Gustav-Adolf Bähr

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Gustav-Adolf Bähr (born July 9, 1938 in Mutterstadt ; † April 27, 2020 in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse ) was a long-time synod president of the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate and made a name for himself in the Rhineland-Palatinate city of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse through numerous Honorary positions . He worked as a preacher and as a cultural manager. In particular, he made sure that the manor in the Neustadt district of Mußbach was successfully restored.

Family and education

  • Abitur at the former grammar school

Bähr, who had nine siblings, grew up in Mutterstadt and Mußbach an der Weinstrasse , where his father Johannes (1902–1980) worked as a Protestant pastor . During the National Socialist era, his father was persecuted by those in power as an opponent of the regime and was temporarily imprisoned in 1938 when he publicly opposed the November pogroms in Mutterstadt . From Mußbach, the son attended the Altsprachliches Gymnasium in nearby Neustadt, later Kurfürst-Ruprecht-Gymnasium , where he graduated from high school in 1958.

In Mannheim Baehr took on a vocal and acting studies and put it in Vienna as operas study continued; he also studied German and theater studies . The School for Film and Television in Vienna concluded with the Bahr diploma in directing and dramaturgy from. He then became assistant to the director Géza von Cziffra .

Employment

For the Southwest Radio (SWF) in Baden-Baden , in 1998 with the South German Radio merged (SDR), and the successor station Südwestrundfunk (SWR) worked Baehr about 40 years. He was responsible for the areas of art and science, most recently as head of department. One of the formats developed by him is the series “ Treasures of the World - Heritage of Humanity ” about UNESCO World Heritage sites. His filmmaking includes around a thousand titles.

In 1991 Bähr was responsible for broadcasting the crime scene thriller “ Death in the Chopper ”, in which remote villages in the north-western Palatinate are portrayed as backward. This led to protests from the region and was the subject of a debate in the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament over alleged discrimination of the area as a “caricature of a 'Palatinate Siberia'”.

At the turn of the millennium, Bähr retired.

voluntary work

Protestant church

From 1966 until his death in 2020, with the exception of six years from 1996 to 2002, Bähr was presbyter of the Protestant Johanneskirche Mußbach. For 30 years, from 1966 to 1996, he was also chairman of the Neustadt district synod, from 1972 to 1996 a member of the regional synod and for a period of 18 years, from 1979 to 1996, its president . As early as 1972 he had received the assignment as an auditor .

In 1998 he ran as a layperson - this is only possible throughout Germany in the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate - for the office of church president . In the vote in the synod, however, he was defeated by the clerical competitor Eberhard Cherdron , who then held the function until the end of 2008.

Culture

On March 3, 1983, Bähr and like-minded people founded the Herrenhof Promotion Community in Mußbach as a non-profit association and was its first chairman from the start. Under his leadership, the former Johannitergut Herrenhof was saved from deterioration and expanded into a cultural center. In agreement with the authorities responsible for the preservation of monuments , the restoration and renovation of the five listed buildings of the ensemble were successful until 1991 . The most important undertaking was the careful transformation of the voluminous former wine press house into the functional center of the facility; the ground floor is now presented as an art hall, while the attic, which is supplied with daylight through numerous dormers, has become a concert and event space. Via the SWF and SWR, Bähr made the Herrenhof known nationwide with the series “International Art in the Herrenhof”. According to the leasing contract from 2014, which bears the signatures of Bähr, the Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate Malu Dreyer and the Mayor of Neustadt, Hans Georg Löffler , the funding association is entrusted with the administration and use of the cultural center until at least 2034.

For a long time now, Bähr and the Herrenhof Support Association have been trying to restore the old Johanneskirche in Mußbach, which used to belong to the Herrenhof . Built in the 14th century in high Gothic style , it was divided by a partition in 1707 in accordance with the decree of the Palatinate Religious Declaration of 1705 and served Catholics and Protestants as a simultaneous church until 1959 . After it became the property of the Protestant Johanneskirche congregation in 2007, the first phase of renovation was completed in 2013.

"Progress into the past - 40 years of Rhineland-Palatinate" was the title of Bähr's speech on the occasion of the 32nd anniversary of the Order of the Palatinate Wine Brotherhood on November 2, 1986 in Neustadt. On September 15, 2001, Bähr also gave the celebratory speech at the anniversary celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Studiengenossenschaft , the association of former students at the Kurfürst-Ruprecht-Gymnasium Neustadt founded in 1926 .

