Fritz Reuter Literature Museum
 Fritz Reuter Literature Museum with Fritz Reuter Memorial |
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| place | Markt 1, 17153 Stavenhagen 
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| opening | 1949 |
| Number of visitors (annually) | 5,000 (1955) |
| management |
Marco Zabel (director)
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-836517 |
The Fritz Reuter Literature Museum in Stavenhagen is dedicated to the most important Low German writer Fritz Reuter (1810–1874) and is located in the house where he was born on the market square.
Today, the Fritz Reuter Literature Museum is the most important Reuter museum, alongside the Reuter Wagner Museum in Reuter's last house in Eisenach and other permanent Reuter exhibitions in Altentreptow , Neubrandenburg and Dömitz .
history
As early as 1910, on the 100th birthday of the poet, the city set up a “Reuterstube” in the room where he was born, but it was used again and again as an office room in the following years.
The museum was founded in 1949 and several rooms were added in 1954. The museum had 5,000 visitors as early as 1955. Around 1955, a reference library for Low German literature and philology and for Reuter reception was started, “so that the Fritz Reuter Museum can become a real research center for Fritz Reuter's work and Low German language over time ...” From 1960, the city administration moved out almost the entire building is available as a museum. In the 1970s, remnants of the Reuter collection, which goes back to Karl Theodor Gaedertz , were taken over into the holdings of the Stavenhagen Museum.
During the GDR era, the work of the museum was closely “accompanied” by the Ministry for State Security for decades . In the 1960s and 1970s the Stasi reported on the museum work of the IM " Wilhelm Scherer ", and in the 1980s the IM " Wolfgang Stammler ". "Scherer" and "Stammler" were the code names of the museum director Arnold Hückstädt . The focus of interest was the museum contacts to “West German Reuter researchers or interested parties and to other cultural institutions in the Neubrandenburg district and their employees”.
Hückstadt's research associate Monika Weilandt, who was the museum's first post-turnaround director from 1991 to 1993, obliged the Stasi in 1987 under the code name " GMS Ulrike" to work unofficially. Weilandt had to report on individuals and tour groups from the west who visited the museum. The Stasi also wanted to be informed about their contacts with GDR citizens who were present. The collaboration ended three weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989.
In 2001 the entire house was renovated, the rooms were redesigned and many technical details changed.
building
The building is the former Stavenhagen City Hall, an imposing two-storey plastered building with a mansard roof from 1785–1788, in which Reuter's father worked for almost 40 years as mayor and city judge and lived with his family. On the ground floor on the left is Reuter's birth room, which is now designed as the Biedermeier living room.
Museum management
The previous museum directors:
- 1959–1991 Arnold Hückstädt
- 1991–1993 Monika Weilandt
- 1993–2015 Cornelia Nenz
- from 2016 Marco Zabel
collection
The Fritz Reuter Literature Museum preserves an extensive collection of Reuters manuscripts, documents and material evidence of his time and a specialist library with a stock of around 15,000 volumes.
Exhibitions
The permanent exhibition, which was completely renovated in 2001, documents Reuter's life and work and the reception of his work. A modern literary exhibition shows manuscripts, paintings by Reuter's hand, period documents and objects from Reuter's possession.
The exhibition has stations for children and, since 2009, a film cabinet in which several films and a television series based on Reuter's works can be viewed.
The permanent exhibition " Ernst Lübbert - Life and Work" is located in an adjoining building , and the exhibition "French Period in Mecklenburg 1806–1813" can be seen in the vault of Stavenhagen Castle.
Publications
Since 2000, the museum has published the yearbook kikut - Plattdütsch gistern un hüt , which has been expanded to include the subtitle Nahrichten ut de Reuterstadt (Volume 23) . The traditional periodical has been published (almost) annually since 1976. Once founded by the Neubrandenburg district management of the Kulturbund of the GDR as a working material for interest groups and friends of the Low German language, later published together with the Rostock Volkskulturinstitut , the yearbook was always supervised by an editorial board based in Stavenhagen. Volume 35/36 (2014) was most recently published.
Fritz Reuter Literature Prize
Since 1999, the Fritz Reuter Literature Prize of the City of Stavenhagen and the Fritz Reuter Literature Museum has been presented annually on the 7th of November on the occasion of Fritz Reuter's birthday in a festive event . The prize is awarded for Low German literature or work on Low German language and literature and is funded by the Sparkasse Neubrandenburg-Demmin.
Web links
- Literature on Fritz Reuter Literature Museum in the State Bibliography MV
- Website Fritz Reuter Literature Museum
- Website Friends of Reuter Museums
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cornelia Nenz: "... by resolution of the council and citizenship ...". The city of Stavenhagen and its famous son. Start of a balance sheet. In: Fritz Reuter and the reform efforts of his time. Contributions from the Fritz Reuter Society . Volume 11. Rostock 2002, pp. 126-143.
- ^ Fritz Reuter Literature Museum, Archive: Letter from the Demmin District Home Museum to the Fritz Reuter Museum on December 9, 1955.
- ↑ Many meetings with Stasi people in the Reuter Museum . In: Nordkurier , Neubrandenburg, March 14, 2016, p. 24.
- ↑ Reutermuseum: once a nest full of false and real Germanists. The research project aims to clarify which role the Stasi played in the Fritz Reuter Literature Museum . In: Mein Mecklenburg - The magazine for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , No. 2, 2015, p. 53.
- ^ Historian Zabel becomes the new head of the Reuter Literature Museum . Welt Online , dpa / mv, October 2, 2015.