Lilly Dieckmann

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Lilly Theodora Dieckmann , b. Distel (born September 18, 1882 in Dresden , † August 15, 1958 in Lübeck ) was a German pianist , salonnière and patroness .

Life

Villa Distelheim in Blasewitz

Lilly Distel was the daughter of the royal Saxon archivist Dr. jur. Ernst August Theodor Distel (1849–1912) and his wife Theodora (Dora), b. Souchay (1857-1945). Her mother came from the Lübeck branch of the successful Huguenot merchant dynasty Souchay and was the daughter of Marc André Souchay (1824–1880) and his wife Mathilde, nee. Irsengarten (1829-1916). Theodor Souchay was her great-uncle.

Her sister Hilde (1880–1917), two years older than her, was a singer and a childhood friend of Thomas Mann's sister Julia . The families were largely related by marriage. Both sisters were unusually talented in music. They grew up together with the brothers Paul and Carl Ehrenberg , who lost their mother at an early age, in the Villa Distelheim at Marschallallee 21 (today Handelallee 3) in Blasewitz .

Parkstrasse 60 in Lübeck

Lilly Thistle married on December 3, 1903 in Dresden the merchant (Ernst Wilhelm) Dieckmann Reinhard (April * 28 jul. / May 10, 1879 greg. In Vladivostok ; † August 21, 1958 in Lübeck) and moved with him to Lubeck where he acquired citizenship in 1904 and, with his uncle Charles Hornung Petit, became a partner in the Lübeck trading house Charles Petit & Co and became a Danish consul.

In her townhouse in the Park street at the city park and their summer cottage on Lake Ratzeburg in Groß Sarau led Consul Dieckmann an influential musical salon and promoted next to Ida Boy-Ed young Wilhelm Furtwängler to succeed Hermann Abendroth prevail.

estate

The last resting place of the Dieckmann couple in the Souchay family grave in the cemetery of the St. Jürgen Chapel in Lübeck. The tomb is the work of the architect Joseph Christian Lillie .

The childless couple, who died shortly after each other, used the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities as the sole heir to their property. With the financial means, the Colosseum was rebuilt in 1958 and reopened in 1959 with more than a thousand seats as the most modern concert hall in Northern Germany at the time. A marble plaque in the foyer of the Colosseum commemorates this large donation by the couple.

By means of a joint will of the Dieckmann couple, the estate of Lilly Dieckmann's letters and diaries were transferred to the archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck . The letter estate contains letters from Wilhelm Furtwängler, Edwin Fischer , Arthur Nikisch , Conrad Hansen , Fritz Behn and Thomas Mann.

Her large dollhouse from childhood is now one of the central exhibits in the toy department of the St. Annen Museum in Lübeck.

The Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities has an oil portrait of Lilly Dieckmann painted by Paul Ehrenberg in 1917.

Fonts

  • Furtwängler in Lübeck 1911–1915. From letters from a music lover to her mother. In: Martin Hürlimann (ed.): Wilhelm Furtwängler: in the judgment of his time. Atlantis, Zurich / Freiburg i. Br. 1955, p. 131ff.

literature

  • Günter Zschacke : Furtwängler in Lübeck. The years 1911–1915 as reflected in the letters from Lilli Dieckmann to her mother in Dresden. Ed. Of “Orchesterfreunde - Verein Konzertaal der Hansestadt Lübeck e. V. “ Lübeck 2000.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to the entry in the birth register, accessed via ancestry.com on June 7, 2016, often also Lilli
  2. ↑ Otto Döhner: The Huguenot family Souchay de la Duboissière and their descendants. Neustadt an der Aisch: Degener 1961 (Deutsches Familienarchiv 19) digitized , p. 159.
  3. ↑ Peter de Mendelssohn : The magician. The life of the writer Thomas Mann. Volume 1: 1875-1918. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1975, ISBN 3-10-04940-2-4 , p. 377.
  4. ↑ Thomas Mann , Heinrich Detering , Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich , Thomas Mann Archive: Large annotated Frankfurt edition: Letters 1, 1889–1913, in: Volume 21: Frankfurter edition annotated by Thomas Mann, S. Fischer, Frankfurt, 2002 , P. 579; Helmut Keiber: "... that you are worthwhile and important to me": Thomas Mann and Paul Ehrenberg. VPK, Verlag Pfälzer Kunst, Landau in der Pfalz 2005, pp. 18, 320, 321.
  5. ^ Hartwig Beseler (ed.): Art Topography Schleswig-Holstein. Neumünster 1974, p. 159
  6. ↑ Georg Behrens: 175 years of charitable work. Lübeck 1964, p. 142.
  7. ↑ Fig. On the Colosseum homepage.
  8. ↑ Finding aid entry
  9. ^ Max Hasse : Toys and Games. Museums for Art and Cultural History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, 1974.
  10. ↑ The Lübeckers in Portrait, 1780–1930: for the 50th anniversary of the Behnhaus as a museum of modern art. Behnhaus, Lübeck 1973, p. 20.
personal data
SURNAME Dieckmann, Lilly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dieckmann, Lilly Theodora (full name); Distel, Lilly (maiden name); Dieckmann, Lilli
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist, salonnière and patron
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 15th August 1958
Place of death Lübeck