Hannelore Gilsenbach

Hannelore Gilsenbach at an event in the Gilsenbach House, Brodowin (2008)

Hannelore Gilsenbach (born February 2, 1950 in Ueckermünde ) is a doctor of biology, writer, journalist, songwriter, musician and publicist. Together with her husband Reimar Gilsenbach, she was one of the most famous environmental activists in the GDR.

Life

Hannelore Dorothea Gilsenbach (née Ulrich) grew up in Ueckermünde am Oderhaff ( Stettiner Haff ) and learned to experience and love nature from her mother. At the age of 14, she moved to a boarding school in Anklam , in order to attend the Extended Secondary School drop the High School "Scholls" 1968th At the same time, she completed vocational training as an agricultural engineer . As part of this vocational training, she acquired driving licenses for trucks, tractors and agricultural machines.

From 1968 to 1972 she studied biology at the University of Rostock (Department of Marine and Fisheries Biology).

Her first marriage to J. Kurth in 1971 had a son, and they divorced in 1988.

After completing her studies, Hannelore Kurth took up a position in Eberswalde as a scientist at the Institute for Plant Protection Research in Kleinmachnow .

Also in 1972 she founded the rhythm and blues group R&B Collegium together with three colleagues in Eberswalde , where she gave her voice to blues and soul until 1985.

In 1979 she did her doctorate at the Academy of Agricultural Sciences in the GDR in the field of plant production.

Hannelore Kurth was a member of the Kulturbund as a singer . From 1979 to 1985 she worked as a member of the Kulturbund mandate in the district council of Eberswalde. There she was actively involved in environmental and nature conservation, for example in the development of a nature conservation concept for the Eberswalde district and a landscape conservation plan for the Choriner Endmoränenbogen landscape conservation area . During the actions against the Parstein rally, she met the environmental activist Reimar Gilsenbach , who had lived in Brodowin since 1975 , was also a member of the Kulturbund and was active there on the central board of the Society for Nature and Environment .

From 1984 onwards, the common interests of Hannelore Kurth and Reimar Gilsenbach led to a closer relationship: She composed songs to his texts and performed them on the guitar. This resulted in two musical and literary programs on the subject of nature and environmental protection: “Assurance for Vulnerable People” (1986) and “Solace Song for Mice” (1988). Photographs showing the destruction of the environment on the territory of the GDR were shown along with the texts and songs. With these programs they performed almost a hundred times across the country by the time of the fall of the Wall . They found their audience in the GDR opposition scene, in critical cultural associations and church circles.

In 1988 Hannelore Kurth quit her position at the Eberswalder Institute and from then on worked as a freelance writer. She has published books, articles in specialist journals and anthologies, and has contributed to newspapers and magazines, television and radio productions.

During the time of transition and peaceful revolution in the GDR , Hannelore Kurth sat together with Reimar Gilsenbach in an advisory capacity for the Green Party at the central round table.

In 1991 Hannelore and Reimar Gilsenbach married. After inspecting their Stasi files, they both had to find out that close relatives and acquaintances had spied on them as unofficial employees . Because of their activities, they were both supposed to be arrested under code number 4.1.3 and interned in isolation camps as part of the Stasi secret project “ Prevention Complex” (order 1/67 by Erich Mielke ) in the event of particular internal political tensions or a case of defense.

In addition to protecting nature and the environment, Hannelore Gilsenbach also advocated the interests of indigenous peoples. In 1994 she was co-founder of the Association Federation for indigenous peoples (later Federation of Indigenous Peoples ), for which she to 2010 the editors of the magazine from 1996 Boomerang headed.

Together with her husband, she founded the music group Cantus Terrae in 1998 , which existed until 2005. In the group's repertoire, voices and sounds of nature were found in songs and instrumental pieces. At public concerts, Hannelore Gilsenbach read poems and short prose. The texts were by Reimar, the compositions and arrangements by Hannelore Gilsenbach.

After the death of her husband in 2001, Hannelore Gilsenbach continued the actions, concerts and programs they had started together; Among other things, she initiated the New Brodowin Talks in 2004 as a continuation of the Brodowin Talks , which Reimar Gilsenbach initiated in 1981 in his house on the Kleiner Plagesee.

From 2008 she participates as a conversation partner and musician at the Brandenburg Festival of Environmental and Nature Films (“ Ökofilmtour ”).

