Horse Whisperer
As a horse whisperer is referred to people who particularly well with horses use to get around and to special methods of communication.
The prerequisite for this is the ability to understand the behavior and body language of horses. Therefore, a good ability to observe and empathy are basic requirements. The knowledge learned about the so-called "horse language" is used to make contact with the animals by means of gestures .
The best-known example of a horse whisperer is Monty Roberts , who works with horses and their owners in order to e.g. B. Taking away fears or eliminating undesirable behavior. His work has received worldwide recognition. The so-called join-up method is now also part of management seminars for interpersonal communication.
The spiritual father of all horse whisperers is the American Tom Dorrance (1910-2003), to whom Nicholas Evans also refers in his novel The Horse Whisperer . The successful film adaptation of the book by and with Robert Redford made the term known outside of the "horse scene".
The etymology of the term horse whisperer, whisperer, or ear blower is not entirely clear. According to Peter Spohr , the term may go back to an Irish named O'Sullivan. Spohr describes the method used at that time using the American horse tamer Rarey, whom he had secretly observed in the 1850s, as a system of violence in which Rarey held the nostrils of a stallion to be tamed until the exhausted and half-choked animal gave up its resistance. Rarey was able to retrieve this conditioning later in front of an audience by stroking his nostrils and apparently good-natured "whispering" to make the frightened stallion docile.
Modern horse whisperers communicate with their horses non-violently.
Film documentaries
- The secret of the horse language. Documentation about horse trainer Hans-Jürgen Neuhauser and horse behavior therapist Brigitte Schulz . Germany ( ZDF ), 2005, 43 min; Direction: Bettina Witte, Heinz von Matthey.
literature
- Nicholas Evans: The Horse Whisperer. Translated by Bernhard Robben, Bertelsmann, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-570-12194-1 .
- Heinz Welz : Anyone can learn horse whispering. Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 3-440-08956-8 .
Web links
- Reprint from the exhibition catalog of the Styrian State Exhibition 2003 The Horse Myth (PDF; 1.9 MB) ( Memento from October 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Spohr: The logic in the art of riding , vol. 3, reprint at Olms, ISBN 3-487-08187-3 , p. 104.
- ↑ Peter Spohr: The logic in the art of riding , vol. 3, reprint at Olms, ISBN 3-487-08187-3 , p. 107.