Fritz Reuter Society
The Fritz Reuter Society (founded in 1960) is a German literary society based in Neubrandenburg ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ), whose concern is the maintenance and promotion of Low German literature and language and in particular the works of the Low German poet and writer Fritz Reuter .
history
The Fritz Reuter Society was founded on July 15, 1960 in Lübeck by Friedrich Griese , Ernst Hameister and others. In 1991 it moved its headquarters to Neubrandenburg and has been based there in the New Gate since 1992 . The society has 324 members (as of 2019). In 2014 the society still had 380 members. Of these, only seven were younger than 50 years. Most of the members in 2014 were 70 years of age or older.
Friedrich Griese was elected the first president at the founding meeting. Ernst Hameister was appointed an honorary member of the board. The founding board also included: as Griese deputy, Lübeck lawyer Felke, as managing director of Lübeck bank director Alfred Höffer and as treasurer of Lübeck bookseller Otto Hamkens.
In the fifty years of its existence the society has been led by six presidents. Important groundwork for development took place in the second half of the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s: the introduction of annual Reuter Days (1989 in Lüneburg ), the founding of a separate series of publications (1989) and the relocation to the homeland of the namesake (1991). In these years the FRG also had its highest membership with 725.
In 1993 the society was awarded the Hartmut Vogel Prize, which was awarded for the first time and endowed with DM 5,000, of the Working Group of Literary Societies and Memorials . The FRG had set an example by moving its headquarters to a new federal state, it was said to justify.
From February 1986 to November 1989 the state security authorities of the three northern districts of the GDR ( Rostock , Schwerin and Neubrandenburg ) created the "enemy object file center", which was about 2000 pages long, through the Reuter Society. The Stasi accused the society of "subversive abuse of Low German" and " political and ideological diversion ". The Reuter Society came into the sights of the Stasi in particular through the annual book broadcasts to friends of Low German in what is now Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania, which began in 1985 in the year of Fritz Reuter's 175th birthday. The number of recipients rose between 1985 and 1989 from initially 65 to 300. By the fall of the year 1989, more than fifty GDR citizens had joined the Lübeck Literature Society as members. In a review of “25 years of the Fritz Reuter Society in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania”, FRG President Jürgen Grote said: “It should not be left unmentioned that, as can be seen from the documents, the broadcasts of the Fritz Reuter Society from Bonn have individual recipients in the Brought GDR into considerable difficulties because they repeatedly contained political information material in addition to Low German literature and information on society. "
As a reaction to the activities of the Western Reuter Society in the north of the GDR, a " Fritz Reuter Working Group in the GDR Cultural Association " was founded in May 1989 . For the founding meeting in Güstrow , the Lübeck Reuter-Gesellschaft sent a greeting address, which, however, was not read out by the Stasi due to "operational influence". “With our wishes for good success, we hope for good cooperation in the unifying goal of spreading Reuter's legacy and image of man more effectively. Let us consider together which new ways can be laid out and paved ” , it said in this greeting. After the end of the GDR, the working group broke away from the Kulturbund and called itself "Fritz Reuter Gesellschaft Stavenhagen eV" since February 1990, but without being entered in the register of associations. As a result, the two companies were not united. In September 1990, the last 44 members of the GDR counterpart individually declared their membership in the Fritz Reuter Society in Lübeck.
On November 21, 2011, the society in Schwerin was awarded the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Culture Prize.
Board of Directors and Advisory Board
Board:
- Hans-Jörg Grundmann, President, Berlin
- Hartmut Brun , Deputy President, Polz
- Jakob Schwichtenberg, Deputy President, Rostock
- August Bath, Managing Director, Neubrandenburg
- Marco Zabel, Treasurer, Neustrelitz
- Albrecht Donner, auditor, Neubrandenburg
Advisory Board:
- Arnold Hückstädt , Seedorf
- Cornelia Nenz , Neustrelitz
- Dieter Stellmacher , Göttingen
- Barbara Scheuermann, Göttingen
- Hartwig Suhrbier , Frechen
- Reinhard Rösler , Hohenfelde
- Dirk Römmer , Tönning
President
- 1960–1963 Friedrich Griese , writer
- 1963–1968 Christian Jenssen , writer
- 1968–1978 Walter Lehmbecker , senior teacher a. D.
