Klopstockhaus

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Klopstockhaus, 2007

The Klopstockhaus of the Quedlinburg Municipal Museums is the birthplace of the poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock , one of the founders of classical German literature. At that time it was read more often than his contemporaries Goethe and Schiller . Today the Klopstockhaus contains a literature museum that provides information about Klopstock's life and work, but also about other Quedlinburg personalities. The house is registered in the Quedlinburg monument register. A library and an archive are attached to the museum. Immediately to the east is the also listed building Schlossberg 13 . At the western end of the garden is the Klopstockhaus pavilion .

History of the Klopstockhaus and the museum

Colored drawing of the Klopstockhaus from around 1840
Klopstockhaus around 1900
Klopstockhaus in 1952
Houses on Finkenherd square with the Klopstockhaus, 1981
1986

For the Middle Ages, it is assumed that the site was built and functioned as a bailey. The three barrel-vaulted cellars from the late Middle Ages, which do not match the floor plan of the house, come from older development phases than the half-timbered house above. Around 1560 the house was built in the Lower Saxon half-timbered style, designed with fan- shaped suns , double ship throats and braided ribbon. The bay window above the entrance was subsequently extended to two floors and supported by two columns.

In 1702 the poet's grandfather, Karl Otto Klopstock, bought the house where Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock was born in 1724. After the death of Klopstock's widowed sister, the house had to be sold in debt in 1809. It was acquired by the captain's secretary Johann Georg Karl Klopstock, who came from the Quedlinburg-Altstädter branch of the family. The next owner acquired it in 1817, the tanner Heinrich Andreas Bosse, then in 1836 the master baker Andreas Heinrich Becker, who sold it to the Quedlinburg painter and drawing teacher Wilhelm Steuerwaldt in 1839 . In the following time, several oil paintings were created with inside and outside views of the Klopstockhaus. In 1867 the seed dealer Heinrich Frühauf bought the house.

With material help from the Klopstockverein, the city of Quedlinburg was finally able to buy the Klopstockhaus in 1897. This was followed by the renovation and expansion of the museum, which was opened to the public in 1899 for the poet's 175th birthday. Due to renovations in the Quedlinburg town hall , the municipal picture collection was initially also included in the Klopstockhaus. The Klopstock exhibition and the library were housed in the bay window and messiah room, while exhibitions on other Quedlinburg personalities were set up in the other rooms on the upper floor. On the occasion of Klopstock's 200th birthday in 1924, the interior fittings and the exhibition presentation were renewed, and in 1929 another reorganization took place, as a number of exhibits from the Klopstock Museum were transferred to the Castle Museum after it had been opened as a local museum.

During the Second World War, the collection was moved to the Altenburg caves on the outskirts. Several losses were recorded in the post-war repatriation, including Klopstock's signet ring. In 1946 the Klopstock Museum was reopened. On the 150th anniversary of his death in 1953, the collection was redesigned again. When the exhibition area was expanded in 1959 through the reclamation of living spaces, it was also possible to reinstall the exhibitions on famous Quedlinburgers. On the occasion of the 250th birthday of the first German doctor, Dorothea Christiane Erxleben , the Erxleben room was set up in the Klopstockhaus in 1965. In 1974, on the occasion of Klopstock's 250th birthday, the Klopstock Museum was fundamentally redesigned by the National Research and Memorial Centers for Classical German Literature in Weimar (today: Weimar Classic Foundation ). All rooms on the upper floor were now used for the Klopstock exhibition, while the exhibitions on the Quedlinburg personalities were temporarily moved to the castle museum. They could only return to the Klopstockhaus when the last living rooms on the mezzanine floor became vacant in the 1980s. In 1995 the city began to renovate the building. The expansion of the first floor enabled the functional rooms to be relocated there, and the museum was now redesigned to include all the rooms on the ground floor, mezzanine and upper floor. The barrel vaulted cellar was set up as a lecture room. In 1999, the Klopstock Museum was reopened for the poet's 275th birthday and the centenary of the museum.

The exhibitions in the Klopstockhaus

The Literature and Memorial Museum for Klopstock includes all rooms on the first floor. On the ground floor, next to the entrance hall, reports on the Klopstock clubs are given in a room. The Klopstock exhibition is divided into the following sections:

  • Family and childhood
  • Princely School Pforta
  • Studied in Jena and Leipzig
  • Occupation with Leibnitz 'philosophy
  • Literary dispute
  • The Bremen contributions
  • Livelihood security
  • Klopstock's lyrics
  • Apprentice of the Greeks
  • Friendship
  • love
  • nature
  • Political beliefs
  • Messiah first print in the Bremen contributions
  • The Messiah - the various editions
  • Messiah translations
  • Settings of Klopstock's works
  • Klopstock's time in Denmark
  • Writings on grammar and spelling reform
  • Dramas
  • Vienna Plan - The German Republic of Scholars
  • Stay in Karlsruhe
  • Political Poems - Klopstock's Relationship to the French Revolution
  • The French Revolution in the judgment of Klopstock's contemporaries
  • Death and burial
  • Klopstock in the judgment of the times
  • Klopstock's performance
  • Klopstock's effect in the present - Hamburg Klopstock edition
  • Current poetry and the relationship to Klopstock

The Klopstockhaus also hosts exhibitions on famous Quedlinburg personalities. In addition to Dorothea Christiane Erxleben , the first German doctor of medicine, also about Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths , the philanthropic educator and advocate of physical education, and about Carl Ritter , the founder of scientific geography. A special exhibition room was created on the mezzanine floor, in which the municipal museums can alternately present parts of their extensive collection on Wilhelm Steuerwaldt, a Quedlinburg painter of the Romantic period.

