Arthur Kratzmann

Arthur Kratzmann
Arthur Kratzmann
Born	1925; Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia
Died	2015 (aged 89–90); British Columbia
Nationality	Australia
Occupation	teacher
Known for	Joni Mitchell describes having Kratzmann as her teacher was a great influence on her

Arthur Kratzmann was an Australian teacher who spent most of his adult life working in Canada.[1][2]

Kratzmann was a precocious student, in rural Queensland, and already held a teaching job of his own, in a one-room schoolhouse, when he was 17 years old.[2] In 1943, when he turned 18, and was old enough to enlist, he enlisted in the Australian Air Force, which sent him to Canada, for training. He trained to be a pilot, and married his wife Mary, in Canada, before he was 19. He describes earning his wings late enough in the war that he didn't experience front-line risks.

Kratzmann and his wife lived in Australia for three years, after the war, but returned to Canada, where he returned to teaching, in Viking, Alberta.

Kratzmann taught English composition to Joni Mitchell when she was in seventh grade.[3] He could see she was a potentially talented writer, but limited by conventions and undue respect to well-known poets and authors. He describes challenging her to transcend cliché, and Mitchell credits his challenges as having a profound and lasting influence on the rest of her life. Twelve years later she dedicated her first album to him.

Kratzmann was invited to surprise Mitchell with an award at a celebration of her career, in 2001.[2] He described waiting in the wings during an on-stage interview that preceded his surprise appearance, and hearing her describe the profound influence he had on her.

Kratzmann would eventually earn his Bachelor's degree, a Masters, and a PhD, and eventually he became a Professor at a University in Alberta.[3] Kratzmann would rise to be the Dean of Education, at the University of Regina. In 1981 he accepted an appointment as Dean of Education at the University of Victoria, in British Columbia.[4]

References

"Interview with Arthur Kratzmann Print-ready version". ABC Radio National (Australia). June 2008. Archived from the original on 2019-01-24. Retrieved 2020-10-31. Oh yes, yes. I didn't know much about her. You see, we left Saskatoon, and I was working as a professor at the University of Alberta later, and a colleague of mine came back from Toronto and he brought a copy, a weekend copy of the then Toronto Telegram, and there was a whole page spread, really dedicated to me. It was... Joni was singing at a nightclub up north of Toronto, in York, and this gentleman named Cobb, the journalist, interviewed her, and they spent all of their time really talking about me and her association with me, in Saskatoon.
"The teacher and the debt". The Age. 2002-12-15. Archived from the original on 2020-11-01. Retrieved 2020-10-31. Her name was Roberta Joan Anderson. The world would come to know her as Joni Mitchell. The world also would come to know, through Ms Mitchell's disclosures, how important Mr Kratzmann, Queenslander and son of a sharecropper, was in planting the seed from which Ms Mitchell's talents flowered.
Paul Wells (2020-10-30). "Tracing the remarkable rise of Joni Mitchell". Maclean's magazine. Archived from the original on 2020-11-01. Retrieved 2020-10-31. In his 2017 biography Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell, Yaffe writes that Kratzmann handed back one of young Joan Anderson’s compositions, about a stallion white as snow, marked in red pen: “Cliché, cliché, cliché.”
"Knowledge Network Board appointment" (PDF). Staff Bulletin University of Victoria. 2 (21). 1981-01-23. p. 3. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-11-01. Kratzmann, recently appointed Dean of Education at the University of Victoria, is an expert in education administration and organization. He has also served as the Dean of Education at the University of Regina.

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[jonimitchell2008-06-1] "Interview with Arthur Kratzmann Print-ready version". ABC Radio National (Australia). June 2008. Archived from the original on 2019-01-24. Retrieved 2020-10-31. Oh yes, yes. I didn't know much about her. You see, we left Saskatoon, and I was working as a professor at the University of Alberta later, and a colleague of mine came back from Toronto and he brought a copy, a weekend copy of the then Toronto Telegram, and there was a whole page spread, really dedicated to me. It was... Joni was singing at a nightclub up north of Toronto, in York, and this gentleman named Cobb, the journalist, interviewed her, and they spent all of their time really talking about me and her association with me, in Saskatoon.

[TheAge2002-12-15-2] "The teacher and the debt". The Age. 2002-12-15. Archived from the original on 2020-11-01. Retrieved 2020-10-31. Her name was Roberta Joan Anderson. The world would come to know her as Joni Mitchell. The world also would come to know, through Ms Mitchell's disclosures, how important Mr Kratzmann, Queenslander and son of a sharecropper, was in planting the seed from which Ms Mitchell's talents flowered.

[macleans2020-10-30-3] Paul Wells (2020-10-30). "Tracing the remarkable rise of Joni Mitchell". Maclean's magazine. Archived from the original on 2020-11-01. Retrieved 2020-10-31. In his 2017 biography Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell, Yaffe writes that Kratzmann handed back one of young Joan Anderson’s compositions, about a stallion white as snow, marked in red pen: “Cliché, cliché, cliché.”

[uvicbulleting1981-01-23-4] "Knowledge Network Board appointment" (PDF). Staff Bulletin University of Victoria. 2 (21). 1981-01-23. p. 3. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-11-01. Kratzmann, recently appointed Dean of Education at the University of Victoria, is an expert in education administration and organization. He has also served as the Dean of Education at the University of Regina.