Margarete Schilling

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Margarete Schilling, photo from March 2020

Margarete Schilling (* 4. July 1932 in Jena as Margarete Fischer ) is a German author and expert on bells and carillons . Due to her work as an author, publisher and exhibition curator since 1977, she is known among experts as the grande dame of bells beyond Germany. She is at home in Apolda .

Life

Jena

As a child, she experienced the bombing raids on Jena; The mother died early and the father was a Soviet prisoner of war. After completing school and an apprenticeship as a commercial clerk in Jena, she did an internship at Carl Zeiss , where she was professionally photographed for the first time for a company brochure - as a supposed laboratory assistant. This gave rise to her occasional, more than 20-year “sideline career” as a mannequin , which she also took abroad: she modeled clothes, jewelry, hairstyles and hats. She also completed an external degree.

At the same time, she worked as a freelance editor and proofreader, for example for Urania Verlag , which was then based in Jena , for Gustav Fischer Verlag Jena and its Biologische Rundschau, and for Greifenverlag in Rudolstadt .

Apolda

She met Peter Schilling in the mid-1960s and moved to Apolda when they married in 1966. With the support of her husband and father-in-law Franz Schilling (1897–1977), she now grew into the family-run bell-casting company and was involved in many projects. She deepened her knowledge of art history in long-term contact with the artist and art teacher Horst Jahresling .

In 1972 the Schilling bell foundry was expropriated and continued as a state-owned company under the name "VEB Apoldaer Glockengießerei"; Peter Schilling was formally Operations Director, Margarete Schilling Technical Director. But in 1976 the couple could no longer compensate or tolerate the increasingly self-destructive management by the SED rulers. They felt compelled to leave their former company. They continued the family tradition outside of the city and worked as freelance artists, projecting bells, carillons and play facilities that were made by workshops far away. They wrote bell reports and carried out sound analyzes on church towers.

The last bell that the Schilling couple planned and created together was created for the Gelmeroda village church : The bell was publicly cast in 1999 on the market in Weimar by the Rudolf Perner bell foundry from Passau. Horst Jahresling created the bell jewelry.

This marked the end of the centuries-old era of the Schilling bell foundry dynasty from Apolda, whose chronicler Margarete Schilling is the last contemporary witness. Numerous Schilling bells and carillons prove to this day with an impressive sound in Germany as well as Argentina , Australia , Belgium , Brazil , China , Denmark , Finland , Greece , India , Iceland , Israel ( Jerusalem ), Japan , Norway , Austria , Russia , Switzerland and the USA this craftsmanship from Thuringia.

Activity as an author

In 1977 Margarete Schilling appeared for the first time as an author with The Bells of the Magdeburg Monastery "Our Dear Women" . In 1982 she presented her book Glocken und Glockenspiele (published in Rudolstadt 1982 and 1986 and in the Federal Republic of Germany in Rheda-Wiedenbrück 1982), which proved to be a bestseller - mainly thanks to persistent inquiries from Greifenverlag Rudolstadt .

Margarete Schilling's three most popular books are Glocken und Glockenspiele as well as the two illustrated books Glocken - Gestalt, Klang und Zier (Dresden and Munich 1988) and Art, Erz and Klang - the works of the bell foundry families Ulrich and Schilling from the 17th century to the present (Berlin 1992).

Publications (selection)

A detailed list of Margarete Schilling's publications can be found in her autobiography 50 Years Interim Stop in Apolda (2016) on pages 296–299. Many of her publications can be found in the Apolda Bell Museum , the Westphalian Bell Museum Gescher and the “Glockenwelt” bell museum at Greifenstein Castle . The majority of her publications have been in the holdings of the German National Library in Leipzig since 2016 .

