Georg Brenninger (Author)

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Georg Brenninger (born August 17, 1946 in Wartenberg ) is a German Catholic theologian , church musician , choir director , art and church historian and author of non-fiction books on the organ . His works, organs in old Bavaria and organs in Swabia, are among the classics of specialist organ literature.

life and work

Georg Brenninger was born in Wartenberg in the Upper Bavarian district of Erding . He received organ lessons from Max Eham and then worked for years as an organist at the Freising Cathedral . After studying Catholic theology at the University of Munich , he worked from 1977 to 1981 as an assistant at the Department of Liturgical Studies at the University of Munich . His tasks included the inventory of church art in the entire Archdiocese of Munich-Freising . In 1989 he received his doctorate with a dissertation in liturgical science.

Since 1976 Brenninger has published hundreds of church and music history articles in specialist journals such as Acta Organologica and Musica sacra . He also wrote numerous church and monastery guides , most of which were published by the Regensburg publishing house Schnell & Steiner . On his 50th birthday in 1996, a 32-page bibliography was self-published with the title: Brenninger, Georg: For Church and Home .

Brenninger was best known for his two large-format works, Organs in Old Bavaria and Organs in Swabia , each comprising around 200 pages, which contain detailed and systematically recorded information on organ builders, workshops and instruments in the Bavarian administrative districts of Upper and Lower Bavaria and Swabia . They have become much-cited reference works in professional circles and can be found in libraries around the world.

Georg Brenninger lives in Schröding, a suburb of the Kirchberg municipality (Upper Bavaria) in the Erding district .

Honors

  • 2009: Culture award of the district of Erding

Publications (selection)

  • Organs and organ builders in the former district of Aichach. In: Yearbook of the Association for the History of the Augsburg Diocese , Vol. 10, 1976, pp. 221–244.
  • Organs in old Bavaria . Bruckmann, Munich 1978, ISBN 978-3-7654-1704-7 .
  • Organs in Swabia . Bruckmann, Munich 1986, ISBN 978-3-7654-2001-6 .
  • St. Georg Eggstädt. Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 1996, ISBN 978-3-7954-4018-3 .
  • Brenninger, Georg. For church and home. Bibliography for the 50th birthday. Self-published, Schröding 1996.
  • The churches in the parish of Isen . Catholic Church Administration Isen, Isen 1997.
  • Pilgrimage Church of St. Leonhard am Wonneberg. Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2000, ISBN 978-3-7954-5430-2 .
  • Werner Schiedermair (ed.), Georg Brenninger: The Dominican convent in Bad Wörishofen. Anton H. Konrad, Weißenhorn 1998, ISBN 978-3-87437-408-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ars Organi . Volume 64, 2016, ISSN  0004-2919 , p. 195
  2. ↑ a b blurb of his book Orgeln in Schwaben
  3. ↑ Author: Georg Brenninger - Musica Sacra - The magazine for Catholic church music. In: musica-sacra-online.de. July 22, 2017. Retrieved July 22, 2017 .
  4. ↑ CHBeck: Bavarian Bibliography 1996 ,. CHBeck, ISBN 978-3-406-10617-0 , p. 625 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  5. ↑ Culture Prize Winner 2009. Landkreis Erding, accessed on December 15, 2019 .
  6. ^ Hans Moritz: Culture Prize of the district for Monika Gruber and Georg Brenninger - Erding. merkur.de, November 20, 2009, accessed December 15, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Brenninger, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian, church historian and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH August 17, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Wartenberg