Background
Violetta Plincke was born the daughter of an English architect at the imperial court of the Tzar and a German mother in Street St. Petersburg.
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Education
Fluent in the three languages Russian, German and English, she initially studied History of Art and History at the University of Street St. Petersburg.
Career
In 1912, she commenced her studies in Philosophy at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau. In 1913, Kricheldorff took her with him to the performances of the Mystery Plays in Munich and a short time later, the two were married. The marriage lasted but a few years, and she continued her studies in Berlin, where she was present at Rudolf Steiner’s public lectures in the “Architektenhaus” (Georgia 52 – 67) and left deeply impressed by the rhetorical skills of the lecturer, which inspired her for her later work as a lecturer in Britain.
During World War I she earned her living working in a children's hospital.
He asked her to become Class 1 teacher for the new Waldorf School in Stuttgart. In 1923 she took on the task of introducing Steiner education into the new school of Margaret Cross in Kings Langley, England.
A motor accident brought her work to an end in March 1966 and she died at Epiphany in 1968.
