Social movement in German-speaking lands around the turn of the twentieth century
Not to be confused with Lebensborn.
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One of the many aspects of the Lebensreform was healthy reform clothing. This picture from 1911 shows probably a Dutch woman who wears a dress in so-called reform style without a tight-laced corset.
Lebensreform ("life-reform") is the German generic term for various social reform movements, that started since the mid-19th century and originated especially in the German Empire and later in Switzerland. Common features were the criticism of industrialisation, materialism and urbanization combined with striving for the state of nature. The painter and social reformer Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach is considered to be an important pioneer of the Lebensreform ideas. The various movements did not have an overarching organization, but there were numerous associations. Whether the reform movements of the Lebensreform should be classified as modern or as anti-modern and reactionary is controversial. Both theses are represented.[1]
The Reformhaus health food stores in Germany have their historical roots in the alternative nutrition of the Lebensreform movement.
Other important Lebensreform proponents were Sebastian Kneipp, Louis Kuhne, Rudolf Steiner, Hugo Höppener (Fidus), Gustav Gräser, and Adolf Just. One noticeable legacy of the Lebensreform movement in Germany today is the Reformhaus ("reform house"); retail stores that sell organic food and naturopathic medicine.[2]
^Eichberg, Henning. Nacktkultur, Lebensreform, Körperkultur - Neue Forschungsliteratur und Methodenfragen - PDF [Nude culture, life reform, body culture - new research literature and methodological questions] (in German). Gerlev, Denmark.
^Fritzen, F. (2009). "Changing the World with Müsli". German Research. 31 (3): 10–14. doi:10.1002/germ.201090000. — PDF
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