  • The war and the child - memories of the childhood and youth years in Jena - with illustrations of the first drawings and later collages on this topic. Margarete Schilling, Apolda 2020, with a foreword by Ernst Fauer.
  • The second life on the island of Usedom. Margarete Schilling, Apolda 2020
  • Letters from the bell founder, engineer Franz Schilling, to his wife in the war year 1944. Edited by Margarete Schilling, Apolda 2020, with a foreword by Ernst Fauer.
  • Letters 1929 to 1985 Canada - Apolda - Munich. Professor Frank Percival Price and engineer Franz Schilling as well as master bell founder Peter Schilling. Published by Margarete Schilling, new edition Apolda 2020.
  • Study trip through the Middle East from September 1953 to April 1954 - Professor Percival Price and student Franz Peter Schilling . Publication of the recordings of FP Schilling by Margarete Schilling, new edition Apolda 2020.
  • Bell ribs of the Ulrich bell foundry family from Laucha / Unstrut - facsimile. 2 volumes, A3 format, Apolda 2018, without ISBN
  • Letters and notes from court preacher FW Schubart on his book "The Bells in the Duchy of Anhalt" from the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century. Format A4, Apolda 2018, without ISBN
  • The carillon in Schirgiswalde (originally built in 1987 for the chapel in Moritzburg Castle (Saxony) ), Apolda 2017
  • Letters and drawings from the Dresden painter Hans Körnig to Dipl. Ing. Franz Schilling, bell founder in Apolda - The building of the wall and its effects on the painter's pictures left in the GDR - Help. Apolda 2007
  • Vivos voco - I call the living. The forbidden movie. Photos, contracts, letters, contemporary documents. Material for the DEFA documentary film from 1981, new edition Apolda 2016
  • 50 years stopover in Apolda . Autobiography with foreword by Holger Zürch . A4 format, 306 pages with numerous color illustrations, Apolda 2016
  • A carillon with 25 bells from Apolda to Sandefjord . Apolda 2014
  • Horst Jahresling - graphic representations for the Apoldaer bell foundry and the bell foundry family Schilling. Apolda 2008
  • Bells for the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, 1910 . Photo book, Apolda 2008
  • Margarete Schilling: The bell foundry on Auenstrasse . In: Apoldaer Geschichtsverein e. V. (Hrsg.): Apoldaer Heimat - Contributions to the nature and local history of the city of Apolda and its surroundings . Issue 26. Apolda 2008, p. 57-60 .
  • Bells - graphics and watercolors by Anneliese Jahresling . Apolda 2006
  • Figural incised drawings on historical bells: graphite rubbings by Charlotte and Walter G. Kühne . Volume 1, Volume 2 and Volume 3. Apolda 2004
  • Figural incised drawings on historical bells: graphite rubbings by Richard Heinzel . Volume 1 and Volume 2. Apolda 2004
  • Schilling & Lattermann Apolda: List of the chill cast bells delivered up to 1927 as well as a handwritten list 1918/1919 and a list of "Delivered chilled cast bells 1947–1957" and the attached correspondence 1965/66/67/68 with the press works in Morgenröthe. Apolda 2003
  • Incised drawings on the bells of Michaeliskirche in Jena . Apolda 2000
  • In memory of the casting of a Schilling bell on the market square in Weimar. (For the Gelmeroda motorway church ), Apolda 1999
  • Two hundred years of Schiller the "Song of the Bell" 1799–1999. To the Schiller exhibition in the Apolda Bell Museum. Apolda 1999
  • Tightrope walks. The Stasi files "Jasmin" . Details from the 600 pages Margarete and Peter Schilling files from 1980. Apolda 1999
  • Eugen Thiele: Letters and notes from the Carilloneurs of the Garrison Church in Potsdam and the Parochial Church in Berlin . Apolda 1999
  • Glockenspiel Roter Turm Halle / Saale . Halle undated (1993)
  • Art, ore and sound - the works of the Ulrich and Schilling bell foundry families from the 17th century to the present day. Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-362-00617-5
  • The Laucha Bell Museum . The foundrymen and their bells. Laucha / Unstrut 1991
  • Bells - shape, sound and ornament. Dresden 1988, ISBN 3-364-00041-7 and Munich 1988, ISBN 3-406-32977-2
  • The new carillon in the French tower . In: Kulturbauten, Heft 1, Berlin 1987
  • The carillon in Klaipeda (in Lithuanian). Klaipeda 1987
  • Bells from Apolda (in German, Russian, English and French). Apolda 1986 and 1987
  • Bells and chimes. Rudolstadt 1982 and 1986 and Rheda-Wiedenbrück 1982
  • The Erfurt carillon . Erfurt 1979
  • The Carillon Karl-Marx-Stadt . (Chemnitz) 1978
  • The Magdeburg carillon . Magdeburg 1978
  • The ringing of the bells of the Magdeburg monastery "Our Dear Women" . Magdeburg 1977

Exhibitions (selection)

The exhibition directory at the end of the publication The War and the Child by Margarete Schilling (April 2020) lists more than 60 exhibitions curated by Margarete Schilling . Here is a non-representative selection:

  • Franz Peter Schilling (1930–2001) - master bell founder in Apolda . Exhibition on the occasion of his 90th birthday, Apolda from December 2020 (in preparation)
  • Bells from Apolda for Switzerland
  • Bells and cannons (in Seclin (Apolda's twin town in France), 2013 and in Apolda, bell museum, 2014)
  • Change ringing - a special way of ringing bells - cabinet exhibition in the Glockenmuseum Apolda, Gelber Salon, from October 19, 2015. With exhibition catalog in German and in English / Catalog in German and in English Language: The changing ringing in old England around 1830 - illustrated through approx. 150 copperplate engravings / Change Ringing - the other way of ringing bells / Change-Ringing in Old England around 1830 in 150 prints of Churches, Colloquial Life and Lists of Bells .
  • Figural incised drawings on historical bells from the 13th - 15th centuries . Exhibition in the Luther Church Apolda , June 5, 2013 - October 13, 2013, and in the Panitzsch Church , June 7 - September 22, 2015
  • Artists draw for the Schilling family of bell foundries
  • Cycle "War - Peace - Freedom - Friendship"

Honors

  • On December 6, 2019, Sparkassenstiftung Weimar - Weimarer Land honored Margarete Schilling with its 2019 Citizens' Prize in the Lifetime Achievement category . In doing so, the foundation honors personalities who “have been civically active for decades. Their commitment and their experience are extremely valuable for living together in our society. (...) The prerequisite is that the person in question has been doing voluntary work for at least 25 years and that the commitment has shaped a large part of their own life. ” The award was given to her at the festive event at Blankenhain Castle - the laudatory speech held the District Administrator of the Weimarer Land district , Christiane Schmidt-Rose (CDU).
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“Margarete Schilling has become known for her commitment to the topic of bells: as an artist and writer of books, brochures, articles in specialist journals and catalogs as well as through the publication of historical and artistic works. She held specialist lectures and book readings and designed over 50 exhibitions, including permanent exhibitions in many places in Germany, but also abroad. She is an advisor for bell museums, was actively involved in the preparations for the previous Apolda world bells and still answers numerous inquiries by post, telephone and e-mail from all over the world about the Apolda bells.

Margarete Schilling made a significant contribution to the fact that Apolda still rightly bears the title "Glockenstadt" today. "

- Christiane Schmidt-Rose (CDU), District Administrator of the Weimarer Land district, in her laudation for Margarete Schilling on December 6, 2019
  • Margarete Schilling was made an honorary member of the German Bell Museum eV in 2015.
  • For the 21st Apolda Bornfest on May 11, 2015, Margarete Schilling was appointed fountain master 2015–2016. The planting of a tree in Apolda's "Allee der Brunnenmeister" is associated with this honorary position.
  • Margarete Schilling was made an honorary member in 2012 by the German Glockenspielvereinigung eV.
  • In 2011 she was honored with the District Home Care Prize by the District Administrator and District Home Keeper.
  • On the occasion of her 75th birthday, Margarete Schilling was awarded the title of “Apolda World Bell Queen honoris causa ” by the “Apolda World Bells Ringing” initiative on July 4, 2007 “in appreciation of her life's work, in particular her services to the worldwide bell culture ” .
  • In 2000 Peter and Margarete Schilling were awarded the “Medal for Special Services to the City of Apolda”.
  • Peter and Margarete Schilling were honored with the Goethe Prize of the City of Berlin for their glockenspiel, presented in 1987 in the French Cathedral .
  • On October 7, 1986, Margarete Schilling received the Kurt Barthel Medal from the Erfurt District Council “for special merits and exemplary initiatives in the development of intellectual and cultural life in the German Democratic Republic” .
  • On October 7, 1974, the city of Magdeburg honored her with its bronze commemorative coin “in recognition and appreciation for exemplary work in the competition ' Beautiful our hometown Magdeburg - everyone is involved '” .