The project “Klopstock! in 7 minutes "

Since December 2017, the Klopstockhaus has been using the new cultural communication format “Klopstock! in 7 minutes ”on various occasions such as the Quedlinburg“ Advent in the Courtyards ”, the International Museum Day or the Open Monument Day . The aim of this format is to revive the Klopstockhaus, which has not been looked after by museum pedagogy since the previous curator Brigitte Meixner retired in 2010. The project was initiated by the literary studies seminar "Klopstock!" At the German Institute of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in the winter semester 2016/2017, which was organized by Dr. Christiane Holm and Dr. Christian Soboth was supervised. The participating students worked out five seven-minute thematic blocks that report pointedly about and from the life and work of Klopstock and on December 4th and 11th, 2016 for the Quedlinburg “Advent in the Courtyards 2016” under the motto “Klopstock! Skater, Sprachartist, Quedlinburger "were performed for the first time:" Der Liebende "," Der Eisläufer "," Das Genie "," Der Kulturpolitiker "and" Der Nacktbader ". In 2017, the program was expanded to include three further thematic blocks: “The Heavenly Stormer”, “The Troublemaker” and “The Wine Drinker”.

In 2017, the eight thematic blocks developed so far for International Museum Day (May 21, 2017, Quedlinburg, motto: “Spring ceremony in the Klopstockhaus”), for International Friendship Day (July 30, 2017, Quedlinburg, motto: “Summer freshness in the Klopstockhaus”), on The day before the Open Monument Day (9 September 2017, Quedlinburg, motto: "Harvest time in the Klopstockhaus"), to the State Literature Days of Saxony-Anhalt ( 15-18 October 2017, Halle (Saale), motto of the State Literature Days : " Language - Poetry - Politics: Klopstock Literature Days ”) and for the Quedlinburg“ Advent in the Courtyards 2017 ”.

The project has been reported in the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung again and again since the first successful presentations.

At the end of 2016, the new format was supplemented by a joint production of short radio reports by the students together with MDR Kultur . In the MDR Kultur theme week “The Invention of Beautiful Winter”, contributions were made on the topics “How ice skating came to Central Germany”, “The ode to the fireplace”, “From the glitter in the sensitive letter”, “The genius is freezing? The punch helps! "And" Muff and skid - elegance on the ice "aired at the beginning of January 2017.

The Klopstock Club

This association, founded in Quedlinburg in 1872, saw itself as an association for the preservation of Klopstock's writings. His tasks were: collecting the still existing handwritten estate of Klopstock in originals or in reliable copies, collecting all complete and individual editions of his works, collecting all statements about Klopstock in national and international literature. With the funding and support of the Klopstockverein, the two-volume critical-historical edition of the Oden Klopstocks, edited by Jaro Pawel and Franz Muncker, was published by Göschen Verlag in 1889. When the association saw its tasks as fulfilled, the meanwhile quite considerable Klopstock collection was handed over to the city of Quedlinburg in 1896. This took over the obligation to continue and popularize the Klopstock collection. An important step towards this was the establishment of the Klopstock Museum in the house where the poet was born.

literature

  • Falko Grubitzsch in: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 1: Ute Bednarz, Folkhard Cremer and others: Magdeburg administrative region. Revision. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , page 756.
  • Brigitte Meixner: The Klopstockhaus. Literature and memorial museum in the house where the poet was born (= series of publications from Klopstockhaus 2). Stekovics, Halle an der Saale 1999, ISBN 3-932863-25-9 .
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments of Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.): List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 7: Falko Grubitzsch, with the participation of Alois Bursy, Mathias Köhler, Winfried Korf, Sabine Oszmer, Peter Seyfried and Mario Titze: Quedlinburg district. Volume 1: City of Quedlinburg. Fly head, Halle 1998, ISBN 3-910147-67-4 , page 228.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CHRISTIAN EGER: Klopstock house: hibernation at the Finkenherd . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . ( mz-web.de [accessed on February 24, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Klopstock! Ice skater, language artist, Quedlinburg. Retrieved February 24, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Program of "Klopstock! In 7 minutes". Retrieved February 24, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Klopstockhaus. Retrieved February 24, 2018 .
  5. ^ Christian Eger: Seven-minute lectures: Klopstock for those in a hurry in the birth house. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . ( mz-web.de [accessed on February 24, 2018]).
  6. ↑ ON: Klopstock makes a name for himself as a nudist. Students present the poet in a whole new light. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, December 9, 2016, accessed on February 24, 2018 (German).
  7. ↑ a b Rita Kunze: Genie puts itself in the limelight. Students at the Martin Luther University in Halle show the poet Klopstock from a different perspective in short lectures. The whole thing can also be heard on the radio. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, December 13, 2016, accessed on February 24, 2018 (German).
  8. ↑ Rita Kunze: A poet is dusted off. Klopstock was the first pop star among German poets, but his star quickly fell. Nevertheless, students from Halle want to polish it up in Quedlinburg. Why? Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, September 27, 2017, accessed on February 24, 2018 (German).
  9. ↑ Audio: The Invention of Beautiful Winter. Retrieved February 24, 2018 .
  10. ↑ MDR culture; Klopstock eV Quedlinburg: The invention of beautiful winter. Retrieved February 24, 2018 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 12.8 "  N , 11 ° 8 ′ 10"  E