Lory Maier-Smits

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Eleonore Clara Maria Lory Maier-Smits (born Smits; born March 6, 1893 in Höntrop , † September 19, 1971 in Laufenburg (Baden) ) was a teacher and performer and the first eurythmist . She developed eurythmy between 1912 and 1924 together with Rudolf Steiner , whereby Steiner's first artistic approaches from 1908 were continued.

Life

Example sentence on dancing by Rudolf Steiner for Lory Maier-Smits. Bar- : jerk upwards; -bara sat : stretched sounds; stracks : jerk down; on the slope : undulating movements (according to Steiner / Smits / Beltle / Vierl)

Smits was the daughter of the anthroposophist Clara Smits, who on December 15, 1911 asked Rudolf Steiner to suggest a suitable profession for her daughter, became a member of the Theosophical Society on March 30, 1912 and worked on eurythmy together with Steiner, Marie von Sivers and others partly in the face of critical difficulties brought up by World War I.

She married Alfred Maier on May 31, 1917 at Haus Meer in Büderich near Düsseldorf , to whom she gave the three children Anna-Sophia, Johanna Maria and Johannes Immanuel. During the Third Reich, she was banned from performing eurythmy in Germany.

Maier-Smits found her final resting place in Laufenburg am Rhein. After her death, she was a very popular figure in the 1970s and 1980s, especially through Else Klink in Stuttgart .

Eurythmic work

From September 16, 1912, Smits took nine eurythmy lessons with Mieta Waller and Marie von Sivers in Bottmingen with Steiner. Following Steiner's instructions, she was one of the first to step back and forth in alliterations , taking a strong step on the alliterating parts of the bar and moving her arm in a pleasing manner to the parts of the bar without alliterating consonants. She gave the first eurythmy performance on April 26, 1913 in Düsseldorf in the presence of Steiner, her siblings, Annemarie Donath and Erna Wolfram, after which eurythmy was shown publicly for the first time during the Munich performance of Steiner's fourth mystery drama in the same year. On August 28, 1913 she gave an internal eurythmy performance in Munich with L. Stahlbusch and Erna van Deventer-Wolfram in front of members of the Anthroposophical Society , which regularly performs eurythmy and others. a. every week in the carpenter's workshop at the Goetheanum before Steiner's lectures, and from 1915 eurythmy-dramatic scenes from Goethe's Faust and Steiner's Mystery Dramas followed. Smits started a eurythmy training course at Haus Meer in October 1913 , which six women attended. In the period between August 18 and September 11, 1915, she took part in a Steiner course with Marie Steiner, Erna van Deventer-Wolfram and Elisabeth Dollfuss. a. the forces of the planets and the zodiac in their interaction with language , body shape and gesture of the people in twelve moods erübte and highlights like the first public eurythmy performance on the Zurich peacocks stage prepared on February 24 1919th

literature

  • Magdalene Siegloch: How the New Art of Eurythmy Began: Lory Maier-Smits, the First Eurythmist . Temple Lodge Publishing, Forest Row 1997, ISBN 0904693902
  • Magdalene Siegloch: Lory Maier-Smits . Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 1993, ISBN 3723506895
  • Rudolf Steiner: The Origin and Development of Eurythmy. First course: The Dionysian element (Bottmingen / Basel 1912). Second course: The Apollonian element (Dornach 1915) . 3rd edition (GA 277A). Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach 1998, ISBN 3-7274-2775-2

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Magdalene Siegloch: Maier-Smits, Eleonore Lory Clara Maria . Biography of the Kulturimpuls research center , accessed on August 1, 2016
  2. ↑ The graphic follows a work by Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) as it was passed on by Eleonore Maier-Smits, Erika Beltle and Kurt Vierl in: Lory Maier-Smits: Erste Lebenskeime der Eurythmie . In: Erika Beltle, Kurt Vierl: Memories of Rudolf Steiner. Collected contributions from the "Communications from anthroposophical work in Germany" 1947-1978 . Free Spiritual Life Publishing House , Stuttgart 1979, pp. 104–119 (p. 105)
  3. ↑ Ute Reifenberg: Development of Eurythmy. With special consideration of Lory Maier-Smits . Anthroposophical Society Düsseldorf / Michaelzweig , accessed on January 30, 2011
  4. ↑ Magdalene Siegloch: Klink, Else . Research Center for Culture Impulse, accessed on January 30, 2011
  5. ^ Theodor Hundhammer: Marie Steiner von Sivers. Biography - cultural impulse - areas of tension ( memento of the original from November 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Section Head of Eurythmy , p. 24 ( PDF ( Memento of the original dated February 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ) . Bewegteworte.ch , accessed on January 30, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bewegteworte.ch @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bewegteworte.ch
  6. ↑ a b Robin Schmidt: Eurythmy (PDF; 84 kB). Anthromedia.net , November 2007, accessed January 30, 2011 (PDF)
personal data
SURNAME Maier-Smits, Lory
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Smits, Eleonore Clara Maria Lory (birth name); Maier-Smits, Eleonore Clara Maria Lory
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German eurythmist
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Höntrop
DATE OF DEATH 19th September 1971
Place of death Laufenburg (Baden)