Hamburg artist festival

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The Hamburg artist festival was an artist meeting during the 1920s Curio-Haus in Hamburg , which was held annually for several days as a carnival party. With titles like Die Götzenpauke , Noa Tawa or Krawall im All , the event became known nationwide . Richard Luksch was dismissed by the National Socialists because of his work for the artists' festivals as a teacher at the Hamburg School of Applied Arts . a. because he caricatured Hitler.

history

The Hamburg artist festivals were brought into being by Friedrich Adler , who taught at the Hamburg School of Applied Arts (from 1928 Landeskunstschule). Together with Adler, Carl Otto Czeschka , Arthur Illies , Richard Luksch and their students, she also took on the decorative design of the ballrooms. Music, dance, film, poetry and cabaret played a major role in the festivals' success . There has been a theatrical revue since 1922. The critic Harry Reuss-Löwenstein wrote in 1928: “The artists' festivals have become a real cultural factor.” Since 1921, the registered association Künstlerfest Hamburg e. V.

At the festivals, u. a.auf: the young Gustaf Gründgens , Paul Kemp , Victor de Kowa , Mary Wigman , but also poets and composers such as Hans Henny Jahnn , Hans Leip and Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt .

After a break due to the war, the costume parties took place from 1947 in the building of the Landeskunstschule am Lerchenfeld (since 1955 it has been called the University of Fine Arts ).

The motto from 1949 (silver heap) was shortened to "Si-Sa-Su"; From 1950 until its forced end in 1968, the artist festivals finally ran under the title Li-La-Lerchenfeld or Li-La-Le for short . From 1976 to 2017 the festivities took place under the name LiLaBe in Hamburg-Bergedorf , in 2018 at the chicken post .

Subjects during the Weimar Republic

  • Dawn of the Timeless (1919)
  • The Yellow Trumpet of Seven (1920)
  • Die Götzenpauke (1921) dealt with African and oceanic art. The artists not only created the stage sets, but also illustrated the almanacs that appear at every artist festival. Of all artist festivals, the most extensive material has been preserved for that of the idol drum .
  • The Heavenly Spinning Top (1922)
  • The Festival of the Nameless (1923)
  • Cubicuria, the Strange City (1924)
  • The Seventh Crater (1925)
  • Noa Tawa (1926)
  • Curious Circus (1927)
  • Prism at the zenith (1928)
  • Plush and Plush (1929)
  • Glass mask KO (1930)
  • Plot of the Complexes (1931)
  • Riot in Space (1932)
  • Temporary Heaven (1933)

Issues during National Socialism

  • The blue miracle (1934)
  • The trumpet drum (1935)
  • Fallreep to Tiefsee (1936)
  • Tandaradreihdi (1937)
  • Diary mill Doremi (1938)
  • Oops, the swashplate (1939)

Issues in the post-war period

  • Nova Ark (1947)
  • Course for Utopia (1948)
  • Silver heap (1949)
  • The Chastity Garden (1950)
  • Curiolymp (1951)
  • Montsartre (1952)
  • Planten and Plünnen (1953)
  • Furiose Ferry (1954)
  • Turbula pink (1955)
  • Bim bam bimini (1956)
  • Baroque 'n' roll (1957)
  • The Future Carriage (1958)
  • Salut towards Fimmel (35th artist festival 1959)
  • The Tattooed Pants (1960)
  • On Full Sculpture Tours (1961)
  • Salto Rialto (1962)
  • The blue carrot (1963)
  • The round square (1964)
  • Strip it easy (1965)
  • musa mobile (1966)
  • Minirum Bumbum (1967)
  • Hippiedrom (1968)

literature

  • In the “Unterirdischen” and “Prisma” , Altonaer Nachrichten , February 6, 1926, p. 6 ( digitized version )
  • "Hans Leip und die Hamburger Künstlerfeste", catalog of the exhibition in the State and University Library Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky, ISBN 3-88309-042-5 , 199 pages, Herzberg 1993
  • Roland Jaeger, Cornelius Steckner: "Zinnober - Art Scene Hamburg 1919-1933", Hamburg 1983, ISBN 3-924225-00-1
  • "Unleashed" - Expressionism in Hamburg around 1920. Catalog, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe (ed.), Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-923859-64-3
  • Michael Cornelius Zepter: "Masquerade - artist carnival and artist festivals in modern times". Böhlau: Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-412-20877-6 (Chapter II / 1: "The great Baal" and III / 1: "We got away with it again")

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kristina Festring-Hashem Zadeh: 100 years of art and excesses at Lerchenfeld , ndr.de, accessed on April 14, 2014
  2. ↑ The story of LiLaBe , lilabe.de, accessed on April 14, 2014