Heine House (Düsseldorf)

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The Heine Haus is a cultural institution in Düsseldorf's old town , located in Heinrich Heine's birthplace .

The house, which has been a center for literature since 2006 and has been the Heine Haus Literaturhaus Düsseldorf since 2017 , is dedicated to the mediation and promotion of German-language and international contemporary literature. It is run in a public-private partnership between the state capital Düsseldorf, the Förderverein Heine Haus eV and the literature store Müller & Böhm, which is located in the front area of ​​the house. In the rear area there is an event room with a literature café.

Heine house on Bolkerstrasse

Program Heine Haus Literaturhaus Düsseldorf

Readings are held once or twice a week in the Heine Haus Literaturhaus Düsseldorf, with a focus on new German literature. International works are presented in series such as “Neighbors' literature” and in various collaborations. Joint projects with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein represent an intersection between literature and music, series such as “Art meets literature” and collaborations with the Kunststiftung NRW , among others, open up the dialogue between literature and the arts. The house offers space for social and cultural-political issues in the form of discussions. The house has been devoting itself to poetry since 2011, in particular with the annual three-day program item “Poetry - A Festival in the Heine House”, during which the Düsseldorf Poetry Debut Prize is awarded.

Poetry Debut Prize Düsseldorf

Since 2016, the Association for the Promotion of the Heinrich Heine Birth House eV has awarded the PoesieDebütPreis Düsseldorf. The prize is endowed with a monetary amount of € 5,000 (as of 2019), which is funded by the state capital Düsseldorf to promote the poetry.

The first prize winner in 2016 was the lyric poet Julia Trompeter with the volume of poems Zum Begreifen nah . In 2017 the award went to the poet Maren Kames , who was awarded for half deaf half peacock . The award now takes place every two years, and in 2019 it goes to the poet Sebastian Unger . The prize is awarded in the presence of the award winner, if necessary the translator and the relevant representatives of the Heine Haus Literaturhaus Düsseldorf and the state capital Düsseldorf. A reading by the award-winning authors after the award ceremony is mandatory.

The prize is awarded to national or international poets whose debut is available in German or in German translation. The prerequisite is that the debut be exceptional and that it was released no more than 24 months before the award ceremony. 48 months are granted for works that are available in German translation. Self-published publications and online publications are excluded.

It is not possible to apply for the prize; the decision on whether to award it is made by the independent “Poetry Festival Advisory Board” appointed by the Heine Haus Literaturhaus Düsseldorf. The meeting is not open to the public.

History of the building

Heinrich Heine's birthplace

The poet and journalist Heinrich Heine was born in 1797 in the back of the building at Bolkerstrasse 53, which has been known as the Heine Haus since 2006 .

Memorial plaque for Heinrich Heine at the Heine house by Willi Hoselmann , 1947


“The city of Düsseldorf is very beautiful, and when you think of it in the distance and happened to be born there, you feel strange. I was born there and I feel as if I have to go home right away. And when I say go home, I mean Bolkerstrasse and the house where I was born ... "

- In his autobiographical work “Ideas. The book Le Grand “Heine remembers the house where he was born.

Erected in the 17th century as a residential and commercial building, the building has been entered in the city's list of monuments in the residential and housing estate category since October 8, 1990 . Around 1800 Heinrich Heine's father, Samson Heine, had a shop for “Ellenwaren en detail” in house 53 for a few years.

19th and 20th centuries

Around 1809 the building belonged to the Mendel family, whose daughter and her husband Baruch Wolf sold it to Stephan Schoenefeld, purveyor to the court for drawing and painting utensils, in the middle of the 19th century. The Schoenfeld family can be traced back to 1859 in the house in which they ran a specialist shop for artists' materials until 1880. In 1862 Franz Schoenfeld, Stephan Schoenfeld's son, founded a paint and varnish factory here, from which the Lukas Künstlerfarben company later emerged. From 1881 the use changed, the butcher Theodor Hüls opened a butcher's shop, which his widow continued until 1889. It was followed by the butcher Bernhard von der Beck, who had taken over the business, until 1909. In 1910 the next owner, the baker Wilhelm Weidenhaupt, converted the business into a bakery, which was initially operated under the name Weidenhaupt and from 1977 as the Joachim Weidenhaupt bakery.

