Berna Kirchner

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Berna Kirchner , b. Wittmers (born April 13, 1927 in Büren ; † November 6, 2018 in Geseke - Eringerfeld ), was a German Germanist , pedagogue , entrepreneur and art collector .

Life

Berna Wittmers was born as the daughter of city councilor Heinrich Wittmers and his wife Emilie Wittmers, b. Peitzmeier was born in Büren and grew up there with two siblings. In 1958 she married the business teacher Wilfried Kirchner (1924–1991) and had children with him, Stefan and Corinna.

After graduating from the state secondary school in Büren, she enrolled at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster in the winter semester of 1946/47 and studied German literary history with Benno von Wiese and Jost Trier , philosophy with Joachim Ritter and pedagogy with Alfred Petzelt . She completed her studies with the first state examination in May 1953 with a grade of good . In the following years she taught at the business schools Dr. Kirchner commercial schools in Lünen, Kamen and Dortmund, before she enrolled as a guest student at the University of Bonn (Philosophical Faculty) in the summer semester of 1959 . On July 27, 1960, she received her doctorate on Carl Gustav Carus . Your examiners were Benno von Wiese, who was not unaffected in the Third Reich, and the Jewish emigrant Richard Alewyn .

Together with her husband, she acquired Eringerfeld Castle in 1963 and devoted herself over the next 25 years to developing and expanding the private boarding school Eringerfeld Castle ( Colleg Burg Eringerfeld until 1971 ), which in its permeability between twelve individual school types of the educational policy of those years was ahead by anticipating the idea of ​​the comprehensive school . When the number of pupils at secondary schools began to decline in the early 1980s, the school center, which was designed for up to 1200 boarding places, ran into economic difficulties and - despite repeated private subsidies from the Kirchner couple - had to file for bankruptcy on July 28, 1987. In the following years, Kirchner concentrated her entrepreneurial activities on clinics and retirement homes in Arnsberg , Bad Sassendorf , Horn-Bad Meinberg and Bad Oeynhausen , before attempting again in August 2000 to establish a school in Eringerfeld , the high school for gifted talents which, however, had to cease operations five years later due to insufficient funding.

In November 2002, Kirchner was able to create an exhibition opportunity for her collection of textile folk art, which she had gathered since the 1950s, by opening a museum of the same name in the original secondary school building of the boarding school in Eringerfeld.

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  1. ↑ Berna Kirchner: Carl Gustav Carus - his “poetic” science and his art theory, his relationship to Goethe and its significance for literary studies , Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Phil. Fac., Diss., 1960.
  2. ^ History of Eringerfeld - Geseke. Retrieved December 18, 2018 .
  3. ^ Carola Padtberg: Hardly calculated . In: The time . No. 11/2005 ( online ).
  4. ↑ International Museum of Textile Folk Art. In: www.freizeitengel.de. Sörn Weiß, accessed December 21, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Kirchner, Berna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wittmers, Berna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German specialist in German studies, pedagogue, entrepreneur and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Büren
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 2018
Place of death Geseke - Eringerfeld