International artist museum

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International artist museum
2010-05-23 Kl'felde - AMA.B fec - 185 Artistenmuseum.jpg
Artist museum, street view
Data
place Klosterfelde
Art
Circus and artistry
opening September 5, 1997
Number of visitors (annually) 17,500
(statistical average)
operator
Support association
management
Roland Weise (until 2013)
Website
ISIL DE-MUS-917413

The International Artists Museum presented 1997-2013 a collection of objects from the world of artists - and entertainment arts and the circus history . The privately operated museum was located on Liebenwalder Damm street in Klosterfelde in Brandenburg , a district of the Wandlitz community in the Barnim district. It was the only art and entertainment museum in the world. In April 2013 it was put on the Red List of Culture by the German Cultural Council and classified as endangered (Category 2) and was closed “forever” in 2013 after the museum's founder died.

history

The International Artist Museum was founded on September 5th, 1997. The basis was the extensive private collection of museum founder Roland Weise, who worked as a journalist and director of the office for artistic festivals in the 1950s . The interest in the collection of materials from artist circles was triggered by the encounter with a personality of the entertainment arts: By working for the Soviet military newspaper for Germany Daily Rundschau , he had come into contact with the Soviet magician Emil Kio . The photo given was the first piece in his collection.

Due to the constant public interest in his exhibitions, which he has shown at various locations in Germany and abroad since the 1960s, Weise had already tried to found an artist museum at the end of the 1970s . In 1980 his application was rejected by the GDR leadership. After the fall of the Wall , he came back to the idea, founded a museum support association with 23 artists and built the museum on his property in Klosterfelde with private funds. For the permanent operation of the museum around 180,000 euros were available annually, 4 permanent jobs could be created.

Collection and offers

The model of the Sarrasani Circus was on display in the museum.

The enormous size of the collection meant that the International Museum of Artists was included in the Guinness Book of Records in 2001. The exhibits were shown in regularly changing exhibitions and of course constantly increased. Until around 2012, the inventory included 12,000 historical and current specialist books on acrobatics, cabaret, magic, music, dance, pantomime, circus and showmanship. The oldest books date from 1800. The museum also has 1,300 posters, 35,000 programs from variety shows , circuses , cabarets from all over the world, and 1,500 records, music cassettes, tapes and videos. The fund also contained 60,000 photographs, 12,000 specialist magazines, 350  clown figures , 70 medals, 350 postage stamps with motifs from the arts and 60 artist and circus films ( as of mid-2009 ). Worth mentioning are the original film about the structure of the Vietnamese state circus and excerpts from DEFA newsreels in the GDR about artists, variety shows and circuses. Other components of the collection were strength acrobatics props by the multiple strength sports world champion Milo Barus , a historic bell organ from 1901 and original costumes by the Russian-Soviet clowns Karandasch and Oleg Popow , the entertainer Freddy Quinn and numerous other artists. A prepared polar bear from the polar bear group of the trainer Ursula Böttcher from the GDR state circus was also part of the collection. A true-to-scale model of the permanent circus building of the Sarrasani Circus in Dresden around 1936 was also on display, as well as an original Winchester rifle by the American art shooter Buffalo Bill , which he used in the presentation of his Wild West Show in Germany in 1889/1890.

Wasserminna fountain

Already in the front yard had the well water Minna , sponsored by Circus Busch-Roland, a varied presentation out. Initially, it was planned to be installed on Alexanderplatz in Berlin .

In addition to the permanent exhibition of exhibits, special exhibitions by other collectors and events were organized on a regular basis, for example, in 2006 there were performances by Jewish and Ukrainian artists, demonstrations of magic tricks and other things, and in 2009 the exhibition Artists, Variety and Circus in the Film World, at which the Jewish and Ukrainian ensemble of the people's artist Alexander Schwarz made music. International artist days took place once a year , at which well-known artists from all over the world performed. The patron of this event was the Brandenburg Prime Minister.

On the one hand, the International Artist Days were a crowd puller, on the other hand, singers, musicians and artists from various institutions also performed on the occasion. The visitors and a small jury jointly awarded an audience award, the Grand Prix artistique , which in 2007 went to Regina Thoss , James W. Pulley , the Berlin artist school contraire , the Army Music Corps of the 14th Panzer Grenadier Division, the break dance group Batte Beasts from Russia and was awarded to the German Clown Theater .

By 2007, 175,000 visitors came to the “world's only artist museum” (own illustration).

