Charlotte Mayenberger

Charlotte Mayenberger (* 1956 in Bad Buchau ) is a local researcher who supports the culture of remembrance of the Jewish heritage in Bad Buchau in numerous publications, events and activities .

Life

Mayenberger was born in Bad Buchau in 1956. After completing secondary school , she did a commercial apprenticeship . In 1977 she married. She is the mother of three children.

Commitment to the culture of remembrance

Remains of the building of the destroyed synagogue in the Jewish cemetery

Mayenberger's regional historical research began in the 1980s when she scoured the Buchau city ​​archives for information about Moritz Vierfelder, the former chairman of the Jewish community , who maintained contact among the Buchau Jews in the USA even after he emigrated to the USA in 1940 . In the justification for the award ceremony on International Volunteer Day , it is pointed out that it is thanks to Mayenberger that the old Jewish cemetery in Bad Buchau is once again a place of remembrance and remembrance. The cemetery had been left to its own devices and closed to the public since the end of the Second World War .

In 1990 Mayenberger began the photographic archiving of all gravestones in the Jewish cemetery and the collection of information about buried people. This resulted in an exhibition in 1992 on the subject of "The Bad Buchau Jewish Cemetery". As a result of her research, Charlotte Mayenberger was also able to help many people clarify their family history and find relatives. An important aid is the "Bad Buchau family tree" that she created, in which more than 8000 names are genealogically linked. Mayenberger dealt particularly intensively with the biographies of the Buchau citizens Hermann Einstein , Josef Erlanger, Paul Moos, Rudolf Moos , the court factor Karoline Kaulla , Josef Mändle, Veit Neuburger, Maier Wallersteiner and Moritz Vierfelder, on whom she wrote a detailed monograph .

Mayenberger is the author of numerous articles, brochures and books. She gives lectures, produces videos and organizes exhibitions and local and museum music tours on Bad Buchau's Jewish and medieval history. She also manages the Jewish memorial.

Perhaps the most impressive achievement of the Obermeyer Prize is the CD "The Buchau Synagogue: A Virtual Reconstruction". Together with local architecture students, Mayenberger had computer-graphically reconstructed the city's synagogue , which was built in 1839 and destroyed during the pogrom night .

Mayenberger sees her task, together with the employees of the “Jews in Buchau” group of friends she founded, in coming to terms with the Jewish history of the city of Bad Buchau. It is important to have contact with former citizens of Buchau and their descendants who are still alive ( communicative memory ), to convey the story to schoolchildren and interested parties and to process archives.

Her work for the culture of remembrance and remembrance culture also includes, above all, her commitment to the preservation and care of the existing memorials and monuments, such as expanding them, for example, by moving a trip threshold and opening the memorial room with a permanent exhibition.

Memberships and functions

• Mayenberger is a member of the Free Voters and city councilor in Bad Buchau.
• She belongs to the working group Alemania Judaica .

Prizes and awards

• 2004: Honorary award of the district of Biberach for "their special commitment to youth and local history", including the reconstruction of a house from the Neolithic age based on finds in Taubried (approx. 3800 BC) in 1995 in the style of experimental archeology , which was the cornerstone for the open-air area of ​​the Federseemuseum.
• 2008: Obermayer German Jewish History Award . According to Theodore Einstein, who is quoted in the appreciation, Mayenberger has "brought back memories of this community through personal energy and successful networking."
• 2013: Prize of the Upper Swabian Society : Paul Beck Prize for regional historians / home historians for Mayenberger's life's work and her 25 years of research.
• 2016: Federal Cross of Merit: "In almost 30 years of meticulous research, Charlotte Mayenberger researched the history of the Jews in Bad Buchau and lifted the veil of oblivion."