Honors

Works

  • Gustav-Adolf Bähr: Progress into the Past - 40 Years of Rhineland-Palatinate . Speech on the occasion of the 32nd day of the order of the Wine Brotherhood of the Palatinate . Palatinate Wine Brotherhood, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse November 2, 1986.
  • Dorothee Sölle : I'm looking for the land of freedom. Monologue of Mary . Südwestfunk , Baden-Baden 1995 (actress: Marlies Engel , director: Gustav-Adolf Bähr; VHS cassette, PPN 106933639, OCLC 314263315).
  • Gustav-Adolf Bähr: The wine brothers of God. Noah's Sons and Their Contribution to the Heritage of Humanity . In: Convent letter of the Wine Brotherhood of the Palatinate . Wine Brotherhood of the Palatinate, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 2005, p. 43-49 .

literature

  • Gabriele Stüber (Interview): Gustav-Adolf Bähr (born 1938) - Synodal President 1979 to 1996 . In: Friedhelm Hans and Gabriele Stüber (eds.): Palatinate church and synod presidents since 1920 (=  publications by the Association for Palatinate Church History ). tape 27 . Speyer 2008, ISBN 978-3-7650-8398-3 , pp. 326-349 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary: The fate of the regional church decisively influenced , evkirchepfalz.de, report from April 27, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c d e He is one of the last great old men of the regional church. In: Evangelical Church Messenger. July 18, 2013, accessed October 19, 2015 .
  3. ↑ a b c 2014 cultural award ceremony to Mr. Gustav-Adolf Bähr. (No longer available online.) Herrenhof Mußbach, October 19, 2014, archived from the original on August 3, 2016 ; Retrieved October 19, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.herrenhof-mussbach.de
  4. ^ Gustav-Adolf Bähr and Peter Wendt: Cuzco - city of the Inca, city of the Spaniards. swr.de, accessed on October 26, 2015 (as an example).
  5. ^ Rathskirchen - A portrait of Bernd Schwab. SWR Landesschau Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed on January 4, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Stefan Scherer, Claudia Stockinger: Tatorte - A typology of the realism of space in the ARD series Tatort and its implementation using Munich as an example. In: IASLonline, February 19, 2010, Paragraph No. 70. Retrieved January 3, 2013 . ISSN 1612-0442 .  
  7. ^ Presbytery. Protestant Johanneskirchengemeinde Mußbach, accessed on October 13, 2015 .
  8. ↑ hpö (author's abbreviation): Kultur-Magazin: Kulturpreis goes to Gustav Adolf Bähr . In: Die Rheinpfalz , Neustadt local . Ludwigshafen July 19, 2014 ( online for subscribers ).
  9. ↑ New leasing contract secures the future of the manor in Mußbach. speyer-kurier.de, May 25, 2014, accessed on October 26, 2015 .
  10. ^ Gustav-Adolf Bähr: Progress in the past - 40 years of Rhineland-Palatinate . Speech on the occasion of the 32nd day of the order of the Wine Brotherhood of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse November 2, 1986.
  11. ^ Study cooperative of the humanistic Kurfürst-Ruprecht-Gymnasium (ed.): Report on the 72nd general meeting . Neustadt an der Weinstrasse March 1, 2002.
  12. ^ Cross of Merit for Gustav-Adolf Bähr . In: The Rheinpfalz , Mittelhaardter Rundschau . Ludwigshafen July 9, 1992.
  13. ↑ Office of the Federal President
  14. ↑ State Secretary Härtel awarded the Max Slevogt Medal to Gustav-Adolf Bähr. Ministry of Education, Science, Continuing Education and Culture, May 2, 2004, accessed October 19, 2015 .
  15. ↑ Culture → Culture Prize → Awards and Honors. City of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, 2014, accessed on October 19, 2015 .
  16. ^ Kurfürst-Ruprecht-Gymnasium / Studiengenossenschaft (ed.): Ruprechtiana . Chronicle of the Kurfürst-Ruprecht-Gymnasium and annual report of the student cooperative 2014/15. Neustadt 2015, p. 185 .
personal data
SURNAME Bähr, Gustav-Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater scholar and filmmaker, church official
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Mother city
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 2020
Place of death Neustadt an der Weinstrasse