Franz-Georg Rössler

Franz-Georg Rössler (2008)

Franz-Georg Rössler (born May 14, 1949 in Ruppertsberg ; † March 17, 2017 in Dudenhofen ) was a German high school teacher for music and geography . He composed , performed , wrote in German and Esperanto , wrote journalistic articles, gave lectures and was active in creating pictures .

Life

Rössler was born in the Palatinate community of Ruppertsberg on the Weinstrasse , where he grew up. He received important impressions during his childhood from his service as an altar boy , from the music-loving environment in the family, church and school as well as from his early involvement in an uncle's farm . Later he often worked as a voluntary nursing assistant in the Marienkrankenhaus in Ludwigshafen am Rhein .

From the Ruppertsberg elementary school, Rössler moved to the Altsprachliches Gymnasium in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse , which he graduated from high school in 1968. He completed his military service as a medical soldier . He studied music, geography, musicology and composition in Mannheim and Heidelberg . After his legal clerkship in Speyer , he became a teacher at the Nikolaus-von-Weis-Gymnasium , where he remained until his retirement in 2012.

Rössler was married to Rita Rössler-Buckel since 1972. He suddenly died in his house in Dudenhofen.

Focus

music

Rössler worked early on in Catholic church music (including Gregorian chant) and practiced using various instruments such as piano , organ , recorder family , clarinet , trumpet , violin and viola . He graduated from the Office for Church Music of the Diocese of Speyer . For years he acted as a choir director and organist in several places in the Palatinate .

Rössler studied composition with Hans Vogt in Mannheim. He made around 250 compositions, mainly for keyboard instruments , choir and chamber music . Many of them were published by publishers. With Rössler's cantata Evoluo , the Mainz Figural Choir won first prize in the German Choir Competition in 1994 for the best performance of a contemporary choral work.

language

After the publication of his diploma thesis Paul Hindemith - Messe 1963 , Rössler wrote 50 publications on various topics (poetry, musicology, biographical monographs, visual arts, language, regional history) in German and Esperanto, as well as around 500 journalistic articles and around 120 lectures.

Image work

After self-taught development, Rössler began exhibiting in 1994. His focus was on prints, small sculptures and digital graphics. He was a member of Bildarta Internacia Ligo de Esperantistoj (BILDE). In total, he came to around 120 exhibitions in the region, in Germany and abroad, mostly together with his wife and his own musical program.

Esperanto

In 1985 Rössler had his first encounter with the international language of Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof . He was soon convinced of its usefulness and the humanistic idea behind it and used the artificial language in many fields: journalism ( MONTO , La Gazeto and others), journalism, lectures, courses, music. For 20 years he was the organist of the regular Esperanto services in the Afra Chapel of the Speyer Cathedral . He was an active member u. a. in the Esperanto World Federation (UEA), in the Working Group of Catholic Esperantists of the Diocese of Speyer, in the International Esperanto Teachers Association (ILEI), in the Akademio Internacia San Marino (AIS) and in the Internacia Scienca Akademio Esperantista (ISAE).

Publications (selection)

music

• Sonata for organ (Musikverlag Willy Müller, Heidelberg)
• Cantata Evoluo (Text: Richard Schulz) Commissioned by the Gesellschaft für Neue Musik Mannheim, 1991 (CD: Valve Hearts, Tonger -Musikverlag, Cologne, 1996)
• With Bach - and Charles Gounod listens ... - (Musikverlag Anton Böhm & Sohn , Augsburg)
• Twelve Inventions for a Keyboard Instrument ( Karl Heinrich Möseler Verlag , Wolfenbüttel, 1972)
• Sonata All 'ungherese per pianoforte solo ( Tonger -Musikverlag, Cologne)
• Improvisation ( Hommage à Béla Bartók ) for violin (oboe, flute) and piano ( Mercator-Verlag , Duisburg, 1990)
• Everything Bach - BACH compositions and BACH arrangements from 40 years (Edition Antiphon 160, Speyer, 2012)
• RÖWV MUSIK 2012 (all music until May 2012) Book original and CD documentation ( Wolfgang G. Haas -Musikverlag e.K., Cologne)

language

• It's nice to talk about the abyss . Poems. Strasser-Verlag, Kaiserslautern.
• Alfred Cahn - composer from Speyer . Ponto-Verlag, Speyer.
• Everyone has to do his own thing - shaking rhymes . Ponto-Verlag, Speyer.
• Oskar Frey - a composer from the Palatinate . Monograph. Strasser Verlag, Kaiserslautern 1991.
• The ostinat works of Josef Gabriel Rheinberger . Structural analysis. Publisher Anton Böhm & Sohn, Augsburg 1994.
• Wed Camino Palatino - My Palatinate Way of St. James - The way before the way . Edition Antiphon, Speyer 2009.

Image work

• Together with Rita Rössler-Buckel (photographs): Lignosults - natural wood sculptures and texts . Verlag Bild & Kunst / KK-Edition, Harthausen 1994.
• Together with Rita Rössler-Buckel and with a foreword by Franz Dudenhöffer: Moments from Eternity. Exhibitions, lectures and concerts on the topic of rose foreigners . Verlag Bild & Kunst / KK-Edition, Harthausen 2001.
• Különös társáság / Curious company. Miniature book . Jókai Mór Városi Könyvtár, Pápa (Hungary) 1997.

Esperanto (original and translation)

• Franz-Georg Rössler (translation), Rita Rössler-Buckel (illustrations): Momentoj el eterno / moments from eternity . Poems by Rose Ausländer , bilingual edition in German and Esperanto. Bleicher Verlag, Gerlingen 1989.
• Franz-Georg Rössler (text), Rita Rössler-Buckel (illustrations): Small zodiac - Bestareto . Poems. Bilingual edition in German and Esperanto. Esperanto-Centro, Paderborn 1988.
• Together with Rita Rössler-Buckel: Edith Stein . A Jewess under the Cross / Edino Ŝtono. Judino sub la kruco . Image of life. Bilingual edition in German and Esperanto. Gmeiner-Verlag , Meßkirch 1992.
• Tempo tempesta . Poems and Esperanto biography. Flandra Esperanto-Ligo, 1995.
• The doll book . Poems on watercolor grisaille by Rita Rössler-Buckel. Edition Antiphon, Speyer 1993.
• Hungarian sketches / Hungaraj skizoj / Magyar vázlatok . Trilingual edition in German, Esperanto and Hungarian, with gravure graphic by Rita Rössler-Buckel. Ponto-Verlag, Speyer 1995.
• 25 jaroj kun Esperanto / 25 years with Esperanto . RÖWV ESPERANTO. Activities and products in and about Esperanto. Edition Antiphon, Speyer 2010.

Web links

• Literature by and about Franz-Georg Rössler in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Catalog raisonné by Franz-Georg Rössler ( Memento of the original from March 4, 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. from Wolfgang G. Haas Musikverlag , Cologne, accessed on December 1, 2017.