Klara Enss

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Klara Margarethe Enss (also Clara Enss ; born July 29, 1922 in Bad Doberan ; † June 6, 2001 on Sylt ) was a German actress , pension landlady on Sylt and nature and environmental protection activist .

Klara Enss grew up on her parents' large farm in Neversfelde in Schleswig-Holstein and in 1939 completed her training as a “rural housework assistant”. In 1947 she took a new path and attended a drama school in Hamburg . After she subsequently successfully completed several engagements at various stages and participated in radio plays of the NDR as a speaker, in 1954, family circumstances forced her to look for a new professional perspective. In 1956 she bought a piece of land in the farming village of Braderup on the island of Sylt and had two houses built there according to her own ideas. Here she ran the Pension Bundis Hoog until 1972, which in the following years developed into a hip address, especially among prominent cultural workers such as the theater director Peter Zadek , the American director Nic Ray or journalists such as Wolfgang Menge or Carmen Thomas .

Enss, politically interested but not active, observed the development of mass tourism and the real estate business on Sylt with growing skepticism . When civil society resistance against the gigantic Atlantis building project on the sea-facing side of Westerland was formed in 1970 and the first citizens' initiative emerged, she joined the protest. Enss became one of the driving forces behind the initiative. The alliance drew attention to the questionable building project with countless protests. Soon it was not only about preventing a 30-story apartment block on the coast of Westerland, but also fundamentally questioning and ending the felt felt here by politics, construction companies and investors. In fact, the state government finally prevented construction.

In the years that followed, Klara Enss developed into a prominent political activist on the west coast of Schleswig-Holstein. In 1975 she took over the chairmanship of the "Sylt Nature Conservation Association" founded in 1924 and modernized it when she merged it with the citizens' initiative to form the " Sylt Nature Conservation Association ". In addition, she became involved early on against planned nuclear power plant sites in the Wadden Sea and showed solidarity with the resistance against the Brokdorf nuclear power plant . As Vice President of the Association of Taxpayers in Schleswig-Holstein, Klara Enss tried to expose questionable links between the nuclear industry and energy policy. After all, in 1980 she was one of the co-founders of the Schleswig-Holstein State Association of the Federal Environment and Nature Conservation Germany . Since 1988, the year of the great seal death, she has campaigned heavily for the protection of the North Sea and the oceans and helped organize the “Our North Sea - let it live” campaign.

On Sylt, Klara Enss took an active part in shaping politics until the end of the 1990s and held various offices. Among other things, she was jointly responsible for the establishment of the environmental education facility at the Braderup Nature Conservation Center and initiated the “Save Sylt” protest network in order to protect the island from being “sold out” to speculators, from land consumption and massive environmental damage from growing traffic and consumption. 1986 to 1990 she was elected deputy mayor of Wennigstedt as a member of the Wenningstedter / Braderuper voter association.

She received various awards for her political and civil society engagement - in 1984 among other things the Federal Cross of Merit .

Klara Enss did not get married, was anxious to lead an autonomous life and moved within a reliable network of close friends. She died in 2001 and is buried in the Wenningstedter cemetery. The Braderup Nature Conservation Center now bears her name.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anna-Katharina Wöbse: Klara Enss - A Sylter Biography. Think critically, act politically - live well. Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 2017, ISBN 978-3-89876-881-8 , p. 136 .
  2. ↑ Clara Enss: Notes from the estate . Sylter Spiegel, Westerland 2002.
  3. ↑ Sepp Binder: A victory on Sylt. In: The time. April 28, 1972. Retrieved August 12, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Anna-Katharina Wöbse: Klara Enss . Husum, 2017, p. 85-95 .
  5. ↑ Harry Kunz, Thomas Steensen: Taschenlexikon Sylt . Ed .: Nordfriisk Instituut. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2014, ISBN 978-3-529-05525-6 , pp. 86 .
  6. ↑ About us | NSG Sylt eV | Naturschutzgemeinschaft Sylt eV Accessed on August 12, 2017 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Enss, Klara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Enss, Klara Margarethe (full name); Enss, Clara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress, landlady on Sylt and nature and environmental protection activist
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Doberan
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 2001
Place of death Sylt