Helmut Rippl

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Helmut Rippl (born December 1, 1925 in Wittenberg ) is a German garden and landscape architect , park monument curator, Pückler researcher, gardener and publicist . He is an honorary professor of the state of Brandenburg . He researched the park creator Hermann Ludwig Heinrich von Pückler-Muskau and his East German works of garden art throughout his life and published numerous scientific works on them. Rippl is regarded as one of the most knowledgeable German biographers of the garden artist von Pückler and as the nestor of East German garden art. Helmut Rippl is chairman of the board of trustees of Queen-Auguste-Victoria-Park eV - European work for culture, art and nature.

Life

Helmut Rippl grew up as the son of the mechanical engineer Richard Rippl and the housewife Emma Rippl in Pratau and in Wittenberg. He is married to the graphic artist Christa Rippl geb. Brunner and has three children from this marriage. From 1932 to 1936 he attended the Pratau elementary school and from 1936 to 1943 the Melanchthon grammar school in Wittenberg. From 1943 to 1945 he was in the military. On March 5, 1945, he suffered a serious war wound from a bullet through the skull and was therefore released from military service in November 1945. From 1946 to 1947 he attended high school in Wittenberg, which he graduated from high school. From 1947 to 1949 he completed an apprenticeship as a gardener. From 1949 to 1952 Rippl was studying garden design and regional culture at the Humboldt University in Berlin . He completed this course as a certified gardener. At that time, the Humboldt University did not train as a qualified engineer in this subject, but as a qualified gardener. It was only later that the degree in engineering was introduced at the TH Dresden . Professionally, Rippl was entrusted with urban planning for Eisenhüttenstadt and Potsdam in green planning at VEB Industriebahnbau Berlin from 1952 to 1955 . From 1955 to 1984 he was an urban planner in the urban planning office of the Cottbus district and worked on the general city ​​maps of Cottbus , Guben and Bad Muskau , among other things . From 1984 to 1991 he was a park monument curator in the Cottbus district, in the branch of the Berlin Institute for Monument Preservation . At the end of 1991, Rippl retired from civil service and was licensed as a freelance garden and landscape architect .

Work and meaning

Helmut Rippl speaks at Branitz Castle , the former residence of Hermann von Pückler-Muskau .

Helmut Rippl is considered the nestor of German gardening and a leading Pückler researcher. He published numerous books and essays about the park creator Hermann Fürst von Pückler-Muskau and the East German garden art . From 1965 to 1984 Rippl looked after many historical parks in Niederlausitz, especially the Fürst-Pückler-Park in Bad Muskau , the Fürst-Pückler-Park in Branitz and the parks in Altdöbern , Fürstlich Drehna , Sonnenwalde , Lindenau , Kleinkmehlen , Kroppen and Lipsa / Hermsdorf. From 1970 to 1991 he was chairman of the district park active of the Kulturbund of the GDR in the Cottbus district, from 1974 to 1982 chairman of the central park active in the specialist committee for dendrology and garden architecture of the Kulturbund of the German Democratic Republic . From 1991 he was involved in the renaturation of numerous works of garden and landscape architecture and, now as a garden and landscape architect, actively intervened in their planning and construction management.

After the landscape was destroyed by mining in the former GDR, Helmut Rippl got involved in the creation of mining succession landscapes and suggested a creative international building exhibition (IBA). Politics followed his impulses; Rippl became the founding father and member of the founding board of trustees of the IBA Fürst-Pückler-Land . From 2000 to 2010, this major spatial and urban planning project transformed Lusatia and restored it to a natural landscape. In the IBA opening area Großräschen , Rippl's design for an "avenue of stones" was implemented. For many years, Rippl researched the views, principles and motives of Hermann Fürst von Pückler and in his speeches, essays and books admonished posterity to deal appropriately with his gardening works. In particular, the Pückler Park in Bad Muskau and Pückler's old work, his Branitzer Park, brought Rippl into the focus of public interest. That is why he suggested the award of the park in Bad Muskau to the European Cultural Foundation as early as 2002 and sat down at the award ceremony on May 10, 2002 in the Federal President's Office in Berlin with the Secretary of State for Culture in the Federal Chancellery, Dr. Julian Nida-Rümelin, for the park to be proposed to UNESCO for inclusion in the world cultural heritage. Rippl prevailed and the state of Brandenburg thanked him for his many years of service to the preservation of the East German works of garden art with the award of the rare honorary title of professor. On May 26, 2017, at the age of 91, he received the Lenné Medal at a festive event of the Berlin Lenné Academy for Horticulture and Garden Culture.

