Emden ; † September 1, 2003 in Hanover ) was a German anthroposophical pedagogue who had a decisive influence on the development of early childhood Waldorf education after 1945.

Live and act

Together with her twin sister Helene (married von Radecki), she spent happy childhood in Burgdorf near Hanover. Since the single mother, the father of the twins died a year after their birth, attached great importance to the education of her daughters, she moved to Hanover, where Klara completed her training as a kindergarten teacher after graduating from the Lyceum. Then she worked in a children's home in Springe (am Deister). In 1929 she went to Nuremberg. There she supervised u. a. a boy and helped with the household. Klara Hattermann then attended the Waldorf teachers' seminar in Stuttgart for half a year and then worked in the first Waldorf kindergarten, which was directed by Elisabeth von Grunelius .

In 1930 she founded a kindergarten in Hanover, which initially four children attended. Since there was no room available for this, walks were made in the Eilenriede . Two years later, two rooms could be rented. In 1941 Klara Hattermann had to close her kindergarten. She moved to Dresden, where Waldorf education was still allowed. There the teacher gathered a group of children around her in a basement room. But after three months she had to give up her job and took over the care of about 30 children in a children's home in Poznan, which was run by her twin sister. When she had to give up the leadership, Klara Hattermann completed the youth leader training in the women's seminar in Thale in the Harz. Then she helped set up a school for nannies in Graudenz on the Vistula, where she also taught.

After 1945, the pedagogue was instrumental in building up the existing kindergarten landscape to inspire and qualitatively expand it through Waldorf education . Klara Hattermann founded a small kindergarten in a barrack in the destroyed city of Hanover , which developed into a large Waldorf facility with a school and training seminar for kindergarten teachers . The Waldorf kindergarten teachers met for the first time in 1950 under their aegis , which is considered the nucleus of the kindergarten movement in Waldorf education. With great energy she drove the founding of the International Association of Waldorf Kindergartens. V. , which took place on October 19, 1969. In addition, she advocated early childhood Waldorf education, both verbally and in writing.

Hattermann worked intensively with Wilma Ellersiek , who developed rhythmic, musical hand gesture games for preschoolers. With the encouragement of the Waldorf educator, the Ellersiek Games came into being , which she disseminated in countless workshops and working groups.

Works (selection)

  • The kindergarten as a helper for the child, in: Waldorf Education 1958 / H. 1/2, pp. 25-28
  • How the kindergarten came into being, in: Waldorf Education 1960 / H. 4, pp. 35-36
  • Milestones in the development of the Waldorf kindergartens in Hanover, in: Erziehungskunst 1977 / H. 9, pp. 458-459
  • Elisabeth Grunelius on her 90th birthday, in: Erziehungskunst 1985 / H. 6, pp. 410-411

literature

  • Marie-Luise Compani / Peter Lang. (Ed.): Waldorf kindergarten today. An introduction, Stuttgart 2011
  • State capital Hanover (ed.): Important women in Hanover, Hanover 2003, p. 28

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Compani / Lang 2011, p. 20
  2. ↑ Hattermann 1960, p. 35 f
  3. ↑ https://www.handgestenspiele.de/wilma-ellersiek.html
personal data
SURNAME Hattermann, Klara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anthroposophical educator
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Emden
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 2003
Place of death Hanover