Johannes Kloecking

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Johannes Klöcking (born August 30, 1883 in Mustin (near Ratzeburg) , † July 1, 1951 in Lübeck ) was a German pedagogue, local history researcher and librettist .

Life

Standing third person from the left in the teaching staff (1907)

Klöcking was the son of a country teacher in Mustin and, after the early death of his father, came with his mother to Lübeck, where he grew up and attended the teachers' seminar after school. Just four years after his outstanding graduation there, he himself became a lecturer at the Lübeck teacher seminar . His main job, however, remained that of a middle school teacher, from 1931 at the then new Klosterhofschule in Lübeck-St. Jurgen . Klöcking developed a rich educational activity in school and through lectures in adult education.

Klöcking came from the ideas of Heimatschutz and youth movement and combined education and homeland care in the Lübeck Heimathefte he designed , which were initially called Lübeck excursion booklets and which, starting with the Wakenitz , each described an area of ​​the immediate vicinity of Lübeck and with the attached map for hiking of this area. Later he also dealt with the history of technology in the Lübeck harbor and the history of house building in Lübeck. Similar to Asmus Jessen , he created models with students for the Holstentor Museum , which showed two merchants' houses with all the details and a three-masted full ship. In the cloister courtyard school, he suggested setting up the star chamber , a kind of simple planetarium that impressed generations of students and is still there today.

Musically gifted and devoted to the youth music movement , Klöcking was one of the founders of Bruno Grusnick's Sing- und Spielkreis . In 1929 he wrote the music for a winter fairy tale Die Schneerose , which was intended for school performances. In the singing and playing group there was an encounter with Hugo Distler , for whose dance of death (premiered on September 24, 1934 in the Katharinenkirche ) Klöcking edited the texts of the Lübeck dance of death and brought them into a new form together with verses by Angelus Silesius .

In 1941 he was commissioned by the Reich Office for Music Arrangements under Hans Joachim Moser in the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda to de-Jew the text of oratorios by Georg Friedrich Handel . From Israel in Egypt , The Victory of the Sacrifice at Walstatt and Joshua became Die Ostlandfeier .

In writings such as Lübeck's German Sendung (1938) and essays on colonization in the East, including for the Society for European Economic Planning and Large-Scale Economics , Klöcking had already represented an attitude that was at least open to National Socialist ideas, even if Wilhelm Stier in his obituary was with an apologetic intention writes that Klöcking was about "exploring the deeper content and intrinsic value of the ideas highlighted by National Socialism for propaganda reasons and highlighting the resulting obligations." According to Stier, "it is therefore no wonder that he will soon be considered uncomfortable warning was pushed aside. ”The Handel arrangements were made to“ save Handel's wonderful oratorios ”“ from being forgotten. ”

In 1946 Klöcking was released from school work and began to set up the topographical department in the St. Anne's Museum as a kind of home archive , for which he organized and cataloged the maps, plans, drawings and photos he had collected. For the show in the Holstentor he developed four large maps on the history of the Hanseatic League. In 1950 he summarized his research on local history in the book 800 Years of Lübeck . His studies on the suburb of Lübeck-St. Lorenz was published posthumously in 1953.

Honors

In 1950 he was awarded the Milde Medal by the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities .

In 1986 the Hanseatic City of Lübeck named a street Johannes-Klöcking-Weg in an area with streets that also honor other folklorists such as Ernst Deecke and Richard Wossidlo . It is not without a certain historical irony that the path is located in the Israelsdorf settlement , which was forcibly renamed Walddorf from 1933–1945 .

Fonts

  • The Wakenitz. Lübeck: Ch. Colemann 1926 (Lübeck Heimathefte; H. 1/2)
  • Strecknitz-Grönau. Lübeck: Ch. Coleman 1927 (Lübecker Heimathefte; 3)
  • Vorrade-Blankensee. Lübeck Ch. Coleman 1927 (Lübeck Heimathefte; 4)
  • The Krummesser Landstrasse. Lübeck: Ch. Coleman 1927 (Lübecker Heimathefte; H. 5/6)
  • The snow rose: a Christmas fairy tale in 3 lifts. Heinz Mohr. Music by Johannes Klöcking Munich: GDW Callwey [1929] (The Treasure Trove Stage; No. 54)
  • To Schwartau. Lübeck: Coleman [1931] (Lübeck Heimatheft; 16)
  • Dance of Death: Text book for motet No. 2 from the "Spiritual Choral Music" for the Sunday of the Dead by Hugo Distler. Redesign of Johannes Klöcking's dialogue after the Lübeck Dance of Death. Choral sayings from the "Cherubinischen Wanderer" by Angelus Silesius 1675. Kassel: Bärenreiter-Verlag 1936
  • Lübeck's German mission: An outline of his present life and his future tasks. Edited by the Lord Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Lübeck: Nöhring 1938 (Lübeck book; 2)
  • (with Waldemar Lüders) Neuland: A national drama of the great East settlement period. Hamburg: Hermes [1940] (Low German Library; Vol. 153)
  • Geography book for middle schools. Part 5: Germany: For the 5th grade. Edit v. Johannes Klöcking [among others]. Frankfurt a. M .: Diesterweg 1943
  • 800 years of Lübeck: A brief city and cultural history. Lübeck: Wullenwever 1950
  • St. Lorenz, the Holstentor suburb of Lübeck and the western Landwehr district. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 1953

literature

  • Wilhelm Stier : Johannes Klöcking , in Lübeckische Blätter 1951, pp. 144f
  • Wilhelm Stier: Johannes Klöcking. In: Der Wagen 1953, pp. 149–151 (with portrait on p. 149)
  • Annette Landgraf: The victim victory of Walstatt: The oratorio Israel in Egypt by Georg Friedrich Händel in National Socialist guise , in: Music concepts - Concepts of musicology: Report on the International Congress of the Society for Music Research Halle (Saale) 1998 , ed. by Kathrin Eberl; Wolfgang Ruf. Kassel; New York: Bärenreiter 2000. ISBN 3-7618-1536-0 , pp. 597 ff
  • Katja Roters: Arrangements of Handel oratorios in the Third Reich. Halle an der Saale: Handel House 1999 (writings of the Handel House in Halle; 16) ISBN 3910019153

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The obituary in the Lübeckische Blätter mentions June 1st
  2. ↑ Klosterhof-Schule celebrates its 75th birthday - article in hl-live of May 9, 2006, accessed on October 10, 2009
  3. ↑ Information from Bärenreiter-Verlag ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.baerenreiter.com
  4. ↑ See Roters (lit.) and Pamela M. Potter: The Politicization of Handel and His Oratorios in the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich and the Early Years of the German Democratic Republic in: Musical Quarterly 85 (2001), p. 311 –341, here p. 323.
  5. ^ Bull, Obituary in the Carriage (lit.), p. 150
  6. ^ Bull, obituary in the Lübeckische Blätter , p. 144
  7. ↑ The obituaries pretend that political reasons were irrelevant
personal data
SURNAME Kloecking, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Mustin (near Ratzeburg)
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1951
Place of death Lübeck