Manfred Kiedorf

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Manfred Kiedorf (around 1952)

Manfred Kiedorf (born October 21, 1936 in Berlin ; † January 1, 2015 there ) was a German set designer , illustrator and miniaturist . Since the 1950s he has been creating rococo miniatures together with Gerhard Bätz , which are now presented in the Rococo en miniature exhibition.

Life

Manfred Kiedorf as a guest of his favorite Berlin pub Van Speyck / Pieper in 2010

Manfred Kiedorf was born in Berlin in a Ju 52 and after landing in Berlin-Tempelhof he was cut off at the St. Josef Hospital. He grew up as a straggler of two siblings - Ursula and Günter. Her father Karl Paul Kiedorf (* 1901 Thorn / West Prussia; † 1949 Sonneberg ) was a post office worker and was entrusted with the construction and operation of a field post office at Liebenstädt Castle near Posen during World War II . In February 1945 the family returned to Berlin-Mariendorf - the mother Hertha was originally from Berlin . A year later the Oberpostdirektion ordered the father, who had returned from Soviet captivity, to Stützerbach , and later to Neuhaus am Rennweg and Sonneberg. Impressed by Kiedorf's children's drawings, the resident animal and plant painter Engelbert Schoner gave the twelve-year-old a few showcases in his personal exhibition in Neuhaus. After his father died in February 1949 at the age of 49, Manfred Kiedorf began an apprenticeship as a toolmaker in the Neuhaus-Schierschnitz porcelain factory , trained as a projectionist and later in Sonneberg from 1951 to 1953 as a commercial advertiser at the HO , where he worked at the Gerhard commercial school Bätz and the later doll designer Christa Mann . In 1955/1956 he worked with Bätz in Erfurt and Weimar , where they camped at Belvederer Allee 13 in Christian Rohlfs' former studio . At that time, the local artists Alexander von Szpinger , Otto Paetz and Alfred Ahner provided a model and inspiration for his artistic work .

From 1957 to 1960 he studied set design with Heinrich Kilger and graphics with Ernst Rudolf Vogenauer at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art . After completing his studies, he worked under the direction of Hainer Hill as a set designer and set model maker at the State Opera Unter den Linden and as a set designer for German television . On August 14, 1961, he came to Hannes Hegen's mosaic collective, where he worked as a draftsman and built models that served as spatial drawing templates. Kiedorf designed the turnip-shaped castle of the knight Runkel and spent weeks drawing the bird's eye view of historic Venice , where Kiedorf's creation of Runkel's castle ship was also used. In June 1965 he started his own business and worked for DEMUSA (Deutsche Musikinstrumenten- und Spielwaren Außenhandelsgesellschaft mbH Berlin), on behalf of Dr. Fritz Kunter for the Museum of German History in Berlin, as well as for the Berlin Maxim-Gorki-Theater and the Volksbühne Berlin . In 1965 Manfred Kiedorf designed the medal for merits in fire protection for the Council of Ministers of the GDR , which was officially awarded from 1968. In 1967 he moved into a farmhouse in Neumanschnow , which he later had a tractor driver push together with a caterpillar after the failed first marriage.

In 1970 he was accepted as a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR - his guarantors were Alfred Ahner and Horst Jahresling - and then worked as a freelance draftsman and illustrator, worked as a model maker for the army film studio of the National People's Army and as a museum designer a. a. dioramas on Schloss Branitz at Falkenstein Castle (Harz) , Koenigstein Fortress and the Postal Museum of the GDR (model of a coaching inn from 1820, 1:50, 1973). Two times - in the mid-1970s and 1980 to 1983 - Manfred Kiedorf served imprisonment in matters of non-payment of maintenance payments in the StVE detention center (prison facility) Schwarze Pumpe - a total of five years. Manfred Kiedorf resided in numerous East Berlin restaurants, which today mostly no longer exist, including the press café (Friedrichstrasse 101/102); The Seagull (Luisenstrasse 18); the espresso in the Lindencorso (Unter den Linden 17), the Posthorn , called Tute (Rathausstraße 3); the espresso at the TV tower on Alexanderplatz; the Café Scala (Schönhauser Allee 80); the Viennese café (Schönhauser Allee 68); Fengler (Lychener Strasse 11); the lampion , (Knaackstrasse 54); the Pieper (Sredzkistraße 44) and the pub (Knaackstraße 94). At the end of February 2000, as a result of a stroke, Manfred Kiedorf completely lost sight in his left eye and with it spatial vision in general.

