Frank Delitz

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Frank Delitz (born September 27, 1939 in Zittau ; † October 20, 2003 in Seifhennersdorf ) was a German homeland researcher . His work has made a major contribution to re-awakening public interest in the Upper Lusatian half-timbered house .

Life

Raschkehaus in Niesky as an example of a half-timbered house

Delitz was born in Zittau in 1939. His father left the family shortly after the end of World War II . At the age of nine, Delitz moved with his mother to Halle , where he attended the Georg Friedrich Handel Conservatory as a particularly talented musician . He received lessons in piano, drums and concert flute and after finishing school he studied at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig. From 1962 to 1980 Delitz played as solo flutist at the Jena Philharmonic and then worked for the Senftenberg Theater Orchestra , which was dissolved in 1993.

In addition to his music career, Delitz devoted himself to researching the half-timbered houses for almost 40 years. His first work on the subject was half-timbered houses in 1979 . A contribution to the problem of house research . Further publications, including in 1987 an overview of the Environment , followed. Occasionally he worked with Jürgen Cieslak . Delitz's professional competence led him to get a position at the State Office for Monument Preservation in Saxony , where he was responsible for the registration of cultural monuments in the district of Zittau and in the Lower Silesian Upper Lusatia district until 1995 . Delitz campaigned energetically for the preservation and faithful reconstruction of half-timbered houses, including the Raschkehaus in Niesky , built in 1742 and not overplastered during the renovation . Since he suffered from the "gradual ruin of our cross-border landscape of surrounding houses, from the failure of politics in this regard", he increasingly withdrew in the last years of his life and devoted himself to dialect research .

Publications

  • The Upper Lusatian half-timbered house. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter . Journal for Saxon history, monument preservation, nature and the environment. Vol. 25, No. 2, 1979, ISSN  0486-8234 , pp. 73-76.
  • Half-timbered houses. A contribution to the problem of house research . Zittau 1982, 94 sheets.
  • with Jürgen Cieslak : South Lusatian half-timbered houses: we live in a half-timbered house. Zittau District Council, Culture Department; Kulturbund der GDR, district management Dresden. Zittau 1984, 45 pp.
  • Waltersdorf. A place and its monuments in the Zittau district ; Conference material of the Kulturbund der GDR, Society for Monument Preservation, Dresden District Board, Folk Architecture Working Group and the Zittau District Board. Zittau 1985, 8 pp.
  • Surroundings at a glance. On questions of the history, distribution and landscape characteristics of a folk architecture. Graph. Plant. Zittau, Zittau 1987, 164 pp.
  • Folk building method in the West Lusatian mountain and hill country. Suggestion for the preservation of monuments. Council of the district of Bischofswerda. Bischofswerda 1987, 12 pp.
  • To define the surrounding area. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter. Journal for Saxon history, monument preservation, nature and the environment. Vol. 33, No. 6, 1987, ISSN  0486-8234 , pp. 261-266.
  • Waltersdorf Memorial Path. Brochure accompanying the teaching boards , Oberlausitzer Verlag. Waltersdorf 1993, 6 sheets

literature

  • Peter Dorn: The love for home never went out . In: Sächsische Zeitung , January 12, 2004, p. 8.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Dorn: The love for home never died . In: Sächsische Zeitung , January 12, 2004, p. 8.
personal data
SURNAME Delitz, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German homeland researcher
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Zittau
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 2003
Place of death Seifhennersdorf