Goethe Society Hanover
| Goethe Society Hannover eV | |
|---|---|
| purpose | Work by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Chair: | 1. Peter Meuer, 2. Elke Kantian |
| Establishment date: | September 26, 1925 |
| Number of members: | approx. 200 (status: 04/2012) |
| Number of employees: | Gabriele Meuer (Managing Director), Petra Lindenschmidt (Treasurer) |
| Seat : | St. Ursula School Hanover |
| Website: | Goethe Society Hanover |
The Goethe Society Hannover eV is a German branch of the Goethe Society in Weimar. The aim is to keep the work of the poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe alive for the present. The non-profit association , registered in Hanover , is based in the St. Ursula School Hanover in the Südstadt district , Simrockstraße 20 .
Current
The Goethe-Gesellschaft Hannover organizes general educational and generally understandable lectures for "inquisitive people of all ages regardless of school and professional backgrounds". The lectures are given by experts and usually take place in the Theater Museum in Hanover. In addition, trips are also organized.
At times the society cooperates with city libraries and their circles of friends, the city archive of Hanover , schools, the Fontanekreis, the Wilhelm Busch Society , the Kanapee concert room and the Logenhaus .
history
The Goethe Society Hanover was largely founded by Walther Lampe in the Weimar Republic on September 26, 1925. Lampe was second chairman until 1947, then chairman until 1964 and honorary chairman from 1969.
In the 1950s, the Goethe Society Hanover was the largest local association of the Goethe Society with up to 1,200 members. The long-standing and close relationship with the bookstore Sachse & Heinzelmann, whose co-owner Margarete Jockusch was a managing director of the company from 1949 to 1989, and honorary chairwoman from 1989 onwards, was beneficial.
In 1995 the Goethe-Gesellschaft Hannover had around 400, currently around 200 members.
Cultural highlights of the association were
- 1928 and 2003 commemorations for Charlotte Kestner
- 1932, 1949 and 1982 the Goethe commemorations , as well
- the organization of the "on-site conference" in 1993 of the 37 local associations of the Goethe Society at the time.
Fonts
- Annual gift. For the members of the Goethe Society Hanover , proven for the years 1957 to 1960
- Forty Years of the Goethe Society, Hanover: 1925 - 1965. Review and outlook , compiled by Margarete Jokusch, Hanover: Goethe Society, 1965
- Sixty years of the Goethe-Gesellschaft Hannover: 1925 - 1985. Review 1965 - 1985 , Hannover: Goethe-Gesellschaft, 1985
- Seventy years of the Goethe Society Hannover. 1925 - 1995 , ed. from the Hanover local association of the Goethe Society in Weimar, 1995
literature
- Klaus Mlynek : Goethe Society. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 224.