Hortense from Gelmini

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Gelmini's Hortense on the occasion of the 2007 Pro Europa Foundation award

Hortense Anna Stephanie von Gelmini Edle zu Kreutzhof , married Baroness Droste zu Hülshoff , (born April 14, 1947 in Bozen , South Tyrol ) is a musician , painter and writer . As the first German orchestra conductor , she became internationally known in the 1970s / 1980s.

Life

Hortense von Gelmini comes from the South Tyrolean noble family Gelmini von Kreutzhof . She is the daughter of the Salurnian landowner and import merchant Johannes Anton von Gelmini Edler zu Kreutzhof and his wife, the graphic artist and painter Erika von Gelmini, born in a Freiburg entrepreneurial family. Schmid.

She grew up in Salurn and Kirchzarten and attended the Bertholdgymnasium in Freiburg. Due to her early piano compositions, she was enrolled at the Freiburg University of Music at the age of 14 and continued her education through private lessons. She studied conducting with Herbert Froitzheim and Francis Travis , composition with Wolfgang Fortner , piano in the master class of Carl Seemann and cello, trumpet and clarinet.

She has been married to Wilderich von Droste zu Hülshoff , with whom she has a son, since 1978 , and has lived in Horben near Freiburg im Breisgau since 2005 .

Gelmini runs the publishing house LPV Hortense von Gelmini and until 2013 managed the agricultural and forestry business she founded with the Baron Droste Hülshoff distillery in Horben .

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Composer and conductor

Hortense von Gelmini as a conductor, 1975

Gelmini played her piano compositions Tetrade unio mystica (1967) and I would like to be relieved (1982) as a pianist in concerts. In 1969 she founded the Orchestra Gelmini chamber orchestra , made up of master class students from various music colleges. With this orchestra she has given concerts in German cultural cities and has made recordings and radio recordings with pianist Fany Solter .

Gelmini became internationally known in her youth as an orchestra conductor and from 1975 worked as a guest conductor including the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra , the State Philharmonic of Rhineland-Palatinate , the Hof Symphony Orchestra of the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg , the Symphony Orchestra of the Südwestfunk and the Collegium musicum Aschaffenburg . She performed in the Great Festival Hall in Salzburg and worked with artists such as Ludwig Güttler .

TV portraits of her as a conductor were broadcast by Südwestfunk (1975) and WDR (1980). In 1975 she was a guest on the talk show The Hot Wire with Joachim Fuchsberger . In addition to reviews in the specialist press about her work as a conductor, there were reports that are still considered examples of sexism towards female conductors. She was also interviewed by journalists like Stefan Aust , mainly from the point of view of the emancipation of women . Gelmini's conducting career ended in 1980.

Writer

Gelmini dealt with Catholic theology and philosophy from a young age . The publisher Karl Borromäus Glock printed some of her essays and poems in his magazine Reflection . In 1981 Glock und Lutz Verlag published the book Insights , an illustrated collection of essays, a phenomenological treatise and first poems, in which she also reflected on the music business and conducting orchestras. In 1999 the poetry publisher Edition L , which had previously published some of her poems in anthologies, published a more comprehensive selection of 92 poems entitled Moments of Christian Reflection . Another 65 poems from the years 2000 to 2013 with drawings by her hand are contained in the volume of poems Verwundete Umborgenheit - Bilderwelten (published in 2018), again with her own drawings, a complete edition of all previous poems Don't stay in the dark . Poems by Gemini were also set to music and her works were also published in daily newspapers and magazines.

Painter and Architectural Designer

From 1976 Gelmini created paintings and theologically and philosophically inspired painting cycles. In 1977 the art historian Franzsepp Würtenberger included a section about her in his work Painting and Music and opened it with her painting Whitsun .

From 1981 she developed rotating altarpieces , e.g. B. in St. Michael (Rheinfelden-Karsau) as well as in Kirchzarten (chapel of the New Cemetery on Giersberg) and received orders for the artistic design of churches. She sees her altar painting as “Biblia pauperum” ( Poor's Bible ); She places the individual painting panels “on the corner” and thereby brings “the cross onto the surface”, creating a “cross iconostasis ”. Since 2001 she has also been producing computer graphics and studio art prints .

