Johannes Gillhoff Society

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Memorial stone in front of the former school

The Johannes Gillhoff Society is a registered association dedicated to the care and dissemination of the work and legacy of the Low German author Johannes Gillhoff . The company was founded in 1994 and is based in the village of Glaisin , a district of the small Mecklenburg town of Ludwigslust in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district .

Gillhoff was born in Glaisin in 1861. The main concern of the society is the preparation of the history of the Mecklenburg emigrants to America, which Gillhoff illustrated in his most famous work, the novel Jürnjakob Swehn der Amerikafahrer . Contacts are maintained with associations in the USA and with the descendants of the emigrants, readings, lectures, specialist conferences and museum tours are organized. A permanent exhibition on the life and work of Johannes Gillhoff was set up in the Johannes-Gillhoff-Stuv in the former village school. A memorial stone in front of the house commemorates the author. Every year the Gillhoff Day takes place in Glaisin, on which the Society awards the Johannes Gillhoff Prize . The company has been chaired by the publicist Hartmut Brun since 2000 . With Jürgen Behrends at his side, Brun knows a “reliable” deputy. During the GDR era, Behrends worked for the Ministry for State Security as an unofficial employee "IM Hirschmann".

criticism

In June 2012, the association came under fire when, despite protests from politics and society, it stuck to its plan to award the 2012 Gillhoff Prize to the author Jürgen Rogge. During the GDR era, he was an unofficial employee of the MfS as a prison doctor . The Vice-President of the State Parliament, Silke Gajek , who had been invited as a guest of honor, canceled her visit, while the author, journalist and Gillhoff Prize winner Ulrich Schacht announced that his award would be returned.

In June 2013, the society came under renewed criticism when, despite protests from politics and society, Jürgen Rogge gave the eulogy for the 2013 Gillhoff Prize winner. On the Gillhoff Day 2013, the Gillhoff Society named the former Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Harald Ringstorff , an honorary member and presented him with a package of books from BS Verlag Rostock on this occasion . the publishing house that also publishes Jürgen Rogges books. In response to the discussion about Rogge's Stasi past, Ringstorff told the Schweriner Volkszeitung : More than twenty years after the fall of the Wall, “people should not be condemned across the board who have once signed.”

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.johannes-gillhoff.de/seite/275352/satzung.html
  2. Schweriner Volkszeitung, Schwerin, 25 August 2015, p. 8
  3. ↑ The dispute over the Gillhoff Prize winner continues on ndr.de, accessed on June 6, 2012
  4. Schweriner Volkszeitung, Schwerin, June 10, 2013