Angelika March

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Angelika Marsch (born April 13, 1932 in Berlin ; † October 4, 2011 in Hamburg ) was a German author and editor of specialist books on the history of Silesia . The autodidact is an important expert in the field of historical visual studies in the non-university area. With her references and comments on European and Silesian historical cityscapes from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, she did pioneering work and opened up a source of resources that is valuable for historians and enables new insights into cultural and everyday history.

Life

Aside from her trained profession as a metallographic artist , Angelika Marsch collected and researched historical and topographical European cityscapes, with a special focus on Silesia . Marsch acquired her knowledge in the field of historical imagery as an autodidact. She was particularly interested in tracking down, compiling and (re) interpreting the images. She edited several books on this and wrote more than twenty scientific articles in specialist publications.

From the travel picture book of Count Palatine Ottheinrich : historical city view of Cosel in 1536

As part of her preoccupation with the history of Silesia, Marsch worked as a volunteer at the Silesian Museum in Görlitz from 2003 onwards on a complete catalog of Silesian cityscapes.

One of her main merits is the rediscovery, evaluation and publication of the travel album of Count Palatine Ottheinrich (1502–1559), who was accompanied by an artist during his trip to Poland in 1536/1537 and from this fifty watercolor views of all the cities he visited on his journey from Neuburg on the Danube via Prague to Krakow and on the return journey via Breslau , Berlin, Wittenberg and Leipzig . These cityscapes are mostly the oldest surviving views of those cities today. Marsch recognized the great cultural-historical importance of these pictures and published them in 2000 in a two-volume, large-format facsimile edition by the Weißenhorn art publisher Anton H. Konrad . Ten years later the same publisher published a 670-page volume compiled by Marsch with historical cityscapes from all over Europe by Friedrich Bernhard Werner (1690–1776).

Angelika Marsch died unexpectedly in October 2011 at the age of 79 in Hamburg. She found her final resting place in the family grave at the Burgtorfriedhof in Lübeck .

Honors

As the first non-academic member, Angelika Marsch was appointed to the Historical Commission for Silesia in 1985 for her academic achievements . The University of Hamburg awarded her an honorary doctorate in 2003 .

In April 2005, the researcher and the Polish poet Tadeusz Kijonka (* 1936) were awarded the Silesian Culture Prize of Lower Saxony . The award, endowed with 4,000 euros, was presented to her on September 3, 2005 by the then Lower Saxony Interior Minister Uwe Schünemann in Celle . The laudatory speech said:

“Your achievement lies in the collection of an immense source of resources. With her research she has acquired a recognized and probably unique position among historians. With the references and comments on European and Silesian cityscapes from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, it has developed a source group that is indispensable for historians and enables unique insights into cultural and everyday history. It is doing pioneering work in this area. "

Publications (selection)

  • The Salzburg emigration in pictures. Anton H. Konrad, Weißenhorn 1977, ISBN 3-87437-141-7 .
  • Oppeln, Falkenberg, Gross Strehlitz: historical views from four centuries. Bergstadtverlag Korn, Freiburg im Breisgau 1995, ISBN 3-87057-206-X .
  • The travel pictures Pfalzgraf Ottheinrichs from the years 1536/37. From his ride from Neuburg on the Danube via Prague to Krakow and back via Breslau, Berlin, Wittenberg and Leipzig to Neuburg. 2 volumes, Anton H. Konrad, Weißenhorn 2000, ISBN 3-87437-440-8 .
  • Spa and bathing resorts in Silesia - then and now. Bergstadtverlag Korn, Freiburg im Breisgau 2009, ISBN 978-3-87057-306-5 .
  • Friedrich Bernhard Werner 1690-1776. Corpus of his European cityscapes, illustrated travel manuscripts and the topographies of Silesia and Bohemia-Moravia. Anton H. Konrad, Weißenhorn 2010, ISBN 978-3-87437-534-4 .

Web links

Commons : Travel album - Ottheinrich von der Pfalz  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary. In: Konrad Vanja: Working Group Image Print Paper Conference Proceedings Berlin 2012. Waxmann Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-830-97905-0 , p. 9 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  2. ^ In September Silesia comes to Celle. In: mitteleuropa.de. January 30, 2005, accessed December 7, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Route from Neuburg to Krakow
  4. ↑ a b Silesian Culture Prize 2005 . In: Stiftung KulturWerk Schlesien (ed.): Schlesischer Kulturspiegel . 2005, p. 57 ( online [accessed December 7, 2018]).
  5. ^ Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior and Sport: Culture Prize Silesia of the State of Lower Saxony. September 27, 2016, accessed December 7, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME March, Angelica
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German regional historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 2011
Place of death Hamburg