In the summer of 2009, the museum association organized a six-day workshop in a large circus tent specially erected on the meadow in front of the museum with the help of funds from the communities of Wandlitz, Bernau near Berlin , Panketal and Eberswalde . The offer was aimed at children between 10 and 15 years, in which unicycle -Go, acrobatics, balance, juggling could be, magic and clowning learned.

Since the late 1990s, it has been possible to get a brief overview of the exhibition at the museum's open day (October).

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Artists, Variety and Circus in the Film World (2009)
  • Artistry and circus arts of the GDR (2011)
  • Absurd, curious and sensational from variety and circus (2011/2012)
  • The Laughing of Great Clowns (2012)

Bearer and Future

The museum on the edge of the Schorfheide has been run by the Friends of the International Artist Museum since 2005 , chaired by politician Dagmar Enkelmann . The registered association worked for the public benefit and was composed of artists, public figures and other supporters from home and abroad. Entrance fees and grants from the state of Brandenburg were not a secure basis for existence. Therefore, to secure the location between the owner Roland Weise and the friends' association, negotiations were made to conclude a leasehold contract, which is an important basis for bank loan transactions. The association planned the acquisition of the museum and extensions for the archive and for events in the long term. The municipality of Wandlitz contributed a few thousand euros to the expenditure for the artist's museum every year, the exact amount depends on the submitted proof of use. Due to financial and structural problems, the responsible municipality of Wandlitz decided to close the museum in summer 2014. By the end of 2015, there were still no binding decisions on funding and the associated possible reopening.

social commitment

Roland Weise, the founder and long-time director of the IAK, took an active part in the events in his home town until his death on June 19, 2013. In 2009, for example, he made sure that the at the time badly damaged and unkempt cemetery for the Red Army fighters who died at the end of the Second World War was properly restored. Together with Sergei Sedych, the attaché of the Russian Embassy from Berlin, and the mayor of Wandlitz, Udo Tiepelmann , a wreath was laid on May 8, 2010, the 65th anniversary of the liberation from fascism , at this listed monument.

literature

  • Roland Weise: First museum journal from Klosterfelde . Self-published, Klosterfelde 1997
  • Katja Nick, Roland Weise (ed.): Through backward forward , Verlag Wiesjahn, 1997, ISBN 9783931610159

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ website ; Retrieved Nov. 8, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b c Roland Weise: Start of the 81st year of life. The founder and managing director of the Klosterfelder Artistenmuseum celebrated his birthday . In: Official Gazette for the municipality of Wandlitz from June 21, 2008, p. 62
  3. ^ A b c Museum newspaper of the International Artist Museum in Klosterfelde. Ed. Förderverein Internationales Artistenmuseum in Deutschland eV, Edition 8 2010;
  4. ↑ Guinness Book of Records 2001, Hamburg; Page 241: Roland Weise from Berlin opened the first International Artist Museum on September 5, 1997. The private museum contains more than 60,000 photos, 13,000 posters and 9,000 specialist books and is open daily.
  5. ↑ Bell organ, presented by a museum employee: Fig. 11 ; Retrieved January 26, 2010.
  6. ↑ Ein Entfesselung and other tricks , In: Heidekrautjournal , No. 9, 2006; accessed on January 17, 2016.
  7. ↑ Brief info exhibition 2009 in the Heidekrautjournal ; Retrieved June 1, 2010.
  8. ↑ The Artistenmuseum informs - Jewish ensemble plays international hits . In: Official Journal for the Municipality of Wandlitz (5) 2009, p. 20.
  9. ↑ a b Int. Artist Days 2010 on a private homepage ; accessed on January 17, 2016.
  10. ^ Website Deutsches Clowntheater , accessed on Nov. 8, 2014.
  11. ↑ a b Roland Weise: Mega gala of the artist days. Audience award 'Grand Prix artistique' 2007 awarded. In: Official Gazette for the municipality of Wandlitz from June 23, 2007, p. 21.
  12. ^ Circus camp. Still free places in: 'Der Blitz', daily newspaper, issue for Bernau from 18./19. July 2009.
  13. ↑ a b Calendar of events in Barnimer Land 2011
  14. ↑ Magic would help ; In: Der Tagesspiegel from November 23, 2008; Retrieved December 10, 2009.
  15. ^ Resolution of the main and finance committee of the Wandlitz community on the granting of 7,000 euros for 2012, requested by the Friends' Association of the Artist Museum; April 16, 2012 , accessed January 6, 2012.
  16. ^ ODF TV on the death of Roland Weise from June 21, 2013

Coordinates: 52 ° 47 ′ 51 ″  N , 13 ° 28 ′ 44 ″  E