criticism

Although Helmut Rippl was also a monument conservator himself, he had been in conflict with monument conservation throughout his professional life. This insisted that dying or dead trees for documentation of the original work of art must be placed in exactly the same place by the same trees. Rippl was never a mere bureaucrat, but a trained gardener and countered his colleagues that garden art is not made of eternal stone, but of growing and dying trees. In the case of a living work of art, substitute trees would have to be planted early in order to avoid total loss if the old trees were to fail. As a result, it is inevitable that a garden artwork will change slightly over time.

Quotes from Helmut Rippl

“Every great art owes its becoming to strong driving forces of the producing individual. Anyone who does not want to recognize this will not be able to fulfill, recognize and understand the metaphor inherent in the work of art. ”(Helmut Rippl in:“ Der Parkschöpfer Pückler-Muskau ”).

“The trees are the actual bearers of Pückler's park visions. Its planting principles are only recognizable in Branitz, due to the younger age of the tree. But time doesn’t stop. ”(Helmut Rippl in:“ Der Parkschöpfer Pückler-Muskau ”)

"It was important to me to bring Pückler's still too little-known oeuvre of garden art closer to a wider circle of people interested in art, because the loss of Pückler's style is threatened by the loss of old age of trees." (Helmut Rippl in: "The Park Creator Pückler-Muskau")

Works / buildings / designs

  • General development plan for the city of Cottbus
  • General development plan for Bad Muskau
  • Pushkin promenade Cottbus
  • Garden terrace at the large Stadt Cottbus restaurant
  • Perennial garden in Blechen-Park Cottbus
  • Restoration of the Fürstlich Drehna palace gardens
  • “All of the stones” in IBA Fürst-Pückler-Land in Großräschen
  • Draft for the mill park around the castle mill in Umkirch (not yet implemented)
  • Planting plan for the palace meadow in Queen-Auguste-Victoria-Park
  • Park plan for the former Fulwell Park Umkirch (not realized)

Awards

  • Helmut Rippl was awarded the Lenné Medal on May 26, 2017.
    1983: Carl Blechen Prize for Art and Literature of the Cottbus District Council, awarded by the chairwoman Irma Uschkamp
  • 2000: Medal of Honor of the City of Cottbus with entry in the "Golden Book" of the City of Cottbus. Awarded by the City Council and Lord Mayor Waldemar Kleinschmidt in the town hall of Cottbus
  • 2005: European Prize for Garden Architecture of the European Cultural Foundation, awarded at a ceremony on August 26, 2005 in Fürstlich Drehna Palace.
  • 2006: Honorary Professorship of the State of Brandenburg, awarded on July 25, 2006 by Prof. Dr. Johanna Wanka, Minister for Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg in Potsdam. This title is extremely rarely awarded. Rippl has been the third honorary professor since the country was founded. According to the Brandenburg University Act, the honorary professor can be awarded to people who “have made a special contribution to the field of science, research, culture or technology for the state of Brandenburg”.
  • 2017: Lenné Medal of the Berlin Lenné Academy in Branitz Castle on May 26, 2017. Laudator: Waldemar Kleinschmidt, retired Lord Mayor. D., Lake City of Cottbus .

