Ruth Sieler

Ruth Sieler (born December 27, 1911 in Posen , † April 22, 1976 in Stuttgart ) was a German music teacher and rhythm teacher .

Life

Ruth Sieler attended a school in Halle and the grammar school in Luckenwalde (near Berlin). From 1931 to 1937 she studied musicology and art history at the University of Berlin . In addition, she studied piano and music education at the Berlin University of Music . She completed her training as a teacher at music schools at the State Academy for Church and School Music in Berlin-Charlottenburg.

Ruth Sieler then took on an assistant position in the children's choir of the Deutschlandsender. From 1940 to 1942 she was a music advisor in the Association of German Girls (BDM). During this time she had a lot of contact with Elfriede Feudel . For political reasons, she stopped working for the BDM. Then she went to Elfriede Feudel at the Leipzig University of Music . In 1944 she successfully passed the examination in the main subject "Rhythmic-Musical Education". Their daughter Cornelia was born in 1945. In 1946 her partner, the organist and conductor Hendrik van Kogelenberg, died.

From 1946 to 1949 Ruth Sieler worked as a pianist and composer , from 1949 to 1963 as a teacher at the music schools in Dortmund and Münster an der Ruhr. From 1963 to 1969 she was a lecturer for music and rhythm in Stuttgart, from 1970 to 1974 she was the director of advanced training courses for kindergarten teachers of the Caritas Association. In addition, she passed the teaching examination for bamboo flute making in England in 1960. 1960–1968 she drew as editor of the magazine "Rhythmische Erziehungs", working closely with the pioneers of rhythm in Germany such as Elfriede Feudel , Mimi Scheiblauer and Charlotte Pfeffer , to name just a few of the many.

Little is known that Ruth Sieler has composed and written several children's operas and scenic games for children, such as B. "The winter drive game", "The garden game", "The brave little tailor", "The kitchen game", "The bimbambolic school" and "Pinocchio". For health reasons, Ruth Sieler then withdrew more and more, and the negative experiences in the 1970s in educator training with music and movement contributed to her withdrawal: “The last testimony to her sharp thinking is the small article written shortly before her death on Word 'rhythm'. In it, she vehemently advocates speaking of the subject of rhythm and not using compound names or even paraphrases for the 'German tendency to complicated profundity' ”(Ring / Steinmann 1997, p. 264).

Web links

• Manfred Berger: Ruth Sieler: A life for rhythm

Works

• Rhythmic lessons with children, Stuttgart 1964
• Making music with sound instruments, Frankfurt 1971
• Learning with music and movement. Rhythm in the children's preschool, Stuttgart 1972
• Children's dances and rhythm games, Frankfurt 1976
• This word "rhythm" is irreplaceable without compromise, in: Rhythmics in Education, 1976 / H. 3, p. 12 f

literature

• Reinhard Ring, Brigitte Steinmann: Lexicon of Rhythmics . Bosse, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-7649-2470-5
• Songrid Hürtgen-Busch: The pioneers of rhythmic-musical education in Germany . dipa, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7638-0362-9