Eduard Munninger

Eduard Munninger (born December 6, 1901 in Gallspach ; † February 12, 1965 in Esternberg , religious name: Medardus ORC ) was an Austrian pedagogue , music functionary and author .

Live and act

Munninger was a primary school teacher a. a. in Lambrechte (1927 to 1931), in St. Georgen an der Gusen and in Kopfing (headmaster 1939).

Association of Non-Professional Musicians of Upper Austria

In 1928 he sat down together with Karl Moser for the creation of an umbrella organization of non-professional musicians Upper Austria one that finally in 1929 as a federal non-professional musicians of Upper Austria was founded and u. a. the continuation of the Oberösterreichische Musikzeitung founded by Munninger as the Alpenländischer Musikzeitung (published from 1930 to 1935), the introduction of a membership fee, the implementation of a traveling teacher system and / or a Kapellmeisterschule as well as the evaluation of new musical releases as the goal. In 1929 the association invited to the first "State Prize Game" in Ried im Innkreis , in 1930 54 bands responded to the call to the State Music Festival. In 1934 he organized the first Austria-wide Kapellmeister course.

Working group of all brass music associations in Austria

At the beginning of the 1930s, Munninger headed the working group of all brass music associations, which, despite official approval, never led to the formation of a Reich Association of non-professional and part-time musicians in Austria for financial reasons.

Reich Association of Austrian Folk Music

In 1931, together with Anton Moser, he initiated the founding of the Reich Association of Austrian Folk Music in Kitzbühel , which in 1935 was the leading organization in the field of brass music with around 60,000 members in 1,800 bands. The umbrella organization he co-founded was dissolved in 1938 after the annexation of Austria . In 1939 he became landscape manager for the Ostmark and was in charge of the music industry in the Ostmark.

Music trade

In 1933 Munninger opened a music store in Katsdorf .

Novel on the subject of the peasant wars

In 1935 he wrote the confession of Ambros Hannsen, a historical novel on the subject of the peasant wars ( Martin Aichinger ). a. published by Blut-und-Boden-Verlag .

Krempelstein Castle / Rosicrucian

Munninger leased the Krempelstein Castle in Esternberg in the Innviertel in 1937 and, with the help of Hans Vogt (one of the inventors of the sound film) , converted the previously almost uninhabitable castle into a guesthouse and artist hostel. After the end of the war, from 1947 on, he continued to run the guesthouse and guest house in the summer months, mainly as a restaurant and wine bar. Munninger, who called himself Brother Medardus by the religious name, founded the Antiquus Arcanus Ordo Rosae Rubeae Aureae Crucis (AAORAC) there in 1952 . Rosicrucians also met there until 1965 .

Works

• Austrian Musician Yearbook (Ed.). Linz 1930 to 1935
• The confession of Ambros Hannsen - A novel from the Riedmark around 1635 . Verlag Blut und Boden, Goslar 1937 (three further editions by 1943, most recently by Ovilava-Libri, Wels 1984, ISBN 3854100418 )
• Maintaining and researching the pansophic worldview in terms of and continuing the universal thoughts of the Rosicrucian Ruprecht von Moosheim in the spirit of a pan-European cultural association, 1939
• Die Burg - Eduard Munninger von Mysterium, Weisheit, Kunst , publication organ of the AAORRAC, (1955 to 1963)
• On the foundation of the Order of the Rosicrucian AAORRAC , in: Mensch und Schicksal, 6th year, no.22
• Large Rosicrucian Manifesto: AAORRAC - The Old Order of the Rosicrucian . Self-published, 1954
• Kraempelstein Castle. A contribution to local history by Eduard Munninger . Self-published. Schärding 1956

literature

• Arthur Luther : German history in German narrative , a literary lexicon, 2nd edition, Leipzig (Hiersemann), 1943
• German Literature Lexicon, 3rd completely revised edition, Bern, Munich, Stuttgart, (Francke), 1968
• Reinhard Oberschelp (Ed.): Complete directory of German-language literature (GV), 1911-1965 . Munich, (Saur), 1976.
• Helmut Vallery: leaders, people and charisma. The National Socialist historical novel , Cologne, (Pahl-Rugenstein), 1980 (= Pahl Rugenstein university writings / social and natural sciences. 55 series: literature and history)

Individual evidence

1. ^ History of the Lambrechte music association
2. ^ Heading School History , website of the NMS Kopfing, accessed on October 11, 2017.
3. ^ Eugen Brixel : The great Upper Austrian brass music book . Brandstätter, Vienna; Munich 1984, ISBN 978-3-85447-031-1 , pp. 121 ff .
4. ↑ Petra Aichinger: From Wind Ensemble to Wind Music - An Overview of the Development of Civil Brass Music in Austria, Diploma thesis, Vienna, 2009, p. 69 Diploma thesis Petra Aichinger (PDF; 3.8 MB)
5. ↑ Ernst Langthaler / Reinbhard Sieder (eds.): About the Villages - Ländliche Lebenswelten in der Moderne , Vienna, 2000, p. 210 PDF ( Memento of the original from March 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ^ Andreas Lindner: Upper Austrian Brass Music Association in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
7. ^ Eugen Brixel (ed.): Congress report Mainz 1996 Google Books
8. ↑ Files and manuscripts of the district authority Perg in Upper Austria. State archive (as of 2002) PDF Cons. No. 107/1933, act 208
9. ↑ Harald Lambrecht: 2.5 Antiquus Arcanus Ordo Rosae Rubeae Aureae Crucis (AAORAC), in: Neue Rosenkreuzer - a manual, Church - Confession - Religion, publications of the denominational institute of the Evangelical Federation, Volume 45, Hans-Martin Barth, Jörg Haustein and Helmut Obst (Ed.), Göttingen, 2004, ISBN 3-525-56549-6 , S 162ff Google Books online
10. ^ Project Historical Novel (database): Novels published in 1937: Eduard Munninger