Karl Vötterle

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Karl Vötterle (born April 12, 1903 in Augsburg , † October 29, 1975 in Kassel ) was a German music publisher.

Life

With the intention of printing song sheets for members of the musical youth movement, he founded the Bärenreiter-Verlag in Augsburg in 1923 (since 1927 in Kassel), which he made into one of the largest music publishers worldwide. The rediscovery of Heinrich Schütz was decisive for the success of the publishing house in the first few years . By publishing the Quempas in 1930, he again suggested new Advent and Christmas musical singing customs. In Munich he was involved in the youth movement reformed university guild Werdandi . The association magazine Der Deutschen Bursch of the German Academic Guild appeared through this contact in the Bärenreiter publishing house, which is geared towards young people.

Vötterle published contemporary composers such as Hugo Distler , Ernst Pepping and Willy Burkhard early on . The promotion of the music of the present has always been one of the publisher's guidelines, along with maintaining the masters of the past. In 1933, together with Richard Baum, he founded the Kasseler Musiktage, initially a meeting of amateur musicians, then soon after the war an event with a sharp content profile that attracted many interested people to Kassel.

Between 1933 and 1945, as head of the Bärenreiter publishing house, he maintained the publication of (including contemporary) Christian music, but also published National Socialist songs and choral works, including an SS loyalty song, as well as choir books with forewords that conform to the system. As the publisher of the Christian Sunday letter in the affiliated Neuwerk publishing house, Vötterle was excluded from the Reich Press Chamber in December 1935 , but was resumed shortly thereafter subject to conditions. The Christian newspaper, which also published articles critical of the system, was banned.

In 1936 Vötterle joined the Reiter SA , in which he last had the rank of Oberscharführer . At the request of April 4, 1937, he became a member of the NSDAP with effect from May 1, 1937 (membership number 4,629,166). In September 1944, Vötterle was denounced by Herbert Gerigk at the main office for literature in the office of Rosenberg because of anthroposophical and denominational ties.

After the war, Vötterle had to face the denazification process . A ruling chamber declared him exonerated on November 21, 1947 and gave a summary of the reasons: "From all of this it follows that the person concerned has been actively resisting National Socialism at the latest since 1935, based on his anti-Nazi sentiments."

After the subsequent regaining of the publishing license, Vötterle and his colleagues who had returned from the war rebuilt the destroyed publishing house with their own hands and continued the publishing work. As a consequence of the regained democracy in Germany and the possible international contacts again, Vötterle established a network of relationships far beyond Germany as early as the 1950s. During this time he saw the "hour of the complete edition" had come and, in cooperation with publicly funded institutes, gradually began to publish scientific-critical complete editions of the works of Christoph Willibald Gluck (from 1951), Georg Philipp Telemann (from 1953), Johann Sebastian Bach (from 1954), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (from 1955), Georg Friedrich Händel (from 1955), Heinrich Schütz (from 1955), Franz Schubert (from 1964) and Hector Berlioz (from 1967). The worldwide reputation of the Bärenreiter-Verlag is based on these editions, some of which have not yet been completed, reflecting the latest musicological standards.

The first volume of the 17-volume encyclopedia Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart ( MGG ) was published as early as 1949 . Vötterle continued his commitment to contemporary music. Composers such as Ernst Krenek , Giselher Klebe , Günter Bialas and others published their works with Bärenreiter. Vötterle was the founder and co-founder of numerous societies, including the Neue Schütz-Gesellschaft (today: International Heinrich Schütz-Gesellschaft ), the Society for Music Research , the interest group of musicological editors and publishers (today: VG Musikedition ). Vötterle was also active beyond the field of music, for example as one of the founders of the Evangelical Michaelsbruderschaft or the Brothers Grimm Museum in Kassel. Bärenreiter-Verlag and the affiliated Johannes-Stauda-Verlag published books and writings on theology and history. Hessian regional studies, among other things, he received numerous honors, including honorary doctorates from the universities of Kiel (musicology, 1953) and Leipzig (theology, also 1953).

Awards

Fonts

  • House under the star . Kassel 1949, 4th edition 1969.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , Kiel 2004, p. 7446.
  2. ↑ Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , Kiel 2004, pp. 7446–7447.
  3. ↑ Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , Kiel 2004, p. 7448, source: ACDJC, Document CXLV-641.
  4. ↑ File number K.-St. 131/47
personal data
SURNAME Vötterle, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1975
Place of death kassel