Hedwig Andersen (9 June 1866 in
Memel,
East Prussia
East Prussia ; german: Ostpreißen, label=Low Prussian; pl, Prusy Wschodnie; lt, Rytų Prūsija was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1773 to 1829 and again from 1878 (with the Kingdom itself being part of the German Empire from 187 ...
− 29 March 1957 in Schönborn near
Eutin
Eutin () is the district capital of Ostholstein, Eastern Holstein county located in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein. As of 2020, the town had some 17,000 inhabitants.
History
The name Eutin (originally Utin) is of Slavic origin. I ...
) was with
Clara Schlaffhorst founder of the , a method of respiration, speech and
voice therapy
Voice therapy consists of techniques and procedures that target vocal parameters, such as vocal fold closure, pitch, volume, and quality. This therapy is provided by speech-language pathologists and is primarily used to aid in the management of v ...
.
Life
As the daughter of a master rope maker she grew up in
Memel. She trained as a piano teacher in
Sondershausen
Sondershausen is a town in Thuringia, central Germany, capital of the Kyffhäuserkreis district, situated about 50 km north of Erfurt. On 1 December 2007, the former municipality Schernberg was incorporated by Sondershausen.
Until 1918 it ...
in Thuringia. Student of the singing teacher Julius Hey, through whom she met Clara Schlaffhorst, who was also a student of his. They translated the book "The Art of Breathing" by Leo Kofler into German. This resulted in the joint research and teaching of breathing, voice and movement. In 1910 she began teaching in Berlin. In 1916 Schlaffhorst and Andersen founded the "School for the Art of Breathing and Singing", the first training school in Rothenburg an der Fulda. This was later moved to Hustedt/Südheide (1926-1942) and Seefeld/Pomerania (1942-1945). After the death of
Clara Schlaffhorst and the escape from
Pomerania
Pomerania ( pl, Pomorze; german: Pommern; Kashubian: ''Pòmòrskô''; sv, Pommern) is a historical region on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea in Central Europe, split between Poland and Germany. The western part of Pomerania belongs to ...
she was taken in by the former student Annemarie Fischer on her estate in Schönborn (
Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein (; da, Slesvig-Holsten; nds, Sleswig-Holsteen; frr, Slaswik-Holstiinj) is the northernmost of the 16 states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Sch ...
), where she remained until her death at the age of 90.
Publications
* ''Atmung and Stimme''.
* ''Atmung Stimme Bewegung''.
''Atmung Stimme Bewegung''
on GoogleBooks
References
External links
*
Hedwig Andersen
in . Women's biography research (with references and quotations).
{{DEFAULTSORT:Andersen, Hedwig
German women pianists
1866 births
1957 deaths
People from Klaipėda