Edwin Koenemann

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Edwin (also Edvin) Koenemann (born April 20, 1883 in Bonn , † May 25, 1960 in Worpswede ) was a German writer, commercial artist , chronicler and first tour guide of the Worpswede artists' colony .

Life

Edwin Koenemann was born in Bonn as the youngest of six children. His father Alexander Koenemann (1834–1915) had set up a textile factory in Russia and had moved to Bonn. Edwin Koenemann spent his school days in Göttingen from 1889 to 1900, graduating from the secondary school. First he took up engineering studies at the Thuringian technical center in Ilmenau , then switched from 1901–1903 to training as a businessman in a Bremen foreign trade company. In 1903 Koenemann suffered a double fractured skull in a sports accident. However, the subsequent medical treatment by trepanation did not lead to complete healing. During this time his artistic interests and literary activities developed.

On medical advice, he moved to Worpswede with his then partner Frieda Rogge in 1908. There he took painting lessons from the painter Georg Tappert as well as photography lessons . From 1912 to 1916 he regularly developed advertising material as a graphic designer for the Bremen textile department store Stallmann & Harder ( Am Wall 175–177 ). In the First World War he reported to the Landsturm , was then first drafted as fit in March 1915, but after a week-long stay in the recruit barracks in Neu-Strelitz, he was classified as unfit for duty and released again. After several stays in sanatoriums and years of hardship, he built a wooden round house on his own property in 1926 based on an idea by Bruno Taut , the so-called "cheese bell". Soon after, he was taking tours for tourists both in his unusual home and in the Worpswede artists' colony and the nearby Teufelsmoor . He is considered the first tour guide in Worpswede.

Edwin Koenemann had three marriages - to Frieda Rogge (1909–1922), to Margarethe Barleben (1934–1937) and Editha Voss (1939–1960).

In the novel "Der Quellenhof" Emil Felden described the artistic and social activities of Heinrich Vogeler , Martha Vogeler and their surroundings in the form of a key novel . Edwin Koenemann (with the pseudonym "Pukoltzky") also appears in it - in addition to Heinrich Vogeler, Otto Modersohn , Fritz Mackensen and other artists, each with fantasy names.

Works

From 1902 onwards he wrote numerous lyric poems, some of them of considerable length. Some were published in regional newspapers, a few self-published, others only posthumously. Including the poems “Autumn Sermon”, “On New Year's Night”, “Old Pavement”, “The Old Katen”, “Luck”, “Anamitic Magician”, “The Nocturnal Festival. A satirical-fantastic allegory ”(with illustrations by Heinrich Vogeler ),“ The garden house ”.

In 1926 Koenemann built a round house for residential purposes near Worpsweder Lindenallee. The architect Bruno Taut described the basic idea in his magazine “Frühlicht” in 1922, but never realized it. The building was built in the shape of a bell on a concrete foundation in wood, whereby ecological principles such as use of service water, recycling and energy saving etc. a. were used through thermal insulation. The building called " Worpsweder Käseglocke " was completely renovated between 1997 and 2003 and is a listed building. It is currently used as a museum of applied arts.

An extremely extensive “diary” belongs to his estate. For more than 40 years he had made detailed notes almost every day about his private everyday life, about his encounters with most of the Worpswede artists as well as about local and national events. This unconventional diary has - in addition to a lot of very private content - also the character of a chronicle of the artist village from the end of the imperial era to the 1950s of the Federal Republic.

He also put on an extensive collection of Worpswede artist and landscape postcards; it is accessible today in Hamburg in the Altonaer Museum .

He also collected numerous craft and artistic products from Worpswede. They form one of the foundations of the “ Worpsweder Käseglocke ” museum .

literature

  • Peter Groth: Edwin Koenemann . In: The cheese bell in Worpswede . Published by Freunde Worpswedes eV 2013, pp. 32–43.
  • Jürgen Teumer: The cheese bell in Worpswede. A round house with history and stories . Ed. Friends Worpswedes eV 2001
  • Helmut Stelljes: “Moor runner” and builder of an unusual living space. Writer, tour guide Edwin Koenemann. In: Discover and experience Worpswede. Verlag M. Simmering, Lilienthal 1989, pp. 66-68.
  • Karl Veit Riedel: Worpsweder postcards. The Koenemann Collection in the Altona Museum. Yearbook Altonaer Museum in Hamburg 14/15, Hamburg 1976/77, pp. 99–122.
  • Emil Felden: The Quellenhof. Friesenverlag, Bremen 1925.

Web links

  • German biography: [1]
  • The dizziness with the cheese dome [2]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Documents about birth and baptism as well as death certificate, Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt, inventory O 59 Rossmann No. 7/1
  2. ↑ E. Koenemann's diary entries from March 31, 1915 on the occasion of the military draft. Similar entries on April 8, 1915, ibid.
  3. ↑ "Parts of his sketchbook from the time he was teaching at Tappert have also been preserved." Quote from: Gerhard Wietek: Georg Tappert. A pioneer of German modernism. Verlag Karl Thiemig, Munich 1980, p. 18.
  4. ↑ Edwin Koenemann's diary, entry on April 27, 1915, archive of the association “Friends Worpswedes” eV
  5. ^ Emil Felden: The Quellenhof. Friesenverlag Bremen. 1925
  6. ↑ Source: Jürgen Teumer: The cheese bell in Worpswede. Edited by Freunde Worpswedes eV 2001, pp. 48 and 65f
  7. ↑ published on October 22, 1911 in "Bremer Nachrichten". Source: E. Koenemann's diary entry on October 22, 1911, archive of the “Friends Worpswedes” association
  8. ↑ published on December 28, 1913 with a drawing of Scotland in "Bremer Nachrichten". Source: E. Koenemann's diary entry on December 28, 1913, archive of the association "Freunde Worpswedes" eV
  9. ^ In: Jürgen Teumer: The cheese bell in Worpswede. Edited by Freunde Worpswedes eV 2001, p. 66.
  10. ^ In: Jürgen Teumer: The cheese bell in Worpswede. Edited by Freunde Worpswedes eV 2001, p. 67
  11. ^ Edwin Koenemann's diary, entry on March 15, 1916, archive of the association "Friends Worpswedes" eV
  12. ↑ Source: Karl Veit Riedel: Worpsweder Postkarten. The Koenemann Collection in the Altona Museum. Yearbook Altonaer Museum in Hamburg, p. 119
  13. ↑ Karl Veit Riedel paid tribute to this 36-page text: “Based on expressionist life revues, it brings a panorama of figures who have certain internal relationships with those present. The rather extensive and wordy solo numbers reveal skill in the construction of verses with complicated rhymes. ”In: Karl Veit Riedel: Worpsweder Postkarten. The Koenemann Collection in the Altona Museum. Yearbook Altonaer Museum in Hamburg, p. 119
  14. ^ Collection of poems by E. Koenemann. Self-published. Printed in 1951. 43 pages.
  15. ↑ Edwin Koenemann's diary, archive of the association “Friends Worpswedes” eV
  16. ^ Karl Veit Riedel: Worpsweder postcards. The Koenemann Collection in the Altona Museum. Yearbook Altonaer Museum in Hamburg 14/15, Hamburg 1976/77
personal data
SURNAME Koenemann, Edwin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koenemann, Edvin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, commercial artist, chronicler and tour guide of the Worpswede artists' colony
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1960
Place of death Worpswede