German master school for fashion

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German master school for fashion
The German Master School for Fashion in Munich (2019)
type of school professional school
founding 1931
address

Rossmarkt 15

place Munich
country Bavaria
Country Germany
carrier state
student approx. 200 (as of 2020)
management Irene Schoppmeier
Website https://designschule-muenchen.de

The German Master School for Fashion is a vocational school in Munich that prepares for the master craftsman's examination as a tailor . It is of supraregional importance for the German fashion and fashion industry. Today there are several training institutions under one roof.

history

Beginnings in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich

City school councilor Hans Baier founded several master schools in Munich in the 1920s. This happened in the tradition of Georg Kerschensteiner , who had been his predecessor from 1895. When it was founded, Baier was able to rely on the support of three associations, the Reich Association of Guilds for the Ladies Tailoring Trade (based in Berlin ), the Reich Association for the German Tailoring Trade ( Elberfeld ) and the Reich Association for Linen Tailoring ( Hamburg ). This is how the school was created as a Germany-wide training facility from the start. A new building for the master school and women's trade school in Hochstrasse was planned; this was not built and so the school was built in 1931 in the inner city of Oberanger in the new landscape building .

The aim of the training of young women was to train “artistically and technically gifted students to become leading masters, artistically independent modelists, directors and managers”.

Gertrud Kornhas-Brandt became the first manager. It was recommended by Eduard Josef Wimmer-Wisgrill , director of the Vienna School of Applied Arts . She had trained with him in Vienna , then worked in Zurich and later organized a textile home industry in the Black Forest .

A conflict soon arose with the guilds , especially their representatives in Munich, who feared competition at the time of the global economic crisis . The school organized a fashion show in Garmisch during the 1936 Olympic Games and played a part in the development of traditional costume style .

In the time of the DC circuit of all institutions in Nazism Kornhas Brandt was treated with hostility; she did not belong to the NSDAP . City school councilor Josef Bauer stood in front of her. Kornhas-Brandt asked for an appointment with Adolf Hitler in 1939 , from whom she hoped to get "direct guidance" about the planned path for German fashion; it didn't come to that because Hitler was planning a fashion academy in Vienna. Kornhas-Brandt wanted to turn the school into a technical college . After the German attack on France and the German occupation of Paris, the role model function of Parisian fashion was weakened; the German Master School seized the opportunity and cooperated strongly with the German textile industry , which increased its influence. As early as 1936, the US press described Kornhas-Brandt as the "dictator" of fashion. The school was evacuated in 1944 and damaged in 1945.

Post-war Germany until today

In 1945, Kornhas-Brandt tried to get the school going again with the help of City School Councilor Anton Fingerle . On May 2, 1946, lessons could begin with 18 students. In 1948 the first male student came. In the years of economic recovery, materials were scarce and many women sewed on garments. As recently as 1950, the head of Germany spoke of Germany as a “far-from-fashion country”.

In 1957 the Kornhas-Brandt era ended; Her successors were Arthur Burghardt, Georg Weith in 1969 and Heinz Pressl in 1979.

In 1957, the position of artistic director was created alongside the post of headmaster. The artistic director Horst Klöß stated: "The process of creating fashion is [...] something spiritual [...] Haute Couture is abstraction [...] I love the austere, strict line."

Under the headmaster Georg Weith, study trips to Paris, Florence and Venice began and European fashion designers such as Marc Bohan, Yorn, Heinz Schulze-Varell and Heinz Oestergaard were brought to the school for projects.

Today the school has more than 250 students; The graduates include Gabriele Blachnik, Ayzit Bostan , Karl-Ludwig Rehse , Sabina Sakoh and Gabriele Strehle .

literature

  • Fashion for Germany. 50 years of the master school for fashion. (Catalog for the exhibition in the Münchner Stadtmuseum), Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich 1981.
  • Isabella Belting (Ed.): Gretchen likes it modern. Women's fashion of the 1930s. (Catalog for the exhibition in the Münchner Stadtmuseum), Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-7774-2473-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Vocational School for Communication Design - Design School Munich - About us. Retrieved December 4, 2020 .
  2. ^ Franz Sonnenberger: School history as contemporary history. in: Fashion for Germany. 50 years of the master school for fashion. (Catalog for the exhibition in the Münchner Stadtmuseum), Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich 1981. pp. 7–30, here p. 7
  3. ^ Franz Sonnenberger: School history as contemporary history. P. 11
  4. ^ Franz Sonnenberger: School history as contemporary history. P. 11
  5. ^ Andreas Ley: Fashion for Germany - 50 years of MMM. in: Fashion for Germany. 50 years of the master school for fashion. (Catalog for the exhibition in the Münchner Stadtmuseum), Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich 1981 pp. 49–80, here p. 76
  6. ^ Franz Sonnenberger: School history as contemporary history. P. 19
  7. ^ Marian Young: Woman is "Hitler" of Reich's styles. Article in an unnamed US newspaper, copy in: Andreas Ley: Mode für Deutschland - 50 Jahre MMM. in: Fashion for Germany. 50 years of the master school for fashion. (Catalog for the exhibition in the Münchner Stadtmuseum), Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich 1981 pp. 49–80, here p. 62
  8. ^ Andreas Ley: Fashion for Germany - 50 years of MMM. in: Fashion for Germany. 50 years of the master school for fashion. (Catalog for the exhibition in the Münchner Stadtmuseum), Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich 1981 pp. 49–80, here p. 68
  9. ^ Andreas Ley: Fashion for Germany - 50 years of MMM. in: Fashion for Germany. 50 years of the master school for fashion. (Catalog for the exhibition in the Münchner Stadtmuseum), Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich 1981 pp. 49–80, here p. 70.
  10. ^ Franz Sonnenberger: School history as contemporary history. in: Fashion for Germany. 50 years of the master school for fashion. (Catalog for the exhibition in the Münchner Stadtmuseum), Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich 1981, pp. 7–30, here p. 27.
  11. ^ Andreas Ley: Fashion for Germany - 50 years of MMM. in: Fashion for Germany. 50 years of the master school for fashion. (Catalog for the exhibition in the Münchner Stadtmuseum), Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich 1981 pp. 49–80, here p. 73.
  12. ^ Andreas Ley: Fashion for Germany - 50 years of MMM. in: Fashion for Germany. 50 years of the master school for fashion. (Catalog for the exhibition in the Münchner Stadtmuseum), Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich 1981 pp. 49–80, here p. 74.
  13. ^ Reference to a fashion show on the website Ganz-muenchen.de from 2004 , accessed on December 15, 2014

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