Kiedorf's life's work is the imaginative realm of the castles of the vaunted island that he created over the course of more than 50 years together with his friend Gerhard Bätz . This total work of art, bought in 2006 by the Thuringian State Museum Heidecksburg in Rudolstadt , has been presented since 2007 in the restored rooms of the castle's former court kitchen. Selected pieces of the more than 3,000 handwritten letters with sketches and architectural drawings from the correspondence between the two artists, which ran for more than half a century and which Lieselotte Baumberg, Sonneberg, worked on thematically in 1999 for the period 1957 to 1994, are also made available. With the knight promotion Chevalier de la noble passion du château Heidecksburg , awarded on September 21, 2010 in Rudolstadt, Gerhard Bätz and Manfred Kiedorf were awarded all the honors, privileges and titles of a knight of noble and noble inclination. The public response to the exhibition at Heidecksburg Castle is extraordinary, in 2014 the 200,000. Visitors welcomed, in August 2015 Director Lutz Unbehaun declared that the 300,000 mark would soon be reached.

Manfred and Roswitha Kiedorf's grave in Cemetery II of the Sophiengemeinde in Berlin with the figure he wanted - a Hebe, in Greek mythology cupbearer of the gods

Manfred Kiedorf was married twice (1959/1985) and is the father of seven children - Andreas Manfred (* 1960), Fabian Herbert Stefan (* 1961), Peter Matthias (* 1961), Peter-Christian (* 1963), Bettina- Ulrike (* 1964), Ulrich (1969–1969) and Henriette Karoline (* 1973).

Manfred Kiedorf - one of the last German bohemians of the 20th century - died on the morning of January 1, 2015 in a senior citizens' home in Berlin-Frohnau and was buried on January 20, 2015 in Cemetery II of the Sophiengemeinde in Berlin-Mitte (grave site I-13 -13) buried. Roswitha Kiedorf (née Spaller, divorced Hoepp * 1942, Woldegk), his second wife, died on April 20, 2016 in a senior citizens' home in Berlin and was buried in her husband's grave.

Creative activity in the field of applied arts (selection)

  • Six drawings in the 1st issue, May 1960, of the GDR humor and satirical magazine Eulenspiegel
  • Rococo miniatures cast in pewter designed according to Watteau motifs on behalf of DEMUSA (Deutsche Musikinstrumenten- und Spielwaren Außenhandelsgesellschaft mbH Berlin), 1964/65
  • Beatles miniatures cast in tin and intended as a promotional gift on behalf of DEMUSA (Deutsche Musikinstrumenten- und Spielwaren Außenhandelsgesellschaft mbH Berlin), 1966
  • Miniature Augsburger Gender Dance (10 figures each) cast in pewter intended as a promotional gift on behalf of DEMUSA (Deutsche Musikinstrumenten- und Spielwaren Außenhandelsgesellschaft mbH Berlin), 1966
  • German Peasant War - tin figures diorama for the officers' house , National People's Army in Torgelow , 1966
  • Medal of the German Boxer Dog Breeders' Association
  • Dioramas Hunting of the present , hunting in the primitive community and in the Middle Ages (return from the hunt) , Museum Burg Falkenstein / Harz, 1972
  • Bronze official shield of the Center Culturel Français in Berlin (GDR) , Unter den Linden 37/39; Opening: January 27, 1984
  • Design for the artfully forged coat of arms of the executioner's house in Werder (Havel) , on Plantagenplatz
  • 101 glass pictures for a bowling alley in Freiburg im Breisgau , 1990
  • Equipment (coats of arms, costumes and flags) for the opening of the Embassy of the Kingdom of Dyonia for Ernst H. Exters currywurst company on August 6, 2003 in the presence of your Excellencies of the Embassy Councilors from Ecuador and Poland in Berlin-Baumschulenweg
  • Animated drawings for the documentary Fallwurf Böhme - The miraculous ways of a left-hander by Heinz Brinkmann , Germany 2012