Her artistic oeuvre includes approx. 900 pictures and drawings and has been shown in numerous solo exhibitions in municipal and church galleries under the title “Christian Faith in Pictorial Symbolism”. a. at the 85th Katholikentag 1978 in the historical department store in Freiburg , shown and published in books, magazines, prints and art postcards.

Gelmini designed St. Michael in Beuggen-Karsau (interior and exterior design, altarpieces, stations of the cross), the cemetery chapel in Kirchzarten (altarpieces, altar table, ambo, sedil, holy water dispenser) and the castle chapel at Meersburg Castle (altarpieces).

Relationship between music, literature and art

Gelmini does not give any of the arts a "primacy" over another. There are points of contact within her work in that she created both poems and paintings on the same themes. For example, they conducted in 1974, the Four Temperaments by Paul Hindemith , motifs that she painted in 1985 in four pictures and implemented in four poems of 2005. Her cycle of paintings brain music - in memoriam Anton Bruckner (1982) contains a picture called synaesthesia and shows a connection between thinking, music and painting; it was set to music by Hans-Josef Winkler and premiered in Berlin in 2012. After Otto Gillen's death, she herself created pen drawings for his poems, which were published in the book Maria Frau der Frauen .

Libertas Foundation per Veritatem

Hortense by Gelmini (1994)

In 1994 Silvia Berk founded the non-profit foundation Libertas per Veritatem in Freiburg . Gelmini's husband has been a director of the foundation since 1999, the purpose of which is to contribute to the preservation of basic Christian values ​​in the public through Gelmini's work. For this purpose, she maintained the Hortense von Gelmini art collection in Freiburg from 1994 to 2006 , her own (non-commercial) gallery , in which exhibitions of her works, lectures and readings took place.

reception

The publisher and writer Karl Borromäus Glock described Hortense: “Anyone who has worked through her book“ Insights ”is at least aware of this: Her extraordinary talent is to be used with the appointment - and whoever wanted to assert partial reservations will nevertheless be carried away by the power of testimony and the love of this young woman. "

The art historian Franzsepp Würtenberger wrote in 1976: "Hortense von Gelmini offers a revealing example of how a primordial talent can come to fruition in a person in many ways"

Prizes and awards

Publications (selection)

Books and text image meditations

  • Insights. Time-critical essays and poems, with art prints and text-image meditations by Franziskus Eisenbach . Glock and Lutz-Verlag, Heroldsberg 1981, ISBN 33-7738-7009-8
  • Who loves and calls me. Text-image meditations. Information Center Professions of the Church, Freiburg, 2nd edition 1988.
  • With open arms. Text-image meditations. Grünewald-Verlag, Mainz 1987 (texts: Josef Sudbrack ), ISBN 3-7867-1285-9 .
  • New altarpieces in the service of the Annunciation - the altarpieces in the castle chapel of the Meersburg . Text-picture meditation. Self-published, 1987.
  • Mary woman of women. Drawings for poems by Otto Gillen . Christiana publishing house, Stein a. Rhine 1991.
  • The Lord's Prayer - prayer book for the disabled and people who accompany them. Verlag Current Texts, Heiligkreuztal 1994, ISBN 3-921312-58-2 .
  • The Kirchzarten cemetery chapel. Text-image meditations. Libertas per Veritatem Foundation, Kirchzarten 1995.
  • The art of praising God. (Volumes 1-9). Verlag LPV von Gelmini, Kirchzarten, ISBN 978-3-936509-00-7 .
  • Pictures in: Ernest Hello : Sunday - Our Lord's Day. (Reprint, edited by Hortense von Gelmini). Translated from the French by UW Sturm. Publishing house LPV Hortense von Gelmini, Horben 2016.

Volumes of poetry

  • Moments of Christian reflection. Edition L, Hockenheim 1999, ISBN 3-930045-84-2 .
  • Wounded ambiguity - worlds of images. Poems 2000–2013 with drawings. Publishing house LPV Hortense von Gelmini, Horben 2013.
  • Don't stay in the dark. Complete edition of the poems, with an epilogue and drawings by Hortense von Gelmini, Verlag LPV Hortense von Gelmini, Horben 2018, ISBN 978-3-936509-11-3 .

