Dietrich Evers

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Dietrich Evers (born June 13, 1913 in Hildesheim ; † April 28, 2009 in Naurod ) was a German archaeologist, artist, illustrator and author.

Life

Dietrich Evers (actually: Dieter Evers ) was born on June 13, 1913 in Hildesheim. In his youth he was active in youth circles and became a member of the Young National Federation ( Junabu ) and the German Scout Association . For example, he designed the postage stamps for the German Scout Association to help Transylvania. In addition, he partly worked on the youth magazines Campfire , Speerwacht and Spur until the prohibition period . He was imprisoned several times for this and for other “Bundische activities”. Evers studied as a master class student at the Leipzig Art Academy with Hugo Steiner-Prag . During this time he was involved in the youth movement reformed university guild Kursachsen . He later worked as a graphic designer and book manufacturer in Berlin. In 1939 he married Christine Evers (née Rothfuchs), who died in 1946. From this marriage a daughter and a son were born.

During the war he was an officer in the tank troops and, after being wounded, worked as a photo inspector for the Wehrmacht. In this function, he saved image archives from destruction at the end of the war by overriding an destruction order and having the material evacuated from Berlin to southern Germany. There the negatives were first handed over to the Americans and ultimately to the Federal Archives.

After the war, he settled in Naurod near Wiesbaden and became an advertising officer for an offset machine factory in Offenbach , then a book designer, translator and author for various publishers.

As an autodidact, he devoted himself to archeology, in particular to researching rock art. Together with his partner Anneliese Menger (née Kunze, often called: Evers), he used frottage to document rock drawings all over the world, including in Scandinavia, the Alpine region and North America. His first publication on this topic appeared in 1981 under the title “Felsbilder in den Alpen”. The University of Gothenburg took over some of his records in 2003.

Another of his passions was experimental archeology . Here he benefited from his artistic training and his technical talent. Based on rock carvings and drawings, he designed and reconstructed everyday objects such as masks, wagons, throwing sticks , boats and even houses in order to test their suitability. In Germany he was one of the first to turn to this branch of archeology. In his work “Boomerangs around the earth” (2004), Evers traces the question of the origins of throwing sticks and boomerangs that fly back. For this purpose, he was able to show through archaeological artifacts and prehistoric representations that this early thrown weapon can be proven in cultural history on all continents. In addition, he succeeded in working out that the importance of boomerangs in many places went far beyond their actual use as a hunting instrument and was partly of a mystical-religious character. As early as 1999 Evers handed over a large part of his reconstructions to the Tanums Hällristnings Museum in Sweden. From 1987 to 2004 Evers had published numerous articles in the journal Adoranten des Museum (Scandinavian Society for Prehistoric Art). In 1994 selected places of the rock carvings of Tanum were included in the UNESCO list of world cultural heritage through his help .

This advertising text for a special exhibition entitled Prehistoric Rock Art Scandinavia (1989–1990) in Mannheim shows that field image research and experimental archeology are definitely linked :

“The superficial hammering (“ pecking ”) of the rock carvings into local granite or gneiss rock with sharpened flint tools was so laborious for the people of the past that they always reduced the motif to the simplest of lines. For us contemporaries of modern visual media, overfed with a wide variety of information, rock art is often difficult to read. That is why the Evers couple began to experimentally translate the message of the engraved lines into reconstructed objects: in weapons that can show their effect, in boomerangs of the far north that really come back, in traps that work; and even a reconstruction of the oldest boat on earth, year 9,000 BC. BC, was tried out on the water. "

Evers was on the Scientific Advisory Board of StoneWatch (Society for the Collection of Ancient and Ancient Rock Art ). Dietrich Evers was also quite active in his new home community. Among other things, he designed the local partnership mark between the French community of Fondettes and his home community of Naurod, which was inaugurated on May 7, 1978. There is also a mosaic on the Naurod town hall and a welcoming stone by the artist at the local daycare center. Dietrich Evers died on April 28, 2009 at the age of 95 in Naurod.

