Magdeburg Memorial

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Magdeburg Memorial

The Magdeburg Memorial is a wooden sculpture by Ernst Barlach in Magdeburg Cathedral .

history

Barlach created the memorial commissioned by the Prussian state as owner of the cathedral between 1927 and 1929. It was first erected on the Sunday of the Dead in 1929. The sculpture was criticized from the beginning by the parish and was removed on September 24, 1934 at the instigation of the cathedral parish council. After it was stored in the Berlin National Gallery , where the memorial was confiscated in 1937, it came into the possession of Bernhard Böhmer . On September 19, 1955, it was set up again in the cathedral. Today it stands at the eastern end of the north aisle .

description

The memorial shows two by three people who are formed from three large glued oak blocks. In the center a cross with the years 1914–1918. Barlach himself characterizes the half-figures in the lower area as hardship, death and despair, the figures behind them symbolize the war experienced, the knowledgeable and the naive.

Trivia

Armin Juhre composed a Barlach Oratorio , which premiered on September 26, 2009 in Magdeburg Cathedral , which tells the story of the memorial. The music is from Barry Jordan .

literature

  • Ilona Laudan: Ernst Barlach. The war memorial in Magdeburg Cathedral . Ed .: Evangelical Cathedral Community Magdeburg. Henschel, 1984, ISBN 978-3-89923-354-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Ways to Barlach ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 1, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wege-zu-barlach.de
  2. ^ Dietmar Coors: Theater as worship. LIT Verlag Münster, 2015, ISBN 978-3-643-12353-4 , p. 104 ( limited preview in Google book search).