Eberhard Rebling

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Eberhard Rebling (1963)
Memorial plaque on the house, Puschkinallee 41, in Eichwalde
Gravestone in the Dorotheenstadt cemetery in Berlin

Eberhard Rebling (born December 4, 1911 in Berlin ; † August 2, 2008 in Königs Wusterhausen ) was a German pianist , music and dance scholar and anti-fascist .

Life

Childhood and as a young adult

Rebling, who came from a Prussian officer family, his father was a major , began to learn to play the piano at the age of 7. Later he received lessons from Lydia Lenz in Berlin-Friedenau and in 1929 won first prize in the interpreter competition of the German Association of Artists . He played pieces by Sergei Prokofjew and Ernst Toch . After graduating from the Goethe-Gymnasium in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, Rebling studied musicology with Friedrich Blume , Curt Sachs and Erich Moritz von Hornbostel , among others , as well as German and philosophy at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . In 1932 he followed Ernst Busch and Hanns Eisler live on stage and met the Dutch art historian Leo Balet , and subsequently began to deal with Marxism . He got to know Georg Lukács and Andor Gábor . In 1933 he experienced the Reichstag fire in Berlin and thereupon elected the KPD . He finished his studies in 1935 with a dissertation to obtain the Dr. phil. with Arnold Schering on the subject of the sociological foundations of the style change in music in Germany around the middle of the 18th century .

During the Second World War

In 1936 Rebling emigrated to The Hague as a result of opposition to the National Socialist regime . In the same year in Strasbourg and Leiden the book The Bourgeoisie of German Art, Literature and Music in the 18th Century , written together with Leo Balet, was published . In 1937 he went on a concert tour as a piano accompanist for a small dance company to Java and Sumatra . In the same year he met his wife, the Jewish actress, dancer and singer Lin Jaldati in The Hague , with whom he performed Yiddish songs in the post-war period .

Rebling took part in Dutch musical life as a pianist, music critic and scholar. He attracted attention in 1937 with an article on De burgerlijke muziekopvattingen van Willem Mengelberg , which appeared in the monthly magazine Politiek en Cultuur . From 1938 to 1940, Rebling gave lectures at the People's Universities and the College of Fine Arts in The Hague. He wrote articles for the music magazine Maandblad voor hedendaagse Muziek and the daily newspaper Vooruit .

Rebling bought a house in the Netherlands under a false name in early 1943 and offered shelter for up to 20 Jewish refugees. The hiding place was betrayed in 1944, he was arrested by the Gestapo and sentenced to death. Rebling was able to escape, but the majority of the Jews living in the house were arrested and deported to concentration camps, including Lin, who survived the Westerbork transit camp , Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen . In 1945 they met again. However, six of the hidden Jews did not survive the Holocaust . For helping the refugees, Rebling was honored on October 11, 2007 by the Israeli Holocaust Memorial Yad Vashem in Jerusalem with the title “ Righteous Among the Nations ”. Rebling met Otto Heinrich Frank , Anne Frank's father , in 1945 . He gave him a copy after the publication of Anne Frank's diary . Rebling and his wife toured West Germany, France, Israel and the USA with an Anne Frank program.

post war period

After the German occupation of the Netherlands had ended, Rebling first became music editor of the daily newspaper of the Communist Party of the Netherlands, De Waarheid . He joined the Communist Party of the Netherlands (CPN) in 1946.

In 1951 Paul Wandel convinced him to come to the GDR. In 1952 he moved with Lin Jaldati and their two daughters Kathinka and Jalda to Berlin (GDR), where he became a member of the SED in 1960 . From 1952 to 1959 he was editor-in-chief of the newspaper Musik und Gesellschaft , from 1957 co-editor-in-chief of the music magazine Melodie und Rhythmus and from 1959 professor and rector of the Hochschule für Musik , which was named "Hanns Eisler" through his initiative. Rebling was interested in ballet . After several trips and his retirement in 1976, he wrote extensive works on the dance art of India and Indonesia. He handed over his archive to the Berlin Academy of the Arts in 2002 . In 1959 he accompanied Paul Robeson on the piano. In 1960 he was one of the founders of the singing movement . In 1976 he appeared with Ernst Busch and Gisela May in the film theater Kosmos.

Rebling had been a member of the People's Chamber and the Research Council for musical vocational training at the Ministry of Culture since 1963 . He was a member of the GDR Peace Council and the Presidential Council of the GDR Cultural Association . Until his death he was a member of the PDS and later of the Left Party and gave lectures at political events about his time and situation during the Second World War. He belonged to the party's “council of elders”.

Rebling is buried in the cemetery of the Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichswerder parishes .

His younger daughter Jalda Rebling works as a singer, the older Kathinka Rebling is a violinist and music professor.