Publications

  • Dieter Evers: Tanks close the ring , Enßlin & Laiblin, Reutlingen 1939
  • Dieter Evers: The street is on fire: tank destroyers in Soviet Russia , Bertelsmann 1942
  • Dietrich Evers: The bewitched soap box , cardboard picture book, Kesselring, Wiesbaden 1950
  • Dietrich Evers: The stink bomb factory: A Kallewitt book , Voggenreiter Verlag , Bad Godesberg 1951
  • Dietrich Evers: The Secret at Madre de Dios (Exciting Stories, Issue 27), Bertelsmann 1952
  • Dietrich Evers: Rock paintings in the Alps . A documentation, book accompanying the exhibition, self-published, Regensburg 1981
  • Dietrich Evers: hunters and farmers. Ancient rock art . Book accompanying the exhibition in the Landesmuseum 1982, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Kassel, Kassel 1982
  • Dietrich Evers: From the cult stick to the hobby horse: The magical-cosmological ghost flight through the millennia , Hagenberg, Hornburg 1985, ISBN 978-3-922541-17-2
  • Dietrich Evers: Rock paintings of arctic hunter cultures of Stone Age Scandinavia , Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden 1988, ISBN 3-515-05070-1
  • Dietrich Evers: The oldest car pictures in Europe. Engravings in the stone chamber grave of Züschen in Northern Hesse - attempt at an interpretation . For the exhibition in the Hessisches Landesmuseum Kassel May 8th - July 24th 1988, Gutenberg, Melsungen 1988
  • Dietrich Evers: rock paintings, messages of prehistoric times , Urania, Leipzig 1991, ISBN 3-332-00482-4
  • Dietrich Evers: Magic of Images: Prehistoric Scandinavian rock engravings , Pulsar, Warmsroth 1995
  • Dietrich Evers: But life goes on: Naurod experienced stories in 1945/46 . CDU district association Wiesbaden-Naurod, Wiesbaden 1996
  • Dietrich Evers: The true discovery of America , Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2000
  • Dietrich Evers: Mountains & Boats: Works from the work of the rock art researcher Dietrich Evers. A documentation from millennia , Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2001
  • Dietrich Evers: Boomerangs around the world , Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2004, ISBN 3-937517-02-2

Participation

  • Dietrich Evers; Gerhard Bosinski : Hunting in the Ice Age , Rheinland Verlag, Cologne 1979
  • Dietrich Evers; Siegfried Stölting: The boat from the tundra: Ice age hunters 10,000 years ago , HM Hauschild, Bremen 1984, ISBN 3-920699-53-X
  • Dietrich Evers; Torsten Capelle : Struck in stone: Scandinavian rock paintings from the Bronze Age , Lax, Hildesheim 1985
  • Dietrich Evers; Lothar Wanke: Rock Art and Constellation II , Melzer, Vienna 1995

illustration

  • Martin Luserke : Groen Oie on the gray river and the farmers from Hanushof . (Cover design by Dieter Evers), Ludwig Voggenreiter Verlag , Potsdam 1935
  • Heinz Ohlendorf (author), Karl Seidelmann (editor) (figure designs by Dieter Evers, game instructions Heinz Ohlendorf): Baron von Hüpfenstich. A shadow play based on the fairy tale by Clemens Brentano . (Games of the youth and amateur stage; Issue 36), Voggenreiter Verlag , Potsdam 1935
  • Achim von Arnim (author), Karl Seidelmann (editor) (figure designs by Dieter Evers, processing and instructions for playing by Heinz Ohlendorf): Das Loch. A shadow play . (Games of the youth and amateur stage; Volume 37), Voggenreiter Verlag , Potsdam 1935
  • Martin Luserke : The forced brother. The faster ship. Sivard one-eye. Nordland stories . (Cover design: Dieter Evers). Ludwig Voggenreiter Verlag , Potsdam 1936
  • Martin Luserke (with illustrations by Dietrich Evers): Wikinger. A trilogy . Volume 1: The Iron Morning. Voggenreiter Verlag , Potsdam 1938
  • Wilhelm E. Asbeck: Bergedorf Castle in stormy times. Wibe Balje, a story from Alt-Brunsbüttel . (Text drawings by Dieter Evers). Gerdes Verlag, Berlin 1938
  • Adolf Beiß: Small world fugue. Poems . (Cover drawing by Dieter Evers). Voggenreiter Verlag , Potsdam 1938
  • Josef Prestel: Wurttemberg legends . (Illustrations by Otto Quante and Dieter Evers). Verlag Schneider, Berlin, Leipzig 1939
  • Martin Luserke : Wind birds in the night. Stories from the Wadden Coast . (Cover design by Dieter Evers). Ludwig Voggenreiter Verlag , Potsdam 1940
  • Hans Baumann, Ferdinand Lorenz (editor) (with drawings by Lieutenant Dieter Evers): Tomorrow we march: song book of the German soldiers . On behalf of the High Command of the Wehrmacht, Voggenreiter Verlag , Potsdam 1941
  • Meno Holst: Dieter and Hans in Amboland. Story from South West Africa . (Maps and sketches by Dieter Evers). Voggenreiter Verlag , Bad Godesberg 1950
  • Hans Blüher : Karl Fischer's act and downfall. On the history of the German youth movement . (with a drawing by Fischer by Dieter Evers based on a lead drawing by Graf). Voggenreiter Verlag , Bad Godesberg 1952
  • Otto Goldmann: The girl Mieke Roman. (Cover drawing by Dietrich Evers, Naurod). Lahn-Verlag, Limburg 1952
  • Franz Ludwig Neher: F 21 - Rheinpfeil: A book from the service at the railway . (Text drawings by Dietrich Evers). Weite Welt-Bücherei, Volume 1. Franckh, Stuttgart 1953
  • Consilia Maria Lakotta: SOS We land in the monastery (cover drawing by Dietrich Evers). Lahn 1955
  • Knut Hamsun : Pan . Novel. (Cover by Dietrich Evers). German Book Community, Berlin, Darmstadt 1957
  • Theodor Müller-Alfeld (with illustrations by Dietrich Evers): The Europe travel book . [Vol. 1]. The Alpine countries: Switzerland. Austria. Northern Italy. Southeast France, German Book Community, Darmstadt 1958
  • Daniel Defoe (cover design by Dietrich Evers): even and wondrous adventures of Robinson Crusoe told by himself , German book community, Darmstadt 1958
  • Boris Pasternak (cover design by Dietrich Evers): Doctor Schiwago . Boris Pasternak's novel. First book and second book, German Book Community, Berlin 1960
  • Jack London (cover design by Dietrich Evers): On the White Frontier , German Book Community, Berlin 1960
  • Dana Faralla: The black horses . (Cover design by Dietrich Evers). Universitas Verlag, Berlin 1960
  • Edzard Schaper: The governor or the blissful debtor . Novel. (Cover design by Dietrich Evers). German Book Community, Berlin 1961
  • Theodor Müller-Alfeld (with illustrations by Dietrich Evers): The German travel book. Travels and hikes through Germany's most beautiful landscapes , Safari Verlag, 1962
  • Theodor Müller-Alfeld (with illustrations by Dietrich Evers): The Europe travel book . Vol. 4. Northern France: Belgium. Netherlands. Luxemburg, German Book Community, Darmstadt 1961
  • Theodor Müller-Alfeld, Werner Fricke (with drawings by Dietrich Evers): Spain, Portugal: landscapes and cities in 260 photos . German Book Community, Berlin, Darmstadt, Vienna 1962
  • Walter Christaller: Scandinavia. Denmark. Norway. Sweden. Finland . (with text drawings by Dietrich Evers). German Book Community, Darmstadt 1965
  • Theodor Müller-Alfeld (with text drawings by Dietrich Evers): Castles in Germany, Austria and Switzerland . German Book Association, Berlin, Darmstadt, Vienna 1967
  • Hans Georg Prager: By ship through Europe . (Text drawings by Dietrich Evers). Koehler, Herford 1973
  • Mark Twain : Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn - Adventure on the Mississippi . (with a map by Dietrich Evers). Enßlin & Laiblin, Reutlingen 1985

