Joachim Mückenberger

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Joachim Mückenberger (also Jochen Mückenberger , born August 11, 1926 in Chemnitz ; † March 19, 2020 in Potsdam ) was a German cultural scientist and politician. From 1961 to 1966 he was general director of the film company DEFA and from 1967 to 1991 general director of the state palaces and gardens in Potsdam-Sanssouci .

Life

Mückenberger was born in 1926 as the son of a baker and trained for senior service at the Deutsche Reichsbahn . During the Second World War he was drafted as a soldier and was captured on the Western Front in American and later French captivity . After returning to Chemnitz, he joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). The SPD politician, resistance fighter and later SED functionary Erich Mückenberger was his older brother. Joachim Mückenberger studied social sciences with a focus on cultural studies in Leipzig and graduated with a diploma. He then worked for eleven years in the department responsible for culture of the SED Central Committee .

In 1961 Joachim Mückenberger was appointed Director General of DEFA . There he supported the film directors Frank Beyer and Kurt Maetzig, among others . During his term of office there was a period of cultural and political awakening in which DEFA made numerous films that are still famous and popular today, including The Adventures of Werner Holt , Naked Amongst Wolves , The Divided Sky ; also comedies like carbide and sorrel and after me, Canailles! or the Indian film The Sons of the Great Bear . In 1965, under Mückenberger's aegis, Frank Beyer began the film adaptation of the novel, Spur der Steine . Twelve DEFA films, including The Rabbit I Am , Just Don't Think I Howl and Spring Takes Time , were targeted by the 11th plenum of the SED Central Committee at the end of 1965 and were banned. Mückenberger was dismissed as DEFA General Director in 1966 by Minister of Culture Klaus Gysi .

At the initiative of the Potsdam cultural functionary Helmut Hanke , Mückenberger was appointed General Director of the State Palaces and Gardens Potsdam-Sanssouci in 1967 and held this office until 1990/91. During his tenure, the restoration of the palace theater in the Neues Palais (opened in 1969) and the Marstall , in which he was able to open the Potsdam Film Museum in 1981 , fell.

He was married to the film scholar Christiane Mückenberger . Joachim Mückenberger died on March 19, 2020 at the age of 93.

Works

literature

  • Jochen Mückenberger new General Director . ADN notification. In: Neues Deutschland December 22, 1967
  • Conversation between Christiane Mückenberger and Kurt Maetzig on "I am the rabbit". In: Christiane Mückenberger (Ed.): Predicate particularly harmful. Henschel Verlag Berlin 1990
  • Klaus Wischnewski : The angry young men from Babelsberg. In: Günter Agde (Ed.): Kahlschlag. The 11th plenum of the Central Committee of the SED in 1965. Structure of Taschenbuch Verlag 2000. 2nd extended edition.
  • Günter Jordan : Film in the GDR. Data - facts - structures. Publication series of the DEFA Foundation 2009.
  • Helmut Müller-Enbergs , Jan Wielgohs, Dieter Hoffmann, Andreas Herbst, Ingrid Kirschey-Feix (eds.): Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition, Ch. Links Verlag Berlin 2010.
  • Andreas Kötzing, Ralf Schenk: Forbidden Utopia. The SED, the DEFA and the 11th plenary session. Bertz + Fischer Verlag 2015.
  • Regine Sylvester: SED Central Committee: "Here our party is being insulted!" ZEIT Online 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Press release: State capital mourns Joachim Mückenberger. In: Press release No. 194. City of Potsdam, accessed on March 25, 2020 (German).
  2. a b c On the 90th birthday of Joachim Mückenberger: visionary and savior. In: Potsdamer Latest News , August 11, 2016 ( online , accessed October 15, 2019)