Adalbert Stifter Association

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The Adalbert Stifter Association (abbreviated ASV ) is a registered association and was founded on May 5, 1947 in Munich by German scientists, artists and writers from Prague and the Sudeten regions who had to leave their homeland in 1945.

Naming

The name Adalbert Stifter Verein (ASV) was not chosen to deal exclusively with the life and work of Adalbert Stifter , but because the poet exemplifies the cultural ties between Bohemia, Germany and Austria.

Seat, task and financing

The Adalbert Stifter Verein eV has had its seat in the Sudeten German House in Munich since 1985 , previously its office was at various addresses in Munich. Since 1952 it has been funded under Section 96 BVFG ( Federal Expellees Act ), for which the Minister of State in the Federal Government is responsible for culture and media. For this, the association received 442,000 euros in 2016 without the funds for one of six cultural consultants “as a cultural mediator with his own sponsorship title with a focus on cultural youth and adult education. The federal funding amounted to 826,000 euros in 2015 and 827,000 euros in 2016. "

"The Adalbert-Stifter-Verein ... conveys history and culture, especially the German-language literature of Bohemia, Moravia and Sudeten Silesia, including its interaction with Czech literature, and promotes German-Czech cultural exchange."

- German Bundestag, 18th electoral term, 25 February 2016

History and activity

At the founding meeting initiated by Franz Haibach, the statutes were discussed and the board was elected: 1st chairman Franz Haibach, 2nd chairman Franz Longin, secretary Walter Becher , deputy secretary Roman Herlinger, treasurer Eduard Klimesch, youth officer Erhard Trenkler. The following were also elected as guarantors (who had to be officially confirmed non-Nazis): Franz Ziegler, Richard Reitzner, Father Paulus Sladek , Karl Schreiner and Martha Krause. Licensing by the Munich Police Headquarters took place in October 1947.

The association was originally founded to culturally promote and care for the displaced from the Sudetenland. Regarding the goals of the association, it was stated during the establishment: “The association should be a gathering point for the culturally effective forces of the Sudetenland. In a matter-of-fact way of dealing with his tasks, he has divided himself into three departments (art, science, folk culture), which are supplemented by a youth department and a department for social welfare ”. In addition to the Catholic Ackermann congregation, which was founded shortly before it, the association fulfilled the task of providing the Sudeten German expellees with a new cultural and social home. Existential questions of survival after the expulsion were at the center of the first few years. With the start of state funding in 1952, the work of the association developed in the sense of a cultural institute in the form of cultural history exhibitions, literary studies and literary history research and the targeted promotion of artists. Until 1986 the management was carried out by Johanna von Herzogenberg .

Since 1986 and the opening of the Iron Curtain in 1989, the activities of the Adalbert Stifter Association have changed in the direct German-Czech cultural exchange under the management of Peter Becher .

Since 1994, the association, together with other organizations, has awarded the Art Prize for German-Czech Understanding to people who are particularly committed to the cooperation between the two countries.

Members

Membership is basically open to everyone; the association currently has almost 200 members. The chairman has been the Germanist and literary historian Peter Becher since 2019.

The cultural advisor for the Bohemian countries has been part of the association since 2002 and is also institutionally funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. The broad-based communication of the culture and history of Germans from the Bohemian countries (also called Sudeten Germans) in the spirit of international understanding and in cooperation with Czech partners is the central concern of his activity. One of the goals is to interest people outside of the displaced population in this cultural heritage. An integral part of the cultural consultant's range of events are z. B. Excursions in the cultural regions of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia, author readings, film screenings, lectures on German-Bohemian culture, eyewitness talks on the subject of flight and expulsion, concerts with Bohemian composers, exhibitions, etc. 96 BVFG. Similar offices for cultural consultants have been set up by the federal government for East Prussia, West Prussia, Southeast Europe, Pomerania and Silesia.

