Poet and City Museum Liestal

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Poet and City Museum in Liestal, Georg Herwegh (1817–1875), Carl Spitteler (1845–1924)
Poet and City Museum Liestal

The poet and City Museum Liestal is in the July 7, 1946 Swiss Liestal opened, regionally and nationally known authors dedicated to Literature Museum .

history

The poet museum owes the basis of its holdings to a donation from Marcel Herwegh . After the death of his mother Emma Herwegh (1904), who is buried next to her husband, the German Vormärz poet Georg Herwegh, in the Liestal cemetery, he left the estate of his parents, some of which he managed and published, to the community of Liestal before he turned himself in 1937 passed away. The donation was linked to the idea of ​​a Herwegh memorial, which already inspired Emma Herwegh. But the material was initially stored in boxes on an upper floor of the town hall that was used for other purposes.

In addition to numerous manuscripts , letters (around 4,000 autographs ) and books , the legacy also included portraits of the couple, photographs, parts of the furniture and other souvenirs. After preliminary work by Karl Schuppli, the Herwegh estate was cataloged by Bruno Kaiser (1911–1982) from 1943 to 1946 . The Germanist, who was persecuted by the National Socialists and fled to Switzerland via Belgium, was interned in Arisdorf , but was given permission to inspect the estate in preparation for a lecture to camp inmates.

Bruno Kaiser then gave the planned lecture on July 7, 1946, as the opening speech when the poet museum was inaugurated on the second floor of the town hall. You entered the museum through a poet's room, which was furnished with the legacies of the Liestal authors Joseph Victor Widmann (as a deposit of the Bern City Library ) and the Nobel Prize winner Carl Spitteler from a foundation of his daughter Anna.

The canton's librarian and secondary school teacher Otto Rudolf Gass (1890–1965), who set up the memorial exhibitions on Spitteler and Widmann, was one of the first sponsors of the poet's museum. Together with the teacher and juvenile justice clerk Carl August Ewald (1900–1968), he was responsible for the museum as chairman of the museum commission after the war. The retired master baker Eduard Strübin was appointed as custodian.

In the 1990s, it was found to be inexpedient to store it on the town hall floor, as the holdings had been expanded through donations and an appropriate presentation was not possible. In the year 2000 the “Stiftung Dichter- und Stadtmuseum Liestal” was founded, which is funded by the city of Liestal and operates the museum; a patrons' association has existed since 2001 . The conversion of a house in the neighborhood (Rathausstrasse 30) into a separate quarter for the museum was financed with a lottery fund contribution of CHF 500,000.

On June 9, 2001, the museum moved into the new house under the name Dichter- und Stadtmuseum , where it takes up several floors. An antiquarian bookshop and the museum cash desk are located on the ground floor. Temporary exhibitions are shown on the first floor; The second floor is dedicated to the literary estates, to which those of Hugo Marti and Jonas Breitenstein have been added. The history and customs of Liestal as well as the work of the artists Otto Plattner and Martin Disteli are documented on the third floor.

The head of the newly designed museum was Hans Rudolf Schneider (until 2008), followed by Markus Ramseier (2008–2011). The museum has been managed by Stefan Hess since 2012 .

Authors

The Liestal Poet and City Museum is primarily dedicated to the life and work of both Herweghs, Viktor Widmanns, Carl Spittelers and Hugo Martis. In two large showcases called the “salon” there are antiques and objects owned by Emma and Georg Herwegh, for example the manuscript of the federal song for the General German Workers' Association and the setting by Hans von Bülow , dedicatory copies by Richard Wagner , photographs by Garibaldi , Gottfried Semper and Lassalle , glasses and magnifying glass George, Emma's riding crop and their supposedly the campaign of the Democratic German Legion in Baden revolution used gun .

Similar glass cases contain the desks with objects by Widmann (with a cockchafer carved from amber , which admirers had sent to the poet of the cockchafer comedy from Königsberg ) and Spitteler (with an impressive pencil sharpening machine ).

