Annalize Wagner

Annalize Wagner , Author abbreviation: AWE (born June 19, 1903 in Neustrelitz ; † June 26, 1986 there ) was a German local researcher , bookseller and writer . During her lifetime she was regarded as the capacity for all historical questions about Mecklenburg-Strelitz and had acquired extensive knowledge about this as an autodidact.

Live and act

Residential house, 1973–2015 Museum of the City of Neustrelitz

Memorial room in the old city museum

Annalize Wagner was the third of five children of the Neustrelitz printer and publisher Otto Wagner (1866–1934) and his wife Ella, née. Bade was born in Neustrelitz and spent childhood and youth here. She attended the Lyceum in her hometown, completed an apprenticeship in her father's company and worked from 1919 to 1927 as an employee in Hamburg, Berlin, Munich and Leipzig, where she enjoyed cultural life in her spare time. From 1928 to 1929 she attended the bookseller college in Leipzig and in 1930 returned to her father's company in Neustrelitz.

In 1934, with the death of her father, Annalize Wagner inherited his bookstore and second-hand bookshop, which she operated until the 1950s. During this time she began to collect local history writings about Mecklenburg-Strelitz and to write her own texts. From 1945 to 1948 she took part in the reconstruction work in Neustrelitz, especially in the social and cultural area, but came into conflict with the new rulers several times and had to close her bookstore after continuing reprisals in the 1950s.

In 1956 she became the sole heir of the Neustrelitz librarian and local history researcher Walter Karbe and on December 6, 1956, a few weeks after Karbe's death, she founded the private Karbe-Wagner archive in Neustrelitz with his estate and her own collections . Annalize Wagner was henceforth librarian and archivist on her own account, temporarily also city archivist of Neustrelitz and employee of the district museum Waren. In 1973 she donated the house, property and archive to the city of Neustrelitz. The first Neustrelitz City Museum was then set up in the house in Schloßstraße, where Annalize Wagner continued to live and where she finally died lonely in 1986. The Karbe-Wagner archive still exists today as a publicly accessible, regional history collection and research facility sponsored by the city of Neustrelitz. Today it is housed in the Neustrelitz cultural quarter. In the old city museum, a memorial room commemorated Annalize Wagner.

Annalize Wagner celebrated her 80th birthday in 1983, not in her hometown Neustrelitz, but nevertheless on her home soil: on the western side of the inner-German border in the former Mecklenburg-Strelitzschen Ratzeburg / Duchy of Lauenburg . On this occasion she wrote ambiguously to the old students' association of the former Neustrelitz grammar school Carolinum : “Unfortunately I cannot tell you the reasons why I did not want to spend this day in my native Neustrelitz. In addition to all the grief that has lasted for years, I still take refuge in my intellectual work and research in a highly concentrated manner in order to move away from the present, which I am nevertheless wide-awake. "

Honors

1973 Annalize Wagner received the honorary citizenship of her hometown Neustrelitz. On the basis of their will, the city of Neubrandenburg established the Annalize Wagner Foundation in 1991 , which has been honoring literary works related to the Mecklenburg-Strelitz region or by authors from this region with the Annalize Wagner Prize every year since 1992 . In addition, two youth prizes (1999), a scholarship (2001) and, from 2003, “honorable recognitions” were given to young historians from the foundation's funds. The city of Neustrelitz has also been honoring the winner with an Annalize Wagner medal since 2006 .

Works

First publications date back to the early 1930s, including lyrical works:

• Poems . O. Wagner, Neustrelitz 1931
• Experience . O. Wagner, Neustrelitz 1931

In the following period, especially from the 1950s, Annalize Wagner wrote more than 250 essays on topics of southeast Mecklenburg history and culture and published a series of publications in the Karbe-Wagner Archive , in which nineteen issues appeared between 1966 and 1987 and which have since been published by the Regional Museum Neubrandenburg is continued. Since 2003, the Karbe-Wagner Archive has been building on the old journalistic tradition with a new series of publications from the Karbe-Wagner Archive .

Annalize Wagner was responsible for the publication of the series of publications in the Karbe-Wagner-Archiv , in the creation of which external authors were rarely involved at this time:

• Book 1: From the life and work of southeast Mecklenburg local researchers .
• Issue 2: From the old Neustrelitz. Narrative pictures from the period 1730–1875 . 1967 [2. Edition: 1968; 3rd edition: 1969]
• Booklet 3: Local history hikes: Kleinseenplatte Neustrelitz . 1968
• Issue 4: Contributions to the theater history of Neustrelitz part 1. 1969
• Issue 5: Contributions to the theater history of Neustrelitz part 2. 1969
• Booklet 6: From the old Neubrandenburg part 1. 1970
• Book 7: Haunted - Treasure hunters - Giants - Dwarfs. Legends from southeast Mecklenburg . 1970
• Book 8: Entertaining Folklore . 1971
• Issue 9: From the old Neubrandenburg part 2. 1971
• Issue 10: From the old Neubrandenburg part 3. 1972
• Issue 11: Anecdotes and stories from the former state of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. 1972 [2. Edition: 1972]
• Issue 12: From the old Neubrandenburg part 4. 1973
• Book 13: The devil's mill and other legends . 1973

On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the city of Neustrelitz, Annalize Wagner published " Contributions to the chronicle of the city of Neustrelitz 1733–1933 " in 1982/83 in the Carolinum magazine .

literature

• Gudrun Mohr: Annalize Wagner 1903–1986. A biographical note and a bibliographical recommendation. Neubrandenburg 1991.
• New series of publications from the Karbe-Wagner archive in Neustrelitz. Issue 1. Thomas Helms Verlag , Schwerin 2003. 160 pp. [Contains: AWE 1903-1986. A biographical approach to Annalize Wagner. To the inventory of personal correspondence in the KWA. Memories of Annalize Wagner. The Annalize Wagner Foundation - a foundation portrait. Selected bibliography. ]
• Gudrun Mohr: Wagner, Annalize Hedwig Adolfina Else. In: Biographical Lexicon for Mecklenburg. Volume 9. Schmidt-Römhild, Rostock 2013. pp. 309-313.

Web links

• Literature by and about Annalize Wagner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature about Annalize Wagner in the state bibliography MV
• Works by Annalize Wagner in the state bibliography MV
• Annalize Wagner Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mixed contributions to the Carolinum, Göttingen, Volume 47, Winter 1983/84, No. 90, p. II
2. ^ Carolinum . Volume 46, No. 88, Winter 1982/83, pp. 7-97.