Self-published books

At the beginning of the 1990s Kiedorf rediscovered caricature as an old passion, which he published in limited editions of mostly 100 numbered copies. The Berlin bookbinders Klaus Kindling and above all Markus Rottmann have published these usually around 50-page works in octave format with marbled paper bindings. Published:

  • Kunterbuntbuch Nr. 1 , with a middle word by Jochen Petersdorf , 52 p., Berlin 1990
  • Kunterbuntbuch No. 2 , with a middle word by Jochen Petersdorf, 58 pages, Berlin 1991
  • Aufschwung Ost , 50 drawings, 52 pages, Berlin 1993
  • Sympharosiade , high song of the Sympharosa in twenty songs, written by Bombastus des from Igelshieb, 28 p., Berlin 1995
  • Der Ring der Niegelungenen - An East-West soap opera in 50 pictures , with a middle word by Matthias Thalheim, 60 p., Berlin 1996
  • Very very rare animals from the Oderbruch , for Dr. med. vet. Siegfried Börner, Berlin 1996
  • Bottom line - a falsified balance sheet in 50 drawings , middle word: "2 to 3 souls live in my chest" by the author, Berlin 1997
  • You and the others - 50 drawings and other nonsense , middle word: Karla M. von Törne, 62 S., Berlin 1999
  • My favorite is my cat , middle word: Karla M. von Törne, 52 S., Berlin 1999
  • The German oak - a melodrama for adult children , based on an idea by Uwe Nutto, text: Jochen Petersdorf, image: Manfred Kiedorf, epilogue: Matthias Thalheim, 14 p., Leporello, Berlin 1991/2000
  • Bombastus from Hedgehog: Animal Science. Beautiful Pictures - Zierliche Verse , 50 p., Berlin 2005
  • Bombastus from hedgehog: Tierkunde 2. Beautiful pictures, delicate verses , foreword: Bda Igelshieb, afterword: Matthias Thalheim, 52 p., Berlin 2005
  • Mint and postmarked but really wrong. 155 mockery marks from 10 years and an explanatory word by Matthias Thalheim, 76 p., Berlin 2006
  • On boards through the air - Helmut Recknagel , 12 p., Leporello, Berlin 2007
  • Essentially from Katzen , Mittelwort by Matthias Thalheim, 50 p., Berlin 2008
  • Being old is beautiful - Doctors without borders , two topics in one volume, no middle word by the author, 70 p., Berlin 2008
  • Manfred Kiedorf asks: Did Schiller laugh? , with an afterword by Matthias Biskupek , 52 p., Berlin 2009
  • From grandpas and furniture , with a middle word by Matthias Thalheim, 54 p., Berlin 2009
  • From grandpas and furniture 2 , accompanying word: Manfred Kiedorf, 70 p., Berlin 2009
  • Bombastus from Hedgehog: Human Studies - About food and quirks of people on earth , 52 p., Berlin 2010
  • Oparettes - Composed with footnotes , with a middle word by Helga Höhne, 70 p., Berlin 2010
  • Hardwood poetry by the meter and self-sawn, called: Indigos , epilogue: Manfred Kiedorf, 58 p., Berlin 2011
  • From the Stone Age by Ma (mmut) fred Kie (sel) dorf, middle word: Matthias Thalheim; 50 pp., Berlin 2012