The rebuilding of the house, which was badly destroyed in the Second World War and initially remained in the possession of the Weidenhaupt family, began in 1947. Subsequently, it housed various restaurants and bars such as the "Heines Beer Academy" operated by the Hannen brewery from 1981. The legendary Mata Hari shopping arcade with entrances from Hunsrückstrasse, Flingerstrasse and Bolkerstrasse became famous. The passage, which also included the area where Heinrich Heine was born, remained in place until 2001.

In 1990 the city of Düsseldorf, together with the North Rhine-Westphalia Foundation for Nature Conservation, Heritage and Cultural Preservation, acquired the building at the request of the Heinrich Heine Society, which housed the restaurant and the Schnabelewopski literary meeting place until 2004, named after Heinrich's title figure Heine's picaresque novel From the memoirs of Herr von Schnabelewopski .

Heine Haus Literaturhaus Düsseldorf

After extensive renovation and extensive renovation, the house was reopened on February 17, 2006 as Heine House. Initially a center for literature, since 2017 it has been called Heine Haus Literaturhaus Düsseldorf.

literature

  • Durs Grünbein: At night in the treasury. In: Holger Heimann (Ed.): The best bookstore in the world. Where Writers Buy Their Books - 50 Praises. Berlin University Press, 2012.
  • Gerhard Höhn: Heine. Manual. Zeit-Person-Werk , 3rd edition, JB Metzler, 2004.
  • Joseph A. Kruse: Heine-Zeit , JB Metzler, 1997.
  • Theo Lücker: Stones speak. Small signpost through Düsseldorf's old town . Verlag T. Ewers, Düsseldorf 1977, pp. 76-78 [No. 37 Heine's birthplace].
  • Cees Nooteboom: Where books growl, rumble, dream. In: Susanne Schaber (Ed.): Cees Nooteboom. Collected Works , Volume 8: Essays and Features. Suhrkamp, ​​2008.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Festival of Poetry in the Heine House. In: rp-online. September 25, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Awarding of the prize to Julia Trompeter on rp-online.de, June 16, 2016, accessed on March 15, 2017.
  3. ↑ Maren Kames awarded for "half deaf half peacock" , boersenblatt.net, March 28, 2017, accessed on April 12, 2017.
  4. ↑ Sebastian Unger receives Düsseldorf Poetry Debut Prize, in: Rheinische Post Krefeld Kempen , March 26, 2019, p. C8.
  5. ↑ Heine, H .: Ideas. The book Le Grand. Reclam Library No. 2623, Stuttgart 1998, p. 18.
  6. ↑ Entry in the monument list of the state capital Düsseldorf at the Institute for Monument Protection and Preservation, as of May 13, 2008
  7. ^ In: Yearbook of the Poor Care Institution and address book of Düsseldorf. Part of address book . 1801, p. [113] 77.
  8. ↑ Heinrich Ferber . In: Historical walk through the old city of Düsseldorf. Published by the Düsseldorf History Association . 1889 Verlag C. Kraus, Part I, p. [131] 121.
  9. ↑ Address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf, July 1, 1863 Stephan Schoenfeld, writing, drawing and painting materials dealership en wholesaling and detail, Bolkerstraße 53
  10. ^ Company archive Lukas Nerchau GmbH. Retrieved April 7, 2019 .
  11. ^ In: Address book of the Lord Mayor's Office in Düsseldorf . 1881, p. [207] 15.
  12. ^ In: Address book of the city of Düsseldorf . 1890, p. [701] 567.
  13. ^ In: Address book of the city of Düsseldorf and the mayor's offices . 1911, p. [671] 49. Digitized by 1940 : 1940, p. [1336] 13. From 1942: Düsseldorf City Archives.
  14. ^ Joseph A. Kruse: Heine time . Weimar 1997, p. 69 .
  15. ↑ Lütgenau, Evertz and the Mata-Hari-Passage. In: Düssel-Flaneur. December 19, 2018, accessed April 7, 2019 .
  16. ^ Ten years of non-museum. In: rp-online. April 7, 2016, accessed April 7, 2019 .
  17. ^ Düsseldorf's new literary house. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung. September 21, 2017, accessed April 7, 2019 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 34.5 ″  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 28.9 ″  E