Detlef Kleuker

Detlef Kleuker (born July 4, 1922 in Flensburg , † February 15, 1988 in Brackwede ) was a German organ builder .

life and work

Hans-Detlef Kleuker, son of a senior teacher from Flensburg, learned organ building from Emanuel Kemper , in whose company he worked from 1947 to 1954. In 1955 he passed the master craftsman examination and started his own business in Brackwede. In three decades he built 350 organs, which were exported to 20 countries and established himself as one of the leading organ building workshops in northern Germany. After the unsuccessful new organ for the Lutheran Church in St. Peter-Ording (1953), on a case charging based fault-prone with electrically controlled sleeve magnet developed Kleuker a weather- and climate-resistant form of the slider chest . Now square tubes made of Pertinax or wood or plywood soaked with synthetic resin were used. He used light metal such as aluminum for the valves and the action . In the early years he worked with rotary loops, later with brass loops, and had various new developments patented. In recent years he has turned more to traditional manufacturing techniques, as the new materials have not proven to be durable.

Stylistically, it was based on the north German baroque organ behind a modern, angular case. The dispositions were rather traditional, often influenced by neo-baroque . He was also in demand as a restorer. In 1986 Siegfried Bäune took over the management of the company, which was converted into a GmbH , as managing director , which went out in 1991/92.

List of works (selection)

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1953	Sankt Peter-Ording	Evangelical Lutheran Church				Replaced in 1971; individual registers received
1954	Lima ( Peru )	Evangelical Lutheran Church		II / P	18th	With free pipe prospectus; mainly using plastic instead of wood
1957	Lima (Peru)	Convent of the Community of the Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincent de Paul		II / P	15th
1959	Kiel	Luther Church		III / P	28	Opus 50
1961	Molfsee	Thomaskirche (Schulensee)		II / P	22nd
1962	Cheeky	Evangelical Church Frechen		II / P	18th
1963	Berlin Tegel	Village church		III / P	31
1963	Barcelona	German Protestant community		II / P	13
1963	Hamburg-Rahlstedt	Martinskirche		II / P	21st	1990 Installation of a Brustwerk sill
1963	Hanover	Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis		III / P	38	2010 sold to the Netherlands → Organs of the Neustädter Church (Hanover)
1963	Paris	Christ Church		II / P	20th
1963	Husum	Marienkirche		III / P	31	Renovated in 1996 by Lothar E. Banzhaf and extended by an echo work without its own keyboard (III / P / 37)
1964	Berlin-Schöneberg	Luther Church		III / P	39
1965	Kiel	Nikolaikirche		III / P	45	With Spanish trumpets
1966	regensburg	Trinity Church		III / P	44	in the historical case by Franz Jakob Späth (1758); Removed in 2009; since 2010 in Rosary Church in Rzeszów (Poland)
1966	Neuss	Christ Church		III / P	33	With Spanish trumpets ; Restored and expanded in 2010/11
1967	Hanover - Herrenhausen-Stöcken	Corvinus Church		II / P	25th
1967	Flensburg	St. Peter's Church		II / P	21st
1967	Willingen	Ev. church		II / P	23	electric actions
1967	Neuwied	Market Church		III / P	38
1968	Berlin-Moabit	Reformation Church		III / P	36
1968	Schönkirchen	Marienkirche		II / P	24
1969	Saarbrücken	Johanneskirche		III / P	46
1969	Munich	Stephanuskirche		III / P	36	Renovation and conversion to III / 40 by Christoph Kaps in 2003
1969	Neunburg vorm Wald	Church of Reconciliation		I / P	7th	Organ renovated in 2015 by Jann , installation of ventilation gaps
1970	Hamburg-Lokstedt	Petruskirche		III / P	39	Rotary cylinder grinding
1970	Bielefeld	Neustädter Marienkirche		III / P	47	To be replaced by a new organ from Hermann Eule (completion: July 2017) The Kleukerwerk is to be sold. In the Marienkapelle there is still a "small Kleuker organ" with 3 registers and a bass register in the pedal.
1970	Hörgertshausen	St. Jakobus the Elder (Hörgertshausen)		II / P	17th
1970	Wildeshausen	Alexander Church		III / P	38
1971	Gütersloh- Isselhorst	Evangelical Church Isselhorst		II / P	25th
1972	Alstätte	Catholic parish church St. Maria Himmelfahrt		II / P	27	Expanded in 2006 by the organ building company Friedrich Fleiter from Münster.
1972	Hamburg-Altona-Altstadt	St. Trinity		III / P	45
1972	Berlin-Zehlendorf	Sacred Heart Church		III / P	25th
1972	Berlin-Charlottenburg-Nord	Gustav Adolf Church		III / P	41
1973	Intermediate tooth	St. John		II / P	23	New building behind the historic prospect by Johann Gerhard Schmid (1831)
1974	Villedômer	La grange de la Besnardière		III / P	28	Disposition by Jean Guillou .
1974	Koldenbüttel	St. Leonhard Church		II / P	15th	New building behind the historic prospect by Johann Matthias Schreiber (1758)
1975	Castle on Fehmarn	St. Nikolai		II / P	31	New building behind the historic prospect by Marcussen ; Mobile gaming table
1977	Hemer	Ebberg Church		II / P	18th
1978	Alpe d'Huez	Notre-Dame des Neiges		II / P	24	Prospectus has the shape of an open hand ("hand of God"). Disposition by Jean Guillou .
1979	Speyer	Memorial Church of the Protestation		V / P	95	Behind the prospectus from 1939 and including registers from the previous organ
1979	Gutersloh	Gütersloh town hall		III / P	38
1981	Woluwe-Saint-Pierre / Sint-Pieters-Woluwe	Église Notre-Dame-des-Grâces de Woluwe		IV / P	46
1983	Bramsche	Friedenskirche (Achmer)		I / P	6th
1984	Hamburg old town	Main Church of Saint Catherine		II / P	13	Prospectus in the form of a K, which reminds of the names of the church, the organ builder and the sponsor
1985	Emden	Paul Church		II / P	19th	Extension conversion by Wilfried Müller (1971–1973), in which four vacant registers were added
1986	Bad Lippspringe	Protestant church		II / P	17th	1995 Renovation and expansion by two registers by Orgelbau Kreienbrink
1987	Zurich	Zurich Congress Center		IV / P	68	in cooperation with GF Steinmeyer & Co.

