Abram B. Enns

Abram B. Enns , fully Abram Bernardowitsch Enns (* 23. April 1887 in Altonau , Molotschna , Taurida Gubernia , today Zaporizhia Oblast , Ukraine ; † 25. February 1993 in Luebeck ) was a Black Sea German ( Russian Mennonite ) writer , art critic and educator .

Life

After his first school education in the Russian Mennonite colony, Enns attended the evangelical preacher's school St. Chrischona in Basel , where he also passed his Abitur. He then studied German , Romance studies , philosophy and art history at the Universities of Marburg , Berlin , Munich , Lausanne and Kiel . The First World War prevented his return to the Russian Empire. Through a fellow student from Lübeck, he came into contact with Lübeck, which he visited for the first time during the First World War.

In 1919 he and his young family settled in Eckhorst near Lübeck. From 1921 he gave Russian lessons at the Berlitz School and at the Lübeck Adult Education Center . He belonged to the group of early employees of the Lübeck yearbook Der Wagen and wrote articles for the Lübeckische Blätter . Enns passed the German-Russian interpreter test in 1923/24 . He worked as an artistic consultant for the Lübeck metal foundry Ruß & Co and the hand weaving mill of Alen Müller-Hellwig . In addition, he was the director of the Lübeck open-air theater in the Lübeck Wallanlagen . In 1936/1937 Enns translated Dostojewski's Uncle's Dream , which was also performed in its dramatization in the Lübeck Theater. In 1938 he moved to Munich and in 1940 to Berlin, where he was employed as a lecturer in the Reich Foreign Ministry. After the end of the war he lived with his family in Bodman on Lake Constance , returned to Lübeck in 1946 and taught German and Russian at the Oberschule zum Dom and the Katharineum in Lübeck . His first major work on Lübeck was first published in 1950. His work Kunst und Bürgerertum , published in 1978, is even more important . The controversial twenties in Luebeck , with whom he as a witness to the controversies in Lübeck Culture operation of the Weimar period between the end of World War II and the Nazi Gleichschaltung describes.

Enns was on the artistic advisory board of the Schleswig-Holstein Ministry of Culture , member and chairman of the museum advisory board of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck and on the board of the Overbeck Society . The Hanseatic City of Lübeck awarded him its Senate plaque in 1964. After a severe heart attack in 1976, he moved to the Holy Spirit Hospital . On his 100th birthday, he was honored with a reception at the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities .

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Enns died at the old age of 105. He was buried in the Burgtorfriedhof . His estate is in the archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck .

Fonts

• The cottage. Rahtgens, Lübeck 1924
• The development of a tapestry. In: The art. Volume 77, 1938, pp. 164-168
• Architect Walter Saueracker, Lübeck. 1940
• Lübeck - a guide through the Hanseatic city and its immediate surroundings. Rahtgens, Lübeck 1950; appeared with changing photo contributors ( Leopold Thieme , Wilhelm Castelli ) most recently as Lübeck: a guide through the architectural and artistic monuments of the Hanseatic city , 13th, revised edition, Hansisches Verlags-Kontor Scheffler, Lübeck 1999
• The picture weaver Hildegard Osten, Lübeck. In: Art in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 1, 1951, pp. 67-72
• A tapestry by Walther Jahn and Hildegard Osten. In: Art in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 8, 1958, pp. 26-34
• Carl Georg Heise on his 75th birthday. In: Sankt Annen Museum. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1965, pp. 270ff.
• 50 years of Overbeck-Gesellschaft Lübeck 1918-1968. Gebr. Schmidt, Lübeck 1968
• Art and bourgeoisie. The controversial twenties in Lübeck. Christians / Weiland, Hamburg / Lübeck 1978, ISBN 3-7672-0571-8

literature

• Johannes Hürter (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871 - 1945. 5. T - Z, supplements. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 5: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-71844-0 , p. 433 f.
• Der Wagen 1988, p. 3/4 (picture, curriculum vitae; The Wagen 1988 is dedicated to him)

Web links

Commons : Abram Enns  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 2 poems by Enns in the Journal of Mennonite Studies , digitized by the University of Winnipeg