Konrad Ameln

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Konrad Ameln (born July 6, 1899 in Neuss ; † September 1, 1994 in Lüdenscheid ) was a German hymnologist and musicologist.

Konrad Ameln

Life

Childhood, adolescence and academic years

Konrad Ameln grew up in Kassel and attended the humanistic Wilhelms-Gymnasium there. He took part in the First World War as a volunteer and was taken prisoner, from which he was released in 1919. On his return he received his Abitur certificate without an examination and began studying musicology with Friedrich Ludwig in Göttingen in 1920 . In 1921 he moved to Freiburg i. Br. To Wilibald Gurlitt . There he was in 1924 with a dissertation on the history of melody " Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen " and "O God, from the sky into it see" doctorate .

Act

Engaged in the Wandervogel and youth music movement since his youth , Konrad Ameln published the magazine Die Singgemeinde des Finkensteiner Bund from 1925 to 1933 . After further studies and work as an adult education center lecturer and leader of various choirs in Rendsburg and Kassel, Ameln worked from 1926 to 1928 as a specialist in music at the city ​​library and the German central office for popular libraries in Leipzig . In 1928 he became director of the Finkensteiner Bund Singwochen .

From 1930 to 1939 Konrad Ameln was, with interruptions, a private lecturer in Protestant church music at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . From 1931 he taught at the Pedagogical Academy in Elbing , later in Dortmund . Since he refused to exclude his Communist and Social Democratic students from the final exams in 1933, he was briefly imprisoned like some colleagues. After these events, he was initially given temporary retirement in 1933. After his forced retirement in 1934, Ameln moved with his family to Lüdenscheid.

In the same year his hymns for male choir We want to be a strong united kingdom and Das Lied vom neue Reich were based on a text by Hermann Claudius . After the incident at the Pedagogical Academy in Dortmund, Ameln joined the SS on November 1, 1933 , where he worked as an SS squad leader and trainer for the Race and Settlement Office. At the request of June 15, 1937, Ameln became a member of the NSDAP with effect from May 1, 1937 (party number 4.261.371).

At the beginning of the Second World War , Ameln volunteered for the Wehrmacht . He was initially assigned to the Landesschützen-Ersatz-Battalion VI. In April 1940 he was promoted to lieutenant in the 393rd Infantry Division. Ameln then worked for the Wehrmacht defense. In January 1945 he was a captain in the 1001 Grenadier Regiment and was taken prisoner by the Americans near Enns on the Danube. He was released on May 24, 1946.

In 1946 Ameln tried to regain his previous position as a lecturer at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . However, the Protestant faculty and the regional church rejected this. In the post-war period, Konrad Ameln again worked as a lecturer, initially at the State Music School in Hanover. From 1949 to 1957 he taught hymnology and the history of Protestant church music at the Rhineland State Church Music School . There he published the manual of German Protestant church music , which has appeared in numerous editions to this day. In 1959 he founded the International Working Group for Hymnology , which he headed until 1967.

Konrad Ameln became known as the editor of works by Johann Sebastian Bach ( motets ), Georg Friedrich Handel and Leonhard Lechner , which were published by Bärenreiter-Verlag . On behalf of the Georg Friedrich Handel Society , he published the first volume of the new Halle Handel Edition with the Alexanderfest , HWV 75. For the Messiah in the same edition he got a new German version of the text.

In 1980 he was awarded the title of professor by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia .

The “Lüdenscheider Musikvereinigung e. V. "

In 1935 Konrad Ameln founded the Lüdenscheider Musikvereinigung eV together with the doctor Wilhelm Boecker in Lüdenscheid, of which he was musical director until 1973. The highlights were the annual “small music festivals”, at which early music , mostly on historical instruments, but also contemporary compositions could be heard with the participation of top-class soloists such as Ferdinand Conrad and August Wenzinger .

With the beginning of the Second World War, Ameln's activities were severely restricted. After his return from American captivity in 1946, he resumed work on the “Little Music Festival”.

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literature

  • Helmut Pahl: Lüdenscheider heads of the cultural life of A-Z . Lüdenscheid 2003.
  • Gerhard Schuhmacher (ed.): Traditions and reforms in church music: Festschrift for Konrad Ameln on his 75th birthday on July 6, 1974 . Kassel and others: Bärenreiter, 1974; ISBN 3-7618-0501-2 .
  • Alexander Völker , Ada Kadelbach, Andreas Marti : In memoriam Konrad Ameln . In: Jahrbuch für Liturgik und Hymnologie 34 (1992/93), pp. VII – X; ISSN  0075-2681 ; it quotes the résumé written by Konrad Ameln himself.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fred K. Prieberg : Music in the Nazi State ; Frankfurt am Main: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, 1982; ISBN 3-596-26901-6 ; P. 254 (ill.). Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom Lexicon; Kiel: Kopf, 2004, pp. 140–141.
  2. ^ Interview with contemporary witnesses with Ameln's son on October 30, 1998, Lüdenscheid City Archives
  3. ↑ Hans-Ulrich Thamer, Daniel Droste and Sabine Happ (eds.): The University of Münster in National Socialism, Vol. 1, Münster 2012, p. 287
  4. ^ Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexicon; Kiel: Kopf, 2004; P. 140.
  5. ^ Letter to Jürgen Boeckh dated May 4, 1994 in the Ameln estate, Lüdenscheid city archive
  6. ^ Certificates of military service, etc. in the Ameln estate, Lüdenscheid city archive
  7. ↑ Hans-Ulrich Thamer, Daniel Droste and Sabine Happ (eds.): The University of Münster in National Socialism, Vol. 1, Münster 2012, p. 287
  8. ↑ Konrad Ameln (Ed.): Handbook of German Protestant Church Music , 4 volumes; [ua]; Göttingen 1932–1950
  9. ↑ Konrad Ameln (Ed.): Georg Friedrich Handel: The Alexander Festival or The Power of Music. Halle Handel Edition Series 1: Oratorios and great cantatas. Volume 1. Leipzig: German publishing house for music, 1957; DNB 1003121993
  10. ↑ John Tobin (Ed.): Georg Friedrich Händel: Der Messias. Halle Handel Edition Series 1: Oratorios and Great Cantatas, Volume 17; Leipzig 1965. German version of the text by Konrad Ameln; DNB 1003610544
  11. ^ Documents on the Lüdenscheider Music Association in the Ameln estate, Lüdenscheid city archive
personal data
SURNAME Ameln, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hymnologist and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuss
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1994
Place of death Ludenscheid