Twelve wall showcases with text examples, short biographies, documents and pictures, some with audio stations, introduce the life and work of the authors associated with Liestal or the region. Individual volumes (editions of works, biographies, research literature) fixed on reading boards are also available.

In addition, there are numerous other life testimonies from correspondence partners that are archived in the Poet and City Museum and can be viewed by researchers, for example letters from the pen of the Prussian colonel and revolutionary Wilhelm Rustow , who belonged to the Herwegh circle, and the revolutionary Theodor Opitz , who lived in Liestal from 1873 until his death in 1896 and was friends with Widmann, or the extensive correspondence between Ludmilla Assing and Emma Herwegh, whose letters to Assing were kept in the Varnhagen Collection (currently in the Jagiellonian Library in Krakow ).

Other authors related to the region who are represented here include political refugees such as Josef Otto Widmann and Karl Kramer, Baselbieter dialect poets such as Jonas Breitenstein and Wilhelm Senn (creators of the Baselbieterlied ) and the poet Verena Rentsch. The museum dedicated temporary exhibitions, for example, to the writers Friedrich Glauser , Johann Peter Hebel and Heinrich Zschokke , the artist Jörg Shimon Schuldhess , architecture from Liestal since 1901, the Ergolz series of poetry illustrated with woodcuts and other regional topics.

The Poet and City Museum also has a large collection of pictures by Art Brut artist Rut Bischler .

Publications

  • Michail Krausnick: Not a maid with the servants. Emma Herwegh, a biographical sketch. (For the exhibition 1848. Wirtshaus, back room and salon. German democrats in exile in Basel , April 25 to September 19, 1998.) German Schiller Society, Marbach am Neckar 1998 (Marbacher Magazin, special issue 83), ISBN 3-929146-74- 6th
  • “Nationality separates, freedom unites.” Revolution 1848/49. Exhibition catalog Stuttgart, Liestal, Mulhouse, Lörrach 1998, ISBN 3-933726-10-7
  • Barbara Alder (with Hans Rudolf Schneider and Sabine Kubli): 1848. Tavern, back room and salon. German democrats in exile in Basel. Brochure accompanying the exhibition April 25 to September 19, 1998. Dichtermuseum / Herwegh-Archiv, Liestal 1998
  • “Reconciled mi no?” Alemannic poems in dialogue with photos by Rolf Frei. Edited by Poet and City Museum. Creavis Verlag, Basel 2003, ISBN 3-9520698-8-4
  • Dominik Wunderlin, Hans Peter Epple: Liestal border crossings - man and spell. Texts and legends. Special exhibition on Banntag 2005. Ed. Poet and City Museum. Lüdin, Liestal 2005, ISBN 3-85792-165-X
  • farmers covet. baselbieter commemorate 1653 ff. texts and legends. Special exhibition on the Peasants' War from June 4 to October 12, 2003. Poet and City Museum, Liestal 2003
  • Sabine Kronenberg, Hans Rudolf Schneider (Ed.): Roots. Twelve literary digs. Christoph Merian Verlag , Basel 2006 (Edition Dichter- und Stadtmuseum Liestal Vol. 1), ISBN 978-3-85616-264-1
  • Isabel Koellreuter , Sabine Kronenberg, Hans Rudolf Schneider (eds.): Alpenliebe. Reading trips to the Helvetic mountains. Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 2006 (Edition Dichter- und Stadtmuseum Liestal Vol. 2), ISBN 3-85616-284-4
  • From Brodtbeck and Bohny to Otto + Partner. Architecture from Liestal since 1901. Poet and City Museum, Liestal 2007
  • Christoph Oberer: The snails of the Liestal community. Poet and City Museum, Liestal 2009
  • Jonas Breitenstein: Stories and Seals, ed. from the local museum Binningen and the poet and city museum Liestal, 3 volumes, Binningen 2013–2015.
    • Vol. 1 (2013): 'S Vreneli us der Bluemmatt, Die Baselfahrt (from stories and pictures from the Basel area ), poems, ISBN 978-3-033-04272-8 .
    • Vol. 2 (2014): Der Her Ehrli, Der Herbstmäret in Liestal, Der Vetter Hansheri im Mätteli (both from stories and pictures from the Basel area ), A made man, The story of Vikterli and his wife (both from the monthly paper for women's clubs, 1861), poems, ISBN 978-3-033-04647-4 .
    • Vol. 3 (2015): Jakob der Glücksschmied, a picture of life, The story of Storzefried and Häfelibäbi (from stories and pictures from the Basel area ), Poor Annegreteli and his child (from the monthly newspaper for women's clubs, 1860), Gottfried the orphan (from Johannes Kettiger's youth library), Jörgli, Der Heilig Obe, Die Rittersfrau (all from the estate), poems, ISBN 978-3-033-05238-3 .
  • Stefan Hess, Wolfgang Loescher : World class in Liestal. The art joinery Bieder (= sources and research on the history and regional studies of the canton of Basel-Landschaft. Vol. 98). Verlag des Kantons Basel-Landschaft, Liestal 2016, ISBN 978-3-85673-291-2 .
  • Stefan Hess (Ed.): Rut Bischler. "Every picture I have painted is true". Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2018, ISBN 978-3-85881-596-5 .