Movies

Publications / literature

  • The Branitzer Park - a masterpiece of German garden art . Cottbus, editions 1971, 1973, 1977
  • The Branitzer Park - the great cultural heritage of the city of Cottbus , lecture on the 125th park anniversary. Niederlausitz Studies, Volume 7, Cottbus 1993
  • Branitzer Park, series “Die Mark Brandenburg” , issue 6, Berlin 1992
  • Romantic landscape gardens in the Cottbus district - Monuments in Saxony , Weimar 1978
  • Muskau and Branitz In: The most beautiful gardens in Germany , Eugen Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1967
  • Pückler's work in Muskau , lecture on the 200th birthday of the Muskau park creator, Niederlausitzer Studien, special issue, Cottbus 1986
  • On the use of wood in the Pückler parks , contributions to wood science, Kulturbund der DDR 1985
  • The Muskauer Park - its essence and its beauties , contributions to the city's history, Bad Muskau 1988
  • The Muskauer Park - A Walk , Contributions to City History, Bad Muskau 1992
  • Hermann Ludwig Heinrich Fürst von Pückler-Muskau , author collective, publisher Institute for Monument Preservation in the GDR, Weimar 1989
  • Branitz park explorations , publisher Niederlausitzer Landesmuseum, Cottbus 1992
  • Pückler's ingenious design of the Muskau park landscape - Chronicle of the city and park Bad Muskau , Weißwasser 1997
  • Pückler's handling of trees - the key to his worldview , Stuttgart 1997
  • The Allee der Steine ​​in Fürst Pückler-Land , Lauchhammer 1998 and Senftenberg 2002
  • Branitzer Park Investigations , Cottbus 1992
  • Indications for the maintenance of Pückler landscape parks , published in German and Polish, Warsaw 1992
  • Herman Ludwig Heinrich Fürst von Pückler-Muskau , Garden Art and Monument Preservation, Weimar 1989
  • The park creator Pückler-Muskau , Verlag Hermann Böhlaus successor, 2nd edition, Weimar 1995, ISBN 3-7400-0994-2
  • Impulses for our cultural landscape , publisher Förderverein Kulturlandschaft Niederlausitz eV, Cottbus 2000
  • Our villages are in danger of losing face - what can be done about it , Förderverein Kulturlandschaften Niederlausitz, Cottbus 2004
  • Fürst-Pückler Muskau - His art of tree planting , Cottbus 2015
  • Fürst-Pückler-Park Bad Muskau - A European Landscape Park , Bernd Quint, Ekkehard Bruksch, Ellen Kollewe, Helmut Rippl, Regina Barufke, Lausitzer Druck- und Verlagshaus, 1999
  • Fürst-Pückler-Land - The vision of a country in our time , Wolfgang Joswig and Helmut Rippl, Delitzsch, 1997
  • The behavior of trees under mining groundwater lowering , Helmut Rippl, Gert Gockel and Eckhard Neumann
  • Fürst-Pückler-Land - The longing for an Arcadia in Lusatia , city planner Wolfgang Joswig about Helmut Rippl

