teachers
All teachers at our school are members of the internationally recognized Alexander-Technik-Verband Deutschland (ATVD).
Jörg Aßhoff | director of training
- has been teaching since 1993 in his own private practice. Additionally, he has been teaching 15 years at the Universität der Künste (university of performing arts), community centers (Volkshochschule) and speech therapy schools.
In 2004 he founded the school „Alexander-Technik-Schule Berlin”. He is a moderator at three teacher training courses in Germany and France.
Petra von Ondarza | assistant
- began studying the AT in 1985 in Paris while training in contemporary dance and Contact Improvisation. She has been teaching mainly in private practice since 1991, in Hamburg and since 1997 in Berlin. From 1992-96 she studied Body-Mind Centering/Integrative Movement Therapy with Linda Hartley and completed an M.A. in religious studies at the FU Berlin in 2010.
She has been assisting on the training course since it opened in 2004.
Ulrich Bitter | assistant, deputy head of the training course
- has been giving lessons in the AT since 1992 in his own studio. 1993-99 he worked with professional dancers (contemporary dance) in Braunschweig. 1999-2000 he was the assistant on the training course in Hannover.
Since 2004 he has been an assistant in the Alexander-Technik School Berlin. He was member of the board of ATVD (German society of Alexander teachers) for five years. He teaches single lessons, groups, gives workshops and has a teaching assignment at the Physiotherapy School Göttingen.
Sibylle Gfellner | assistant
Studied theater at the FU , acting studies INAC. She is a teacher of Alexander Technique in the training class since 2015. She gives individual, group lessons and workshops in the Alexander Technique at places of learning such as elementary schools, universities (FU Berlin, HU Berlin), etc.. She is engaged in movement evolution in work with pregnant women and infants.
Languages: German, English, Spanish, French
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Teresa Wiesehöfer | assistant
- graduated from the Alexander-Technik-Schule Berlin in 2012. She teaches the Alexander-Technique in single lessons at her Studio in Berlin Südkreuz and gives courses at various institutes of adult education. Since 2015 she is an active part of the school. Additionally, she works in her former profession as an artist, having studied drawing and sculpturing from 2000 – 2007 at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main. She discovered the Alexander Technique through her love of piano playing.
Wilfried Hanefeld | moderator of training course
- has a university degree in pedagogy and qualified as a teacher of the Alexander Technique in 1983. He had the opportunity of studying with “first generation” teachers. In 1984 he was a founding member of the Gesellschaft der Lehrer für Alexander Technik e.V. (the German society of teachers of the Alexander Technique, now: ATVD), whose work he developed and supported actively as first resp. second chairman for ten years. In 1989 he set up a teacher training course in Freiburg, on which he continued to work as its director from 1992-2001. He has been a teacher and facilitator at the Alexander-Technik-Schule Berlin since 2004. Aside from the Alexander Technique he also works in complementary fields such as: Client-Centered Communication, Gestalt Therapy, Coaching and Systemic Work.
Elisabeth Molle | regular guest teacher
trained in classical and modern dance in France and in New York, where she graduated as an Alexander Technique teacher in 1983. Since then she has been living and working in Berlin, developing a way to apply the AT principles to movement into space, among others during 10 years at the Dance University in Berlin (HZT). She teaches privately in her own studio and works as an assistant, guest teacher and moderator in several AT Training Courses.
