Hubert Faensen

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Hubert Faensen (born December 29, 1928 in Sandau , Czechoslovakia ; † January 23, 2019 in Kleinmachnow ) was a German art historian and long-time publishing director .

Life

Hubert Faensen grew up in Aachen and Chemnitz . From 1943 to 1945 he had to serve as an air force helper. In 1946 he joined the GDR CDU . From 1947 to 1949 he first studied social sciences in Rostock and then from 1949 to 1952 worked as a trainee or culture editor at the CDU newspaper Der Demokratie in Schwerin under editor-in-chief Hugo Reinhart . During this time Faensen was also a youth officer at the Mecklenburg regional association of the CDU and member of the Mecklenburg regional executive committee. From 1950 to 1954 he was a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR ; and here a member of the constitutional committee from 1951 to 1954, he was also a member of the main board of the CDU. From 1952 he studied philosophy and art history at the Humboldt University in Berlin a . a. with Richard Hamann , in 1955 he graduated as a graduate philosopher and in 1959 he received his doctorate with Wolfgang Heise . At the same time he was an employee of the CDU newspaper Neue Zeit and a research assistant for the party leadership of the CDU. In January 1960 he became head editor of Union Verlag in Berlin, from December 1, 1960 to 1982 he was director of the publishing house and performed the duties of chief editor. On the occasion of the 50th birthday of the publisher's editor and editor Gerhard Rostin , in 1978 he wrote him a honorable congratulations together with the editor-in-chief for fiction, Bongardt . From 1961 to 1990 Faensen also headed Koehler & Amelang publishing house in Leipzig , which is also owned by the GDR CDU .

“With his publishing activity in the GDR, he promoted not only demanding fiction, which primarily includes biographical editions, historical monographs and literary heritage, art and cultural history publications as well as philosophical literature ... With this publishing program, he was able to promote Christian- to allow democratic ideas and historical-critical methods to become effective in the GDR, despite state restrictions such as the crushing of editions by bourgeois or Christian authors ... ". Friedrich Möbius wrote: “With the Union-Verlag publishing house, Hubert Faensen succeeded in wresting freedom from the SED's cultural policy, which is based on atheism and class struggle, in which Christian art literature, a high, well above average book culture and a lot of other unconventional and otherwise hardly anything possible could flourish ”.

In early March 1961 , publishing director Hubert Faensen, together with Johannes Bobrowski from the editing department of Union Verlag Berlin , applied for a printing permit for a work with the working title “Christmas Book ” from the Ministry of Culture of the GDR, head office for publishers and booksellers , for which Gerhard Rostin was won as editor . The responsible employee of the main administration had a clarifying discussion with Faensen on April 18, 1961 because of the "corrections" requested by the state. After these had been carried out by Union Verlag, the completion of the head office was announced and the hope was expressed that “nothing will stand in the way of the issuing of the printing permit.” The permit for "Object No. 1014" was given license number 18 / 395/1014/61 and, as expected, was granted on May 2, 1961 for the requested edition of five thousand copies. The book cover was made entirely of linen and provided with a dust jacket using a color woodcut by the Halle painter and graphic artist Meinolf Splett (1911–2009). The title of Rudolf Alexander Schröder's opening poem "A star is coming" was finally chosen as the book title and the "Christmas Book" was printed in two subsequent editions by 1965.

Parallel to his publishing activities, he researched and published primarily in the fields of early Christian, Byzantine and Eastern European art. He had lectureships at the HU Berlin , in particular on old Russian art. In 1973 he received his PhD B (Dr. sc.) At the HU Berlin, in 1977 he received the Facultas Docendi . From 1982 to autumn 1992 he was a full professor of art history there. From 1982 to 1989 he was a member of the main board of the GDR CDU.

Faensen lived in Kleinmachnow near Berlin since 1956 and published in his retirement on the history of the local New Hakeburg and the village church . For many years he was a member of the community council of Kleinmachnow for the BiK, then for the UBK / WIR. On September 30, 2016, he was allowed to enter himself in the Golden Book of Kleinmachnow. He has also been an honorary member of the Kleinmachnow home club since 2004.

He was married to the journalist Barbara Faensen (née Altmann, born January 10, 1929 in Dresden; † March 5, 2000 in Berlin-Zehlendorf). The marriage resulted in two daughters and a son, the archaeologist Bertram Faensen (* 1966).

Honors

In 1969 he received the Ernst Moritz Arndt Medal , in 1977 the Gold Medal of German-Soviet Friendship, 1978 the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze, in 1988 the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver, 1981 the Wilhelm Bracke Medal in gold. In 1987 he became an honorary member of the Archaeological Society in Athens .

