Institute for German Music in the East
The Institute for German Music in the East (IDMO) in Bergisch Gladbach was an organization founded in 1955 by the music teacher Gotthard Speer as the Institute for East German Music in Bensberg , which, on the basis of Paragraph 96 of the Federal Expellees and Refugee Act, takes care of the German musical cultural assets from Silesia , East and West Prussia, Danzig, the Baltic States and the German settlement areas in Southeast Europe and the former Soviet Union. The institute was located in the town hall of Bergisch Gladbach. The original Bensberg Institute emerged as an extension of Speer's working group for Silesian Song and Silesian Music .
The German-Bohemian musical heritage, on the other hand, was looked after by the Sudeten German Music Institute in Regensburg , sponsored by the Upper Palatinate district. The IDMO was funded financially and personally by the Federal Ministry of the Interior until 1998. In the middle of 1998 these subsidies were stopped. The Schlesisches Musiklexikon could to a certain extent "be rescued from the bankruptcy estate of the politically no longer opportune promotion of the culture of the expellees". The institute's inventory, including all the documents in the lexicon, was temporarily stored in a shed, where they are still stored today.
The IDMO issued publications on East German music history. In conjunction with broadcasters, the IDMO also gave the record series Anthology of East German Music , "whose program ranged from folk songs, early organ music and Renaissance masters of lute art to composers such as Andreas Hammerschmidt , Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber and Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf into the 20th century: works by Richard Wetz , Oskar Gottlieb Blarr , Michael Denhoff , Martin Christoph Redel and Günter Bialas were made available there. “The IDMO organized numerous music conferences. The IDMO collected and administered around 15,000 volumes of music, around 3,500 music books and around 700 sound carriers as well as bequests and partial bequests from German composers.
Publications of the IDMO
- Lothar Hoffmann-inheritance law, Institute for German Music in the East on the music history of the Germans and their neighbors in East, East Central and Southeast Europe (Ed.): Schlesisches Musiklexikon. Verlag Wißner, 2001, ISBN 978-3-89639-242-8 .
Head of IDMO
- 1955-19 ?? Gotthard spear
- 1989–1993 Helmut Loos
- 1993–1998 Klaus-Peter Koch
Web links
- The Silesian Nightingale will go stamping. Die Welt, February 24, 1998, accessed February 21, 2020 .
- Culture portal west-east: Speer, Gotthard. Retrieved on February 22, 2020 (There is also some information about the Institute for German Music in the East).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g The Silesian Nightingale will go stamping. In the world.
- ↑ See: Kulturportal West-Ost: Speer, Gotthard.
- ↑ Gotthard Speer. In: Kulturportal West-Ost.
- ^ German Bundestag: German Bundestag: Printed matter 13/6796 of January 20, 1997. January 20, 1997, accessed on February 21, 2020 (Here are a few notes on funding for the IDMO for 1994).
- ↑ a b c d Klaus Schreiber: Review of the Schlesisches Musiklexikon. Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum (BSZ) Baden-Württemberg / Südwestdeutscher Bibliotheksverbund, accessed on February 18, 2020 (There the information about the discontinuation of funding to the IDMO by the German Interior Ministry in 1998.).
- ↑ Speer, Gotthard . In: Carl Dahlhaus (Ed.): Riemann Musiklexikon . 12th, completely revised edition. Personal section: L – Z , supplementary volume. Schott, Mainz 1975, p. 686 .
- ^ University of Leipzig: Prof. Dr. Helmut Loos. Retrieved February 21, 2020 .