Georg Wünning

Georg Wünning (born September 4, 1948 in Dornreichenbach , today Lossatal ) is an organ builder in Großolbersdorf in Saxony who has carried out restorations in addition to building new organs .

life and work

Georg Wünning learned organ building from 1965 to 1968 with Gerhard Böhm in Gotha , where he also spent his time as a journeyman and worked there until 1981. He passed the master's examination in 1981 and then specialized in organ building at Jehmlich in Dresden . Here he designed brochures and was responsible for the construction area. Wünning founded his own workshop in Grossolbersdorf in 1983. Wünning emerged from the restoration of historical organs. His new buildings were often built behind the historical prospectuses of the previous organs and with the inclusion of historical registers . In the pedal transmissions are often used. Wünning mainly built and restored organs in his Saxon homeland, but was also commissioned to build new organs in other European countries.

Wünning was recognized by the German UNESCO Commission in October 2016 as cultural talent of the month.

List of works (selection)

The Roman number indicates the number of manuals, a capital "P" indicates an independent pedal, a lower-case "p" indicates an attached pedal and the Arabic number in the penultimate column indicates the number of sounding registers.

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1987	Marienberg, OT Zöblitz	Cemetery chapel				New building
1991	Grossolbersdorf	Cemetery chapel		I / P	7th	New building
1991	Prague - Kobylisy	Church of Jacob's Ladder ( kostel U Jákobova žebříku )		I / P	8th	New building
1991	Wiesenbad thermal baths	Peace Chapel		I.		New construction of a positive
1993	Freital - Pesterwitz	St. James Church		II / P	28	behind the prospectus by Christian Gottlob Steinmüller (1843) and Julius Jahn & Sohn (1907)
1990-1994	Zitzschen	Ev. church		II / P	25th	Restoration of the organ by the Trampeli brothers (1795)
1994	Schwarzenberg , OT Bermsgrün	chapel		I.
1994	Altenberg (Ore Mountains)	Altenberg Church		II / P	17th	New building → organ
1995	Lauter-Bernsbach , OT Oberpfannenstiel	Martin Luther Church		I / P	10	New building behind restored prospect by Christian Gottlob Steinmüller (1843)
1995	Weinböhla	Ev. church		II / P	32	New building behind the prospectus and including registers by Johann Gottlieb Jehmlich (1915) → Organ
1995	Leipzig- Gottscheina	Gottscheina church		I / p	5	General overhaul of the organ by Nicolaus Schrickel (1853)
1994-1996	Jöhstadt	St. Salvator Church		II / P	24	New building behind the prospectus by Christian Friedrich Göthel (1860/1861)
1996-1997	Sehmatal, OT Neudorf	Parish church		II / P	27	New building behind the baroque prospect (1699) → organ
1997	Tannenberg	St. Christophorus Church		II / P	17th	New building
1997	Langenhessen	St. Johannis				Restoration of the organ by Johann Gotthilf Bärmig (1855)
1999	Leipzig- Hohenheida	Ev. church		II / P	14th	Restoration of the organ by Urban Kreutzbach (1855)
1999	Lauter-Bernsbach , OT Bernsbach	Parish church for the glory of God		II / P	18th	New building behind the prospectus of Trampeli (1809)
1997-2001	Grossolbersdorf	Grossolbersdorf Church		II / P	31	New building behind the historic case by Christian Friedrich Göthel (1871), supplemented by a Rückpositiv → organ of the Grossolbersdorf Church
2001	Feldkirchen in Carinthia	Parish church		II / P	11	New building
2001	Rabenstein near Zwiesel	Filial church of St. Johannes Nepomuk				New building
2004	Allmendingen	Ev. church		II / P	14th	New building
2005	Geithain	St. Nikolai		II / P	30th	Extension of the organ by Urban Kreutzbach (1847) and Schmeißner (1902)
2006	Beucha	Beucha mountain church				Reinstallation of the Schmeißer organ, which was outsourced in 1989
2007-2008	Königstein (Saxon Switzerland)	Marienkirche		III / P	38	New building behind the prospectus by Johann Gottlieb Jehmlich (1851) and including registers from 1851 and 1907
2009	Oberwiesenthal	Martin Luther Church		II / P	15th	Restoration of the organ by Johann Gotthilf Bärmig (1855)
2010	Dresden	Matthew Church		II / P	9	New building

literature

• Hermann Fischer : 100 years of the Association of German Organ Builders . Orgelbau-Fachverlag, Lauffen 1991, ISBN 3-921848-18-0 , p. 344 .
• Frank-Harald Greß : The organ landscape of Saxony. In: Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe (ed.): Silbermann. History and legend of an organ building family . 2006, p. 81 f.
• Uwe Pape , Wolfram Hackel (Ed.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Vol. 2: Saxony and the surrounding area . Pape, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-921140-92-5 , pp. 441 .
• Uwe Pape (Ed.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Vol. 1: Thuringia and the surrounding area . Pape, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-921140-86-4 , pp. 342 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fischer: 100 years of the Association of German Master Organ Builders. 1991, p. 344.
2. ^ Pape: Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Vol. 2: Saxony and the surrounding area. 2012, p. 441.
3. ^ Pape: Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Vol. 1: Thuringia and the surrounding area. 2009, p. 342.
4. ^ Greß: The organ landscape of Saxony. 2006, p. 82.
5. ↑ Organ builder Georg Wünning from Saxony is a cultural talent , accessed on April 13, 2019.
6. ^ Organ in Königstein , accessed on April 13, 2019.

Web links

• Website of the organ workshop Wünning

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 27.7 "  N , 13 ° 5 ′ 18.4"  E