Exhibitions

literature

  • Ulrich Griebel and Matthias Thalheim (eds.): Dear people! - Speaking time for radio listeners , documentation of a series of broadcasts from 1990–1990 by Sachsen Radio and MDR Kultur , Leipzig 1995, p. 192/193, ISBN 3-9804773-0-4 .
  • Jochen Petersdorf: Between breakfast and cabbage rolls: fairy tales for adults and other satirical works , illustrations: Manfred Kiedorf, Edition Ost, Berlin 1995, ISBN 978-3-929161-17-5 .
  • Volker Handloik (eds.) And Harald Hauswald (photos): The GDR is turning 50: texts and photographs , Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 978-3-351-02479-6 .
  • Reinhild and Peter Schneider (eds.): The castles of the praised island. Rococo en miniature by Gerhard Bätz and Manfred Kiedorf. Kunstverlag, Gotha 2000, ISBN 3-931182-24-X .
  • Helga Kämpf-Jansen , Jens Henkel (ed.): Rococo en miniature. The castles of the vaunted island. Thuringian State Museum Heidecksburg, Rudolstadt 2007, ISBN 978-3-910013-67-4 .
  • Juliane Groh: The castles of the vaunted island. Imaginative by Gerhard Bätz and Manfred Kiedorf , Master's thesis at Friedrich Schiller University Jena 2008
  • Ines Geipel and Andreas Petersen : Black Box DDR: Untold Lives under the SED Regime , Marix-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-86539-211-4 .
  • Kiedorfs Panoptikum , numerous caricatures by Manfred Kiedorf and texts by Matthias Biskupek, Rudolstadt 2013, ISBN 978-3-910013-86-5 .
  • Jutta Voigt : Spätvorstellung - From the adventures of getting older , in it the section: Old people are young people with an overview , Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2014, pp. 169–173, ISBN 978-3-7466-3023-6 .
  • Helga Kämpf-Jansen, Jens Henkel (ed.): Rococo en miniature. The castles of the vaunted island. Thuringian State Museum Heidecksburg, 1st extended new edition Rudolstadt 2019, ISBN 978-3-947272-10-5 .
  • Matthias Thalheim: Fatzer on the radio - encounters of a rare nature , including text from the radio programs Oh Ihr Nymphen ... (MDR 1993), The castles of the praised island ... (MDR 2007), In the men's museum - exchange of words with Max Stock (2007-2012 ) , Verlag epubli, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-750260-96-2

Film and television documentaries

  • Scharnhorst - Creator of the People's Armament , NVA Army Film Studio 1969, (tin figures and drawings), (26 min), with booklet Verlag Volk und Wissen 1970
  • The preliminary life of Count Kiedorf , part 3 of the trilogy of the unbroken hearts , documentary film (45 min.) By Heinz Brinkmann (Germany 1992)
  • Actor in: Usedom. A German Island Life - Part 1 (90 min.) By Heinz Brinkmann (Germany 1993)
  • “Von der Lust am Prunken” - Film by Ria Weber Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk 2007, also released on DVD, Telepool 2007

Radio broadcasts

  • "Oh you nymphs who live in the trees" - two painting bohemians in Weimar in the fifties. Memories by Manfred Kiedorf, directed by Matthias Thalheim, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk 1993
  • “Dear people! - Speaking time for radio listeners " - Episode 111, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , February 13, 1993
  • “How the Thälmann pioneers came to Karl May's wild west” by Jörg Sobiella , conversation partner on the history of MOSAIK, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , December 16, 1995
  • “Farmers, Bonzen and Bombs” - radio play based on Hans Fallada, role: Graf Bandekow; Director: Jürgen Dluzniewski, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , February 1997, also published as an audio book, 5 CDs (345 min.), Osterwold-Audio, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86952-123-7
  • "Groblieb von Trunksess - From the Life of a Forgotten Knight" by and with Manfred Kiedorf, reading by the author Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , May 21, 1998
  • “The castles of the vaunted island - Gerhard Bätz and Manfred Kiedorf in the residences of their imagination” - audio picture by Gerhard Bätz and Manfred Kiedorf, directed by Matthias Thalheim, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , February 2007

Web links

Commons : Manfred Kiedorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Creator of Rococo en miniature is dead. ( Memento from January 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) rudolstadt-lokal.de, January 2, 2015.
  2. ↑ Peter Juppenlatz: Rokokolores for two. In: Stern , H. 12, March 16, 2000, p. 202.
  3. ^ Thuringian State Museum Heidecksburg: The exhibition in the former court kitchen of the Heidecksburg. Retrieved November 13, 2019.
  4. ^ A b Lieselotte Baumberg: Correspondence between Gerhard Bätz and Manfred Kiedorf. Excerpts 1957 to 1994. , Sonneberg 1999.
  5. ^ Matthias Thalheim: Gem of a backward utopia. In: Neues Deutschland , August 13, 2015.
  6. ↑ Lena Kappei in Berliner Zeitung , January 13, 2015, p. 10.
  7. ^ Christoph Dieckmann : Count Kiedorfs Rococolores. In: Die Zeit Sachsen, January 22, 2015, p. 13.
personal data
SURNAME Kiedorf, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German set designer, illustrator and miniaturist
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 2015
Place of death Berlin