literature

  • Julius Stöcklin: A poet's nest. Literary sketch. Landschäftler, Liestal 1922.
  • Otto Gass: The Liestal Poet Museum. In: Baselbieter Heimatbuch vol. 4 (1948).
  • Alfred Liede: The Herwegh Archive in the Liestal Poet Museum. With a contribution by Edgar Schumacher. Separate print from Scripta Manent vol. 5/6 (1960/61), H. 8–11, Basel 1961.
  • Mario Carlo Abutille: Cosmopolitan, humane and clear thinker. The Liestal Poet Museum is honoring the writer Hugo Marti on his 100th birthday. In: Basellandschaftliche Zeitung, December 9, 1993, p. 29.
  • Hans Rudolf Schneider: A tour of the Poet Museum / Liestal City Museum. In: Jurablätter Jg. 56 (1994), pp. 65-72
  • Sabine Reimann: The Herwegh archive in Liestal. In: Das Markgräflerland, 1998, vol. 1, pp. 61–70.
  • Xaver Schwäbl: On the 150th anniversary of the "Baden Revolution 1848". Herwegh archive in the Liestal Museum (Baselland). In: Regional. People and culture on the Upper Rhine. 1998, no. 1, p. 5 f.
  • Marco Badilatti: Collection made visible. Liestal Poet and City Museum in historic walls. In: Heimatschutz Vol. 97 (2002), No. 2, pp. 26-27.
  • Hans Rudolf Schneider: In the middle of Liestal: A new book tower for the bookworm. In: Baselbieter Heimatbuch, Vol. 24 (2003).
  • Martin Stohler: On the history of the poet and city museum Liestal. o. o. u. J. ( web resource at georgherwegh-edition.de)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Jürgen Stroech: Bruno Kaiser (1911–1982). In: Preserving - Spreading - Enlightening: Archivists, librarians and collectors of the sources of the German-speaking workers' movement. Edited by Günter Benser and Michael Schneider. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bonn-Bad Godesberg 2009, pp. 144–150.
  2. ↑ Cf. Alfred Liede: The Herwegh Archive in the Liestal Poet Museum. With a contribution by Edgar Schumacher. Separate print from Scripta Manent . Vol. 5/6 (1960/61), H. 8-11, Basel 1961, p. 4.
  3. ^ Entry of the “Stiftung Dichter- und Stadtmuseum Liestal” in the commercial register of the canton of Basel-Landschaft
  4. ↑ See media releases from the Basel-Landschaft government council. From the government council meeting on June 13, 2000 (web resource) .


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