Adelhart Zippelius

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Adelhart Zippelius (born June 20, 1916 in Karlsruhe ; † May 9, 2014 ) was a German folklorist and from 1958 to 1981 the first director of the LVR open-air museum in Kommern .

Life

Born as the son of the architect Johann Adam Zippelius (Bullenheim 1873–1958 Karlsruhe; called Hans Zippelius ) and his wife, the painter Dora Horn-Zippelius (1876–1967 Karlsruhe; 1912 founder of the Association of Baden Artists; Gau trainer), Adelhart Zippelius studied in Karlsruhe prehistoric archeology , geology and folklore . In 1948 he received his doctorate from the University of Göttingen with the thesis The house construction of the Hallstatt and Latène times in southern Central Europe for Dr. phil. Subsequently he inventoried farmhouses on the Lower Rhine until 1952 on behalf of the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Bonn (published 1957). The commissioning of the then director of the Rhineland Regional Council , Udo Klausa, with the creation of a memorandum on the question of the necessity of a Rhenish open-air museum on June 15, 1956 was ultimately the birth of the Kommern open-air museum. From the four shortlisted locations, Kommern was selected at the landscape assembly on March 28, 1958 and Zippelius was then appointed the first director of the new company. Expansion work began that same year. Zippelius saw the museum first and foremost as an educational institution, which he expressed in his opening speech on July 20, 1961 by quoting the pedagogue Eduard Spranger :

“Really spiritual things take place in silence. The strongest effects come on pigeon feet. You cannot turn your education into a trade that is always associated with a specific operational noise. "

- Eduard Spranger

At the end of the 1970s, Zippelius had a dispute with State Councilor Rudolf Hartung about his intention to realign the open-air museum and other state museums based on the American model - away from the previous scientific-pedagogical approach. Zippelius, who headed the open-air museum until 1981, ceaselessly criticized the changes introduced under his successor Dieter Pesch . The commercialization tendencies towards an amusement park were repugnant to him and he rejected them until the end as "surrender to the spirit of the times".

family

Adelhart Zippelius was married to the ethologist Hanna-Maria Zippelius . Her daughter is the physicist Annette Zippelius . Adelhart and Hanna-Maria Zippelius lived in the immediate vicinity of the Kommern open-air museum.

Fonts

  • House building during the Hallstatt and Latène periods in southern Central Europe. (also dissertation, University of Göttingen), Göttingen 1948.
  • The farmhouse on the lower German Lower Rhine. (= Werken und Wohnen, Volume 1), Martini & Grüttefien, Wuppertal 1957.
  • Rheinisches Freilichtmuseum and Landesmuseum für Volkskunde. Guides and publications of the Rheinisches Freilichtmuseum in Kommern. Führer, Rheinland-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1961 (2nd edition 1964; 3rd edition 1966; 6th edition 1972).
  • Folk art in the Rhineland. 1968.
  • European Open Air Museums Handbook. 1974.
  • The Rheinisches Freilichtmuseum and Landesmuseum für Volkskunde in Kommern. History and Outlook. Rheinland Verlag / Habelt, Cologne / Bonn 1981, ISBN 3-7927-0629-6 .
  • Open-air museums in Germany. (= HB Bildatlas, Spezial 6), HB-Verlags- und Vertriebss-Ges./Pegasus-Buch- und Zeitschr.-Vertriebsges., Hamburg / Stuttgart 1982.

literature

  • Zippelius, Adelhart. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1976. 12th edition, Volume II N – Z, Walter de Gruyter Verlag , Berlin / New York 1976, ISBN 3-11-004470-6 , p. 3627.
  • Joachim Hähnel: Rheinisches Freilichtmuseum Kommern. Museum guide. (= Guides and writings of the Rheinisches Freilichtmuseums and Landesmuseum für Volkskunde in Kommern. No. 24), Rheinland-Verlag GmbH, 3rd edition, Cologne 1985, ISBN 3-7927-0879-5 .
  • Cornelia Matz: The organizational history of women artists in Germany from 1867 to 1933. (Dissertation, Eberhard-Karls University of Tübingen), Tübingen 2001. .pdf
  • Founding director of the LVR open-air museum in Kommern has died. In: Preservation of monuments in the Rhineland. Edited by the Rhineland Regional Association, LVR Office for the Preservation of Monuments in the Rhineland, Volume 31 No. 4 - 4th Quarter of 2014, pp. 187–188 ISSN  0177-2619

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Adelhard Zippelius. The founder of the open-air museum is dead. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from May 19, 2014, accessed on May 19, 2014.
  2. ↑ Cornelia Matz: The organizational history of women artists in Germany from 1867 to 1933. (Dissertation, Eberhard-Karls University of Tübingen), Tübingen 2001, p. 142 ff.
  3. ^ Zippelius, Adelhart. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1976. 12th edition, Volume II N – Z, Walter de Gruyter Verlag , Berlin / New York 1976, ISBN 3-11-004470-6 , p. 3627.
  4. ↑ a b c d Too much circus in the museum ?. Kölnische Rundschau of June 20, 2006, accessed on May 19, 2014.
  5. ↑ a b Joachim Hähnel: Rheinisches Freilichtmuseum Kommern. Museum guide. (= Guides and writings of the Rheinisches Freilichtmuseums and Landesmuseum für Volkskunde in Kommern. No. 24), Rheinland-Verlag GmbH, 3rd edition, Cologne 1985, ISBN 3-7927-0879-5 .
  6. ↑ Worked on the last working day. Kölnische Rundschau of June 1, 2007, accessed on May 19, 2014.
  7. ↑ 50 years of post mill in the open-air museum in Kommern. Retrieved May 19, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Zippelius, Adelhart
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zippelius, Adelhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German folklorist and state museum director
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 2014