Since 2011 Hannelore Gilsenbach has been singing and playing in the trio IntiSonLatino, which she co-founded . The group takes their audience on lively but also thoughtful journeys through South America and the Caribbean.

In 2018, her outstanding achievements for Brandenburg were honored with the award of the state medal.

Works

As an author

• Schorfheide and Choriner Land (=  Neumann's landscape guide ). Neumann, Radebeul 1993, ISBN 3-7402-0128-2 (128 pages).
• Trees (=  what is what . No. 31 ). Tessloff, Nürnberg 1993, ISBN 978-3-7886-0271-0 (48 pages, with illustrations by Christiane and Siegfried Gottschlich).
• Butterflies (=  what is what . No. 43 ). Tessloff, Nürnberg 1994, ISBN 978-3-7886-0283-3 (48 pages, with illustrations by Wolf – Ulrich Friedrich and photos by Thomas Ruckstuhl).
• State Agency for Large Protected Areas / Schorfheide – Chorin Biosphere Reserve (publisher): Leisure map of the Schorfheide – Chorin Biosphere Reserve . Eberswalde 1995 (48 pages).
• Extinct animals (=  what is what . No. 56 ). Tessloff, Nürnberg 1997, ISBN 3-7886-0296-1 (48 pages, with illustrations by Marta Hofmann).
• Wedding on the Transamazônica . Horlemann , Bad Honnef 2000, ISBN 978-3-89502-119-0 (184 pages).
• with Reimar Gilsenbach: journeys of great explorers from Hatshepsut (around 1480 BC) to Pizarro (1532–1533) . Middelhauve Verlags GmbH, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-358-02237-4 (64 pages).
• Bund für Naturvölker (Ed.): Ten years "" Bund für Naturvölker "" . Aid from Brandenburg for the masters of sustainability (=  Brandenburgische Entwicklungspolitische Hefte . No. 45 ). Dr. Grabow, 2003, ISSN  0946-042X (32 pages).
• How the Warrau came to earth . Fairy tales of the indigenous people of South America. Horlemann, Bad Honnef 2007, ISBN 978-3-89502-248-7 (64 pages, with illustrations by Marta Hofmann).
• The sun child . Fairy tale of the natives of Oceania. Horlemann, Bad Honnef 2011, ISBN 978-3-89502-249-4 (64 pages, with illustrations by Marta Hofmann).

On radio and television

• Articles for the RBB environmental magazine " OZON ":
  • Primitive People Need Friends (September 7, 1993)
  • West Papua: Rebellion and Sellout (May 15, 1996)
  • The mourning of the Amazon. 500 years of Brazil (May 17, 2000)
  • Displaced Stone Age: San in Botswana (March 5, 2003)
• Trumpets over the Schorfheide - from hunting to nature conservation , book for the television film by Hilmar Wichmann, WDR , Cologne, 1993.
• Butterflies falling black from the sky. A wedding in the rainforest , radio feature with Andreas Bengsch , WDR, Cologne, 1999.

As a publisher / editor

• Reimar Gilsenbach: If you march in lockstep, you're going in the wrong direction . A biographical self-portrait. Ed .: Hannelore Gilsenbach, Harro Hess . Westkreuz, Berlin / Bonn 2004, ISBN 978-3-929592-69-6 (360 pages).
• Editor-in-chief of Bumerang magazine from 1996 to 2010.

As a musician

• Solace song for mice - green songs, sung in anger and love . Self-published MC and accompanying book, 1994.
• Herbstzeitlose - songs from Brodowin and the world . MC self-published, 1998.
• Cantus Terrae: Red Milan . MC self-published, 2000.
• Cantus Terrae: Crane flight - alternating songs with creatures of nature . Self-published CD, 2003.

Programs

• Rechenmeister, Rechenmeister - eco-children's program with songs to the guitar.
• Wedding at the Transamazônica - reading with songs, color slides, Indian chants.
• Crane flight - songs and texts from a protected landscape.
• Reimar Gilsenbach: If you march in lockstep, you're going in the wrong direction ... A biographical self-portrait - reading with songs.
• How the Warrau came to earth - fairy tales of the indigenous people of South America - reading / lecture for children with songs and color slides.
• The sun child and other fairy tales from the world of the indigenous people - reading / lecture for children with songs and color slides.

literature

• Roland Buchwald: Dr. Hannelore Kurth-Gilsenbach: I was the green court jester. In: Sketches and portraits from Eberswalde and the surrounding area . Publicon-Verlags-GmbH, Freiburg i. Brsg. 1993, ISBN 3-929092-27-1 , pp. 132 .
• November film Berlin / C. Hoffmann: Always to the limit of what is possible. Reimar Gilsenbach, writer and conservationist . In the Sender Free Berlin (SFB) 1998.
• Reimar Gilsenbach: If you march in lockstep, you're going in the wrong direction . A biographical self-portrait. Ed .: Hannelore Gilsenbach, Harro Hess . Westkreuz, Berlin / Bonn 2004, ISBN 978-3-929592-69-6 (360 pages).
• Sabine Rakitin: There is still a lot to do for troublemakers . In: Märkische Oderzeitung . January 3, 2004.
• Nico Reinhold: Not let go of nature . In: Nordkurier . December 17, 2004.
• Gabriele Goettle: Life on Plagesee . Visiting Hannelore Gilsenbach. In: The daily newspaper . July 30, 2007, ISSN  1434-4459 , p. 16-17 ( taz.de [accessed April 30, 2020]).
• Til Biermann: From GDR resistance nest to ecovillage . In: BZ August 30, 2016, ISSN  0949-5045 ( bz-berlin.de [accessed June 19, 2020]).

Web links

• Literature by and about Hannelore Gilsenbach in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of Hannelore and Reimar Gilsenbach

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Susanne Messmer, Claudius Prösser: The spirit of Brodowin . In: The daily newspaper . June 4, 2016, ISSN  1434-4459 ( taz.de [accessed May 3, 2020]).
2. ^ Hannelore Kurth: Parstein Rally . or: How a Council President was turned. In: Annegret Herzberg (ed.): Staatsmorast - 21 authors on the environment . a & i, Weißenhorn, Lübeck 1991, ISBN 3-928496-07-7 , pp. 115-131 .
3. ^ Hannelore Kurth: Cruises for the environment . Through the eco-scene from Rostock to Suhl. In: Susanne Raubold (Ed.): Go East! GDR - The Middle East . Elefanten Press Verlag , Berlin 1990, ISBN 978-3-88520-349-0 , p. 110-117 .
4. ↑ See planned isolation camps of the Stasi . In ORB / Focus April 11, 1995.
5. ↑ 30 for a better Brandenburg. The President and the MPs awarded medals of the state parliament to citizens. April 20, 2018, accessed April 30, 2020 . 

Remarks

1. ↑ today's Lilienthal-Gymnasium
2. ↑ Topic of the diploma thesis: "Qualitative and quantitative investigations of the phytoplankton off Northwest Africa (anchor station at Cape Blanco and remote stations at 30 degrees west)"
3. ↑ originally Rhythm & Blues Collegium
4. ↑ Topic of the dissertation: "Biological-ecological principles for modeling the population dynamics of the Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa ​​decemlineata (Say)."
5. ↑ d. H. it had been delegated to the district council by the Kulturbund
6. ↑ This landscape protection area was formed around the Plagefenn in 1957 , today it belongs - like the Plagefenn - to the Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve .
7. ↑ The Parstein rally was a car race with around 100 participants, which was organized by the VEB Pneumant tire combine Fürstenwalde every spring. The routing of the paved roads through nature reserves and the timing of the rally were harmful to the environment, because the noise and smell of the vehicles significantly disrupted the large bird species that broke in spring. The actions against these car races were only successful for a short time, probably also because the son of the chief of state security, Erich Mielke, was a member of the rally board. See: Ökodorf Brodowin e. V. (Hrsg.): Hiking around Brodowin . 2019, p. 127–128 ( jimcontent.com [PDF; accessed on May 3, 2020] Station Kleiner Plagesee).
8. ↑ Normally such performances by songwriters would have had to be approved by the Socialist Cultural Policy Department , but since Reimar Gilsenbach appeared as a writer and Hannelore Kurth as a scientist, there was no requirement for approval.
9. ↑ see Round Table # Central Round Table in the GDR 1989/1990
10. ↑ Song of the Earth
11. ↑ the name is made up of the words Inti (sun god of the Inca), Son (musical style from Cuba) and Latino (Latin American origin).
12. ↑ The group consists of Braulio Fidel (Cuba), Hector Garibaldy (Ecuador) and Hannelore Gilsenbach; Guest musicians came from Argentina, Ecuador, Cuba and Venezuela; the concerts have so far mainly taken place in the Brandenburg region.