Inge Lammel

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Inge Lammel , b. Rackwitz (* May 8, 1924 in Berlin ; † July 2, 2015 there ) was a German musicologist who mainly dealt with workers' songs. She fled to Great Britain as a Jew in 1939 and became known in Berlin-Pankow for coming to terms with the persecution of Jews during the Nazi era .

Life

Inge Rackwitz was born in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg into a Jewish family. Her father was a bank clerk and directed several synagogue choirs . Like all other Jewish employees, he was fired in 1933. She attended elementary school and later, like her older sister, the Lyceum in Berlin-Lankwitz . Occasionally, as Jews, they were beaten on the way to school or subjected to other forms of discrimination. During the arrests of the Reichspogromnacht , her father was also deported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Her parents were later murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp .

Inge and her sister Eva were able to get to the United Kingdom in a Kindertransport with other Jewish children and young people in 1939 . They were taken by teachers in Sheffield . In 1940 she was interned as a " foreign enemy " and spent six weeks on the Isle of Man . She then trained as a nurse and kindergarten teacher in Bristol . In 1944 she moved to London , where she met German political refugees and joined the Communist Party of Germany in 1946 . She also worked for the Free German League of Culture in Great Britain and the Free German Movement .

In autumn 1947 she returned to East Berlin . Encouraged by the musicologist Ernst Hermann Meyer , who also returned from British exile, she began studying musicology at the Humboldt University in East Berlin from October 1948 . In 1950 she married and took the name Lammel. The marriage has two children. Inge Lammel received her doctorate in 1975 on the subject of workers' songs. She built up the worker's song archive at the Academy of Arts of the GDR and directed it from 1954 to 1985. During this time, she brought out numerous collections of political songs . From 1991 she researched the fate of Jewish families in Berlin-Pankow. She was a co-founder of the Pankow Association of Antifascists .

In 2006 Inge Lammel was one of the supporters of the “Berlin Declaration” of the “Shalom 5767 - Peace 2006” initiative, which advocates a Palestine policy based on the principles of humanism and international law.

Awards and honors

Works

Song collections (selection)

  • Songs of the Revolution of 1848. Hofmeister, Leipzig 1957
  • Songs against fascism and war. Hofmeister, Leipzig 1958
  • Songs of the agitprop troops before 1945. Hofmeister, Leipzig 1959
  • Songs for May 1st. Hofmeister, Leipzig 1959
  • Songs of the working class children. Hofmeister, Leipzig 1960
  • Songs of the working youth. Hofmeister, Leipzig 1960
  • Songs of the party. Hofmeister, Leipzig 1961 (with Günter Hofmeyer)
  • Songs of the Red Front Fighter League. German Academy of Arts, Berlin 1961
  • Songs from the fascist concentration camps. Hofmeister, Leipzig 1962 (with Günter Hofmeyer)
  • Fighting and singing. Central House for Cultural Work , Leipzig 1965
  • Cheer up, comrade. Documents from fascist concentration camps. Henschel, Berlin 1966
  • Songs for Vietnam. German Academy of the Arts, Berlin 1966
  • A hundred years of German workers' song. A documentation. German Academy of the Arts, Berlin 1966 (text booklet for the double LP of the same name by Eterna )
  • Singing is a fight. Songs of the labor movement. Dietz, Berlin 1967
  • Songs of the German gymnastics and sports movement. Hofmeister, Leipzig 1967
  • The workers song. Reclam, Leipzig 1970 (also Röderberg, Frankfurt / Main 1973)
  • A hundred proletarian ballads 1842–1945. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1975 (with Ilse Schütt; also Damnitz, Munich 1975)
  • Comrade in arms - our song. Grandstand, Berlin 1978
  • We tackle it. Political songs from the FRG. Song of Time, Berlin 1978
  • Song and political movement. Zentralhaus publications, Leipzig 1984
  • And because man is a man. German publishing house for music, Leipzig 1986
  • Sachsenhausen songbook . Edition Hentrich, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89468-162-4 (with Günter Morsch)

Works

  • Bibliography of the German Workers' Song Books 1833–1945. German publishing house for music, Leipzig 1977.
  • The Jewish orphanage in Berlin. His story in pictures and documents. Association of the sponsors and friends of the former Jewish orphanage in Pankow, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-980857-71-0 , DNB 1055916849 .
  • Alexander Beer : Builder of the Berlin Jewish Community . New Synagogue Foundation Berlin, Centrum Judaicum. Hentrich and Hentrich, Teetz, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-938485-20-5 (= Jewish miniatures. Volume 41).
  • Workers song - workers song. A hundred years of workers' music culture in Germany. Essays and lectures from 40 years 1959–1998. Hentrich and Hentrich, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-933471-35-4 .
  • Jewish ways of life, a cultural and historical foray through Pankow and Niederschönhausen . Edited by the Friends of the Former Jewish Orphanage Pankow with Rudolf Dörrier,… 2nd edition, Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-938485-53-8 .

literature

  • Günter Benser : Inge Lammel . In: the same, Dagmar Goldbeck, Anja Kruke (Ed.): Preserve, Spread, Enlighten. Archivists, librarians and collectors of the sources of the German-speaking labor movement. Supplement . Bonn 2017, ISBN 978-3-95861-591-5 , pp. 62–71. Online (PDF, 2.7 MB)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituaries in New Germany ; Different date of birth, accessed on July 13, 2015
  2. ↑ a b Biography Inge Lammels ( memento from December 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 10, 2011
  3. ↑ Refugees enrich Berlin Interview by Berliner Zeitung with Inge Lammel
  4. ↑ Jewish ways of life. 2nd edition, Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2007, ISBN 9783938485538
  5. ^ Wording of the declaration
  6. ^ Winner of the FDGB art prize . In: New Germany . June 20, 1966, p. 3.
  7. ↑ Press release of the BA Pankow . Retrieved January 30, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Lammel, Inge
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rackwitz, Inge (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 2nd July 2015
Place of death Berlin