Awards

Fonts

The Civilization of German Art, Literature, and Music in the 18th Century (1936)
  • The sociological foundations of the style change in music in the 18th century. 1935 (dissertation).
  • Leo Balet and E. Gerhard [di Eberhard Rebling]: The bourgeoisisation of German art, literature and music in the 18th century.
    • 1st edition: Heitz, Strasbourg / Leiden, 1936.
    • 2nd edition by Gert Mattenklott : Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Vienna 1973; 2nd, expanded edition, 1979.
    • 3rd edition: (= Fundus series . 61/62). Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1979.
  • Revolutionnaire songs uit Nederlands Verleden. Amsterdam 1938.
  • Den Lustelijken Mai - music in the 17th century in the Netherlands. Amsterdam 1948.
  • Een Eeuw Danskunst in Nederland. Querido, Amsterdam 1950.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach en de overwinning van de baroque. Arnhem 1951.
  • Ballet yesterday and today. Henschel, Berlin 1956.
  • Hans Joachim Moser, Eberhard Rebling (ed.): Robert Schumann, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his death. Breitkopf and Härtel, 1956.
  • Music library for everyone - "Ballet". Reclam, Leipzig 1963.
  • with Lin Jaldati: It burns, brothers, it burns. Yiddish songs. Berlin 1966.
  • Ballet today. Henschel, Berlin; Heinrichshofen, Bremerhaven 1970.
  • Dance of the Peoples. Berlin, Henschel; Bremerhaven, Heinrichshofen 1972.
  • Ballet primer. Henschel, Berlin 1974.
  • Marius Petipa, master of classical ballet. Heinrichshofen, Wilhelmshaven 1980.
  • The great ballet dictionary. A guide through the world of ballet from A to Z. 4th edition. Heyne, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-453-41434-9 .
  • Ballet A – Z. 4th edition. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1980.
    • Ballet A – Z. A guide through the world of ballet. 4th edition. Heinrichshofen, Wilhelmshaven 1980, ISBN 3-7959-0075-1 .
    • Ballet A – Z. 5th edition, Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1984.
  • The dance art of India. Henschel, Berlin 1981; Heinrichshofen again, Wilhelmshaven 1982, ISBN 3-7959-0348-3 .
  • The dance art of Indonesia. Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 1989, ISBN 3-7959-0552-4 .
  • with Lin Jaldati: “Never say you are going the last way!” Memoirs from 1911 to 1988. Der Morgen, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-371-00010-9 ; again (= collection. 1). BdWi-Verlag, Marburg 1995, ISBN 3-924684-55-3 .
  • Eberhard Rebling in conversation with Peter Schleuning: Origin and impact of the early attempt at a Marxist art and music historiography. In: Wolfgang Martin Stroh, Günter Mayer (Hrsg.): A musicological paradigm shift? On the importance of Marxist approaches in music research. BIS, Oldenburg 2000, ISBN 3-8142-0726-2 , pp. 89-97, urn : nbn: de: gbv: 715-oops-6429 .

Works

  • Four nigunim. 1943; Print version: four nigunim. East Jewish folk melodies for piano for two hands (= Coll. Litolff. No. 5261). Peters, Leipzig; Litolff, Leipzig 1960, DNB 100532364X (score).
  • For Kathinka. 12 children's pieces (1960).

Discography (selection)

Radio feature

Filmography

  • Friedrich Schiller, documentary film, GDR 1955, director: Max Jaap
  • Lin Jaldati sings, short documentary, GDR 1962, director: Gerhard Jentsch

archive

literature

Web links

Commons : Eberhard Rebling  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Regina Scheer : Music and the silence between the tones. In: Friday . No. 52, December 22, 2006, accessed June 8, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b K. Hermsdorf, H. Fetting, S. Schlenstedt: Exile in the Netherlands and in Spain. 1981, pp. 58-59.
  3. ^ Heinrich Fink : A righteous among us. In: antifa . 11–12 / 2007, p. 21.
  4. ↑ Eberhard Rebling on Anne Frank in the GDR. Interview with Wouter van der Sluis (2003). In: annefrank.org. Archived from the original on July 21, 2012 ; accessed on June 8, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b Interview by Jochen Voit with Prof. Dr. Eberhard Rebling on February 23, 2006. In: erinnerORT.de. Archived from the original on October 20, 2008 ; accessed on June 8, 2018 ("Text version authorized by Prof. Dr. Eberhard Rebling with the help of Jalda Rebling in spring 2008").
  6. ↑ See Theater of Time . 31 (1976), pp. 7-12, 67.
personal data
SURNAME Rebling, Eberhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gerhard, E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist, anti-fascist and politician (SED), MdV
DATE OF BIRTH December 4, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 2, 2008
Place of death King Wusterhausen