- 1978–1988 Helmut de Voss , publisher and bookseller
- 1988–1996 Hans-Joachim Griephan , journalist and publisher
- 1996–2018 Jürgen Grote , physiologist and university professor
- since 2018 Hans-Jörg Grundmann, physicist
Honors
The Fritz Reuter Society recognizes special achievements within the meaning of its statutes with "letters of honor". So far:
- 1973 Gerd Lüpke , writer
- 1974 Richard Parbs, publisher
- 1975 Helmut de Voss , publisher and reciter
- 1976 Otto Lemke, rector i. R., writer and literary historian
- 1977 Friedrich Wilhelm Giebel , publisher, journalist and bookseller
- 1978 Heiner Kracht, retired federal railway official D. and reciter
- 1979 Barbara and Friedrich Minssen , authors of high German translations of Fritz Reuter's works
- 1983 Wolfgang Lindow and Claus Schuppenhauer, Institute for Low German , Bremen
- 1985 Johann Diedrich Bellmann , lecturer and writer
- 1990 Ulf Bichel , Germanist and Low German philologist, Kiel
- 1996 Hans-Peter Meyer-Bothling, Pastor i. R., Bad Bevensen
- 1999 Werner Schinko , graphic designer, Röbel
- 2002 Jürgen Gundlach , philologist, editor of the Mecklenburg dictionary, Wismar
- 2003 Gerhard Schmidt-Henkel , Professor of Modern German Philology and Literary Studies
- 2004 Dieter Scheven, Düsseldorf
- 2006 Paul-Friedrich Martins , pastor, Neubrandenburg
- 2010 Hinstorff Verlag , Rostock
- 2014 Bernd Jørg Diebner , Professor of Theology, Wiesloch
- 2015 Albrecht Donner, Treasurer of the Fritz Reuter Society, Neubrandenburg
- 2018 Christian Bunners , Berlin
- 2019 Arnold Hückstädt , Seedorf, and August Bath, Neubrandenburg
Events
The Fritz Reuter Society organizes (sometimes together with partner companies) annual meetings - so-called Reuter Days - at different locations. Exhibitions, readings and other events are regularly held in the New Gate in Neubrandenburg.
Annual editions, publications
Society members have been receiving annual gifts since 1971. In addition, since 1989 the Fritz Reuter Society has published the series “Contributions of the Fritz Reuter Society” , initiated by Hans-Joachim Griephan , in which primarily the papers given at the Reuter Days are published. By 2019, the Reuter Society had published 29 volumes in this series. Volume 16 (2006) contains a table of contents (“index”) for volumes 1–15 (1989–2005). Since volume 10 (2001) the articles have been published by Hinstorff Verlag in Rostock.
The “Mitteilungen der Fritz Reuter Gesellschaft eV” has been available as member information since 1966 , initially appearing irregularly and later with up to three issues per year. In 1996 it was changed to an annual publication.
Web links
- Literature about Fritz Reuter Society in the state bibliography MV
- Website of the Fritz Reuter Society
- Website Fritz Reuter Literature Museum
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nordkurier, Neubrandenburger Zeitung, Neubrandenburg, August 9, 2013, p. 18, "Plattsnackern lack the offspring"
- ↑ Carolinum, Göttingen, vol. 26, 1960, issue 32, p. 118
- ↑ Communications from the Fritz Reuter Society, No. 57, August 2000, pp. 2-6
- ^ Articles by the Fritz Reuter Society, Vol. 27, Rostock: Hinstorff 2017, pp. 132-139
- ↑ Communications from the Fritz Reuter Society, No. 49, December 1990, p. 1
- ↑ FRGeV: Fritz Reuter Gesellschaft eV In: www.frgev.de. Retrieved June 5, 2018 .
- ↑ ZDB-Id .: 13352179. DNB 018374379