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.europaeische-kulturstiftung.eu/europaeische-kulturpreisverleihungen-in-fuerstlich-drehna_A27?articleid=27&highlight=rippl
  2. ↑ http://www.europaeische-kulturstiftung.eu/europaeische-kulturpreisverleihungen-am-10-mai-2002-im-bundespraesidialamt-berlin_A139
  3. ↑ a b Queen-Auguste-Victoria-Park - Professor Helmut Rippl receives the Peter Joseph Lenné Medal from the Berlin Lenné Academy. - Press. Retrieved May 28, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Biography of Helmut Rippl http://www.europaeische-kulturstiftung.eu/biographie-des-garten-und-landschaftsarchitekten-helmut-rippl_A34
  5. ^ The Schlosspark Fürstlich Drehna Its originators, patrons, keepers, resuscitators, Regia-Verlag 2011, ISBN 978-3-86929-061-4 http://www.regia-verlag.de/detail.php?func=evaluation&nummer=541
  6. ↑ Article on IBA Fürst-Pückler-Land https://www.welt.de/print-wams/article133666/Oekonomie-der-Kulturlandschaft.html
  7. ↑ Park Fürstlich Drehna http://www.lr-online.de/regionen/spreewald/luckau/Drehnaer-bangen-um-ihre-Riesendouglasie;art1062,5475779 http://www.lr-online.de/regionen/spreewald / luckau / looking for traces in the landscape park; art1062,5323076
  8. ↑ Gift for the old master Rippl http://www.lr-online.de/regionen/cottbus/Geschenk-fuer-den-Altmeister;art1049,5406583
  9. ↑ Allee der Steine ​​- http://www.lr-online.de/nachrichten/Tagesthemen-Die-sprechenden-Ssteine-des-Helmut-Rippl;art307853,5263493 http://www.baunetz.de/mektiven/M nearly Opening_of_IBA_terrace_ near_Cottbus_16673.html
  10. ↑ http://www.europaeische-kulturstiftung.eu/europaeische-kulturpreisverleihungen-in-fuerstlich-drehna_A27?articleid=27&highlight=rippl
  11. ↑ http://www.europaeische-kulturstiftung.eu/europaeische-kulturpreisverleihungen-am-10-mai-2002-im-bundespraesidialamt-berlin_A139
  12. ↑ Communication from the European Cultural Foundation about the award of the prize for garden architecture http://www.europaeische-kulturstiftung.eu/europaeische-kulturpreisverleihungen-in-fuerstlich-drehna_A27?articleid=27&highlight=rippl
  13. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.iba-see2010.de
  14. ↑ To Rippl, the head of the IBA Fürst-Pückler-Land, Prof. Kuhn, says: Listen to a gifted tree expert. http://www.lr-online.de/nachrichten/Tagesthemen-Auf-den-begnadeten-Baum-und-Pflanzenkenner-hoeren;art307853,5263543
  15. ↑ Helmut Rippl in the newspaper DIE WELT https://www.welt.de/print-wams/article133666/Oekonomie-der-Kulturlandschaft.html
  16. ↑ "Honor for Lifetime Achievement: Helmut Rippl becomes honorary professor" Press release of July 25, 2006 by the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg
  17. ↑ For 60 years creating for parks - Rippl on the 90th birthday Archive link ( Memento of the original from 10 August 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / maerkischer-bote.de
  18. ^ Rippl has been made an honorary member of the Fürst-Pückler-Verein Park und Schloss Branitz http://maerkischer-bote.de/2015/11/06/branitzer-parkschmiede-bekommen-ihren-zaun/ http: // maerkischer-bote. de / 2015/11/06 / people-7-8-november-2015 /
  19. ↑ Anger is still his drive Prof. Helmut Rippl has been awarded the Lenné Medal http://maerkischer-bote.de/blog/2017/06/02/aerger-bleibt-noch-immer-sein-antrieb/ retrieved on June 4, 2017
  20. ↑ Awarding of the Medal of Honor of the City of Cottbus https://www.cottbus.de/politik/ehrungen/ehrenmedaille/verleihung_der_ehrenmedaille_der_stadt_cottbus_ab_1995.html
  21. ↑ http://www.europaeische-kulturstiftung.eu/europaeische-kulturpreisverleihungen-in-fuerstlich-drehna_A27?articleid=27&highlight=rippl
  22. ↑ Press release of October 4, 2010 Ministry of Science, Research and Culture http://www.mwfk.brandenburg.de/cms/detail.php/bb1.c.233130.de
  23. ↑ Lausitzer Rundschau: The new world of Helmut Rippl. Retrieved May 28, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Rippl, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German garden and landscape architect, park monument curator, Pückler researcher, gardener and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittenberg