Schreyahn Artists' Court

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Schreyahn Artists' Court

The Künstlerhof Schreyahn is a scholarship holder for authors and composers in the Schreyahn district of the Lower Saxony town of Wustrow in Wendland .

Location, history and sponsorship

Cultural event in the hall of the Künstlerhof, here at the opening of the Open Monument Day 2015 in Lower Saxony

The Künstlerhof Schreyahn is located in the Rundlingsdorf Schreyahn, around eight kilometers southwest of the district town of Lüchow . The institution, founded in 1979, is supported by the Lüchow community . Together with the district and the cities of Wustrow and Lüchow, she acquired the former Techand farm in 1979 and converted it into a scholarship house with federal and state funds. In 1981 the first authors moved into the main building; 1983 the musicians in the newly completed outbuildings. The main building is a Low German hall building , with the spacious hallway of which a cultural center is available for readings and concerts. In 1992 an extension was built in which there are studios for writers. Since 2001 there has been the "Friends of the Lower Saxony scholarship institution Künstlerhof Schreyahn".

Meaning and special features

The Nicolas Born archive is located in the scholarship office . There is close cooperation with the Nicolas Born Foundation in Lüchow for the fields of literature and literary studies. The writer and former scholarship holder Adam Silk bequeathed his private library of around 4,000 volumes to the scholarship holder. Together with the court library and the “Library of the Lower Saxony Literature Council”, these four collections form the “Northern Germany Literature Center”; It is available to scholarship holders of the Leuphana University of Lüneburg , the schools in the district and the interested public for study purposes.

The Künstlerhof organizes conferences, for example a symposium was held in connection with an exhibition about the writer Nicolas Born on the 20th anniversary of his death. Up until 2007, the scholarship institution organized the “Schreyahner Herbst” festival with a nationally recognized series of concerts for modern music. There is a cooperation agreement with the “Applied Cultural Studies” department of the Leuphana University of Lüneburg; he conducts full-day seminars with his students in the Künstlerhof.

In later publications by the Künstlerhof scholarship holders, there are texts whose Schreyahn origin is unmistakable. Among other things, the writer Guntram Vesper , who lived in the Künstlerhof for a time, wrote a cycle of poems "Schreyahn", in which he does not write about the idyllic Wendland. "Instead, Vesper deals with the arguments about Gorleben or reflects on the Wendland residents - whereby their National Socialist past is also included, as in 'New Year in Schreyahn'."

The writer Wolfgang Bittner , who lived for several months in the Künstlerhof Schreyahn in 1987, has processed his impressions in several poems that are contained in his volume of poetry, Spurensuche (1998).

Events

Musical opening of the Open Monument Day 2015 in Lower Saxony in front of the Künstlerhof

In addition to the aforementioned literature and music festival “Schreyahner Herbst”, numerous other events take place in or through the Künstlerhof, for example

  • Readings, theater performances and literary trips in the annual Lüchow-Dannenberger "Book Spring"
  • Exhibitions and combined events such as 2005: “Nachtlust. Painting, culinary arts and literature "
  • Joint events with the German Cultural Forum, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation , the Education and Science Union, the music school, the “Reading Tent” campaign and the Nicolas Born Foundation
  • “Schreyahner Doppel” - reading and concert with scholarship holders
  • "Schreyahn Summer Night of Poetry"
  • Sunday matinees in February with readings by actors
  • Public rehearsals, evening and night concerts, writing workshops, reading groups

In 2015, Lower Saxony's minister of culture, Gabriele Heinen-Kljajic, opened the day of the open monument nationwide for Lower Saxony in the Künstlerhof Schreyahn .

Scholarships

Selection process and duration of the scholarship

An artistic advisory board consisting of 6 experts - together with a specialist from the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture - selects the scholarship holders for literature and music. You can submit your own applications from within Germany and abroad. There are no requirements regarding age, origin, reputation and gender. In the field of literature, the work must be written in German. The length of stay is either 3, 6 or 9 months; there is no uniform date for starting the fellowship.

Services and facilities

A monthly grant of 1,400 euros is paid from funds from the state of Lower Saxony . The studios are rent-free and consist of a living / working room as well as a kitchen, a bedroom and a wet room. A flat fee is paid for heating, electricity and water. How the time is used at the Künstlerhof is up to the artists. It is expected, however, that during this time they will also become culturally involved in the Wendland through concerts and readings or in other ways.

Former scholarship holders (selection)

List of authors
List of composers

literature

Web links

Commons : Künstlerhof Schreyahn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In: Vesper Guntram: The islands in the land sea. Extended edition (= Fischer Taschenbuch. Vol. 5821). Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1984, ISBN 3-596-25821-9 .
  2. ↑ Susanne von Schenck: Where Klopstock skated. A literary journey through the Wendland. In: The time. November 9, 1990.
  3. ↑ by : Minister at the opening ceremony of the Open Monument Day in Schreyahn. In: ejz.de. Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung . September 14, 2015 (limited preview).
  4. ↑ a b scholarship holders. In: kuenstlerhof-schreyahn.de, accessed on July 1, 2017.
  5. ↑ fb : A special piece of earth. In: ejz.de. Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung, October 27, 2015, p. 5 (limited preview).

Coordinates: 52 ° 56 ′ 9.4 "  N , 11 ° 4 ′ 25.5"  E