Publications

• From Buchau to Theresienstadt. Dr. Oskar Moos (1869-1966). In: Local history sheets for the Biberach district 2000/2
• Friedrich Bernheim - the Lottenfriedel. In: BC issue 2003/1
• Buchau am Federsee - A Review in Pictures, Volume I. Geigerverlag, Horb 1999. ISBN 978-3-89570-532-8
• Volume II, 2002 ISBN 978-3-89570-790-2
• Moritz Vierfelder. Life and fate of a Buchau Jew. Federsee-Verlag, Bad Buchau 2000. ISBN 978-3-925171-45-1
• Invitation to a tour - Jewish Bad Buchau. Media and Dialog, Haigerloch 2003.
• City guide Bad Buchau . VeBu Druck + Medien GmbH, Bad Schussenried 2005
• Stift - Schloss - Clinic. VeBu Druck + Medien GmbH, Bad Schussenried 2006
• Jews in Buchau. Accompanying volume to the exhibition catalog 2008. Federsee Verlag Bad Buchau 2008
• with Minja Mayenberger: City guide Bad Buchau in English and Hebrew. Self-published 2011
• The Jewish community of Buchau and its synagogues - booklet for the exhibition "175 Years of the Buchau Synagogue"
• Biberach district, history and culture, volume 8 Jews in Buchau (BC district, history and culture). Federseeverlag 2008. ISBN 978-3-925171-76-5
• with Jost Einstein: 100 years of the Federseesteg - nature conservation on the Federsee . Federseeverlag 2011. ISBN 978-3-925171-87-1
• Buchau and Kappel in the First World War. Self-published in 2014
• The Buchauer Bähnle . Booklet accompanying the 2016 exhibition
• Bad Buchau: my city . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei 2017. ISBN 978-3-943391-92-3
• The memory must not end - Jews in Buchau. Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei 2018. ISBN 978-3-947348-28-2
• “Legendary” Bad Buchau - the Nebelmännchen discover the city . Self-published 2019
• Bad Buchauer songs and poems. Self-published 2020
• with Eberhard Bürger: City Guide Bad Buchau French. Self-published 2020
• Rudolf Moos, leather goods dealer, shoe seller and inventor of the Salamander shoe brand. In local history sheets for the Biberach district 2020/1

Web links

• Friends of "Jews in Buchau"

Footnotes

1. ↑ https://www.baden-wuerttemberg.de/fileadmin/redaktion/daten/PDF/161203_StM_Tag_des_Ehrenamtes_Ordenspraetendenten.pdf
2. ↑ http://obermayer.us/award/awardees/mayenberger-ger.htm
3. ↑ Schwäbische Zeitung: Silent workers who help others . December 1, 2004 ( schwaebische.de [accessed on July 28, 2018]).
4. ↑ Schwäbische Zeitung: At the Federsee, prehistory comes to life again - renovation of the museum is now complete. (No longer available online.) June 8, 1995, formerly in the original ; accessed on July 28, 2018 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
5. ↑ Swabian Newspaper: To Stone Age house other buildings - When Federseemuseum an open air museum will be built . Bad Buchau February 12, 1996.
6. ↑ Award ceremony 2013 to Mrs. Charlotte Mayenberger. Retrieved February 11, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Annette Grüninger: Served for the maintenance of memories. In: Schwäbische.de. Retrieved February 11, 2017 . 
8. ↑ "An incentive to carry on" . In: Schwäbische.de . ( schwaebische.de [accessed on February 11, 2017]).
9. ^ City of Bad Buchau | Rathaus News |. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 22, 2017 ; accessed on February 11, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ Schwäbische Zeitung: Leader introduces Bad Buchau . Bad Buchau April 1, 2005.
11. ↑ Schwäbische Zeitung: New brochure presented. Bad Buchau May 2, 2009.
12. ↑ Schwäbische Zeitung: Remembering the Buchauer Bähnle . Bad Buchau October 19, 2016.
13. ↑ Schwäbische Zeitung: With the Nebelmännlein through history and stories of Bad Buchau . Bad Buchau March 20, 2019