Günter Reitz

Günter Reitz (born April 24, 1911 ; † January 19, 1994 ) was a German folklorist and museum educator .

Life

He studied art education, ethnology and geography at the college for teacher training in Dresden . The Second World War interrupted his studies. After the end of the war, he first worked at SDAG Wismut in the Saxon Ore Mountains . In 1951 Reinhold Langner brought him to Berlin to support the preparation of the large exhibition on German folk art , which was ceremonially opened the following year. Then he took part in the folklore inventory of Saxony. This entrepreneur was organized by the Institute for Folklore of the Academy of Sciences based in Dresden. The founding father was Adolf Spamer .

After the Museum of Saxon Folk Art in Dresden , which was destroyed on February 13, 1945, was rebuilt, Günter Reitz took over the position of scientific assistant to Reinhold Langner, the then museum director and professor of architectural sculpture at the Dresden University of Technology. In 1966 Günter Reitz was promoted to senior assistant and, due to his many years of service, to curator in 1969. Between 1966 and 1970 he successfully completed a distance learning course at the Humboldt University in Berlin to become a qualified ethnographer. He heard lectures from Paul Nedo and Wolfgang Jacobeit, among others .

Scientifically, he was particularly active in the history of fabric printing and popular glass painting. He was also active in museum education in circles and schools and developed methods for guiding blind people through museums and looking after pupils from special schools or auxiliary schools .

Publications

• State of the folk and local history museums in Saxony on September 1, 1956 . In: German Yearbook for Folklore , 1957. Digitized
• Manfred Bachmann , Günter Reitz: The blueprint . Edited by the State Museum for Folk Art, Dresden. Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig 1962. Review
• To some Islamic reverse glass pictures . In: Treatises and reports of the Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden . Volume 22. Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 1963.
• In memory of the Pulsnitz blue printer Gerhard Stein . In: Sächsische Heimatblätter , 18 (1972), 6, p. 288.

literature

• Manfred Bachmann : Günter Reitz on his 65th birthday on April 24, 1976 . In: Sächsische Heimatblätter 22 (1976), p. 183f.