German Carnival Museum

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Museum building, Luitpoldstrasse 4

The German Carnival Museum in the Main Franconian city ​​of Kitzingen is the official museum of the Bund Deutscher Karneval , the umbrella organization of over 5,200 carnival clubs , carnival guilds, carnival societies and fools' guilds . The sponsor of the museum is the Kulturzentrum Fasching, Fastnacht, Karneval foundation established in connection with the new conception .

history

Museum building, Rosenstrasse 10

The museum was founded in 1963 as a non-profit foundation under the concept of “Carnival as reflected in the development of cultural history”, officially opened in 1966 and expanded in 1980 and 2001.

The permanent exhibition of the museum was housed in two buildings until 2011: on the seven floors of the medieval Falterturm and in the Hans-Joachim-Schumacher-Haus in the neighboring Rosenstrasse . In January 2011, the exhibition in the Falterum was closed because the tower was classified as highly fire-prone in an expert report. First of all, the tower was to be upgraded for fire protection for around 250,000 euros. However, various plans for the renovation were subsequently rejected because they would have changed the structure and character of the tower too much. Instead, in March 2012, work began on building a new “fool's center” in a building complex between Rosenstrasse 10 and Luitpoldstrasse 4 .

In November 2013, the German Carnival Museum was reopened at Luitpoldstrasse 4. In terms of museum technology and concept, it is state-of-the-art. Historical and current developments are illustrated using relevant objects. The contents are vividly illustrated in numerous interactive stations. One of the highlights is the virtual fool's theater, a multimedia show in which twelve characters from traditional carnivals come to life.

From 2014 to 2020 the museum was headed by folklorist Daniela Sandner . Katrin Hesse has been the director of the German Carnival Museum since April 2020 .

collection

The Carnival Museum's collection focuses on masks , props , medals and orders as well as medieval customs , literature and documents from the Carnival. The collection of the German Fastnacht Museum is an important and scientifically sound documentation of the carnival in German-speaking countries. B. the oldest surviving fool's cap in Germany, which dates from 1840 and was located in Speyer .

Central archive

The central archive of the German Carnival, the European documentation center for Carnival customs, magazine holdings and the office are located in the Kitzinger market tower next to the town hall .

literature

(in chronological order)

  • Klemens Mörmann (ed.): The German museum guide in color. Museums and collections in the Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin. Book guild Gutenberg, Frankfurt am Main / Olten / Vienna 1983, DNB 870131540 , p. 545.
  • Peter Stepan (ed.): The German museums. Westermann's colored guide through all important museums and collections. Westermann Sachbuch, Braunschweig 1983, ISBN 3-14-508854-8 , p. 253.
  • Rudolf Maria Bergmann: Museum guide Franconia. L & H Verlag, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 978-3-928119-29-0 , p. 216.
  • German Fastnacht Museum Foundation (publisher): From carnival folk bustle to the festival culture of the carnival. (= Main catalog of the German Carnival Museum). Self-published, Kitzingen 2006.
  • Daniela Sandner: Historically sound, foolishly garnished - The German Carnival Museum in Kitzingen . In: State Office for Non-State Museums in Bavaria (ed.): Museum today. Facts - tendencies - help. Issue 45. Munich 2013, ISSN  0944-8497 , pp. 20-23 ( PDF ).
  • State office for non-state museums in Bavaria (ed.): Museums in Bavaria - A guide through the Bavarian museum landscape. 6th, completely revised edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-422-07382-1 , pp. 229-230.

Web links

Commons : German Carnival  Museum - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald Meyer: Total lock for Falterturm: Fastnachtsmuseum zu. In: Mainpost.de. January 13, 2011, accessed February 27, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Harald Meyer: Starting shot: fools build their center. In: Mainpost.de. March 2, 2012, accessed February 27, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Ralf Dieter: "That was a very instructive time". In: inFranken.de. February 26, 2020, accessed February 27, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Ralf Dieter: The house should become more lively. In: inFranken.de. April 24, 2020, accessed July 8, 2020 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 44 ′ 10.3 "  N , 10 ° 9 ′ 33.8"  E