Chairperson

Managing directors

  • 1948 to 1949: Otto Zerlik
  • 1949 to 1951: Theodor Hutter
  • 1951 to 1952: Adolf Tosch
  • 1952 to 1985: Johanna von Herzogenberg
  • 1986 to 2018: Peter Becher
  • since 2019: Zuzana Jürgens

Importance of the BVFG for ASV and Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie

On the initiative of the federal government, all federal states at the time, the city of Regensburg and the Adalbert Stifter Verein und Künstlergilde eV, the "East German Gallery" was founded in Regensburg in 1970, in which the holdings of the Adalbert Stifter Verein and the Esslingen Artists' Guild were combined.

“Undoubtedly the most important were the consequences of the Federal Expellees Act of 1953, where the then Bavarian State Secretary Theodor Oberländer (at Walter Becher's instigation ) succeeded in inserting a paragraph 96 that secures and preserves the cultural property of the expellees and their all-round exploitation through appropriate institutions The federal and state governments made what still applies today (Pohl, Integration, 326-361). This not only meant recognition of the high value of the cultural traditions of the East, it also meant that considerable funds were poured into a wide variety of institutions, from museums to media work. The important "East German Gallery" in Regensburg (opened in 1970, since 2003 "Art Forum") should be highlighted in the art sector ... "

- Walter Ziegler “Social and Cultural Relations” in the Bavarian Historical Lexicon.

The "Ostdeutsche Galerie" was founded during the management of Johanna von Herzogenberg . From your own statements it can be inferred that the support of the Bavarian Ministry of Social Affairs made it possible to buy works by artists in Bavaria who came from the various displaced areas. After a collection was available through these acquisitions based on artistic and social aspects , it was suggested to the director of the Regensburg museums, Walter Boll , to bring in the first hundred sheets of the Sudeten German graphic collections as a gift and use them as the basis of a "Sudeten German gallery" in the Kunsthalle am To accommodate city park. At the same time, the Lord Mayor of Regensburg was asked for patronage and funding for an artists' meeting. From 1957 onwards, the Lord Mayors of Regensburg were patrons of the artists' meetings that took place every year until 1989.

literature

  • Tobias Weger : On the founding history of the Adalbert Stifter Verein . In: “Volkstumskampf” without end? Sudeten German Organizations, 1945–1955 . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-631-57104-0 , p. 229 ff .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (Ed.): Report of the Federal Government on the measures to promote cultural work in accordance with Section 96 of the Federal Expellees Act (BVFG) in 2015 and 2016 . 8.1 Education and mediation work by the cultural officers, p. 24 , lower center ( online as PDF [accessed December 22, 2019]).
  2. ↑ German Bundestag (ed.): Further development of the concept for research, preservation, presentation and communication of the culture and history of Germans in Eastern Europe according to Section 96 of the Federal Expellees Act . Notification by the federal government. February 25, 2016, 3. Institutions and project funding funded by the BKM, p. 8 , lower center ( online as PDF [accessed December 22, 2019] printed matter 18/7730). Available under printed matter and plenary minutes of the Bundestag - from 1949. German Bundestag , February 25, 2016, accessed on December 22, 2019 (accessed via document number 18/7730).
  3. ↑ Cf. Becher, Peter: The beginnings of the Adalbert Stifter Verein (1947–1953). In: 50 Years of the Adalbert Stifter Association 1947–1997. Munich 1998, 12-22; Paleczek, Raimund: From Prague to Munich. The founders of the Adalbert Stifter Association. In: 60 years of the Adalbert Stifter Association. Ceremony, Chronicle 1998–2007, Colloquium. Munich 2008, 141–153; Pohl, Karin: Between Dependence and Promotion. The early years of the Adalbert Stifter Verein (1947–1957) in ibid., 155–170.
  4. ↑ Dike Attenbrunner: In search of identity; Article on Art Forum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg from August 25, 2014, online: http://www.regensburg-digital.de/auf-der-suche-nach-identitaet/25082014
  5. ↑ See Herzogenberg, Johanna: Neubeginn (1953–1968). In: 50 Years of the Adalbert Stifter Association 1947–1997. Munich 1998, 23–32