literature

• Hermann Fischer: 100 years of the Association of German Organ Builders . Orgelbau-Fachverlag, Lauffen 1991, ISBN 3-921848-18-0 .
• Detlef Kleuker organ building. Detlef Kleuker Orgelbau, Brackwede 1970 (company catalog).
• Detlef Kleuker: Plastics in windshield construction. In: Acta Organologica . Vol. 3, 1969. pp. 169-175.

Web links

Commons : Detlef Kleuker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

1. ↑ Sound sample of the organ, interview with Jean Guillou

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Fischer: 100 years of the Association of German Organ Builders. 1991, p. 227.
2. ^ Fischer: 100 years of the Association of German Master Organ Builders. 1991, p. 228.
3. ↑ Adalbert Schulz: A significant turn in organ building. In: Musik und Kirche , 26, 1956, pp. 25–27.
4. ^ Organ in Neuwied , accessed on April 6, 2018.
5. ^ Organ in Saarbrücken , accessed on April 6, 2018.
6. ^ Organ of the Neustädter Marienkirche in Bielefeld , accessed on April 6, 2018.
7. ^ Organ in Zwischenahn , accessed on April 6, 2018.
8. ↑ Villedomer, la grange de la Besnardière. Retrieved April 6, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Organ in Hemer (PDF file; 623 kB), accessed on April 6, 2018.
10. ^ Église Notre-Dame-des-Neiges. Retrieved April 6, 2018 .