See also

Varia

Thanks to Margarete Schilling's commitment, the city of Apolda is part of the Strasse der Musik with four stops :

  • Villa Schilling at Auenstraße 51 with sundial portal and park (station 19),
  • Building of the former bell foundry Franz Schilling Söhne in Robert-Koch-Strasse / Bernhardstrasse (station 20),
  • Town house with carillon (station 25),
  • GlockenStadtMuseum (Station 26)

family

Margarete Schilling has a son (from her first marriage), two granddaughters and two great-grandchildren.

literature

  • Chapter IV For and in Saxony active foundry , section foundry family Schilling -> P. 67–70 in: Rainer Thümmel: Bells in Saxony - sound between heaven and earth. Edited by the Evangelical Regional Church Office of Saxony with a foreword by Jochen Bohl . Photos: Klaus-Peter Meißner. 2nd, updated and supplemented edition, 432 pages, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9
  • Manfred Hofmann: The Apoldaer bell foundry - old and new secrets. Weimar 2014, ISBN 978-3-86160-415-0
  • Ernst Fauer: In memory of the master bell founder Franz-Peter Schilling . In: Apoldaer Geschichtsverein e. V. (Hrsg.): Apoldaer Heimat - Contributions to the nature and local history of the city of Apolda and its surroundings . Issue 19. Apolda 2001, p. 7-11 .

Web links

Commons : Bell foundry (Apolda)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://lccn.loc.gov/n84087899
  2. ↑ http://apolda.thueringer-allgemeine.de/web/lokal/leben/detail/-/specific/Margarete-Schilling-erhaelt-zum-Jubilaeum-eine-Ausstellung-900090881
  3. ↑ Templates
  4. ↑ Contents of the book Glocken - Gestalt, Klang und Zier
  5. ↑ http://www.burg-greifenstein.net/
  6. ↑ Margarete Schilling: 50 years stopover in Apolda . Autobiography, Apolda 2016, 44
  7. ↑ For example http://d-nb.info/1108304370 and many others
  8. ↑ Information on Ernst Fauer (curriculum vitae and professional life) , accessed on July 25, 2020
  9. ↑ https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/percival-price-emc , accessed on July 25, 2020
  10. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20180521155842/http://www.defa-stiftung.de/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabID=617 , accessed on February 26, 2020
  11. ↑ http://www.glockenmuseum-apolda.de/veranstaltung.html - accessed on March 13, 2016
  12. ↑ DNB 931328918
  13. ↑ DNB 880599316
  14. ↑ DNB 880542985
  15. ↑ http://www.glockenmuseum-apolda.de/veranstaltung.html - accessed on October 31, 2015
  16. ↑ http://kirche-panitzsch.de/kunstausstellung.html
  17. ↑ https://www.sparkassenstiftungen.de/index.php?id=4278&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=3418&cHash=ead6e530e5ace63e12611e985f965fbe
  18. ↑ https://www.thueringer-allgemeine.de/regionen/weimar/alltagshelden-und-lebenswerk-id227850935.html
  19. ↑ http://glockenmuseum.de/kolloquium/23-kolloquium-zur-glockenkunde-2015-3/
  20. ↑ Margarete Schilling: 50 years stopover in Apolda. Autobiography, Apolda 2016, p. 262
  21. ↑ in this case the " Tree of the Year 2015", a field maple
  22. ^ "Current news from Apolda" at http://www.apolda.de - accessed on May 15, 2015
  23. ↑ http://www.glockenspielvereinigung.de/
  24. ↑ Margarete Schilling: 50 years stopover in Apolda. Autobiography, Apolda 2016, p. 256
  25. ↑ Margarete Schilling: 50 years stopover in Apolda. Autobiography, Apolda 2016, 217
  26. ↑ template
  27. ↑ Margarete Schilling: Art, Erz and Sound , Berlin 1992, pages 210-211
  28. ↑ Margarete Schilling: 50 years stopover in Apolda. Autobiography, Apolda 2016, 75
  29. ↑ Margarete Schilling: 50 years stopover in Apolda. Autobiography, Apolda 2016, 86
  30. ↑ https://www.strassedermusik.de/startseite/karte_der_dienstleistungen/
  31. ↑ Martin Kappel: How Apolda became part of the Street of Music - four panels with the inscription "Street of Music" now refer to special places in the Glockenstadt of cultural and musical interest. Thüringer Allgemeine , Apolda edition, February 7, 2020, accessed on February 12, 2020
  32. ↑ http://apolda.thueringer-allgemeine.de/web/lokal/leben/detail/-/specific/Eine-Apoldaer-Glocke-fuer-neuen-tansanischen-Bischof-1448157939
  33. ↑ Info M.Sch.
  34. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20140714215351/http://www.wartburgverlag.net/index.php/german/sachbucher/apoldaer-glockengiesserei.html , accessed on February 26, 2020
  35. ↑ DNB 1036702596
personal data
SURNAME Schilling, Margarete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fischer, Margarete (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and expert on bells and carillons
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena