Captain's archive in Radebeul
The captain archive Radebeul was from 1949 to 1980 a documentation center on the life and work of Gerhart Hauptmann and Carl Hauptmann . It was opened in the Radebeuler Hohenhaus , the place where the three Hauptmann brothers (also Georg Hauptmann) met their future wives, the Thienemann sisters. In 1980 it was closed and in 1982 it was moved to the Gerhart Hauptmann Museum in Erkner in the Villa Lassen .
history
The writer, literary scholar and captain collector Hansgerhard Weiss (1902–1982) moved to Radebeul in 1947, in the Hohenhaus district of Zitzschewig . The Hauptmann memorial there was opened there on November 14, 1948, within which Weiss ran a Hauptmann workshop . Weiss' large collection of Gerhart Hauptmann and Carl Hauptmann works, life documents, letters and autographs as well as additional secondary literature on these two formed the basis for the Radebeul Hauptmann Archive , which was opened in Hohenhaus on June 6, 1949 and which Hansgerhard Weiss also initially directed. There was also the private collection of Alexander Münch (1900–1984). The archive was operated under the patronage of the Radebeul local group of the Kulturbund . In 1950 Weiss moved to West Germany.
When Weiss left in 1950, Alexander Münch took over the management of the research archive. The archive gained international fame through further collecting activities by Münch, through exhibitions, lectures and publications. Together with Rolf Rohmer , Münch published the work Gerhart Hauptmann: His Life in Pictures in 1958 , a second edition followed in 1962. Another four, partly revised, Rohmer editions followed by 1987.
The Hauptmann archive , which was first moved to the Hoflößnitz cavalier house and then to Villa Steinbach in Bennostraße in 1961 , at the time it was closed in Radebeul in 1980 and then moved to Erkner, it comprised around 20,000 individual objects of literature, documents and photos. Today parts of it are shown in the museum in Erkner, where the entire archive is available for research purposes.
Works
- Rolf Rohmer; Alexander Münch: Gerhart Hauptmann: His life in pictures. Publishing house encyclopedia, Leipzig 1958.
literature
- Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 .