Publications (selection)

  • The concept of form at Konrad Fiedler . Dissertation. Humboldt University Berlin, February 3, 1960.
  • Albrecht Dürer . Written estate. A selection . Union Verlag, Berlin 1962.
  • The pictorial form. The conception of art by Konrad Fiedler, Adolf von Hildebrand and Hans von Marées . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1965 (print version of the dissertation).
  • with Vladimir Ivanov: Old Russian architecture . Union Verlag, Berlin 1972 (licensed edition: Schroll, Vienna / Munich 1972).
  • Churches in the Moscow Kremlin (= The Christian Monument. Special Issue 5). Union Verlag, Berlin 1980.
  • Churches and monasteries in ancient Russia. Style history of old Russian architecture from the Kievan Rus to the decline of the Tatar rule . Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 1982 (licensed edition: Schroll, Vienna / Munich 1983, ISBN 3-7031-0570-4 ).
  • See the city that shines. History, symbolism and function of old Russian architecture . Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 1989, ISBN 3-7338-0098-2 (Licensed edition: VCH, Acta Humaniora, Weinheim 1990, ISBN 3-527-17706-X ).
  • Secret bearer Hakeburg. Example of a functional change: mansion, ministerial residence, research institute, SED party school (= Brandenburg historical booklets. 6). Brandenburg State Center for Political Education, Potsdam 1997, ISBN 3-932502-00-0 . (Digitized version)
  • High tech for Hitler. The Hakeburg - from research center to management training center . Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-86153-252-2 .
  • 2nd updated and supplemented edition: Die Neue Hakeburg. Magnificent Wilhelminian building, Hitler's research center, SED cadre forge . Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-96289-029-2 .

literature

  • 50 years of Koehler & Amelang. Börsenblatt interview with Dr. sc. Hubert Faensen. In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade. (Leipzig) 142, 1975, pp. 934-936.
  • Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 4th edition. Dietz, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , p. 63.
  • Gunda Beuthien: The Union publishing house of the Eastern CDU. Origin and development of the publishing house until the 1960s, taking into account its relationships with the publishing houses Koehler & Amelang and Wolfgang Jess. In: Leipzig yearbook on book history. 10, 2000, pp. 337-339.
  • Tatjana Bartsch, Jörg Meiner (Ed.): Art: Context: History. Festival ceremony for Hubert Faensen on his 75th birthday . Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-936872-17-1 (pp. 310-315 list of publications).
  • German Literature Lexicon. The 20th Century Volume 8, Zurich / Munich 2005, Col. 219.
  • Harald Kretzschmar: Knowledgeable fellow citizen with a clear profile. Professor Hubert Faensen on the eightieth. In: Kleinmachnower Zeitung. Vol. 17, issue 12, December 2008, p. 19.
  • Faensen, Hubert . In: Werner Schuder (Ed.): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . Founded by Joseph Kürschner . 22nd edition. Part 1: A-G . KG Saur Verlag, Munich [including] 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23629-7 , p. 908 , doi : 10.1515 / 9783110932195 ( degruyter.com - constantly updated restricted access online edition).
  • Bernd-Rainer Barth , Helmut Müller-Enbergs :  Faensen, Hubert . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 . P. 305 (shortened text in the database).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kleinmachnow art historian Hubert Faensen has died. In: maz-online.de. Märkische Allgemeine, January 29, 2019, accessed on January 31, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Wirth, Günter : The Kleinmachnow art historian and politician Hubert Faensen celebrated his 75th birthday . In Potsdam's Latest News , December 30, 2003; Faensen, Barbara: Topping- out ceremony . In: wanted. 22 authors about themselves . Union Verlag Berlin, pp. (21–31) 29 f.
  3. ^ Neue Zeit , October 10, 1950, p. 1.
  4. ^ Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 4th edition. Dietz, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , p. 63.
  5. ↑ New times. December 16, 1950, p. 1.
  6. ↑ The two-sheet letter is in the holdings of the German Literature Archive in Marbach. Holds signature "A: Bobrowski / Rostin / 50th birthday"
  7. ↑ Preface. In: Tatjana Bartsch, Jörg Meiner (Hrsg.): Art: Context: History. Festival ceremony for Hubert Faensen on his 75th birthday . Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-936872-17-1 , p. 7.
  8. ^ Friedrich Möbius: Reality - Art - Life. Memories of an Art Historian . Bussert and Stadeler, Jena 2001, ISBN 3-932906-17-9 , p.?.
  9. ↑ inventory documents in the Federal Archives; Argus inventory documents in the Federal Archives 163 ff.
  10. ↑ DNB 451169921
  11. ↑ DNB 451169956
  12. ↑ Hubert Faensen, Bertram Faensen, Reinald Elliger: The old church in Kleinmachnow . Parish Council of the Evangelical Resurrection Church Congregation, Kleinmachnow 1997, ISBN 3-00-017417-6 ; Hubert Faensen: Innovative achievement or mere coincidence? The design of the Transfiguration relief in the Kleinmachnow village church. In: Yearbook Teltow, Kleinmachnow, Stahnsdorf. 2005, pp. 49-50; Hubert Faensen: Kleinmachnow: Thoughts on the altar of the village church. In: Brandenburg Monument Preservation. 2, 2007, pp. 43-52.
  13. ↑ 13. Entry in the Golden Book of Kleinmachnow September 30, 2016 - Prof. Dr. Hubert Faensen .
  14. ↑ Hubert Faensen now honorary member. In: Potsdam's latest news. February 10, 2004.
  15. ↑ Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 1988. p. 279; DNB 1049295382 .
  16. ↑ DNB 129793507
  17. ↑ cf. Thomas Marin: A Niche for Religious Art , Lord's Day , March 17, 2019, p. 17
  18. ↑ New times. December 13, 1969, p. 1.
  19. ↑ New times. May 6, 1977, p. 2.
  20. ↑ New times. October 6, 1978, p. 1.
  21. ↑ New times. October 8, 1988, p. 2.
  22. ↑ New times. May 8, 1981, p. 2.
  23. ↑ New times. September 29, 1987, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Faensen, Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, publishing director and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Sandau , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 2019
Place of death Kleinmachnow