Ewald Redam

Arthur Ewald Redam (born April 29, 1884 in Beiersdorf , Oberlausitz , † December 9, 1947 in Meißen ) was a German heavy athlete and variety player .

Life

Ball thrower
( Richard Daniel Fabricius , 1907)

Goldener Rathausmann
( Richard Guhr , 1907)

Redam found with 15 years of weight training . He trained in the "Kraftsportverein Dresden- Plauen " and later in the "Association for Sport and Physical Culture 1899" in Meißen. In 1907 he was Saxony champion in heavyweight and eight-fight . As a sideline stood Redam with his athletic body model for sculptors and painters in Dresden, as well as his most famous image of the Golden Rathausmann on the new town hall of Dresden.

During the First World War he lived with his Latvian wife Ludmilla in Riga and built a variety theater there, the “Four Redams Power Athletes” (he, his wife and two other athletes). The group performed worldwide, but only for a few years. In 1930 he founded the variety group "Concha & Concha" with his club mate Fritz Illgen. From 1932 he worked as a teacher of strength acrobatics in the Moscow Art School.

After his return to Germany, he was deployed in a marine anti-aircraft department near Kiel from September 27, 1944 , and experienced the end of the Second World War as a medical corporal in the Malente marine hospital in East Holstein . After the war he worked as an interpreter for the Soviet headquarters in Meissen. In the following years he tried again at a variety show, but he was unsuccessful, so Redam chose suicide as a way out of his mountain of debt on December 9, 1947.

Model career

Redam was a model in the studio of the Dresden School of Applied Arts . The Dresden Academy professor Osmar Schindler painted Redam in the center of his painting The Muscle Game (1907). The painting came from Schindler's estate as a donation to the Neue Meister gallery .

In addition to the Golden Rathausmann he stood among other things, the model for the now before the German Hygiene Museum erected ball launcher of Richard Daniel Fabricius . During the International Hygiene Exhibition in 1911, the sculpture stood at the head of what was then the sports field on Güntzwiesen .

Footnotes

1. ^ Biographical data in the Saxon Biography
2. ↑ The golden man. In: Saxon newspaper . September 8, 2004, accessed March 23, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Osmar Schindler (1867–1927). In: art tour dresden. 2011, accessed March 23, 2020 . 

literature

• The model: Ewald Redam . In: Landeshauptstadt Dresden (Ed.): The golden town hall man . 2005, p. 3 ( online ( memento from June 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).