Discography

  • Hortense von Gelmini, Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra: A. Bruckner's “Zero” Symphony in D minor, Colosseum LP SM 558, 1975. A digitized transfer of this historical recording can be freely downloaded from John Berky's website .
  • Hortense von Gelmini, Orchestra Gelmini: Works by Schostakowitsch / Roussel / Genzmer. RBM 463 024.
  • The art of praising God. Multimedia CD, presentation of 9 leporellos with texts, poetry recitations, music and a film portrait about the work of Hortense von Gelminis. Verlag LPV Hortense von Gelmini Documentary by Holger Hillesheim, texts in German, English, French, Spanish, Russian, Japanese and Chinese, 2002.

literature

  • Brigitte von Savigny: Hortense von Gelmini - "Libertas per Veritatem". In: Freiburger Almanach '97.
  • Wilderich von Droste zu Hülshoff: Hortense von Gelmini - life and work - the art of praising God. Verlag LPV Hortense von Gelmini, Horben 2007, ISBN 978-3-936509-10-6 .

Web links

Commons : Hortense by Gelmini  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Gunnar Strunz: South Tyrol - nature and culture between Vinschgau and the Dolomites / famous Bozener. Berlin 2014, p. 168.
  2. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume IV, p. 68, Volume 67 of the complete series. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg 1978; Libro d'Oro 1937/39 to 1973/76.
  3. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility, Freiherrliche Häuser. Vol. XVII; Volume 107 of the complete series. 1994.
  4. ^ The Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra. 2015, p. 63.
  5. ^ "Scala" magazine of the Federal Republic of Germany. Issue 12 (December) 1975.
  6. ^ Elke Mascha-Blankenburg: Female conductors in the 20th century. Hamburg 2003, p. 247; Gunnar Strunz: South Tyrolean nature and culture between Vinschgau and the Dolomites. Famous Bolzano. Berlin 2014, p. 168; Press archive of the Libertas per Veritatem Foundation, Horben.
  7. Broadcast by BR on April 5, 1975.
  8. Rainer Schmitz, Benno Ure: How Mozart got into the ball: Curiosities and surprises from the world of classical music . Pantheon Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3-641-23636-6 ( google.de [accessed on August 13, 2020]).
  9. Rainer Schmitz, Benno Ure: Keys, tones, tumults - everything you don't know about music. Siedler-Verlag Munich 2016, p. 844.
  10. Interview from February 25, 1976 for the SWF
  11. a b Franzsepp Würtenberger: Painting and Music - the history of the relationship between two arts, presented according to the sources in the period from Leonardo da Vinci to John Cage. Lang, Bern, Frankfurt a. a. 1978, p. 247 f.
  12. Libertas per Veritatem (ed.): Hortense von Gelmini - Life and Work, the Art of Praising God , p. 94.
  13. ^ Hermann Brommer : Catholic Parish Church of St. Michael Rheinfelden - Beuggen-Karsau (= Small Art Guide No. 2179). Schnell & Steiner publishing house, Regensburg 1995.
  14. ^ Franzsepp Würtenberger: The I as the center of the world - an aeonic biography. Karlsruhe 1986, p. 344.
  15. Maria Frau der Frauen, drawings for poems by Otto Gillen. Christiana-Verlag, Stein am Rhein 1991.
  16. ^ Karl Borromäus Glock: Eighty Years - Encounters with a hundred well-known contemporaries. Glock and Lutz, Nuremberg 1985, ISBN 3-7738-6236-6 , p. 31.
  17. Dr. iur. utr. Ernst Seidel and the European cultural foundation Pro Europa - a biographical sketch . European Cultural Foundation Pro Europa, Freiburg 2012, p. 30; European Cultural Foundation Pro Europa (Ed.): Pro Europa - Europäische Kulturstiftung - European Foundation of Culture. Fondation Européenne de la Culture . Brochure of the Pro Europa Foundation, Freiburg 2012.