Goethe Bund
The general German Goethe-Bund was founded in March 1900 against the censorship efforts of the Lex Heinze in order to permanently bring together all intellectual and artistic forces to protect the freedom of art and science.
history
The first central conference took place in Weimar in November 1900 under Carl Alexander (Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach) and wrote a petition to the Reichstag against theater censorship.
In 1902, the Berlin Goethe-Bund founded the German People's Schiller Prize .
Bremen
Inspired by the Goethe-Bund in Berlin, the Goethebund Bremen eV was founded on September 27, 1900. Its founders included the director of the Kunsthalle Bremen Gustav Pauli , the pastor of the Martini church Albert Kalthoff and the philologist Emil Brenning . In 1903 the Goethebund Bremen had 1,427 members and 17 associations, and in 1925 there were 6,390 members and 15 associations. From 1907 to 1944 the director of the old grammar school, Gerhard Hellmers, was chairman of the association that still exists today.
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The Gießen Goethe Bund existed from 1914 to 1944. From 1924 to 1945, the lawyer Otto Hermann Henning (1899–1970) was its chairman .
Königsberg in Prussia
The Königsberg Goethe Bund was founded in 1901. In 1909 the union had 1,200, later 3,500 members. Among them was Rolf Grabow . The chairmen were Ludwig Dettmann (director of the Königsberg Art Academy ), from 1902 mayor Paul Kunckel , Ludwig Goldstein (1910–1929) and Ms. Schröder until the self-dissolution in 1933.
The Königsberg Goethe-Bund arranged many poetry readings , among others with Börries Freiherr von Münchhausen , Hermann Sudermann , Frieda Jung and Arno Holz . He promoted East Prussian poets such as Adda von Königsegg , Rolf Lauckner , Katharina Botsky , Kurt Mickoleit , Alfred Brust , Walter Scheffler , Fritz Kudnig , Charlotte Wüstendörfer and Martin August Borrmann .
On Shrove Tuesday 1911 he honored ETA Hoffmann with a dance ball in costumes from Hoffmann's time. He kept poets in memory with memorial plaques .
- Memorial plaques
- Johann Christoph Gottsched - at the Juditter rectory
- Heinrich von Kleist - at his house at Löbenichtsche Langgasse 12 (Cauer 1914)
- ETA Hoffmann - at his birthplace, Französische Strasse 25 (Cauer 1925)
- Zacharias Werner - at the house where he was born, Altstädtischer Markt 15 (Brachert 1927)
- Ernst Wichert - Relief on the southeastern Königsberg castle pond promenade (Cauer 1931)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jörg-Peter Jatho: The Gießen Goethe Bund . Rotenburg an der Fulda 2004
- ↑ Dr. Otto Henning - from the Gießen Goethe Bund to the Goebbels Ministry (DKP Gießen) ( Memento from October 1, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
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- ↑ a b c Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt : Königsberg from A to Z. A city dictionary. Aufstieg-Verlag, Munich 1972, ISBN 3-7612-0092-7