1. Martin Luserke was a progressive pedagogue, a bard, writer and theatre maker.
24 Facts About Martin Luserke
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Martin Luserke was one of the leading figures of German progressive education and a precursor of outdoor education.
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Martin Luserke was one of three sons of the construction expert Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Luserke and his wife Amalie Elisabeth Luserke, nee Lindhorst.
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Martin Luserke originated from Westphalia, whereas the Luserke family originated from Breslau, Silesia.
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Martin Luserke's father worked his way up from a builder to a construction supervisor and became an architect who worked as an examination administrator at public works service of Berlin.
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Martin Luserke's parents refused to let him go to the Sea.
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Martin Luserke met her through his work for Wickersdorf Free School Community, where she worked as a matron.
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Martin Luserke was the daughter of Prussian Oberstleutnant Paul Vincenz Gerwien.
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Martin Luserke became a pupil of the Herrnhuter Brudergemeine in Berlin.
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Martin Luserke moved to Thuringia and studied Mathematics and Philosophy at Friedrich Schiller University Jena.
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Martin Luserke got influenced by his academic teachers, the Nobel Prize winner Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Ernst Haeckel, Wilhelm Rein and later by Hermann Lietz.
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In 1931 Martin Luserke completed a mate's certificate in Leer, East Frisia.
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Together with so-called pedagogic rebels like Gustav Wyneken, Paul Geheeb and August Halm in autumn 1906 Martin Luserke founded the Freie Schulgemeinde in the small town Wickersdorf near Saalfeld in Thuringian Forest.
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Whereas Wyneken is described more as a theoretician the practitioner Martin Luserke is considered to be the one who added substantial stimulus.
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In Wickersdorf Martin Luserke worked with Hans-Windekilde Jannasch, Peter Suhrkamp and Bernhard Uffrecht.
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Martin Luserke's first play Blut und Liebe which is performed in many schools until today, is a Grotesque based on Hamlet.
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Martin Luserke decided to found a new school "at the border of the habitable world".
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On 1 May 1925, Martin Luserke founded Schule am Meer, where he established the first and only theatre building of a German school.
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When Martin Luserke's renowned school was closed in spring 1934 due to Nazi Gleichschaltung and Antisemitism he decided to work as a free writer.
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Martin Luserke wrote his most favourite book Obadjah und die ZK 14 and a Viking trilogy.
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Martin Luserke cannot be described as toeing the Nazi party line.
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Along the way Martin Luserke's most appreciated activities helped to save the school's survival which was endangered after WWII.
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Martin Luserke held advanced training courses for youth group leaders at Jugendgruppenleiterschule in Bad Harzburg-Bundheim.
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Martin Luserke died in the age of 88 and got buried in Hage, East Frisia, next to his wife Annemarie.