Klaus Schreiner (museologist)

Klaus Schreiner (born October 27, 1929 in Waren , † October 18, 1991 ) was a German historian and museologist .

Born as the son of a country doctor and a teacher in Potsdam, Klaus Schreiner grew up in the Haveldorf Schollene . After his father's death, he worked as a farmhand between 1944 and 1946. After graduating from high school in 1948, he studied history , education and journalism in Leipzig until 1953 . Until 1960 he was assistant for philosophy and history at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University in Greifswald and then became a research assistant at the Müritz Museum in Waren.

Klaus Schreiner received his doctorate in March 1963 from the Wilhelm Pieck University of Rostock under Günter Heidorn and Martin Polzin with a thesis on The Struggle of the Working People of Western Pomerania against the militaristic Kapp Putsch and the subsequent actions in March 1920 . He then became senior museum councilor at the Agricultural History Museum Alt Schwerin .

In addition to his work as a museum director, Klaus Schreiner was very actively involved in the theoretical foundation of museology as a science, was appointed to the National Museum Council of the GDR in 1965 and joined the ICOM committee for museology. Schreiner was a member of the museology working group of the GDR Ministry of Higher Education and Technical Schools. The PhD B took place in April 1984 with the work Introduction to Museology, which was submitted in 1982 . A contribution to the theoretical foundations of museum work , reviewers were Kurt Wernicke , Kurt Patzwall and Ilse Jahn .

Towards the end of the GDR, Schreiner was a member of the executive committee of the GDR Historians' Society . Above all, his extremely controversial arguments with the Czechoslovak museologist Zbynek Z. Stránský , whom he accused of ideological misconduct, was viewed very critically by numerous museum experts in the GDR.

Fonts

• Documents report on the struggle for the unity of the working class and the working people in the Waren district, Müritz district museum, Waren 1961 (Publications of the Müritz Museum Waren, no.6)
• Müritz area. Waren, Klink, Malchow, Alt Schwerin, Röbel , Brockhaus, Leipzig 1970 ( Brockhaus-Wanderheft 130) (three editions with a total of 45,000 copies)
• Museological terms. Selection , self-published, Neubrandenburg 1982
• On the theory and methodology of the collection, preservation, development and use of museums , Agricultural History Museum, Alt Schwerin 1984 (Basics of Museology, no.5 )
• with Heinz Wecks: Museology - Subject, Tasks, Inventory , Institute for Museums, Berlin 1986 (series of publications by the Institute for Museums, no.27)
• with Heinz Wecks: Preservation of holdings in museums and inventory development , Institute for Museums, Berlin 1987 (series of publications by the Institute for Museums, no.28)
• with Heinz Wecks: Institution Museum - Functions and Management , Institute for Museums, Berlin 1987 (series of publications by the Institute for Museums, no. 30)
• with Heinz Wecks: History of the Museum System , Institute for Museum System , Berlin 1988 (Series of the Institute for Museum System , volume 31)

literature

• Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 549.
• Manfred Tunn, Wolfgang Klausewitz : Klaus Schreiner - a posthumous portrait. In: Museumskunde , 1991, issue 3, pp. 203–205.
• Andreas Hanslok: Museology and archival studies in the GDR. Delimitation and convergence of two neighboring sciences. Tectum, Marburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8288-9581-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Manfred Tunn u. Wolfgang Klausewitz: Klaus Schreiner - a posthumous portrait . In: Museum Studies . No. 3 , 1991, pp. 203-205 .
2. ↑ Andreas Hanslok: museology and archival science in the GDR - demarcation and approach of two neighboring sciences . Marburg 2008.