Heinz Zirnbauer

Heinz Zirnbauer (born February 20, 1902 in Obernzell , † 1982 in Germering ) was a German librarian .

Life

Zirnbauer completed his school education in Passau . After graduating from high school, he studied musicology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1922 he was reciprocated in the Corps Bavaria Munich . When he was inactive , he moved to the University of Vienna . In 1927 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. In 1929 he became librarian in the manuscript and music department of the Bavarian State Library and in 1935 head of the music collection there. He tried to compensate for his mediocre exam grades with scheming over-zeal and political ( National Socialist ) opportunism. To get rid of him, Rudolf Buttmann made sure that Zirnbauer became director of the Palatinate State Library in Speyer in 1938 . He prevented his return to Munich. In 1941 he came to the Salzburg study library as deputy director . He was drafted into the army of the Wehrmacht in 1942 and became a prisoner of war . He was released in 1948 and from 1949 was a music critic for the Coburger Tageblatt . He had described the book decoration for a publication on medieval manuscripts published in 1965. Together with Heinz Bischoff , a teacher at the Staatliche Akademie der Tonkunst in Munich , Zirnbauer had edited lute pieces from an original handwritten tablature (arranged for guitar by Bischoff) in 1938.

literature

• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2/1954

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinz Zirnbauer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Heinz Zirnbauer in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
• Bibliography on the history of libraries in Bavaria (BSB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 13/1488
2. ↑ Dissertation: Ulrich Schreier, a contribution to the illumination of Salzburg in the late Middle Ages with special consideration of the development of landscape representation .
3. ↑ Transported out of the State Library , in: Susanne Wanninger: "Herr Hitler, I declare my willingness to cooperate." Rudolf Buttmann (1885–1947), politician and librarian between bourgeois tradition and National Socialism (= contributions to books and libraries , volume 59 ). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2014, ISBN 978-3-447-10318-3 , pp. 362–365
4. ↑ Karin Schneider , Heinz Zirnbauer: The German medieval manuscripts. (= The manuscripts of the Nuremberg City Library. Volume 1). Wiesbaden 1965.
5. ↑ Heinz Bischoff, Heinz Zirnbauer: Songs and Dances on the Lute (around 1540) from the tablature manuscript 1512 of the Munich State Library. B. Schott's Sons, Mainz (= Edition Schott. Volume 3694).