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Johannes Georg Pahn (30 December 1931 – 1 December 2015) was a German physician,
speech therapist Speech is the use of the human voice as a medium for language. Spoken language combines vowel and consonant sounds to form units of meaning like words, which belong to a language's lexicon. There are many different intentional speech acts, suc ...
and
music educator Music education is a field of practice in which educators are trained for careers as elementary or secondary music teachers, school or music conservatory ensemble directors. Music education is also a research area in which scholars do origina ...
. He was a co-founder of phoniatrics in Germany.


Life

Pahn,
Roman Catholic The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institut ...
, was born in 1931 in Dresden, the capital of Saxony, the son of the teacher Max Paul Pahn and the
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master Erna Maria Pahn. He attended secondary school in
Pirna Pirna (; , ) is a town in Saxony, Germany and capital of the administrative district Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge. The town's population is over 37,000. Pirna is located near Dresden and is an important district town as well as a ''Große ...
from 1942 and gained his first experience as a
choirmaster A choir ( ), also known as a chorale or chorus (from Latin ''chorus'', meaning 'a dance in a circle') is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform or in other words ...
and
organist An organist is a musician who plays any type of organ (music), organ. An organist may play organ repertoire, solo organ works, play with an musical ensemble, ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers or instrumentalist, instrumental ...
in
Heidenau Heidenau is a town in the Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district, in Saxony, Germany. The town is situated on the left bank of the Elbe, 13 km southeast of Dresden Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is ...
southeast of Dresden, where the family resided. After his
Abitur ''Abitur'' (), often shortened colloquially to ''Abi'', is a qualification granted at the end of secondary education in Germany. It is conferred on students who pass their final exams at the end of ISCED 3, usually after twelve or thirteen year ...
in Pirna in 1950, he studied
music education Music education is a field of practice in which educators are trained for careers as primary education, elementary or secondary education, secondary music teachers, school or music conservatory ensemble directors. Music education is also a rese ...
,
German studies German studies is an academic field that researches, documents and disseminates German language, literature, and culture in its historic and present forms. Academic departments of German studies therefore often focus on German culture, German h ...
and speech training at the
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (), also referred to as MLU, is a public research university in the cities of Halle and Wittenberg. It is the largest and oldest university in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. MLU offers German and i ...
until 1953. In 1954/55, he worked as a music teacher in Halle. From 1954 to 1959, he held lectureships in speech training at the Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig and in singing and vocal physiology at the and Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. In 1955/56, he was a subject group leader at the Halle Folk Music School (
Saalkreis Saalkreis was a district (''Kreis'') in the south of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Neighboring districts were (from west clockwise) Mansfelder Land, Bernburg, Köthen, Bitterfeld, the district Delitzsch in Saxony, and the district Merseburg-Querfurt. ...
). From 1956 to 1958, he was a
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at the Institute for Speech Studies at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. He was eventually dismissed and had no permanent position in 1958/59 because of his lack of party affiliation. Until 1959, he worked as a concert singer, singing teacher, organist and choir director. From 1959 to 1961, he worked as a University
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for speech training at the . In 1960, he was awarded a doctorate by the music pedagogue
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at the Pedagogical Faculty of the
Humboldt University of Berlin The Humboldt University of Berlin (, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany. The university was established by Frederick William III on the initiative of Wilhelm von Humbol ...
with the dissertation ''Stimmphysiologische Untersuchungen der Verspannungserscheinungen beim Singen. Ein Beitrag zur Grundlagenforschung der Methodik des Gesangsunterrichts'' (A contribution to basic research into the methodology of singing lessons). From 1960 to 1968, he was a speech scientist at the Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic of the . There he founded a phoniatric department. In 1967 he passed an external
Staatsexamen The ("state examination" or "exam by state"; pl.: ''Staatsexamina'') is a German government licensing examination that future physicians, dentists, physical therapists, teachers, research librarians, archivists, pharmacists, food chemists, psyc ...
in speech education at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. Parallel to his professional activities, he completed his
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at the
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and the
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from 1962 to 1968. In 1968, he passed the Staatsexamen in medicine. From 1968 to 1988, he was an assistant at the ENT clinic of the Wilhelm-Pieck University Rostock. There he was trained as specialist and founded the department of phoniatrics-paediatric audiology. In 1974, he submitted the (Dr. sc. med.) on the topic '' Die phoniatrische Tauglichkeitsuntersuchung für pädagogische Berufsgruppen. Grundlagen, gegenwärtiger Stand, gesellschaftliche Bedeutung und Weiterentwicklung ''. In 1977, he became
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. From 1988, he was an associate lecturer at the University of Rostock. In 1992 he became a lecturer to date in law for
otorhinolaryngology Otorhinolaryngology ( , abbreviated ORL and also known as otolaryngology, otolaryngology–head and neck surgery (ORL–H&N or OHNS), or ear, nose, and throat (ENT)) is a surgical subspecialty within medicine that deals with the surgical an ...
. In 1994/95 he was
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and from 1995 until
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in 1999 Außplanmäßige Professor for phoniatrics/ at the . From 1991 to 1994, he acted as deputy to the acting director of the Rostock ENT Clinic. Based on his involvement with music and medicine, he developed methods for voice therapy from the nasalisation method and the
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of the
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. methods for voice therapy. He has given lectures and workshops in many European countries and Canada. In 1999, he founded a for speech-language pathology at the European Business and Language Academy Rostock. This was under his Medical Director and developed into a university of applied sciences in 2003 in cooperation with the university of applied sciences for speech-language pathology in
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(Netherlands) into a university of applied sciences. He was a member of the interdisciplinary (DGSS; from 1995 until 2003 president, later honorary president) and the . Pahn died at the age of 73.


Awards

In 1985, he was awarded the Hermann Gutzmann Medal of the German Society for Phoniatrics and Paedaudiology.


Publications

* ''Stimmübungen für Sprechen und Singen''.''Stimmübungen für Sprechen und Singen''
on WorldCat Verlag Volk und Gesundheit VEB, Berlin 1968 (translation in Dutch 1987). * with : ''Die Nasalierungsmethode. Übungsverfahren der Sprech- und Singstimme zur Therapie und Prophylaxe von Störungen und Erkrankungen. Mit Verfahren der neuromuskulären elektrophonatorischen Simulation (NMEPS) von Kehlkopfparesen''. Oehmke, Roggentin/Rostock 2000, (translation in Dutch 2000). * with Antoinette Lamprecht-Dinnesen, Annergse Keilmann, Kurt Bielfeld and Eberhard Seifert (ed.): ''Sprache und Musik. Beiträge der 71. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprach- und Stimmheilkunde e.V., Berlin, 12. – 13 March 1999'' (''Beiträge der Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprach- und Stimmheilkunde e.V''. Vol. 71). Steiner, Stuttgart 2000, .


Further reading

* Gabriele Witt: ''Nachruf für Prof. Dr. med. habil. Dr. paed. Johannes Pahn''. In ''Ärzteblatt Mecklenburg-Vorpommern'' 26 (2016) 2, .


References


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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pahn, Johannes Georg German otolaryngologists 20th-century German physicians 21st-century German physicians German music educators Academic staff of the University of Rostock 1931 births 2015 deaths People from Dresden German Roman Catholics