Honors

literature

Hans-Peter Hinze, Hans-Jürgen Beier (editor): Messages in stone: Commemorative writing for the 100th birthday of the rock art researcher and experimental archaeologist Dietrich Evers (Contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Volume 78). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2015

Left

His interest in prehistoric art and technology should have motivated Dietrich Evers to recreate an old Lötschental mask:

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Catalog for the exhibition Aufbruch der Jugend. German youth movement between self-determination and seduction from September 26, 2013 to January 19, 2014, Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg. Publisher of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg 2013, p. 267.
  2. ^ Gerhard Albrich, Hans Christ, Hans Wolfram Hockl: German youth movement in the southeast . East German Culture Council Bonn (ed.). Verlag Ernst and Werner Gieseking, Bielefeld 1969.
  3. ^ Transylvanian newspaper . January 15, 2008, p. 9 .
  4. ↑ Hans-Peter Hinze: Dietrich Evers - artist, writer, rock art researcher and experimental archaeologist . In: Hans-Peter Hinze, Hans-Jürgen Beier (Ed.): Messages in Stone: Commemorative text for the 100th birthday of the rock art researcher and experimental archaeologist Dietrich Evers. (Contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe) . Volume 78.Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2015, p. 8.
  5. ↑ Erbenheimer Anzeiger . Wiesbaden June 6, 2003.
  6. ^ Special exhibition of Scandinavian prehistoric rock art from December 7, 1989 to March 15, 1990, Städtisches Reiss-Museum Mannheim (Museum of Archeology and Ethnology).
  7. ↑ Hans-Peter Hinze: Dietrich Evers - artist, writer, rock art researcher and experimental archaeologist . In: Hans-Peter Hinze, Hans-Jürgen Beier (Ed.): Messages in Stone: Commemorative text for the 100th birthday of the rock art researcher and experimental archaeologist Dietrich Evers. (Contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe) . Volume 78.Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2015, p. 23.
  8. ^ Josef Otto: Dietrich Evers . In: Hans-Peter Hinze, Hans-Jürgen Beier (Ed.): Messages in Stone: Commemorative text for the 100th birthday of the rock art researcher and experimental archaeologist Dietrich Evers. (Contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe) . Volume 78, Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2015, pp. 49–51.
  9. ↑ Gerhard Milstreu: Dietrich Evers´ Conversations with the Powers - A picture book without words . In: Hans-Peter Hinze, Hans-Jürgen Beier (Ed.): Messages in Stone: Commemorative text for the 100th birthday of the rock art researcher and experimental archaeologist Dietrich Evers. (Contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe) . tape 78 . Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2015, p. 39-44 .
personal data
SURNAME Evers, Dietrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Evers, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archaeologist, artist, illustrator and author
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildesheim
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 2009
Place of death Naurod