Abstract
Hedi Gigler-Dongas (1923â2017), daughter of the composer Grete von Zieritz and the writer Herbert Gigler, was already looking back on a successful career as a violin soloist when she â according to the ego documents she left behind â increasingly followed her actual vocation from around the 1970s. She found it in the therapeutic, didactic work with violinists who suffered from profession-specific physical complaints, whereby for Gigler-Dongas psychosomatic aspects functioned as superior to physiological ones. Symbolic research with sexual connotations also played a significant role in her analytical approach. Gigler-Dongasâ own painful experience of being an externally determined child prodigy served as a source of inspiration and motivation. Her distinct self-image as a highly qualified specialist both in her bread-andbutter profession as a violinist and for her vocation as a therapist for body and soul, as well as her efforts to actively influence her external perception as such, can be traced in numerous first-person documents, including above all autobiographical narratives, letters and diaries. These always reveal a close interweaving of the public âprofessional personaâ with aspects of private life, even in later years, for instance, by implying medical competence via her role as a doctorâs wife.
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