Karl Schuke

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Karl Ludwig Alexander Schuke (born November 6, 1906 in Potsdam ; † May 7, 1987 in West Berlin ) was a German organ builder .

He was the son of the organ builder Alexander Schuke and continued to run his father's company with his brother Hans-Joachim Schuke until he founded and managed another organ building company, the Berlin organ building workshop Karl Schuke , in 1953 .

Karl Schuke's organ in Reykjavík Cathedral

Life

Karl Schuke attended school from 1912 to 1922 and graduated from the humanistic Viktoria-Gymnasium in Potsdam with an upper secondary level. In 1922 he began an apprenticeship as an organ builder in the workshop of his father Alexander Schuke , and from 1924 a special training in metal pipe construction. A pipe workshop followed with training of specialists. From 1927 he constructed pneumatic and electrical action and windchest systems.

After the death of their father in 1933, Karl and his brother Hans-Joachim continued the business together. Karl was responsible for organ building issues, Hans-Joachim took over commercial responsibility.

Despite the war-related restrictions after 1939, the company continued to exist exclusively through organ building and repairs. In 1948 Hans-Joachim Schuke returned from a Soviet captivity. In 1950 the Berlin organ workshop was founded as an "offshoot" of the Potsdam mother company Schuke . In 1953 Karl Schuke moved to Berlin and started building up the Berlin workshop.

In 1955 Karl Schuke received a teaching position for organ studies at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, and in 1956 he was appointed to the state examination board for church musicians. In 1962 he was made professor at the State University for Music and Performing Arts in Berlin, and in 1966 he became honorary professor at the State University for Music and Performing Arts in Berlin. In 1967 he was elected to the board of directors of the Association of German Organ Builders.

Karl Schuke died in Berlin in 1987 at the age of 80. His grave is in the forest cemetery in Zehlendorf .

Honors

literature

  • Martin Balz: On the 100th birthday of Karl Schuke . In: Ars Organi 4/2006, pp. 256f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e About us - Karl Schuke. The joy of building organs. Archived from the original on October 23, 2013 ; accessed on October 2, 2014 .
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 639.
personal data
SURNAME Schuke, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schuke, Karl Ludwig Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organ builder
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1987
Place of death West Berlin